The result is a deliciously funny, fact-filled, and adventurous. Urn:oclc:807865210 Republisher_operator Scandate 20111223073100 Scanner . In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the friendliest inhabitants, the hottest, driest weather, and the most peculiar and lethal wildlife to be found on the planet. ISBN: ISBN13: 9780767903851 In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 4.69 - 5.59 Paperback 4.69 - 16.47 Audio CD - Audio Cassette - Select Condition Like New - Very Good 4.69 Good 5.59 Acceptable 4.79 New - See All 19 Editions from 4. OL74127W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.68 Pages 330 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:038540817X It is the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. Australia is a country that exists on a vast scale. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:58:33 Boxid IA141817 Boxid_2 CH120121106-BL1 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, NY Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st ed External-identifier In a Sunburned Country is his report on what he found there-a deliciously funny, fact-filled, and adventurous performance by a writer who combines humor, wonder, and unflagging curiosity.
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I will even say that by no means is this book a classic of any genre, but it is a book I have read several times over. Heinlein has some themes that are in most if not all of his books, this one being the importance of procreation, along with the search for immortality, free love, and the differences and relationship between emotional love and sexual experience. Sure, the moral comes late and doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the rest of the story. Many will say that this is not one of Heinlein’s best books. What Johann hadn’t counted on was his new body being that of his young, attractive and female secretary, Eunice. When money is nothing, attempting a very risky and very controversial brain transplant is nothing. Smith had grown quite old, and in keeping with the human condition wanted to find a way to extend his rapidly closing life. Have you ever wondered to yourself, “What would it be like to be a member of the opposite gender?” Well that’s not what Johann Smith was thinking when he sent out an advertisement rewarding one million dollars for a brain dead patient with his rare blood type. NOTE: Major spoilers ahead! If you haven’t read Jade Fire Gold yet, go read it and come back! This discussion post will be here when you’re done.īefore we really dig in, let’s talk about our reading experience! How did you like Jade Fire Gold? But they may have to pay a far deadlier price than either could have imagined.įerocious action, shadowy intrigue, and a captivating romance collide in June CL Tan’s debut, a stunning homage to the Xianxia novel with a tender, beating heart, perfect for fans of The Bone Witch and We Hunt the Flame. Ahn sees a way to finally unlock her past and understand her arcane magical abilities. When they meet, Altan sees in Ahn a path to reclaiming the throne. The consensus among us co-bloggers as we were reading was that we couldn’t put it down! Without further ado, read on to learn more about Jade Fire Gold, followed by our (very spoiler-y) group discussion:Īhn is no one, with no past and no family.Īltan is a lost heir, his future stolen away as a child. A soaring, vividly written fantasy inspired by Chinese mythology, Jade Fire Gold is an absolute must-read, especially for YA fantasy fans. She used to spend her days writing federal grant proposals as a biomedical researcher, but now she writes kissing books. The guy who has a proposition she should definitely refuse. Penny Reid is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of the Winston Brothers and Knitting in the City series. The guy who is drunk and needs a ride home. except that one guy she's loved since preschool. Privy to all the sad stories of her customers, 'contentment over commitment' is her motto, and Abby is convinced no one on earth could ever entice her into a romantic relationship. Rex is sick of being the guy before the husband, and he's most definitely sick of being the best man at all their weddings.īartender Abigail McNerny is the gal-pal, the wing-woman, the she-BFF. He may be a pro-football defensive end for the Chicago Squalls, but the press only wants to talk about how he's always a groomsman and never a groom. Rex "TW" McMurtry's perpetual single-hood wouldn't bother him so much if all his ex-girlfriends didn't keep marrying the very next person they dated, especially when so many of those grooms are his closest friends. Though this model of relationship-as-power-struggle is hardly new, Dolan brings a fresh 21st-century sensibility to it. Ava makes it her mission to get him to admit some feelings for her, purely because it would give her the upper hand. His privilege is the invisible third party in the relationship. Julian, her posh banker boyfriend, has such an apartment – which is just as well, since