5/22/2023 0 Comments The hating game book online![]() ![]() You'll find much deeper chemistry elsewhere, but the mere presence of a somewhat realistic connection between the leads makes this flick shine when compared to the dull, wooden exchanges one finds portrayed in the movies this film will be compared to. The chemistry between the leads is present, so by comparison, that clearly shines. This isn't a movie for children or grandma, due to the inclusion of R-rated language and the sexual content, although that is not gratuitous or graphic in any sense. This Rom-Com follows the same cookie-cutter plot formula one sees on Hallmark, but the writing and execution are far more adult, and the character interactions haven't been sanitized into oblivion. This isn't Hemmingway, or Tolstoy, and the reviews that trash flicks like this are easily ignored. One doesn't tune in to movies like this for the plot, or some earthshaking message. ![]()
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5/21/2023 0 Comments New power timms![]() ![]() "We see that in the next 7, 8 years another 18,000 people will have to be added to handle the workload. Currently, 18,000 people are working on the expansion of the power grid in the Netherlands, however, Oskam warns that this number will have to increase dramatically within a decade to handle the capacity of the grid expansion. The crippling expansion of the grid is also due to a lack of personnel. We need to find ways to accelerate.” Oskam explains. "“Sustainability is currently going much faster than we can build an additional electricity grid. But Dutch grid operators are still too slow to do that. ![]() "This requires a much stronger power grid," says Hans-Peter Oskam, director of energy transition and policy at Netbeheer Nederland. ![]() The only solution to create more capacity is to expand the power grid, but this is proving to be difficult as the Netherlands increasingly relies on sustainable power sources. Of the 5,600 applications in the waiting list, 2,200 applications are for a new connection and the rest are for the extension of an existing power access. The reason for the long time it takes to execute the applications is that the grid expansion is too costly, there is a shortage of staff and, in general, the capacity of the power grid is insufficient, as the journalistic research platform Pointer (KRO-NCRV) has discovered. More than 5600 applications for power access have been on the waiting list of Dutch network operators for some time. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The vanishing half goodreads![]() ![]() Indeed, the people of Mallard grapple with forming a single identity: they desire lightness, yet unequivocally identify with their blackness. Mallard is a southern community that is “obsessed with lightness.” Although the entire community is populated by Black people, its members are consumed with the idea of being light because of internalized oppression. This novel highlights a set of twins, the Vignes sisters, from Mallard, LA. ![]() ![]() The characters lift off the page and are bound into a beautiful story that illuminates themes of race, formation of identity, recurrence, and progress. This novel is wonderfully intricate and beautifully written. It should come as no surprise that The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett won the Goodreads Choice Awards for the best historical fiction novel of 2020 and was immediately picked up by HBO to be made into a limited series. Book Review: The Vanishing Half A Compelling Tale of Identity and Sisterhood ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Tenth of december new yorker![]() ![]() George Saunders's most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of troubling preoccupations.Ī family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums and the prospect of Darkenfloxx™ in some unusual drug trials and Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue behind a winning smile that he hopes will make him popular. WINNER OF THE 2014 FOLIO PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013 The prize-winning, New York Times bestselling short story collection from the internationally bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo 'The best book you'll read this year' New York Times 'Dazzlingly surreal stories about a failing America' Sunday Times ![]() ** ESCAPE FROM SPIDERHEAD NOW STREAMING ON NETFLIX - STARRING CHRIS HEMSWORTH AND MILES TELLER** ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Coerce by candice m wright![]() ![]() I never thought I’d ignore the red flags and wave a white one. After witnessing its devastation, I’ve shied away from it, Until Atlas. All readers should be over 18 so I don’t have to answer any awkward emails from your parents or dodge pitchforks when I’m doing my weekly shopping. Wright 4.15 Explicit and plentiful 18 ratings Published: Ivy I know what love is. Triggers: It goes without saying that this book contains dark elements that some readers may find uncomfortable including offensive language, graphic violence, and sexual situations. This book plays with the darker side of love such as obsession, infatuation, and the power plays made to obtain it. Atlas is an Antihero in every sense of the word. Not when I’ll own every inch of her body, heart, and soul.Īuthor note: If you’re looking for a White Knight, you might want to look elsewhere. ![]() She’ll never forgive me, and I’ll never set her free. Until I have her exactly where I want her.