![]() There is so much adventure and mystery! On the other side, it's sooooooo wordy!!! You're in the middle of an intense action/climatic scene and I feel like the intensity and build up get overtaken by the wordiness. I even love the struggles and challenges and the main story lines. I love her world (Elantra) and I love the characters. Book 2 is AMAZING! I'm in a love/hate relationship with this author. But book 2 is definitely worth working through the complicated world development of book 1. Book 1 was hard to get into at first, because the world and its many casts of people are very difficult to grasp at first. The first two books were my favorite, especially book 2. You keep feeling like "Okay, this book will be the one", but then I'm disappointed by the end and left hanging. The author basically teases you throughout the series. It's definitely addicting.but by the end of the last book I'm still hanging and holding out for some major relationship development of the heroine. ![]() I read this entire series back-to-back so I'm only going to comment on the first book's board. ![]() Addicted to the series, but leaves you hanging. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Since each of these agencies works for the interest of their home country, across history, spies have been responsible for causing wars, spreading misinformation, and murdering people for national interests. It also gives the series the perfect excuse to explain to the audience what the heck is happening.Īs Bernard tells Mason and the viewers, Citadel is a network created to counter the potentially destructive actions of other spy agencies. Mason and Nadia's amnesia allows the series to jump eight years in the future when Bernard is all left from Citadel and Manticore rules the world. ![]() ![]() In addition, to prevent Citadel secrets from falling into the wrong hands, the organization tech-genius Bernard Orlick ( Stanley Tucci) activates a special chip implanted in the agents’ brains, erasing their memories. In the opening scene of Citadel, Mason and Nadia are attacked by Manticore agents, barely escaping alive. Mason and Nadia are part of a spy organization called Citadel, which gets destroyed by the villainous Manticore after a single scene. The first two episodes of Citadel introduce the series leading stars, Richard Madden as Mason Kane and Priyanka Chopra Jonas as Nadia Sinh. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this Creative Confidence Podcast conversation, Liz and Mollie share their perspective on the role of emotions at work, outline a framework for making better decisions by tapping into our emotions, and explain how to move from emotional intelligence to emotional agility.Įmotions in context: It looks different for everyone And that begins with letting yourself feel and identifying the emotion,” says Liz. “All good things start when we acknowledge what we’re feeling. So instead of trying to suppress emotion at work, the authors say we need to know how to express emotion in a way that’s beneficial to ourselves and others. Even if it feels uncomfortable to share our emotions at work, Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy, authors of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book No Hard Feelings, argue embracing our emotions makes us better at our jobs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There's the barbecue genius murdered by his hustler partner when he wants to go vegan. There's the black military vet with a promising side hustle as a sandwich influencer killed by a mediocre white guy over a lottery ticket. But they also serve as pointillist surveys of the American economic and social landscape with an ideological tilt. The mysteries aren't dull message-of-the-week stories, and they deliver solidly on the mystery premise. One week it's a Sunbelt truck stop, the next a Southern barbecue tent, the next a divey music venue featuring has-been rockers. Poker Face similarly pays tribute to well-worn mystery tropes-in this case borrowing heavily from old-school TV detectives like Columbo-while giving the genre a contemporary, implicitly left-leaning twist.Įach week, Cale finds herself in a new locale. The series was created by Rian Johnson, who also wrote and directed the Knives Out films, both of which were satires of pathetic, ultimately worthless rich people. In Poker Face, a new mystery series on the Peacock streaming service, Natasha Lyonne plays Charlie Cale, a frazzled, good-natured weirdo who bums across the American landscape, chased by a vengeful casino owner's lackey, solving murders with her uncanny ability to flawlessly detect when someone is intentionally lying. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And now, something with wicked claws and deepwater teeth has begun to hunt at night….