![]() ![]() She had no family except a drunken father who probably hasn’t even noticed she’s missing. ![]() No one wants to go to the trouble of finding out what happened to her and no one is obliged to bother. Everyone could just have assumed she’d followed her dream and run away to Hollywood. When Constable Sy reluctantly drags his bulk over to the scene, he asks why they didn’t just push May Lynn back in. ![]() Sue Ellen’s father and uncle want to push the body back into the water and forget about it, but she and Terry convince them to call the police. She’s clearly been there for a while, weighted down by a Singer sewing machine ties around her ankles. One day she and her friend Terry find the body of another friend – May Lynn Baxter – at the bottom of the Sabine river. Sixteen-year-old Sue Ellen lives in a small town in the old American South, a place characterised by poverty, racism and domestic abuse. Source: eARC from the publisher via NetGalley Publisher: Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown ![]()
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Part 1: Privacy Policy Last Edited: 22nd April 2021 ![]() ![]() ![]() Starship raised a $40 million Series A led by Morpheus Ventures back in 2019, and last January, according to PitchBook, data also raised a further $17 million with strategic backers TDK Ventures (the investment arm of the Japanese electronics giant) and Goodyear Ventures among the investors. It is not disclosing its valuation with this investment, but Alastair Westgarth said that this doesn’t rule out raising further funding from investors. Starship Technologies is describing this as a “quasi-equity facility”, meaning there is a venture loan involved in the mix. ![]() ![]() The startup has received €50 million (just under $57 million at today’s rates) from the European Investment Bank, the funding arm of the European Union. Now it’s picking up some funding along with an endorsement in Europe to further its growth. Starship Technologies, one of the bigger names in the world of autonomous delivery robots - those little caboose-like, boxy delivery vehicles that self-drive around cities - has been on a roll during COVID-19, providing extra (unmanned) horsepower to distribute food and other goods between stores or restaurants and consumers, at a time when consumers were either reluctant or being ordered to stay at home to minimize the spread of the virus. ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, his team didn’t even play Cornwall that year. ![]() That home run, in fact, would prove just a foretaste of his talent for hyping himself. And it may remind us of what we’re missing.Īs you may already have guessed, Don Trump was never really a pro prospect. Unpacking why not might just help us survive another day without baseball at a time when-thanks to that now grown-up first baseman-we really need the diversion. Neither of those hotshots fulfilled their baseball promise. ![]() ![]() He decides to keep the money and leaves the scene without being discovered. ![]() One of the lead characters, Llewelyn Moss, while hunting, stumbles across a satchel of money and a lot of dead bodies at a drug deal gone wrong out in the middle of nowhere. He does not use quotation marks for dialog, which can be distracting, but I found that it was not really an obstacle. This matches the stark environs of Texas, where his novel is set. McCarthy writes in an austere style, reminiscent of Hemingway, that offers a bleak commentary on human nature. ![]() If you haven't read the book " No Country for Old Men" or heard of author Cormac McCarthy, then you might want to give this one a look. You may have seen the film "No Country for Old Men" back in 2007 when it won the Cohen Brothers the Academy Award for Best Picture, along with a number of other Oscars. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The desires you had as a little girl and the longings you still feel as a woman-they are telling you of the life God created you to live. The message of Captivating is this: Your heart matters more than anything else in all creation. "Do these ten things, and you will be a godly woman."The effect has not been good on the feminine soul. Sadly, too many messages for Christian women add to the pressure. Most women think they have to settle for a life of efficiency and duty, chores and errands, striving to be the women they "ought" to be but often feeling they have failed. She finds no romance except in novels, no adventure except on television, and she doubts very much that she will ever be the Beauty in any tale. And yet-how many women do you know who ever find that life? As the years pass by, the heart of a woman gets pushed aside, wounded, buried. They are the secret to the feminine heart. Those desires are far more than child's play. She longs to be swept up into a romance, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, to be the Beauty of the story. And every little girl holds in her heart her most precious dreams. ![]() ![]() ![]() Comment with a □ if you absolutely love Lincoln’s way of making things clear for us. Moral sense, to begin making sense of your thoughts, emotions, deeds, and awarenesses. Self interest is certainly another way to say, pay attention to yourself. I’d say this phrase is an affirmation for our purpose. 