Check out my review on The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (not at all like the Spanish language television series) on my timeline #booksky
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Check out my review on The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (not at all like the Spanish language television series) on my timeline #booksky
This dystopian sci-fi novel mixes time travel, race, climate and gender issues with workplace ethics and romance, along with humor and trauma in 2030s(?) Britain. Will they wreck the future or save humanity or do both? I thought it was entertaining and thought-provoking.
1. Charlotte Bronte 2. William Shakespeare (if only to ascertain his true identity) 3. George Eliot
The summaries before each chapter of this survival guide to navigating national crises by themselves justify reading this book. You may not agree with everything, but pay attention when the author identifies reasons to be concerned, then tells how to act when those reasons become reality. #booksky
A First Contact saga features initial interaction with alien life with catastrophic personal and interstellar consequences. Scientific, political, and religious conjectures by the author are intriguing. Hard choices for personal and species alliance or survival make the novel a must read. #booksky
I include Parmesan cheese in mine along with the peppers, mushrooms, onions, and garlic. Do you use butter or olive oil or something else? I usually use butter.
Multiple incidents as a newspaper delivery person as a teen and a graduate student where unleashed dogs attacked me on public streets. I'm still nervous around dogs 40 years later. Perhaps people should distrust people who don't train their dogs rather than blaming people who have been traumatized.
And so a baseball fan is born. Good work, aunt!
John Rocker
Another case that exposes the "worst of the worst" lie for the bigotry it is. Congress needs to enact legislation to correct this oversight by previous legislators.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
I enjoyed this well-constructed mystery with complex characters set in a town near a campground where I was a counselor for a week each summer for years. Injustice, love, rejection, and redeeming friendships intertwine through the book, salted with sorrow and overcoming. #booksky #blackhistory
The Book of Revelation is a book about living with hope while existing in the context of a repressive government. The author had been exiled to a remote island by the government. Perhaps it should not be discarded so quickly.
Thank you. I needed to read this today
Take your mail in ballot to a post office, ask the postal worker to stamp and date for you then and give you a date-stamped receipt
This summarizes my personal agenda rather well. The recommendations would benefit every citizen who adopted them.
www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...
Not Quite Dead Yet is an intense and complex mystery. A young law school dropout who typically puts things off until "later" has less than a week to figure out who wants her dead. Almost every character is a suspect for her assault. I was borderline traumatized by the ending of the story. #booksky
Amateur hour continues?
Library Lovers Day, so I went to a nearby public library. I heard the Leavenworth, Kansas, Mayor discuss difficult negotiations with CoreCivic about re-opening a private prison to place ICE detainees. I also checked out this book that had popped up on reading challenge list. #booksky #politics
How several people with seemingly tenuous connections to Handel figured in the story of his life and in the writing or early performances of Messiah made Every Valley worthwhile for me as a former bass soloist in Messiah. This oratorio has made people's lives better since its beginning. #booksky
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...philosophy is that much of it was the work of people who, in another era, would have been relegated to an immigrant detention facility " (Charles King, Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times that Made Handel's Messiah, Vintage Books, 2024, pp71-72)
"Some of the core political philosophers of the era -Hobbes, Locke, Bayle - wrote from a position of displacement as refugiés, a term newly invented for religious and political minorities who had fled home to survive...The hidden truth of what would later count as foundational Western (see comment)
I likely would have been named Grady, Jr. but my mother disliked the name (my father was best known by the middle name that he and I shared) and she insisted on Michael. I would have been Candace if I had been a girl
Stewart tells how ill suited allies work together to build authoritarian power bases that threaten democracies. She fails to tell well how many Christians believe most in loving their neighbor. Stewart listened to both friends and foes in their own lairs; she earned the same courtesy. #booksky
According to Bob Woodward in his book Fear, before Quayle was selected, Bush's team received a phone call from Donald Trump asking to be considered for Vice-president.
I was reminded while reading a review of "Melania' that there actually is a Michelle Obama documentary: "Becoming." The review noted that they were quite different. Obviously attendance was not required nor paid for
Watch Becoming | Netflix Official Site share.google/4yRnNonH6hU1...
Pole to Pole, a seven episode National Geographic documentary series with Will Smith
Pole to Pole with Will Smith - National Geographic for everyone in everywhere share.google/dZma68ZDUy4N...
A hot Double Spice Chai, a habit that I began in Afghanistan in 2012
President Trump shared a video depicting the Obamas as apes. Cartoonists during the Civil War depicted Abraham Lincoln as a monkey. Neither justifies the other. Hopefully, this kind of action is not why some voted for Donald Trump. This Christian is appalled. #politics
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I read the print version, which I checked out from a local public library, but have no difficulty in believing that the audio version is 24 hours long. I enjoyed it enough that I hope to own my own copy some day.