5/21/2023 0 Comments The street lawyer![]() He just doesn't understand the American legal system, because it's very complicated, and because the lawyers pay a lot of money to figure it out. The homeless man with the gun isn't crazy. As he explores the reality of the situation, he puts this much together: to aim a gun at someone was completely uncalled for, but actually, if the person had refrained from violence, perhaps he could have legitimately sought justice for this. The novel's focus on power versus powerlessness continues, because Brock has to analyze what the homeless man said. It turns out, the homeless man who takes the powerful, wealthy lawyers hostage at gunpoint was actually wrongfully evicted by this firm, and furthermore, the firm knew that it was illegal and they did it anyway because this homeless man was powerless. The Street Lawyeris actually not the main character of the novel-he's the "insane shooter" from the intro sequence, which sets up the dilemmas of the novel quite nicely. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. ![]() ![]() These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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5/21/2023 0 Comments Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors![]() ![]() ![]() Isabelle’s sister Annie, and a wounded Japanese prisoner, Akira, who helped save her. Over the next eighteen days, the characters are simply and predictably paired off - Captain Joshua Collins and his wife, Isabelle. No prizes for guessing that the traitor is one of nine castaways on the island. ![]() Four pages later, the ship has been torpedoed, betrayed by a traitor within, and nine survivors are cast up on the remote Pacific island, where they have to play a real-life game of Survivor, if they want to stay alive. The story begins on a hospital ship, which is mandated by international law to save wounded men, whether they be friend or foe. After the exotic setting of his first novel, Shors moves to the Second World War for his second outing, most of the story set on an island in the Pacific whose strategic importance makes its capture of key interest to both the Americans and the Japanese. This is John Shors’ second novel, his debut novel, Beneath a Marble Sky having enjoyed some success. Book review: John Shors' *Beside a Burning Sea* ![]() ![]() ![]() A sweet, by-the-numbers romance with a substantial dose of corny humor. ![]() Painful manure episodes aside, Heasley also offers plenty of Texas boys, football parties, and a rodeo as city girl turns country girl and learns some lessons about family and good old-fashioned fun. ![]() This premise results in a predictable story, as Heasley dishes out one smalltown clich after another in an effort to deliver some tension. The moral of Heasley's story is one familiar to any number of romantic comedies on page and on screen: namely, that smalltown life is every bit as rewarding as the bustle of the city if given half a chance. ![]() 43 44 45 In popular culture edit The restaurant and its pancakes are mentioned in the 2011 book Where I Belong, by Gwendolyn Heasley. Corrinne is horrified to trade her ritzy, snobby, Gossip Girl style life for the slow-paced, carbohydrate-rich world of her grandparents. It is located at 2893 Broadway between 112th and 113th Streets in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, and has an open kitchen and a bi-level dining room. Corrinne's father loses his job and moves to Dubai to find work, leaving her mother behind to sell their Manhattan apartment while 16-year-old Corrinne and her younger brother, Tripp, head to Broken Spoke, Tex., her mother's long (and best) forgotten hometown. The recession hits Corrinne Corcoran's wealthy family hard in Heasley's first novel. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Romancing mr bridgerton review![]() ![]() ![]() The two become very good friends and he comes to Penelope with his concerns that Eloise is Lady Whistledown. While he was traveling, Colin kept a journal. Several of the family members have an interest in writing. They are at a ball, talking with each other, when Lady Danbury announces that she is going to give 1,000 pounds to the person who unmasks Lady Whistledown.Īs the Bridgerton and Featherington families discuss the Society Papers, it becomes apparent that the Lady could be anyone. ![]() The two have become friends and they are comfortable together. Penelope has been in love with Colin for years. Colin and Penelope uncover the truth about the mysterious society paper writer. Meanwhile, the Ton are escaping boredom by trying to determine who Lady Whistledown is. Back home from his travels, Colin began to see Penelope in a new light. She had come to terms with the fact that the two of them are not suited, but she still appreciates their friendship. Now, years later, she was decidedly a spinster. Penelope has loved Colin since she was 16. "Romancing Mister Bridgerton" by Julia Quinn is about a young lady who lives in London in the early 1800s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thick "transforms narrative moments into analyses of whiteness, black misogyny, and status-signaling as means of survival for black women" (Los Angeles Review of Books) with "writing that is as deft as it is amusing" (Darnell L. In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom-award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed-is unapologetically "thick": deemed "thick where I should have been thin, more where I should have been less," McMillan Cottom refuses to shy away from blending the personal with the political, from bringing her full self and voice to the fore of her analytical work. "Thick is sure to become a classic." -The New York Times Book Review Named a notable book of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune, Time, and The GuardianĪs featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly, Well-Read Black Girl, and Chris Hayes, "incisive, witty, and provocative essays" (Publishers Weekly) by one of the "most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time" (Rebecca Traister) ![]() FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The romanov sisters book review![]() ![]() When Nicholas abdicates, his first thought is that now he can "fulfil my life's desire – to have a farm, somewhere in England". Nicholas comes home for the children's bathtime every night and records episodes of teething and weaning in his diary. Alexandra finds the business of state "a horrid bore" that keeps her husband away from her. ![]() What is most surprising in this story is quite how unsuited the family is to power. Now she moves from nightmare to fairytale, placing the four beautiful grand duchesses centre stage for the first time. ![]() Helen Rappaport has already written about the Romanovs' terrifying final weeks in prison. The entire family was moved to Ekaterinburg and shot. He tried to find the family refuge outside Russia (Britain's George V couldn't help, although Nicholas's wife, Alexandra, was the granddaughter of Queen Victoria) and then sent them to Siberia hoping that the Russian populace would forget about them. "I will never be the Marat of the Russian revolution," pledged the prime minister, Alexander Kerensky, after the February revolution in 1917. T he four daughters of Tsar Nicholas II were murdered almost by accident. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Ken follet century trilogy![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more dangerous place than he'd imagined. Kennedy's Justice Department and finds himself in the middle of not only the seminal events of the civil rights battle but a much more personal battle of his own. ![]() George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements, and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution-and rock and roll.Įast German teacher Rebecca Hoffmann discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, Ken Follett followed the fortunes of five international families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they made their way through the twentieth century. Book Synopsis Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Beauty Awakened by Gena Showalter![]() What I didn’t like about the book was Laila, Nicola’s sister. Koldo’s so clueless about relationships but he’s also possessive of Nicola. Koldo didn’t think he deserved her and wanted to take care of her and her twin. I have no idea why I haven’t re-read this before but they didn’t have as many amazing quotes than I remembered them having. ![]() I still loved Koldo and Nicola’s relationship. Then she gave him up to his father who was even more evil and abusive than his mother. Koldo just wanted her to love him but instead she abused him when he was a child and told him how she wished she had drowned him when he was too young to fight back. Cornelia was kind to everyone but her own son and she could get mad from the littlest things, like him cleaning her room. First Koldo had to survive a mother who hated for no reason. You can’t stop mood reader from picking a book she owns, though. I don’t own the first book though, so I left the book alone. ![]() I have been thinking this book a lot since I saw Addicted To Romance review it in her blog. I just was in front of my bookshelf and had to pick a book to bring with me to my sister’s and before I know it “Beauty Awakened” was in my hands. ![]() Honestly I wasn’t going to re-read this one. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Go set a watchman meaning![]() ![]() Atticus, more than any other character, has stood for justice and righteousness in the American imagination. The headline that Atticus Finch is a racist, someone who’s opposed to black lawyers from the NAACP or from any black participation in public spaces, alarmed many a reader. ![]() This burst of exposition, as with other clumsy moments of plotting and sporadic jumps back in time, works only because the characters are already famous a romance between Jean Louise (Scout has embraced her legal name as an adult) and a newly introduced character, Henry Clinton, told in a third-person voice close to Jean Louise’s own thoughts, is less successful yet.īut the book’s most striking aspect-the revelation of Atticus Finch’s retrograde and, yes, frankly racist views of his black clients and neighbors-is powerful enough to subsume all the more dubious elements. Watchman is alienating from the very start: Readers will be dispirited from the first chapter, with the revelation that, in the years between Scout’s childhood and her return to Maycomb, Ala., at 26, her brother Jem has died and her father Atticus has grown infirm. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pearl, a prostitute, begs Adam to bring news of her daughter, who has been abandoned in a local brothel. Jenkins, recovering from a breakdown after the death of her husband, seeks Adam’s help to protect Georgia, a child deserted in the asylum and mistreated by the staff. McFarland, implores Adam to get word of her situation to the outside. Packard, locked up by her pastor husband for her religious beliefs and isolated from her family by Dr. McFarland is tested by the plight of four female patients committed to the asylum as a result their families’ selfish interests. At first I believed him, but it was not long before I learned of unspeakable acts committed on those lost souls.”Īdam’s loyalty to Dr. Our benevolent kindness would lead them to sanity. McFarland told us we were the only ones who could cure the unfortunates under our care. Almost immediately, Adam realizes his observations do not match Superintendent McFarland’s arrogant descriptions of the institution’s innovative treatment practices. ![]() Inspired by true events, For Their Own Good begins in 1857 when New York physician, Adam Fletcher leaves his familiar existence in the east to take the position of medical doctor at the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane. Bradette Michel’s debut novel reveals the murky, often terrifying world of nineteenth century insane asylums. ![]() |