![]() ![]() There was a nice moment where I could fill the rest with my own interpretation but me being petty and mean didn’t like how others didn’t have the ending I would have wanted them to have. Don’t get wrong, loose ends were tied up nothing of great importance was left up in the air. She gets a do-over with Chord just because? No. I guess it was more disappointing because I expected so much from her and got little to nothing of growth in the end. Not everything is about her, other people have complicated feelings too. Watt is still great though.Rylin frustrates me the most. ![]() I would’ve liked to have seen her go back to therapy or something because she can’t be completely fine after the scare crazy super computer gave all of them. At least my girl Leda Cole came out unscathed but even then all her problems couldn’t have just gone away. I’d rather she’d travel the world first on her own and discover herself before giving in to being with one guy forever. I don’t mind Avery faking her death and running away so she could maybe one day meet up with Atlas but to make that her sole motivation made me roll my eyes. I couldn’t stand her at all and then for her to end up with the misunderstood bad boy? Nope. I’ll just place a spoiler so I can rant a bit because I can’t be bothered to summarize the book without spoiling what I hated about the ending.Dear Katharine, you can’t just make me hate Calliope then expect me to be happy she got a happy ending. ![]()
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![]() It helped me to focus less on the drinks and more on the experience and hospitality. After the Connaught I had an offer to work in New York City on Park Avenue, which was my first managing experience. I stayed five years at the Connaught, and that place and especially the team will always be deep in my heart. That’s what is magical about London, if you want to do something, you can. So I went to drop my resume there and Ago looked at me and said: “Andrea, take your coat off and jump behind the bar”…and that was it. I used to watch a lot of videos from there and my dream was to work next to Ago Perrone one day, as for our generation he is the number one Italian bartender. On my list of best bars in London, the Connaught was at the top. ![]() I started my career in London in 2011, after I gave up being a graphic designer in Italy. My parents both worked in hospitality, near the french border in Liguria and my father is still shaking drinks and making clear ice at his bar. ![]() ![]() My name is Andrea Benvegna, I’m Italian and my role here at the Mandrake is assistant bar manager. He makes two cocktails for us, one with Fino Sherry and a blend of Vermouth and the second with Vodka and a Clarified Geneper Milk. Andrea Benvegna is the assistant bar manager of Waeska Bar at the Mandrake Hotel, in London. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For him to have signed on to this, I was over the moon.” “He knows how much I love him and his artistry and his songwriting, but his voice is just so incredibly, insanely beautiful. “Moses’ version of ‘I’ll Be Seeing You’ is so f-ing heartbreaking and beautiful,” Este gushes. ![]() Her passion for the songs that influenced not only who she is as a musician but also history in general led to a robust Small Light soundtrack that features everyone from King Princess and Orville Peck putting their spin on Bing Crosby‘s “I’m Making Believe” and Angel Olsen’s rendition of Larry Clinton‘s “My Reverie” to Remi Wolf‘s take on Nat King Cole‘s “Autumn Leaves” and Moses Sumney taking on Billie Holiday‘s “I’ll Be Seeing You.” “We would listen to the The Andrews Sisters, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk - she was such an avid music lover and I’ve come from a long, long line of musicians, so I already had a foundation when it came to knowing and understanding the material.” “I’ve been listening to that music since I was a kid,” she says, noting that her great-grandmother, whom she affectionately calls “Bubby Blanche,” would play vinyl records for her as a child when she would visit her home in Palm Springs, Calif. For the soundtrack, Este was tasked with creating updated versions of classic songs from the 1930s and 1940s with her friends and fellow musicians, something that she was “super jazzed” about. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We stuck pretty much to the original ruts, in most places. On using key river valleys to find a path through what were really Oregon trails, plural, with multiple possible routes The challenges and miseries were real, but "the more arduous it became, the more stressed I was - the more exhilarated I felt," Buck tells NPR's Eric Westervelt.Ĭlick on the audio link above to hear their full conversation, including an excerpt from the book. And as he describes in his new book, The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey, what he found was a mixture of history, hardship and thrills. He and his brother Nick hitched a covered wagon to mules and set off to retrace what's left of the westward path traveled by thousands of 19th-century pioneers.īuck was leaving behind a life that had grown a bit messy - divorce, drinking, career burnout. Journalist Rinker Buck wanted to find out. Rivers, mountains, cliffs, runaway mules, cars and trucks, bad weather. ![]() Two 21st-century guys, a replica 19th-century wagon, some mules and a resolution: to re-live the Oregon Trail today. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Oregon Trail Subtitle A New American Journey Author Rinker Buck ![]() ![]() ![]() I thought this would be an interesting book similar to Carolyn Abraham’s The Juggler’s Children. It is a book about the extraordinary moment we live in-a moment in which science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover. It is the story of a woman’s urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity, a story that has been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years, years she had spent writing brilliantly, and compulsively, on themes of identity and family history. Inheritance is a book about secrets-secrets within families, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. She woke up one morning and her entire history-the life she had lived-crumbled beneath her. ![]() The author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets-a real-time In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. ![]() ![]() The whittling down of racism to sheet-wearing goons allowed a cloud of racial innocence to cover many whites who, although 'resentful of black progress' and determined to ensure that racial inequality remained untouched, could see and project themselves as the 'kind of upstanding white citizen(s)' who were 'positively outraged at the tactics of the Ku Klux Klan". First and foremost, it was conscience soothing. ![]() This simple but wickedly brilliant conceptual and linguistic shift served multiple purposes. Confronted with civil rights headlines depicting unflattering portrayals of KKK rallies and jackbooted sheriffs, white authority transformed those damning images of white supremacy into the sole definition of racism. ![]() ![]() “The second key maneuver, which flowed naturally from the first, was to redefine racism itself. ![]() ![]() ![]() Seen from several points of view on the English side, but also from the French ranks, the scene is vivid, convincing and compelling. Henry stubbornly refuses to accept defeat and, in appalling weather, leads his shrunken force to what appears to be inevitable disaster.Īzincourt culminates in the battle. The army was superb, but sickness and the unexpected French defiance at Harfleur, reduce it to near-shambolic condition. What happened at the Siege of Soissons shocked all Europe, and propels Nick back to England where he is enrolled in the archer companyof the doughty Sir John Cornwaille, a leader of Henry V's army. He finds refuge across the Channel, part of an English mercenary force protecting the town of Soissons against the French. He seems born to trouble and, when his lord orders him to London as part of a force sent to quell an expected Lollard uprising, Nick's headstrong behaviour leads to him being proscribed an outlaw. Bernard Cornwell, who has long wanted to write this story, depicts the reality behind the myths. It has always been held to be the triumph of the longbow against the armoured knight, and of the common man against the feudal aristocrat, but those are history's myths. It was fought by two badly matched armies that met in atrocious conditions on St Crispin's Day 1415, and resulted in an extraordinary victory that was celebrated in England long before Shakespeare immortalised it in Henry V. Agincourt is one of the epic battles of history. ![]() ![]() ![]() What started as an endearing story about a bunny rabbit would soon become the first ember for the illustrious series that is 'The World of Beatrix Potter', and a story which has endured retelling after retelling at bedtimes all over the world.Īge Rating: 3–12+ / Preschool - 2+ / Lexile Measure 960L ![]() The landscape that Peter Rabbit first introduced to us in 1902 is still today one of Beatrix Potter's most popular and well-loved worlds. It turned out that the real tailor's assistants were his apprentices, but in Beatrix Potter's version of the story the secret helpers are skillful little brown mice.īeatrix Potter (1866–1943) loved the countryside and spent much of her childhood drawing and studying animals. ![]() It was based on the true story of a tailor who left the unsewn pieces of a coat in his shop and found that the garment had been mysteriously finished for him in the night. Potter described 'The Tailor of Gloucester' as her own favorite among her books. "In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets-when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta-there lived a tailor in Gloucester." ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of all, I do believe in spooks, I do believe in spooks, I do believe in spooks.”įorewarning, this post will be long because I am going to briefly go over each story, so sit back and enjoy the ride! I believe that tennis balls are full of poison gas, and if you cut one in two and breathe what comes out, it’ll kill you. I believe there is an unseen world all around us. I believe that there really is a Santa Claus, and that all those red-suited guys you see at Christmastime really are his helpers. I believe that you can tear off someone’s shadow with a steel tent-pole. ![]() I believe there are alligators in the New York City sewer system, not to mention rats as big as Shetland ponies. I believe a dime can derail a freight-train. ![]() I highly recommend you check out the intro, even if for some stupid reason you don’t read the rest of the book, at least read that. It was without a doubt the best introduction to anything I have ever read. The introduction, which King titled “Myth, Belief, Faith, and Ripley’s Believe It or Not! ” was truly incredible and inspirational. The only King collection I have left to read is “Hearts In Atlantis,” which has novellas and short stories mixed in, so really “Nightmares & Dreamscapes” was the last one… and for me, it was the best one. ![]() King released this 960-page collection of 24 short stories in 1993. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lauren Layne’s New York Times bestselling Oxford Novel series can be read in any order:ĭon’t miss any of Lauren Layne’s hot reads: ![]() Not only has she become an expert at seduction, the man becoming thoroughly seduced is him. And soon Hunter realizes he has taught Brit too well. Hunter and Brit have always been careful to keep things perfectly platonic, but the fake dates and faux flirting are starting to feel like the real deal. But Brit’s request is a surprise he doesn’t see coming-and one he’s definitely not ready for. Hunter Cross has always figured there’s nothing his best friend Brit can do to surprise him. And who better to coach Brit through the art of seduction than the guy who first gave her the “let’s be friends” card? But after yet another promising suitor says they have no sparks, Brit decides it’s time to torch her dating game and try a new plan. Library Journal hails Layne’s work as “exemplary contemporary romance.”īrit Robbins knows that dating in New York City is hard-she just hoped to have it mastered by age thirty. I Knew You Were Trouble – Book 4 (review here)Ī game of seduction between two best friends goes deliciously wrong in an irresistible Oxford Novel that brims with wit and sexual tension. Where you can find I Think I Love You: Amazon | Barnes and Noble Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, Loveswept ![]() |