Abel has been found in his room of Egyptian antiquities, lying on the floor near his safe with his wrist horribly mauled by some animal. When Malcolm Ross arrives at the Trelawny house, he finds a scene in near chaos. The Jewel of Seven Stars is relatively unknown, which is surprising - it is one of the earlier stories about the reanimation of an ancient Egyptian mummy, and it is quite a thrilling tale! It also uses state-of-the-art science of the time to bolster the story - with rather amusing results. (And there’s this one that I recently acquired and am dying to read.) He wrote a number of other supernatural thrillers, The Lair of the White Worm being perhaps the next best known. Stoker is, of course, best known for his influential 1897 novel Dracula, which really sparked the entire modern vampire craze (though there were precursors). Cover of the first edition of “The Jewel of Seven Stars”.
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It allowed me to immerse myself in a time and place that I didn’t know, a time and place that wasn’t now, and I’ll be forever grateful for that. I loved reading this collection of Bashō’s works because it gave me a break from reality. I just can’t put how I feel about this book into words so I have given up. These travel writings not only chronicle Basho’s perilous journeys through Japan, but they also capture his vision of eternity in the transient world around him.Ī mini review because I have been struggling to write this for a couple of weeks. He wrote of the seasons changing, of the smell of the rain, the brightness of the moon and the beauty of the waterfall, through which he sensed the mysteries of the universe. When he composed “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” he was a serious student of Zen Buddhism, setting off on a series of travels designed to strip away the trappings of the material world and bring spiritual enlightenment. 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The young Shaun shouldn’t have had a chance, especially with a shock of red hair making him stand out even further. His uncle Graeme was one of the greatest batsmen ever, and his father Peter was one of South Africa’s finest fast bowlers. Shaun’s family was already among cricket’s two or three richest gene pools. Father-son combinations at first-class and even Test level are not uncommon, but in most cases one or other is a fringe player. And all this consistency was sustained through the daunting business of succeeding Hansie Cronje as South Africa’s captain.įew players in history had as much to live up to as Shaun Maclean Pollock, born in Port Elizabeth on July 16, 1973. His bowling is as straight, tight and incisive as Glenn McGrath’s, and he is also an elegant, sometimes explosive batsman who averages 59 at No. Whatever happens in his thirties, he will go down as one of the game’s great all-rounders. Sport’s holy grail is consistency, and Pollock found it as soon as he entered international cricket. Shaun Pollock has not had an outstanding year. Neil Manthorp wrote this tribute in 2003 after Pollock was named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year. Shaun Pollock, one of the greats of South African cricket, turns 46 today. He is the author of Elementary Dirichlet Series and Modular Forms (Springer 2007), Arithmeticity in the Theory of Automorphic Forms (AMS 2000), and Introduction to the Arithmetic Theory of Automorphic Functions (Princeton University Press 1971). In this book, the author writes freely and often humorously about his life, beginning with his earliest childhood days. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the American Mathematical Society. Goro Shimura is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University. Such luminaries as Chevalley, Oppenheimer, Siegel, and Weil figure prominently in its anecdotes. Every page of this memoir contains personal observations and striking stories. He describes his survival of American bombing raids when he was a teenager in Japan, his emergence as a researcher in a post-war university system that was seriously deficient, and his life as a mature mathematician in Princeton and in the international academic community. Shimura began his studies in the Fourth Tokyo Prefectural Middle School in 1942 but. In this book, the author writes freely and often humorously about his life, beginning with his earliest childhood days. Summary: Goro Shimura was a Japanese mathematician who worked on. The secrets she needs can be found at the Shattered Plains, but just arriving there proves more difficult than she could have imagined. Despite being broken in ways she refuses to acknowledge, she bears a terrible burden: to somehow prevent the return of the legendary Voidbringers and the civilization-ending Desolation that will follow. His leading role in the war would seem reason enough, but the Assassin's master has much deeper motives.īrilliant but troubled Shallan strives along a parallel path. Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar, widely considered the power behind the Alethi throne. The Assassin, Szeth, is active again, murdering rulers all over the world of Roshar, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and elude all pursuers. Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status "darkeyes." Now he must protect the king and Dalinar from every common peril as well as the distinctly uncommon threat of the Assassin, all while secretly struggling to master remarkable new powers that are somehow linked to his honorspren, Syl. Bell threatens to arrest Fonny due to racial prejudice but is forced to let Fonny go after the shop owner intervenes. Fonny is not beside her at that moment, so Tish calls out to a white police officer, Officer Bell, for help. One day as Tish and Fonny are out shopping and apartment hunting, an intoxicated teenager touches and propositions Tish as she stands in front of a sidewalk produce stand. He is eager to find a loft, a place with space for his work, because it will allow him adequate space to create his sculptures and set up a household with Tish. Having survived constant trouble as a boy, Fonny is a sculptor. Joseph reluctantly grants his permission. Tish and Fonny consummate their relationship one night during a date, and Fonny takes Tish back to her family’s apartment to seek permission from Joseph, Tish’s father, to marry Tish. If Beale Street Could Talk is a love story about Tish and Fonny’s early courtship, Fonny’s arrest on false charges, and the birth of their child.Īfter a childhood spent teasing and fighting each other, Tish and Fonny fall in love when she is 18 and he is 22, much to the displeasure of Alice Hunt (Fonny’s mother), and the couple begins searching for a loft where they can live together. Fonny is the troubled son of parents who argue constantly, and his sisters ostracize him. Tish Rivers has grown up as the protected baby of the working-class Rivers family in the gritty surroundings of Harlem during the 1960s. It was almost impersonal without getting her on screen for more than 20 minutes. Hope's revenge on his character doesn't feel grounded other than the fact he said a few words to ignite those flames of passion to give us an angry man before and after Rachel McAdam's character's death. I don't think I've ever seen someone act like such a smart guy one minute and completely flip to idiocy the next. I was really at a loss with the 'villain' of the film played by Victor Ortiz. While Jake Gyllenhaal commands the screen as Billy Hope's "came up through the system" champion with a committed performance both in physicality and emotion, most of the time, 'Southpaw' beats you so far into the mat with misery it's tough to enjoy. The tale of redemption is one as old as time when it comes to seeing someone get beat down and get back up only to find the success they lost found once again. Rating: R (Some Violence|Language Throughout)īoxing movies can be tough to bring out on the screen from the paper they are written on. With his future on the line, Hope fights to reclaim the trust of those he loves the most. He soon finds an unlikely savior in Tick Willis (Forest Whitaker), a former fighter who trains the city's toughest amateur boxers. However, when tragedy strikes, Billy hits rock bottom, losing his family, his house and his manager. Billy "The Great" Hope (Jake Gyllenhaal), the reigning junior middleweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. She and a group of fellow hostages are abducted halfway across the world to help locate the hackers and deliver Mafia-style vengeance. Through a series of events, Richard's adopted niece Zula runs afoul of Russian gangsters whose criminal secrets have been hacked by REAMDE. Recently, a virus called REAMDE has infected millions of players in T'Rain, holding their computer files for a ransom of game currency. Richard Forthrast, a former marijuana smuggler, has founded the world's most successful MMORPG, T'Rain, which is built around the concept of allowing players to make real currency exchanges within the game's virtual world. REAMDE is a novel by Neal Stephenson in which the worlds of international crime and Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games intersect. There are two distinct levels to read this book: the teen perspective, but also that as a parent. Cell phones and social media platforms have yet to dominate teens’ lives in the 1990s. A striking moment is when one teen drops a flat device Flat device with a picture of an apple with a bite taken of it, and Jess merely looks on in bafflement. Jess Flynn struggles with average teenage angst over school to romance, never realizing that her life takes place on a carefully curated reality TV set with millions of online fans and producers who conjure up soap opera plot twists to keep tune-in high. It is a clever storytelling plot, which leaves you as the reader as naive as Jess, our 17-year-old clueless heroine. This young adult foray offers up surprising plots twists that keep you riveted and reading quickly, with the clever unfolding plot paralleling Jim Carey’s The Truman Show It portrays a dystopian social media and influencer landscape 40 years in the future gone amuck, overlayed with teens growing up in the relative simplicity and lack of tech of America in the 1990’s. |