![]() ![]() ![]() Through it all, Isa's bold, beguiling voice captures the precise thrill of cultivating a life of glamour and intrigue as she juggles paying her dues with skipping out on the bill. Resources run ever tighter and the strain tests their friendship as they try to convert their social capital into something more lasting than precarious gigs as au pairs, nightclub hostesses, paid audience members, and aspiring foot fetish models. ![]() By night, they weave from Brooklyn to the Upper East Side to the Hamptons among a rotating cast of celebrities, artists, Internet entrepreneurs, stuffy intellectuals, and bad-mannered grifters. By day, the girls sell clothes in a market stall, pinching pennies for their Bed-Stuy sublet and bodega lunches. In her diary, Isa describes a sweltering summer in the glittering city. They have little money, but that's hardly going to stop them from having a good time. ![]() She arrives in New York City for a summer of adventure with her best friend, one newly blond Gala Novak. Isa Epley is all of twenty-one years old, and already wise enough to understand that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. Refreshing and wry in equal measure, Happy Hour is an intoxicating novel of youth well spent. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, Marlowe Granados's stunning debut brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York City ![]()
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![]() ![]() It is a time when the days become shorter and the nights become longer and malevolent shadows seem to lurk around every corner.Įvery day of October, and especially the last day of the month, deserves a dose of classic horror! Whether you’re a fan of film, television, art, music, books, or comic books, there’s something for everyone’s thirst for the darker elements of pop culture mythology this time of year.ĭuring the early part of the 1970’s, comic book publishers pushed and pulled and railed against the yoke of the Comics Code Authority – and horror-themed comics were on the front lines of that war, growing increasingly popular by readers. ![]() It is a time when the wind blows sharply stronger while the sky turns a gray overcast. ![]() It is a time when the leaves turn shades of red and yellow and brown, then die and pile forlornly on the ground below. ![]() ![]() ![]() Captain Geisel would write for Frank Capra's Signal Corps Unit (for which he won the Legion of Merit) and do documentaries (he won Oscar's for Hitler Lives and Design for Death). Eventually in 1937 a friend published the book for him, and it went on to at least moderate success.ĭuring World War II, Geisel joined the army and was sent to Hollywood. In 1936 on the way to a vacation in Europe, listening to the rhythm of the ship's engines, he came up with And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, which was then promptly rejected by the first 43 publishers he showed it to. This association lasted 17 years, gained him national exposure, and coined the catchphrase "Quick, Henry, the Flit!" ![]() These references gained notice, and led to a contract to draw comic ads for Flit. In some of his works, he'd made reference to an insecticide called Flit. Additionally, he was submitting cartoons to Life, Vanity Fair and Liberty. He returned from Europe in 1927, and began working for a magazine called Judge, the leading humor magazine in America at the time, submitting both cartoons and humorous articles for them. At Oxford he met Helen Palmer, who he wed in 1927. He graduated Dartmouth College in 1925, and proceeded on to Oxford University with the intent of acquiring a doctorate in literature. ![]() ![]() Theodor Seuss Geisel was born 2 March 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() ![]() That, in essence, is ‘the matter with things’. ![]() He knows – as well, I submit, as anyone has ever known – that it is intrinsically impossible to transmit such ideas as any kind of finished ‘thing’, however long he might strive to perfect its intricacy. Iain McGilchrist has spent the 11 years since the publication of The Master and his Emissary’ assembling, arranging, tuning the left hemisphere tools he has to use – words – to try to evoke in our minds the cloud of right hemisphere ideas that he wants, with burning urgency, to share with us. ![]() Nobody who understands Iain McGilchrist to be a Master, as I do, could commit the folly, fall into the trap, of trying to be his Emissary. The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist I have just posted this review on Goodreads of this massively important book. ![]() ![]() ![]() The crew has been promised the ransom Nathaniel will bring, yet as danger mounts and the time nears to give him up, Hawk's biggest battle could be with his own heart. My biggest flaw honestly was the narration. ![]() Granted, Keira is seriously a fantastic author so it was a little more than that too, but if you want something generally simple and hot and maybe a little taboo, this is perfect. ![]() As a pirate's prisoner, he is finally free to be his true self. An age gap romance where a young virgin is kidnapped by a pirate and things get hotttt. Nathaniel realizes the fearsome Sea Hawk's reputation is largely invented, and he sees the lonely man beneath the myth, willingly surrendering to his captor body and soul. It's not as though Hawk would ever feel anything for him besides lust. Although Hawk knows he must keep his distance, the desire to teach Nathaniel the pleasure men can share grows uncontrollable. Yet as days pass in close quarters, Nathaniel's feisty spirit and alluring innocence beguile and bewitch. He has a score to settle with Nathaniel's father-the very man whose treachery forced him into piracy-and he's sure Nathaniel is just as contemptible. ![]() Bitter and jaded, Hawk harbors futile dreams of leaving the sea for a quiet life, but men like him don't deserve peace. Then pirates strike and he's kidnapped for ransom by the Sea Hawk, a legendary villain of the New World. Under the thumb of his controlling father, the governor of Primrose Isle, he's sailing to the fledging colony, where he'll surrender to a respectable marriage for his family's financial gain. Will a virgin captive surrender to this pirate's sinful touch? Nathaniel Bainbridge is used to hiding, whether it's concealing his struggles with reading or his forbidden desire for men. ![]() ![]() ![]() Holding on is all but impossible, though-for