![]() She quickly established her reputation as a leader in the career development space. ![]() Melody started her career as a litigation attorney, but soon realized a disconnect between her work and essence, so she left a prestigious position at a top law firm to launch Write In Color, her personal branding and career development company. Self Love Philosopher Melody Godfred is a poet, author and speaker who is passionate about empowering people to love themselves and transform their lives. ![]() Thank you so much to everyone who nominated The Shift for a Choice Award! Please make sure to vote in Round One now through 11/27 and help me advance to the finals! ![]()
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![]() Happily, Chuck Klosterman is more than up to the job.īeyond epiphenomena like Cop Killer and Titanic and Zima, there were wholesale shifts in how society was perceived: the rise of the internet, pre-9/11 politics, and the paradoxical belief that nothing was more humiliating than trying too hard. ![]() The '90s brought about a revolution in the human condition we're still groping to understand. ![]() By the end, exposing someone's address was an act of emotional violence, and nobody picked up their new cell phone if they didn't know who it was. ![]() In the beginning, almost every name and address was listed in a phone book, and everyone answered their landlines because you didn't know who it was. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader. ![]() It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about the sin of trying too hard, during the greatest shift in human consciousness of any decade in American history. ![]() ![]() ![]() He can well be called the main character of the mystery series, and maintains an enigmatic presence – but is not the protagonist – in all of the books. Noah Bishop, the leader of SCU periodically spots people with paranormal abilities and asks them to work for the FBI. The unit consists of regularly trained agents with a “psychic edge” to them. Kay Hooper is chiefly known for the Bishop / Special Crimes Unit (SCU), a series which centers around a Special Crimes Unit in the FBI. Little is known of her life other than what she chooses to reveal. Kay seems to favour a solitary lifestyle, living and writing in a small North Carolina town and sharing her life with a flock of cats and two friendly dogs. Since then she has penned well over 60 novels, including some novellas. She made her literary debut with Lady Thief, which she sold to Dell Publishing in 1980. Kay and her sister Linda own an independent bookstore, Fireside Books and Gifts. She was born in 1957 or 1958 (sources vary) in a California air force base hospital as her father was stationed there. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kay Hooper (aka Kay Robbins) is a mystery writer currently residing in North Carolina. ![]() ![]() Just as they get ready to cut the trip short, a decadent and glamorous set suddenly sweep them up into their drama – Clara, a beautiful socialite who feels her youth slipping away Max, a wealthy playboy and Clara’s lover and Alma, Max’s aloof and mysterious half-sister. It’s the end of the season and the town is deserted.Īs they tentatively discover each other, they begin to realize that everyday married life might be disappointingly different from their happily-ever-after fantasy. Henry and Effie, young newlyweds from Georgia, arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon. ‘ Nods to classics like The Great Gatsby and Revolutionary Road’ Independent ‘Powerful and devastating… A heady cocktail’ Mail on Sunday ‘ Glamorous, nostalgic and very sexy ‘ Paula Hawkins ![]() ![]() When she goes to shoot the guy and he apparently sneezes after she pulls the trigger? I think the author severely underestimated the speed a gun like that would shoot at. ![]() And not locking a door/considering that maybe she would dislocate her wrist to escape considering it’s in literally every spy move ever? Using big knives to scare someone? For a supposedly skilled torturer? No way. Their pathetic attempts at torture felt like fanfiction for a one direction mafia or something. ![]() ![]() There was a brief mention of the flimsy excuse that they didn’t want the police involved, but for criminal’s allegedly as big as the guys were supposed to be, a cleanup would be as easy a phone call, and bribing police not difficult. The only connection either person had to them was the club. Even after ruling that out, thinking it had anything to do with them still makes no sense and is a huge jump to make. ![]() She was a girl outside in an alley alone with a man, self defence should be the first thought. She killed a guy outside their club, it had nothing to do with them and the fact they immediately assumed it was some elaborate scheme instead of thinking that maybe she killed the guy in self defence is ridiculous. Overall I fairly enjoyed the series, but some aspects, especially regarding the criminal activity felt juvenile and unrealistic.įirst of all, the fact that they took the FMC to start with. ![]() ![]() ![]() It points to a new vision of what society could become-one that is less authoritarian and fearful, more collaborative and local. ![]() A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption and considers their implications for everyday life. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides. The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. ![]() “Solnit argues that disasters are opportunities as well as oppressions, each one a summons to rediscover the powerful engagement and joy of genuine altruism, civic life, grassroots community, and meaningful work.” - San Francisco ChronicleĬhosen as a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune “A landmark book that gives impassioned challenge to the social meaning of disasters” ( The New York Times Book Review) f rom the author of Orwell's Roses In A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit presents a withering critique of modern capitalist society by examining five catastrophesHer accounts of these five events are so stirring that her book is worth reading for its storytelling alone. ![]() ![]() Find out when they get rare bottles and show up in the store then. ![]() The absolute best way to get a bottle of Pappy, the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection or something else super hard-to-get is to shop consistently at one store, befriend the manager and the checkout line attendants and get to know their release schedules. People walk into these places and ask the worker, “What do you have that’s not on the shelf?” Often, collecting dust in the back, are cases of things from five to 10 years ago. In places with high crime rates, there are liquor stores with metal bars and a pistol by the register. I know a guy who gets most of his scores in places where there’s a 5 percent chance he’ll be shot. ![]() You’d be surprised how many bottles of Weller 12-year-old or 1985 Wild Turkey are sitting on random liquor store shelves in random, middle-of-nowhere America.Ģ. If you have a buddy who is a traveling saleswoman, ask if she will walk into liquor stores on your behalf to find bottles. When liquor stores get a nice haul of High West Bourye or Boone County Single Barrel, they want people to know about it.ģ. This is something of a shotgun approach that works for the mid-tier to lower high-end bourbons (i.e., not Pappy). Recommended clubs: Louisville Bourbon Society, Dallas Bourbon Club, Cincinnati Bourbon Club.Ĥ. When you have 50 eyes on the hunt, you stand a better chance of landing a bottle. ![]() ![]() Want the next Four Roses Limited Edition? Tell your club members. And you’ll find that bourbon people love helping one another. There are bourbon societies all over the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the end, though, Bella turns the corner and is able to let Jakob back into her life, and being with him helps her to heal. Jakob has been the love of Bella’s life since she was a teenager, and yet not even he can comfort her when Bella learns of her sister and parents’ deaths. Did you find it strange that he would fall in love despite the circumstances? In what ways do you think Eliska and Addy’s feelings for one another would have been similar or different had they met under more normal circumstances?ĥ. ![]() Which scene did you find most harrowing? Most comforting?Ĥ. Who was your favorite character, and why?ģ. What are some examples of that assimilation, and how do you think that helped or hindered the family’s chances of survival?Ģ. The Kurc family was assimilated into Polish life before the war. ![]() ![]() ![]() The rise of nationalism, Anderson emphasizes, also meant the rise of ethnicity as a politically relevant category. Of course, this whole process was a response to “the popular national movements” that grew from the 1820s onward, and ultimately was merely “the empire to appear attractive in national drag.” When they moved toward a single language and “a beckoning national identification,” becoming representatives for their populations rather than untouchable rulers, each dynasty gained both legitimacy and a possibility of being ousted. So the same language could be at once the dynasty’s “universal-imperial” language and the people’s “particular-national” one, and dynasties had to choose between promoting different languages and satisfying the groups who spoke them. Anderson begins by noting that ethnicity had nothing to do with 19th-century monarchies-virtually every one ruled over ethnic groups besides its own-and that each dynasty turned the local vernacular into its administrative language as “a matter of unselfconscious inheritance or convenience.” In parallel, languages became the basis of specific imagined communities. ![]() ![]() It went on to gross ¥23.2 billion worldwide, making it one of the most financially successful Japanese films in history. Howl's Moving Castle had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 5, 2004, and was screened at the Tokyo International Film Festival on October 23, 2004. She later gave a positive impression of the film, saying it retained the same spirit as her original work. The original author, Diana Wynne Jones' only request was that Miyazaki "not change Howl's character". The first half of the film is relatively faithful to the original novel, but the second half was changed completely during development, adding themes of war not present in the source material. It is based on the 1986 novel of the same name (translated in Japan as The Wizard's Howl and the Devil of Fire) by British writer Diana Wynne Jones and is about a young milliner named Sophie, who is transformed into an old woman by a witch, and the wizard Howl. ![]() It premiered at the Venice International Film Festival on September 5, 2004, and premiered in Toho cinemas in Japan on November 20, 2004. ![]() USD$235.1 million (worldwide) Howl's Moving Castle (ハウルの動く城, Howl no Ugoku Shiro) is the 14th animated fantasy film directed by Hayao Miyazaki, produced by Toshio Suzuki and animated by Studio Ghibli. ![]() |