6/24/2023 0 Comments 19 days by old xian![]() ![]() I died re-reading “He was my best friend at the time.”) The way Xixi says it makes it seem as if this is way after Xixi graduated(”Oh right, where did you disappear to when I was in high school?”), maybe university. A bloody Jian Yi suddenly shows up in front of Zhan Zheng Xi.Īccording to what Xixi says in the next couple of chapters, Jian Yi disappeared on the second day of high school. ![]() Our story actually begins on chapter 42, in the present. These are either official art or little comics about what seem to be our kids in the future. We start chapters 1-54 all condensed into one file. I may be interpreting the cues incorrectly. Whether you’re new to 19 Days and are having trouble understanding it or you’ve been through the whole process of waiting in agony for the next update and have forgotten how the story is set up, here’s a helpful guide to just that. ![]()
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6/24/2023 0 Comments Dark seed by vc andrews![]() ![]() ![]() Flowers in the Attic inspired the band name for Amanda Palmer’s band the Dresden Dolls, while Gillian Flynn has said that the mother and grandmother characters begat her addiction to “wicked women”: “It felt so new and stunning to me – these witches who seemed quite real.” There have been two film adaptations and a stage play, as well as sequels, prequels and retellings penned by both Andrews and Andrew Neiderman, the ghostwriter who took on Andews’ mantle after her death. ![]() Andrews’ gothic tale of incest, poisoning and dark family secrets has sold more than 40m copies. That “deranged swill” proved irresistible. I could have stopped you if I’d really wanted to.” Somehow, the incestuous teenagers acquire a romantic tinge: can Chris and Cathy escape, and will they make it as a couple despite everything that’s against them? They end up trapped in the attic for more than three years, where poisoned doughnuts kill off one of them, and where the overheated drama somehow leads Chris to rape his sister – but it’s fine, says Cathy, “you didn’t rape me. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Black and blue parm sandhu![]() ![]() “I genuinely believe that you are not going to change organisations by standing on the outside… The only way you’re going to do that is by being the voice within.” “I like a good fight, a fair fight,” Sandhu tells i. ![]() She almost did, until a fellow Asian woman in the force offered her a moment of clarity and they made a pact to support each other in the job. It’s a wonder that Sandhu, who lives in Kent, did not hand in her badge after her experience in east London. ![]() I was a police officer for 14 years – tackling racism within the force will take decades ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He tries to make a point that the world is in transition, both economically, politically and militarily. To smooth out the transition, he recommends America to not be Britain (during its imperial rule and how it got diminished), but be Bismark, who tried to project Germany as the center of engagement in power (America has to become the pivot of world’s international system). It will just have to live with a little bit of diminished influence (political and economic) but still will wield the most power to influence global politics and economics. His main point, commonly sensed and very true, is that America’s superpower status (and ability to influence global diplomacy, economics and military power) is waning as the rest of the world rises, both economically and politically, but no country will replace America as the superpower. Zakaria, one of my favorite commentators, explores the rise of America, its declining power and the rise of the rest of the world (mostly few emerging economies like India, China, Russia, Brazil, South Korea, Japan and Turkey, among others). It is quite an interesting and easy to read book. ![]() I just finished reading Fareed Zakaria’s book The Post-American World and the Rise of the Rest. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Viking's Dawn by Henry Treece![]() ![]() It wasn’t until 1952 that Treece finally achieved something more than moderate success with his historical novel The Dark Island that marked the beginning of a remarkably prolific career. His most notable poetic works are The Black Seasons and The Haunted Garden, all published and written during the forties. Treece flirted with poetry in the early part of his writing career, publishing the single poem Conquerors and a collection under the title 38 Poems which came out in 1940, before moving more towards prose fiction later on. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Air Force and rose to the rank of Flight Lieutenant before demobbing and returning to the teaching profession. ![]() He married Mary Woodman in 1939 and settled in Barton-on-Humber for most of the rest of his life. Treece went to Birmingham University and graduated with a BA in 1933 heading straight into teaching, a career he would pursue for the next 25 years. Together with writer J F Henry he was founder of the New Apocalypse Movement that grew up in the 1930s. Though he mostly wrote prose fiction he also published five collections of poems including The Haunted Garden in 1947. One of the most prolific writers of historical fiction in the 20th Century, author and poet Henry Treece was born in 1911 in Staffordshire. