5/22/2023 0 Comments The walking dead volume 24![]() ![]() ![]() Except everyone who's moving onto another show, of course.īut wait! A baby's in danger. Oh, you wanted stakes? Well, it's not like anyone important has died yet, but we appreciate the effort to show anyone can be killed now in this final episode. Jules becomes zombie chow, but no one really seems to care except Luke, which is unfortunate because Luke then dies too, surrounded by his crying mates. ![]() The others eventually arrive to lend a hand, but in classic Walking Deadfashion, the two characters who were randomly brought back just two weeks earlier are the first to die. Daryl makes it to the hospital in time, but it's up to tiny Judith, still recovering from a gunshot wound, to barricade the doors and stop any pesky walkers coming in. Things kick off immediately where the previous episode ended. ![]()
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5/22/2023 0 Comments High growth handbook![]() ![]() As I was reading High Growth Handbook I repeatedly thought about how the book is also a checklist of areas where a first time founder or CEO might want to engage the services of a coach or get help from other people including their board members and investors. My latest book A Dozen Lesson for Entrepreneurs also started its life as blog posts and like Gil I believe that including the views of people who have direct experience with these issues is a great framework for a book and makes it more interesting. High Growth Handbook includes a number of very informative interviews. For example, if you want his views on late stage financing you can refer to that section of the book. It is not meant to be read straight through is meant to be an active reference.” You may want to buy an electronic version of the book since it is searchable. He writes in the introduction: “many of the sections of this book started life as blog posts on my website. Gil is the author of a new book entitled: High Growth Handbook. Gil is an investor in and advisor to companies like: Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart, Stripe, OpenDoor, Square, Pinterest, Stripe, Gusto, Wish and Zenefits. He also previously worked at Google where he started their mobile team and worked on AdSense. After Mixer Labs was acquired by Twitter, he was a VP at Twitter. Elad Gil was a co-founder of Mixer Labs and Color Genomics. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Kings & Queens by Courtney Vail![]() ![]() ![]() I really appreciated Vail’s ability to incorporate every character introduced in the story, whether they played a very minor part or were major players. There’s so much manipulation through the pages of Kings and Queens that even I was fooled! Not being able to unravel the web of truths and untruths until the very end made this a fun and addictive novel. The unidentified suspect could have absolutely been anyone, and I’ll admit that I suspected characters that were completely innocent. The characters’ distinct voices didn’t eliminate guilt from suspects until everything was said and done. ![]() Everyone used the same kind of language, but when jumping from multiple perspectives throughout the story without a set pattern, I noticed how each character sounded distinctly different.Įven with such strong individuals, it took Majesty’s super sleuth powers to dig deep as the ocean for the truth. She has a way of making the characters seem so genuine by their actions, decisions and even the slang they speak. Vail’s writing is as different as a prince to a lowly peasant. The story has a complex plot, but once you start reading it’ll be hard to put down! The scenes are so believable that I can already picture some of them coming to life. Majesty, spunky and defiant, stumbles upon a disastrous church massacre plot and will do anything to intervene before innocent people are killed. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was in this shop that I got my first taste of an industrial kitchen - the ovens were so big that you could walk into them. The Caletti family, on my mother's side, was one of them and on my grandmother's side, the Tamborini family, along with my cousins, the Gnocchi family, who have a pastry shop in Gallarate, near Milan - the speciality is gorgeous soft amaretti biscuits. In Corgeno, there were eight founding families. ![]() I helped out in the restaurant from the age of five until I got my first proper job in a kitchen when I turned 16. My uncle and auntie, with the help of my granddad, built our hotel and restaurant, La Cinzianella, in the village in 1963. I grew up in the village of Corgeno on the shores of Lake Comabbio in the north of Italy. ![]() But my first understanding of the relationship between food, sex, wine and the excitement of life came together for me very early on. My first feelings for cooking came from my grandmother, Vincenzina. ![]() Full of mouth-watering dishes from his home country, it's got everything from delicious pasta and fish, to amazing risottos and meat. It took Giorgio Locatelli five years to put together his definitive, 600-page Italian recipe book and memoir, Made in Italy. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The pickwick papers book review![]() I had read humorous authors – Wodehouse, Thurber – but I had not expected it from a Sunday afternoon telly serial classic. ![]() I still remember the surprise that Dickens could make me laugh out loud, and that is what made me love it. Even Christmas at Dingley Dell is infused with sunshine in my memory. It was my first Dickens and, as my school and university careers had been taken up by set books, it was a liberation. The spine is completely broken at page 476 and there are stains (suntan lotion? Coca-Cola?) on the pages, so I must have been enthralled. My Penguin copy is punctiliously dated 8 July that year (I used to do that sort of thing). I t was in the long, hot summer of 1975, after finishing university and before the shades of the prison-house – finding a job – closed in that somehow, for reasons I cannot now recall, I found myself reading The Pickwick Papers in my parents’ sun-dappled garden. ![]() ![]() This is the only way…the only way to get rid of the stain. You had his child! I hollered, my knuckles gripping the knife tightly. Did she think me a fool? You’ve gone and done the unthinkable. You don’t… She shook her head left to right, swallowing hard, stumbling against the side table next to the sofa. The eight-inch blade caught the glint of the afternoon sun, mesmerizing me, causing me to admire the play of light against it before I focused on the woman before me. Reaching to the small of my back, my fingers wrapped around the grip as I pulled it from its sheath. Wh-whatever it is…we can talk this out, she stuttered, her feet inching her backward as I followed her movements. Disgust was as clear in my voice as it was in my expression. ![]() I told you, when I came back, you’d be mine and now look at yourself. ![]() ![]() My skin crawled that she’d let him do that to her. W hat are you doing here? The tension around me palpable, she hurried aside to let me enter before closing the door behind us. ![]() ![]() ![]() Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. ![]() ![]() In her unique and mesmerizing voice, Winterson blends reality with fantasy, dream, and imagination to weave a hypnotic tale with stunning effects. In Venice’s compound of carnival, chance, and darkness, the pair meet their singular destiny. Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French soldier, who follows Napoleon from glory to Russian ruin and Villanelle, the red-haired, web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman, whose husband has gambled away her heart. The Passion is perhaps her most highly acclaimed work, a modern classic that confirms her special claim on the novel. ![]() Jeanette Winterson’s novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in world literature. "Winterson is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent deeply abides." - Vanity Fair First published to great acclaim in 1987, this arresting, elegant novel from Jeanette Winterson uses Napolean’s Europe as the setting for a tantalizing surrealistic romance between an observer of history and a creature of fantasy. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The secret to hummingbird cake![]() ![]() ![]() “A delightful, heartwarming, and heart wrenching story that captures the beauty and essence of living in a small, southern town. And if you’re lucky, you just may discover the secret to hummingbird cake along the way. Through it all, you’ll experience the essence and the joy of true friendship. Now, as adults, they’re still almost inseparable as they life together: from the sometimes rocky path of marriage to the outrageous curveballs that life sometimes throws-from devastating pain to absolute joy. In this spot-on Southern novel brimming with wit and authenticity, Laine, Carrigan, Ella Rae first met on the playground when they were five years old. And you protect your friends as fiercely as you protect your family- even if the threat is something you cannot see. Food-especially dessert- is almost a religious experience. In the South you always say “yes, ma’am” and “no, ma’am.” You know everybody’s business. Its humor, poignancy, and a dash of sass will touch the heart.”* “ The Secret to Hummingbird Cake celebrates strong women and stronger ties. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The idiot dostojevski![]() Throughout the evening we return again and again, Groundhog Day-style, to the opening scene on the train: two children playing catch Myshkin dropping his cards and clutching a large sac and Rogózhin, a young merchant violently smitten by the dazzling Nastasya, with the sneaky gossip Lébedyev never far away. The windows alternately reflect endless motion forwards through the winter landscape or reveal the interiority of characters, thanks to tasteful video projections by Christian Borchers. Beautifully directed, the train first introduces us to Myshkin, who is traveling to St Petersburg after being treated for intense epilepsy in Switzerland, but rotates throughout the evening into any number of settings and backdrops. This becomes an essential Leitmotif, underpinning the entire production. ![]() In Vasily Barkhatov's new production at MusikTheater an der Wien, the curtain opens on a long train, a stroke of genius by stage designer Christian Schmidt, atmospherically lit by Alexander Sivaev. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Darker el james![]() ![]() Can Christian's confidant and therapist, Dr. Determined to win her back, he tries to suppress his darkest desires and his need for complete control, and to love Ana on her own terms.īut the horrors of his childhood still haunt him, and Ana's scheming boss, Jack Hyde, clearly wants her for himself. ![]() Their scorching, sensual affair ended in heartbreak and recrimination, but Christian Grey cannot get Anastasia Steele out of his mind, or his blood. **Pre-order FREED, 'Fifty Shades Freed' as told by Christian** ![]() E L James revisits the world of Fifty Shades with a deeper and darker take on the love story that has enthralled millions of readers around the globe. ![]() |