![]() And Harry is the one who saves the child. ![]() They are guilty alright, all six of them, for treating Harry poorly. They don't question why he is alone in his two-story house in the suburbs (usually inhabited by couples and families). Not a single one of these six adults bothers to check his past (in this age, we can find out anything about anyone), they don't think that maybe his is physically ill, maybe he has a mental illness. Now, there is a character with a truly troublesome and heartbreaking past: Harry, the neighbor. We have six adults who are doing okay, who are relatively comfortable but they do have assorted average problems (bored with a job, they want to get a new job, petty jealousies, etc). It was only later that I realized what this book was really about (to me, that is). With my first review, I gave it two stars. ![]() Rebecca, I'm so glad there is this discussion of the book. I figured out early on that something happened to one of Clementine and Sam's kids, and bec." Rebecca wrote: "So I just finished this book and would love to talk about the reveal of what exactly happened at the BBQ. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Though initially obstinate in her refusal, Ana reconsiders once she realizes how important it is to Christian that she take his name. Ana and Christian have their first fight as a married couple after Christian discovers that Ana refuses to change her last name to "Grey" at work, preferring to stick with her maiden name, Steele. Following a lengthy honeymoon, the newlyweds return to their home in Seattle. At the end of the previous book in the series, Fifty Shades Darker, Ana accepts Christian's marriage proposal. In 2018, Fifty Shades Freed was adapted into a film by director James Foley. James’s Fifty Shades Trilogy, Fifty Shades Freed (2012) focuses on the tumultuous relationship between Anastasia "Ana" Steele, an editor at a publishing company, and Christian Grey, a wealthy entrepreneur. ![]() The third installment of British author E.L. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, I don’t think I would have ever imagined it to be considered one of the best short stories of all time… but then that judgement is based on a century of other works building on these ideas. I would have said that it was well crafted, and did a good job of drawing out quite complex ideas through a relatable real-world situation in a few pages. If I had been reading this blind, I’m not convinced that I would have dated it at more than a century old. There’s also some reflection of how little we know about what goes on inside others’ heads, even those we know intimately. It becomes a meditation on the relationship between life and death, and particularly, how all of our lives are influenced by people who are now dead. It is easily short enough to read in a single sitting, as I did, and has been cited by TS Eliot and others as literature’s finest short story. Published in 1914, it centres on a teacher called Gabriel Conroy attending a Christmas party hosted by his aunts. The Dead is the final story in James Joyce’s collection Dubliners, but it is also sometimes issued as a single-volume novella, which is what I read. ![]() ![]() The result? At 50 feet behind the car, “none of the motorcycles in the test can be heard inside the car.” At 33 feet behind the car, “even the noisiest motorcycles tested can hardly be heard inside the car.” With the motorcycles’ front wheel next to the car’s rear wheel, one of the motorcycles can be heard inside the car and three motorcycles can almost be heard but, “unfortunately it is too late to be safe.” With the bikes 13 feet in front of the car the motorcycles cannot be heard. There does not appear to be any traffic visible to affect the sounds recorded. It was not possible to replicate the tests while both motorcycle and car were moving, so the tests were done statically on a quiet side street lined with large apartment buildings. The idea was to see how much noise from motorcycle exhaust pipes actually reaches the ears of car drivers. The study was undertaken by the Association for the Development of Motorcycling in Romania, in conjunction with the Department of Road Vehicles at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest together with the Netherlands-based noise emissions specialist Enviro Consult. But the defense of the loud-pipers has always been that, “Loud pipes save lives.” A recent scientific study says no, loud pipes don’t save lives (but it does not address the question of whether loud pipes annoy anybody). ![]() “That’s the sound of freedom, boy!” Others find them as pleasant to hear as a two-stroke leaf blower right outside the window. ![]() ![]() Griffin: So he has asked the three of you to escort a supply wagon to the town of Phandalin. Griffin: Over drinks one night with Gundren Rockseeker, he has to offer you what he calls the last job you'll ever need to take. Griffin: Daddy, what are you, uh, you're a cleric, right?Ĭlint McElroy: I'm a- I'm a dwarf cleric. Griffin: Are you naming your god-damn wizard Taako? Justin: Uh- His name i- is spelled T-A-A-K-O. Justin McElroy: I- I'm playing, uh, a wizard. Travis McElroy: I'm playing a human fighter named Magnus Burnsides. Griffin McElroy: Previously, on The Adventure Zone: Transcript by the lovely volunteers at TAZscripts. 3: Here There Be Gerblins - Chapter Three Transcript ![]() 1: Here There Be Gerblins - Chapter One TranscriptĮp. ![]() Justin McElroy as Taako Clint McElroy as Merle Highchurch Travis McElroy as Magnus Burnsides Transcript Guide PreviousĮp. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Hong Kong, about 8 percent of the permanent residents are not of Chinese descent. ![]() In a recent poll, about 67% self identified themselves as Hong Kongers. Hong Kong people often call themselves "Hong Kongers" in English. Like Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong culture exhibits a mix of Chinese and Western. It is a unique culture and the world's most successful culture in several ways. Their culture is a fusion of East and West. Understanding their culture involves understanding their history and present circumstances and becoming familiar with their language, customs, ideals, ethics, diet, and business practices. Local Hong Kongers are proud of their region and their accomplishments, and they want to preserve their culture. Their culture is sophisticated and mixes Confucian and British ethics, and they are international savvy. Hong Kongers are being increasingly influenced by the culture of the people from Chinese mainland. Hong Kong culture is a mixture of traditional Han Cantonese ethnic culture of southeastern China and British and Western culture in general. Hong Kong people have a crowded but surprisingly wealthy and healthy style of life. ![]() ![]() MIRIA: In case of a fire, what three things would you grab?ĮRIK: My baby girl, a shoe box from the closet, and a mason jar from the kitchen. (Turns to Kelli, leans and kisses her on the lips lightly) ![]() MIRIA: Would you let Kelli test your limits?ĮRIK: Kelli tests my limits every day. And myself? I’d say I’m…(Rubs chin) Consistent. (Looks at A-Train and shakes his head) The Train? Shit, Train is devoted. Let me answer this woman.ĮRIK: (looks at Teddy) Teddy? Loyal. If names represented each of the member’s personality or character traits, what would they be?ĮRIK: (Turns and smiles slowly) For fuck’s sake, Crash, your turn will come up. If they actually met me, they might change that answer to describe me as confident. (Slaps Erik’s shoulder)ĮRIK: I believe that most people, upon first observing me, would indicate that I was an arrogant person. MIRIA: Erik, what do you think people’s first impression of you is?ĮRIK: (Turns to look at Teddy) Shut it, Crash. Erik, Kelli, Teddy, Heather, Easter, Gene, A-Train, Shakey, and Bone. ![]() ![]() ![]() With its rare formal perfection, Madame Bovary represents, as Frank O'Connor has declared, "possibly the most beautifully written book ever composed undoubtedly the most beautifully written novel.a gook that invites superlatives.the most important novel of the century. Adapted from Flaubert’s classic novel, Madame Bovary tells the tragic story of Emma, a young beauty who impulsively marries a small-town doctor to leave her father’s pig farm behind. Neither Emma, nor her lovers, nor Homais, the "man of sciend," escapes the author's searing castigation: and it is the book's final profound irony that only Charles, Emma's oxlike, eternally deceived husband, emerges with a measure of human grace through his stubborn and selfless love. ![]() She has a highly romanticized view of the world and craves beauty, wealth, passion, as well as high society. Set amid the stifling atmosphere of nineteenth-century bourgeois France, Madame Bovary is at once and unsparing depiction of a woman's gradual corruption and a savagely ironic study of human shallowness and stupidity. Emma Bovary is the novels eponymous protagonist (Charless mother and his former wife are also referred to as Madame Bovary, while their daughter remains Mademoiselle Bovary). Her character is remarkable only for an unusual deficiency of natural feeling." Thus Mary McCarthy, in her memorable Foreword to this Signet Classic edition, describes Emma Bovary, whose ill-starred pursuit of tawdry romantic dreams shapes Flaubert's great novel. ![]() "She is a very ordinary middle-class woman, with banal expectations of life and an urge to dominate her surroundings. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Joining LitPick for Six Minutes with an Author today is Dawn Brotherton. Dawn has even created her own scorebook and YouTube video to teach others how to keep score during a game. She has also written the Lady Tigers Series about girls’ fastpitch softball, encouraging young, female athletes to reach for the stars in the game they love. She is a contributing author to the non-fiction A-10s over Kosovo, sharing stories from her deployment. ![]() Her books include the Jackie Austin Mysteries and the Global Ebook Bronze Award Winner, Untimely Love. When it comes to exceptional writing, Dawn draws on her experience as a retired colonel in the US Air Force as well as a softball coach. Dawn Brotherton is an award-winning author and featured speaker at writing and publishing seminars. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Doug, who loved Lee like a father, spirals out of control, convinced that cruelty is the only route to finding out what happened. ![]() When one of the traps ensnares a humanoid being, Liv and her childhood friend, outcast Doug Monk, restrain it in the shed for interrogation. ![]() In the feverish days following his initial reappearance, Lee obsessively crafted a shed full of weapons and built a series of traps in the woods designed to catch the aliens that he claimed had abducted and experimented on him. Eight months after he reappeared, naked and staggering in the town square of Bloughton, Iowa, he vanished again, for good. Almost three years before this novel’s start, high school senior Liv Fleming’s father, Lee, a beloved high school English teacher, disappeared for four days. ![]() |