![]() I would just love to just stay home on Zoom and put on a top and put on my pants, maybe. A lot of the time, I go to class in person, so I actually have to put on pants. I currently teach creative reading at the University of Winnipeg. ![]() If I could just wake up every day, put on my pajamas, and sit in front of a blank screen. JFG: Are you writing full-time these days? Or are you doing something else as well? ![]() You might be broke and you might have insomnia. So when you publish a book, you will just be very busy. I don’t think I’ve slept since 2018! I’m very lucky if I get five hours of sleep at night. I would say my life is a lot busier, I sleep less. People ask you to do a lot of things like readings or interviews and it’s not all paid, so you just get a lot more things to do. LW: It’s true! I get ten times more emails than I did before. JFG: (laughing) No, don’t ruin our dreams! ![]() What happens is that you are just busier! Well, it’s funny because people always think that when you publish a book, your life will dramatically change. Lindsay Wong (LW): Thank you very much for having me here and it’s great to meet in person (on Zoom). JF Garrard (JFG): Welcome Lindsay! Before we start talking about Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality, can you tell us how life has changed after publishing The Woo-Woo? ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() OL16921842W Page_number_confidence 91.10 Pages 294 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210726153541 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 450 Scandate 20210723064426 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780349119427 Tts_version 4. LETS EXPLORE DIABETES WITH OWLS by David Sedaris Hachette Book Group 11. Lets Explore Diabetes With Owls is a collection of narrative essays by David Sedaris. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 11:01:07 Boxid IA40188615 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() I’d found empty bottles of laxatives in our shared bathroom, smelled the dried puke in the toilet, and a couple of times, I’d woken up to find her exercising in the middle of the night. Maybe she felt as if she had to compete with Robbie. Once, she made a six-foot papier-mâché dragon that won a state competition. ![]() She excelled at almost everything creative, or it seemed that way. My brother could spit out statistics because he was the family genius. ![]() Portside wasn’t huge, but it wasn’t small either-maybe around twenty thousand people lived in this suburb outside of Merridell. My family had just moved to Portside, Oregon, from Schilling, Arizona, because of my dad’s promotion, so the whole picnic had been new faces, new names, and that feeling of being the newbie on the scene. I’d been lying in bed next to this girl I’d been introduced to twelve hours earlier at a company picnic. The first time I snuck into Ryan Jensen’s bed was an accident. ![]() ![]() ![]() Others are determined to keep her from doing just that. Some are waiting for her to put an end to centuries of traditions that have oppressed their people under the guise of safeguarding them. She is one of them, and they have been waiting for her for a long time. ![]() There are others like her all over the world, descendants of the very people the Greeks considered gods. Elyse is not the only one keeping secrets. Now, only one other person in the world knows about her age and ability. After the death of her parents, she’s been careful to keep her secret as closely guarded as possible. For Elyse, these things don’t make her special. ![]() Second, that her blood has a mysterious power to heal. First, that she ages five times slower than average people, so that while she looks eighteen years old, she’s closer to eighty. She’s been keeping secrets her whole life. This blog tour is coordinated by Xpresso Book Tours.Įlyse knows what it means to keep a secret. Today I am lucky enough to be a host for the blog tour for Oppression by Jessica Therrien. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less has now been reprinted 57 times. ![]() However, as word-of-mouth took over, demand increased. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. The paperback did a bit better, selling about 20,000 in the first year. Read reviews and buy Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less - by Jeffrey Archer (Paperback) at Target. When it was published, it only sold 3,000 copies in hardback. It took Jeffrey some time to find a publisher for this first novel. It’s called revenge - and they were taught by a master.įirst published in hardback in 1976. From the luxurious casinos of Monte Carlo to the high-stakes windows at Ascot to the bustling streets of Wall Street to fashionable London galleries, their own ingenious game has begun. Their plan: find Harvey, shadow him, trap him, and penny-for-penny, destroy him. ![]() With nothing left to lose four strangers are about to come together - each expert in their own field. Overnight, each novice investor lost his life’s fortune to one man. The conned: an Oxford don, a revered society physician, a chic French art dealer, and a charming English lord. ![]() ![]() ![]() Luckily, the counter-intelligence department is at your command, too. As you race against time and an invisible enemy, the word "paranoia" gains a whole new quality. If you tighten up security on the other hand, the overprotection will throttle research efficiency. ![]() The scientists that you hire may be geniuses, but are they trustworthy? The more technology tests you schedule, the easier it is for Russian spies to steal your knowledge. In this time of crisis, however, all your actions are overshadowed by the threat of espionage and treachery. Your task is to build, test and deploy a network of laser defense satellites before the Russians manage to do so. Among them: The United States' top spy in Moscow, the Cardinal of the Kremlin.