![]() ![]() ![]() I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley. Who says your first love can’t be your second love, too? Quinn’s always only wanted to be with Jamie, but if Jamie no longer wants to be with her, why can’t Quinn go all in on her crush on Ruby? But the closer Quinn grows to Ruby, the more she misses Jamie, and the more (she thinks) Jamie misses her. But when Jamie dumps Quinn a month before their senior year, Quinn is suddenly girlfriend-less and best friend-less.Įnter a new crush: Ruby Ocampo, the gorgeous and rich lead singer of the popular band Sweets, who’s just broken up with her on-again, off-again boyfriend. Leah on the Offbeat meets We Are Okay in this pitch-perfect queer romance about falling in love and never quite falling out of it–heartbreak, unexpected new crushes, and all.īefore Quinn Ryan was in love with Jamie Rudawski, she loved Jamie Rudawski, who was her best friend. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Your usual Haruki Murakami fare, right?Ĭhapter 2 (italics totally intentional): beasts sporting long golden fur – “olden in the purest sense of the word, with not the least intrusion of another hue,” the horn-blowing Gatekeeper who herds the magnificent animals out through the right door of the West Gate every night and allows them re-entry in the morning, the local people who climb the Watchtower for just one spring week to watch the animals, and the newly arrived stranger-in-a-strange-land who is as yet unfamiliar with the seasonal rhythms of this unnamed walled-in world. ![]() Oh, and I can’t forget the flustered, lip-reading, Danny Boy-whistling, especially-good-with-tricky numbers, nameless protagonist. Chapter 1: an ultra high-tech building with an especially remarkable elevator (although without the usual, mundane details like floor buttons), loose change that suddenly doesn’t add up, a beautiful (chubby) young woman in everything pink who might have said “Proust” (or maybe “ Truest? … Brew whist? … Blue is it? …”), and a lozenge-shaped electronic key that opens the door to. ![]() ![]() ![]() Relating to the Internet as if it’s an extension of his own mind, he discovers that he has a talent for conceiving innovative enterprises and building teams that can develop them, becoming “a Pied Piper” of geeks. As a young man, despite suffering from what would eventually be diagnosed as bipolar disorder, he begins his pilgrim’s journey through the ups and downs in the brave new world of computers. ![]() Growing up in working-class Boston, English discovers a medium for his talents the first time he sees a computer. Tracy Kidder, the “master of the nonfiction narrative” ( The Baltimore Sun) and author of the bestselling classic The Soul of a New Machine, now tells the story of Paul English, a kinetic and unconventional inventor and entrepreneur, who as a boy rebelled against authority. ![]() ![]() She became nationally recognized for her mechanistic studies of this enzyme.Īround 1975 Dr. Park, a member of what became the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, focused her research on glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase. They married in 1953 and she joined the Vanderbilt faculty the next year.įor many years, Dr. Rollo Park was appointed chair of the Department of Physiology at Vanderbilt. She earned her doctorate from Washington University in St. Park and her husband, who died in 2016, contributed a combined total of more than 100 years of service to the faculty of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. ![]() Visitation will be held immediately prior to the service at 1:30 p.m.ĭr. 24, at Christ Church Cathedral at 900 Broadway. Jane Park, PhDĪ memorial service will be held at 2:30 p.m. ![]() Jane Park, PhD, an active member of the Vanderbilt University faculty for 60 years and widow of pioneering diabetes researcher Charles Rawlinson “Rollo” Park, MD, died Aug. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though Gaiman goes to great lengths to show how typical and boring her life seems from the outside, he also takes great care with the peace and security with which she approaches it. Whitaker buys the Holy Grail at a second-hand shop, and is visited three times by one of the Knights of the Round Table, Sir Galaad, who would like to reclaim it. :There was a moment, then, when it all came back to her – how it was to be young to have a firm, slim body that would do whatever she wanted it to do to run down a country lane for the simple unladylike act of running to have men smile at her just because she was herself and happy about it.” ![]() It’s about growing old, about the mundane vs the fantastic, and about perception. Like a lot of Gaiman’s work, it’s about love. ![]() The