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Reward System by Jem Calder review – Generation Zzzz | Fiction
JThese six short stories are almost a novel, intertwined by characters drifting and reconnecting like friends, living a post-college life in a big city. And this is Calder's web: adult youth and a generation simultaneously connected to…
Book review: Shreya Sen-Handley’s memoir ‘Handle With Care: Travels With My…
Handle With care: Traveling with my family (to say nothing of the dog) is a delightful and fun travelogue that celebrates the simple joys of travel, finding new experiences, and pursuing dreams in the least ostentatious and inexpensive way…
Book review: “The Gotti Wars”, by John Gleeson
Gleeson, a serious young man, was given a chance for redemption in 1992, now as a right-hand man in a Gotti retrial on charges dominated by murder and racketeering. This time, prosecutors built an airtight case, sealed with the help of a…
About A Son by David Whitehouse: book review
Book title:
About a son
Author:
David WhiteHouse
The 2015 murder of Morgan…
16 books from Polk County School Library being reviewed for age suitability
LAKELAND, Fla. (WFLA) — Members of the Polk County School Board are recommending keeping or removing certain books from school libraries. It comes after a group claimed 16 pounds could violate state laws.
None of the books at…
Review: Holly Black’s Book of Night
Holly Black's first adult novel night book follows Charlie Hall, a supposedly retired con man who tries to get by as a bartender. Living with her boyfriend Vince and younger sister Posey,…
Humanity in the red light district
These are not the kind of books I am usually asked or offered to review, but I gladly allow an exception. George Cini seems to have made it his mission to preserve in the naphthalene of the memory the saga of those that the majority of…
Book Review: Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
Photos courtesy of Harperwave
What is the defining characteristic of mothering?
According to journalist-author Angela Garbes, it is the constancy of care. In her latest book, Garbes posits that for this…
Season review: Falcons rewrite record books in 2021-22
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Summary 2021-22The Falcons had their most successful season in…
Book Review: Explore the World of Nyle DiMarco in ‘Deaf Utopia’
Recently, it seems that hearing interest in deaf culture has reached an all-time high. The Oscars recently awarded Best Picture to CODA, centered on a deaf family and their hearing child. Just last year, The sound of metal garnered…
Book review: In sobering detail, Porter Fox describes the destruction wrought by climate change
At the corner of Boyd and Fox streets in Portland, a mural depicts a classic winter landscape with the message, in large letters formed by chunks of ice: STAY POSITIVE. It was a useful, if fortuitous, warning as I came to the end of…
Book Review – The Betrayal of Anne Frank
The betrayal of Anne Frank - Throughout the 12-year period between 1933 and 1945, which saw the systematic persecution and murder of over six million European Jews at the hands of Nazi Germany known as the Holocaust, many individuals…
Book Review/’Wildfire’ – Lewiston Sun Journal
Forest Fire by Rodman Philbrick
Fires
by Rodman Philbrick
Fires is a Junior Fiction Maine Student Book Award shortlist for 2020-2021. You will see familiar town names such as Skowhegan, Baxter State Park, Wells, Bar Harbor, etc.…
Book review: “Aspects” by John Ford
Aspects by John Ford, published by MacMillan, is such a complex and brilliant piece of world creation that you are likely to read anywhere. Unfortunately, the work is also unfinished as Ford died before he finished it.!-->…
The Library of the Dead – Bundaberg Now
Title: The Library of the Dead (Edinburgh Nights #1)
Author: TL Huchu
Editor: Tor, London
Publication date: 2021
Genre: Urban Fantasy (Adult Fiction)
Platform/Format: Bolinda BorrowBox (eBook)
Critical: Peta Brown
Peta…
Books: Exploring the Evolution of Friendship on a Strange Path to Enlightenment
Breadcrumb Links Entertainment Books Victoria author David M. Wallace's 'comedy brudder' reveals serious and burning concerns David M. Wallace, with The Little Brudders of Misericorde, has written an…
Book Review: Mamata Beyond 2021
Election strategist Prashant Kishor is credited with crafting West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's strategy for the Assembly elections in the eastern state in 2021. However, his early thoughts on the engagement of Kishor to help…
Book Review: “Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality”
Roshani Chokshi delivers a brilliant fest of coming-of-age action with her latest book Pandava, Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality. In the final battle with the Sleeper, Aru and his friends must defeat the deadliest of all foes,…
Book review | Devapriya Roy’s ‘Cat People’ Is Much More Than Cats and Humans Who…
'Cat People' may be the 'light' read you're looking for, although this review focuses on stories of grief.…
Book review: ‘Androids: the team that built the Android operating system’
(Photo: Guido Coppa of Unsplash)Here's a book review of Chet Haase's "Android: The Team That Built The Android Operating System."
