5/30/2023 0 Comments Prose reading like a writer![]() ![]() ![]() You find yourself reaching for it for big tasks and small, and though it fails often, it feels just helpful enough that you can imagine lots of people soon coming to depend on it. Now you think of it differently - less as a dancing pony than as a workhorse. Soon, ChatGPT starts to etch a groove into your life. Over weeks and months you tinker with it, learn its capabilities and its deficiencies, imagine its possibilities for good and ill, its potential for ubiquity and for indispensability. What came first, the jock or the jockstrap?īut as the artificial intelligence chatbot easily dispatches your gimmes, you begin to take it more seriously. Tell me some vegetarian recipes with broccoli and peas. You begin with trivial, gimmicky prompts: Do this math problem. Once you start using ChatGPT you pretty much can’t stop. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments Nicholas eames the band![]() With her own adventuring band Fable at the center of the maelstrom, Rose and crew confront the aftermath of the momentous battle that concluded the previous installment of the series, including a villain whose charismatic depth matches Rose's own. The new book takes place six years after the events of the first, with the focus being on some of the compelling female characters of Eames' world - including the titular Rose, warrior and daughter of the legendary Golden Gabe from the cast of Kings. Also, the many bands of monster-slaying, treasure-snatching adventurers in Eames' novel operate - and inspire widespread worship - the same way rock bands do in our world.īloody Rose is this year's sequel to Kings of the Wyld, and it's even better than its predecessor. The author's debut novel, Kings of the Wyld, became an out-of-the-blue hit in 2016 thanks to its witty, rollicking mashup of sword-and-sorcery bombast with copious references to the real-world canon of classic rock: Everything from a town called Coverdale (as in David Coverdale, singer of Whitesnake) to a character named Moog (after the legendary inventor Bob Moog and his eponymous synthesizer). But rarely has anyone explored that overlap as effusively as Nicholas Eames. How?Įver since Led Zeppelin took it up on themselves to sing songs about hobbits, rock music and fantasy literature have had an intimate relationship. ![]() ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Bloody Rose Author Nicholas Eames ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Serie the pale horse![]() In another instance, in 1971, a serial killer, Graham Frederick Young, who had poisoned several people, three fatally, was caught thanks to this book. In 1975, Christie received a letter from a woman in Latin America who had thus saved a woman from slow poisoning by her husband and in 1977, a nurse who had been reading The Pale Horse correctly suggested that a baby in her care was suffering from thallium poisoning. This novel is notable among Christie's books as it is credited with having saved at least two lives after readers recognised the symptoms of thallium poisoning from the description in the book. The other reintroduced Christie's earlier thoughts about "Voodoo etc., White Cocks, Arsenic? Childish stuff - work on the mind and what can the law do to you? Love Potions and Death Potions, - the aphrodisiac and the cup of poison. One, a book "would start somehow with a list of names. ![]() ![]() The Pale Horse combined two ideas that Agatha Christie had been considering. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Arc of a scythe series the toll![]() "No one does doom like Neal Shusterman – the breathtakingly jagged brink of apocalypse is only overshadowed by the sense that his dystopias lie just below the surface of readers’ fragile reality. Like Hunger Games, Scythe invites readers to both turn pages quickly but also furrow their brows over the ethical questions it asks It asks enough difficult questions to stick in the mind, but it never asks them at the expense of pacing or story." Maggie Stiefvater on Scythe. In a world that’s conquered death, will humanity finally be torn asunder by the immortal beings it created Citra and Rowan have disappeared. ![]() Of Scythe: "Pretty much a perfect teen adventure novel Over the years, I've heard many books touted as the successor to Hunger Games, but Scythe is the first one that I would really, truly stand behind, as it offers teens a complementary reading experience to that series rather than a duplicate one. The Toll (Book 3 of Arc of a Scythe) Read an Excerpt In the highly anticipated finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy, dictators, prophets, and tensions rise. This title has: Educational value Great messages Great role models Too much violence 2 people found this helpful. ![]() In this pulse-pounding finale to Neal Shusterman's internationally bestselling trilogy, constitutions are tested and old friends are brought back from the dead. Although at some parts hard to read, the book really opens one’s eyes about what it means to be humans and how ever day and action must be savored. It’s been three years since Rowan and Citra disappeared since Scythe Goddard came into power since the Thunderhead closed itself off to everyone but Grayson Tolliver. ![]() The explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Arc of a Scythe series. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The ascent of money book![]() ![]() ![]() The Ascent of Money is an account of 'moolah' from the Incas to the credit crunch and, with it, an argument for the centrality of finance to all elements of human history. As Jay explains: 'A book may make more demands on its reader and, in return, the reader may expect more matter from the author.' It is not a deal on which Ferguson delivers. 'Both have their own demanding disciplines and imperatives and neither can be made successfully as an image of the other.' While TV glories in the concrete and struggles with the abstract, written history can embrace both. 'A book is a book and a television series is a set of television programmes,' wrote Peter Jay in Road to Riches. This truth was best acknowledged by a TV book on the same subject as Ferguson's series. But books and television scripts are not the same. His new work, The Ascent of Money, written 10 years later, is an altogether different beast.