![]() It is an account of a person of almost no account:īartleby was one of those beings of whom nothing is ascertainable, except from the original sources, and, in his case, those are very small.īartleby is an employee his background, history, personal circumstances are not of particular interest to his employer - but even he surely expected to come to know more of Bartleby eventually. First published in book-form as part of The Piazza Talesīartleby, the Scrivener is narrated by a lawyer who comes to hire Bartleby as a copyist.General information | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. ![]() ![]() Bartleby, the Scrivener - Herman Melville ![]()
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![]() ![]() The story is presented through emails and chat logs, and this format reminded me of the interactions I used to have online during the early 2000s. This isn’t the kind of horror novel I’d recommend to my mom. I don’t want to give any more details away in case you read this, but it does get quite gross. She seems like a real idiot to be honest. Zoe, the master, gets Agnes, the slave, to do some pretty messed up stuff, and Agnes doesn’t really make things any better. It’s a kind of consensual master/slave type thing. Theirs is not a sexual relationship, and it would be a stretch to describe it as romantic. This is the story of two women who start a relationship over the internet in the early 2000s. There seemed to be a lot of hype building around this one, and my curiosity got the better of me. I saw somebody else post about the book soon thereafter. I actually clicked on the link for a closer look. I usually ignore stuff about new releases, but this cover grabbed me. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke – Eric LaRoccaĪ while back, I saw somebody tweet about this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There is a lot of debate surrounding which metrics are the best to focus on and which are poor quality indicators of future performance. While many investors like to look for momentum in stocks, this can be very tough to define. The goal is that once a stock heads down a fixed path, it will lead to timely and profitable trades. In the 'long' context, investors will be essentially be "buying high, but hoping to sell even higher." With this methodology, taking advantage of trends in a stock's price is key once a stock establishes a course, it is more than likely to continue moving that way. Momentum investing revolves around the idea of following a stock's recent trend in either direction. ![]() ![]() ![]() She even occasionally leaves the city to visit her family in the wastes, though she struggles to feel at home in either place. She works-and shamelessly flirts-with her enticing yet aloof handler, Dell, as the two women collect off-world data for the Eldridge Institute. She has a nice apartment on the lower levels of the wealthy and walled-off Wiley City. Now what once made her marginalized has finally become an unexpected source of power. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the dirt of the wastelands. On this dystopian Earth, however, Cara has survived. Cara's life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying-from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn't outrun. Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there's just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. " Gorgeous writing, mind-bending world-building, razor-sharp social commentary, and a main character who demands your attention-and your allegiance."-Rob Hart, author of The Warehouse ![]() ![]() An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens the very fabric of the multiverse in this stunning debut, a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the sometimes disingenuous attempts by practitioners of these pseudo-sciences to make the connection, all fell short of any definitive, quantifiable relationship. ![]() Moving into the science of racial superiority, Gould then identifies a series of attempts by nineteenth century scientists to correlate physical features with levels of intellect, including phrenology, crainometry, and morphology. Gould uses American icons such as Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln to illustrate how pervasive this belief was, even among those we venerate as enlightened. Gould begins his study with a narrative history of the Western European and American search for proof of the hereditarian nature of mental prowess, particularly in the United States. ![]() In The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould, prominent American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science exposes the myths behind standardized testing of human intelligence and the latent racism of its application. ![]() ![]() ![]() The tough, old-school Boston firehouse is as different from Cassie's old job as it could possibly be. But when her estranged and ailing mother asks her to give up her whole life and move to Boston, Cassie suddenly has an emergency of her own. ![]() As one of the only female firefighters in her Texas firehouse, she's seen her fair share of them, and she's a total pro at other people's tragedies. If you enjoyed 'The Kiss Quotient, ' by Helen Hoang, read Things You Save in a Fire "' - THE WASHINGTON POST From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk Away comes a stunning new novel about courage, hope, and learning to love against all odds. Another winner from Center." - BOOKLIST, STARRED REVIEW " A spirited, independent heroine meets a smoking-hot fireman in Center's smart romance. **INDIE NEXT PICK FOR AUGUST** **AN AUGUST 2019 LIBRARYREADS SELECTION** **BOOK OF THE