For those curious about how Android got started, Chet Haase's…
‘The Thicket’ highlights the ‘horrors’ of corporate greed
Horror emphasizes societal imperfections, lacks thrillCOURTESY OF AMAZON"The Thicket" is a great read if you're looking for societal commentary, but not so great if you're hoping to get really scared."The Thicket" by Noelle W. Ihli is a…
Your Show review by Ashley Hickson-Lovence – from the side of the referee who broke all the rules |…
JSure, Urgen Klopp's Liverpool may still have their say, but Manchester City look set to win a sixth Premier League title since the club was bought by the Abu Dhabi royals in 2008. 'imagine all of this making sense at the turn of the…
Book review: One writer, two very different books
With two novels published in 2021, Portland-area writer Catherynne Valente has had a productive pandemic. Both books mix sci-fi and fantasy, both are compelling reads and both are, surprisingly, more than a little biblical. Plus, the two…
“Pure Colour” by Sheila Heti Book Review and Details
About ten years ago, Sheila Heti, author of more than 10 books, including Maternity and How should a person be– decided to review the journals she had been keeping for years. Curious to know how she might have changed over time reflected…
Classically beautiful books now on display at CDPL
Have you ever chosen a book just for its beautiful cover? This month we've rounded up a range of books with exceptionally beautiful covers, spines and inside pages. You can find marbled papers,…
Book Review: The Teeth of a Slow Machine
Roff carefully constructs characters, place and context, both in often parable-like tales and across the collection considered together. It's a world much like - mostly - our own, except that all the familiar…
Sentient, by Jackie Higgins book review
Higgins likens the star-nosed mole to the experience of blind Turkish artist Esref Armagan, who only has to touch an object to be able to paint its likeness, then examines how each performs their remarkable feats."Sentient" is a fascinating…
Review: ‘A Novel Obsession’ is Seductive, Disturbing, Meta
Caitlin Barasch's first meta-novel, 'A Novel Obsession,' follows Naomi as she goes from casual internet research to plantingBy DONNA EDWARDS Associated PressMarch 18, 2022, 3:29 p.m.• 3 minute readShare on FacebookShare on TwitterEmail…
John Grindrod’s Iconicon Review – Britain Transformed | Art and design books
IIf the title makes you think these are going to be the big, bright, fun public buildings ("icons") we all got used to from the mid-1990s through the late 2000s, get ready for something. darker, much more enlightening and rather sad. As…
Book Review: Dungeons & Dragons and Critical Role Gifts: The Call of the Netherdeep
Dungeons & Dragons and Critical Role Presents: Call Of The NetherdeepHardcoverD&D accessoryWizards of the CoastRelease date: March 15, 2022
Greetings and greetings, people. I hope you also find your way out of this not-so-nice…
Book Review: Fan Fiction by Brent Spiner
Star Trek fans might consider checking out this book.
I'm a big fan of Star Trek, especially Star Trek: The Next Generation, which ran from 1987 to 1994. When it was announced that Brent Spiner, the actor who played Data, was…
BOOK REVIEW: The Fate of the Black Man
Proofreaders: YEMI ADEBISI and CELESTINE AMOKE
Title: The end and the starting point of black
The man: facts, fiction and feelings
Author: Michael A. Abiodun
Publisher: Grecian Limited
Number of pages: 169…
Islam and the Arab Revolutions – Book Review – Eurasia Review
Usaama al-Azami Islam and Arab revolutions: the ulama between democracy and autocracy (Oxford University Press, 2022) focuses on the responses of several prominent Muslim religious scholars to the popular Arab uprisings of 2011,…
Book Review: The Year the World Went Mad by Mark Woolhouse
Mark Woolhouse FRSE FMedSci OBE is Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the Usher Institute, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh PIC: Ian GeorgesonMark Woolhouse is one of Scotland's leading…
NPA slams abuse of book review by states Department of Education – The Sun Nigeria
Nigerian The Publishers Association (NPA) has expressed concern about the high cost of book reviews conducted by various state Departments of Education and some of the federal government agencies in charge of nationwide education…
The Hamilton County Schools Book Review Committee will hold a final meeting and decide on…
The Hamilton County School Board's Book Review Committee - formed to 'review content issues with reading material and explore options available to address those concerns,' according to a memorandum to the committee from…
Ben Chestnut reviews ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night’
Artwork by Sam Kerr
Ben Chestnut is the billionaire co-founder and CEO of Mailchimp. Chestnut shares his opinion on The curious incident of the dog in the night (Doubleday, 2003) by Mark Haddon, for our continuing series of…
ACLU asks Granbury ISD to apologize for deleting books
Even though the majority of the books have been put back on the shelves, the ACLU believes the district needs to both apologize and affirm its commitment to inclusivity.
