![]() The two plots are brought together by a concert the singer gives in Russia (Jesse Austin is a Communist). In that same first part we get introduced to a black American singer Jesse Austin, who will play a big part in the tragedy of the Peace Tour in 1965. ![]() But they end up together anyway… Leo in the mean time is a member of the Russian secret police and in training to interpretate secret messages in diaries. Set in the 1950s, it is a story about love at first sight and rejection by Raisa. ![]() We start reading about Leo Demidov in the past, and learn how Leo and his wife Raise first met and fell in love. I still might read Child 44 though, since I’ve heard great things about it. And then were are not even talking about the ending, which was not satisfactory at all, even without having read the first two parts Child 44 and The Secret Speech. There are some tense moments in Agent 6, but in general there is not a lot of suspense. ![]() 2023 Netgalley And Edelweiss Reading ChallengeĪgent 6 is the third and last book in the Leo Demidov trilogy. The fact that I haven’t read the first two books might work against me and the lower rating I had to give this book… In general it was an ok read, but I felt something was missing to turn it into something great.2017 Netgalley And Edelweiss Reading Challenge. ![]()
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![]() 'I am saving you from drowning.' Soon enough, the fishes grow calm and lie still. I place the fishes on the bank, where they flop and twirl. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. Through twists of fate, curses, and just plain human error, they find themselves deep in the jungle, where they encounter a tribe awaiting the return of the leader and the mythical book of wisdom that will protect them from the ravages and destruction of the Myanmar military regime.Filled with Amy Tan's signature "idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful mystery" (Los Angeles Times), Saving Fish from Drowning seduces the reader with a facade of Buddhist illusions, magician's tricks, and light comedy, even as the absurd and picaresque spiral into a gripping morality tale about the consequences of intentions-both good and bad-and about the shared responsibility that individuals must accept for the actions of others.A pious man explained to his followers: "It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. ![]() ![]() ![]() A provocative new novel from the bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter's DaughterOn an ill-fated art expedition into the southern Shan state of Burma, eleven Americans leave their FloatingIsland Resort for a Christmas-morning tour-and disappear. ![]() ![]() ![]() I wonder what events in all our lives-hers included-are The Turning Points? The points where we all determine that the fear of our pasts and the uncertainty of our futures are greater than our need for happiness. I’m grateful he showed up on my doorstep,Īnd I don’t just mean here on this journey with him. More Than Enough is book five in the More Than series and may be read as a standalone, though it is recommended to read in series order. Sometimes you land on the board and nail the trick.Īnd those are the times when it’s not as easy to get back up, dust off your pads and try again.Įspecially when the girl with the emerald eyes becomes your drug. You know what sucks about being in the air? Until she showed up Tanned skin, raven dark hair, and eyes the color of emeralds. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Kick, Push (Kick Push, 1)written by Jay McLeanwhich was published in July 27, 2015. Brief Summary of Book: Kick, Push (Kick Push, 1) by Jay McLean. Yet, every day, I managed to find that feeling of beingīut I lied-to myself and to everyone around me. Download Kick, Push (Kick Push, 1) by Jay McLean in PDF EPUB format complete free. ![]() Even the ones that consisted of heartbreak when his mother left us. The sixteen-year-old version of me would’ve said it was theĪnd every single second became a defining moment. It’s the moment you’re in the air, your board somewhereīeneath you, and nothing but wind surrounds you. ![]() There’s a single defining moment within every skater. An alternate cover edition can be found here. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is set in our world, but one that has been contaminated by magic. Dellamonica is a departure from the high fantasy recommendations. Although most of her relationships are with men, I would argue the most intense relationship she has is with another woman. She also uses this to glean political information from her clients, who are both men and women. Phèdre is Servant of Naamah: a sex worker, a profession that is semi-spiritual and respected in this world. It’s 900 pages and packed with politics, religion, and BDSM sex–it’s tastefully done, I think, but that’s a big part of the novel. Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey is not what I would call a light read. This is travelling/quest story, which I always enjoy, and although I was overwhelmed by being thrown into the complex world in the beginning, I quickly got my bearing. (Although this is another series I’ve started but not finished, that says more about my flaws than the books’.) This is also set in a world without homophobia–so if you ever want to escape into a world like that, fantasy is your genre. Keeping in the Classic Fantasy vein, I really enjoyed Fire Logic by Laurie J. I’ve only read the first book so far, but I’ve heard they only get better from there. ![]() ![]() ![]() I do believe the other is a "better" book, but there's something about Star that really worked for me. I said in my review of The Sailor Who Fell From the Grace of the Sea a few months back that it was my current favorite, I will now revise that opinion to the best written of his books that I've read. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think this may be my favorite book by Mishima. It makes for an interesting parallel with his own life and several of the topics that seemed to dominate it. This is all the more fascinating as Mishima himself wrote it right after acting in a film titled "Afraid to Die" in which he played, you guessed it, a yakuza. There's not much of a plot, more like an examination of what it means to be a celebrity, how people view him/how he views others and how the film industry worked in Japan at the time. It follows a young actor who is filming a yakuza film. This is an absolutely fascinating shorter work from Mishima. If you never cycle out the masks, you run the risk of poisoning the well. And these masks are worn by stars.