![]() ![]() Instead of: He would never forgive such betrayal.Write: Evidence shows that the current economic climate will likely lead to a recession, as evident in the fact that….Instead of: I’m completely certain that the current economic climate is definitely going to lead to a recession.Write: Proper dieting and exercise will help you lose weight.Instead of: Proper dieting and exercise could help you lose weight. ![]() ![]() Instead of: He was not telling the truth.Instead of: The cat was chased by the dog.A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.According to Strunk, students learn better through their own work and tailored instruction, as opposed to wading through large textbooks. The Elements of Style is short, precise, and to the point-keeping it with the rules of brevity and clarity it promotes. WhiteĪn essential manual which offers practical advice on improving writing skills and writing style. Notes Books Essays Work Art Me The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. ![]()
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![]() They’re shooting an episode of their show, which I can only surmise is some YouTube-esque web show that they built together. The crew is at the Cape Grace town hall, the most haunted place in the most haunted town in America. He has the least characterization in the issue, but there is still enough to go on to get excited for. And Ko is a big scaredy-cat who pretends to be there to lug the camera. But you can tell that it’s in a loving way, not a standoffish way, so you can’t help but love it. ![]() The group’s teenager adds the most comic relief with their perpetual need to put everyone else down. ![]() Gus, who seems to be Noa’s younger sibling based on their shared skin tone, similar hair, and no other reason I can conceive of for them tagging along, is a total pain in the butt. Astrid absolutely loves Noa, so even if she doesn’t necessarily believe in the whole ghosts thing, she’ll support Noa until the end anyway. Noa is headstrong, absolutely sure of her connection to ghosts and spirits, but super anxious about pretty much everything else. Right off the bat, I love every one of these characters. The new series stars Noa, Astrid, Gus, and Ko, a group of content creator ghost hunters who fancy themselves the Specter Inspectors. Specter Inspectors #1 is the first issue of a new mini-series from BOOM! Studios imprint BOOM! Box created and written by Bowen McCurdy and Kaitlyn Musto with art by McCurdy and letters by Jim Campbell. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What stood out to me in this book is how Orwell treats travel. His attention to detail brings the cities to life, the grittier side close up and an outsider's perspective on the finer parts. The book is journalistic in its approach to the concept of poverty, with the characters and locales becoming the stars of the narrative and educating Orwell and subsequently us on what life looks like on the bottom rung of the ladder. Minimum wage survival is celebrated whilst on the road but the tales of 1920s poverty that Orwell experiences and documents are truly harrowing. ![]() Memories of stuffing Tupperware filled backpacks with food from the cheap, gambling subsidised buffets during a snowboard season in Lake Tahoe when I was 19 came flooding back on reading this. How many of us have faced the slings and arrows of a dead end job in an effort to extend our stay somewhere or to ward off the looming threat of starvation?ĭown & Out In Paris & London is a deep dive into this world. For a period, the novelty of a new place and all its mysteries can sustain you but depending upon the work, this can be short lived. ![]() The romance of travel is dealt a sickening blow the moment you have to find employment. ![]() ![]() She rescues the neighbors’ Rottweiler, locked in their house, and adopts him. This novel in non-rhyming verse, quickly read, tells Maddie’s thoughts and feelings as she copes with loneliness and a host of troubles, including no power, no communication, no heat, no clean water except what she can scavenge. In the scramble to evacuate, apparently no one noticed she wasn’t evacuated too. And her dad thought she was at her mom’s house. They fled an unnamed “imminent threat.” Because of Maddie’s sleepover deception, her mother thought she was at her dad’s house. She reads the clues and listens to voicemails from her parents: roused by emergency warnings, the townspeople crowded onto buses in the middle of the night, leaving behind their pets and most of their belongings (including cell phones). ![]() Then she wakes up to a new world–one with no other people in it. ![]() But her friends cancel and she sleeps by herself at her grandparents’ otherwise empty apartment. In Alone by Megan E Freeman, twelve-year-old Maddie plans a secret sleepover with two friends featuring a smorgasbord of Twinkies and soda. ![]() ![]() What makes this graphic book such a stand-out among scores of publications on India’s political and social histories is that it resusciates Phule’s iconic - and iconoclastic - work while constantly reminding the reader how it remains such a cogent, palpable, living text even in ‘sovereign socialist secular democratic republic’ 21st century India. Phule’s weapon of choice was his 1873 publication, Gulamgiri (Slavery), a scathing attack on brahminism and Hindiusm, in which he not only attacked the codified exploitation of the ‘sudras’ and ‘atisudras’, but also called for the uplift of India’s ‘lower castes’ through education and by aligning their cause with the British. One hundred and thirty-three years before Richard Dawkins launched his frontal attack against the idea of god in his 2006 book The God Delusion, Jotirao Govindrao Phule declared war against a religious system that sanctified one class of people trampling over others deemed to be inferior. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, she’s quiet, sensible, full of remorse at not having the courage of her convictions years ago, and surrounded by a bunch of oxygen thieves. Unlike Elizabeth Bennet, arguably the public’s favourite Austen heroine, Anne is not playful or witty. Instead, she’s left to do the end-of-lease clean on the family estate, before being packed off in a pig cart to manage her hypochondriac sister. ![]() ![]() Now 27 and considered a bit of an old maid, Anne isn’t relocating to fashionable Bath with the relatives. Not only is she about to lose her home, the new tenants are related to the man whose proposal she was persuaded to reject at age 19. Of course, this brings complications of the heart for Anne Elliot (Amanda Root), the baronet’s daughter. It’s clear which group is on the up, and the baronet is forced to rent his property to the admiral to pay his debts. The film opens with a navy admiral returning triumphant from the war his arrival is juxtaposed against an angry mob gathering around the estate of a pompous, spendthrift baronet. Persuasion was Austen’s last finished novel, written when the society she so eloquently satirised was beginning to significantly change. ![]() ![]() ![]() The fury of Forsyth will burn hot enough to melt my cage.ĭukes of Peril is book 6 n the contemporary, dark romance, Royals of Forsyth U series by best-selling authors, Angel Lawson and Samantha Rue. The saga continues in book 4 of the contemporary, dark romance, Royals of Forsyth series, where the Duke’s reign will be one of Ruin, Madness and Peril. They plucked me from captivity, giving me a home and purpose, and now it’s my turn to fight for them. My Dukes have become capable warriors, but Forsyth needs more than their fists. ![]() ![]() Reading Order: Lords of Pain Lords of Wrath Lords of Mercy Dukes of Ruin Dukes of Madness Dukes of Peril Purchase Links AMAZON My Review Star Rating : 4. The ruin of obsession, the madness of love, and the peril of duty.Īnd Pretty Nick Bruin tried his hardest to steal my soul.Īs we struggle to make amends, the four of us must face the real fights occurring in Forsyth: The battle against the legacies of our fathers, the conflict for a Kingdom that’s stronger than its King, and the wars we wage within ourselves. The Dukes of Madness is book 5 in the contemporary, dark romance, Royals of Forsyth U series by best-selling authors, Angel Lawson and Samantha Rue. Dukes of Peril ePUB by Angel Lawson, Samantha Rue ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The popular television adaptation of A Discovery of Witches, starring Teresa Palmer and Matthew Goode, was released in 2019 by Sky/Sundance Now, and also broadcast on AMC. ![]() The All Souls series has been translated in thirty-eight languages. The first book in Harkness’s beloved All Souls series, A Discovery of Witches, was an instant New York Times bestseller and the series has since expanded with the addition of subsequent NYT bestsellers, Shadow of Night (2012), The Book of Life (2014), and Time’s Convert (2018), as well as the companion reader, The World of All Souls. Deborah Harkness is a #1 New York Times bestselling author who draws on her expertise as an historian of science, medicine, and the history of the book to create rich narratives steeped in magical realism, historical curiosity, and deeply human questions about what it is that makes us who we are. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The third edition of this timeless guide to the ethics of relationships, communication, and sex has been revised to include: Sprinkle’s Spectacular Sexįor 20 years The Ethical Slut-widely known as the “Poly Bible”-has dispelled myths and showed curious readers how to maintain a successful polyamorous lifestyle through open communication, emotional honesty, and safer sex practices. ![]() It’s chock-full of great information about communication, jealousy, asking for what you want, and maintaining a relationship with integrity.”-Annie Sprinkle, PhD, sexologist and author of Dr. “One of the most useful relationship books you could ever read, no matter what your lifestyle choices. The classic guide to love, sex, and intimacy beyond the limits of conventional monogamy has been fully updated to reflect today’s modern attitudes and the latest information on nontraditional relationships. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the island of Curaçao, a visiting Soviet chess champion whispers state secrets to an American acquaintance. Carter’s gripping new novel, Back Channel, is a brilliant amalgam of fact and fiction-a suspenseful retelling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, in which the fate of the world rests unexpectedly on the shoulders of a young college student. but they’re careful not to tell her that. ![]() If the secret gets out, her life will be at risk. They need a clandestine emissary nobody would ever suspect. ![]() The only way for the two leaders to negotiate safely is to open a “back channel”-a surreptitious path of communication hidden from their own people. Both leaders are surrounded by advisers clamoring for war. Kennedy and Khrushchev are in the midst of a military face-off that could lead to nuclear conflagration. The Soviet Union has smuggled missiles into Cuba. ![]() |