įrom its opening sentence - 'Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: call it what you like, money matters' - you know this is a TV tie-in. It's called The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker 1849-1998. N iall Ferguson has written a brilliant book exploring the historic nexus between money, diplomacy, warfare and globalisation. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Harry's books![]() ![]() ![]() Elsewhere in Spare, the Duke of Sussex recalled an uncomfortable afternoon meeting with William and Princess Kate after he and Meghan, 41, exchanged vows in May 2018. Harry acknowledged that the Prince of Wales, 40, apologized after the incident - but it wasn’t the only time the duo got heated. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out.” I landed on the dogs’ bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. “He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor. ![]() Early excerpts obtained by Us Weekly detailed Harry’s tense relationship with his brother, Prince William, even going so far as to recount an alleged physical fight the siblings had over Meghan Markle. Spare was already making headlines before it hit shelves on January 10. Choosing sides? Prince Harry didn’t hold back on any details in his debut memoir - but some readers aren’t so sure the bombshells should have been dropped. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The four million by o henry![]() ![]() And everyone had a story.įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. Henry felt that every person in New York was worth noticing and had their own story which is explains the title of this collection little stories of the 'Four Million.'" To O. Some society snobs has the opinion that there were only 'Four Hundred' people in New York City who were really worth noticing. The book's title refers to the then population of New York City where many of the stories are set. There are twenty five stories of various lengths including several of his best known works such as "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Cop and the Anthem". This is the second published collection of short stories by O. There are twenty five stories of various lengths including several of his best known works such as 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'The Cop and the Anthem'. The man with the surprise endings: that was O. The Four Million is the second published collection of short stories by O. Henry CONTENTS THE TRIMMED LAMP And Other Stories Of The Four Million By O. ![]() LibriVox recording of THE FOUR MILLION, by O. Henry CONTENTS THE VOICE OF THE CITY Further Stories of the Four Million By O. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments يوتوبيا by أحمد خالد توفيق![]() ![]() allows you to see the real discount by comparing the current price with the previous price, which is the correct & real discount you will be getting. ![]() ![]() Sometimes online sellers don’t do this in order to show shoppers a larger percentage drop in the product price in the offer or promotion. The real offer or promotion is when you compare the current price with the previous price. Real offers and promotions are sometimes not as advertised. To ensure you are getting a good deal, Kanbkam job is to track those price changes for shoppers, store and graph them so that the shopper can know if the product is selling now at a good price compared to it's history or not. Shopping portals change products prices frequently, sometimes every hour. is a historical price analysis portal for products selling in online shopping & eCommerce portals in the Middle East and North Africa, like Amazon AE, Amazon SA, Amazon EG, Jumia, Jarir, eXtra Stores, etc. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The buried giant kazuo![]() ![]() Some of the oddness comes from the medieval terrain: This is a novel about an elderly couple going from one village to the next, set in a semi-historical England of the sixth or perhaps seventh century, in which the Britons and the Saxons have been at bloody war. In “The Buried Giant,” his seventh and latest, he begins with clear, unhurried, unfussy language to describe the England of some 1,500 years ago, in a novel as well crafted as it is odd. Kazuo Ishiguro is a remarkable novelist, both for the quality of his work - because his novels share a careful, precise approach to language and to character - and because he does not ever write the same novel, or even the same type of novel, twice. ![]() This has left me a little shy of talking about allegory, and very shy of ever mentioning “The Pilgrim’s Progress.” Once, many years ago, a French translator decided that my novel “Stardust” was an allegory, based on and around John Bunyan’s “The Pilgrim’s Progress” (it wasn’t), and somewhat loosely translated the book with footnotes to that effect. It is a way of making our metaphors concrete, and it shades into myth in one direction, allegory in another. It is a way of talking about things that are not, and cannot be, literally true. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Wolf story by william mccleery![]() The laughing child who listen will agree, for Wolf Story simply has to last forever. "'You can kill the wolf at the very end, but this way we can have more story, ' said Michael. It is in similar improvisational exchanges that we-adults and children-learn how to love." - Commonweal Dramatist McCleery perfectly captures the irritation, affection, tricks, admiration, and sheer surprise that pass back and forth between parent and child in everyday family life. This "underground classic" finds an inventive and exasperated father telling a wolf story to end all wolf stories (so he hopes) to his inventive and demanding young son. "If you can get only one children's book this year, make it William McCleery's 1947 Wolf Story. And you can't start them too young." -Alexandra Mullen, B&N Review ![]() ![]() "For the parent faced with a child consumed with the desire to hear the same story for the zillionth time, especially if it's a story with a wolf in it, joy has come with the reprinting of William McCleery's 1947 classic Wolf Story.I've loved this book for a long time, and it's good enough for a grown-up to read in silent pleasure, but it really springs to life when it's read out loud.Laughing and crying over made-up characters we know are made up, getting a kick out of it, and coming back for more is just one of those weird things humans do. ![]() |