Pity the Nation by Robert Fisk6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:pitynationabduct0000fisk:epub:d5df33ba-d1bf-4e1f-ac23-ca149fd5eeec Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4281 Identifier pitynationabduct0000fisk Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t40t1vf2p Invoice 2089 Isbn 1560254424 Lccn 2002071978 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-0000177 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 12:04:46 Boxid IA40198422 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]()
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Sputnik sweetheart by haruki murakami6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() She’s messy and in the throes of an existentialist crisis. When we first meet him he is a college student who has fallen in love with Sumire, who is very much the classic Murakami female character, in that she’s Not Like Other Girls. Anyway, we are stuck with K and his creepy male gaze. I mean, I honestly think this could have been a much stronger novel if the narrative had alternated between Sumire and Miu. While K acknowledges that it may be unusual for him to tell Sumire’s love story, he doesn’t provide a particularly satisfying answer. That he chooses to tell their story through ‘K’, our male straight narrator, is also somewhat iffy. It often went from being slightly ridiculous to straight-up ludicrous. ![]() I cringed many times while reading Sputnik Sweetheart: his portrayal of the romantic/sexual relationship between Sumire and Miu, the two women at the centre of the narrative, was yikes. ![]() The main reason why I do not get on with his work is that, well, his women are on a league of their own when it comes to female characters written by male authors. Over the last couple of months, I have picked up several of his short story collections but never felt compelled to finish them. It would be safe to say that I do have a bit of an uneasy relationship with Murakami’s work. ![]() Thomas lamarre the anime machine6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Thoughtful, thorough illustrations plus exhaustive research and an impressive scope make The Anime Ecology at once an essential reference book, a valuable resource for scholars, and a foundational textbook for students. He offers remarkable close readings of individual anime while demonstrating how infrastructures and platforms have transformed anime into emergent media (such as social media and transmedia) and launched it worldwide. Lamarre takes advantage of the overlaps between television, anime, and new media-from console games and video to iOS games and streaming-to show how animation helps us think through television in the contemporary moment. He now returns with The Anime Ecology, broadening his insights to give a complete account of anime’s relationship to television while placing it within important historical and global frameworks. The Portable Interface Complex Conclusion: Signaletic Animism Notes Bibliography.Ī major work destined to change how scholars and students look at television and animation With the release of author Thomas Lamarre’s field-defining study The Anime Machine, critics established Lamarre as a leading voice in the field of Japanese animation. ![]() ![]() ![]() A Little Social Media History of Television While Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke. Contents Introduction: Television Animation and Infrastructure Ecology Part I. Thomas Lamarre's The Anime Machine self-consciously responds to these challenges and offers a fundamental rethinking of the study of Japanese animation.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-398) and index. ![]() Albert camus the stranger the outsider6/29/2023 ![]()
Devil in winter book6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() 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. ![]() Can't Take That Away by Steven Salvatore6/29/2023 ![]() He won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for his performance in Get Shorty and has received a total of six nominations, the most recent being in 2011. Travolta was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performances in Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction. His acting career declined throughout the 1980s, but he enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s with his role in Pulp Fiction (1994), and went on to star in films including Get Shorty (1995), Broken Arrow (1996), Phenomenon (1996), Face/Off (1997), A Civil Action (1998), Primary Colors (1998), Hairspray (2007), and Bolt (2008). He came to public attention during the 1970s, appearing on the television sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979) and starring in the box office successes Carrie (1976), Saturday Night Fever (1977), Grease (1978), and Urban Cowboy (1980). ![]() John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an American actor. ![]() Throne of glass book 26/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() and no further" so to-the-death my foot, and (b) apart from thieves and assassins, a number of the competitors are actually ex-guards and random other criminals, for the most part disposable enough not to warrant names, and I'd only consider a small handful of them to be gifted at anything]? I mean, you really have to be TALENTED to go from all of *that* Exciting Sounding Awesomeness to - well - to Throne of Glass.Īfter reading the Q & A included in the back of my book, though, it all started to make sense, and I wish I'd known before buying this stupid-ass book that it's inspired by DISNEY'S CINDERELLA, of all things. Are you kidding me? What the hell is this shit? How do you screw up your story quite so badly after starting from an INCREDIBLE premise involving the most notorious assassin in the land - now a slave - being offered the chance to win back her freedom, sort of, in a "to-the-death tournament - fighting the most gifted thieves and assassins in the land" opponent in a position of sure death. ![]() ![]() ![]() (which won the British Crime Writers' Association's prestigious Goldenĭagger Award for Best Crime Novel of 2005) an emotionally charged novel Seven months pregnant, desperately reaches out to him for help… Gruesome details surfaceĪbout an Icelandic family that lived in a nearby chalet during WWII, asĮrlendur faces his own tragedy. Team try to unravel the 60-year-old mystery. ![]() Meticulously unearth the skeleton, police inspector Erlendur and his ![]() Investigation leads police to a nearby construction site where a new Streamers, a baby is found gnawing on a human bone. Neighborhood on the outskirts of Reykjavik, amid the balloons and The story begins with a horrific scene: At a birthday party in a In Icelandic writer Arnaldur Indridason's follow-up to 2005's critically acclaimed Jar City, melancholic Reykjavik detective Erlendur investigates the remains of aĭecades-old skeleton found buried at a building site, even as his own SILENCE OF THE GRAVE by Arnaldur Indridason - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK See all titles by Arnaldur Indridason. ![]() William heat moon blue highways6/28/2023 ![]() Presented by Town Hall Seattle and The Bushwick Book Club Seattle. William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about those little towns that get on the map-if they get on at all-only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon Simplicity. Please consider buying your Bushwick choices with their local bookstore partner, Third Place Books. Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation’s backroads. Heads up: Blue Highways travels deep into many rural parts of America in the politically charged post-Vietnam era of the late-1970s, capturing dialects, attitudes, and customs - warts and all.Ĭheck it out at Seattle Public Library. “Though the events take place more than 40 years ago, the book reads like a search for what currently ails us, because what ailed us then ails us now.” - New York Times ![]() ![]() Part memoir and part travelogue, Blue Highways is an exploration of self and community, an enduring reminder that a country isn’t just a place - it’s people. (“A man who couldn’t make things go right could at least go.”) Without a destination, Least Heat-Moon traveled the country on America’s “blue highways”- rural, two-lane roads so-called because of their color in the road atlas. ![]() Decades before #vanlife would trend, William Least Heat-Moon responded to upheaval in his life by hitting the road in a 1975 Ford Econoline and chronicling the journey. Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nations backroads. ![]() The heir of fire6/28/2023 ![]() Heir of Fire kind of acts like a book one even though it is a book three. The Throne of Glass series is really weird and strange as a whole, because while the first two books are essential, they are so wildly different from the rest of the series. Heir of Fire is really the shift in the series. ![]() It was a weird cycle of knowing I am going to be sucked into the story once I picked it up, but also not being inspired to pick it up. But then once I did pick it I’d be sucked in, and then once I put it down I’d struggle to get back into it. I think the novellas shifted me away from the story in a way, so I couldn’t get back into the story at first. Will Celaena find the strength to not only fight her inner demons, but to take on the evil that is about to be unleashed?Īfter reading The Assassin’s Blade, I found myself struggling to be inspired to pick this book up. Meanwhile, brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on the horizon, intent on enslaving her world. a truth about her heritage that could change her life-and her future-forever. ![]() Now, she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth. Celaena has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak-but at an unspeakable cost. ![]() |