![]() ![]() Snyder chronicles Putin’s successful influence in Trump’s nomination and election: “a cyberwar to destroy the United States of America.” Russian connections to Trump began in the 1990s, when Russian gangsters laundered money by buying and selling apartments in Trump Tower. Using targeted Twitter campaigns, trolls, and bots, Russia manipulated a “leave” vote in the Brexit referendum and later directed its attention to working against Emmanuel Macron in France and Angela Merkel in Germany. For Russia, the EU, which requires that its member countries are democratic and promote human rights, exists as an affront to its “native kleptocracy.” Because “Russian state power could not increase, nor Russian technology close the gap with Europe and America,” writes the author, it sought to gain “relative power” by weakening other nations. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, 2017, etc.) argues persuasively that Russia under Putin is aggressively working to destabilize Western nations and export “massive inequality” and “the displacement of policy by propaganda.” Beginning with the strenuous revival of totalitarian thought in 2011, Russia has widened its efforts to attack the EU and to infiltrate American politics by masterminding the election of Donald Trump. In a hard-hitting analysis of current events, Snyder (History/Yale Univ. ![]() ![]() How Russia’s campaign to undermine democracies threatens the European Union and the United States. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Casey Affleck stars in a film rendition of this book that recently came out and although it’s pretty spot on I think you’ll find when reading that some things just cannot translate.ġ0. Lou Ford takes to bashing around a hooker named Joyce Lakeland, who likes it a great deal and encourages him to keep coming back.ĩ. The ending will probably make you wish you were still in the thick of the narrative, which is either a sign of the novel’s excellence or an observation that ending something this strange and unconventional is not-fucking-easy.Ĩ. ![]() Jim Thompson is one of the most intriguing figures to ever write a story about a killer and-unlike most-he does it best in the first person.ħ. ![]() Lou Ford takes a lot of baths and reading this in a hot bathtub is very difficult.Ħ. The novel’s author, Jim Thompson, was known as Dimestore Dostoyevsky, which is also correct.ĥ. Stanley Kubrick called it “probably the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally warped mind I have ever encountered.” And he was correct.Ĥ. He strikes everyone in town as a moron, and somehow when he starts killing this makes it all the more irksome.ģ. Lou Ford is a small town sheriff who kills people in extremely gruesome ways (though the language chosen to describe it is subdued).Ģ. ![]() ![]() ![]() De Coucy was a French noble, but he married a daughter of Edward III of England. He died in 1397.) But he was chosen mostly because he was in the forefront of action, tied as he was to both France and England. (De Coucy was born in 1340, seven years before the Black Death began in southern Italy. To provide a central figure in her sweeping narrative, Tuchman chose the French nobleman Enguerrand de Coucy, partly because he lived a relatively long life and could therefore stay in the story during most of the 14th century. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, published in 1978, is a work by American historian Barbara Tuchman, focusing on life in 14th century Europe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “ The Score is a great addition to the series and it cements the fact that this is one of the strongest new adult series out there.” – Under the Covers Elle Kennedy has pulled off a hat trick – this third Off-Campus novel is as swoon-worthy, funny, and utterly addictive as The Deal and The Mistake.” – Wit and Sin “Like its hero, The Score should come with a warning: too sexy for words. The Score is just what we needed.” – Totally Booked Blog “Elle Kennedy just never fails to make us smile, laugh and swoon. ![]() Why are you still here? Go!” –Kaetrin, Dear Author “Just when I thought this series could not get any better, we are given another delectable installment in this witty, sexy, flawlessly written series about opposites attracting.” – Natasha Is a Book Junkie “And she scores again!! This is such a romantic read laughter, swoons, teary-moments, The Score has got it all and then some! Elle Kennedy once again delivers a fun and delightfully memorable romance” -Katy Evans, New York Times bestselling author ![]() ![]() It's also unlikely that a remake could feel like anything more than a retread of iconic moments, especially without DiMartino and Konietzko's guidance. The Last Airbender is a beloved television series, and it's doubtful that any remake could live up to the magic of the original. Related: Avatar: Why The Last Airbender Movie Cut The Kyoshi Warriors However, DiMartino and Konietzko left the show, saying that their vision for the retelling was not being supported. This greatly lessened any enthusiasm about the upcoming series, still in pre-production. Night Shyamalan's famously panned film adaptation of the series, so fans considered their involvement in Netflix's project to be a promising sign. The duo were not included in the development or production of M. The announcement that Netflix would be remaking The Last Airbender was first met with excitement, especially since the show's original creators Bryan Konietzko and DiMartino were to be heavily involved. ![]() ![]() She exposes their conflicted feelings about their love for each other as well as the exhaustion from the weight of the expectations they bear as Black teenagers. Woodfolk’s second-person free verse and rich language imbue both characters and their relationship with vivid, vulnerable life. With the day of the fire as an anchor, readers follow the girls back and forth in time and witness them becoming best friends and partners in crime, then slowly but fully-though the narrator’s partner can’t bring herself to admit it-falling in love. The narrator retraces the history of an intimate friendship with someone referred to only as “you” across the novel’s nonlinear structure, creating a portrait of a defining relationship. