5/30/2023 0 Comments Touched elisa![]() “Didn’t I tell you that I’d bring you some seafood when I come back from vacation? These are really fresh seafood that we fished out when we went out to sea. Stone, what are these?” Elisa shook her arms a few times and said, “Gosh, they were so heavy that my arms are sore. She usually had everything handed over to her on a silver platter and never did any labor, so she felt the two big bags of shrimps and crabs were heavy.When Serenity and Jasmine saw this, they rushed forward and took the two bags of seafood from her hand.“Ms. They’re too heavy for me!” Elisa was a rich and pampered young lady. York walked away.She rushed in with a mesh bag of sea shrimps in her left hand and a similar bag of sea crabs in her right hand.“Serenity, come take them. ![]() I have to go to the washroom.”With that, she got up and walked toward the washroom while saying, “When you get old, every trip to the washroom will take at least half an hour.”Serenity and Jasmine were speechless.“Serenity, are you there?”Elisa appeared just as Old Mrs. ![]() ![]() If I try to leave, I’ll be caught red-handed.‘I need to hide.’Thus, she calmly put down her cutlery and said to Serenity and Jasmine, “I’m full now. York was anxious and wanted to slip away, but thought, ‘Wait, I can’t slip away. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments The Rebel League by Ed Willes![]() Willes has also published Gretzky to Lemieux: The Story of the 1987 Canada Cup (M&S 2007). Willes wrote on hockey for the Winnipeg Sun for eight years, freelanced out of Montreal in 1997-1998, contributed to the New York Times and thereafter started writing a sports column for The Province in Vancouver. Four of these joined the NHL as the Winnipeg Jets, Quebec Nordiques, Edmonton Oilers and Hartford Whalers. Of the 27 new hockey franchises, only six remained when the league was dissolved. Harkening back to his days as Winnipeg reporter after the blond bomber Bobby Hull had shocked the NHL by signing with the Winnipeg Jets of the rival World Hockey Association, North Vancouver's Ed Willes has published a history of the seven-year WHA entitled The Rebel League: The Short and Unruly Life of the Western Hockey Association (M&S, 2004). ![]() This all happened in the WHA, the league that led to the making of the Paul Newman movie Slap Shot. Bobby Hull lost his toupee on the ice, Mark Howe forgot he wasn't supposed to yell "Dad!" when he passed to Gordie Howe, and a bunch of Birmingham Bulls somehow found themselves buck naked in an arena concourse spoiling for a brawl. ![]() ![]() With the dawn of Perestroika, a heavily censored edition came out in 1985 and it became a huge bestseller in the Soviet Union - the first in five books that have established her as the conscience of the twentieth century. As it brings to light their most harrowing memories, this symphony of voices reveals a different side of war, a new range of feelings, smells and colours.Īfter completing the manuscript in 1983, Alexievich was not allowed to publish it because it went against the state-sanctioned history of the war. Travelling thousands of miles, she spent years interviewing hundreds of Soviet women - captains, tank drivers, snipers, pilots, nurses and doctors - who had experienced the war on the front lines, on the home front and in occupied territories. In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to write her first book, The Unwomanly Face of War, when she realized that she grew up surrounded by women who had fought in the Second World War but whose stories were absent from official narratives. "Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? Their words and feelings? A whole world is hidden from us. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'It would be hard to find a book that feels more important or original' - Viv Groskop, ObserverĮxtraordinary stories from Soviet women who fought in the Second World War - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature ![]() ![]() But it's not until her psyche brushes his in an unguarded moment that they both realise: they are anchors. With his broad, muscular frame and gunmetal grey gaze he makes a statement without saying a word. ![]() He's the kind of man who it's impossible to ignore. The next sizzling paranormal romance in Suzanne Wright's globally bestselling The Dark in You series
5/30/2023 0 Comments Locke & key vol 6 joe hill![]() ![]() the creation of a single listing category for equity shares based on a single set of listing principles and related provisions, removing the distinction between standard and premium listing.The key proposals include (by comparison to the current premium listing rules): companies that own and operate a business with assets, employees, actual or prospective revenue generation etc) currently listed in the premium and standard listing segments. The proposed changes are likely to have significant impact on existing listed companies, particularly commercial companies ( i.e. The policy proposals are intended to streamline and simplify the UK listing regime and to encourage a more diverse range of companies to list in the UK, especially companies that are at an earlier stage of their development, are highly acquisitive and/or innovative. ![]() ![]() On the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its consultation paper (CP23/10) setting out a blueprint for significant reforms of the UK listing regime for issuers of shares. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Guinness world records 2022 book![]() ![]() In New York City, the DiLusso Deli Company created a sandwich with the most layers – 60.The largest litter of puppies is 24 born to a Neopolitan mastiff in Manea, United Kingdom.Bismarck, ND holds the record for most people simultaneously making snow angels – 8,962 people.Some of the categories featured include food and drink, the human body, gaming, nature, structures, marathons, and mass participation. The book contains amazing human achievements as well as incredible animal feats. First published in 1955, an annual edition of the popular book has been published every year since. Most people are familiar with the Guinness Book of World Records. On Guinness World Records Day, potential record-breakers come together with the common goal of being a world-record titleholder. Guinness World Records Day is held annually in November to celebrate record-breaking achievements. (Last Updated On: May 16, 2022) GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS DAY ![]() ![]() ![]() Yes, I suppose you could say that we’ve been using you as guinea pigs, and I’m sure this year wasn’t very pleasant for those of you who are lactose intolerant or who simply don’t like milk. We were asked to have each of you drink a carton of milk every day, and now we’re looking forward to the annual school physicals in April to see whether your height and bone mass come in above the national averages. ![]() This year, we were designated as a model middle school for the Health Ministry’s campaign to promote dairy products. ![]() I also heard some of you wondering whether the program would be continuing next year, but I can tell you now that it won’t. Since today is the last day of the school year, we will also be marking the end of “Milk Time.” Thanks to all of you for participating. It looks like everyone is just about done. Make sure you return it to the space with your number on it and then get back to your desk. Once you finish your milk, please put the carton back in the box. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Heartstone cj sansom summary![]() ![]() Where another novelist might have kept the dreaded Bedlam off-stage, or built a whole gothic novel around its forbidding walls, Sansom takes us inside it to show us the petty internal politics as well as the unhappiness and injustice. ![]() But they do broaden the territory it wanders through. They’re not going to transform the genre either in the ideas it can contain or what kind of writing it can encompass. Sansom’s novels aren’t radical historical crime like, for example, Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, Lawrence Norfolk’s Lempriere’s Dictionary or Iain Pears’ An Instance of the Fingerpost. Luckily for us, they feel as if they’re getting broader rather than simply longer. As with many genre authors, Sansom’s books are growing as he becomes more successful. (Though no doubt Sansom will prove me wrong before long!) Instead,the hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake roved over the countryside from London to Portsmouth, trying to keep his servant Barak from being conscripted, poke around into a dubious wardship for the Queen and investigate the crime which consigned an old friend to Bedlam.Īs that summary suggests, there’s plenty going on in Heartstone. Sansom’s talent s would have been wasted if he had attached his Tudor hero to a regiment and sent him yomping off into battle – the results would have been interesting, but rather too sub-Bernard Cornwell. ![]() ![]() “SHARDLAKE GOES TO WAR” declares the cover of Heartstone, the new C.J. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Guards guards goodreads![]() ![]() Guards! Guards! is a ridiculously funny book. But it still works extremely well on me - especially in the context of Discworld and Ankh-Morpork. ![]() Vimes himself is a tired old man in his late thirties (not a contradiction) with a heavy drinking problem and a cynical, dark outlook on the world and the people he’s still technically supposed to protect.īut then a dragon shows up and to everyone’s astonishment, there is a spark of decency and captainship left in Vimes.Īll this is, of course, an old narrative archetype. Not even a shadow of its former glory, the Watch is more like dregs that somehow hadn’t managed to dissipate yet. Guards! Guards! follows Samuel Vimes, the captain of the Night Watch. ![]() Mum’s fascination with Nanny Ogg keeps being mildly disconcerting. This review was originally posted at Goodreads and imported here later on with next to no spell/grammar checking.īeing the true son of my stepfather, the City Watch is my favourite Discworld subseries, too. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett - Aimlessly Going Forward Aimlessly Going Forward ![]() ![]() In the house are duties and annoyances, servants to exhort and admonish, furniture, and meals but out there blessings crowd round me at every step-it is there that I am sorry for the unkindness in me, for those selfish thoughts that are so much worse than they feel it is there that all my sins and silliness are forgiven, there that I feel protected and at home, and every flower and weed is a friend and every tree a lover. The garden is the place I go to for refuge and shelter, not the house. It was published in 1898 and charts a year in the life of the first person narrator’s plans to create a garden on her husband’s family estate in Pomerania. ![]() (I have a small review of it here.)Įlizabeth and her German Garden was her debut novel. ![]() Fiction – Kindle edition Vintage 132 pages 2013.Įlizabeth von Arnim, the Australian-born British writer, is probably best known for her delightful novel The Enchanted April, first published in 1922, which is about a disparate group of women who holiday together in an Italian villa. ![]() |