7/8/2023 0 Comments You suck moore![]() ![]() ![]() Moore went on to call "SWAT" the "most diverse show on CBS," saying the network was "getting a lot of flack for lack of diversity" when he was hired to front the series. I am the only African American male lead on television," he continued, before bringing up "NCIS:LA" and claiming LL Cool J "wasn't #1" on the show, Chris O'Donnell is. Did you know I am the only African American male lead on network television? Not streaming, not cable, network television. "And let me tell the truth: We're diverse. "Us and the fire show, the fire show that comes on right after us, and respect to those brothers and sisters. The last two years, we have been killing it," Moore said in his video. We're the best show on Friday nights at 8:00 for CBS. Waiting for your permission to load the Instagram Media. ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments Doomsday book connie![]() First published in 1992, Doomsday Book is set in a future in which time travel has been invented (or discovered). ![]() These thoughts were prompted by a fascinating novel by Connie Willis called Doomsday Book. I have also been thinking about the relationship between illness, mortality and the ethical dimensions of our interactions with one another. I have been thinking about the possible futures open to us - one in which, for example, COVID disappears one in which it becomes endemic but infects fewer people as more and more of us get vaccines and develop antibodies and one in which COVID is simply the first of many pandemic diseases that will appear in our lifetimes - and how our society and our world will be shaped as one of these possible futures unfolds. Published in 1992, Willis’ book has appeared in a number of editions and the Spectator is having some fun presenting them. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Tom and huckleberry finn![]() ![]() As Tom appears and disappears in the novel, Twain gives the reader an opportunity to view Tom as a victim to society, just as much as Huck. Tom also indulges in a romantic imagination that includes honor, adventure, and violence, for his educational background involves reading books with such elements. However, Twain sneaks a character like Tom Sawyer into the novel, who seems much more obedient to society’s norms, especially in reference to racism and slavery. Huck heroically battles a socially constructed conscience that tells him how to live (more specifically, how to treat someone of a different race), and he expunges this inner voice as much as possible for the sake of his friend. ![]() His growth is one of spiritual, emotional, and psychological means, and his relationship with Jim only enhances this progress. Upon first reading Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, one cannot help but view Huck as the character who undergoes the most development or change within the novel. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Smith poet life on mars![]() Life on earth was particularly bad if you grew up black in the forties in Sunflower, Alabama, north of Mobile, as Smith’s father did. ![]() Wherever we were headed, in the vast, fathomless future, it wasn’t going to be outer space: the prospect of “life on Mars” was just another relic of our dreary life on earth. David Bowie had a great, disillusioned single called “Life on Mars?” in 1973 (it inspired Smith’s title), about a girl forced to sit through the unendurable Hollywood fare of her parents’ childhoods-cavemen, cowboys, Martians, and the like. The Viking images of the planet’s surface made it look as inhabitable as cat litter. Kids who grew up in the nineteen-forties and fifties, in the grip of Mars mania, had their own kids in the seventies Smith, born in 1972 and a professor of creative writing at Princeton, was one of those kids, as was I. ![]() Smith’s new book of poetry, “Life on Mars” (Graywolf $15), recalls the mid-century craze for all things Martian. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Writings by alexander hamilton![]() ![]() ![]() December 15, Hamilton received an urgent note from his mistress: Hamilton (whose wife and children were vacationing with relatives in Albany) and Maria Reynolds saw each other regularly throughout the summer and fall of 1791-until James Reynolds returned to the scene and instantly saw the profit potential in the situation. A conversation followed, at which point Hamilton felt certain that “other than pecuniary consolation would be acceptable” to Maria Reynolds.