there is no food: the Chippewa are dying like flies, and pittances matter. Two narrators hold sway here: one is Nanapush-an old but still sapid man, in touch with the throngs of dead all around him in the woods near the sacred lake Matchimanito (the most striking poetry of the ever-lyrically inventive Erdrich is this book's frequent and moving invocation of the spirits as milling within sight of the living-a seamlessness of states), and desperately trying to hold on before the lumber interests come and buy his land for nothing from him. It's at a period (1912-24) that sees the death knell of their most natural Indian identity, thanks to famine and economic rapaciousness and the pressures of missionary Christianity. ![]() ![]() Erdrich keeps to her cast of rich Chippewa characters here-Pillagers, Kashpawa, Lazarres: familiar to readers of both Love Medicine and The Beet Queen-but has placed them chronologically before the setting of those other novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Inspired by Green and shaken by his firm's complicity, Michael volunteers at a homeless shelter. The next day, Michael visits the shabby offices of Mister's attorney, Mordecai Green, who explains that Mister and others had been illegally evicted from makeshift housing on orders from a real-estate development company represented by Michael's firm. ""I'm alive! I'm alive,"" Michael cries like Ebenezer Scrooge, but, like Scrooge, this greedy hotshot is ripe for a moral awakening. Among the nine is narrator Michael Brock, an antitrust lawyer who receives a faceful of blood when a police sniper blows away Mister's head. ![]() The expected powerhouse opening involves the hostage-taking-by an armed, homeless man who calls himself Mister-of nine attorneys of a huge law firm headquartered in D.C. America's most popular author is arguably its most popular crusader as well, tilting his pen against myriad targets, including big law (The Firm, etc.), big tobacco (The Runaway Jury), big insurance (The Rainmaker) and now, in perhaps his sweetest, shortest novel, against anyone, big or little, who treats the homeless as less than human. ![]() ![]() not from commenters who don't understand the state of the research on the question)Ĭomments other than answers on /r/askphilosophy should be one of the following:įollow-up questions related to the OP's questionįollow-up questions to a particular answerĭiscussion of the accuracy of a particular answer not inaccurate or false)Ĭome only from those with relevant knowledge of the question (i.e. not one-liners or otherwise uninformative)Īccurately portray the state of research and literature (i.e. arguments in philosophy, philosophers' positions, the state of the field (not questions about commenters' opinions) not extremely broad to the point of unanswerability) Specific enough to reasonably be answered (i.e. ![]() not merely tangentially related to philosophy) Questions on /r/askphilosophy should be:ĭistinctly philosophical (i.e. Also check the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. r/askphilosophy is not a debate or discussion subreddit.Ĭheck our FAQs for a list of frequently asked questions to see if your question has already been answered. Please have a look at our rules and guidelines. r/askphilosophy is thus a place to ask and answer philosophical questions. We envision this subreddit as the philosophical counterpart to /r/AskHistorians, which is well-known for its high quality answers to historical questions. ![]() r/askphilosophy aims to provide serious, well-researched answers to philosophical questions. ![]() ![]() ![]() To contact Grace, email her at stars or 3.5 The query letter that resulted in "the call" started out: "I am the buffoon in the bar at the RWA retreat who could not keep her heroines straight, could not look you in the eye, and could not stop blushing-and if that doesn't narrow down the possibilities, your job is even harder than I thought." (The dear lady bought the book anyway.) Grace eventually got up the courage to start pitching her manuscripts to agents and editors. ("Mom, why doesn't anybody tell you being a grown-up is hard?") This aim was realized when Beloved Offspring struck out into the Big World a few years ago. ![]() ![]() While reading yet still more romance novels, Grace opened her own law practice, acquired a master's degree in Conflict Transformation (she had a teenage daughter by then) and started thinking about writing. It also left enough time to grab a law degree through an evening program, produce Beloved Offspring (only one, but she is a lion), and eventually move to the lovely Maryland countryside. ![]() Her first career was as a technical writer and editor in the Washington, DC, area, a busy job that nonetheless left enough time to read a lot of romance novels. Early in life she spent a lot of time reading romance novels and practicing the piano. She is the sixth out of seven children, raised in the rural surrounds of central Pennsylvania. Grace Burrowes started writing as an antidote to empty nest and soon found it an antidote to life in general. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the same time (in the 1950s) the Cockapoo (a mix of Cocker Spaniel and Poodle) had a rise in popularity.īreeding history Origins ![]() For example, a Labrador-Poodle mix named Fang had a recurring role on the Get Smart show starting in 1965. The Labradoodle mix had been known in the United States since the 1950s and was used in the entertainment industry in the U.S. He mistakenly took credit for naming the Labradoodle in 1989. Wally Conron of Australia, a breeder who helped popularize the mix, has commented that healthy Labradoodles are "few and far between" and most are "crazy or have a hereditary problem". Other ailments include eye diseases and Addison's disease. However, they also state that hip and elbow dysplasia are common problems affecting Labradoodles. The Australian Labradoodle Association, an organization run by Labradoodle breeders, says they are "generally considered healthy dogs". Labradoodles are considered a good choice for people with canine dander allergies, since some have the same hypoallergenic coat as their poodle ancestors. The term dates back to at least 1955 but was unpopular at the time. Not recognised as a breed by any major kennel club.Ī Labradoodle ( / ˈ l æ b r ə d uː d əl/) is a crossbreed dog created by crossing a Labrador Retriever and a Standard or Miniature Poodle. ![]() |