At the time this appeared to be the best approach, but in retrospect opinions may chance after hearing the uncut interviews this was after all their one change to tell their story. The final version would remove much of the story and details to include as much TV and concert footage as possible. Story VS Performance - The 1993 Director’s Cut of Anthology focused primarily on the Beatles story, using performance footage only to enhance the story. Program 1 focuses on July '40 to March '63 Wallow in these Black and White beginnings - see how the forties became the fifties became the sixties and discover how becoming the Beatles became. The good Lord sent them a manager, Brian Epstein, and a producer, George Martin, and so we see how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr influenced by the power of American r'n'r and r&b used their cheek and confidence and talent to get their first Number One in Britain: Please, Please Me. Wonderful archive of yesterday's enemy seaports now united by primitive, derivative rock'n'roll - Hamburg and Liverpool, full of young men scuffling for position and rank, nobody with advantage except for real gifts and those the Beatles had aplenty: wit, music, energy, looks, personality. Britain under Hitler's bombs, boys not yet Beatles struggling for a place in the sun. This is the scarcely credible beginning of the Great Adventure, going back, back, back into a great war in a grey time that seems to belong to other beings in other worlds.
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Then it is but one vertex in crowd of geometric constellations, those forms mythologized from the view from earth since time immemorial. We move past orbital paths of Venus and Mars, and at ten to the eleventh, the solar system claims but half of our frame-for a moment. Soon the earth is lost in the sea of space, another faceless flicker. As ten to the sixth turns ten to the seventh, our Pale Blue Dot emerges unto a black canvas. Ten to the fourth and the entirety of the Great Lake takes shape the view serrated by streaking clouds. We see boats docked in lake Michigan to the east and hulking Soldier Field to the west. Another ten seconds and they conflate with the grass-ten to the second power, or 100 meters out. From ten to zero to ten to the first, the picnic-goers begin to blur. Every ten seconds, the lens expands outwards by a power of ten. The Tour-de-force demonstration of scale and relativity, Powers of Ten, runs like this: a view of a lakeside picnic on the shore of Chicago in October at a one by one meter frame. I pray that many will be led to read her book, and I will certainly recommend it to anyone that is seeking satisfying answers to these hard questions. Her confrontation of the hard questions personally encouraged and confirmed my faith in Jesus Christ and moved me to love Him even more. I so appreciate that her writing is not purely intellectual and academic though, which I thought it might be, but it is very personal, as she gives candid and frank testimony from her own personal life, as well as the personal experiences of those she knows well. She shares a vast amount of information and data to support her views, demonstrating her thorough research of each question presented in her book. The writer, Rebecca McLaughlin, is obviously very intelligent, educated, and most importantly, well versed in scripture and personally connected to Jesus. McLaughlin’s arguments cogently address 11 of the 12 hard questions, and whether you find them convincing or not I think you will agree they are well-articulated, rational, do not shy away from serious challenges by setting up straw men. This book is the best I’ve read (actually listened to) in a long time. A very thorough and fair analysis of (arguments against) Christianity within the context of the modern world. Best book I’ve read (actually listened) in a long time. Sarah is weary from cold and poverty and cannot afford to turn the position down despite understandable misgivings. She accepts a questionable assignment with a writer who documents cases of hauntings. Into this backdrop steps Sarah Piper, a lonely, nearly destitute temp agency clerk-transcriptionist. The death toll from the 1918 influenza pandemic is estimated between 50 and 100 million, the greatest natural disaster in world history. The death toll from the Great War was roughly nine million. In The Haunting of Maddy Clare, Britain is in mourning. If ever there was a time for hurt and bewildered ghosts to wander, this was it. The decades that followed the Victorian and Edwardian eras into the Interwar years were filled with mayhem and bloodshed and mustard gas and influenza. I don’t know if it’s a coincidence, but many of the ghost novels I’ve been reading lately are set in the 1920’s. James Publisher: New American Library, 330 pages Format: paperback Source: Purchased The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it's up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery-and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.Īnd with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he's got to do it all alone.Īn irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian-while taking us to places it never dreamed of going. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.Īll he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. Like The Martian and Artemis, the book has a propulsive story line and is filled with. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission-and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.