Point Blanc is the second book in the Alex Rider series, written by British author Anthony Horowitz. The book was released in the United Kingdom on September 3, 2001 …
Weirdly, a teen is recruited by MI6 to infiltrate the Point Blanc Academy in the French Alps.
It’s something like a teen 007 saving the world through an incredible series of unlikely events.
Miley Cyrus created a new Backyard Sessions series and invited special musical guests to perform with her to make these music video collaborations.
The Happy Hippie Foundation is a nonprofit organization that rallies young people to fight injustice facing homeless youth, LGBT youth, and other vulnerable populations.
Miley invited Melanie in 2015 for a duet on her classic.
I tried a second book in the very popular Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths.
Well written. But not really my cup of tea.
Ruth is a forensic archaeologist who assists the police from time to time with investigations.
In this book she is the harried mother of a toddler, asked to investigate an archeological study that had been unearthed by a College friend. Close to Blackpool, England.
It appears he had been murdered, perhaps due to the nature of the dig.
The plot is interesting. But Ruth’s complaints and worries eventually began to wear on me.
I feel the GOP USA has only one overriding goal ➙ make the rich, richer.
To that end they don’t want to improve education, health care, nor raise the minimum wage.
Greedy Americans are why there’s so much poverty in the most affluent nation of the world.
Green River, Utah
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of Evicted, Matthew Desmond, reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.
The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy.
Why?
Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages? …
We ate most of our meals at the house. One restaurant blowout was hosted at Zac’s.
The infamous mountain bike circuit is called Slickrock Trail. I survived it in 2007 and did NOT want to risk a second time. BUT some of our group cycled it safely. Jeni and I hiked Slickrock.
Following the event, mainstream religions declined, and a number of cults emerged, most notably the Guilty Remnant, a group of white-clothed, chain-smoking nihilists, …
This show is skillfully done. It’s surprising. Never cliche.
That said, there was not one character I could cheer for.
Not Justin Theroux as Kevin Garvey, Mapleton’s troubled chief of police. Theroux is just as unlikeable in a later series – The Mosquito Coast, based on the novel by his uncle Paul Theroux.
Ann Dowd is excellent, as always. A role something similar to how she played Aunt Lydia Clements in Handmaid’s Tale. Not likeable.
Liv Tyler as Megan “Meg” Abbott is beautiful. But I did not like her.
Paterson Joseph as Henry “Holy Wayne” Gilchrest is somewhat interesting as the charismatic leader of another cult. Ultimately a bad guy.
Perhaps the one character I partly related to was Christopher Eccleston as Matt Jamison, a Reverend.
I’ll probably continue with the next 2 seasons as they are considered better. In fact, Leftovers was the highest ranked show of the 2010s by Metacritic’s aggregate.
I’d heard the hype — but didn’t rush to get a copy. The plot didn’t sound all that intriguing.
Over the course of three decades, the relationship between two friends, Sadie Green and Sam Masur, changes as they develop video games.
But it is fantastic. A modern classic.
Delightful. Original. Charming.
All true.
Modern and philosophical.
How many novels feature a love story where the couple are not sexually involved?
All that said, I found the second half of the book not nearly as good as the beginning. Anticipating a poor ending — I am pleased to say the wrap-up is very well done.
Rick McCharles 