īut the real world is always waiting for its stars to die. To keep the public pacified, the spring must always be shielded from the world of masks. They know that the reality everyone thinks they see and feel draws from the spring of artifice that you and I are guarding. But the powers that be are well aware that being seen is no more than a symptom of the gaze. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is is EXACTLY the person Ashe needed in her life and the unbelievable trust they had in each other melted me to the core. That man is so imperfectly perfect that it made my heart hurt. I just noticed that I haven't talked about the main love interest yet!! I swear, Ashe made me tear up indefinitely. I learned to love every part of her/ even her flaws. This poor woman, I can still feel her pain as if I had just read this a second ago. ![]() ![]() I seriously don't wish that things that she went through for anybody, not even my worst enemies. The heart-breaking part about was that she had to pay dearly for earning that backbone. ![]() She begins this story without a backbone, which, I admit, annoyed me, but by the end of the book she has backbone I was completely proud of. I wish I could be there for her and hug her pain away but of course, I can't. After those last couple of chapters, I cheered so hard for Riley and my heart went out to her poor soul. I saw a small detail coming but that was nothing compared to the extreme plot twists Liz had in store for me. Next thing I knew, I was well over past the halfway point. Once I started this story, I couldn't flip the page fast enough. Riley, our main character, has a dark part that a lot of us can relate to which automatically forms a bond with her. This was my first book by Liz Madrid and I am glad to say that I enjoyed it a lot! *Copy provided in exchange for an honest review* ![]() ![]() ![]() The plot of I Shall Wear Midnight is amazing. ![]() I just thought I’d put a little disclaimer about that at the beginning of this review. I do love this book, a lot, but I’ll never love it as much as Wintersmith even though it’s a fantastic book. I have previously reviewed The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, and Wintersmith. It was the last Tiffany Aching book to be completed but an incomplete sequel, The Shepherd’s Crown, was released after Pratchett’s death. I Shall Wear Midnight is the 4th book in Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching series and 38th book in the Discworld series. Because if Tiffany falls, the whole Chalk falls with her. Aided by her tiny blue allies, the Wee Free Men, Tiffany must find the source of this unrest and defeat the evil at its root before it takes her life. ![]() As the witch of the Chalk, she performs the bits of witchcraft that aren’t sparkly, aren’t fun, don’t involve any kind of wand, and that people seldom ever hear about: She does the unglamorous work of caring for the needy.īut someone or something is igniting fear, inculcating dark thoughts and angry murmurs against witches. ![]() Tiffany Aching has spent years studying with senior witches, and now she is on her own. When people turn on witches, the innocents suffer. ![]() ![]() They were met with indifference, hostility and rejection. Kronig & Gauss presented a series of papers on Twilight Sleep that included the drug’s ability to erase the memory of the birth at a national obstetrics conference in Berlin in 1906. Experimentation continued, with repeated small injections of varied doses of scopolamine and morphine. Reports recorded the desirable sedated state but also the problems and side effects: slowed pulse, decreased respiration, delirium. Scopolamine, derived from a highly toxic plant (henbane), was gaining acceptance in general surgery, but many obstetric experiments ended badly or in overdose. Twilight Sleep was based on the earlier research of Dr. “peasant” women (strong-willed, hardened). He especially deemed this true for “modern” (weak, vulnerable) vs. He believed labor pain was destructive – causing complications and trauma. Kronig had both a scientific and humanitarian interest in the pain of childbirth and had been obsessed for a decade with the development of Twilight Sleep. ![]() The Frauenklink was the Women’s Clinic of the State University of Baden, directed by Dr. ![]() In 1913 two female reporters from McClures Magazine in New York, Marguerite Tracy & Constance Leupp, went to the Frauenklink in Freiburg Germany to witness and write about “Dammerschlaf,” the apparent miracle of Painless Childbirth. The Real Story of Twilight Sleep and How it Shaped Obstetrics and Hospital Birth How It Began ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Berlin In 1920s Otto Friedrich as well as. Urn:oclc:612634863 Republisher_date 20120903011951 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120828224343 Scanner . lesson, amusement, as well as contract can be gotten by just checking out a book Before The Deluge A Portrait Of. 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Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:19:16 Boxid IA155508 Boxid_2 CH130004 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition External-identifier Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s by Otto Friedrich (Harper & Row 418 pp. Before the deluge : a portrait of Berlin in the 1920s Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. ![]() ![]() I acknowledge that both writers are invested in affirming the realness of queer bodies and extending that sense of realness to others and argue that they do so successfully through their use of queer form. I argue that it is in their use of the queer formal elements of non-linearity, blank space, and an incomplete integration of outside texts that Nelson and Fleischmann are able write about queerness beyond the use of language and therefore maintain the concept’s ineffability. In their books, Nelson and Fleischmann recognize that language is insufficient or even harmful in maintaining the ineffability of queerness, which poses a significant paradox for their works that are made up of language. ![]() I explain how to think about queerness as ineffable through the work of queer theorists Judith Butler and José Esteban Muñoz. Both writers centrally deal with queerness in their texts as a concept that is ineffable, or unable to be fully explained in words. ![]() This project analyzes two books of contemporary creative nonfiction: The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson (2015) and Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T Fleischmann (2019). ![]() |