GRANBURY, Texas — The American Civil Liberties…
Adventist Ministry Review Books
I have the privilege of collecting books that reuse articles from the extensive repository of Adventist Review and Adventist World. Over a period of years, several articles will appear on a related topic and bless thousands of readers…
BOOK REVIEW: “Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama” by Bob Odenkirk
Comedy Comedy Comedy Dramaa memoir by Bob Odenkirk, star of You better call Saul, is published March 1 by Random House. As its title suggests, the book details Odenkirk growing up in the comedy scene, including writing for Saturday Night…
An Italian summer review: Rebecca Serle’s latest novel is a poignant exploration of grief
Rebecca Serle has a knack for weaving magic with grief, I don't know how she manages to shock me every time but she does. One Italian Summer once again focuses on a love story that isn't romantic, as In Five Years fans may recall. Katy!-->…
Book Review: Open Strategy: Mastering Disturbances Outside General Management
We all know the world is going through turbulent times. Yet the multi-billion dollar question is how to turn these challenges into vitamins and win despite these disruptive realities? Thus, it is relevant to share actionable insights to…
Bobby Moore: The Complete Man
I've read many football-related autobiographies and biographies over the years, gaining a better understanding of the careers of some of the game's best-known faces. I remember going to a local charity shop and having bought a lot of…
Book review: The Stasi Poetry Circle, by Philip Olterman
Before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, culture in the GDR was intensively policed by the Stasi - even poetry written by its own members. Photo: Steve Eason/Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesPhilip Olterman was born…
Book Review: Ai Weiwei’s “1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows” reflects the…
Translated by Allan H Barr, 1000 years of joys and sorrows was written by Ai Weiwei to remember his father Ai Qing and in remembrance of his son Ai Lao. The memoir opens with the author reflecting on his detention by the Chinese…
Book Review of The Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalized 18th Century LondonBy Catherine…
Chudleigh, a former bridesmaid to the Princess of Wales, had by this stage achieved a secure position in society. Although she grew up of modest means, the daughter of the second son of a baronet who died when she was little, she had…
Book Review – ‘The Art of Star Wars: The Mandalorian – Season Two’ Gathers…
As I said at the beginning of my review of the excellent first volume of Abrams Books' The Art of Star Wars: The Mandalorian More than a year ago, jaw-dropping concept art created for the Disney+ live-action series has captured viewers'…
Last Call to the Nightingale by Katharine Schellman. Minotaur, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-83182-8
Catherine Schellmann. Minotaur, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-83182-8
More by and about this author…
CTech Book Review: Embracing Game Theory for R&D Strategies
Edo Yahav is Vice President R&D, General Manager Israel at SafeBreach, a cybersecurity company that simulates hacking methods. He joined CTech to share a review of "The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business…
Review: Writing Elevates Known History | Book reviews and short stories
CLAUDE PECK Star Tribune
"The Fortune Men" by Nadifa Mohamed, Alfred A. Knopf, 320 pages, $27.Mahmood Mattan was saved. Renewed, he emerges from the pages of "The…
Vintage Valentine’s Day Wishes – The New York Times
In the late 19th and early 20th century, the daily newspaper and book review were overflowing with advertisements for Valentine's Day cards.Credit...The New York TimesIn February 1904, the book review looked at some of the cards and…
‘Book of Boba Fett’ Episode 7 Review: How to Fix ‘Star Wars’ –…
With episodes essential to "The Mandalorian" but barely relevant to "Boba Fett," the spinoff proved an unworthy extension. But "the path" is already clear.
