6/26/2023 0 Comments I Hear Your Voice by Kim Young-ha![]() Kim has also penned such novels as I Have the Right to Destroy Myself, Why, Arang, Black Flower, Your Republic Is Calling You, Quiz Show and I Hear Your Voice, along with assorted essays and short stories. ![]() Kim’s novella was previously adapted by Korean director Shin-yeon Won as Memoir of a Murder-not to be confused with Bong Joon Ho’s 2003 feature Memories of Murder-a film distributed by Well Go USA Entertainment, which grossed over $19M worldwide upon its September 2017 release. Alex Bretow and Alexis Brontë will produce the new feature adaptation for Mammoth Pictures. Comedy 'Disaster Wedding', Jon Watts Producing ![]() 'Palm Springs' Director Max Barbakow Boards Warner Bros. ![]()
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6/26/2023 0 Comments A taste for love by jennifer yen![]() ![]() With college just around the corner, Liza agrees to help out at the bakery’s annual junior competition to prove to her mom that she’s more than her rebellious tendencies once and for all. Yang is the owner of Houston’s popular Yin & Yang Bakery. The one thing mother and daughter do agree on is their love of baking. Yang’s traditional values, especially when it comes to dating. ![]() Compared to her older sister Jeannie, Liza is stubborn, rebellious, and worst of all, determined to push back against all of Mrs. Smart, kind, and pretty, she dreams big and never shies away from a challenge. To her friends, high school senior Liza Yang is nearly perfect. 308) AboutĬlick to read other book reviews Synopsis Except maybe a hot guy who knows how to bake.” (pg. “Nothing makes my heart race like a guy who knows how to bake. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Hard as it gets a hard ink novel![]() ![]() ![]() Laura grew up amidst family lore involving angels, ghosts, and evil-eye curses, cementing her life-long fascination with storytelling and the supernatural. Laura's hot, heartfelt stories are all about the universal desire for a place to belong. Join Laura Kaye's Newsletter - /subscribeLauraKaye - to Receive: *New release alerts *News about contests and gi Laura Kaye is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary and erotic romance and romantic suspense, including the Hard Ink, Raven Riders, Blasphemy, Heroes, and Hearts of the Anemoi series. Laura also writes historical fiction as Laura Kamoie, and lives in Maryland with her husband and two daughters, and appreciates her view of the Chesapeake Bay every day. ![]() ![]() Laura Kaye is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary and erotic romance and romantic suspense, including the Hard Ink, Raven Riders, Blasphemy, Heroes, and Hearts of the Anemoi series. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Mary wollstonecraft godwin shelley![]() A historical woman who was a writer and philosopher should be the ideal subject for such a monument. Created by artist Maggi Hambling CBE and made of silvered bronze, it is the result of ten years’ fundraising and sits near the site of the girls’ school Mary Wollstonecraft founded at age 25 after largely educating herself.Īs of 2016, a mere 2.7% of statues in the UK depict (historical, non-royal) women, so this ought to be a step forward for equality. The statue, an objectively terrible eyesore depicting a weirdly tiny naked woman held up by a comparatively huge swirling mass of semi-formless women, has already proven rather controversial. ![]() A writer for mistakenly called it a statue of Mary Shelley, which may have started the confusion. Mary on the Green sits on Newington Green, Islington, in London. It’s happening this time largely because a statue of Mary Wollstonecraft-or rather, a statue in tribute to her-was unveiled on Tuesday, November 10. ![]() ![]() This is somewhat understandable since Wollstonecraft is Shelley’s mother, and Shelley is frequently credited as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. It’s a day ending in Y, so people are once again confusing Mary Wollstonecraft with Mary Shelley. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments The Librarian by Salley Vickers![]() ![]() Carrying echoes of Penelope Fitzgerland’s The Bookshop and Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, it’s a book about love, education and the relationship between an individual and a community. How does the library alter the young children's lives and how do the children fare as a result of the books Sylvia introduces them to? A work of fiction that also reflects Salley Vicker’s own lifelong love of literature, The Librarian brims with references to favourite novels from childhood onwards (readers will appreciate the accompanying list of all the fiction mentioned in the book). Sylvia falls in love with an older man, but it is her connection to his precocious young daughter and her neighbours' son which will change her life, putting them, her job and the library itself under threat. ![]() But the apparently pleasant town is not all it seems. ![]() Sylvia Blackwell, a young woman in her twenties, moves to East Mole, a quaint market town in middle England, to start a new job as a children's librarian. It is a hymn to the power of children’s literature.’ – The Times A charmingly subversive novel about a library in 1950s England, by the acclaimed author of The Cleaner of Chartres. Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month for November 2018 ‘ will wring the heart of anyone who fell in love with books as a child. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments The personal mba amazon![]() ![]() ![]() However, Amazon has begun exploring ways to make further improvements to Alexa’s AI since the release of ChatGPT. Alexa already benefits from the Alexa Teacher Model, which has improved the machine learning systems behind the service for several years. ![]() Amazon’s spokesperson confirmed that the underlying AI technology that will power Alexa is its own, homegrown, large language model and generative AI technology called Alexa Teacher Model.