![]() ![]() ![]() Kate announced her departure from the Bravo series after the explosive season wrapped in February 2021 with a funny nod to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. But you know what, I have to take responsibility for that because I’m the one that behaved the way I did.”įor the bosun, that moment forced him to take a look at his behavior. “I hate the fact that everything has been spun the way it is. “I was completely drunk, I was out of my mind, I’m sorry for that,” Ashton emotionally told Kate in February 2020. I was outnumbered but also it was a very bizarre situation,” she added at the time.Īfter major backlash from fans about the men’s treatment of the women on board, Ashton apologized for his behavior during the Below Deck reunion. ![]() I don’t know what I could’ve done differently. In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies ![]()
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7/5/2023 0 Comments Jassy by Norah Lofts![]() The story follows Sir Godfrey Tallboys, a knight-errant, who is in need of a house for his pretty young wife, Lady Sybilla. Lofts was also the author of Knight’s Acre. Forces that make a sensible woman be overtaken by irrational feelings she can’t control because of the unspeakable secret kept by the women who had lived at Gad’s Hall more than a century ago. However, there is more to the house than it seems and there are supernatural forces at work. It is a godsend for the family and soon Gad’s Hall comes alive again. ![]() In Gad’s Hall, the Spender family is asked by a kindly man to help protect his ancient, beautifully kept house. If You Like Norah Lofts Books, You’ll Love… ![]() Rupert Hatton's Story / Rupert Hatton's Tales The Maude Reed Tale / Story of Maude Reed ![]() The Witches / The Little Wax Doll / The Devil's Own (As: Peter Curtis) Michael and All Angels / The Golden FleeceĪfternoon ofan Autocrat / The Devil in Clevely / The Deadly Gift Bride of Moat House / Dead March in Three Keys / No Question of Murder (As:Peter Curtis) ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Cedric villani book![]() ![]() Uncompromisingly, when it comes to scientific rigor. Strictly speaking, Théorème Vivant is a popular science book but, at the same time, it serves well as a personal journal, a memoir and a meditation about mathematical research’s dynamics and inner workings. ![]() Such are the interest and sense of waiting stirred by this truly unique figure of modern scientist and popularizer, that prominent Italian science blogger Popinga simply couldn’t wait and reviewed the French version of the book. This fact alone speaks volumes about Villani’s prestige and kudos.Īnd before I forget: he’s going to be LUCCA COMICS AND SCIENCE‘s guest of honor in 2013 ( as mathematician Roberto Natalini and yours truly proudly announced last November). Incredibly enough, and going against an established Italian tradition of wariness towards scientific books, a major publisher like Rizzoli is going to publish the book in Italy early in 2013. His book Théorème Vivant has been published last August by Grasset, with a first print-run of 30,000 and good initial sales, an impressive array of Higher Mathematics formulas and symbols notwithstanding. ![]() ![]() 2010 Fields Medal laureate Cédric Villani is a world-renowned French mathematician enjoying a media-star status in his country (where scientific culture and achievements are taken seriously). ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments The woman in cabin![]() ![]() ![]() It also felt like a not as good carbon copy of The Girl on the Train. ![]() I found I was expected to suspend my disbelief even more in The Woman in Cabin 10 and I wasn't having any of it. I enjoyed Ruth Ware's debut a lot more than this one. a brilliantly claustrophobic setting' Sunday Times 'A tense, moody drama set on a press trip that goes horribly wrong. ' Scary and unsettling, it's' edge-of-your-seat stuff' The Sun But the records show that no-one ever checked into that cabin, and no passengers are missing from the boat.Įxhausted and emotional, Lo has to face the fact that she may have made a mistake - either that, or she is now trapped on a boat with a murderer. Woken in the night by screams, Lo rushes to her window to see a body thrown overboard from the next door cabin. A luxury press launch on a boutique cruise ship.Ī chance for travel journalist Lo Blacklock to recover from a traumatic break-in that has left her on the verge of collapse. 'Reads like Agatha Christie got together with Paula Hawkins to crowdsource a really fun thriller' StylistĪ PASSENGER IS MISSING.BUT WAS SHE EVER ON BOARD AT ALL? ![]() ![]() He sometimes combined aspects of different churches to depict interiors of ideal churches, populating them with churchgoers, sometimes accompanied by a dog. After his move from Delft to Amsterdam in 1651 de Witte specialized more and more in representing church interiors, and he painted the old church in Amsterdam from almost every corner. De Witte initially painted portraits as well as mythological and religious scenes. ![]() ![]() ![]() In contrast to Pieter Jansz Saenredam, who emphasized architectural accuracy, De Witte was more concerned with the atmosphere of his interiors. 1 Home: A Short History Of An Idea by Witold RybczynskiĢ Home: A Short History Of An Idea by Witold Rybczynski Painting on book cover: “Interior with a Woman Playing the Virginals”, circa 1660, Emanuel de Witteģ Emanuel de Witte Emanuel de Witte (1617–1692) was a Dutch perspective painter. