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5/13/2023 0 Comments Extreme ownership by jocko willink“Combat is reflective of life, only amplified and intensified.” – Jocko WillinkĨ. Therefore, leaders must enforce standards.” – Jocko Willinkħ. “When setting expectations, no matter what has been said or written, if substandard performance is accepted and no one is held accountable - if there are no consequences - that poor performance becomes the new standard. military, much like militaries throughout history, are based around building blocks of four-to-six man teams with a leader.” – Jocko WillinkĦ. “Overconfidence was risky in such a hostile environment, a mistake most often made by warriors who had never truly been tested.” – Jocko Willinkĥ. Decentralized Command is a key component to victory.” – Jocko WillinkĤ. “In chaotic, dynamic, and rapidly changing environments, leaders at all levels must be empowered to make decisions. They must have nothing to prove, but everything to prove.” – Jocko Willinkģ. A leader must exercise ‘extreme ownership’, but employ ‘decentralized command’. They must be close to subordinates, but not too close. A leader must be humble, but not passive. “A leader must be attentitive to details, but not obssessed with them. They must have a competitive spirit, but be a gracious loser.” – Jocko WillinkĢ. A leader must be brave, but not foolhardy. They must be aggressive, but not overbearing. “A leader must lead, but also be ready to follow. 5/13/2023 0 Comments The forbidden candyman bookThe film itself is an anthology and tells three separate stories that follow the adventures of three individuals: Jenna, Miles, and Bennett. It’s worth noting that this film is not a direct retelling of Clive Barker’s short stories, but rather a loose adaptation of two stories from his anthology collection. As such, I had high hopes going in that this film would capture the magic and macabre that follows Clive Barker’s work. From his work on the Hellraiser franchise, to the Candyman franchise inspired by his short story The Forbidden, to the first adaptation of his anthology series Books of Blood in the 2009 film of the same name, Clive Barker’s work is no stranger to the film genre. As an avid Clive Barker fan, I was delighted to learn that there was another adaptation of one of his classic short stories, The Book of Blood. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Dante and valentina cora reillyI won't say Val deserves all those shit but I understand how Dante felt. But I won't say I hate him for that, because devil or not, it's hard to get over someone you loved who died in your arms. Emotionally by trying to stay loyal to his first wife. True, Dante was an asshole to her but at least he didn't cheat on her. “I knew my stubbornness would come in handy one day.” “Thank you for never giving up on me, Val.” Will Valentina have to through another mariage being neglected and second best? Will Dante finally open up to her and leave the past behind? She had to watch her first marriage go downhill but she's determined to make her second marriage work this time. Now she's marrying the youngest Head of the Outfit who seemed to lost the wife he loved most. Her first husband who was her best friend who loved her like a sister was gone. Valentina, a woman with a loyal heart and a fiery passion. The soft threads on his head might look like sunshine but the thoughts and feelings inside is lifeless and full of dark storms. “I’ll try to be the best husband I can possibly be, which probably is still much less than you deserve.”ĭante Cavalloro, Head of the Chicago Outfit, a broken man who killed the woman he vowed to love until death, a heartless devil without mercy, a cold hearted bastard who doesn't trust anyone. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Circe novelDuring a recent talk between Miller and Penn professor and translator Emily Wilson, hosted by Sweet Briar College, Miller pointed out that “in particular, women in mythology are really veiled and otherised.” Her work also takes interest in other silent figures from Homer. She looks for the characters who have traditionally been objectified in translation, specifically female characters such as Circe and Odysseus’ wife, Penelope, who plays a major role in the novel. When it comes to historical retellings, Miller knows what she’s doing. The book provided an escape from the pandemic, transporting me from lockdown to the isle of Aiaia in the far distant past. Two years later, while in quarantine back in my high school bedroom, I finally read Circe. I first was introduced to Miller’s Circe in March 2018, a month before its publication, at a promotional reading by Miller at my high school. In a new retelling of this familiar story from antiquity, Madeline Miller expands the witch’s short role in the Odyssey into a full novel, Circe, which illuminates her story in a feminist light while harkening back to Homer’s epic. While the legendary epic doesn’t tell us much about her background, we know she’s wily like Odysseus she has magical powers and turns men to pigs, seemingly for fun. If you’ve read the Odyssey, you remember the enchantress Circe. Credit: Madeline Miller Circe : A Human Witch? Reviewing Madeline Miller’s “Epic” 5/13/2023 0 Comments The years of rice and saltHistory teaches us that a third of Europe's population was destroyed. "A thoughtful, magisterial alternate history from one of science fiction's most important writers."