Īmazon is developing new AI models to enhance Alexa’s responses and make them more sophisticated than ChatGPT’s text-based conversations. ![]() The leaked documents focused on new entertainment features, including more conversational video search, personal recommendations, and storytelling and news reading capabilities.ĭespite laying off 2,000 Alexa employees in 2022, Amazon’s CEO, Andy Jassy, has ambitious plans to reboot the voice assistant with ChatGPT-like features. ChatGPT is an innovative chatbot developed by OpenAI that can generate human-like responses, translate languages, write creative content, and answer open-ended questions.Īmazon aims to add more entertainment features to Alexa, specifically for Prime Video search and recommendations, and to make storytelling and news reading apps more interactive. On May 2, 2023, reports surfaced that Amazon is planning to overhaul its popular voice assistant, Alexa, with more advanced generative AI features similar to those found in ChatGPT. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Pomegranates and promises![]() ![]() This is not something I should have been worrying about as my friends and I are trying to celebrate. As we are on our way to the first winery, I am trying to search for the agreement to prove the times. He asked for the agreement where it says 8 hours. On Saturday, the limo picked my friends and I up. Later that night, a pending charge of $585 was on my card. Mind you that I already confirmed with the va wine tour that day so at this time I had no idea I was dealing with a 3rd party. I told them no it was for 8 and they told me to talk to the limo tomorrow. On Friday, I received a call from a limo company confirming pick up location. ![]() ![]() In the agreement they also wanted a card number on file in case we went over, caused any damage, etc. I should have known something was wrong as they only communicated via email. I sent them a check for $499 as it was a special (thought I was getting a great deal). I made a reservation for a limo for 8 hours for my friends and I. I made the reservation back in March after it took them about three weeks to get back to me. I did not even check to think on tripadvisor until it was too late. DO NOT BOOK WITH THIS COMPANY!!! FRAUD!!! I was planning my 30th birthday celebration and was checking out this company. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While teaching the next generation of journalists, Professor Campbell helped transform the campus newspaper, the Charger Bulletin, into a website, a series of podcasts, and a weekly television news show, "The Charger Bulletin News." She’s taught at Central Connecticut State University, and she has taught writing workshops at Wesleyan University, the University of Connecticut, and the University of Hartford. Her other books include the biography Tempest-Tossed: The Spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker and Frog Hollow: Stories from an American Neighborhood, a Hartford neighborhood she describes as a springboard for generations of immigrants.Ī frequent guest host on "Where We Live," a locally produced news/talk show, she’s a regular guest on "The Colin McEnroe Show." A former communications director at the Partnership for Stronger Communities, she is a sought-after speaker and panelist on poverty, homelessness, theology, and gender issues. Her book, Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism and the American Girl, won the Connecticut Center for the Book’s Best Memoir in 2010 and was chosen as one of 15 "Must-Read Memoirs" by More magazine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These are divided into subsections that generally make reference to the analytical framework of Analysing Architecture. ![]() Each of the twenty buildings included occupies its own chapter and are bookended by a thoughtful Introduction and Endword. The trio focuses on three aspects of learning – theory ( Analysing Architecture), examples ( Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand) and practice ( Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect).Īs in his first book, Twenty Buildings… is straightforwardly structured. It is the second in a trilogy targeted at introducing readers to how to look at and learn the nature – and potential – of architecture. At a time when meaningful analyses of the built environment seems to be suffering from extreme attrition, Simon Unwin’s Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand is an informative and insightful testing of the powerful conceptual framework he put forth in his well-known Analysing Architecture. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Relationships can be difficult enough without throwing power exchange into the mix, and her books show characters who care enough about each other to fight to make the relationship work. 8 editions Please see the second edition at: Want to Read Rate it: Book 4 Safeword Quinacridone by Candace Blevins 3. Candace Blevins' Safeword series gives us romance books about characters who happen to have some extreme kinks.You can visit Candace on the web at and kinkyeverafter. Safewords Davenport and Chiffon by Candace Blevins 4.02 ![]() All books are standalone books and can be read in any order, with the exception of the two Davenport books, since Safewords: Davenport and Chiffon is a sequel to Safeword: Davenport. Each book in the Safeword series highlights a couple with a different BDSM issue to resolve. Relationships can be difficult enough without throwing power exchange into the mix, and her books show characters who care enough about each other to fight to make the relationship work. Blevins continues to deliver further bonding between the quartet with additional BDSM scenes which has the reader wincing and lusting while trying very hard not to take time out for a little alone time. Candace writes romance books about characters who happen to have some extreme kinks. When not working or driving kids all over the place she can be found reading, writing, meditating, or swimming. She lives with her husband of 15 years and their two daughters. He About the Author: Candace Blevins is a southern girl who loves to travel the world. The wedding is four months away, and Ethan has promised to train Sam to handle a planned honeymoon activity. ![]() |