As ordered by last week's fateful showdown between Cad Bane (voiced by Corey…
‘Scythe’ Book Review: Neither Good Nor Bad
Two stars
fiction
False
Neal Schusterman
Published: 2016
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd.
Pages: 440, paperback
Neal Schusterman's "Scythe" is set in a utopian world…
BOOK REVIEW Fans of Whitney Houston will surely love this book | Deviations
This song.It always makes you want to dance with someone. It gets your feet moving and your bottom bouncing…
Book Review: Life After Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society by Firmin…
In Life after Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society, Firmin De Brabander argues that rather than seeking to protect and revive privacy in the digital age, we should instead focus on becoming engaged citizens who…
Marvin Repinski: A review of the novel, ‘The Final Case’ – Austin Daily Herald
“When you cross the waters, I will be with you. And by the rivers they will not overflow you. When you walk in the fire, you will not be burned. (The Bible - Isaiah 43:1-5)
A novel I am currently reading is a story…
Book Review: Free Love — by Tessa Hadley
(Harper)
Phyllis Fischer, who possessed an "expectant and lively prettiness", and the atmosphere, a "pregnant warm light seemed dense and suspenseful as amber,” enter together in the first pages of this tender and easy novel, the setting…
Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett | Chapter 6 | Disney+ original review
The penultimate episode of "The Book Of Boba Fett" arrived on Disney+ today and sees Boba Fett prepare for battle with the Pyke Syndicate, who are trying to take over Tatooine to sell Spice.
FRONT SPOILERS
Just like in the last…
Book Review: “Immortal Valor” | Keisertimes
Terri Schlichenmeyer leaves her review of "Immortal Valor: The Black Medal of Honor Winners of World War II" by Robert Child.
You would need this pin to enter.Put it on your chest and you will have access to an…
Why Book Ban Efforts Are Spreading in the United States
In Washington state's Mukilteo School District, the school board voted this week to withdraw "To Kill a Mockingbird" - voted the best book of the past 125 years in a reader survey conducted by The New York Times Book Review - the ninth…
Laundering of ancestral violence by the Free State
Free Statism & The Good Old IRA by Danny Morrison (Greenisland Press, £15).
I've lost count of the times I've heard people make unfavorable comparisons between the "good old IRA" and the Provisional IRA. The insistent…
Book Review: Jennifer Ryan’s The Kitchen Front Is Sweet, Cozy, So Predictable Fare
Jennifer Ryanthe last cozy novel, The front of the kitchen, has been described as "The Great British Bake Off is set during World War II". Taking its title from a daily BBC radio program created in 1940 in cooperation with the…
Book Review: Confessions of a Reluctant Long Island Medium-A Memoir and Psychic Seminar
Cindi Sansone-Braff's new book, Confessions of a Reluctant Long Island Psychic - A Memoir and Psychic Seminar, is an inspiring read. This book, by Cindi Sansone-Braff, five times voted Long Island's Best Psychic (Long…
Dennis Smith, firefighter who wrote bestsellers, dies at 81
"Please remember," Mr. Smith wrote, "that the poet, as his writings testify, was Irish first."Through the back door, he was contacted by an editor at McCall's magazine, was featured in an interview with The New Yorker, was commissioned to…
The only constant | Book Review – How to Change: The Science of Getting From Where You Are to…
Change is something we always fear and therefore prefer the status quo. It can come from rudimentary things like exercising regularly or saving for the future. Although these goals seem logical and quite simple, they are difficult to…
Four New Crime Novels – The New York Times
Stephen Hunter really enjoys writing about guns. This is the main takeaway from TARGETED (Emily Bestler/Atria, 364 pages, $28.99), Bob Lee Swagger's 12th novel. Previous volumes have painted more three-dimensional portraits of the…
Book review: ‘Run With A Mighty Heart’ highlights a dark time – Horse Racing News
Trainer Josie Carroll, jockey Daisuke Fukumoto and owner Larry Cordes pictured in 2020 with Queen's Plate and Prince of Wales Mighty Heart winner
As the COVID-19 pandemic swept…
Uncommon Courage: Book Review – Yachting Monthly
Uncommon Courage: the Yachtsmen Volunteers of World War Two is a compelling account of the bravery and selflessness of the Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve, says Peter Willis
Extraordinary Courage: The Volunteer Boaters of…
Power Book II: Ghost Season 2 Episode 7 Review: Forced Hand
Everyone LIEs, your honor.
