![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And while I learned of story’s reputation I didn’t realise how old it is. ![]() As it happened, indeed as it often happens in these circumstances, a copy then fell into my hands during one of my street library rambles. I learned recently in a review that The Poky Little Puppy is considered a classic Little Golden Book beloved of children everywhere. So yeah, loved the puppies and the story is cute but I couldn’t help but be annoyed at their asshole of a human. So your puppies come home after they could have died because your dumb-ass just let them run around wherever the fuck they want and instead of “AWW I’M SO HAPPY YOU’RE HERE MY HAPPY LITTLE FRENS!”, you go “Wah, there’s holes under the fence, fuck you, I ain’t giving you treats.” Then in one bit she was gonna give them chocolate, the hell is this bitch’s problem, does she want to kill her dogs? Oh and let’s not forget the end where the poky little puppy doesn’t get any strawberry cake when everyone else does just because he came home later? You couldn’t, gee I dunno, SAVE HIS FUCKING SLICE LIKE ANYONE WITH AN IQ HIGHER THAN A FUCKING GOLDFISH WOULD! Fuck, their owner annoyed me. On one hand, I thought the story was cute, I enjoyed reading it to my dog! The illustrations and puppies are so cute! WARNING: JUST BECAUSE THIS IS A KID’S BOOK, THAT DOESN’T MEAN MY REVIEW IS APPROPRIATE FOR KIDS! STRONG LANGUAGE AHEAD!ĭamn, I seriously have mixed thoughts on this. ![]()
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![]() Arriving with their own actions and energy, each installment of Jag Quarterly will resurrect a different mantra from the label’s past, and imbue it with new meaning: Dilate Your Heart, This is a Mindfulness Drill, Join the Ritual and the original Jagjaguwar mantra, Sentimental Noise.įrom 1996 to today, Jagjaguwar has continually championed artists who have reshaped genres, defied canons and bent the tides of popular music. Centered around a sprawling series called Jag Quarterly, the four-part project will deliver collections of music, creative endeavors and partnerships that span physical mediums, born through brand new collaborations from artists within and outside of the Jagjaguwar family. ![]() ![]() Jagjaguwar officially announces JAG25, a year-long initiative celebrating the label’s 25th Anniversary as home to some of the most mythical artists in music. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security. He is the first Asian and the first Indian academic to head an Oxbridge college.Īmartya Sen's books have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is also a senior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he previously served as Master from the years 1998 to 2004. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. Sen was best known for his work on the causes of famine, which led to the development of practical solutions for preventing or limiting the effects of real or perceived shortages of food. Amartya Kumar Sen is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society’s poorest members. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Taking Angels by C.S. Yelle![]() As Britt relishes her new cancer-free life and senior year of high school, her very existence threatens Allister's place in this world. It is forbidden an infraction punishable by death. The only problem is that an Eternal like Allister isn't allowed to touch those who have already passed from this world. Ignoring the warnings of his sister, Allister brings Britt back from the edge of death. When Allister Parks finds Britt's fragile body on the riverbank something calls out to him. Despite her father's attempts to reach her, she flies over the waterfall. She struggles to get back to shore, to cry out for help, but her atrophied muscles are useless and the frigid water steals the breath from her chemo-scarred lungs. As Britt tries to end her life by going into the frigid waters she realizes her mistake. No control, except for how she would leave this world. The cancer had won leaving her without a future, without any options, and without control. ![]() ![]() ![]() Book 1 in The Angel Crusades Series by CS Yelle Britt Anderson went along with everything the doctors said for nearly four years, but she was still dying at eighteen. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Salman rushdie the satanic![]() ![]() I doubt very much that Khomeini or anyone else in Iran has read the book or more than selected extracts out of context.” Salman Rushdie in Cartagena at a previous Hay festival (photo: AFP/Getty Images) The assassinations It’s not true that this book is a blasphemy against Islam. ![]() I’m very sad that it should have happened. Rushdie, talking about the fatwa on BBC Radio 4, said: “Frankly, I wish I had written a more critical book. British Labour MP Keith Vaz led a march through Leicester shortly after he was elected in 1989 calling for the book to be banned, while Norman Tebbit, the party’s former chairman, called Rushdie an “outstanding villain” whose “public life has been a record of despicable acts of betrayal of his upbringing, religion, adopted home and nationality”. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Amy cuddy book![]() If he doesn’t, we’d better keep our distance, because he’s potentially dangerous, especially if he’s competent. Oscar Ybarra and his colleagues found, for instance, that people process words related to warmth and morality (friendly, honest, and others) faster than words related to competence (creative, skillful, and others).3 Why do we prioritize warmth over competence? Because from an evolutionary perspective, it is more crucial to our survival to know whether a person deserves our trust. First we judge warmth or trustworthiness, which we consider to be the more important of the two dimensions. ![]() But we don’t value the two traits equally. ![]() The latter is the golden quadrant, because receiving trust and respect from other people allows you to interact well and get things done. Tiziana Casciaro, in her research into organizations, refers to these types as lovable fools or competent jerks.2 Occasionally we see people as incompetent and cold-foolish jerks-or as warm and competent-lovable stars. So we classify new acquaintances into types. We like our distinctions to be clear-it’s a human bias. ![]() Usually we think that a person we’ve just met is either more warm than competent or more competent than warm, but not both in equal measure. ![]() “When we meet someone new, we quickly answer two questions: “Can I trust this person?” and “Can I respect this person?” In our research, my colleagues and I have referred to these dimensions as warmth and competence respectively. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Rats saw god![]() I thought it felt very realistic (at least, much more realistic than most YA reads) and I thought the teenagers sounded like real teenagers. It wasn't a big issue, though, as, unlike V Mars where a lot of the side characters are very important to the story and their development is just as important as Veronica's, this story is pretty much focused on Steve so it worked well in that context and it didn't detract from my overall enjoyment. They were very much side-lined and we never quite got to find out more about them which I would've liked. Of course, with a show you have more episodes and more time to flesh characters out and to make the viewer bond with the characters, which may be a factor, but I felt like a lot of the characters in Rats Saw God weren't very fleshed out at all. You can see the same writing style and a lot of similarities between this book and Veronica Mars but I think Veronica Mars feels more advanced and you can tell he improved on his weaker areas by the time it came to writing the show. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I think it's easy to tell that this was pre-Veronica Mars and Party Down, though. I thought this book was really good, and I think it's one of the better YA books. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Lola rock pack darling part 2![]() ![]() Gush and critique posts should contain the book title/author if applicable. Reviews and screenshots of book excerpts must contain the book title/author in the post title.Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for and/or keywords that will inform future searches.Rules Post titles must be clear and informative For updated information regarding ongoing community features includings upcoming AMAs, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with informative links about Book Clubs, AMAs, etc. Home of the magic search button and endless book recommendations as well as discussions about tropes and characters, Author AMAs, book clubs, and more. R/RomanceBooks is a discussion sub for readers of romance novels. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Spare harry![]() ![]() His family calls him “Harold” (although his father also calls him “darling boy”). Prince William is “Willy.” Catherine, Princess of Wales, is “Kate.” The King is simply “Pa.” Princess Diana was “Mummy.” The Queen and Prince Philip were “Granny” and “Grandpa.” The Queen Mother was “Gan-Gan.” Princess Margaret was “Aunt Margo.” Princess Eugenie is “Euge.”Īnd Harry? He has a bunch of nicknames. Here are 45 little tidbits you may have missed while reading Spare: Almost everybody in the royal family has a nickname: But the memoir also contains interesting little details about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the entire Mountbatten-Windsor family. Spare has also raised many eyebrows for the, uh, intimate details that Harry chooses to share about a certain part of his anatomy. ![]() 10, has already made headlines around the world for some of the more shocking revelations within its pages (although, as Harry pointed out in his late-night interview with Stephen Colbert, many of those stories were based on out-of-context excerpts leaked before Spare’s release). In his memoir Spare, Prince Harry gives an intimate look behind the scenes of his royal life. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Seerah martin lings![]() ![]() After graduating from Oxford Lings went to Vytautas Magnus University, in Lithuania, where he taught Anglo-Saxon and Middle English. At Magdalen, he was a student and then a close friend of C. Lings attended Clifton College and went on to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he gained a BA in English Language and Literature. ![]() The young Lings gained an introduction to travelling at a young age, spending significant time in the United States because of his father's employment. Lings was born in Burnage, Manchester, in 1909 to a Protestant family. A student of the Swiss metaphysician Frithjof Schuon and an authority on the work of William Shakespeare, he is best known as the author of Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, first published in 1983 and still in print. Martin Lings (24 January 1909 – ), also known as Abū Bakr Sirāj ad-Dīn, was an English writer, Islamic scholar, and philosopher. Islamic scholar, author, Shakespearean scholar ![]() |