![]() ![]() “I chose jerks because they didn’t ask anything of me. “You asked me-last night-why I always chose jerks.” “I want to answer your question.” My heart raced, and my fingers locked over my stomach. ![]() “I need to tell you something,” I blurted. I opened my mouth to say goodnight-I swear I did. When Beckett reached the landing, he headed for his bedroom. Grab yours now or read in Kindle Unlimited! Like any cowboy, he’s good with a rope and knows exactly how to tie me up. Nothing has ever felt so right, but his past has taught him not to believe in happily ever after, and every perfect night I spend in his arms brings us closer to goodbye. And once we give into each other, we can’t stop. That’s not the only big thing he’s got–which I discover the night I finally sneak across the hall to his bedroom and shed my inhibitions right alongside my pajamas. I only returned to my hometown of Bellamy Creek to sell my late mother’s house, and he just invited me and my son to stay with him because he’s got a big heart. A lot.īut I’m a single mom trying to move on with my life, and he’s running that ranch single-handedly while taking care of his elderly father. He makes a girl sweat just looking at him. And who wouldn’t appreciate those strong hands, that massive chest, and the way he fills out a pair of Levis? Yes, I’ve had a secret crush on him since we were seventeen. ![]() ![]() Sure, he’s a hot cowboy who left Wall Street behind to take over his family’s ranch. That’s all Beckett Weaver and I have ever been. ![]()
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![]() Spanning politics, urban planning, war, personal finance, economic systems, and medicine in an interdisciplinary and erudite style, Antifragile is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world. What is crucial is that the antifragile loves errors, as it incurs small harm and large benefits from them. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same the antifragile gets better and better. What Taleb has identified and calls “antifragile” is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, many things in life benefit from disorder, volatility, and turmoil. richly crammed with insights, stories, fine phrases and intriguing asides.” -The Wall Street Journal All four volumes- Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and the expanded edition of The Bed of Procrustes, updated with more than 50 percent new material-are now together in one boxed set. ![]() Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series is an investigation of luck, uncertainty, probability, opacity, human error, risk, disorder, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand, in nonoverlapping and standalone books. ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s not event enough to carry the chronicle on its own, however, and the book is less successful at conveying Cornell’s actual art, which here seems more like shadowbox craft than surrealist and detailed assemblages. The book quietly evokes Cornell’s unflashy life in his unflashy Queens house, focusing on accessible details such as his love of sweets and his inviting local children to his exhibitions. ![]() Cornell through that window, working in the dim light”), exploring Cornell’s memory-driven creation of glass-fronted boxes of found objects reassembled into compelling and idiosyncratic scenes. In second-person narration addressed to a hypothetical child, Winter describes that child’s view of Cornell’s life and art (“You might have seen Mr. American artist Joseph Cornell had a strong affinity for kids and created particularly kid-friendly art, so he’s an understandable subject for this picture-book introduction. ![]() ![]() Additionally, they use a scritching noise to show that something Juliette is thinking has been scratched out (which is done in the book). The narrator uses a sort of “little girl” voice for Juliette and sometimes her voices for other characters were too similar to discern from each other. ![]() I got this as an audiobook from .Īudiobook Quality (2/5): This wasn’t the best audiobook. Series Info/Source: This is the first book in the Shatter Me series. But when she’s reunited with the one person who ever cared about her, she finds a strength she never knew she had.” Juliette has never fought for herself before. But The Reestablishment sees it as a gift, sees her as an opportunity. ![]() It feels like a curse, a burden that one person alone could never bear. No one knows why Juliette has such incredible power. One touch, and Juliette Ferrars can leave a fully grown man gasping for air. Stand Alone or Series: 1st book in the Shatter Me series ![]() ![]() ![]() The play fortifies the brilliant righteousness of ‘balance in every way’. The responses of the different characters of the play to the wolf in sheep’s clothing, serve to help the gathering of people to remember the significance of unwavering discernment in reality as we know it where a few people will exploit basic reasoning and visually impaired trust. The play’s significant accentuation is on the senseless yet genuine consequences of neglecting to act with good judgment. However, Moliere’s Tartuffe, despite its endorsement of theologically grounded political absolutism, represents an important waystation on the road to “enlightenment”. Works, for example, like this is a true help to secure and advance religion by uncovering impostors for who they truly are and showing the genuine peril they posture to society when they go unchallenged. Religion isn’t the issue rather, the abuse of religion for an individual increase to the detriment of innocent, unwary individuals is the author’s main target audience. ![]() ![]() In spite of the fact that the play was initially denounced as a through and through an assault on religion and passionate individuals, an appropriate perusing recommends the polar opposite. Molière composed Tartuffe not to censure religion or religious individuals but instead to convict bad faith and to teach groups of onlookers, using humor, on the significance of balance, good judgment, and unwavering discernment in all everyday issues. ![]() ![]() ![]() The musical, which debuted Off-Broadway in 1999, has some undeniable residue of RENT on it, including delicate harmonies about drugs, a suggestive group sex moment and a rapid-fire number chock full of names and cultural touchstones ("Calvin Klein, Mary Boone, Basquiat, Wolfgang Puck, Christie Brinkley.").