7/8/2023 0 Comments A Shameful Act by Taner Akçam![]() ![]() ![]() He gives special thanks to his mentors, Professor Vahan Dadrian and Professor Peter Gleichmann and much of the material referenced in the book have been put at his disposal by Professor Dadrian, who is known for the misinformation on the subject. thesis at the University of Hanover in Germany in 1995. ![]() In the acknowledgements section of the book, Taner Akcam states that the origin of his book goes back to his Ph.D. After getting a PhD in Germany, he was hired by the University of Minnesota where he still teaches at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies together with other self-declared genocide scholars, to the surprise of many who know the background of Taner Akcam. ![]() He studied at the respected Middle East Technical University in Ankara but fled Turkey while in prison due to his subversive activities. So much for the author’s relationship with his family. He was born in Ardahan in 1953, in eastern Anatolia, whose father was a very respected educator and writer, Dursun Akcam, who died several years ago and buried without Taner Akcam being present at his funeral.Ī Cultural Center established in Dursun Akcam’s name in Ardahan was also inaugurated a few years ago, again without Taner Akcam being present during the ceremonies. The author, Taner Akcam, is a Turkish and a German citizen. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 175 Fifth Avenue, NY ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments Agency by william gibson![]() ![]() ![]() It appears something nasty is about to happen there - and fixing it will require not only Eunice's unique human-AI skillset but also a little help from the future.Ī future that Verity fears may never be. Meanwhile, in a post-apocalyptic London a century from now, PR fixer Wilf Netherton is tasked with interfering in the alternative past in which Verity and Eunice exist. Which is just as well since suddenly some very bad people are after Verity. Pretty soon, Verity realises that Eunice is smarter than anyone she's ever met. They call Verity 'the app-whisperer,' and she's just been hired to evaluate a pair-of-glasses-cum-digital-assistant called Eunice. (Michael O’Shea) Like the last book, Agency is a time-travel novel, pivoting on the mysterious gateway technology that allows. Clinton's in the White House, Brexit never happened - and Verity Jane's got herself a new job. William Gibson, author of Agency and pioneer of cyberpunk. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL FROM WILLIAM GIBSON, THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEUROMANCER ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His team includes a chemist and an industrial designer to fashion plates and serving utensils to go with the food.įor mortals who won’t be making the trip soon, Adrià has published A Day at elBulli: An Insight into the Ideas, Methods and Creativity of Ferran Adria. ![]() For the other six months, Adrià, the “Salvador Dali of the Kitchen," travels, dreams, and creates at his "food laboratory" called elBulli Taller, in Barcelona. Every year, the restaurant receives over two million requests for only 8,000 seats during the six months it is open. No one can get into elBulli, Ferran Adrià’s restaurant on the northeast coast of Spain. Ferran Adria in conversation with Harold McGee and Cory Kummer, introduced by: Paul Holdengräber and Bill Bufordĭirection and live drawing: Flash Rosenberg ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Eye of the needle novel![]() Dialogue is not one of the book’s strengths either, with all characters speaking in the same perfunctory manner. Obergfall’s writing style is terse, to put it mildly, with a lot of very short sentences, often appearing in strings, adding to the feel of jarring quickness when a series of three- or four-word sentences follow each other in sequence. Where I struggled with this book was in its writing and editing, so I’ll address both of those in turn: ![]() ![]() I look forward to book 2.Ī crime novel with a good plot, plenty of action, and a few twists here and there. The ending was a bit abrupt but hopefully book 2 will give the reader the information they long for. Their theft goes unnoticed for 16 days by top government agents.Īlthough this was fast paced and action filled, there were a few things that let it down. ![]() Joe gets his nephew to help him on another mission, they stumble across a vast treasure trove of negotiable financial assets. His Uncle Joe however is of mature years but once was a covert operative. Four years on Jet works part time for his Uncle and the story unfolds from there. Jethro learns new things fast, always finishes what he begins and set goals determined to achieve them. We discover that due to a unfortunate tragedy Jethro Blain at 14 finds himself in the care of his Aunt and Uncle. The book opens with giving the reader a background story on the Blain family in the prologue. It's not a long book but filled with suspense. Eye of the Needle by Charles Obergfoll is the authors debut novel and the first part of a series. