![]() Gifts – Some women love to receive gifts, if it is true to your wife, then learn to surprise her with a gift more frequently than just giving a gift on your anniversary.Īcts of Service- Learn to serve your wife just like the way you do it when you are still courting her. I suggest you hear the song of Casting Crowns entitled American Dream, to relate on this matter. Your time is more valuable than money, always remember that. ![]() Words of Affirmation – Your wife needs affirmation, you need to continuously say “I love you” and show the affirmation of your love and appreciation to her. ![]() First, let me give to you the 5 love languages discussed in this book but this time let me focus on what should men do: You have probably heard of the 5 Love Languages, if so, this book is the “Men’s Edition”. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Accessible Melville, poet of the inaccessible ![]() The Piazza Tales (1856) comprises six short stories, including the perpetually popular “Benito Cereno” and “Bartleby,” a tale of a scrivener who repeatedly distills his mordant criticism of the workplace into the deceptively simple phrase “I would prefer not to.” Although typically ambiguous, Billy Budd is seen by many as a testament to Melville’s ultimate reconciliation with the incongruities and injustices of life. Unable to defend himself due to a stammer, he is hanged, going willingly to his fate. This complex short novel tells the story of “the handsome sailor” Billy who, provoked by a false charge, accidentally kills the satanic master-at-arms. Published posthumously in 1924, Billy Budd is a masterpiece second only to Melville’s Moby-Dick. In Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales, Melville reveals an uncanny awareness of the inscrutable nature of reality. Largely neglected in his own lifetime, Herman Melville mastered not only the great American novel but also the short story and novella forms. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Girl in the Tower exceeded my expectations for a middle novel. ![]() I read the first book in this series over a year ago and remembered enjoying it, but thinking, WHOA that was a lot of story. When a battle with some bandits who have been terrorizing the countryside earns her the admiration of the Grand Prince of Moscow, she must carefully guard the secret of her gender to remain in his good graces-even as she realizes his kingdom is under threat from mysterious forces only she will be able to stop. So instead she chooses adventure, disguising herself as a boy and riding her horse into the woods. Both doom her to life in a tower, cut off from the vast world she longs to explore. Orphaned and cast out as a witch by her village, Vasya’s options are few: resign herself to life in a convent, or allow her older sister to make her a match with a Moscovite prince. The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home-but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege. Image & Other Reviews on: Goodreads BOOK SUMMARY: Audience: Young adult historical fiction fantasy, a little language, some violence, some kisses and lewd commentary ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ronald Chernow was born on March 2, 1949, in Brooklyn, New York. As a freelance journalist, he has written over sixty articles in national publications. Eccles Prize for Excellence in Economic Writing. Another book, The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family, was honored with the 1993 George S. Rockefeller (1998) were both nominated for National Book Critics Circle Awards, while the former served as the inspiration for the popular Hamilton musical, for which Chernow worked as a historical consultant. His biographies of Alexander Hamilton (2004) and John D. He is also the recipient of the National Book Award for Nonfiction for his 1990 book The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance. He won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the 2011 American History Book Prize for his 2010 book Washington: A Life. He has written bestselling historical non-fiction biographies. Ronald Chernow ( / ˈ tʃ ɜːr n aʊ/ born March 3, 1949) is an American writer, journalist and biographer. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was a voracious reader as a child, which led her to write her own stories to share with friends. She was an only child, and her father died when she was five. Jenny Nimmo was born in Windsor, England. Several others of hers have been shortlisted for children's book awards. The Stone Mouse was highly commended for the 1993 Carnegie Medal. The Snow Spider, first of the Magician books, won the second annual Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and the 1987 Tir na n-Og Award as the year's best originally English-language book with an authentic Welsh background. She is probably best known for two series of fantasy novels: The Magician Trilogy (1986–1989), contemporary stories rooted in Welsh myth, and Children of the Red King (2002–2010), featuring schoolchildren endowed with magical powers. Born in England, she has lived mostly in Wales for 40 years. Jenny Nimmo (born 15 January 1944) is a British author of children's books, including fantasy and adventure novels, chapter books, and picture books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Former owner's name written in blue pen ink on the first blank flyleaf, about two inches long, 1/4 inch tall. Sewn binding is tight and square, the boards are flat and the edges are not worn, the corners are not creased or bumped. Black cloth covered boards, over dark wheat cloth covered spine, with the title on the spine in silver. The stain mark is much more apparent on the obverse of the dust jacket, not so much on the facing side. Jacket has a closed tear at the top right on the front panel, about an inch long, rubbing smudge marks to the spine, shallow chipping to the edges, very light stain mark on the lower portion of the back panel. The dust jacket has been protected with a clear, removable cover. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped, original price of $3.95 is printed on the top corner of the front flap. First American edition hardcover, published by Doubleday, 1957. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like Conan Doyle, who often appeared embarrassed or hindered by the success of Sherlock Holmes and seemed to regard his success in the field of crime fiction as a detraction from his more "respectable" literary ambitions, Leblanc also appeared to have resented Lupin's success. Clearly created at editorial request, it is possible that Leblanc had also read Octave Mirbeau's Les 21 jours d'un neurasthénique (1901), which features a gentleman thief named Arthur Lebeau, and he had seen Mirbeau's comedy Scrupules (1902), whose main character is a gentleman thief.īy 1907, Leblanc had graduated to writing full-length Lupin novels, and the reviews and sales were so good that Leblanc effectively dedicated the rest of his career to working on the Lupin stories. ![]() The first Arsène Lupin story appeared in a series of short stories that was serialized in the magazine Je sais tout, starting in No. Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc ( / l ə ˈ b l ɑː n/ French: 11 December 1864 – 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes. Marguerite Wormser (after 1895, married 1906).Montparnasse cemetery (since October 14, 1947)ĭetective fiction, science fiction, psychological novel.Saint-Martin cemetery in Perpignan (NovemOctober 11, 1947). ![]() ![]() My focus is on Agamben's development of the idea of pure potentiality as the source of creativity, where from the new potential community could emerge, embodied in the figure of the scrivener, a man without vocation and without purpose. The essay evolves around Melville's story Bartleby the Scrivener that was object of interpretation of many contemporary philosophers. ![]() I submitted this paper as my master thesis at Goldmiths, University of London. ![]() On this topic, we pass a not altogether optimistic commentary, itself informed by the excessive demand of adequately interpreting Bartleby. This particular discussion of Bartleby is connected to a more general discussion of a management and organization studies that has become increasingly reliant upon literary texts. On the basis of these interpretations we derive a concept of excess as the residual surplus of any categorical interpretation, the yet to be accounted for, the not yet explained, the un-interpretable, the indeterminate, the always yet to arrive, precisely that which cannot be captured, held onto nor put in place. Our discussion focuses upon three of the most prominent contemporary Bartlebys: ‘The Politicized Bartleby’ of Slavoj Zizek, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri ‘The Originary Bartleby’ of Gilles Deleuze and ‘The Whatever Bartleby’ of Giorgio Agamben. This paper engages with Herman Melville’s short story Bartleby the Scrivener, as well as contemporary discussions thereof, so as to consider a peculiar concept of excess suggested to us by its main character. ![]() ![]() ![]() So do I wish that my kids feared me? Well my house would be quieter, and I'd spend a lot less time in the bathroom, but no. And my wife reassures me this is a good thing over and over and over, and she's always right. But my kids, I can't get them to shut up! There's not a feeling that my kids are afraid to express over and over and over. Back then we didn't share our deep personal feelings, our deepest conversations usually revolved around the tigers bull pen. Now do you know how many times I called my father an idiot? Zero. Ready? Here's a quote: "Dad, you're an idiot." Now, contestants, this was said to me because of which of the following transgressions? A: Coming to the breakfast table wearing pajamas and black socks? B: Asking my oldest daughter if that guy I saw her talking to yesterday at school was her boyfriend? C: Referring to rapper Fiddy Cent as "Fifty Cents"? or D: Entering the room? Okay, pencils down. Cate: Okay readers, today we're having a little pop quiz, it's multiple choice, so sharpen your number 2 pencils and put your thinking caps on. ![]() ![]() ![]() The two interview sections however are less convincing than the powerful main performance though. The audiobook reader does a truly fantastic performance with Lola’s story especially communicating her moods, fear and the tension both sensory description and the internal struggle within Lola, there were points where I genuinely had to turn it off when listening late at night as I was scared. With themes of lost innocence, the dark side of small towns, family secrets, and mental health wound around a folklore legend of Mr Jitters who comes tap tapping in the night, it’s a thrilling atmospheric tale. We know Lola will be missing by the end of the book, how and why and what she will uncover in this dark creeping horror tale is yet to be discovered. ![]() And if she can't find a way out of Harrow Lake, they might just be the death of her. The more Lola discovers about the town, the more terrifying it becomes- because Lola's got secrets of her own. Harrow Lake follows the perspective of the daughter of a famous movie director when sent to the town her missing mother grew up in, and where her father made his most famous film. And there's someone-or something-stalking her every move. Twisty psychological horror, absolutely brilliant performance by reader. ![]() |