![]() A subtle line of aesthetic inquiry quietly undergirds Odell’s political proclamations, suggesting the value of art in a society obsessed with social media and getting ahead. ![]() She actually wants her readers to engage more thoughtfully with technology, look at the world more mindfully, and espouse a program of environmental conservation. “The fact that the ‘nothing’ that I propose is only nothing from the point of view of capitalist productivity explains the irony that a book called How to Do Nothing is in some ways also a plan of action,” Odell writes in the introduction, boldly acknowledging her radical agenda. Reading Odell’s new book, it doesn’t take long for the writer to admit that she’s not advocating indolence at all. Last but not least, Odell’s also an avid birdwatcher. She’s written for publications including the New York Times and McSweeney’s, and she’s still promoting her book. ![]() Since 2013, she’s taught courses on internet art at Stanford University. ![]() As an artist, she’s exhibited in China, the United States, France, and Dubai. ![]() Jenny Odell, the artist who wrote the hit book How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (2019), has in fact done quite a lot. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Marrying a blue-blooded Russo means opening doors that would otherwise remain closed to her new-money parents. Vivian Lau is the perfect daughter and her family's ticket into the highest echelons of society. There's only one problem: now that he has her, he can't bring himself to let her go. Dante will do everything in his power to destroy the blackmail and their betrothal. It doesn't matter how beautiful or charming she is. ![]() The wife he never wanted, and the weakness he never saw coming. Vivian Lau, jewelry heiress and daughter of his newest enemy. He never planned to marry…until the threat of blackmail forces him into an engagement with a woman he barely knows. She was my North Star, the brightest jewel in my sky.īillionaire CEO Dante Russo thrives on control, both personally and professionally. An arranged marriage billionaire romance standalone from bestselling author Ana Huang. ![]() ![]() 1280 promises a full-length release in mid-2011, and I certainly look forward to it. Still, it’s nice to step back into the world of the vinyl EP, in the age of the digital monopoly, and five out of six ain’t bad. The only failure here comes at the end, with “Trash Cop”, an overly long combination of The Birthday Party and Read & Burn-era Wire with atrocious production. “Midget” is reminiscent of a frantic and dark Mission Of Burma. Selected by Charlie Higson for Between the Covers A classic crime novel from. “Redtube”, the strongest of these tracks, is snaky, sultry, sadistic rock, with a massive rhythm section begging for the aide of Steve Albini. ![]() “Anonymous Blonde” has the atonal skronk of early Liars, and “Data Dump” is foreboding, and deafening, gothic post-punk noise-rock. 1280 probably provide a killer live show. ![]() “Step Into The Grid” is stomping darkwave, similar to Wire’s “Snakedrill”, and suggests that Pop. The commencement interlude (entitled “Interlude”) is highly indebted to early Einsturzende Neubauten, giving a quick glimpse of the atmosphere to come. This vinyl-only 12″, The Grid EP, comes on the heels of a split 7″ with Hot Guts and contains nine tracks: six actual songs, two interludes, and an “outerlude”. It’s one of the few I regrettably have not read, but Thompson’s signature dark and sadistic novels of noir make the ![]() 1280 takes its name from a Jim Thompson book. ![]() ![]() “There are places on planet earth, where common sense doesn't apply.”īrent LeVasseur, an American science fiction author, pens his very fist children's science fiction series, Aoleon The Martian Girl, and the first book, in the series, First Contact - Aoleon The Martian Girl, traces the adventures of a regular middle-grade farm boy who accidentally meets an alien girl from Mars on his farm. Join Gilbert and Aoleon in this exciting middle-grade science fiction and fantasy adventure! ![]() This may be the adventure Gilbert always wished for. And never been eaten alive by a gigantic slor (well, almost never, unless you count Billy the fat bully at school).Īnd luckily, he has never ever confronted an evil ruler of Mars bent on conquering the Earth to steal its cows. Never trekked across a vast Martian desert. Never skyboarded across a megalopolis hidden deep inside an extinct volcano. Never met strange aliens from other worlds. Gilbert has never been attacked by swarms of giant killer robots. But they sprint to Aoléon’s saucer and escape only to be pursued by the U.S. ![]() Farmer Johnson also investigates the strange light, and thinking that Gilbert and Aoléon are vandals, he chases them. ![]() A mysterious light sweeps over the night sky and awakens Farmer Johnson and Gilbert, the boy next door.Ĭurious, Gilbert ventures out to discover the source of the light and stumbles into a beautiful Martian girl sitting in a crop circle. Crop circles magically appear in Farmer Johnson’s field. ![]() ![]() ![]() And when her parents don’t return and her life-and the life of her brother-is threatened, Alyssa has to make impossible choices if she’s going to survive. Suddenly, Alyssa’s quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation neighbors and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. Everyone’s lives have become an endless list of don’ts: don’t water the lawn, don’t fill up your pool, don’t take long showers. The drought-or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it-has been going on for a while now. When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman. “No one does doom like Neal Shusterman.