It's just lies, lies and more lies coming out of everyone's mouths left and right. From Monet to Mecca, to Cane and Tariq, everyone lies in one way or another to protect themselves. But at some point, the lies…
Ride or die? Mark Bould and the Fast-and-Furiocene
WHAT IS JANE Austen's Novel mansfield park (1814), DC Comics Swamp Thing (1971), and the Sharknado film franchise (2013-18) have in common? According to Mark Bould's new book, The Anthropocene Unconscious: The Culture of Climate…
New in Paperback: “Made in China” and “Better Luck Next Time”
FOUR LOST CITIES: A Secret History of the Urban Age, by Annalee Newitz. (Norton, 320 pages, $17.95.) This tale traces the rise and fall of four ancient cities: Pompeii, Çatalhöyük in central Turkey, Angkor in Cambodia, and the indigenous…
Book Review: Star Wars: Jedi Artifacts: Treasures From a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars: Jedi Artifacts: Treasures from a Galaxy Far, Far Away
From keychains to a punched ship model, discover a dozen inserts inspired by the legendary Jedi Knights!
A collection of treasures centered around the galaxy's greatest…
CTech Book Review: Laying the Groundwork for a Successful Career
Dana Poleg is CMO at Five Sigma, a company that has developed an insurance claims management platform. She joined CTech to share a review of “The First 90 Days” by Michael D. Watkins.
Title: "The first 90 days"
Author: Michael D. Watkins…
Book Review: The Two Michaels and the Arrest of Meng Wanzhou
A new book tells the interweaving stories of a Chinese executive arrested in Vancouver and two Canadian men detained in China.
A Vancouver courtroom is a harmless place for the start of a battle between the United States and China,…
10 new books we recommend this week
FEELING AND KNOWLEDGE: Making Minds Conscious, by Antonio Damasio. (Pantheon, $ 26.) In his latest book, the neuroscientist expands on his ideas on the importance of feeling - which he believes can bridge the conceptual chasm between body…
Book review: Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Fake by Neal Shusterman
False
by Neal Shusterman
This is a 5 star book in my opinion. It's the first in a series and certainly deserved the award on its cover. It's kind of dystopian but not in the usual sense. Instead of things being…
Netanyahu keeps Yedioth ahead for unpublished book – report
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu has been in talks with a publishing house over the release of a new book after failing to repay the advance for previous work that had been set aside, a a newspaper article.
According to the…
Five takes from the loss of the Saints to the Dolphins
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Take one: Covid shakes up the SaintsAt the start of the game, the # 91 of the Saints made a nice blow to Tua Tagovailoa during the transfer. When I went to tweet about it, I realized I had no idea who the player was.…
CTech Book Review: Discovering the Six Principles of Persuasion
Aviv Canaani is the vice president of marketing at DataRails. He joined CTech to share his review of “Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion” by Dr. Robert B. Cialdini. Here he describes how persuasion tools relate to developers as well.…
Comic Book Review – Transformers: Beast Wars # 11
Ricky Church reviews Transformers: Beast Wars # 11…
After Beast Wars # 10 promised great conflict as Optimus Primal and his Maximals set out to fight directly against the Predacons, writer Erik Burnham continues with an action show as the…
ND Book – NetsDaily
Only one team can stand at the top of the mountain. Throughout the history of sport, the best teams are those who dominate, create intense feelings and leave lasting memories. These are the clubs you hear and recognize immediately. In…
Book Review: Don’t Judge ‘The Rule of Law’ by Heavy Title | Books
“The Rule of Law: A 4000-Year Quest to Order the World”. Fernanda Pirie. 576 pages. $ 35. Basic books.We are civilized. We live by the law. Some of us make our own "laws" to fit a specific situation, but most of us…
Chocolate and Murder Rod Mystery Tour: Book Review
Claire Barclay, a tour operator, guides her small group of guests across England to the sites of their favorite mystery books. While not included in the tour itinerary, she still somehow manages to find freshly murdered bodies on…
Spider-Man: No Way Home review (2021) – ambitious shameless comic book action
Spider-Man: No Way Home shouldn't work. Its story is convoluted, too dependent on fanservice, and essentially requires a degree in Web-Head history to fully understand. Still, its winning character dynamics, shocking story rhythms, and…
“An Industry Worth Fighting For” by Derrick Josi – Tillamook County Pioneer
EDITOR'S NOTE: Welcome new Pioneer contributor Jim Heffernan. He will contribute book reviews (the first is below - by a local author we all know - “An Industry Worth Fighting For” by Derrick Josi), commentary and editorials. Jim is a…
NDG Book Review: “I Am Possible: A Story of Survival, a Snorkel, and the Little Miracle of a…
By Terri Schlichenmeyer
Each note is an individual.
