A walk in the woods book review6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() (If you’ve read Neither Here nor There, you’ll know they ended up despising each other after that trip to Europe.) ![]() ![]() There were no takers for months, until a call out of the blue, and Bryson found himself approaching the challenge with his former travelling companion, Stephen Katz. (All those tales of hikers killed by bears, or murdered by fellow humans.) He advertised for a hiking companion. He started researching, and quickly decided that this was no undertaking to be taken on alone. Inspiration came from the trail itself, which runs very close to his home in Hanover. Which is something that the intrepid Bill Bryson set out to do when in his mid-forties. That way I can kid myself that I, too, have walked (some of) the 2100 miles of the Appalachian Trail. I’ve never bought a paper copy because I’m waiting for someone to publish a special edition complete with pictures of the locations. Time now to introduce you to the best book I’ve never read! Though I have listened to William Roberts’s audio narration 3 times. ![]()
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The unthinkable by amanda ripley6/27/2023 ![]() In her books and magazine writing, Amanda combines storytelling with data to help illuminate hard problems-and solutions. Her previous books include The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes-and Why, which was published in 15 countries and turned into a PBS documentary, and The Smartest Kids in the World-and How They Got That Way, a New York Times bestseller which was also turned into a documentary film. Amanda’s most recent book is High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out, published by Simon & Schuster in 2021. ![]() ![]() Amanda Ripley is a New York Times bestselling author, an investigative journalist, and host of the Slate podcast How To! She’s spent her career trying to make sense of complicated human mysteries, from how people get out of dysfunctional conflicts to how countries educate virtually all their kids to think for themselves. ![]() Sacred lehane6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Stone’s wife was killed in a car-jacking Trevor was injured and then was diagnosed with terminal cancer and their daughter Desiree got involved with a grief counsellor. It’s all good though because they get offered a lucrative job of finding a missing person by rich business magnate Trevor Stone. He really is off his game because he gets assaulted and drugged (as does Angela). Patrick being the smart ass he is goes over to confront his tail. They haven’t been working for a while because of their previous case which left both of them particularly Angie shocked and depressed. Then I was intrigued by the mystery and I hardly came up for air for two days.Patrick Kenzie and his partner Angie Gennaro are PIs based in Boston. Immediately I was captivated by the witty repartee. This book has been languishing on my TBR pile for many years but I recently picked it up. He just seems to have dropped off my radar in recent years. It’s been a long time since I read anything by Dennis Lehane although I know I have liked the books I have read. ![]() Tom wright author billion dollar whale6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Over a decade, Low, with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others, siphoned billions of dollars from an investment fund - right under the nose of global financial industry watchdogs. In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business named Jho Low set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude - one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. Now a number-one international best seller, Billion Dollar Whale is "an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale" ( Publishers Weekly), revealing how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest heists in history. ![]() Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times best seller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" ( Axios ). ![]() Ghosted by J.M. Darhower6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Now, years later, the only thing they share is a daughter-one who has no idea her father plays her favorite superhero. With stars in his eyes, and her heart on her sleeve, the pair ran away together to follow their dreams.īut dreams, sometimes, turn into nightmares. When Kennedy Garfield met Jonathan Cunningham back in high school, she knew he had all the makings of a tragic hero. Once, they were just a boy and a girl who bonded over comic books and fell in love unexpectedly. Every day when she goes to work, lurid tabloids surround her, the face of a notorious bad boy haunting her from their covers.Ī man and a woman, living vastly different lives, but that wasn't always the case. She's a single mother, assistant manager at a grocery store, existing in monotony with her five-year-old daughter. Through scandal after scandal, addiction on top of addiction, a flurry of paparazzi hunt him as he fights to conquer his demons. ![]() He's a troubled young actor, Hollywood's newest heartthrob, struggling with fame as the star of the latest superhero franchise. ![]() Riding the Dragon by Brad Vance6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() A disease he struggled with his entire life but didn’t understand.