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![]() Yes, Bond, the arch-foe of SMERSH, is now aligned with the USSR. The novel’s eponymous villain is Chinese, like Dr No, but then Bond’s chief mission is revealed: prevent Sun from massacring a secret Soviet conference on the island of Vrakonisi. There’s a protracted, gruesome torture scene – but it ends unexpectedly. Photograph: PA WireĬolonel Sun constantly deviates from the Bond model. Kingsley Amis in 1965, three years before the publication of Colonel Sun. And when 007 heads to Greece, the agency doesn’t become any more impressive: our (MI6) Man in Athens is taken out, so Bond must enlist locals for sidekicks. It’s not only him the whole of MI6 come across as such a hapless outfit that a carful of D-grade goons can easily kidnap its leader and nearly kill or capture its best agent the setting in Berkshire, AKA Berks, may be a clue to Amis’s view of it. Heading off post-golf to see his boss for supper, Bond fails to notice the foreign agents following his car, or that he’s leading them to the home counties mansion of M. But after that, everything gets very perplexing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Amis was the obvious heir.Īt first, Colonel Sun appears to be a super-faithful quasi-pastiche, opening (like Goldfinger) with 007 wielding a putter. The Lucky Jim author was already moonlighting in genre fiction and was such a Bond buff that he’d produced not one but two guides to him and his world. The omens were good when Kingsley Amis published Colonel Sun, the first James Bond novel not written by Ian Fleming, 50 years ago today. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Horace uncovers what has sown the seeds of rage and violence. Using gut-wrenching reportage, on-the-ground research, and personal accounts garnered by interviews with police, government officials, and law experts around the country, Horace presents an insider's examination of America's police culture and policies, which he concludes is an "archaic system" built on "a toxic brotherhood." In this deeply revelatory book, Horace dissects some of the nation's most highly publicized police shootings and provides fresh analysis of issues that drive disproportionate numbers of black men to be killed by police and incarcerated in cities such as Ferguson, Baltimore, Cleveland, New York City, Tulsa, and Chicago. Yet it was after seven years of service, when Horace found himself with a gun pointed at his head by a white fellow officer, that he fully understood the racism seething within America's police departments. About the Book "Matthew Horace was a law enforcement officer at the federal and local levels for twenty-eight years, working in nearly every state in the country. ![]() ![]() One True Loves is a contemporary young adult “enemies to lovers” romance novel that takes place at gorgeous destinations across Europe. But this isn’t one of Tessa’s romance novels and one true loves don’t happen in real life…right? The more time Lenore is forced to spend with Alex, the more she starts to open-up and show her true self. ![]() To add to the drama, Lenore’s older brother is keeping secrets like breaking up with his long-term boyfriend, sneaking out at night, and constantly typing on his phone. Influenced by her best friend Tessa, Lenore decides to look for a European summer romance and, when she spots a handsome boy at the Trevi Fountain, it seems like her wish may just come true…until she finds out that the handsome boy, Alex Lee, is a total jerk with an infuriating 10-year plan! Even worse, Alex and his family have been assigned to Lenore’s dining table and their families have decided that they will be doing all the excursions together. ![]() When Lenore’s parents, who are described as “the embodiment of Black excellence”, discover that she is unsure about studying art history at NYU, they give her until the end of the cruise to finalise a decision. ![]() ![]() My one true…well, whatever.”Īfter a disastrous prom whereby Lenore’s “date” ditches her for someone else (something that seems to be happening to Lenore a lot lately), Lenore is ready to embark on a European cruise with her family. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Debate about these practices has long focused rather unproductively on the exact numbers massacred by the Mongols and whether this fits the definition of genocide. Perso-Arabic historians give a lurid picture of the Mongol practices of massacre and deportation. CONFERENCES Population Mobilization in Early Mongol Conquestsĭans le cadre du séminaire Migrations et démographie en Asie centrale (IVe-XIe siècle) organisé par Étienne de La Vaissière His interest in Mongol empire focuses on ways in which the empire anticipates developments commonly seen as being early modern: ecological and cultural exchange in a context of technocratic rule, mass mortality, and attendant environmental and climate upheavals. ![]() Atwood teaches Mongolian and Chinese history at the University of