![]() ![]() Do you think that Daphne saw Amber as a minor character in her own life at first?Ħ. ![]() One of the interesting things about this book is the way in which seemingly minor characters can end up playing a larger role. Do you think their suspicions of her are based on superficial factors like her lack of wealth, or do they sense something about her that doesn't add up?ĥ. Amber gets a cold reception from the other women on Daphne's charity board. ![]() In what ways is Amber right about this, and what are some of the residents of Bishops Harbor lacking? With a widening gap between the haves and have-nots, is it fair to feel a sense of anger at the top 1%?Ĥ. Liv Constantine has set this novel in a very wealthy town, one in which the characters seem to Amber to have everything. What makes it so fun to read about an antiheroine or antihero? Did you find yourself rooting for Amber as she planned to take down Daphne?ģ. Have you ever experienced this in your life where you've misjudged a person based on appearances?Ģ. A major theme in the book is the idea that things are rarely what they seem on the outside. ![]()
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![]() ![]() W HEN I ENCOUNTERED HER AT THE H ONG K ONG AIRPORT, A cigarette dangling from her free hand, I had never met anyone like Kate Webb. Deeply reported and filled with personal letters, interviews, and profound insight, You Don’t Belong Here fills a void in the history of women and of war. What emerges is an unforgettable story of three journalists forging their place in a land of men, often at great personal sacrifice. Arriving herself in the last years of the war, Becker writes as a historian and a witness of the times. ![]() In You Don’t Belong Here, Elizabeth Becker uses these women’s work and lives to illuminate the Vietnam War from the 1965 American buildup, the expansion into Cambodia, and the American defeat and its aftermath. At a time when women were considered unfit to be foreign reporters, Frankie, Catherine, and Kate challenged the rules imposed on them by the military, ignored the belittlement of their male peers, and ultimately altered the craft of war reportage for generations. Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Hugh howey![]() ![]() It was a bit ‘Mad Max’ and ‘Waterworld’ (but replace the water with sand.) where society lives on dunes that rest atop the ‘old world’ hundreds of meters below. SAND was a book I read immediately after I devoured the Silo Saga and loved the vividness of the world and the society of ‘divers’ in the high-tech dystopian steampunk world. But when an atomic bomb delivered by a stranger destroys most of her town-murdering all her friends and community-she follows her father to a strange land of dunes to bring vengeance to their enemies. On the other side of No Man’s Land, Anya was born beside the abundant mines knowing her prospects would be to marry, have a family, and work in ore, in service to the Empire of the East. But these branches of their family tree are long gone, disappeared into the wastes beyond, leaving the younger siblings scratching in the dust, hopeful for a better life. They live in the shadow of their father and oldest sister, Vic, two of the greatest sand divers ever to comb the desert’s depths. In this barren home, siblings Conner, Rob, Palmer and Violet daily carve out a future. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes, a land of howling wind and infernal sand. The first original novel from author Hugh Howey in six years, Across the Sand takes us back to the world of Sand, to a far future many generations after a disaster has destroyed civilization as we know it, where four siblings struggle to build their futures amid the harsh wastes of endless desert. ![]() |