6/8/2023 0 Comments Better book atul gawande![]() The amount of behind-the-scenes work in each of these fields is colossal, and coordinating all those people is a seriously complex task in itself. ![]() Or a live concert by U2 is portrayed as the four band members who get on stage. Much like surgery is portrayed as a solitary surgeon with a knife. Software development is often portrayed as people sitting at desks typing source code, and thats it. This hit a chord with me, because I find it interesting how much it also applied to other fields. ![]() All this is before he finally gets to do what he trained to do – pick up a knife to start cutting. The opening chapter gives a great description of all his non-medical preparations for a specific surgery case of a patient of his describing all his dealing with hospital administrators, the patient, nurses, other doctors in the hours required to plan the surgery, and the unforeseen circumstances which change those plans without warning. ![]() To give you an flavor of the book, here’s two quick points that really resonated with me personally. While the book is written by a surgeon, and naturally focuses on medical situations, he does so in a style that is totally readable by everyone, and on topics that I think are important to everyone, not just other surgeons. I’ve read it end-to-end twice, and dipped back into specific sections a few times since. ![]()
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6/8/2023 0 Comments The portable edgar allan poe![]() ![]() Separated from his brother William and sister Rosalie, Poe went to live with John and Frances Allan, a successful tobacco merchant and his wife, in Richmond, Virginia. His father left the family early in Poe's life, and his mother passed away from tuberculosis when he was only three. ![]() Poe never really knew his parents - Elizabeth Arnold Poe, a British actress, and David Poe, Jr., an actor who was born in Baltimore. Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts. Some aspects of Poe’s life, like his literature, is shrouded in mystery, and the lines between fact and fiction have been blurred substantially since his death. Many of Poe’s works, including “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” became literary classics. His imaginative storytelling and tales of mystery and horror gave birth to the modern detective story. ![]() Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, critic and editor best known for evocative short stories and poems that captured the imagination and interest of readers around the world. ![]() ![]() A prestigious publishing house accepted her first novel when she was in her early twenties, and its publication brought her not only fame but the attentions of a handsome soldier, Major (later Lieutenant-General Sir) Frederick Browning, whom she married. Her family connections helped her establish her literary career, and she published some of her early work in Beaumont's Bystander magazine. She spent her youth sailing boats, travelling on the Continent with friends, and writing stories. Her elder sister, Angela du Maurier, also became a writer, and her younger sister Jeanne was a painter. She and her sisters were indulged as a children and grew up enjoying enormous freedom from financial and parental restraint. Born into a family with a rich artistic and historical background, her paternal grandfather was author and Punch cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character of Svengali in the 1894 novel Trilby, and her mother was a maternal niece of journalist, author, and lecturer Comyns Beaumont. ![]() ![]() In many ways her life resembles a fairy tale. Daphne du Maurier was born on at 24 Cumberland Terrace, Regent's Park, London, the middle of three daughters of prominent actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and actress Muriel, née Beaumont. ![]() ![]() ![]() The kingdom of Briar has fallen to the fury of Alyce, a Vila, or dark sorceress. Walter brings her debut duology to an unhappy close with this moody, jam-packed sequel, set 100 years after events of Malice. But could Aurora love the villain Alyce has become? And the dream of the world they would have built together is nothing but ash.Īlyce vows to do anything to wake the woman she loves, even if it means turning into the monster Briar believes her to be. ![]() But it is a love that came with a heavy price: Aurora now sleeps under a curse that even Alyce’s vast power cannot seem to break. Princess Aurora saw through Alyce’s thorny facade, earning a love that promised the dawn of a new age. Not even the one person who holds her heart. And no one will escape the consequences of her wrath. Once a realm of decadence and beauty, Briar is now wholly Alyce’s wicked domain. “Fans of reimagined fairy tales and LGBTQ+ themes will be delighted with the conclusion of this fantasy duology.”- Booklist (starred review)įeared and despised for the sinister power in her veins, Alyce wreaks her revenge on the kingdom that made her an outcast. Does true love break curses or begin them? The dark sorceress of “Sleeping Beauty” reclaims her story in this sequel to Malice. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Brave jennifer l armentrout![]() Yanked forward, I was dragged across the bed, toward him. A scream erupted, quickly lost in the shadows of the room. ![]() I grabbed onto the bed, but it was no use. The chain jerked suddenly, throwing me to the side. My swollen stomach ached as I shifted, pressing my back against the headboard. Oh God, he was here and there was no way out of this. A shadow blotted out the thin strip of moonlight. ![]() My heart lurched into my throat as every muscle in my body tensed. I didn’t see anything, but I felt the slight stirring of air. ![]() The cool metal of the collar bit into my neck as I willed my heart to slow down, but the pounding against my ribs increased until pressure clamped down on my chest. Straining forward, I peered into the darkness. The room was so dark I couldn’t make out anything beyond the faint, silvery moonlight seeping between the crack in the thick curtains. ![]() ![]() Taking sharp aim at the romanticized, whitewashed mythology perpetrated by this southern classic, Randall