īy the time she realizes it’s a trap, it will be too late. I’ve never been touched by its light or fallen into its depths,Įach move I make is calculated and methodical, I didn’t realize he’d been playing me all along Surrendering to Atlas in the most delectable way, After witnessing its devastation, I’ve shied away from it, ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Spare Parts by Paul Craddock![]() It shows us that the history - and future - of transplant surgery is tied up with questions not only about who we are, but also what we are, and what we might become. In Spare Parts, cultural historian Paul Craddock takes us on a fascinating journey and unearths incredible untold stories, from Indian surgeons regrafting lost noses in the sixth century BC, to the seventeenth century architect who helped pioneer blood transfusions, to the French seamstress whose needlework paved the way for kidney transplants in the early 1900s.Įxpertly weaving together philosophy, science and cultural history, Spare Parts explores how transplant surgery has constantly tested the boundaries between human, animal and machine. As ancient as the pyramids, its history is even more surprising. ![]() We think of transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders of the modern world - but it's a lot older than you think. Paul Craddock's Spare Partsoffers an original look at the history of medicine itself through the rich, compelling, and delightfully macabre story of transplant surgery from ancient times to the present day. ![]() ![]() 'Compelling' Christopher Hart, The Sunday Times ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson![]() ![]() ![]() He is most often credited with solving an outbreak of cholera that occurred in London in 1854 (the outbreak is described below), but his studies of cholera were much more extensive than that. John Snow (shown below) was a physician in London who spent several decades studying cholera in a systematic way. In the 1800s there were large epidemics of cholera in Europe and America that killed thousands of people. Health officials discuss an outbreak of cholera spreading through rural Haiti. The next video describes the cholera epidemic in Haiti in 2010. You Tube video of Steven Johson discussing The Ghost Map.Ĭholera continues to be a problem throughout the world today (see Cholera in Haiti). The story has been elegantly told in The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson, who describes the conditions in London in the 1800s situation in the brief video below. Cholera is an infectious disease that became a major threat to health during the 1800s. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Tj klune extraordinaries book 3![]() Will it all come together in the end or will it all go down in flames? Which is a lot to handle when Nick really just wants to finish his self-insert bakery AU fanfic. ![]() Long-held secrets and neglected truths are surfacing that challenge everything Nick knows about justice, family, and being extraordinary. When new Extraordinaries begin arriving in Nova City-siblings who can manipulate smoke and ice, a mysterious hero who can move objects with their mind, and a drag queen superhero with the best name and the most-sequined costume anyone has ever had-it’s up to Nick and his friends Seth, Gibby, and Jazz to determine who is virtuous and who is villainous.Īnd new Extraordinaries aren’t the only things coming to light. But having a superhero boyfriend isn’t everything Nick thought it would be-he’s still struggling to make peace with his own lack of extraordinary powers. Now instead of just writing stories about him, Nick actually gets to kiss him. Through bravery, charm, and an alarming amount of enthusiasm, Nick landed himself the superhero boyfriend of his dreams. ![]() ![]() Flash Fire is the explosive sequel to The Extraordinaries by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author TJ Klune! ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Belonging krug![]() ![]() Krug felt blood ties to her ancestors but had no idea how deeply (or not) they had been entangled. Her maternal grandfather had also served with the Nazis, and the level of his support remained something of a mystery. Her father’s brother had died as a teenage Nazi soldier, and their sister and her father had since been estranged. Neither of her parents seems to know much about their familial Nazi ties or to be inquisitive about learning more. ![]() Yet she feels drawn to what happened before, a legacy that amounts to a search for identity, a pilgrimage to the homeland that risks guilt and shame. Not only was Krug too young to have memories of the Nazi era, but her parents weren’t born until 1946. A graphic artist of German descent tries to come to terms with her family’s history before she was born. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when hunter and hunted clash, their bloody tango ignites a firestorm of fear and hatred. As all Settlers do, Tanner dismisses them as little more than savages-until he meets his match in Spewer protector Lila. Tanner Kline is a trained Sweeper, sworn to exterminate Spewers roaming the no-man's-land surrounding his frightened community. The disease-free folk known as Settlers barricade themselves in small villages, determined to keep out the highly contagious Spewers-infected humans who cannot die from the virus but spread the seeds of death from the festering blisters that cover their bodies. A fatal virus-a biowarfare experiment unleashed on an unsuspecting world-has reduced the once-mighty United States to a smattering of tribes dueling for survival in the lawless wilderness. ![]() William Todd Rose reinvents the zombie story with a thrilling novella of a post-apocalyptic America where saviors are heroes. ![]() |