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… but don’t be surprised if it takes a little while to get a response. If you’re not in the market for a page-turner, at least add the Silk Road founder on Linkedin. On this episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Recode Commerce Senior Editor Jason Del Rey sits down with Nick Bilton to talk about the process behind his new book, American Kingpin: The. The book is written as narrative non-fiction and the details that that the author chose to include are brilliant.Īnyway, if you’re into these sorts of nonfiction narrative stories, here’s the link: American Kingpin. And almost as many ethical gray areas as there are characters.īut as compelling as the story is, the story telling is worth its own mention. This story, which, again, is true, rivals some of the best crime novels. You’re just going to have to read this thing if you want to know. The Silk Road quickly ballooned into 1.2 billion enterprise, and Ross embraced his new role as kingpin. Ulbricht hires the cop to carry out a hit on a former Silk Road employee, which he “does,” successfully convincing Ulbricht that he’s loyal and reliable.īut then the cop crosses an unimaginable ethical line and… well… you know what, sorry. They hit nothing but dead ends for roughly two years, until a semi-rogue DEA agent befriends “Dread Pirate Roberts” (Ulbricht’s online persona), chatting and emailing him frequently, weaving a fabricated backstory about being an experienced large-scale drug smuggler. Before long, every three-letter agency in the government starts to hunt the person or people running The Silk Road. Training is done to help employees recognize an upset customer and develop the habits to respond to it effectively. This is done through the habit loop by introducing routines for handling a cue of an unhappy customer. I plan to review these books as well, but highly recommend you read them in the meantime.ĭuhigg provides an example about how Starbucks teaches its employees “willpower habit loops” to handle difficult customer interactions. He is a personal hero of mine and a leader that I greatly admire. As a quick aside, I have read both books by former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz about the company, Pour Your Heart Into It and Onward. My favorite example he uses to describe the habits of great organizations is Starbucks. He has a number of case studies in how the loop works and how great organizations hardwire successful habits into their teams. By understanding it and braking the cycle, humans can change their habits and take better control of them. In the book, Duhigg reviews how humans develop habits through a clear loop of cue-routine-reward. There was one particular chapter of the book that stood out to me as a lesson in leadership. I read The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg a few years ago and enjoyed it. This dissertation reveals and explores Murdoch’s hidden elegy for Thompson in The Sea, The Sea, and its contextualisation within her wider body of work. I argue that his death made a lasting impact on Murdoch, and his elegisation in The Sea, The Sea constituted a watershed in her fiction. Thompson served with British Special Forces in the Second World War, and was captured by Bulgarian fascists and shot by firing squad. In this way Murdoch’s elegy for Thompson is a significant link in the evolution of the elegiac form, from a readable verse memorial into an implied, invisible, wordless lament. It argues that she memorialised him in her prize-winning novel The Sea, The Sea (1978), in a complex web of references, symbols and clues, both hidden and overt, which create a metatextual memorial, or form of elegy, for Thompson within the text. Abstract This dissertation identifies a hitherto unnoticed significance in Iris Murdoch’s fiction of the close relationship between Murdoch and one of the most important men in her life, her Oxford friend, Frank Thompson. Filming began around Los Angeles that August, lasting through October.Īd Astra premiered at the Venice Film Festival on August 29, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on September 20, 2019, by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures via 20th Century Fox. Pitt signed on to star in April 2017 and the rest of the cast joined later that year. The project was announced in early 2016, with Gray saying he wanted to feature "the most realistic depiction of space travel that's been put in a movie". Starring Brad Pitt (who also produced), Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler, and Donald Sutherland, it follows an astronaut who ventures into space in search of his lost father, whose obsessive quest to discover intelligent alien life at all costs threatens the Solar System and all life on Earth. Ad Astra ( Latin for " To the Stars") is a 2019 American psychological science fiction film produced, co-written, and directed by James Gray. Her ‘sort-of’ playwright philosopher ‘husband’ Pierre Gringoire – whom she does not love – provides some comic relief to the story. The story centres around, not only Paris and the grand cathedral, but a young gypsy dancer, a ‘dazzling vision’ called Esmeralda. The Notre-Dame Cathedral is an ‘edifice of the transition’ from the Roman to the Gothic architecture, described by Hugo as ‘the pointed species grafted upon the circular.’ From the cathedral is a bird’s eye view of the ‘very illogical’ streets of Paris – the City, the University, and the Town. The themes are political and religious, historical, and ghoulish. It is winter, January 1482, sixteen years after the great plague in which 40,000 souls died in the city of Paris. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) is set in Paris in 1482, primarily in the Notre-Dame Cathedral. Hence, it’s time to re-read Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. In the Victor Hugo museum is an exhibition, from 10 June to 21 November 2021, called Dans L’Intimité du Genie – In the Intimacy of Genius – with Hugo’s paintings, drawings, engravings, and artwork. Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. They also know that a month is a long time, and she could change her mind. The children know that she could possibly be a new mother. “I am plain and tall.” She agrees to visit for one month just to see how things will be. She is very direct and honest about her abilities, likes, or appearance. Through her letters to Papa and eventually the children, Sarah begins to reveal herself. Papa reads a letter from a woman named Sarah who answers the advertisement. The story begins when Papa tells Anna and Caleb that he has advertised for a wife. He is definitely the kind of boy who is full of questions that some people might be afraid to ask or sometimes not willing to answer. She also knows very well all the changes in her family after her mother’s death and those days all seem like “winter days.” Caleb does not remember his mother but needs a connection with her. She is in a sense the memory caretaker of life before her mother’s death. Each character is waiting, tentatively looking to the future with hope for a new life as a family.Īnna tells the story of her family by recalling her own memories and making insightful observations. It is about another earnest heart searching for a place to entrust its love. Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan is a story about three hearts that still grieve after the death of a wife and mother– hearts that yearn to be filled with love once again. “Do not be afraid, for she was set apart for you before the world existed.” Tobit 6:18 In modern reality, those who study Klingon use the regular English alphabet for convenience. The result is sharp letters, rather resembling figures and very similar to each other. The linguists who invented this language took the Tibetan script as a basis. In addition, “Star trek” fans often want to learn how to speak like Klingons, thus not letting the Klingon language stop developing. There are several textbooks from the above mentioned Institute and even several Wikipedia pages, as well as Google and Mozila pages in this language. The language is especially unique as it develops outside the cinematic universe – there is a special organization in America (The Klingon Language Institute), which is engaged in translating various works of literature into Klingon. It has a complex and carefully developed grammar, syntax, an extensive dictionary (more than 2500 words), an elaborate alphabet and phonetics. Klingon is an artificial language invented by Marc Okrand for the Klingon race from the “Star trek” universe. Taylor’s writing brings you right into the home, the conversation, the fear, tension, courage, and heartache experienced by this family. I first discovered the Logan family about 5 years ago when I listened to the audiobook version of Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry. But Cassie and her siblings are at the heart of the Logan’s story and feature prominently in Taylor’s final novel- All the Days Past, All the Days to Come-published in 2020. Each novel/novella stands alone, focusing on different members of the Logan family during different times and places over a span of about 100 years. In this story come to know Cassie, age 9, and her brothers Stacey (12), Christopher-John (7), and Little Man (6). Though Song of the Trees is the first in the series, Taylor was awarded the Newberry Medal for Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry. Taylor’s family stories, is a multigenerational chronicle of the Logan family’s life spanning from the Jim Crow south and the Great Depression through the Great Migration and the Civil Rights movement in the north. This historical fiction series, shaped by Mildred D. Based on this tragic historical event, Hoffman weaves a spellbinding tale of four extraordinary, bold, resourceful, and sensuous women, each of whom comes to Masada by a different path. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. In 70 C.D., nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on a mountain in the Judean desert, Masada. Now, in The Dovekeepers, Hoffman delivers her most masterful work yet-one that draws on her passion for mythology, magic, and archaeology and her inimitable understanding of women. The author of such iconic bestsellers as Illumination Night, Practical Magic, Fortune's Daughter, and Oprah's Book Club selection Here on Earth, Alice Hoffman is one of the most popular and memorable writers of her generation. Over five years in the writing, Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing work ever, a triumph of imagination and research set in ancient Israel. |