has ingeniously conceived a multilayered, emotionally complex tale of her own – that of Cynara, the mulatto half-sister, who, beautiful and brown and born into slavery, manages to break away from the damaging world of the Old South to emerge into full life as a daughter, a lover, a mother, a victor. ![]() In this daring and provocative literary parody which has captured the interest and imagination of a nation, Alice Randall explodes the world created in GONE WITH THE WIND, a work that more than any other has defined our image of the antebellum South. You can read this before The Wind Done Gone PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Wind Done Gone written by Alice Randall which was published in April 8th 2002. Brief Summary of Book: The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Amish the shiva trilogy![]() ![]() ![]() Not only Shiva, but the book also mentions other related gods & goddess like Parvati, Ganesh, Parshuram as mortals who because of their deeds rose to the stature of gods. ![]() The book is based on the belief that perhaps the actions, the deeds and karma are the only deciding factors in transforming an ordinary man to Mahadev – God of Gods. The foundation is strong that relates to everybody and also sends out a message. This novel is clubbed with fiction that shows one of the mightiest Gods of Indian mythology – The Shiva, Mahadev – as a human being. I was spell-bound and elated at its foundation, content and the way the events were portrayed. Over and above all of these, a fresh mythological subject which is not Ramayana or Mahabharata gave us – the readers a fresh insight to a new, original and powerful tale. The idea of a mythology being converted to a tale, enhanced and beautified for a mass appeal was interesting.Īnswering our thousands of questions, page by page, chapter by chapter, Amsih has made reading mythological books easier in a way that is relateable to every one. Shiva Trilogy by Amish Tripathi is a journey of a man who became a Living God. ![]() ![]() and someone even scarier who looks a lot like Pao herself. Once there she must face down not just one but two enemies: El Cucuy, the bogeyman. Relying on her wits, training from the Ninos de la Luz, and the emotional support of her best friend Emma, Pao makes it into the void. It’s the perfect ruse for Paola, if she can stand being with the judgmental girls for that many days. Signs point to Texas-but how is she going to get there from Arizona? It just so happens that Emma’s new group of politically active friends, the Rainbow Rogues, are planning a field trip to San Antonio. ![]() Paola’s prophetic dreams seem to have dried up, so she has to find other ways to locate a new rift where she can enter the void. Even though Dante has turned against Pao, she can’t just leave him there-they’ve been friends for too long. The poor girl deserves a rest! But first she has to rescue Dante from the void, where he’s been imprisoned by some unknown force. Paola Santiago has recently returned from Oregon, where she defeated the Hitchhiker ghost and saved her father from the vengeful spirit that was possessing him. A thrilling adventure."-Nina Moreno, author of Don't Date Rosa Santos "Paola Santiago is a whip-smart Latina who dares to explore the shadows between folklore and middle-school friendship. This time Paola Santiago faces El Cucuy, aka the Boogeyman. ![]() Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Tehlor Kay Mejia's third chilling story based on Mexican folklore. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Not for everyone’s taste, Shangri-La Trailer Park is going to upset some people. As when listening to a masterful improv composition, one knows in the end that not a single false note has been played. But gratuitous shock value is not what I found here – not once all the parts of this literary fusion had been put into place. I hate most what it speaks about the depravity of our tastes, the lows of human desire unplugged the ancient beast in us fed the raw bloody feast of its nature. I hate the gratuitous violence and sadism that has become a mainstay of our present day entertainment. More than the sum of its parts, the story takes some pretty distasteful dysfunction squealing and squalling its way through to another plane – an ethereal co-ordinate where the dream world and the consciousness fuse into a continuum. Have you ever marveled at how Coltrane can take squeaks and squeals, seemingly discordant explosions of sound, and roll them out into an experience of sublime musical beauty? That’s how Shangri-La reverberated in my senses. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Homecoming book kate morton![]() ![]() But in this book, along with a London setting – because, of course, London is the city of my heart – I’ve also brought my readers somewhere new, and that is the Adelaide Hills, one of the most beautiful, haunting and glorious parts of Australia. Homecoming, the seventh novel from Australian author Kate Morton, is a slow but rewarding exploration of. Homecoming will feel familiar to my regular readers, because it’s filled with secrets and mysteries, the haunting of the present by the past, by mothers, daughters, stories, storytellers, and a big old house on a hill. 2 days ago &0183 &32 Historical fiction/Mariner Books/Paperback/560 pages/30.78/Books Kinokuniya 4 stars. This book has been a home of sorts for me over the past two years – a place to disappear into: my favourite experience, as both a reader and a writer – and now, at last, it is time to invite my readers in, too. ‘I started Homecoming in the middle of 2020 having left London to be near family in South Australia, and as many things known about the world seemed to become unknown overnight, I began to think a lot about home and belonging and family, and especially what it means to ‘come home’. ![]() ![]() Morton’s debut novel, The House at Riverton, was a Sunday Times number one bestseller and has sold over a million copies in the UK and she is a bestseller around the world, having sold over sixteen million copies of her books in over thirty-two languages. Homecoming is Morton’s seventh novel and her first in four years following The Clockmaker’s Daughter. ![]() |