I agree with Marsh’s assessment of the group [Aerosmith that is} a second rate group with a first class guitarist and a third rate front man. coming along and jump starting their dead career in the mid-1980’s. I have always thought that Aerosmith should thank the lord for Run D.M.C. “Silent Morning’ was a top 10 dance hit and the closest Noel ever came to a Top 40 hit. Like the song but not one I’d even consider for my 1001 Greatest Singles list. I had never heard this song- Marsh calls it the bleakest dance record ever made [at least up until when the book was written in 1989} Although Marsh notes that the song doesn’t mention AIDS- that it released during a point when the AIDS crisis was at its worst. #897-“Silent Morning”- Noel 1987- 4th and Broadway Billboard #47. What I remember most about Tanya Tucker isn’t her music, I haven’t heard much of it-but tabloid headlines. #898- “San Antonio Stroll”- Tanya Tucker 1975- MCA Did Not Make Pop Chart.
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When they got near their destination, she was put into a pod and jettisoned from the spaceship, later landing on a planet in the forest. Jade was kidnapped from her house by some sort of reptilian looking aliens. The heroine: Jade – a landscape designer who spends most of her time in her home. After all, she can’t possibly stay here, right? Choosing Theo But neither can afford to bring love into the equation, especially since Jade seems determined to go home. Only one explanation makes sense…the curvy enticing female must be a spy, and Theo’s determined to break her cover using any means necessary.Īs Jade and Theo are forced to spend time together, their chemistry becomes undeniable. After years of being passed over, he never imagined he would be chosen and neither did anyone else. Theo, a scarred mercenary who prefers a life of solitude, is stunned when Jade selects him as her husband. Jade refuses at first but decides to play along until she can find a way back to Earth. Thankfully, her rescuers, an alien race known as the Clecanians, are willing to protect her, but she has to stay on their planet for one year and respect the rules of their culture–including choosing a husband. Being kidnapped by aliens is only the start of Jade’s problems. 6/7/2023 0 Comments The This by Adam RobertsComradery is formed amongst soldiers only for their lives to be snuffed out in minutes. People ask fewer questions when offered something for free.Īs The This jumps through time, we see a worrying glimpse of humanity’s future – the futility of being human in a technologically advanced war. What do we sacrifice for the chance to be part of something – our privacy, our sense of self? The This is the latest tech company with cult-like status, to the point where its users no longer resemble themselves – and beyond, to threatening individuality as we know it. Narratives that question our reliance on AI and technological advances are a staple of storytelling, from The Matrix to Ready Player One and Two, 1984 and a multitude of others. Having completed only a few chapters, he continued working on the first draft outside London. Though Stevenson started writing the novel in Scotland, he returned to London due to his ailing health. Only his strength, courage, quickness, and magnificent geniality, expressed in terms of a raw tarpaulin culture, produce a more significant impact. Also, for the Character Long John Silver, he has modified the actual characteristics of one of his friends and took away all his finer qualities. His mind was afresh with memories of poverty, illness, adventure, and his marriage with Fanny.Īs the original title suggests and Stevenson himself wrote, he intended the novel for young boys. Stevenson wrote this novel after his return from America. Secondly, the inspiration for the island, which he could have received from his visit to Unst island in Scotland in 1869 along with his father Thomas Stevenson, who built lighthouses there. Stevenson and his stepson on a rainy day in Braemar, Scotland. When I was making a decision, I found that I was searching for evidence that supported my choice, rather than finding counterexamples. Kahneman says our System 1 is gullible and biased, whereas our System 2 is doubting and questioning - and we need both to shape our beliefs and values. To gain more concentration and focus, I started practicing more mindfulness strategies and incorporating more breaks, which have helped me tremendously in making better choices for myself. I felt exhausted and distracted at the end of long days, so I was using System 1 to make decisions instead of System 2. I recognized that my fast thinking was attributed to the fact that I was busy all the time and didn't incorporate very many breaks into my schedule. However, in situations when we don't have those – like when we feel tired or stressed - System 1 impulsively takes over, coloring our judgment. Since thinking slow requires conscious effort, System 2 is best activated when we have self-control, concentration, and focus. Meanwhile, System 2 uses problem-solving and concentration – we use it to think slowly, like when we calculate a math problem or fill out our tax returns. System 1 operates intuitively and automatically – we use it to think fast, like when we drive a car or recall our age in conversation. One of the book's main ideas is to showcase how the brain uses these two systems for thinking and decision-making processes. Sometimes we think fast and sometimes we think slow. 6/6/2023 0 Comments