īased on the popular novel of the same name by US author Tom Clancy, The Cardinal of the Kremlin puts you in the position of US project leader. And as the race for the deployment of a space-based laser defense system begins, KGB and CIA agents swarm out to infiltrate the laboratories. At the same time, the USA is busy developing their own SDI project, code name "Tea Clipper". It is identified as project "Bright Star" - the Soviet laser ICBM defense system, capable of destroying satellites and airplanes with a beam of energy. An American ground reconnaissance satellite discovers a strange structure near the northern border to Afghanistan. The Cardinal of the Kremlin is a global management simulation. ![]() Managerial / Business Simulation, Real-time strategy ![]() ![]() I do not think I will be reading Maas’ work in the future. Personally, I need more substance in my novels. ![]() I think many readers enjoy this novel based solely off of Maas’ “attractive” character cast, and that just does not satisfy me as a reader. Despite Maas being a popular author, I did not really find this book enjoyable. Maas maintains no continuity in her characters, is repetitive in her diction and thoughts, and fails to have clear overarching themes. As for me, I felt frustrated while reading this book. Like with many of my reviews on duologies or trilogies, if you enjoyed the first book you will probably enjoy the second book. ![]() If you disagree, let me know in the comments I am always up for a good discussion or to answer questions. ![]() First of all, this review is purely derived from my own personal opinion. ![]() ![]() ![]() It slowly reels you into her crisis of of being completely helpless and at the mercy of the foaming waters around her and her crew. Kip's true story will lure you into the midst of hell on water,as dictated by the unforgiving Devil's Triangle. ![]() From unexplainable malfunctions of equipment, to a horrific shark attack, to bizarre paranormal activity, her battered crew struggled against the onslaught on winds and waves that threatened their voyages through those waters. Everything that the Devil's Triangle could throw at a person, seemed to be aimed at Kip and her crew. Her pleasure craft, The Solitude, found itself in the midst of stormy seas where ocean storms could spring up in an instant. Her journeys traversed the intracoastal waters off Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, going as far as the Bimini Islands. It was there in the middle of that body of water that the author, Kip Boland, found herself amidst events that didn’t, and still don’t, add up. ![]() Nightmare on the Solitude is the true story of a voyage into the realm of the Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Interactive video was a luxury that rarely worked.Nearly 30 million college students were being educated online, along with an estimated 180 million schoolchildren. Much of education was done online during the lockdown period.Many aspects of the Chinese strategy could never be adopted in America or in any other democracy. ![]() ![]() By early April, all travellers who entered from abroad, regardless of nationality, had to undergo a strictly monitored two-week quarantine in a state-approved facility. The lockdown had been strictly enforced, and any infected person was immediately removed from his or her household and isolated in a government clinic. Very little was left to individual choice or responsibility.If a family were suspected of exposure to the virus, it wasn’t unheard-of for their door to be sealed shut while tests and contact-tracing were being conducted. Neighborhood committees, the most grassroots level of Communist Party organization, enforced the rules, and in many places they limited households to sending one individual outside every two or three days to buy necessities. The Chinese lockdown was more intense than almost anywhere else in the world.Much of the text is lifted from the article with some editorial changes, but rearranged and grouped for clarity. It is a long read, well worth your time but I present here a dry “CliffNotes” version of it, focusing on the COVID-19 part of the article. ![]() ![]() ![]() So long as this book is viewed as a humorous and lighthearted attempt at popular history, it is far easier to enjoy than when one is tearing it apart for its inevitable stumbles and errors and its failure to give credit where credit is due to various people and groups of people. Similarly, the author comes to the Middle Ages with a certain background as a comedian whose work, especially Monty Python’s Search For The Holy Grail, itself made a lot of knowing winks and nods at the medieval history of the British Isles. Among his biases is a strong hostility to organized religion as well as a certain degree of favoritism to entertainers and outlaws. ![]() As any author does, this particular writer comes to the subject of medieval history and the lives of various classes of people with a certain bias and a certain background. In many ways, this book is an entertaining volume, even though it seeks to present itself as something more than mere entertainment. Terry Jones’ Medieval Lives: The Book Of The BBC Series, by Terry Jones and Alan Ereira ![]() |