You know it, but you probably don't mean it that way. No, your ears pick up a torrent of whispering and screaming notes to create your favorite song, the one you can think of, the one you…
Book review | Peter Thiel, technology and power: New framework
Studies of tech moguls have become a staple in the biography over the past decade. Best-sellers such as Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson and Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the quest for a fantastic future by Ashlee Vance have walked a…
Book Review: Author Shows Value And Destruction Of Shared Stories | Books
"The Paradox of History: How our love of storytelling builds and destroys societies." Jonathan Gottschall. Basic books. 272 pages. $ 29. We all tell stories. Some of us tell stories to entertain and educate our children. Some tell…
Children’s holiday gift books
LITTLE WOMANThe complete novel, featuring the letters and manuscripts of the characters, written and folded by handBy Louisa May AlcottOrganized by Barbara HellerMeg, Jo, Beth and Amy may seem too modest, serious, and marriage-minded to…
Break the Internet by Olivia Yallop’s Criticism – The Anguish of Influence | Computers…
For people like me, sitting here weirdly typing in a Word document for some old, half-forgotten thing called a journal, influencers are easy to look down on. But, as I learned from Olivia Yallop's book, not only does it limit my…
Daring to Hope by Sheila Rowbotham review – at the forefront of 1970s feminism | Company…
Sheila Rowbotham, co-founder of the first women's liberation conference in Oxford in 1970, then dared to hope that revolution, if not near, was at least possible. At the end of the decade - a period of deep dislocation and dissent which…
Harley-Davidson Reference Book Book Review [Rider’s Library]
Just when you were thinking of everything that could be written about Harley-Davidson motorcycles had been written, Canadian author and custom bike builder Mitch Bergeron hits the shelves with his new homage to The!-->!-->…
Book Review: Montana Columnist Had Ireland Map On Face | Characteristics
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united states of americaUS Virgin IslandsMinor Outlying Islands of the United StatesCanadaMexico, United Mexican StatesBahamas, Commonwealth ofCuba,…
Book Review: ‘Reclamation’ Shows How Complicated It Can Be To Find Your Roots | Way of…
Sometimes you feel like a tree.Like a standing sentry, you bend with the wind but you never break. Little…
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity by John C. Lennox
Book Review - 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Mankind by John C. Lennox
by Sayantani Sanyal
November 19, 2021
The answers to some of the most critical questions about AI, humanity and religion are answered in 2084…
Season 2 has a soap opera flair
Michael Rainey Jr. as Tariq St. Patrick in Power Book II: GhostPhoto: StarzSeven years ago, viewers discovered Tariq St. Patrick (Michael Rainey Jr.), the 12-year-old son of drug lord James "Ghost" St. Patrick and his wife Tasha St.!-->!-->…
Meghan apologizes to court for forgetting about book talks
LONDON - The Duchess of Sussex has apologized for misleading a UK court over the extent of her cooperation with the authors of a sympathetic book on her and Prince Harry.