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “The Shustermans challenge readers.” - School Library Journal (starred review) ![]() “The palpable desperation that pervades the plot…feels true, giving it a chilling air of inevitability.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review) ![]() “The authors do not hold back.” - Booklist (starred review) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How can they tell who the villains are? The bad guys don’t wear black hats, but they might wear white coats. When a prescription drug shortage jeopardizes the patients at Rosario Children’s Cancer Center, it not only pits Bo and Lucky against predatory opportunists, but also each other. Undercover with his hard-headed partner, Bo learns that not everything is as it seems in the world of pharmaceuticals. Using his pharmacy license for the good guys provides the sort of education he never got in school. While fighting PTSD, memories of a horrid childhood, and a prescription drug addiction, Bo is paying for his mistakes. Bo’s nice to have around, sure, but there’s none of that picking-out-china-together crap for Lucky. It’s hard to tell when Lucky doesn’t understand relationships or have a clue what any sane human is doing in his bed. The newbie he trained, former Marine Bo Schollenberger, is now his partner on (and maybe off) the job. ![]() Former drug trafficker Richmond “Lucky” Lucklighter “died” in the line of duty while working off a ten-year sentence in service to the Southeastern Narcotics Bureau, only to be reborn as Simon “Lucky” Harrison. ![]() ![]() ![]() Listeners will lap up this enticing adventure. His nasal interpretation of a corrupt conjurer named Mysterioso sounds like a slightly more dastardly version of Professor Hinkle of Frosty the Snowmanįame, and he is equally comfortable rendering young lovers' sweet nothings and the stentorian showmanship of a performer on stage. Tucci ( Big Night, Joe Gould's Secret) skillfully handles the wide array of often eccentric characters. The rest of Gold's debut novel follows the death's ramifications for Carter and those around him, while tracing the magician's own development through a series of flashbacks. Problems arise when Harding dies under strange circumstances two hours later. Set in Roaring '20s San Francisco, the story takes off when President Harding agrees to appear in the finale of a show with magician Carter the Great, going through a series of dicey illusions before emerging on stage at the end to take a bow and declare his good health. Tucci gives Gold's bewitching tale of intrigue, deception and-most important of all-magic a performance of which both author and actor should be proud. ![]() ![]() At the beginning of the trip, the family must stay in an MSF guest house while they search for more permanent housing. Delisle went with his infant son, Louis, and his wife, Nadège, an administrator for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The book recounts Guy Delisle's trip to the southeast Asian country which is officially recognized by the United Nations as Myanmar but that is referred to as Burma by countries that do not recognize the military junta that controls it. Originally written in French, the book was translated into English by Helge Dascher and published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2008. Burma Chronicles is a travelogue about Delisle's time spent in Burma with his young son, Louis, and his wife, Nadège, an administrator for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). ![]() Burma Chronicles ( French: Chroniques Birmanes) is a 2007 Canadian graphic novel written and illustrated by Guy Delisle. ![]() ![]() ![]() Heres a fragment of the XML: ![]() ![]() Rowling's monumental, spellbinding epic, 10 years in the making, is deeply rooted in traditional literature and Hollywood sagasÂfrom the Greek myths to Dickens and Tolkien to "Star Wars." And true to its roots, it ends not with modernist, "Soprano"-esque equivocation, but with good old-fashioned closure: a big-screen, heart-racing, bone-chilling confrontation and an epilogue that clearly lays out people's fates. Rowling's bestselling Harry Potter series! The New York Times - Michiko Kakutani ![]() Don't miss the seventh and final book in J.K. ![]() ![]() ![]() Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist they are all-including Leo-related to a god. What’s troubling is the curse everyone keeps talking about, and that a camper’s gone missing. Seriously, the place beats Wilderness School hands down, with its weapons training, monsters, and fine-looking girls. Do know everything about the book Well lets see. The Son of Neptune - 10 questions - 3 mins This is a quiz on 'The Son of Neptune' by Rick Riordan. It has ten questions about the characters of the series. His new cabin at Camp Half-Blood is filled with them. Heroes of Olympus - 10 questions - 3 mins This is about the book series 'Heroes of Olympus' by Rick Riordan. Now her boyfriend doesn’t recognize her, and when a freak storm and strange creatures attack during a school field trip, she, Jason, and Leo are whisked away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood. ![]() Her father has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal that he’s in terrible danger. Apparently she’s his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they’re all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids.” What he did to end up here, Jason has no idea-except that everything seems very wrong. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. ![]() |