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments Lord of Ice by Gaelen Foley![]() ![]() Gaelen lives near Pittsburgh with her college-sweetheart husband, Eric, and a mischievous bichon frise called Bingley. ![]() After college, she dedicated herself completely to her artistic pursuits, spending five and a half years moonlighting as a waitress to keep her days free for writing and honing her craft. Gaelen holds a BA in English literature with a minor in philosophy and it was while studying the Romantic poets, such as Wordsworth, Byron and Keats, that she first fell in love with the Regency period in which her novels are set. Her books are available in twelve languages around the world, and have won numerous awards, including the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Historical Adventure. ![]() Gaelen Foley is the New York Times bestselling author of rich, bold historical romances set in the glittering world of Regency England and the Napoleonic Wars. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments A stitch in time lively novel![]() ![]() She kept her taxidermy private, stowed away in her mother’s cedar hope chest. “Like cooking in the Dark Ages,” she grumbled.ĭonut slipped the glass eye into the left socket. Since her aunt had arrived three weeks ago, she’d been arguing with the old stove-loading the firebox with too much wood, burning the bread and biscuits. It was making them almost as good as new that gave her the patience to undertake the tiny stitches with linen thread and curved needle.ĭonut could hear Aunt Agnes downstairs clanking the door to the woodstove, filling the teakettle. ![]() Sam had taught her how to prepare the skins and stitch them up all perfect, stuffed with cotton batting, dusted with arsenic powder to kill the lice and other vermin. It was the precise steps needed to put them back together. It wasn’t so much the mice and birds themselves that fascinated Donut. That little deer mouse would forever gaze into the pitch-black of its own empty skull. Once before she had so concentrated on the socket and the wood glue drying that she had popped the eyeball in backward. ![]() She held a number sixteen glass eye with a clamp, lining up the iris so it looked forward and to the right. In her nightclothes in the early morning light, Donut perched on the chair at the small desk in her room. ![]() ![]() ![]() His science-fiction book-writing career began in 1965 with the publication of a short-story anthology, Jad mantezji ( The Venom of Mantesia), which included stories from Młody Technik and some others that had already appeared a year earlier in another anthology. Other stories by him soon appeared in several other Polish magazines. ![]() In 1961 Młody Technik published Zajdel's science-fiction debut, the short story " Tau Ceti" (Polish: Tau Wieloryba). With his brother, he started a column in a Polish magazine for young people interested in science and engineering, Młody Technik ( Young Technician), in which they proposed various futuristic gadgets. In his spare time, he popularized science by writing science fiction. He published a number of academic works, handbooks of safety regulations, and educational texts. After graduating, he worked many years as a radiological engineer and an expert on nuclear physics at the Central Laboratory of Radiological Protection in Poland. He studied physics at the University of Warsaw. Janusz Zajdel was born 15 August 1938 in Warsaw, Poland. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Another quote: “We were in chains, even if she couldn’t see them. Nobody could succeed here, but most people around me seemed to be okay with that. We all smiled, but not much, and frowned but rarely cried. So we all walked in step, eyes ahead, and with conversations at a minimum. ![]() Here is a quote from the book: “Individuality was a weakness, a sickness of the West. The author expresses some fairly profound thoughts through Gerta – the 12-year-old who you instantly begin to admire for her pluck and courage. ![]() A good end to a tumultuous 2021 and a gentle reminder of the freedoms that many of us sometimes take for granted, until we don’t have much of it! The best part was the whole host of questions (and outrage) my kids had, especially about how a government could subject their people through such horrible conditions and totally ignore the rule of law. The story is funny, exciting and also at times, fairly dark. The book is a story set during the Cold War and it’s a story of a family that gets divided as the Wall is built between East and West Germany.Ī young girl and her brother are the key characters and they show amazing grit, resilience, and bravery in the face of some very harsh conditions in East Germany. My kids and I just read ‘A Night Divided’ by Jennifer Nielsen. ![]() ![]() ![]() Of even more interest, however, are the sundried ways in which these definitions of reality have been the basis for diverse efforts by artists, writers and poets to explicate reality by example and/or depict the futileness of attempts to do so. reality problem many, many erudite books have been written on this one aspect of reality alone. ![]() Consider also the thorny philosophical issues hinted at by definitions four and six, especially six which is a bald summation of the appearance vs. There are, nonetheless, several points of interest, not the least of which are the implications of the subtle differences between definitions two and five. By itself it seems somehow austere if not facile. The above is the definition entry for the word reality in The Random House Dictionary of the English Language. something that constitutes a real or actual thing, as distinguished from something that is merely apparent. something that exists independently of all other things and from which all other things derive. ![]() something that exists independently of ideas concerning it. ![]() |