![]() ![]() The author does not deny that the Mongols were in various ways quite brutal and ruthless in their pursuit of empire. ![]() This book is the first of the three and is basically written from the Mongol point of view. He has written three books on this subject. This became instead a new passion, the study of Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire. An author of a book on money, he planned to write a book on the ancient trade route from Asia to Western Europe known as the Silk Road. Jack Weatherford is a cultural anthropologist with a specialty in studying various indigenous cultures. This book is an attempt to redeem Genghis Khan and the Mongols’ reputation.ĭr. Genghis Khan, the founder of an empire in the 13th Century, is particularly demonized as a brutal barbarian. The Mongols, an Asian people living between Russia and China, have a bad reputation. ![]() Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford (Paperback 312 Pages) Basic Summary of the Book ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments If I Wake by Nikki Moyes![]()
5/24/2023 0 Comments Cybermancy by Kelly McCullough![]() ![]() Nor, if I was interpreting Tisiphone’s smile correctly, was I the only one who could feel my response. I wasn’t sure which was worse, the idea that my pants might actually catch fire or the fact that despite all the terrified gibbering going on in my forebrain, I could feel myself growing hard at the contact. Especially when I felt a sharp heat against my groin and realized that it must be coming from Tisiphone’s literally flaming pubic hair. I would have killed to change places with any one of those guys. Some guys would have killed to be where I was right then, pressed tight between an incredibly sexy blonde and a smoking hot redhead, the latter naked. ![]() “I’m rather enjoying the ride, though my wings are a bit cramped.” She rolled her shoulders, which did interesting things to my view, then stepped forward a little so that I was suddenly sandwiched between her and Cerice. ![]() “I think someone is deliberately tormenting her guests,” grumped Megaera. “Is this thing even moving?” squeaked Melchior, echoing my own thoughts. That and the funny business with a door that closed for Megaera but not for me or Cerice. I’d have to think of some way to pay her back for that if I got out of this in one piece. ![]() Excruciating seconds slid by with no sound other than Discord’s demonically inspired choice in elevator music. ![]() ![]()
5/24/2023 0 Comments Spinning silver review![]() When one angry, alcoholic debtor says he can’t pay, she contracts for his daughter Wanda and later his son Sergey to work off the debt as servants in her family’s house. This angers the people in the village, but Miryem continues to work at it until her family is back on the road to prosperity. She goes through her father’s books and begins to make collections for him. When her mother Panova Mandelstam gets sick, Miryem takes things into her own hands. ![]() ![]() Winter seems to extend longer and longer. He’s lent out his wife’s dowery and can’t collect payment, so the family falls into poverty. Miryem comes from a family of moneylenders, but her father is really poor at it. It runs 466 pages and was published by Del Rey/Macmillan. ![]() This novel is a finalist for the 2018 Nebula Awards. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The sellout paul![]() ![]() All that's left is the bill for a drive-thru funeral.įuelled by this deceit and the general disrepair of his hometown, the narrator sets out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been removed from the map to save California from further embarrassment. But when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realizes there never was a memoir. ![]() He is led to believe that his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes. Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens - on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles - the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: "I'd die in the same bedroom I'd grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling that've been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, he spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Darius the great book![]() This is one of those moments where the line in the sand is drawn and it become abundantly clear who is writing from personal experience vs. ![]() I deeply appreciated Khorram’s discussion of depression in this book. You never know which ones you’ll end up loving. Let this be a lesson – be openminded about your books. Maybe, at the beginning, just because it was a contemporary YA and it took me some time to get acclimated to that genre? Either way, I’ve been missing out, and the steady theme about living with depression that runs through Darius the Great is something I needed to read years ago. ![]() For some reason I don’t even remember, I avoided Darius the Great is Not Okay. ![]() I’m kicking myself so hard right now because this book was so hyped when it came out four years ago and at any point during the last four years, I could have read it… and I didn’t. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Inheritance by katharine mcgee![]() ![]() ![]() A royal party might just be the window of opportunity she needs-until everything comes crashing down. Katharine McGee 1) American Royals 2) Rivals: Rivals 3) Majesty: Majesty 4) The Thousandth Floor 5) Inheritance: Inheritance 6) The Dazzling Heights 7). She studied English and French literature at Princeton University and has an MBA from Stanford. Meanwhile, Daphne is hiding more than one secret beneath her perfect exterior. katharinemcgee Genre Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance Member Since July 2018 edit data Katharine McGee is the New York Times bestselling author of American Royals and The Thousandth Floor trilogy. Tonight, though, anything seems possible: even a prince and a commoner. ![]() ![]() Ever wonder how our future queen fell for her bodyguard Or how Prince Jefferson and his sister’s best friend. Nina never dreamed of acting on her feelings for Prince Jefferson. The New York Times bestselling series returns in this heart-stopping prequel novella. Katharine McGee, New York Times bestselling author of American Royals One of YAs more reliably twisty and brilliant thriller authors is back with a brand. She swears she isn’t looking for trouble, but when the king and queen are away, the spare will play…. Princess Samantha is already bored of her own graduation party. But what the Crown doesn’t know won’t hurt it…right? Princess Beatrice realizes what’s expected of her as heir apparent-and it is not riding in cars, alone, with her Revere Guard. Ever wonder how our future queen fell for her bodyguard? Or how Prince Jefferson and his sister’s best friend got caught in a love triangle for the ages? Grab your royal invitation and we’ll show you the night that started it all. The New York Times bestselling series returns in this heart-stopping prequel novella. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Soul Style by Duane Thomas![]() (Forget it, Jake - it’s a deadline thing.) Our only regret is that we didn’t take this list up to 200, or even 300 titles. Looking back at the second golden age of Hollywood while this group of writers attempted to wrestle with the notion of the 100 best movies of the 1970s, it’s mind-boggling to think so many of what we now consider the high points of a still young-ish art form came from this small pocket of time. ![]() There’s a reason that the 1970s are idolized, fetishisized and consistently namechecked by several generations of cinephiles: the sheer abundance of great movies that came out during that 10-year span, especially (but not exclusively) from American filmmakers. (In all fairness fair to Regan MacNeil, the devil made her do it.) These were the years when we learned to be scared of sharks, masked slashers and pea-soup-spitting youngsters. ![]() ![]() Later, boxers, biking teens, baseball kids and broken-down hockey players would prove that sometimes, the underdogs win even if they don’t actually win. The “Film Brats” were in full bloom, and after the studio system had let the bearded barbarians in through gate, audiences were gifted with what seemed like some new beautiful, bleak vision of American life on a weekly basis. It was the decade that gave us midnight movies, modern blockbusters, Blaxploitation epics, neo-noirs and the cream of the New Hollywood crop. ![]() ![]() ![]() More so than any vampire attack, the protagonist Robert Neville’s desperate inner thoughts left me feeling frightened and disturbed. What really struck me about I Am Legend, when I first read it, was how accurate a depiction it seemed to give of a man consumed by loneliness. This book is not just for fans of the horror genre, but anyone wishing to delve into the mind of the last living man on earth, as his world is slowly taken over by vampires. Books like I Am Legend were an inspiration to me.” And really, in King’s best novels that I have read, he emulates the subtle, creeping sense of dread that Matheson writes so well. I mean, everyone knows Stephen King, but do they know that he had this to say? “I think the author that influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson. I recommend it to anyone who is looking for something creepy or just something that doesn’t seem to be that well known, but is truly amazing. It is a haunting story that has been one of my favorites since high school. ![]() I Am Legend is not a huge book, based on length alone, but the weight and gravitas of this story goes beyond any measure. Well friends, since I have mentioned this book so many times in my book tags over the past few weeks, I decided to finally post a review for you guys. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet’s intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.” “He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. ![]() |