he also has an arrogance to match his salary. It’s a brilliantly concise summation of her take on relationships, which she sees as a power game, an “ultimately shallow emotional transaction” in which the greatest potential benefit might be that you get to move into an apartment better than anything you can afford on your own. A va, a 22-year-old Dubliner living in Hong Kong, describes herself as “good at men”. But after getting into an argument with a man on an online forum about what pregnancy feels like, she published a section of her draft in which a character vividly recounts her pregnancy. When she started writing the novel, she never intended for anyone to read it, let alone publish it-it was originally just a practice book. If Gabaldon had stuck to her original plans, Outlander never would have become the sensation it is today. Diana Gabaldon never intended to publish Outlander. Here are a few facts you should know about the novel and the book series it launched. The two are the stars of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series, a genre-bending whirlwind of romance, historical, and science fiction that has also become a hit Starz television show. Readers have swooned over Jamie Fraser’s love for his time-traveling wife Claire since 1991. A moral sense of knowing the difference between right and wrong and of being governed by it. But something more seems to me to have happened, and that is the loss of-and now I get moralistic - of a moral sense, which I think has caused a great deal of change from the kind of people we were. A negative vision, you know, like stopping the Russians, or containing the Russians, or whatever, doesn’t get anybody very excited. We have nothing that’s exhilarating, nothing that’s drawing us forward. And that was extremely-that was very exhilarating, the idea that they had the opportunity to create a new political system. I don’t think they thought at the beginning of establishing a new form of government, but very soon they realized that that was what they were doing. You asked the question not long ago, “What’s happened to the America of Washington, Adams, and Jefferson?” In writing The First Salute, have you found the answer?īARBARA TUCHMAN: It was terribly exciting, the American Revolution. I think we should have a law of some kind that would require political appearance to be live. BILL MOYERS: Would you ban the use of the political commercial, the 30-second, the 60-second spot?īARBARA TUCHMAN: Oh, yes. To see my Fancast/Dreamcast of the whole series – Click HERE Total Star Rating: 4.75 Stars To see my review of book #6 – Tower of Dawn – Click HERE To see my review of book #5 – Empire of Storms – Click HERE To see my review of book #4 – Queen of Shadows – Click HERE To see my review of book #3 – Heir of Fire – Click HERE To see my review of book #0.5 – The Assassin’s Blade – Click HERE To see my review of book #2 – Crown of Midnight – Click HERE To see my review of book #1 – Throne of Glass – Click HERE ***Warning!! This review contains spoilers for this book and the whole series, so continue reading at your own risk! You’ve officially been warned!!*** Genre(s): YA Fantasy, YA Romance, New Adult Romance When the couple are the victims of a vicious attack that leaves Duraid dead, Royan realises that she must continue their joint work: to use the secrets of the seventh scroll to find the hidden tomb of Pharaoh Mamose, and its untold trove of lost Egyptian riches. BOOK 2 IN THE ICONIC ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SERIES, BY THE MASTER OF ADVENTURE, WILBUR SMITH 'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King 'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times 'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The Times 'No one does adventure quite like Smith' - Daily Mirror AN ANCIENT SCROLL A 4,000 YEAR OLD LEGACY A BATTLE FOR THE TRUTH It is 4,000 years since the battle for the Egyptian Kingdom, and Duraid and Royan al Simma have just uncovered the tomb of the ancient Egyptian Queen, Lostris, alongside the secret scrolls of the most trusted servant of the Pharaoh, Taita. The 200 employees who worked overtime for six years with the hopes that their stock options would make them richĪre working elsewhere, some still harboring resentment toward Kaplan and AT&T.ĭuring an interview this week, Kaplan said his major mistake was "not being sufficiently paranoid." The money EO had raised - $40 million from venture capitalists and large corporations - is spent. Less than 10,000 units of the company's product were ever shipped. Today, everything from GO is gone, with the exception of a few thousand EOs that are gathering dust in AT&T's closets and a couple that Kaplan has kept for note taking. In 1987, Kaplan formed GO, whose major product was the EO (Latin for go) Personal Communicator, a thin, tablet-shaped portable computer. Instead of typing, a user would write on the screen. Working at Lotus Development Corp., Kaplan got the idea that the next generation of computers would be hand-held digital notepads. |