Former Meghan Markle, 40, is embroiled in a legal…
BOOK REVIEW: THE UNHEARD | The military press
By Elise Cooper | November 9, 2021
R&R
The unheard of
French Nicci
William Morrow Pub
October 26e, 2021The unheard of by Nicci!-->!-->…
Book Review: Signs and Wonders, Delia Falconer
In Signs and wonders: Dispatches from a time of beauty and loss, Delia Falconer looks for ways to describe how modern and developed societies are increasingly captivated by nature as we wipe it out. One of the nicest offerings is…
Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize for “The Promise”
When South African writer Damon Galgut learned that his novel "The Promise" was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, he was filled with anxiety. Galgut had already been shortlisted twice, in 2003 and 2010, and both times the stress of the…
Justice Department sues Penguin Random House over Simon & Schuster case
The Biden administration sued Tuesday to prevent Penguin Random House, the largest publisher in the United States, from acquiring rival Simon & Schuster, as part of a new campaign in Washington against corporate consolidation.In an…
Book Review: Coffee and Cookies with God, Volume 2
Coffee and cookies with God, volume 2Written by members of Word Weavers North AlabamaKeryso Press, 2021
Six seasoned writers - Becky Alexander, June Foster, Bonita Y. McCoy, Suzanne D. Nichols, Ginger Solomon, and Lisa Worthey Smith -…
RIC bike patrol ambush came weeks before the truce
THE poet Patrick Kavanagh saw how the essence of the Iliad was “a local row”. We now all seem to accept politics as local, but a book based on a single ambush in central Kerry in June 1921 reminds us that with war, the local is especially…
The first “Surrogate” is a mystery, a family story and quite a trick – Twin Cities
I could feel him looking at me. I didn't know where to start. While I was holding her, he had decided my turn had come, and he had taken the baby from my arms and had given it to Cally. He had touched Cally's shoulder. And I didn't like…
Henrietta Szold: The Life of a Hero – Book Review
World War II was raging in Europe and the Red Army was advancing towards Berlin, but the headlines of all Hebrew newspapers in pre-state Israel on February 14, 1945, and for several days thereafter, concerned the death of…
Book Review: As noted in “Fuzz,” furry scofflaws rarely face consequences
It was your first thought when you saw them in the field. Someone in the neighborhood just had a new horse-sized dog. Is it close to Halloween? Or there's a Sasquatch in the hood. Or maybe, like in Mary…
BOOK REVIEW: “Benedict Arnold, the fighting general: for the love of my country” | Way…
Greg Zoller, a resident of Seneca Falls, believes that Benedict Arnold "was the greatest war hero in…
The relatable “super host” opens more than the house
“Super Host,” by Kate Russo, is a fictional account of the personal life of Bennett Driscoll, a once prolific artist, forced to list his upscale London suburban home on AirBed (an Airbnb-like website). A divorced father of one child,…
Dunes Book Review | POPSUGAR Entertainment
If I had never seen the first trailers of Dune, had never fallen absolutely in love with Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya as a sci-fi power couple, had never found myself strangely intrigued by the idea of giant sand worms, I probably…
Book Review: “The Fowl Twins Get What They Deserve”
The world's smartest and bravest twin brothers are back for another hilarious, death-defying adventure in The Fowl Twins Get What They Deserve. Author Eoin Colfer dazzles fans with humor, adventure, ghosts, clones, and a supernatural…
Why Computers Can’t Think Like We Do
Book Review: The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think Like We DoThe book “The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think Like We Do” is written by Erik J. Larson. It was released on April 30, 2021.…
a fascinating natural history of Ireland
Even today, on an island as small and deeply explored as Ireland, fascinating discoveries are still occasionally made, writes Conor W. O'Brien in Life in Ireland: A Short History of a Long Time.The book takes us on a natural quest for…
Please read this insanely sad book (yes it will make you cry) (Books Before Boys review)
Content Disclaimer: This review addresses potentially plot points in a book, including death and grief.
In all honesty, as I read this book and now write this review, I am currently suffering from the worst cold I…
Book review: Deep Wheel Orcadia, by Harry Joséphine Giles
Harry Joséphine Giles PIC: Rich DysonIt is daring and experimental work. The point of the experiments is that sometimes - as with the famous Michelson-Morley experiment to prove the existence of the "luminiferous aether" - they fail; but…
Book review: Twelve Caesars, by Mary Beard
Mary Beard PIC: David Hartley / ShutterstockReader's Alert: If you're expecting this to be a series of Twelve Caesars biographies from Julius to Domitian, perhaps a Suetonius review companion, take a look at the subtitle and think again.…
Comic Book Review – Superman & Lois Lane: The 25th Wedding Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Ricky Church reviews Superman & Lois Lane: The 25th Wedding Anniversary Deluxe Edition…
Superman and Lois Lane. Rarely can one be mentioned without the other since these two figures appeared in Action comics # 1 over 80 years ago.…