īut unlike RENT, it can be hard to connect emotionally to the characters, since they're always stomping on and off in different incarnations. He's out partying and doing blow every night, even though he's not that kind of guy. Jamie dreams of success as a novelist, but his life is a shambles. Ponderous moments fly by in a whir, like when Jamie gazes at a mannequin modeled in the likeness of his lover. ![]() There's no intermission, no chance to catch your breath. It feels appropriately like a pot of madness you can't escape. The musical, directed by Freefall's artistic director Eric Davis, is relatively fast at 90 minutes, maybe too fast for fans of the source material. ![]() ![]() ![]() Translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter Translated from the English and Russian by Eugene Ostashevsky Yevgenia Belorusets, “The Complaint Against Language” in Wartime Ukraine.Translated from the Russian by Jane Ann Miller Translated from the Lithuanian by Delija Valiukenas Translated from the Norwegian by Francesca M. Gunnhild Øyehaug, But Out There-Out There–.Translated from the Russian by Kotryna Garanasvili Marius Ivaškevičius, from Russian Romance.Translated from the Spanish by Paul Filev Translated from the German by Aaron Sayne Leif Randt, from The Haze over Coby County.Translated from the Spanish by James Terry Translated from the Catalan by Laia Sales Merino Antònia Vicens i Picornell, from Lovely.Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari Fernando Pessoa, from The Complete Works of Álvaro de Campos. ![]() Translated from the Spanish by Elena Barcia ![]() Translated from the Spanish by Forrest Gander Mariana Berenice Bredow Vargas, Let it Go.Translated from the Armenian by Antranik Cassem ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This does not affect the Amish, but the English - the Amish term for non-Amish people - are thrown into chaos. This solar storm causes planes to crash, cars to malfunction, and technology to become useless. Her vision turns out to be true, and a few nights later Jacob, his wife Hannah, Sadie, and his son Jacob all watch lights fall from the sky. Sadie has a reputation for being able to predict the future. The first entry describes Jacob holding his daughter Sadie as she suffers through a long seizure, in which she sees angels falling from the sky. The main narrative of the novel is the content of these journals, which are narrated by Jacob, an Amish farmer. Ernestine five journals that he found in an abandoned farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. Colonel Marker’s letter says that he is sending Dr. Jeanine Ernestine, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. When the English Fall opens with a letter from Colonel Terrence Marker, an instructor at the U.S. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Williams, David. ![]() ![]() Cuddy and Detritus are forced to work together, resulting in them becoming friends as they overcome their deep-seated racial enmity. ![]() When a string of seemingly random murders occur among the Guilds of the city, Lord Vetinari forbids Vimes to investigate in a successful ploy to ensure Vimes does investigate. He also must deal with a new group of recruits that he has been required to take on for the sake of diversity: Cuddy (a dwarf), Detritus (a troll), and Angua (a werewolf-but Carrot is unaware of this, and believes she is included because she is female). Meanwhile, Captain Samuel Vimes, captain of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, prepares for his imminent wedding to Sybil Ramkin, the richest woman in Ankh-Morpork. He researches the history of the royal family and determines that Carrot Ironfoundersson is in fact the rightful heir to the throne. ![]() ![]() ![]() Edward d'Eath, an Assassin and son of a down-and-out noble family, becomes convinced that the restoration of the Ankh-Morpork monarchy will solve the social change in the city which he blames for his family's humbling. ![]() ![]() ![]() And, anyhow, it’s a silly biznai, bung through. Besides, there’s bound to be a mess somewhere or other with old De Vitré in charge. “AND then De Vitré said we were beastly funks not to help, and I said there were too many chaps in it to suit us. Corkran’s devious manipulation of the situation earns him the nickname “Stalky.”Ĭontent Advisory: This story briefly mentions child abuse.Īnd they’ve forgot that the bauld Buccleuch ![]() ![]() They stealthily rescue their schoolmates from the angry farmhands, and manage to take revenge on the farmhands in the process. Kipling once admitted, “A certain amount of it, I am sorry to say, is founded on fact, though that is no recommendation.” In “Stalky,” Corkran, McTurk, and Beetle are caught up in an altercation between some fellow pupils and local farmers. 1 Another of these stories included in the VSFP archive is "Slaves of the Lamp." Intriguingly, the characters and unbelievable antics are somewhat autobiographical. While this tale was not compiled in Kipling’s later novel Stalky & Co, it was Kipling’s first tale regarding these boys’ adventurous antics. Introductory Note: Originally published in The Windsor Magazine and McClure's Magazine in 1898, “Stalky” was the first of several boys' stories to revolve around three schoolboys-Corkran, McTurk, and Beetle. ![]() |