2023 - The Year of Paying Attention to Ourselves. The book, “And There Was Light,” was written by I received it as a gift from my daughter and just had to use it for our spirit book for the 2023 purpose and phrase of the month. 2023 PURPOSE AND OUR PHRASE OF THE MONTH FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN “Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self interest.” I’m pretty sure this one blew my mind. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book will answer some questions that fans of the Women of the Otherworld may have had, such as how Jeremy came to be Clayton’s guardian and how Clayton developed his relatively brusque personality. Jeremy and Malcolm's relationship is central to the storyline and demonstrated as such, not simply told. A good a book combines those things seamlessly, and Men of the Otherworld does. Each volume is written from the point of view of a different character, so the reader gets a bigger picture of The Otherworld than they could from only one character.Īrmstrong's books are as much about the relationships between the various characters as they are about the plot. Essentially, Armstrong wants to give the backstory of characters and relationships central to the Women of the Otherworld series that haven’t exactly fit into the storyline.Īrmstrong's Women of the Otherworld series doesn't simply rely on their fantasy elements to carry the book: they are beautifully written and suspenseful. The book begins with Jeremy’s conception, his discovery and subsequent raising of Clayton, and Clayton’s early years, ending with Jeremy and his girlfriend, Jaime. Her publishers made her an offer in 2007, and the proceeds to will be donated to World Literacy of Canada. Readers asked her when they would be published in book form she wanted to wait until she could donate proceeds to charity. Men of the Otherworld began as short fiction on author Kelley Armstrong’s website. Book review: Kelley Armstrong's *Men of the Otherworld* ![]() ![]() ![]() However, his work as an interpreter at a doctor’s office is a far cry from his dream of serving as a translator for dignitaries. ![]() Kapasi’s youthful passion points to his idealistic belief in the power of language as an instrument of communication and reconciliation. He once dreamt of serving as an interpreter to “diplomats and dignitaries,” and thereby hoped to help resolve “conflicts between people and nations.” Kapasi’s interest in languages was motivated by his belief in the nobility of translation as an occupation. ![]() Kapasi reveals that he had a passion for languages in his youth and became proficient through self-study in several. ![]() In addition to his work as an interpreter, Mr. As all of the characters struggle to express themselves meaningfully, Lahiri’s story suggests the depth of the gap that often exists between language and communication. Kapasi and the Das family, as well as within the Das family itself. The power-and limits-of language is further present in the interactions between Mr. Kapasi’s second job as an interpreter of patient ailments in a doctor’s office, where he must rely on his linguistic prowess to communicate effectively between people who do not understand one another. The importance of language in “The Interpreter of Maladies” is alluded to in the story’s title itself. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Really, though, the book is about the endurance of friendship when it's pushed to its limits, and you (+ your BFF, when you lend it to her) will love it."-Cosmopolitan, 15 Best Books of March 2019 "This beautiful story follows Mi-ja and Young-sook, friends from very different backgrounds who are members of an all-female diving group in Korea. But as they come of age during a tumultuous period in Korea's history, certain deep-rooted differences may tear them apart."-Refinery29, Best Books of March 2019 Mi-ja and Young-sook are best friends and Haenyeo divers, set to follow in their mothers' footsteps. "For centuries on the Korean island of Jeju, Haenyeo women were trained to expand their lungs and go diving on the ocean floor to harvest seafood. ![]() Critical Praise:"In this bittersweet novel that spans more than 50 years, Lisa See tells the story of Mi-ja and Young-sook, two best friends who live in a kind of feminist utopia on a Korean island."-Marie Claire ![]() |