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Nothing Burns as Bright as You, Ashley Woodfolk ( When You Were Everything, The Beauty That Remains) plumbs the depths of female friendship, first love and the grief that often comes with navigating-and losing-both. Over the course of a single day, the fire sets off a twisting chain of events and unravels a complex relationship that flickers between best friendship and so much more. To commemorate their “dumpster fire” of a year ending, two teenage girls light a fire in their school’s garbage dumpster. ![]() ![]() “Yet again, we see why Patricia Briggs is a master storyteller. “Briggs continues to surprise and intrigue readers with Mercy's inventiveness and intuition under duress.”- Publishers Weekly “Briggs' careful and layered building of both her world and her characters is an iron-clad guarantee of an outstanding read! Fans will love this one!”-RT Book Reviews Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, must face her greatest fears in this chilling entry in the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Royals series. “The world-building is incredibly lush.A fantastic urban fantasy adventure.A wonderful world to lose oneself in as a reader.”-Fresh Fiction Patricia Briggs never fails to deliver an exciting, magic and fable-filled suspense story Erin Watt, No. “An excellent read with plenty of twists and turns.It left me wanting more.”-#1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison, on Moon Called “Mercy Thompson one of urban fantasy's best-loved heroines.”-SF Site “The best new urban fantasy series I've read in years.”-#1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong “Patricia Briggs is an incredible writer.I love hanging out with the amazing characters in this series!”-Nalini Singh, New York Times bestselling author “Patricia Briggs never fails to deliver an exciting, magic- and fable-filled suspense story.”-Erin Watt, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Royals series ![]() “I love these books.”-Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author ![]() ![]() In countries outside the US, you'll need to sign up via. ![]() Passionflix is available in over 150 countries, with subtitles available in nine languages. 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![]() ![]() They look like your standard post-apocalyptic SF, and the one on the bottom seems to advertise it’s link to the video game/movie (both are called Stalker), while the top cover makes me a bit nostalgic for the crappy bookcovers of 1980s SF. I don’t know if these copies are Russian or Polish. It was the basis of a Tarkovsky flick and a video game and you can make world parallels to Chernobyl, the Korean DMZ, and the Varosha area in Famagusta.Īnyway on to the covers–we’ll start with the non-anglophone ones since the book was first published in Russia. A thriving black market in alien artifacts exists fed by adventurers, such as Red Schuhart and others, who risk their lives exploring the Zone. The area around the Zone is thick with operatives from various multinational companies and world governments. ![]() ![]() This area’s now called the Zone, and it’s heavily guarded and contained, but deserted. These aliens are gone, but they or their technologically advanced artifacts have altered a section of the city. I was doing this last week while waiting for some other books to arrive.įor folks who haven’t read it, Roadside Picnic is an SF novel that takes place in a city after an alien visitation. I can pick it up, read a bit, at least any of the Red Schuhart sections, then put it down for months on end. The Strugatsky Brothers’ novel Roadside Picnic is one of those books I read when I can’t find anything else to read. ![]() ![]() WARNING: This book discusses sensitive issues including but not limited to, depression and suicide.Ĥ.5 Stars for the Ice King and the Snow Queen! No, Willow Taylor shouldn’t be attracted to Simon Blackwood, at all.īecause she’s a patient and he’s her doctor. And neither is she supposed to touch herself at night, imagining his powerful voice and that cold but beautiful face. She isn’t supposed to try to read his tightly leashed emotions. Willow isn’t supposed to look deep into those eyes. ![]() And whose piercing gray eyes hide secrets, and maybe linger on her face a second too long. It has nurses with mean faces and techs with permanent frowns. It’s called Heartstone Psychiatric hospital and it houses forty other patients. Willow Taylor lives in a castle with large walls and iron fences. ![]() Genres: Contemporary, Enemies to Lovers, Fiction, Forbidden, New Adult, Romance ![]() |