5/23/2023 0 Comments Recipe for persuasion sonali dev![]() Losing Ashna years ago almost destroyed him. She's a chef, what's the worst that could happen?īeing paired with a celebrity who was her first love, the man who ghosted her at the worst possible time in her life, only proves what Ashna has always believed: leaps of faith are a recipe for disaster.įIFA winning soccer star Rico Silva isn't too happy to be paired up with Ashna either. ![]() How else can she save her beloved restaurant and prove to her estranged, overachieving mother that she isn't a complete screw up? When she's asked to join the cast of Cooking with the Stars, the latest hit reality show teaming chefs with celebrities, it seems like just the leap of faith she needs to put her restaurant back on the map. From the author of Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors comes another, clever, deeply layered, and heartwarming romantic comedy that follows in the Jane Austen tradition-this time, with a twist on Persuasion.Ĭhef Ashna Raje desperately needs a new strategy. ![]()
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5/23/2023 0 Comments Lessons by ian mcewan review![]() Is he successful? When McEwan is on his preferred territory, especially the psychodrama between Roland and his lovers, Lessons contains passages of the best vintage. In Lessons, the descriptions of the affair are so uncomfortably erotic as to have the reader ask what the word “child” means, and not just in the sense of legal consent. McEwan remains supreme when writing from a “wicked” child’s point of view, implicating them in dangerous or compromised situations that question the very nature of childhood. It starts with a very McEwan scenario, the teenaged pianist Roland Baines being seduced by his music teacher, Miriam Cornell, a woman in her late 20s. Lessons is a baggy, rambling story of a life over seven decades. I thought, now I’m going to plunder my own life, I’m going to be shameless.” He has said it’s his most autobiographical novel, telling The Guardian newspaper, that he “always felt rather envious of writers like Dickens, Saul Bellow, John Updike and many others, who just plunder their own lives for their novels. With Lessons, McEwan has not just tried something new (again!), but made a complete departure from all precedent. He drilled into his subject and didn’t waste a word. One thing you could say that defined McEwan’s best novels was their intense focus and almost aggressive shaping. ![]() ![]() Though the novel feels uneven in places, with a prolonged beginning and abrupt plot developments toward the end involving Mira discovering heretofore unknown family members, Kephart (One Stolen Thing) establishes relatable characters and a poetic style that artfully blend the island days before and after the storm. Days from rescue, Mira and friend Deni search for survivors while the rest of the town gathers resources. Using her forward thinking and bravery, Mira survives the storm and joins the trash-strewn beach with its collection of islanders reeling after half the town is washed away. Though 17-year-old Mira loves her family, she wishes life were simpler for them a wish she regrets when a hurricane pummels the island while her mother and brother are on the mainland. Thirteen-year-old Lizzie’s favorite place in the world is her uncle’s cabin. ![]() ![]() Having a younger brother with Hunter syndrome is hard on Mira Banul and her mother, Mickey, who works multiple jobs to pay for Jasper Lee's treatments and necessities for the cottage they inherited from Mira's aunt on the barrier island of Haven. The threat of two escaped convicts and a missing friend lead Lizzie on a harrowing journey through the wilds of the Adirondacks in this captivating mystery from National Book Award finalist Beth Kephart. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Film art bordwell![]() ![]() ![]() With aesthetic philosopher Noël Carroll, Bordwell edited the anthology Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies (1996), a polemic on the state of contemporary film theory. With his wife Kristin Thompson, Bordwell wrote the introductory textbooks Film Art (1979) and Film History (1994). Since receiving his PhD from the University of Iowa in 1974, he has written more than fifteen volumes on the subject of cinema including Narration in the Fiction Film (1985), Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema (1988), Making Meaning (1989), and On the History of Film Style (1997). WHAT IS NEOFORMALISM IN FILM? (In the Entertainment industry.)īruce Bisbey…please follow me at: or thank you.ĭavid Jay Bordwell (born July 23, 1947) is an American film theorist and film historian. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but its story begins in earnest in 1963, with the death of John F. But the Secret Service wasn’t always so troubled. The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years, right up to the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6-by the Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of A Very Stable Genius.Ĭarol Leonnig has been reporting on the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the secrets, scandals, and shortcomings that plague the agency today-from a toxic work culture to dangerously outdated equipment to the deep resentment within the ranks at key agency leaders, who put protecting the agency’s once-hallowed image before fixing its flaws. ![]() “This is one of those books that will go down as the seminal work-the determinative work-in this field. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The Floating World by Axie Oh![]() ![]() They also wrote that they were "working with law enforcement officials, forensic cryptographers, and our investors to make sure all funds are recovered or reimbursed". Sky Mavis announced that they had halted the Ronin Bridge and Katana DEX, and were making changes to their network to try to guard against future attacks. The $625 million loss was possibly the largest to date in the history of defi projects. After gaining control of the validators, they were able to approve malicious withdrawals of 173,600 ETH (about $600 million) and 25.5M USDC (a stablecoin, worth $25.5M). ![]() The project announced that a majority of Ronin validator nodes had been compromised - four belonging to the Sky Mavis company that builds Axie Infinity, and one belonging to the Axie DAO. One of the most popular play-to-earn games, Axie Infinity, suffered an enormous hack to the Ronin network on which it runs. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Night sky with exit wounds author![]() "Night Sky With Exit Wounds.startled me with its urgency and its relevance. ![]() One of the most important debut collections for a generation.' Andrew McMillan Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound subjects - love and loss, conflict, grief, memory and desire - and attends to them all with lines that feel newly-minted, graceful in their cadences, passionate and hungry in their tender, close attention- 'athe chief of police/facedown in a pool of Coca-Cola./A palm-sized photo of his father soaking/beside his left ear.' This is an unusual, important book- both gentle and visceral, vulnerable and assured, and its blend of humanity and power make it one of the best first collections of poetry to come out of America in years.'These are poems of exquisite beauty, unashamed of romance, and undaunted by looking directly into the horrors of war, the silences of history. ![]() Winner of the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection An extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow![]() ![]() One evening, I got a wild hair and drove all night from San Diego to Menlo Park. If you enjoy my stories, articles and podcasts and want to know how to show your gratitude, please consider backing this kickstarter by pre-ordering an audiobook, ebook, and/or hardcover. I’m currently kickstarting a real audiobook of this one, and I’m going into the studio with Wil Wheaton on Monday. ![]() Recovering the keys turns out to be the easy part: the hard part is surviving the three-way war that is ignited in their wake, between Azerbaijani money-launderers, Mexican narcos, and crooked three-letter agencies. Marty’s ready to retire, but an old friend pulls him in for one last job, an offer he can’t refuse: recovering the stolen keys to a hidden backdoor in a cryptocurrency system that are worth more than a billion dollars. ![]() This week on my podcast, I read a selection from my next novel, Red Team Blues, an anti-finance finance thriller about Marty Hench, a 67 year old hard-charging forensic accountant who’s seen every finance scam that Silicon Valley has come up with over the previous 40 years. Ma/ Cory Doctorow / Articles, News, Podcast, Red Team Blues ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Norwegian wood by haruki murakami![]() ![]() ![]() Norwegian Wood is the Murakami book that I think shouldn't be used as an introduction to his worlk. Sadly, this movie is simply too long for such an intimate story, especially with its many digressions that help to slow the pace to a crawl in places.Ī lovely adaptation of Murakami's astonishing novel. Just as Toru uses books to keep the chaos of the outside world at bay, others use recent trauma to keep emotions at bay. On the other hand, the characters talk a great game when it comes to sex but are less able when it comes down to doing the deed or falling in love for that matter. On the one hand, "Norwegian Wood" could be considered a thoughtful meditation on young people's first encounter with death, finding out the hard way that there is no way to compete with the dead. ![]() After Kikuchi's suicide, Toru migrates to the side of Nagasawa(Tetsuji Tamayama), a ladies' man, in search of more knowledge about the opposite sex. With Kizuki and Naoko(Rinko Kikuchi) being well-nigh inseparable, Toru does not mind playing third wheel to them. In "Norwegian Wood," Toru(Ken'ichi Matsuyama) is best friends with Kizuki(Kengo Kora). ![]() ![]() ![]() There were elements that came into play later on in the story which were not even discussed earlier on in the story and I was very confused how they came into play or why they were relevant until they were involved. Kel Carpenter and Lucinda Dark have created a very complex world which was both a pro and a con. Quinn becomes more skilled and Lazarus obviously starts to fall more for the deathly weapon he has in his grasp. ![]() They both have their secrets and as their journey unfolds they both start to peel back them layers. ![]() A contract with some very bad stipulations if things change. Quinn is a Dark Magi and all she's trying to do is hide her powers until she gets confronted by Lazarus and offered a contract. Fortune Favors the Cruel is a Dark and gritty slow burn with lots of kick arse attitude from the heroine, Quinn. ![]() |