Īnd thus began an affair that would put Alexander Hamilton at the front of a long line of American politicians forced to apologize publicly for their private behavior. ![]() When he arrived at the Reynolds home, Maria led him into an upstairs bedroom. Hamilton was eager to be of service, but, he recounted later, it was not possible at the moment of her visit, so he arranged to visit her that evening, money in hand. ![]() Hamilton, just 34, was serving as secretary of the United States treasury and was himself a New Yorker she thought he would surely be able to help her return to that city, where she could resettle among friends and relatives. Her husband, James Reynolds, had abandoned her-not that it was a significant loss, for Reynolds had grossly mistreated her before absconding. Maria Reynolds, a 23-year-old blonde, came to Hamilton’s Philadelphia residence to ask for help. In the summer of 1791, Alexander Hamilton received a visitor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Their foolish destruction of the island’s resources will resonate with contemporary readers, but she refuses to reduce these characters to symbols of modern exigencies. Donoghue works subtly in the margins, letting these three men evolve into their distinct roles. ![]() The result is a story of survival trapped in a very small space, completely cut off from the world: Room with a view. The challenges - what to eat, where to sleep - are exacerbated by Artt’s fanatical insistence that they immediately build a stone church and begin copying Bibles. The drama of this novel accumulates slowly, like the fresh water in their cistern. But Haven creates an eerie, meditative atmosphere that should resonate with anyone willing to think deeply about the blessings and costs of devoting one’s life to a transcendent cause. very few readers have been praying for a novel like this. ![]() ![]() ![]() York: 1363: people are dying in mysterious circumstances.however, there seems to be a common thread - the herbal remedies dispensed by Nicholas Wilton, Master Apothecary. ![]() Great story with engaging characters - ***** Reader review ![]() Plenty of twists and turns to keep one turning the pages - ***** Reader review This book was so good I couldnt put it down - ***** Reader reviewĪ well researched and gripping novel - ***** Reader review Perfect to settle down with!Įnthralling and evocative.Candace Robb recreates medieval York with ease-Yorkshire Evening Press Fans of Ellis Peters, S J Parris, Conn Iggulden and Bernard Cornwell will love Candace Robbs gripping and compelling murder mystery - full of suspense and tension and with a real sense of medieval York. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet his touch ignites a dawning new hunger-one that threatens to consume them both… His tales of the Brotherhood and blood frighten her. Racked by a restlessness in her body that wasn’t there before, Beth Randall is helpless against the dangerously sexy man who comes to her at night with shadows in his eyes. But when his most trusted fighter is killed-orphaning a half-breed daughter unaware of her heritage or her fate-Wrath must put down his dagger and usher the beautiful female into another world. The only purebred vampire left on the planet and the leader of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, Wrath has a score to settle with the slayers who killed his parents centuries ago. See where it all began in the first phenomenal novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series… Berkley | Mass Market Paperback, Ebook | 2014 ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Girl Mans Up by M.E. Girard![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Linda Epstein, Emerald City Literary. Girard forcefully conveys the fear Pen lives with, having experienced frequent mockery and bullying, and her courage in aspiring to a safe, loving community for herself and her friends. New friendships with Colby’s ex Olivia and a girl named Blake, who shares Pen’s love of gaming and wants to be her girlfriend, make her reconsider the meaning of respect, which her parents have always demanded. With Colby increasingly acting like “an entitled jerk,” especially toward girls, Pen confronts difficult choices about where her loyalty lies. Girl Mans Up certainly contains a narrative that was missing in contemporary LGBT YA and in literature. In this powerful debut, Girard explores questions of family, friendship, loyalty, and identity through the voice of Pen Oliveira, a 16-year old girl who’s “not into dudes,” looks and dresses like a boy, and doesn’t “get why it’s such a big deal to people, the way I am.” The second child of conservative Portuguese parents who immigrated to Ontario, Pen has long felt accepted and protected by her older brother, Johnny, and her childhood friend Colby, who treats her like one of the guys. ![]() ![]() ![]() Permission to Come Home takes Asian Americans on an empowering journey toward reclaiming their mental health. Yet despite the fact that over 18 million people of Asian descent live in the United States today - they are the racial group least likely to seek out mental health services. As Asian Americans investigate the personal and societal effects of longstanding cultural narratives suggesting they take up as little space as possible, their mental health becomes critically important. I am so very grateful that she exists.” -Steven Yeun, actor, The Walking Dead and MinariĪsian Americans are experiencing a racial reckoning regarding their identity, inspiring them to radically reconsider the cultural frameworks that enabled their assimilation into American culture. I believe that her knowledge, presence, and activism for mental health in the Asian American/Immigrant community have been invaluable and groundbreaking. Wang has been an incredible resource for Asian mental health. ![]() |