second tale fron Neil Gaiman‘s collection of short stories, Smoke and Mirrors, is multifaceted as well as entertaining. ![]() ![]() ![]() Paul himself is a cynical heavy drinker who is actually pretty intelligent, but his nomadic and self-destructive nature means that he hasn't achieved as much in life as he feels he deserves. The book is set in late '50s Puerto Rico, when American writer Paul Kemp arrives on the island and takes a job at an English language newspaper full of unruly drunken journalists, the majority of which live with the threat of being fired on a daily basis. I didn't find anything about it boring – every situation is as unpredictable as the one before it, and all the characters are offbeat and outrageous in one way or another. ( via Goodreads)ĭon't let the title or description fool you because there is so much more depth to The Rum Diary than drinking and debauchery. Exuberant and mad, youthful and energetic, The Rum Diary is an outrageous, drunken romp in the spirit of Thompson's bestselling Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Hell's Angels. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. ![]() Begun in 1959 by a then-twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. ![]() ![]() “ Hummingbird is an achingly brilliant, gorgeous book, so brimming with hope, poetry, wonder, and love that your heart will have to double to fit it all. And on the way, she just might learn that our fragile places lead us to the most wonderful magic of all. ![]() ![]() When it becomes clear that she can’t solve the mystery on her own, Olive teams up with some unlikely allies who help her learn the truth about the bird. ![]() It’ll be the solution to all her problems! If she can find the bird and prove herself worthy, the creature will make her most desperate, secret wish come true. Then Olive hears whispers about a magical, wish-granting hummingbird that supposedly lives near Macklemore. Olive can’t wait to go to a traditional school and make the friends she’s always longed for, until a disastrous first day dashes her hopes of ever fitting in. ![]() Twelve-year-old homeschooled Olive is tired of being seen as “fragile” just because she has osteogenesis imperfecta (otherwise known as brittle bone disease) so she’s thrilled when she finally convinces her overprotective parents to let her attend Macklemore Elementary. Bestselling author Natalie Lloyd returns with her most personal book to date, a story about a girl who―armed with her trusty, snazzy wheelchair―refuses to let her brittle bone disease stand in the way of adventure. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fritz often plays and imagines alongside his sister, Marie, but when she seems convinced about the mouse war against the nutcrackers, Fritz isn't sure what to think. Marie's brother who plays with her often and often pesters their godfather about Christmas presents. She watches the war play out at night, when no one is around, but when she tries to talk about it, no one believes her. A mice army appears from holes in the walls, and the winter nutcrackers become animated to fight back. In the winter, she witnesses her toys come to life. ![]() Marie is a playful child who lives in a large estate with her godfather and brother. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() NEW YORK - Donald Trump is free to skip a New York trial over accusations he raped a writer nearly 30 years ago, but jurors will for now not be told his absence was meant to. ![]() Social media commenters have overwhelmingly backed the man’s decision to cut his girlfriend loose. “He’s dead and won’t know if you go to his funeral or not,” she said. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg told employees that he won’t rule out future layoffs and said he doesn’t expect the social-media company to hire as quickly as it.
![]() He definitely took the time to get the technical details simplified but correct. As a long time professional software developer myself, I must credit him for (for example) his terrific explanation of double-page faults. Kidder does an excellent job of explaining the technical issues clearly to an educated layman. While the author tries to tell the story in an unbiased way, nowhere in the book is it mentioned that Tracy Kidder was college roommate's with Tom West, which is how he came to be writing that story. Let's start with the story itself: It is definitely a bit of a hagiography to the 32-bit Eclipse team at Data General. Unfortunately, I was a little bit disappointed. So I was really excited to get it as an audiobook. In fact, it was the first Kindle book I purchased. ![]() ![]() ![]() I read this book shortly after it was published, and have re-read it every few years since. ![]() |