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments With the Band by Jean Haus![]() In The Band is about a young woman named Riley Middleton who has to give up her dreams of going to college and playing in the school’s marching band. Jean writing is easy to read, the characters are great, and this is one of those books you don’t put down till you’re at the end. This is the first time I have read anything by Jean Haus and she is an amazing author, this book In the Band was fantastic. Even the issues with Riley's mom and family. He's a bit dark and brooding, jerk (a bit), sweet, perfectionist, slave driver, HOT, talented and boy genius. I've been having that dream where I'll buy that Drum Mania machine for my house and so I could play drums there. Although in this case, it's a girl who played the drums and she totally ROCKED it. I keep on mentioning that I really like drummers. But never got to learn it really well cause I'm not patient. I like music, who doesn't? I always wanted to learn to play guitar. ![]() I'm getting hooked with books that has that kind of genre. ![]() ![]() I've been looking for a story with music in it. I'll just go and enumerate why I like this book a lot. ![]() ![]() ![]() As with other love stories we’ve looked at where the lovers are prevented by outside forces from fulfilling their commitment to each other, there are strong Society elements at play. It meets most of the obligatory scenes and conventions of a courtship story, some in a modified form.Īs with many love stories, there’s an internal genre of Worldview. This is a complex, multi-layered, literary story that certainly looks like–and is billed as–a love story. ![]() This critically-acclaimed 2018 film was directed by Barry Jenkins from a screenplay he adapted from James Baldwin’s 1973 novel of the same name. This week, Anne pitched If Beale Street Could Talk as a case study in adapting a literary novel to the screen. ![]() Editor Roundtable: If Beale Street Could Talkĭownload the Math of Storytelling Infographic ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Shadows 3 by Charles L. Grant![]() ![]() With the second story, “Old Friends,” Grant evoked the idea of a darkness so ancient it has forgotten its identity–and I was hooked. I chose his 1981 Arkham House collection, Tales from the Nightside. When Grant died in 2006, though, I decided to take another look at his fiction. I read a few of his stories here and there, but while I had several of his novels in my possession, I never read any of them. When I was a kid, I didn’t care much for it: in comparison to Stephen King’s colloquial abundance, or Peter Straub’s studied mannerism, Grant’s work struck me as thin. It’s his fiction, though, that I want to address here, briefly. Of course, he was also well-known for his editing work on the Shadows series of anthologies. Grant was a writer I was very much aware of as a kid: he was part of that group of horror writers who came to prominence in the early-to-mid-seventies and was at the forefront of the horror boom in the eighties. At some point, I hope to write a longish essay about Charles L. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Confetti Girl by Diana López![]() |a Fathers and daughters |v Juvenile fiction. |a Single-parent families |v Juvenile fiction. ![]() ![]() |a After the death of her mother, Texas sixth-grader Lina's grades and mood drop as she watches her father lose himself more and more in books, while her best friend uses Lina as an excuse to secretly meet her boyfriend. |a New York, NY : |b Little, Brown and Co., |c 2009. ![]() ![]() ![]() Barnes gradually peels back the layers of her characters to reveal their hidden depths, providing a basis for their intense mutual attraction premised on more than physical appearances. Still, Blayne is undeniably drawn to Charlotte, and when her new manuscript is stolen from her publisher, he agrees to help track it down. Hes breaking the rules for one woman, and coming dangerously. ![]() Blayne reluctantly takes on the role of upper-crust suitor, drawing on his schooling at Eton, but worries that by putting himself so in the spotlight, he risks exposure and arrest for a murder committed 20 years before. The Formidable Earl (Diamonds in the Rough 6) by Sophie Barnes 17 Nov (Sophie Barnes). ![]() Then Charlotte changes the job description, pleading with Blayne to pretend to be her fiancé to help her avoid the marriage her parents have arranged for her. Blayne MacNeil, the imposing Scotsman proprietor of the Black Swan tavern, accepts the position, lured by a lucrative salary that might help him duck his dark past and retire to the quiet life he seeks. After Charlotte Russell is robbed during a visit to her publisher in a seamy part of London, she hires a bodyguard to accompany her on her future trips. The fake relationship between a refined author and her roguish bodyguard makes Barnes’s seventh Diamonds in the Rough Georgian romance (after The Formidable Earl) sparkle. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Taiko eiji![]() ![]() ![]() Wilson completed his first translation, Hagakure, while living in an old farmhouse deep in the Japanese countryside. in Japanese language and literature from the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies in Monterey, California, then undertook extensive research on Edo-period (1603-1868) philosophy at the Aichi Prefectural University, in Nagoya, Japan. ![]() degree in political science from Dartmouth, Wilson earned a second B.A. This eye-opening journey, beautifully documented in National Geographic, spurred Wilson's fascination with the culture and history of Japan. As an undergraduate student at Dartmouth College in 1966, he was invited by a friend to join a three-month kayak trip up the coast of Japan from Shimonoseki to Tokyo. WILLIAM SCOTT WILSON, the translator, was born in 1944 and grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His memoirs have been translated as Fragments of a Past. At the time of his death in 1962, he was one of Japan's most popular novelists. Beginning his literary career at the age of twenty-two, he continued to work as a journalist while writing novels that reached a large and appreciative readership. EIJI YOSHIKAWA was born in 1892 near Tokyo. ![]() |