![]() So when Alan is taken ill Lily nurses Alan back to health. The banter between them was clearly hidden passion. It's clearly obvious they really dislike each other and he is not about to get involved with her.Īs things progress Alan and Lily's relationship develops and there is clearly a spark. Just as Alan starts a fight with Lily' s friend, in walks Alan's grandmother Lady Jezebel Ravenscar. Lily Wallace has inherited Hollywell House.Īs far as she is aware he is trespassing and she wants him out. Hollywell House however he has recently found out the current owner is deceased and he is desperate to find out who the current owner is.Īs he approaches the house he encounters the fiesty Lily Wallace. The dashingly sexy Lord Alan Ravenscar is on his way to make a deal on the house he wants. It had Family Dramas, Romance, memorable characters, passion, New Beginnings. ![]() ![]() I love reading Regency books and this one swept me away. I had no problem at all getting stuck into this beautiful story. ![]() Lord Ravenscar’s Inconvenient Betrothal is the second book in the series but my first book. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Grass keum suk![]() Tacking on a brief but sincere apology for having now idea how to pronounce anything besides English (which I also fail at from time to time) Gendry-Kim’s official bio is as follows: “born in the town of Goheung in Jeolla Province, a town famous for its beautiful mountains and sea. It helps that her art style is very emotive and poetic, so she can express the feelings of what is going on without showing what is being described in the dialog. Having said all of that, I did really appreciate the way that Gendry-Kim covers all of these events in a hard and honest way but not in a way that is graphic. ![]() As a biography of a Korean Comfort Woman the story weaves through extreme poverty, human trafficking, sexual and not sexual violence, and all of it is initially about someone who hasn’t even hit puberty. Other important facts about the book are it was published in 2019 by Drawn & Quarterly.Īs far as content warning goes, there’s a lot. ![]() I’m counting it for Manga Hoarder’s 49th challenge of 2019. Hello everyone, my name is Meepelous and this is Literally Graphic.Īnd today we are looking at the biography graphic novel Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Business adventures book![]() ![]() Investors panicked because they thought that by the time they knew what price their stocks really were at, it would be too late to sell them off before they lost value. On May 28th, there were a lot of trades and the office was running late in updating prices manually. In 1962, the stock market was going down for six months. Investors are guided more by their mood than facts. How much can a person miss in three days? If you’re a stock market investor who falls into a three-day coma on May 28, 1962, you might wake up to no noticeable change in your investments but also missed the chaos of the 1962 Flash Crash.Ī three-day turmoil in the stock market illustrates how strange Wall Street bankers can be. Big Idea #1: As the 1962 Flash Crash showed, investors are irrational and the stock market is unpredictable. You’ll also learn why shareholder meetings of large corporations are usually a waste of time and what happened when one CEO misinterpreted another’s wink. In this article, you’ll find twelve interesting case studies that will teach you how Wall Street almost killed off Piggly Wiggly grocery stores. These events led to things like the end of insider trading and workers’ rights. He learned about the launch of the world’s ugliest car, a wink from an executive at General Electric, and more in this book. ![]() 1-Page Summary of Business Adventures OverviewĪfter reading this, you will know why Bill Gates claimed that Business Adventures was his favorite book. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Wonderstruck book online![]() ![]() I don’t want to say it was all for nothing, but when it came time to show how far they had gone and how much they had changed, it turned up to be… halfway there, I’d say. I should’ve known it was too good to be true, after all it took Arthur being drunk for them to even have that conversation, but the next morning they were both sober and that’s when most of the real progress was made, so I had good reasons to be hopeful. The relationship started really promising in this book, there was a conversation at the beginning that had me hoping Arthur and Rory had finally learned to open up to each other in a real way, not just by declaring their mutual love for each other, but also by sharing their doubts and fears and working together to find a compromise that worked for both of them, a middle ground for all their differences. I see improvements and I don’t regret sticking with it until the end, but those improvements are inconsistent at best and I didn’t get all the answers I needed. The series finished the same way it started, in a mix of good and bad. ![]() ![]() If you love font and lettering books, Ellen Lupton's guide reveals the way typefaces are constructed and how to use. Thinking with Type is the typography book for everyone: designers, writers, editors, students, and anyone else who works with words. Plus, new eye-opening demonstrations of basic typography design with letters, helpful exercises, and dozens of additional illustrations. Our all time best selling book is now available in a revised and expanded second edition. designers writers editors students ellen lupton 8483 2 thinking with type a. This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content with the latest information on: style sheets for print and the web, the use of ornaments and captions, lining and non-lining numerals, the use of small caps and enlarged capitals, mixing type faces, font formats and font licensing. Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual. ![]() Visual examples show how to be inventive within systems of typographic form, including what the rules are, and how to break them. ![]() The book covers all typography essentials, from typefaces and type families, to kerning and tracking, to using a grid. Ellen Lupton provides clear and focused guidance on how letters, words, and paragraphs should be aligned, spaced, ordered, and shaped. I Love Typography - The best-selling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded second edition: Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication. ![]() "Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is to physics". ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Neuromancer![]() ![]() (Afterthought: It seems fairly clear why Wintermute wants to merge: Neuromancer is Wintermute's "missing piece," the other lobe, the "personality" that will elevate Wintermute's powers to God-like proportions.) And Neuromancer's avatar, the young boy with Riviera's eyes, is spotted by Case some time later, so his essence wasn't completely obliterated by the process. The new entity formed by their merging is described, near the end of the book, as being unimaginably powerful, having subsumed the entire "Matrix". What I don't understand is why Neuromancer didn't want to merge with Wintermute. After he escapes, Case comes to suspect that Neuromancer had previously arranged several other incidents to foil Wintermute's plan. Neuromancer briefly traps Case in a virtual environment, in the hopes that Case will decide not to go through with the job. ![]() However, when Case finally comes face-to-face with Neuromancer, it's under duress. And we learn that Wintermute's ultimate goal has been to merge with another AI called Neuromancer. In William Gibson's novel Neuromancer, we come to learn that the final heist at Villa Straylight, and the events leading up to it, have largely been orchestrated by the artificial intelligence Wintermute. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The empress of all seasons![]() (By the way, we will ignore the fact that the happy couple’s mothers are sisters). ![]() I mean, the titles with these people, right? Only sixteen at the time, standard for the era. The Empress season 1 story centers around the Duchess Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie (played by Devrim Lingnau), the princess of Bavaria born into the house of Wittelsbach -or “Sisi” for short. The Empress builds tension through the power of political struggle, traditions, and high stakes that build suspense, while the final scenes bring the main characters’ humanity full circle. The show is more than a period drama marketed as a sumptuous romance - it’s a character study that focuses on the beloved empress’s renowned empathy. ![]() The German Netflix streaming series is a magnificent season of television. Anyone looking for a replacement for The Crown, with an addictive twist of cutthroat politics and chess maneuvering, may have found their fix with The Empress. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Hail mary andy weir![]() ![]() ![]() I get it- that's how storytelling works. I don't want to sound like a bitter basement-dwelling critic throwing shade at a bestselling science fiction author. To wit: Rocky and Grace can communicate well with each other because it serves the story, and if they couldn't, the book would be shorter and less interesting. PHM's otherwise solid commitment to science leans a bit here on what we might call the "anthropic principle of science fiction," after the more well-known general anthropic principle. (Ars Technica may earn compensation for sales from links on this post through affiliate programs.)īut the relative ease with which Grace and Rocky understand each other got me thinking about the real-world issues that might arise when two beings from vastly different evolutionary backgrounds try to communicate. ![]() ![]() Like Neal Bascomb's The Perfect Mile, Triumph captures this momentous episode in sports - and - world, history in a nuanced yet page-turning narrative full of drama, suspense, and color. And a myth was born that Hitler himself had snubbed Owens. Two Jewish sprinters were, at the last moment, denied the chance to compete for the United States out of misguided politeness to the Nazi hosts. At the games themselves, the plots and intrigues continued: Owens was befriended by a German rival, broad jumper Luz Long, who helped Owens win the gold medal at his own expense. A boycott, based on reports of Nazi hostility to Jews, was afoot, but it was thwarted by the president of the American Olympic Committee. ![]() ![]() But it is also the intimate and complex tale of the courage of one remarkable man.ĭrawing on unprecedented access to the Owens family, previously unpublished interviews, and exhaustive archival research, Jeremy Schaap transports us to Nazi Germany to weave this dramatic tale.įrom the start, American participation in the games was controversial. ![]() The story of Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympic Games is that of a high-profile athlete giving a performance that transcends sports. In 1936, against a backdrop of swastikas flying and storm troopers looming, an African-American son of sharecroppers set three world records and won an unprecedented four gold medals, single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Any way the wind blows simon snow![]() ![]() And Agatha? Well, Agatha Wellbelove has had enough.Īny Way the Wind Blows takes the gang back to England, back to Watford, and back to their families for their longest and most emotionally wrenching adventure yet. Penelope would love to help, but she’s smuggled an American Normal into London, and now she isn’t sure what to do with him. ![]() In Any Way the Wind Blows, Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha have to decide how to move forward.įor Simon, that means deciding whether he still wants to be part of the World of Mages - and if he doesn’t, what does that mean for his relationship with Baz? Meanwhile Baz is bouncing between two family crises and not finding any time to talk to anyone about his newfound vampire knowledge. ![]() And in Wayward Son, they wondered whether everything they understood about themselves might be wrong. In Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong. ![]() |