Įxcept that right now, he doesn't know that. No surprise: Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir’s latest science fiction space adventure, is a bestseller. Son of a wealthy contractor, former state prosecutor, partner in a prestigious law firm, advisor to governors and mayors, Tom Capano had a soft-spoken and considerate manner that endeared him to many. "Tommy" Capano, forty-seven, was perhaps the most politically powerful man in Wilmington. On June 27, 1996, thirty-year-old Anne Marie Fahey, who was the scheduling secretary for the governor of Delaware, had dinner with a man she had been having a secret affair with for more than two years. Now, in the most complex and shocking book of her long career, she delves into the motivation that drove a seemingly successful man to kill, and she explores heretofore unknown aspects of a fatal affair between a beautiful young woman who moved confidently in the heady world of the upper echelons of government and a widely admired millionaire attorney who was an immensely popular political figure. The author of fifteen New York Times national bestsellers, Ann Rule, a former Seattle policewoman, has researched thousands of homicides and understands every facet of murder investigation. From America's most celebrated true-crime writer comes the heartbreaking real-life drama of a doomed young woman hopelessly trapped in a web of sexual intrigue, political manipulation, and emotional deception by her charming and successful-but ultimately deadly-lover. Koontz romanticizes dogs, especially these special dogs, and he writes, “It was his nature to love beyond reason.” But those of us who have dogs and have experienced that love might agree that dogs do, indeed, love us beyond reason. Kipp is bereft as he deeply loves Dorothy, who returns that love completely. We also meet Kipp, the extraordinary dog whose companion, Dorothy, is on the brink of death. He has investigated his father’s death and believes he knows the truth, which he has written in a huge report that he has not shared with his mother or anyone else. Woody has never spoken to Megan or anyone, but he reads voraciously and is exceptionally computer savvy. Her son, Woody, is autistic but high functioning. She is a widow of three years her husband was killed in an accident that wasn’t entirely plausible. And Kipp, the loyal golden, is the kind of dog every dog lover dreams of having - a dog who understands us completely and can communicate with us freely. In “Devoted,” Koontz creates a dog, and then a network of dogs who - maybe, he hints - descend from that highly intelligent dog. The Dean Koontz book that got me hooked on him was “The Watchers,” and the dog in that book, a brilliant golden retriever, thoroughly enchanted me. I define willpower as the ability to do what matters most, even when it’s difficult or when some part of you doesn’t want to. (We also asked her about the talk Why dieting doesn’t usually work.) Below, an edited transcript of the conversation. The TED Blog spoke to McGonigal this week about how willpower is often misunderstood, and what we each can do to improve it. McGonigal has, for years, taught a course called “The Science of Willpower” through Stanford’s Continuing Studies program and, in 2011, she spun it into a book, The Willpower Instinct. Perhaps you’ve just formulated the wrong resolution. This Stanford University psychologist - who shared last year how you can make stress your friend - wants you to know that you’re not having a hard time sticking to a resolution because you are a terrible person. As you are teetering on the edge of abandoning it all together, Kelly McGonigal is here to help. Photo: iStockphotoīy the second week of January, that resolution that once seemed so reasonable - go to the gym every other day, read a book a week, only drink alcohol on weekends - is starting to seem very … hard. Kelly McGonigal shares how to formulate New Year’s Resolutions that help you think beyond immediate gratification. Her goals in life are to keep moving, find her best friend, and to remain invisible. High school sophomore Alex Grabovski is cursed with a gift: the ability to see the goodness and evil in her fellow human beings in the form of halos-rings of light or darkness-that surround the body. Can the sun-dweller and the moonwalker learn that when reality is distorted by hate and terror sometimes the only thing to truly fear is fear itself? THE WAY LIFE WAS FOREVER – a YA short story from award-winning author, Carey Corp. If they can overcome their own prejudices and discover the truth about one another before time runs out. Both labeled as undesirable by their respective kinds, a fated meeting in the forbidden forest offers Lyra and Perseus an unexpected chance at happiness. The only sure survival for his people is to lock themselves into their repositories each night. Moonwalkers are horrible beasts that feed on the blood of men…at least, that is what Perseus was told. To keep their citizens safe, her colony seals itself into the vaults by day. Can overcome their own prejudices and discover the truth about one another before time runs out? *This is a YA short story from award-winning author, Carey Corp.*Sun-dwellers are fowl monsters that eat a human’s flesh from their bones…or so sixteen-year-old Lyra has always been taught. Sun-dwellers are foul monsters that eat a human’s flesh from their bones…or so sixteen-year-old Lyra has always been taught. It’s going to seem utterly wild, but to me, that was the best part. What really works for this book is if you can suspend some of your belief in how this entire plot works out. I very much found this to be worth the bookstagram hype! Soon, Finlay discovers that crime in real life is a lot more difficult than its fictional counterpart, as she becomes tangled in a real-life murder investigation.įast-paced, deliciously witty, and wholeheartedly authentic in depicting the frustrations and triumphs of motherhood in all its messiness, hilarity, and heartfelt moment, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It is the first in a brilliant new series from YA Edgar Award nominee Elle Cosimano. When Finlay is overheard discussing the plot of her new suspense novel with her agent over lunch, she’s mistaken for a contract killer, and inadvertently accepts an offer to dispose of a problem husband in order to make ends meet. She’s a stressed-out single-mom of two and struggling novelist, Finlay’s life is in chaos: the new book she promised her literary agent isn’t written, her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling her, and this morning she had to send her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head after an incident with scissors. |