![]() ![]() I still think most of the statements down here aren’t real. I have… I’ve always believed in the supernatural. ![]() But, but even before that… Why do you think I started working here? It’s not exactly glamorous. Have you ever taken a look at the stuff we have in Artefact Storage? That’s enough to convince anyone. I mean for god’s sake John, we’re literally hiding from some kind of worm… queen… thing, how, how could you possibly still not believe!? You tear them to pieces like they’re wasting your time, but half of the “rational” explanations you give are actually more far-fetched than just accepting it was a, a ghost or something. Do what? Push the sceptic thing so hard!? I mean, it made sense at first, but now? After everything we’ve seen, after everything you’ve read! I hear you recording statements and y-you just dismiss them. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() Her role involved reviewing hundreds of problematic social media posts and deciding, by reference to a complex set of criteria, which ones to take down. ![]() Its young narrator, Kayleigh, has just quit her job as a content moderator with a fictitious big tech subsidiary called Hexa. We Had to Remove This Post, the seventh novel by Dutch author Hanna Bervoets and her first to be translated into English, is nothing if not timely. What counts as harmful content? Who gets to decide, and why? ![]() In an online world rife with offensive and potentially dangerous material – hate speech, harassment, misinformation, incitements to violence, accounts promoting self-harm and eating disorders – the problem of content moderation is becoming ever more vexed. W hen he launched his takeover of Twitter earlier this year, Elon Musk sparked consternation by declaring he would loosen the social media platform’s content moderation policies – a move that could set Twitter on a collision course with the EU’s digital regulators. ![]() ![]() Aside from four new additions, most of the stories in here have previously been published, though I never felt the need to read them due to the reasons stated above, so I am reading everything with fresh eyes. I’ve really fallen in love with the Mercy Thompson series in the last couple of years, which sparked my interest in this book despite it being an anthology. ![]() That said, I had a really good time with Shifting Shadows. Also, I always end up forming attachments to only a small handful of characters whenever I read a series, and I don’t often find myself as interested in companion novellas/shorts that feature the perspectives of other minor characters and people in a series’ “universe”. Characters are world building are important for me, and with only a few exceptions, most short stories don’t go as in-depth into these aspects as I would like. Part of this is due to my preference for full-length novels, but I’ve also not had the best experiences when it comes to the short format. I want to start by saying I’m not a big reader of short fiction, and on the whole I tend not to bother with any novellas, short stories or anthologies that are companion to an existing series. Book Review: Shifting Shadows by Patricia Briggs ![]() ![]() ![]() Caught in a promise, Glenn returns to his roots to deal with Rand Holloway and come face-to-face with Mac Gentry, a man far too appealing for Glenn’s own good. Over time things worked out: Glenn successfully built a strong business, created a new home, and forged a life he could be proud of.ĭespite his success, his estrangement from the Holloways is still a sore spot he can’t quite heal, and a called-in favor becomes Glenn’s worst nightmare. Without support from his father and brother, and too proud to accept assistance from anyone else, he had to start from scratch. ![]() ![]() As if that wasn’t enough, he then poured salt in the wound by walking away from the ranch he’d grown up on, to open the restaurant he’d always dreamed of. Glenn Holloway’s predictable life ended the day he confessed his homosexuality to his family. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tentatively, the two join forces and make their way through the ruins of old America. Inside he finds Margaret, a woman with a deadly infection and confined to the Pesthouse to sweat out her fever. ![]() In the woods near his temporary refuge, Franklin comes upon an isolated stone building. ![]() Across the country, families have packed up their belongings to travel eastward toward the one hope passage on a ship to Europe.įranklin Lopez and his brother, Jackson, are only days away from the ocean when Franklin, nearly crippled by an inflamed knee, is forced to stop. Farmlands lie fallow and the soil is contaminated by toxins. Once the safest, most prosperous place on earth, the United States is now a lawless, scantly populated wasteland. In The Pesthouse he imagines an America of the future where a man and a woman trek across a devastated and dangerous landscape, finding strength in each other and an unexpected love. Jim Crace is a writer of spectacular originality and a command of language that moves a reader effortlessly into the world of his imagination. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress. John Bew is Reader in History and Foreign Policy at the War Studies Department at King's College London and Director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence. He has published several books and papers, writes for the New Statesman, Irish Times, London Review of Books and Spectator, among others and appears regularly on television and radio including Newsnight, The Review Show, the Today Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. From 2007-10, Bew was Lecturer in Modern British History at Cambridge University, where he was also educated. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. ![]() ![]() ![]() The text is presented as a rhyming poem, which can be read in a sing-song way to make it more appealing if needed. My world of color by Brown, Margaret Wise, 1910-1952. Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S. This book takes the reader on a journey through all the colors the little mice see in their world. ![]() ![]() ![]() I really can't help it - I'm a nerd at heart and love research and discovering new things. In my other life, I also write nonfiction: articles, books, and even quizzes for the Discovery Channel website. ![]() Too bad dogs can't accumulate frequent flyer miles! And yes, they move with me from country to country. I have a soft spot for animals (which is why you can be sure that in my stories, the dog will always make it) and right now have three wonderful - but slightly crazy - dogs in my life. Aside from traveling to all corners of the world, I've also lived in five countries in three continents - including three years in Siberia and two in Vietnam. I ended up not pursuing a degree in Archaeology (although I toyed with the idea for a while) but I did become a huge lover of travel and history. Growing up, I wanted to be Indiana Jones. Oh, and Halloween, of course - but that should go without saying. It's probably no surprise that I'm a big fan of old buildings, urban exploring and things that go bump in the night. If it crawls in the night and tugs at your covers while you're sleeping, chances are I've written about it. ![]() I've been a fan of all kinds of dark creatures since I was a kid (even before I discovered Stephen King at the age of 10). ![]() ![]() ![]() With no drama, practical Britt-Marie marches straight home, packs a bag and moves out. Well for them for 40 years, until she discovers her husband is having She thinks she and Kent have a system that has worked He spends his time obsessively watching soccer (or football, as it isĬalled there). Kent travels a lot in his job but when at home, With military precision, while her husband Kent (Peter Haber) tookĬare of making money. Products, the no-nonsense Britt-Marie has taken care of the house In voice-over, she tells us her sister Ingrid was alwaysĭreaming while Britt-Marie was always the practical one, with her Says everything about you, and takes pride in keeping hers neat and She lives by the motto that a clean house Pernilla August) is a 63-year-old housewife who likes everything While BRITT-MARIE also focuses on a flinty older person, this is more modest stuff than that epic tale. The success of A MAN CALLED OVE set a pretty high bar for this film. ![]() BRITT-MARIE WAS HERE (Britt-Marie Var Har) is a Swedish drama/comedy based on Backman’s bestseller of the same name, about a 63-year-old woman who takes a job as a youth soccer coach in a little town, even though she knows nothing about the sport. When Fredrik Backman’s bestselling novel A MAN CALLED OVE was turned into an international hit film, it seemed inevitable that another of the Swedish author’s bestsellers would adapted for the big screen. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It takes the patriarchal practices of female seclusion and veiling, gender selection, and control over women’s bodies, amplifies and distorts them in a truly terrifying way to imagine a world of post-religious authoritarianism. This dystopian novel from one of Pakistan’s most talented writers is a modern-day parable, The Handmaid’s Tale about women’s lives in repressive Muslim countries everywhere. As it turns out, not even the most influential men can shield them from discovery and the dangers of ruthless punishment. Secretly protected by the highest echelons of power, they emerge only at night, to provide to the rich and elite of Green City a type of commodity that nobody can intimacy without sex. Yet there are women who resist, women who live in an underground collective and refuse to be part of the system. The government uses terror and technology to control its people, and women must take multiple husbands to have children as quickly as possible. In modern, beautiful Green City, the capital of South West Asia, gender selection, war and disease have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. ![]() |