Pennsylvania. ![]() ![]() ![]() Language is alive here and Moschovakis plays with its possibilities and pokes at its limitations. “ Participation is thoughtful, intelligent, funny, and the most radically inventive novel I’ve read in a long time. With incisive prose and surprising structural shifts, Participation forms an alluring vision of community, and a love story like no other. As the groups consider-or neglect-the syllabi, and connections between members deepen, a mentor in mediation disappears, a colleague known as “the capitalist” becomes a point of fixation, and “The News Reports” filter through in fragments. Participation offers a prescient look at remote communication in a time of rupture: anonymous participants exchange fantasies and ruminations, and relationships develop and unravel. In the latest novel from Anna Moschovakis, two reading groups, Love and Anti-Love, convene digitally amidst political upheaval and undefined environmental catastrophe. When environmental disaster strikes, binaries and certainties dissolve as members of two virtual reading groups reshape their lives, romances, and reality itself. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Sweden and Denmark show most clearly what spelling reform can do. “In a survey of the 26 most industrialised countries, only Sweden came out better.” (Better at what? Oh… life…love…happiness…) “Sweden says it aims to completely wean itself off oil within 15 years, without building new nuclear plants.” “BBC's Joe Wilson on how Sweden became a top athletics nation. But as a parent, Sweden seems the perfect place to have children.” “Sweden has one of the best staffed health services in the world. “Sweden has probably the strongest freedom of information law anywhere in the world.” Here’s some random quotes from the BBC news archive : For most of my life I’ve been bombarded with newspapers and radio telling me how Sweden is so much much very much absolutely completely better than Britain at practically everything. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In short, reading these felt like WORK - which would have been fine if the payoff of each story had justified the effort. Chiang's stories, on the other hand, are built on the foundation of such passages, and I found myself trying to wrap my head around his imaginative scenarios rather than enjoying the narrative. Tom Clancy's novels can be riveting and thrilling, even if the reader glosses over the long passages of technological information, as they usually aren't essential to the story. But I often got lost in the intricate philosophical and/or physiological material which is elemental to his storytelling, not just background. Chiang is undeniably a talented writer, adept at describing each story's characters and world in detail. I could write a separate blurb about each story, but my feelings are similar for all of them. Read this after seeing (and loving) the feature film "Arrival", as the movie is based on "Story of Your Life", one of the eight short stories collected in this volume. ![]() ![]() ![]() Plots: In each book, the hero chooses the heroine immediately as their love interest and spends the intial part of the book moving the relationship forward extremely quickly. In it, Ally, the heroine, is related to Lee, and Ren, the hero, joins the circle because of previous relationships with other characters in the series. The eighth and final Rock Chick book will break this trend. Heroines: The women are known as the Rock Chicks through the first few books the women join the storyline because of their ties to Fortnum's bookstore and Indy Savage (owner), but in later book they join the Rock Chicks through previous relationships to the hot bunch. ![]() They are all friends, family, and/or employees of Lee Nightingale and work as PIs or in law enforcement. Heroes: The men are all hot of the Alpha Badass variety and are known in-book as the Hot Bunch. Books in the Series Ġ.5 Rock Chick Reawakening (Daisy and Marcus) "Set in Denver, the Rock Chick Series is eight books that take you on the wild ride of the courtships of the Rock Chicks and the Hot Bunch." - Each book in the series focuses on the romance between a hero and heroine in their late 20s to early 30s. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Part 1, Stark presents a succinct and useful summary of other religions at time of Christ, as well as why Oriental religions (besides Judaism) appealed to the Roman world and paved the way for Christianity. I just finished the Kindle version but am thinking about also ordering a hard copy so I can properly mark it up as I like to do with an important work. The book would be well worth its price for only a fraction of the revelations Stark communicates. ![]() He does it with amazing clarity and authority, and what he says matches up with all I’ve observed about human behavior and what I’ve read about sociology. Stark’s striking insights often overturn a lot of mischievous nonsense about Christianity and common misperceptions. ![]() |