![]() ![]() After all everyone loves a reformed sinner, right? I mean, shit, the book itself enforces this view – its white faux-leather Bible stylings is the literal opposite of The Game’s presentation. I mean, first Neil Strauss becomes famous 1 for writing a book that taught millions of dudes to try to use Svengali-esque techniques to get laid and now he’s writing about leaving it all behind and embracing monogamy? So clearly now he’s making up for his past sins, right? Like that’s not part of every self-help guru’s progression. It’s one that’s fairly easy to be cynical about. ![]() So full disclosure: I was given a free copy of The Truth for review, I’ve hung out with Neil and, y’know, I’m a former pick-up artist myself. Or you over there in the back.)īut since today is also Back to the Future day, I thought it would be appropriate enough to start with a book related to my past – Neil Strauss’ The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships. This’ll be a somewhat irregular feature since a) I only have so many hours in the day and b) my to-read pile is fucking huge and and c) if I don’t like something, I tend to just not review it unless it’s egregiously bad and I can get some funny out of it. I’ve been sent a number of books by people hoping I’d read and give them a review and it seems a shame to not actually dig in to a few of them. But since it’s the week of the release of my new book, I’ve got books on the brain. ![]() It’s Wednesday, which is usually the Open Thread day. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He decided to conduct his own private research and for the next 20 years he slowly reconstructed the origins of the craft. In 1976 he became a Freemason because he was curious to know what the organization was really about. Chris became a writer almost by accident. Hours 1 and 2 of Henrik Palmgren’s interview with Christopher Knight & Alan Butler. Please support your independent journalists and activists in this world, all will be lost if we allow any technocratic gestapo to destroy our quest for truth with sanctimonious sanctions and other dressed up devices for techno-tyrants. In the interim, Henrik has produced a great resource list for understanding they mysteries of our Moon which you can take in here: I will reach out to Henrik and see if he has a copy I could access to re upload as it is truly a phenomenal interview and book. Though this video has NOTHING to do with any so-called “anti-semitism” (an excuse to perform nazi like censorship apparently) it is scrubbed by the deep state and In-Q-Tel (CIA) funded YT of course sanctions this 1984 like Video censored by the commissars of YouTube and the ADL. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Focusing on its manipulation of Scripture and the person of Jesus, he redirects us to the true promises found in the gospel. Jonathan Walton exposes the cultural myths and misconceptions about America’s identity. The proclaimed hope of America rings most hollow for Native peoples, people of color, the rural poor, and other communities pressed to the margins. The president is not the Messiah, the Constitution is not the Bible, and the United States is not a city on a hill or the hope for the world. These commonly held ideas break down in the light of hard realities, the study of Scripture, and faithful Christian witness. "America is a Christian nation." "All men are created equal." "We are the land of the free and the home of the brave." Except when we’re not. ![]() ![]() ![]() His traditional approach, however, stood out in post-1968 France. Reprinted on numerous occasions and translated into English, it became the standard introduction to Algeria for student and lay reader alike.Īgeron was appointed to the University of Tours in 1970. In 1964, two years after Algeria gained independence, he published a history of modern Algeria, Histoire de l'Algérie Contemporaine. The result, Les Algériens Musulmans et la France, 1871-1919, published in 1968, was the benchmark for all subsequent work. Ageron wanted to understand the mechanisms by which Muslims had been discriminated against under the third republic. In the early 1960s, he began a thesis under the historian Charles-André Julien. Ageron returned to Paris, where he gravitated towards the new left groupings that broke away from old-style socialism. But with the Battle of Algiers in 1957, where in the kasbah's tiny streets French paratroopers broke the FLN, this middle ground became untenable. He argued for a middle path between the terrorism of the National Liberation Front (FLN), and the repression imposed by the government in Paris. Confronted with atrocious violence on both sides, Ageron held a liberal position: independence was not inevitable reconciliation was possible. ![]() ![]() There, in November 1954, the tensions spilled over into an all-out war that lasted until 1962. Back in France, he qualified as a history teacher, and in 1947 returned to teach at the lycée Gautier in Algiers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These are people we will come to know deeply and take to our hearts. * Shallan, a naïve but brave and brilliant young woman who will do anything to save her impoverished noble house from ruin. * Kaladin, a highborn young man who has been brought low, indeed to the most miserable level of military slavery, and like Ben Hur must suffer and struggle to survive and rise again. He is plagued by dreams of ancient times and legendary wars, visions that may force him into a new role he could never have imagined. The Way of Kings introduces the three protagonists who will be our windows on the strange and wondrous world of Roshar and the drama about to unfold there: * Dalinar, the assassinated king's brother and uncle of the new