![]() ![]() His delight in words cannot be bridled, so that even “The Perfectionists,” which is, after all, a nonfiction treatment of technology, brims with amusing and rare nouns such as bagatelle, bijoux, cynosure, seraglio and susurrus. Winchester possesses an enviable, capacious vocabulary. ![]() That account and its 2003 sequel, “The Meaning of Everything,” forged an ideal match between subject and author, for the Oxford-educated Mr. Winchester has shown himself an engaging raconteur in 29 previous books, most notably his 1998 best seller “The Professor and the Madman,” about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary. ![]() Having surveyed the progress of exactness by narrating a grand, informed sweep from the steam engines of the 18th century to today’s automated assembly of microscopic computer chips, he ends up longing for a lost and less precise world. Simon Winchester’s new book, “The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World,” is a tale of many triumphs, but the telling of it leaves the author dispirited. ![]()
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![]() He seems to think over my words, because his eyes search mine. My eyes close as I relish in his untrustworthy words, before shaking him off and spinning around in his grasp. “Chill,” he whispers, sending goosebumps over my flesh. I freeze at his contact, when his lips touch the side of my shoulder. I snort, turning back around to empty the water out of my glass. He catches me staring because he clears his throat. I notice that the star that King has on his chest, Killian has over his lower left hip. ![]() I spin around to catch Killian walking in, sweat pouring down his bare chest. Padding my way into the kitchen, I clamber for a glass of water. I groan again, my hair falling to the front of my face. Picking up the thick, muscled arm, I fling it off me and curl off my bed. An arm tightens around me, and I freeze, the recollection of last night coming back to me at one hundred miles an hour. I wake up the next morning, my limbs sore, and my head pounding. I have to stick to the fucking plan, even if the plan kills me. I hate her with a fire so hot I want to dip her in gasoline and use it to detonate her. She’s waning on my restraint, teasing it. I don’t want to have anything to do with her any more than what I’m here to do. I’m trying to fucking sleep, but all I can think about is her. ![]() My hand rests on my stomach as my other shades my eyes. ![]() Best Car Loans in Canada: A Comparison of Rates, Terms, and Financing ![]() ![]() ![]() Of course Griffin would be looking for his friend. “And Griffin has started looking for Damone.” “Professor Holt knows we both left campus.” His dark eyes meet mine. I push my thoughts away from that question. “Know what?” That I left campus? That I know the rebellion led by the man who helped me during The Testing isn’t what the rebels believe? That soon the rebels will launch an attack that will lead them to their deaths? That Damone. My knees weaken, and I grip the back of a chair for support. Raffe appears unconcerned, but I can read the warning in his eyes as he steps into my sitting room and closes the door behind him. Even after he helped save my life last night, I do not know if I can trust him. ![]() ![]() He from Tosu City, where students related to former graduates are welcomed into the University with open arms. Me from the colonies, who had to survive The Testing to be here. Though we share the same path of study, there is little else that is similar about us. I let out a sigh of relief as I see Raffe Jeffries in the doorway. My hands shake from exhaustion, fear, and sorrow as I unlatch the lock to the door of my residence hall rooms and turn the handle. ![]() ![]() ![]() Can you explain current health of the business? (+1).Can you explain the strategy of your company to a stranger? (+1).Are you comfortable saying ‘no’ to your boss? (+1).Are handwritten status reports delivered weekly via email? (-1).Do you have consistent team meetings? (+1).Do you have consistent one-on-ones, about topics other than status? (+1).Where the ‘Joel test’ can be an effective way to get a health check on a software team, the Rands test does the same for general team fitness in the context of management.Ī score of 10 or lower - ‘you’ve got serious problems’ ![]() My rating: 4/5 Chapter Notes CH4 - Rands Test He has clearly trodden the boards, delivered software projects, and led teams at Borland and Apple. It’s written for aspiring and current managers and at 3rd edition, Michael writes as though he knows his audience well. It does a great job in explaining empathy, archetypes and ‘general craziness of dysfunctional bright people’ with plenty of pertinent and amusing anecodotes. I (Jon) have recently finished this book about management and leadership. ![]() ![]() Evelyn works as a nanny and helper for a wealthy family in Brooklyn. ![]() As he is returning home, he rear ends a Lexus, which is being driven by a Guatemalan refugee, Evelyn. When we meet him he is rushing one of his cats to the veterinarian during a blizzard. He leads a solitary existence and has rejected Lucia’s advances. Lucia is divorced, has a daughter, Daniela in Miami and is secretly in love with Richard Bowmaster. Richard is also a professor at New York University and arranged for Lucia to teach at NYU and to live in the apartment. She is living in the basement apartment of Richard Bowmaster’s Brooklyn brownstone. ![]() ![]() Lucia is 62 years old, originally from Chile and teaching on a one year contract at New York University’s Center for Latin American Studies. Through a compelling mix of history, mystery, romance and humor, Allende emphasizes the resilience of the human spirit, as her characters transform from their histories of tragedy to their futures of love, hope and humanity. “In the Midst of Winter” is an extraordinarily enjoyable novel, beautifully written, about three people brought together for a few days due to a snowstorm. “In the midst of winter, I finally found there was within me an invincible summer.” Albert Camus ![]() ![]() Reading it plunges us back into 19 th century London and lovers of the inimitable stylistic flourishes of Victorian literature won’t be disappointed. The story of Jekyll and Hyde has gone so far into the realm of common folklore that it’s easy to forget its pulp origins as a penny dreadful. ![]() We’ll start this list of doppelgänger stories with a classic. