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Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who’d amount to nothing. The instant New York Times bestseller! Named a LibraryReads Pick for March 2023 and a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Oprah Daily, Elle, and LitHub!įrom Jeannette Walls, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, comes a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition. ![]() ![]() ![]() As wise and poignant as they are funny, Crystal's reflections are an unforgettable look at an extraordinary life well lived. ![]() He lends a light touch to more serious topics like religion (""the aging friends I know have turned to the Holy Trinity: Advil, bourbon, and Prozac"") grandparenting and, of course, dentistry. Listeners get a front-row seat to his one-day career with the New York Yankees (he was the first player to ever ""test positive for Maalox""), his love affair with Sophia Loren, and his enduring friendships with several of his idols, including Mickey Mantle and Muhammad Ali. He also looks back at the most powerful and memorable moments of his long and storied life, from entertaining his relatives as a kid in Long Beach, Long Island, and his years doing stand-up in the Village, up through his legendary stint at Saturday Night Live, When Harry Met Sally, and his long run as host of the Academy Awards. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitation, and only the 'good parts' reached his ears. ![]() In humorous chapters like ""Buying the Plot"" and ""Nodding Off,"" Crystal not only catalogues his physical gripes, but offers a road map to his 77 million fellow baby boomers who are arriving at this milestone age with him. As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the 'S. With his trademark wit and heart, he outlines the absurdities and challenges that come with growing old, from insomnia to memory loss to leaving dinners with half your meal on your shirt. Billy Crystal is 65, and he's not happy about it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Should we have to die in the same manner? Isn't it a human glory to refuse to accept a certain fate?" Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say "an uncertain farewell" to her as she surrenders her body. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise. Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. 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Rereadiug it ten years later, I find it much more appealing. “The Last of the Winnebagos” - I remember reading this story years ago and not caring for it that much. ![]() Impossible Things, Connie Willis, Bantam Spectra, 1994, ISBN 6-6, $5.99, 461pp.Ī collection of stories by Connie Willis, one of the modern masters of the science fiction short. ![]() ![]() ![]() Uthred’s love for the Danes and his oath for Alfred continues to conflict with his decision-making, and Sword Song raised a lot of thought-provoking discussion surrounding choices, oath, and fate. Plus, being 28 years old now, Uthred is pretty much at his best fighting skill so far in this book, and it is spectacularly entertaining watching him navigate his life through the battles and challenges brought upon him. ![]() It felt good to be back with Uthred and his gang here. The year is now 885, 7 years since the beginning of the previous book, and the story revolves around Uthred being tasked by Alfred to seize London for him. Sword Song is the fourth volume in The Last Kingdom series by Bernard Cornwell. ![]() “Cowardice is always with us, and bravery, the thing that provokes the poets to make their songs about us, is merely the will to overcome the fear.” But that’s simply not the case with Sword Song. From my experience with Lords of the North, I did worry whether having watched the TV series would end up ruining my reading experience of the novels or not, because it certainly diminished my experience of Lords of the North. It seems like taking a break and pacing my reading of the series to one book per month instead of two books might be serving my experience well. Definitely my favorite volume in the series so far. ![]() Published: 3rd September 2007 by HarperCollins I have a Booktube channel now! 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The motivation of the gang of nine, including Badge, to kill Gandhi was said to have been spawned by their hostility to Gandhi’s insistence that the Indian government should repatriate R55 crore to Pakistan as part of the agreement on the division of assets and liabilities between the two countries. ![]() ![]() Of course, there’s a long tradition of what might be called “environmental” writing. These days he might have been tempted to apply it to environmentalism. It’s a kind of litmus test for the health of a worldview – to measure the art it produces. Any political view, no matter how useful or right, that can’t persuade artists to make good art out of it, has real problems. 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