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Ukrainian commanders have also said that Kyiv lacks vital weapons for the new push – but there are also reasons to be sceptical. “It will happen.” But yesterday, he suggested that despite endless speculation about the timing, his country’s forces were not yet ready. “We are preparing for it,” Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in April. But it is also extremely difficult to maintain.Īfter the stalemate of winter, Ukraine has talked openly about a planned counteroffensive for months. Surprises over timing and location are the most powerful tool at Ukraine’s disposal as it attempts to regain lost territory, break Russian supply lines, and bolster western support for the long war that likely lies ahead. Ukraine’s greatest success of the war so far came when it successfully fooled Moscow into thinking its September attack would come in the south, and not in the northern Kharkiv region. My colleague Archie Bland looks at what a Ukrainian counter-offensive might mean in practice in today’s First Edition newsletter: If you are having trouble finding the link to add a new thread, try this. Please avoid all-caps, especially in thread topics, as it is considered SHOUTING. The sequel would be published in 2016 and is titled Mark of the Plague. This is the novel for which the series is named after and it is titled The Blackthorn Key. This fictional series of novels first became available to readers in 2015. They are able to edit and improve the Goodreads catalog, and have made it one of the better catalogs online.Īctivities include combining editions, fixing book and author typos, adding book covers and discussing policies. Kevin Sands is the writer and creator of the Blackthorn Key series. Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who have applied for and received librarian status on Goodreads. Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to comment or request changes to book records.įor general comments on Goodreads and for requests for changes to site functionality, try Goodreads Help or use the Contact Us link instead.įor tips on being a librarian, check out the Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. Blackthorn Key Show full title Written by Kevin Sands Narrated by Ray Panthaki 4. A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. “I wish for the thing that is best for me.” Well, as you can see we are featuring Anna and the French Kiss as our On the Same Page pick this month! Since there were so many swoony moments in Anna and the French Kiss, and because you guys know that I love quotes so much, I decided to make up some nice graphics to go along with my favorite parts. Though I found some parts to be predictable, I still loved this novel very much. I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed this book and the relationship between Anna and Etienne. Let me tell you guys my opinion of Anna and the French Kiss in a word: SWOON. You guys probably know by now that I am not a big contemporary reader…so even though I was gifted Anna and the French Kiss, and was told that I would definitely enjoy it, I will still wary to start. Related Reviews: Amy’s post on her re-read and Brittany’s post on read-alikes! Recommended For: Fans of contemporary novels, or most importantly, fans of English/French/American boys who have perfect accents and perfect hair and often use phrases like, “Yeah, that was pants.” Instead of “Rubbish. Series Information: Book one in the Anna and the French Kiss series Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Realistic Fiction Publishing Information: Decemby Dutton Juvenile I read many of the sections aloud to my own children who couldn’t wait to hear more. The quick pace and fun drawings kept the story alive. And they left his genitals so no one would mistake him for Queen Tut.” They left Tut’s heart in his body because he was going to need that to think. They didn’t take Tut’s teeth, nails, and eyeballs. “The Egyptians believed the brain’s only job was to keep the ears apart, and that the heart did all the thinking. Just think of a group of students learning about King Tut: The information was simply explained with a smidge of dry humor. If history had been taught to me in this way I might have become a history teacher. I chuckled throughout the book and had a hard time putting it down. This book is full of voice and facts presented in the most entertaining of ways. I finally, months after first being taunted by it, purchased the book. The book continued to haunt me at Scholastic Book Fairs, in class libraries, and on the Lone Star book list. I casually flipped through the book, but wasn’t able to purchase it right away. I have been told a few times that I have a “dark side” and this book spoke to me. The usually unexciting historical nonfiction side had this brightly colored book with a huge skeleton on the front. The first time I saw this book it was glaring at me at Barnes and Noble. Not the artist.įact #2 : Yet I've read my fair share of YA novels, and Lily doesn't bring anything different in the sea of female leads. The tomboy, the popular girl, absolutely. I Like You put a smile on my face and was well, cute, but I cannot hide how unmemorable it is.įact #1 : I've read all of Kasie West's books and I've never come across a female lead like Lily, which is to say, the typical quirky girl with weird self-made clothes and notebooks. Now, I'm all for rating a novel according to its genre, but where am I supposed to put Kasie West books? In YA contemporary? Sure! Then they can't - and will never - compete with the raw honesty and the avalanche of feelings I associate with some of my favorites : Please Ignore Vera Dietz, On the Jellicoe Road, Raw Blue, to name a few. I Like You to reach a 4.5/5 stars?" and in all honesty, I don't think it could, no matter how cute some parts were. Several times during my read I asked myself, "what would it take for P.S. "If only there was a way to transport letters faster, through some sort of electronic device that codes messages and sends them through the air. Armour is a Soros Justice Senior Fellow of The Open Society Institute’s Center on Crime, Communities & Culture, and he is on the Board of Directors for LEAP (Law Enforcement Action Partnership), an international 501(c)(3) non-profit of police, prosecutors, judges, corrections officials, and other law enforcement officials advocating for criminal justice reform. Ngga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law ISBN 9781940660684 1940660688 by Armour, Jody David - buy, sell or rent this book for the best. His latest free speech article is titled "Law, Language, and Politics," 22 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 1073 (2020). His latest book, N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law (Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020) looks at America’s criminal justice system – among the deadliest and most racist in the world – through deeply interdisciplinary lenses. Professor Jody Armour (Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism) calls for bold action. A widely published scholar and popular lecturer, he studies the intersection of race, law, morality, psychology, politics, ordinary language philosophy, and the performing arts. Ngga Theory interrogates conventional assumptions and frames a. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California. Delving into forgotten-and often lurid-facts of the Revolutionary War, Logan Beirne focuses on the nation’s first commander in chief, George Washington, as he shaped the very meaning of the United States Constitution in the heat of battle. Blood of Tyrants reveals the surprising details of our Founding Fathers’ approach to government and this history’s impact on today. Guided by cutting-edge science and the latest archaeological scholarship, Hancock begins his mission to discover the truth about these myths and examines the mystery at the end of the last Ice Age. In Underworld, Hancock continues his remarkable quest underwater, where, according to almost a thousand ancient myths from every part of the globe, the ruins of a lost civilization, obliterated in a universal flood, are to be found. Now he returns with an explosive new work of archaeological detection. While Graham Hancock is no stranger to stirring up heated controversy among scientific experts, his books and television documentaries have intrigued millions of people around the world and influenced many to rethink their views about the origins of human civilization. From Graham Hancock, bestselling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization that's been hidden for thousands of years beneath the world's oceans. The settings of Ancient Rome and Alexandria are realistic and very plausible. Historical figures like Mark Anthony and Pompey the Great participate in the storyline, and their temperaments also reflect Plutarch’s descriptions of their lives. Cleopatra’s analyses and observations of the political world around her, including Egypt’s alliances, are insightful and even amusing. The author chose to portray Cleopatra as an adolescent, which demonstrates her maturity and development as the years pass within the memoir. Moreover, Cleopatra’s intelligence, not her beauty, dominates her strong-willed personality and initiates her reputation as a formidable ruler in her contemporary world. However, Kristiana Gregory creates her main character according to Plutarch’s descriptions of Cleopatra VII, not popular belief.Ĭleopatra’s first-person narration describes Cleopatra to be a linguist and a scholar. Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile is a hypothetical journal by the last queen of Egypt. |