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Here are nine doppelgänger stories that will make you afraid of the mirror. Doppelgängers, split personalities and evil twins only begin to touch on the ways authors have explored the horrors we can find in ourselves. But no subgenre of horror literature illustrates the two-sided coin of self-hatred and narcissism better than stories about doubles. Much horror literature plays on our fear and fascination with the person we see in the mirror: a fear of what we’re hiding or don’t know about ourselves, a fear of who we’ve been and who we could become. ![]() ![]() Within moments of opening the book I had a list of movies to hunt down. His friends and family must be afraid for him very afraid.īut Stanley knows his stuff. According to his introduction, he personally watches each of the movies in the book. ![]() Stanley knows more about monster movies than one person really should. ![]() ![]() Have a great, ghoulish, creepy time picking out your nightmare here! I use this as a companion book to another one called simply "Video Movie Guide" by Mick Martin which I use mostly to look up movies not included in the Creature Features.Ī pointer to find a lot of these movies, if you can't find a copy online or all you can find is a very low quality rip, you can try visiting or possibly ordering from these two best remaining video stores: Most of the reviews have very funny sarcastic remarks and tons of puns (all intended)! I specially love the way Stanley exposes the directors hiding behind Alan Smithee or some other pseudonyms, or shlocky italian directors with anglicized names! It has the classics you can probably see in every critics work but the most important part of this book for me was discovering all these straight to video, made for TV movies, movies from late 80's through early 90's not on dvd yet or only released in foreign countries and are either other region coded or extremely hard to find. If you are any kind of an horror, sci-fi, fantasy fan, this is the greatest read. ![]() ![]() ![]() The original soundtrack album is now available for preview, streaming, or purchasing on Amazon and Apple Music stores, see links. The Smeds and the Smoos is set to premiere on 25th December 2022.ħ Dream of the Smeds and Dream of the Smoos Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s award-winning picture book is brought to life on stage by Tall Stories, the team behind much-loved adaptations of The Gruffalo and The Snail and the Whale live on stage. ![]() The animation stars (voices) Sally Hawkins (as Narrator), Adjoa Andoh, Bill Bailey, Rob Brydon, Ashna Rabheru, Daniel Ezra, Meera Syal, Raphaella Crow, Ashwin Sakthivel, David Holt, and Lizzie Waterworth. The Smeds and The Smoos are coming to London’s West End for Summer 2023. The Smeds and the Smoos is a 2022 British family animated film written by Julia Donaldson and Julia Smuts Louw, directed by Samantha Cutler, Daniel Snaddon and Adam Shaw, produced by BBC One and Magic Light Pictures, distributed by BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The original music is composed by Rene Aubry ( Superworm, Zog and the Flying Doctors, The Snail and the Whale). ![]() Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from the BBC family animated film The Smeds and the Smoos (2022). ![]() ![]() ![]() Both the narrator and Jim now reside in New York, but they grew up in the same Nebraskan prairie town Jim is now a lawyer for a Western railroad company. The novel begins with an unnamed narrator unexpectedly encountering a childhood friend, Jim Burden, aboard a train crossing Iowa. This guide is based on the 1918 Houghton Mifflin edition.Ĭontent Warning: This guide contains discussions of suicide and sexual assault that are present in the source text. ![]() ![]() Other notable books authored by Cather include A Lost Lady (1923) and Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927). Cather won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for her World War I novel One of Ours (1922). Known for her novels’ powerful sense of place, Cather elevated regional literature into the mainstream and created heroic portrayals of the often scorned hard-toiling European immigrants. My Ántonia is considered one of Cather’s most outstanding novels for its encapsulation of the pioneer experience on the Nebraskan frontier. The other two books, O Pioneers! (1913) and The Song of the Lark (1915) also feature strong female characters from immigrant families in a Great Plains setting but are otherwise unrelated. ![]() My Ántonia, first published in 1918, is the third novel in what reviewers sometimes refer to as “The Prairie Trilogy” or “The Great Plains Trilogy” by celebrated American author Willa Cather (1873-1947). ![]() ![]() literally just super frustrated with a customer.Paige_from_my_book Fandoms: Charon Docks At Daylight - Zoe Reed Language: English Words: 47,491 Chapters: 10/? Comments: 13 Kudos: 23 Bookmarks: 1 Hits: 302 What happened after Echo brought Gen back to camp and how are all the other characters doing after the main story? Or, your friendly neighborhood gremlin is obsessed with CDAD and there aren't enough fics on here to quench her thirst. I leaned up to kiss her, I tried my best to let it be deep, to let this kiss be a way of showing her that I wouldn’t want to be anywhere but right here either.' ![]() Sure we’re a little worse for wear but I don’t think I’d rather be anywhere than right here, next to you.” It’s worth it, I’m still alive and you're here with me. With my blood we could make a cure, Gen, or a vaccine or anything that could stop this. “Don’t apologize, it was my choice to lock you in that kennel and it was my choice to let Samuel run his tests on me. ![]() '“Don’t” She grabbed my jaw so I would look at her. |