MONTH PICK FOR JULY** **AN AMAZON EDITOR'S PICK FOR AUGUST** "Center gives readers a sharp and witty exploration of love and forgiveness that is at once insightful, entertaining, and thoroughly addictive." - KIRKUS, STARRED REVIEW "An appealing heroine, a compelling love story, a tearjerking twist, and a thoroughly absorbing story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He follows a code of ethics taught to him in childhood by his adoptive father, Harry, referred to as the " Code of Harry." It hinges on certain principles, which include: Dexter can only kill people after finding conclusive evidence that they are guilty of murder, and he must not get caught. In his spare time, he is a vigilante serial killer who targets other murderers who have evaded the justice system. In the TV series, Dexter is a forensic blood spatter analyst who works for the fictitious Miami Metro Police Department. There are eight seasons of DEXTER, which originally aired from 2006 to 2013. ![]() Its companion web series Dexter Early Cuts aired in the years 2009, 2010, and 2012. In 2006, the first novel was adapted into Showtime's original TV series DEXTER. Dexter Morgan is a fictional character and the antihero of a series of novels by Jeff Lindsay. ![]() ![]() ![]() And these individual things have since become of concern to all, and their works, like apples picked while they are green, have ripened of themselves, mellowing gradually and growing richer in meaning. Pushkin and Chekhov, right up to the end of their lives, were absorbed in the current, specific tasks imposed on them by their vocation as writers, and in the course of fulfilling these tasks they lived their lives, quietly, treating both their lives and their work as private, individual matters, of no concern to anyone else. Voskoboinikov the proofs of his little book on the land question, which. Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky looked restlessly for the meaning of life, and prepared for death and balanced accounts. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak A New Translation by Richard Pevear and. It isn’t that they didn’t think about these things, and to good effect, but to talk about such things seemed to them pretentious, presumptuous. ![]() In a burnt-out village he met Vassya Brykin, the young boy. ![]() Yury made much of his journey on foot, then completed it by train. ![]() Both are very shy, and Yury is dressed in rags. The plot of Doctor Zhivago is long and intricate. What I have come to like best in the whole of Russian literature is the childlike Russian quality of Pushkin and Chekhov, their modest reticence in such high-sounding matters as the ultimate purpose of mankind or their own salvation. Zhivago Background Summary Chapter 15: Conclusion Summary Yury appears in Moscow with a young boy. Doctor Zhivago is a novel by Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy. ![]() ![]() I chose these books because there was something special about each of them that helps me to connect to my Chinese roots and I hope that you enjoy them too, even if your ancestry isn’t Asian. And did I mention that I married a Korean?Īnd so each of us carries an immigrant story that is unique. ![]() Of course, my background is dissimilar to most Chinese immigrant stories as my mother is of Japanese descent and 2nd generation at that. a few years before the Communist Revolution - my own experience is probably similar to most second-generation immigrants in the quest to balance American culture while honoring an Asian past. Interestingly, this article says that the earliest Chinese immigrants during the 1700s were well-received and became wealthy but attitudes changed negatively during the mid-1800s when less skilled Chinese “Coolies” came during the gold rush.Īs I think about the Chinese immigrant experience - my father immigrated from China to pursue a Ph.D. There is a great one-page overview of Chinese immigration that details this history. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Chinese immigrant experience is one with a long history in America resulting in becoming the largest Asian population in America today. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's an intense, stylish, and action-packed thriller with a body count to match. ![]() Visual, visceral, and tons of fun, The Dark Side fuses hard science with brutal crime and lunar adventure. Programmed with only the notorious "Brass Code" - a compendium of corporate laws that would make Ayn Rand blush - Black has only one goal in mind: to find Purgatory and conquer it. Meanwhile, 2,000 kilometers away, an amnesiac android, Leonardo Black, rampages across the lunar surface. When an exiled cop arrives in this wild new frontier, he immediately finds himself investigating a string of ruthless assassinations in which Brass himself and his equally ambitious daughter are the chief suspects. But trouble is brewing in Brass' black-market heaven. You can't find better drugs, cheaper plastic surgery, or a more ominous travel advisory anywhere in the universe. ![]() Purgatory is the lawless moon colony of eccentric billionaire Fletcher Brass: a mecca for war criminals, murderers, sex fiends, and adventurous tourists. Each presentation is carefully designed to fit the diverse needs of his clients. Ken provides a unique mixture of side-splitting humor and inspiration that never fails to delight and enrich a wide variety of audiences. In this dark and gripping sci-fi noir, an exiled police detective arrives at a lunar penal colony just as a psychotic android begins a murderous odyssey across the far side of the moon. Ken Davis is one of the most sought-after speakers in North America. ![]() |