one, is an old soldier who is weary of fighting. Now, Tor is proud to present his answer, The Way of Kings, the first novel in a remarkable sequence every bit as ambitious and unique-and as satisfying and addictive-as The Wheel of Time. Having twice reached the New York Times bestseller list, and even as he is brilliantly completing Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time®, Brandon Sanderson is constantly asked by readers and booksellers alike what his next project will be. ![]() ![]() ![]() Putting the right novels to the appropriate ailments: that is how I sell books.” ![]() ![]() “… a book is both medic and medicine at once.It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. He has the uncanny knack of finding a book that will hit the nail on the head for each of his visitors… People visit him from far and wide to soothe their troubles through his recommended reads. We join Monsieur Jean Perdu aboard his canal boat – his peniche – the Literary Apothecary, moored on the Seine. Plus Nina talks to us openly about her passions and writing….Īs if any reader needed telling that books and reading books are good for the soul! This is just one of the premises at the heart of this delightful novel. The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George, set in France. Author Interview with Nina George (plus review of The Little Paris Bookshop set in FRANCE) ![]() ![]() ![]() Audrey and Randy joke that they all became WASP for men in one way or another Randy joined because her father always wished she was a son, and Audrey joined because her ex-fiancé didn’t believe she could do it. Finally, Ida admits the truth:“It beat sitting at home collecting silk stockings while my big brother was getting shot to bits in the Philippines” (258). Audrey asks her: “Really? Did the army ask for you? Did President Roosevelt send you a letter requesting your help?” (258). Audrey and Randy ask Ida why she became a WASP in the first place, and Ida says that her country needed her. Sherri has worked in film, animation, comic books and construction. Putnam and Sons for Penguin Random House. In October 2015, she makes her middle grade debut with THE TOYMAKER’S APPRENTICE from G.P. Besides, when the war is over, there will be no more need for WASP. Smith is the award-winning author of YA novels LUCY THE GIANT, SPARROW, HOT SOUR SALTY SWEET, FLYGIRL and ORLEANS. Ida tells them that she is going to officers’ training in Florida, but Audrey and Randy tell her that that’s just for show, the government has no intention of having WASP militarized. The women are celebrating they’ve just heard that the Allies stormed Normandy and are hopeful that the war will be over soon. At the bar, she runs into Audrey Hill and Randy, two women from her original training base in Texas. ![]() After Ida says goodbye to Lily, she goes to a bar to get “enough warm bodies around to not feel quite so alone” (254). ![]() ![]() ![]() Shortly afterwards he wrote his first work of science fiction and soon gained international recognition. He wrote his first novel while working as a bookseller in Oxford. Shackleton, Arch Mendicant, & "Doc" Peristyle.īrian Wilson Aldiss was one of the most important voices in science fiction writing today. ![]() Aldiss Group on Good Reads Pseudonyms: Jael Cracken, Peter Pica, John Runciman, C.C. Brian Aldiss died on August 19, 2017, just after celebrating his 92nd birthday with his family and closest friends. Adored for his innovative literary techniques, evocative plots and irresistible characters, he became a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 1999. Brian Wilson Aldiss was one of the most important voices in science fiction writing today. Shackleton, Arch Mendicant, & "Doc" Peristyle. ![]() ![]() Pseudonyms: Jael Cracken, Peter Pica, John Runciman, C.C. ![]() ![]() ![]() And in "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," a woman cares for an artificial intelligence over twenty years, elevating a faddish digital pet into what might be a true living being. In the epistolary "Exhalation," an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications not just for his own people, but for all of reality. ![]() In "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and the temptation of second chances. This much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. ![]() ![]() "Conspiracy U" is a devastating and clear-minded deep dive into the phenomenon of conspiracy theories…It's a Masterclass in identifying and weeding out conspiracy theories wherever they exist." - John Kelly, Detroit Free Press, 5-Stars Professorial proponents insist that far from being conspiracy theorists, they are brave truth tellers." "Sadly, many academics can no longer even identify conspiracy theories. ![]() "I learned that Northwestern University, my beloved alma mater and a jewel of American academia, has enabled some of its professors to openly promote conspiracy theories," says Shay. As a student of Jewish thought, history, and current events, who has written extensively on contemporary Jewish issues, he was compelled to take a deep dive into the world of anti-Zionist conspiracy theories and academia. While writing a tribute to his father, a survivor of the Holocaust who educated him on the importance of faith and Jewish values, Shay was disturbed and dismayed to discover the presence of far-right and far-left anti-Zionist professors on the faculty of his alma mater, Northwestern University. They claim to be explanations of political or social phenomena that are the result of a covert conspiracy by powerful and secret actors." "Rather, conspiracy theories have definable parameters. ![]() ![]() "To say something is a conspiracy theory should not be some general rhetorical charge," explains Shay. |