William march the badOther children, who can sense her true nature, avoid her. She is also a precociously talented con artist, adept at manipulating adults. Beneath her lovable facade, however, she is a sociopath (or psychopath) who is willing to harm and even kill anyone to get whatever she wants, whenever she wants it. Rhoda Penmark is an eight-year-old girl who is charming, polite, and intelligent beyond her years. In the 2018 adaptation and its sequel, she is known as Emma Grossman and portrayed by Mckenna Grace. She was also portrayed by Carrie Wells in the 1985 made-for-television adaptation. She was portrayed by Patty McCormack in the original rendition of the play and later in the 1956 film adaptation. Penmark is a child serial killer and psychopath who manipulates those around her. She is both the protagonist and antagonist of the story. Rhoda Penmark is a fictional character in William March's 1954 novel The Bad Seed and the stage play of the same name adapted from it by Maxwell Anderson. 6/5/2023 0 Comments Bee Movie by Chris SauerWhen questioned if he was a lawyer by a cow, Mooseblood explained that he "was already a blood-sucking parasite" and all he had needed was a briefcase. Later, Barry would employ him in his law firm. After the two had a conversation about their lifestyles and current predicaments, Mooseblood was drawn to a blood donation unit and met many other mosquitoes before asking if one of them had brought their "crazy straw". Despite the arrival of wipers, they were able to find cover in the truck's horn. Eventually, he met Barry Benson when the bee ended up on the windshield as well. Mooseblood soon left for Alaska to experience the taste of moose blood and ended up colliding into the windshield of a Honey Farms truck along with many other bugs. Voice Actor: Chris Rock who also voiced by Marty from Madagascarĭuring his youth, Mooseblood lived in the typical, hostile mosquito environment, in which each of them only cared for their own well-being and where female mosquitoes preferred other species over their own when finding a relationship. 6/5/2023 0 Comments Dry neal shusterman audiobookThe water dry spell (similarly called the Faucet- Out) that takes place in the book is never ever before mentioned generally tale to be a straight outcome of globally warming yet including it in the acknowledgments at the actual begin is a solid insinuation to precisely just how the world can possibly do not have water. This very first line is committed to people that are combating the outcomes of worldwide warming. This book actually starts with the recognitions, nonetheless this is finished with exceptional factor. Having carbon monoxide- created this with his kid, Neil Shusterman discovers a possibly dangerous future that will certainly impact everybody. Neil Shusterman is really fantastic concerning consisting of simply the right quantity of sandy information to make the plot lump of the web page. This was so useful as well as additionally really resounded with me. If there was ever before a book that influenced me to stock on water, this is overview. Uhuh, I’m glad, I’m a busy career woman and mother now. But women that time were seen and expected to ONLY be a housewife and a mother, doing ONLY house chores, serving their families and husbands. But she has easy access to the library and she has a loooot of time to spend in her bedroom being bored, soooo… However she didn’t want that life. She grew up with comfortable lifestyle in the 1920s, except she wasn’t treated well as a daughter. The Four Winds follows the story of Elsinore, a.k.a. The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American Dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation.įrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America’s most defining eras-the Great Depression. In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli-like so many of her neighbors-must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to California, in search of a better life. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. 6/5/2023 0 Comments Wait for it zapataThat’s when they’re letting me out of this joint.” “Dal left, but he’ll be back by Wednesday, he said. “I heard.”īefore I could ask who she’d heard that from, she continued on. Sitting down in the chair beside her bed, I reached up and placed my hand over her cool one. Dal says I’m bored and like to push people ‘cause of it. “You saved my life, Diana, and I never told you thank you-” Well, that wasn’t the positive statement I’d been expecting to get.īut she’d kept going. “Half my house burned down, but I’m alive.” In a faded mint-green hospital gown, and with her hair limp and flat against her scalp, she’d blinked those milky blue eyes at me and sighed. “How are you doing, Miss Pearl?” I asked the elderly woman after I’d set the vase of flowers I’d bought her at the grocery store on the table in front of her bed. When I wasn’t at the salon or moping around at home, holding my burned hand up high and cussing at it, I went to visit Miss Pearl at the hospital, who was being held there because of all the smoke she’d inhaled and she’d gotten a few burns too. I couldn’t afford to take off a week, but I absolutely couldn’t take off more than three. Come hell or high water, I was going to be back at work in three weeks. Best-case scenario seemed to be three weeks. I spent those first couple of days going to the salon to reschedule my appointments and talk to Ginny about what she could do while I was out for a while. |