įeeling responsible for her neighbors, Dina decides to get involved. Under the circumstances, “normal” is a bit of a stretch for Dina. Meant to be a lodging for otherworldly visitors, the only permanent guest is a retired Galactic aristocrat who can’t leave the grounds because she’s responsible for the deaths of millions and someone might shoot her on sight. ![]() She runs a quaint Victorian Bed and Breakfast in a small Texas town, owns a Shih Tzu named Beast, and is a perfect neighbor, whose biggest problem should be what to serve her guests for breakfast.īut Dina is…different: Her broom is a deadly weapon her Inn is magic and thinks for itself. On the outside, Dina Demille is the epitome of normal. ![]() ![]() There is always the fear surrounding a long-awaited book that it simply won’t live up to its hype though any concern that this would be true of The Goldfinch was swiftly abated. And so it was that having finished The Shock of the Fall, and knowing I needed something seriously good to follow it that I began Tartt’s third novel. ![]() As expected with such a heralded author, the book was met with high critical acclaim and so I swiftly added it to my Christmas wishlist. Tartt later went on to release My Little Friend, after which there was an eleven year wait before The Goldfinch was published last year. I was to later discover it was on the BBC’s Big Reads and indeed I thoroughly enjoyed it when I finally got around to reading it, some months after my internship at Bloomsbury ended. Newly graduated, I was interning at Bloombsury when someone recommended I read her debut novel, The Secret History. I first heard of Donna Tartt many years ago. ![]() ![]() It's taken me over a decade to finish this series, despite loving the first two it took me a while to get round to obtaining a copy of the third, and then I wasn't reading much, because citalopram killed my ability to become absorbed in a narrative, and in any case I was scared to try to face the darkness of Jones's post-catastrophe near-future. It begins more or less where the fourth left off, in a near-future, post-oil England which has just been invaded and is under military occupation, and sees Ax, Fiorinda and Sage (Jones's near-future rockstar Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot) playing a complicated game, having to work with the invaders to try to prevent further loss of life and manipulate the global political civilisation to give the world the best possible chance of surviving the coming Dark Age. ![]() Rainbow Bridge is the fifth and more or less final novel in the sequence Gwyneth Jones began with Bold As Love (there is a sixth book set in the same universe, published several years later, but that appears to be a YA novel with a different main character, rather than part of the main continuity). ![]() ![]() Legacy of Earth: (#3) (Children of the Stars) As they neared success, Dan's fears grew - until. Would they find secrets that could enrich the present races? Or would they discover an ancient horror that could threaten all life? Some alien force had certainly ruined these once-great natives. But none could guess what lay within, and Dan worried as he helped to open the strong, buried doors that guarded it. With his mechanical skill to help, the scientists were about to uncover a temple or museum of the distant past. By now, Dan had become fascinated by the project. ![]() Members of that race were stunted savages now, but long before they had been a mighty, star-roving people. WHAT'S PAST IS.DEADLY? Dan McKelvey, poor relative of the powerful Saunder-McKelvey family, was stranded on a world where aliens and human archaeologists sought evidence of the past of a strange race. ![]() (WHAT'S PAST IS.DEADLY? Dan McKelvey, poor relative of t.) The Past of Forever (Children of the Stars, Book 4) ![]() ![]() ![]() In his novel Demons, Dostoevsky satirises the radicals, in particular Nechaev, whose jury trial in Moscow he followed closely. The two men struck up a close friendship and they composed the Catechism of a Revolutionary, which had a huge impact on subsequent generations of revolutionaries worldwide, including Lenin and Stalin. ![]() ![]() When the young revolutionary Sergei Nechaev escaped from the authorities in Russia he met Mikhail Bakunin in Geneva in 1869. ![]() The dramatisation is written and directed by Peter Stürm and based on the translation by the two-time PEN Prize-winning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.Ī short introduction to the evening will be followed by the performance and a lively discussion on the topics. Two actors from the SplitMoon ensemble will perform a dramatised version of the chapter The Tsarevich, which Dostoevsky developed out of Sergei Nechaev’s Catechism of a Revolutionary. Join us for a live performance in collaboration with SplitMoon Theatre company alongside their new production of Demons, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s tragic satire of Russian radicals which blurs the lines between good and evil. ![]() |