īrad realized although his life was a series of struggles, he survived by following the inspiration of others and redefining his life and what success meant to him. Once he believed he had rebounded his life took another turn and he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Later, drugs and alcohol consumed his life taking him from a being corporate executive to living on the streets of Los Angeles. He was 35 and had a wife and daughter when he came out, forcing him to adapt from living a lie to being who he is overnight. We then review Bros with guest reviewer Albert Nothlit!įollow and support Brad and Queer We Are:īrad’s life has been a series of adjustments. As though he were a guest on his own show, Brad shares his origin story with us while discussing the shows focus. ![]() It gives us great pleasure to present Season 8, Episode 11: Brad Shreve + our “Bros” review!īrad Shreve has embarked on a new podcast journey, Queer We Are, where he interviews everyone from normal folk to celebrities about the challenges they’ve faced, inspiration they’ve found, and how they define their success. Bathhouse, Brad Shreve, crime, inspiration, mystery, Podcast, SA Collins, success, Vance Bastian March 17, 2023 ![]() Wilding isabella tree6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() The fabled English nightingale sings again.Īt a time of looming environmental disaster, Wilding is an inspiring story of a farm, a couple, and a community transformed. New life flooded into Knepp, now a breeding hotspot for rare and threatened species like turtle doves, peregrine falcons, and purple emperor butterflies. In the face of considerable opposition the couple persisted with their experiment and soon witnessed an extraordinary change. But what would the neighbors say, in the manicured countryside of modern England where a blade of grass out of place is considered an affront? Using herds of free-roaming animals to mimic the actions of the megafauna of the past, they hoped to bring nature back to their depleted land. ![]() They would restore Knepp’s 3,500 acres to the wild. By 2000, with the farm facing bankruptcy, they decided to try something radical. An inspiring story about what happens when 3,500 acres of land, farmed for centuries, is left to return to the wild, and about the wilder, richer future a natural landscape can bringįor years Charlie Burrell and his wife, Isabella Tree, farmed Knepp Castle Estate and struggled to turn a profit. ![]() Mastering Her Desires by Melinda Barron6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Though he intends to bring intense pleasure to her body, it's also his job to make sure his "she-devil" changes her wicked ways. I liked the writers use of Grace’s to do list. Graceful Submission (Graceful, book 1) by Melinda Barron book cover, description, publication book cover of Graceful Submission Graceful Mischief. For the next thirty days, she belongs to him. On their third Halloween together, Toffer and Grace are in England, where Toffer is filming a movie about Arthur and the Knights of the Round. Matuse is more than just the owner of the Cave of Pleasure. When her boss tells her to get the Cave of Pleasure account, or else get a new job, Aliya takes her party invitation-and the strange lamp she's received-and attends the nightclub's grand opening, ready to do battle for her livelihood. In her twenty-eight years of life, she's managed to offend almost every woman she has ever met. Unfortunately, she's also a witch with a capital B. Advertising agent Aliya Baban is beautiful with a capital B. And they have come to fulfill five of Anya's most secret sexual wishes. However, her clients-two very handsome, very sexy men-are more than what they seem. Back at work on Monday morning, Anya finds that her boss has given her a new account. ![]() While shopping at an antique shop, she rubs a lamp that looks as if it could belong to Aladdin himself. But at the insistence of her two best friends, who claim she needs a break from work, Anya takes a weekend vacation. ![]() With no love life to speak of, BBW Anya Bartholomew lives only for her job. ![]() ![]() When she was a teenager in Boston, McCracken was approached by a panhandler with a card reading I AM DEAF. True emotional survival: not simply the cross-stitching of inspirational phrases but the ability to feel light again after extreme pain.Īnd finally, I found McCracken's prose wry and self-deprecating and clever in The Giant's House and her keen wordplay continues here.Ī joy. Over all it feels like a volume that celebrates emotional survival. But the joy of this volume and of McCracken is that grit, that resilience, that sort of nosing-toward-happiness that pervades even the darkest moments. Of course it's miserably sad as well, and by the time it reaches its third act climax, it's truly tear-jerking. ![]() It's a memoir about losing a child, specifically the peculiar and difficult to articulate pain of losing a child to a late stillbirth, and it doesn't flinch away from the details of it. I go on like this because this memoir could have felt very different than it does. Supposedly grit is the greatest predictor of future success, even more than education, resources, intellect, etc. ![]() ![]() I mean gritty in the sense of another book I've been reading lately, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, about stick-to-it-ness. I don't mean gritty as in eyeliner and dark poetry, mean streets and minor chords. I think Elizabeth McCracken must be a gritty sort of person. ![]() Dancing on Coals by Ellen O'Connell6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Low-effort book requests will be removed.
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