![]() ![]() They wrote a magazine story on the crash and the survivors which was later short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. In 1986, he and two other reporters spent several months interviewing survivors of a major airline crash. In Fort Lauderdale he wrote about police and crime during the height of the murder and violence wave that rolled over South Florida during the so-called cocaine wars. Once he decided on this direction he chose a major in journalism and a minor in creative writing - a curriculum in which one of his teachers was novelist Harry Crews.Īfter graduating in 1980, Connelly worked at newspapers in Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, primarily specializing in the crime beat. Michael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads' database with this name. ![]()
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Perhaps the exciting tension, some fast-paced action scenes towards the end and the author's sometimes engaging style would have been enough. The main question running through my mind after finishing Find Me is this: would I have liked it more if I hadn't worked out exactly who the culprit was about 25% into the book? Perhaps I would. How can we all just keep swimming along when some of us are drowning? ![]() ![]() ![]() This may be a short story, but it is one of the most intense books I have ever read, and the author manages to capture in a limited amount of space more than most novels do. The author does not go into graphic detail of the physical abuse, but she goes into very graphic detail of the emotions involved with such realism, it is almost difficult to believe this is based entirely on fiction. ![]() The question is, with subjects as difficult as child abuse and bullying, do you really want to feel like you are there in the flesh? This book literally had my stomach in knots and at one point I actually broke into a sweat. L A Weatherly is most certainly one of these gifted authors. Some authors have a talent for writing so vividly and realistically, the reader can feel as if they are actually there, experiencing the events first hand. ![]() Summary: Painfully realistic depiction of child abuse and bullying, but with a wonderful message of redemption. ![]() ![]() How would it be to live on such a world? Yuri Jones, with a thousand others, is about to find out. The "substellar point", with the star forever overhead, is a blasted desert, and the "antistellar point" on the far side is under an ice cap in perpetual darkness. Huddling close to the warmth, orbiting in weeks, it keeps one face to its parent star at all times. ![]() But Proxima IV is unlike Earth in many ways. The 27th century: Proxima Centauri, an undistinguished red dwarf star, is the nearest star to our sun - and (in this fiction) - the nearest to host a world, Proxima IV, habitable by humans. And this mind cradles memories of a long-gone age when a more compact universe was full of light. Yet there is life here, feeding off the energies of the stellar remnants, and there is mind, a tremendous galaxy-spanning intelligence, each of whose thoughts lasts a hundred thousand years. ![]() The very far future: The galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, and chill white dwarfs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His longtime girlfriend, Hilly, works in fashion. George Gurley is a nightlife reporter in Manhattan. Still, when I found a free copy at a book swap last weekend, it seemed like a no-brainer. I remember when this book first came out, I thought it was right up my alley! But something put me off. Hilarious, thought-provoking, and compelling, George & Hilly reveals the uncensored, unselfconscious psyche of a man on the brink of matrimony. ![]() psychiatrist, obliging listener, and unwitting participant in George’s own journalistic project-a no-holds-barred portrait of intimacy taken from transcripts of the couple’s therapy sessions. George can be compared to a Carrie Bradshaw 2.0 that is, if Carrie were a hard drinking, ill-reputed man-about-town writing frankly about sex, love, marriage, and his own psychological baggage. George had witnessed New York husbands -frail, meek, ashamed, and henpecked, pushing double wide strollers as their battle-ax wives babbled on about “dinner with friends”-and it wasn’t for him.Įnter Dr. ![]() A funny and intimate portrait of a relationshipgleaned from the author and his fianceé’s couple’s therapy sessions.Īfter roughly three-and-a-half years of dating his girlfriend Hilly, New York Observer nightlife and society reporter George Gurley decided that it was time to get married. ![]() ![]() ![]() People are correct to feel that a comfortable sense of subjectivity is being shaken. I understand this feeling, but also recognize that the situation is more complex than it appears. Observing that continuing new cases in rich Western countries are concentrated among those still unvaccinated (by choice or by circumstance), it is impossible not to feel, at this moment, that our societies are being held hostage by a populist politics of obstinate stupidity. At the same time, as we look into the streets and watch a motley coalition drawn from traditional Left and Right protesting not just these measures but even the efficacy of vaccines themselves, it is clear that the political problem is not just a matter of policy but also of culture. It is true that excruciating extended lockdowns and measures such as vaccine passports would likely not be necessary had governing responses been better prepared. Unfortunately, this notion is not necessarily unanimous. ![]() ![]() However, the only thing more foolish than some of our ill-fated responses to the pandemic would be to refuse to learn any lessons from it. As the author of a book on “post-pandemic politics” I am crucially aware of the aspirational quality of that term. We may not yet be able to refer to the pandemic in the past tense. (For the video record of the speech please click here). What the Pandemic Should Tell Us About The Biological Reality of Society ![]() ![]() ![]() Just what those circumstances are occupies much of Bodanis's book, which pays homage to Einstein and, just as important, to predecessors such as Maxwell, Faraday, and Lavoisier, who are not as well known as Einstein today. Mass, he writes, "is simply the ultimate type of condensed or concentrated energy," whereas energy "is what billows out as an alternate form of mass under the right circumstances." David Bodanis offers an easily grasped gloss on the equation. But far fewer can explain his insightful linkage of energy to mass. Just about everyone has at least heard of Albert Einstein's formulation of 1905, which came into the world as something of an afterthought. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() No prior background knowledge in logic, math, or philosophy is required or assumed for this course. This course satisfies the QR general education requirement. In this course, we will work toward proficiency in wielding this tool by mastering a variety of techniques supplied by mathematically precise artificial languages. How do we determine when their arguments are good ones? Under what circumstances must a conclusion follow from the reasons given for it? Mathematical logic is an extremely useful tool for answering these sorts of questions. give us reasons why we should accept some conclusion or other. ![]() Public figures, politicians, friends, enemies, etc. It is difficult to go a day without encountering arguments. PHIL 155.002 – Truth and Proof: Introduction to Mathematical Logic ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And in many ways, it’s the most insidious system at play here as it is what makes Kate explore and have to engage in several other systems that have been corrupted over time to tear down people instead of building them up.įor Kate, all of these satellite systems orbit the system of work, or more specifically, of employment. And for North America, it’s a fairly common systematic exploitation to get a job, you need a college degree- to get a college degree, you need a job to pay for it. That’s one system, an educational system that requires most people to leverage a large chunk of their future earnings to pay for it. In Ducks, Beaton revisits 2005, the time in her life just after she graduated from university and faced all of the student loans that she needed to get an art degree. ![]() These systems operate on a personal level, a gender level, a financial level, an ecological level, and even a socio-political level. There are many systems on display that look for ways to game both the work and the workers. There’s an active system in Kate Beaton’s Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands that’s designed to exploit its workers. 5 min read Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly). ![]() ![]() While the first couple times, it may cause a few stumbles as caregivers sing to the theme, once they get it, it is quite a delight. The book remains non-religious throughout but captures the delight of the season well. Each page features bright colors, adorable animals, and Christmas themes that will delight young readers. Only the final page uses the Fa la la la la ending, and the rest create something unique. What I loved: This is quite cleverly written to the tune of Deck the Halls, but with all new words. The book could be sung to the original song or just read aloud with plenty of animal sounds throughout. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story features different barnyard animals celebrating the holidays, including decorating a tree, decking the halls, and singing carols. MOO, BAA, FA LA LA LA LA! is a delightful Christmas board book that reinvents the song, Deck the Halls. ![]() |