- The New York Times Book Review It is the fourteenth century and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur-the coming of the Black Death. In his grandest work yet, the acclaimed storyteller constructs a world vastly different from the one we know. About the Book Hailed by "The New York Times Book Review" as "eye-opening, " this alternative history of the last 600 years begins as the Black Death kills nearly everyone in Europe, and China, India, and the nations of Islam now control the world.īook Synopsis With the same unique vision that brought his now classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Victorian holocaustsChapters brilliantly reconstruct the political, economic, ecological and racial climate of the time, as well as the horrific deaths by hunger and thirst that besieged the peasantries of the afflicted c0untries. Davis dives into the data and journalism of the period with a vengeance, showing that the seemingly unprecedented droughts across northern Africa, India and China in the 1870s and 1890s are consistent with what we now know to be El Ni o's effects, and that it was political and market forces (which are never impersonal, Davis insists), and not a lack of potential stores and transportation, that kept grain from the more than 50 million people who starved to death. Its subject is nothing less than the creation of what we now call ""The Third World,"" through a complex series of seemingly disparate natural and market-related events beginning in the 1870s. While this book will not have the impact of Davis's City of Quartz-a scathing indictment of L.A.'s environmental ravagement, economic disparity and racial divides-in a perfect world, it would. For weeks, Marianne, I’ve had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. “What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. “Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.” “If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.” Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.” “It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy - it is disposition alone. “That Marianne found her own happiness in forming his, was equally the persuasion and delight of each observing friend.” “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. 5/13/2023 0 Comments The ten tiny breaths seriesAfter all, Charlie Rourke doesn’t really exist-and the girl pretending to be her can’t get distracted by romance. And though her fellow dancers seem eager to nab their sexy, sophisticated, and genuinely caring boss, she’s not interested. Taking her clothes off for men makes her stomach curl, but Charlie tells herself that at least she’s putting her acting and dancing skills to good use. Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Rourke needs a lot of money, really fast, in order to vanish before it’s too late. But being around Charlie challenges Cain’s self-control.and it’s been a long time since any woman has done that. Cain abides by a strict “no sleeping with his staff” rule. And then blond, brown-eyed Charlie Rourke walks through his door, and things get really complicated. With long hours, a staff with enough issues to keep a psych ward in business, and the police regularly on his case, twenty-nine-year-old Cain is starting to second-guess his unspoken mission to save the women he employs. Owning a strip club isn’t the fantasy most guys expect it to be. When a gorgeous young dancer walks through his door, a strip club owner must decide whether to follow his rules or his heart in the third novel by the author of One Tiny Lie and Ten Tiny Breaths. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Madame bovary trialIn this book I argue that the trial processed as ordinary crime what was, in significant and special ways, ideological or political crime. The trial posed a mystery at the time of its occurrence-what were its real grounds?-and it has continued to do so ever since. In light of these considerations, it is surprising that so little has been written about the famous trial of Flaubert in 1857 for outrage to public morality and religion. At times the trials of important writers provide special insight into the complex way literature is a contestatory force in modern culture-a force that may even have political implications. For a trial is a locus of social reading that brings out conventions of interpretation in a key institution-the judicial system-and the way a text is read at a trial has decisive significance for the literary and the ordinary life of the writer. One particularly fruitful approach to the study of reception is to examine the reading or interpretation texts receive at trials. This focus indicates an obvious point where intellectual history and literary history converge, for intellectual history is profoundly concerned with the interaction between texts and their various contexts. In recent years much attention has been focused on the reception or reading of texts as a way of renewing our understanding of literary history. |