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Songs of the gorilla nation![]() ![]() in primatology and now an author of seven books.” This connection begins a lifelong quest as a deep creative thinker, a discovery at age 36 of being on a spectrum of autism, and an academic path to become a Ph.D. Dawn gets a job at the zoo and begins a journey of self-discovery as she learns from Congo how to love, how to see herself in the gorillas, and ultimately in other human people. ![]() Published in 2004, the book begins with Dawn Prince “on the brink of survival as a homeless gay teenager from the wilderness of Montana, searching for connection on the streets of 1980s Seattle counterculture.” The source summarizes, “When she escapes to the zoo for the oxygen of nature, she unexpectedly makes a primal connection with Congo, a Silverback gorilla. A press release announced Pilcher is directing a film adaptation of Prince-Hughes’ memoir, “Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism.” ![]() Next, she’s bringing anthropologist, primatologist, and ethologist Dawn Prince-Hughes’ story to the screen. As a feature director, Lydia Dean Pilcher has showcased the true stories of women fighting for safer working conditions (“Radium Girls”) and serving as intelligence officers for Britain during World War II ( “A Call to Spy”). ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments White knight beyond![]() Then came years of stagnancy and lack of growth as customers organically veered away from using Air Miles, because it was harder to gain a sufficient amount of miles to redeem for decent rewards. To quickly recap what brought the bank to make the purchase, the Air Miles loyalty program had been in decline for quite some time.įirst came the news of enormous devaluations in 2021, particularly when using Air Miles for travel. The bank paid $160 million (USD) to bring the loyalty program under its purview, and the deal has now been completed. On June 1, 2023, BMO completed its acquisition of Air Miles. It looks like this story has at least another few chapters yet to be written, because the white knight known as the Bank of Montreal has completed its acquisition of Air Miles as of June 1, 2023. ![]() Through its precipitous rise to its ignominious and sad internal collapse, the brand has maintained a recognition amongst Canadians unparalleled by any other loyalty rewards program. ![]() Air Miles has a story that’s as iconic as it is dramatic. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the meantime, 14-year-old Freda runs away to London with her friend Florence, to seek their fortune as dancers on the stage, along with the hundreds of other girls their age. Where Nellie got the money to start up her business remains shrouded in mystery, but we can guess it wasn’t legal. We also have 14-year-old Kitty but she’s a pain in the neck, though it’s not really her fault. ![]() She runs five somewhat dodgy nightclubs with the help of her children – Niven, a romantic figure who fought in the Great War, the enigmatic and clever Edith, glamorous Shirley (I can’t read about Shirley without imagining someone I work with who shares her name and is about as glam as it gets), equally glamorous Betty, and budding author Ramsay. Everything about it, everyone in it and there’s even a cute terrier called Pierrot (I hope the name isn’t a spoiler but I think I need a dog called Pierrot). I adored this book more than I can even put into words. ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments At face value by emily franklin![]() A brother kills a brother, and it’s not good, and the children suffer as a result.” Beyond its atavistic appeal, the play is “written really, really well. On a video call, Ijames (whose last name rhymes with “times”) observes that one reason for Hamlet’s enduring popularity is that “it’s a primordial story at its core. The offerings were as wildly different in tone as in theme: Icke’s version played up the surveillance aspect, while Ijames’s award-winning Fat Ham jettisoned much of the tragedy, transposing the action to a backyard barbecue and wedding reception in North Carolina. Last summer, New York alone offered three fresh takes: a modern-dress version by Robert Icke at the Park Avenue Armory, an opera at the Met Opera, and a comedic, queer take by James Ijames at the Public Theater. ![]() ![]() Shakespeare’s Hamlet has long attracted a proliferation of interpretations, an ever-expanding Punnett square of possibilities. ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments Stolen focus johann hari review![]() ![]() I still read a lot of books, but with each year that passed, it felt more and more like running up a down escalator. I had just turned 40, and wherever my generation gathered, we would lament our lost capacity for concentration. Our ability to pay attention was cracking and breaking. ![]() During the decade in which Adam had become a man, this fracturing seemed to be happening to many of us. (I’ve changed his name and some minor details to preserve his privacy.) He seemed to be whirring at the speed of Snapchat, and nothing still or serious could gain any traction in his mind. ![]() He had dropped out of school when he was 15, and he spent almost all his waking hours alternating blankly between screens – a blur of YouTube, WhatsApp and porn. I never gave it another thought, until everything had gone wrong. One day, as I tucked him in, he looked at me very earnestly and asked: “Johann, will you take me to Graceland one day?” Without really thinking, I agreed. He took to singing Jailhouse Rock at the top of his voice with all the low crooning and pelvis-jiggling of the King himself. W hen he was nine years old, my godson Adam developed a brief but freakishly intense obsession with Elvis Presley. ![]() |