![]() I sometimes reflect on this, though, I own, too seldom. ![]() “I am sensible,” he wrote to his most intimate friend, “I am sensible of having more follies and weaknesses and fewer real good qualities than most men. But he was not an empty idler, and there were seasons when he could become a sharp judge of himself. ![]() He had social wit, and liked to put it to small uses. Horace Walpole idled, and amused himself with the small life of the fashionable world to which he was proud of belonging, though he had a quick eye for its vanities. As Usher of the Exchequer, Comptroller of the Pipe, and Clerk of the Estreats in the Exchequer, he received nearly two thousand a year for doing nothing, lived with his father, and amused himself. Horace Walpole went from Eton to King’s College, Cambridge, and entered Parliament in 1741, the year before his father’s final resignation and acceptance of an earldom. ![]() In 1739 Gray was travelling-companion with Walpole in France and Italy until they differed and parted but the friendship was afterwards renewed, and remained firm to the end. Horace Walpole was educated at Eton, where he formed a school friendship with Thomas Gray, who was but a few months older. He was born in 1717, the year in which his father resigned office, remaining in opposition for almost three years before his return to a long tenure of power. Horace Walpole was the youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, the great statesman, who died Earl of Orford. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments Shot through the hearth![]() ![]() “Bring everybody together for the first course of maybe a Waldorf salad or pumpkin soup,” she says. Morgan believes hosts can provide the best of both worlds for their Thanksgiving guests by offering a “seated buffet.” Here’s how: Set up the dinner table with the good china and silverware used for formal dining, then load up a kitchen island, sideboard or kitchen table with the food. “Today’s entertaining is more flexible and less formal,” says the author of “Fresh Traditions: Classic Dishes for a Contemporary Lifestyle” (Cumberland House). This should be a laid-back holiday for hosts and guests, according to cookbook author Jorj Morgan. Save formal seated dining for Christmas or New Year’s Day celebrations.Įntertaining experts say Thanksgiving Day - with its comfort foods and football games - is tailor-made for an easygoing buffet. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments 100 bullets omnibus vol 1![]() But beyond the fundamental dilemma of whether or not to pull the trigger, there is a deeper and even more troubling question that everyone who picks up the briefcase must ask themselves: Just who is making all of this possible-and why? This second volume omnibus collects 100 Bullets #59-100 and 100 Bullets: Brother Lono #1-8! About the Author: Brian Azzarello has been writing comics professionally since the mid-1990s. ![]() To the damaged and downtrodden living on the fringes of society, Graves's offer is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to even their scores. The Eisner Award-winning and bestselling crime graphic novel series 100 Bullets collection continues in this incredible omnibus volume! If your life was destroyed, and you knew that those responsible would never be held to account, how far would you go to get revenge? If you were given a chance to kill anyone you wanted, with a guarantee that the law could not touch you, would you take it? That's the opportunity that a man called Agent Graves provides, in the form of a special case containing a gun, a hundred rounds of ammunition, and total immunity for their use. ![]() ![]() When George Clooney Tanuwijaya’s father (who is obsessed with American celebrities) fears he no longer understands how to get through to his son, he decides to take matters into his own hands. Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository | Indigo | IndieBoundĪn outrageous, laugh-out-loud YA rom-com about a girl who’s whisked from LA to her mother’s native Indonesia to get back to her roots and finds herself fake-dating the son of one of the wealthiest families there, from the author of Dial A for Aunties.Īfter Sharlot Citra’s mother catches her in a compromising position, she finds herself whisked away from LA to her mother’s native Indonesia. Stratospherekawaiigirl – Promotional PostĬozybooktraveller – Top 5 Reasons to Read Well, That Was Unexpected & Playlist ![]() Thebookishbrief – Promotional Post & Tik Tok Thisreadergirl – Review & Favorite Quotesīelle.bookcorner -Review & Favorite Quotes books – Top 5 Reasons to Read Well, That Was Unexpected Tinybooknest – 15 Reactions While Reading Well, That Was UnexpectedĬrimson. ![]() The Book Review Crew – Review & Favorite Quotesįar from perfect – Review & Favorite Quotes ![]() ![]() The Literary Huntress – Review & Playlist Epic Book Society – Top 5 Reasons to Read Well, That Was Unexpected & Favorite QuotesĬurrant7 Recommends – Review & Favorite Quotes ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Jean's Two Schools by Ethel Talbot![]() ![]() And then, as Head Girl, she has to deal with a new girl. Jean’s second school, a conventionally sporty public school, finds her an earnest student whose previous experience makes her thoughtful, but maybe a little too thoughtful and detached. ![]() Jean at her first school is led into cheating on a test by a love of popularity, and it’s the wise advice of her first head, who believes she will make good, that pushes her to transform. This is one of Ethel Talbot’s more substantial books - though some of that is due to a rather repetitious style. And then, as Head Girl, she found herself faced with a situation that brought that struggle back all over again. Jean was expelled from her first school, and it was the memory of that which made her determined to make good at her second. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments J elle ashes of gold![]() ![]() When a betrayal sends her into a tailspin, Rue must decide who to trust and how to be the leader that her people deserve, because if she doesn’t, it isn’t just Yiyo that will be destroyed-it will be Rue herself. Yet even on Yiyo Peak, Rue is a misfit with half a foot back in Houston and a heart that is half human, half god, she’s not sure she’s the right person to lead the fight to reclaim a glorious past. Rue vows that when she reunites with them, she will find a way to return the magic that the Chancellor has stolen from her father’s people. Girls from East Row break themselves out.īut getting free and finding her friends is only half the battle. Girls from East Row pick themselves back up when they fall. Rue has no memory of how she ended up locked in a basement prison without her magic or her allies. In the “thrilling…masterful” ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review) conclusion to the Wings of Ebony duology, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicole Yoon calls “bold, inventive, big-hearted, and deeply perceptive,” Rue makes her final stand to reclaim her people’s stolen magic. ![]() ![]() This time around, she'll be the one in the driver's seat, and she plans on driving him wild. ![]() He wants her back? He'll have to work for it. If Logan expects her to roll over and beg like all his other puck bunnies, he can think again. She's not a charity case, and she's not the quiet butterfly she was when they first hooked up. A sexy encounter with freshman Grace Ivers is just the distraction he needs, but when a thoughtless mistake pushes her away, Logan plans to spend his final year proving to her that he's worth a second chance.Īfter a less than stellar freshman year, Grace is back at Briar University, older, wiser, and so over the arrogant hockey player she nearly handed her V-card to. For this hockey star, life is a parade of parties and hookups, but behind his killer grins and easygoing charm, he hides growing despair about the dead-end road he'll be forced to walk after graduation. College junior John Logan can get any girl he wants. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Truly madly yours![]() ![]() Because she’d have to be crazy to want to have anything to do with him anyway. So staying put seems like her only choice.īut then there’s the will’s other condition – the one about having nothing to do with sexy, brooding, love-’em-and-leave-’em, Nick Allegrezza. But the will has some unexpected conditions – like the one that says if Delaney wants her three million dollar inheritance she needs to stay put… for a year! Twelve months in Truly will drive her nuts… although not as nuts as she’d be to leave and forfeit the money. Arriving in the town of Truly, Idaho, for the reading of her stepfather’s will, her plan was to pay her respects and then leave again as fast as she could. ![]() This one is a real treat (just check out the amazon reviews for verification!).ĭelaney Shaw is mad – really mad. ![]() acquired in June 2022.īecause there are a mahoosive amount of Little Black Dress books out there, we thought we would bring some of the older (but still fabulous) publications to your attention. This post was originally published at and is now at. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The case for rational compassion![]() ![]() Paul Bloom discusses this issue in his book, Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion. What I am saying is that empathy isn’t the way to avoid mistreating people like that. No, I’m not suggesting that we should just do whatever we want to our fellow human beings with no regard to what our actions put them through. That said, nobody is perfect – and in the case of these two individuals, their endorsement of empathy as the solution to moral crisis is among their flaws – and pretty huge among their flaws at that. ![]() Everyone, from George Lakoff to Barack Obama seems to suggest that empathy will make us a more ethical, more moral, stronger society.Now, I definitely am a fan of Obama, and I also believe that Lakoff has many important things to teach. The thing that I’m referring to is empathy. You hear people talk about it all the time, as though it were the solution to all the problems of the country, even the world – or at least most of those problems. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments The Finders by Jeffrey B. Burton![]() He has a mentor with a much more extensive track record. Turns out the velvet choker killer is not acting alone. The trail leads to a home with a hidden basement room, and, well, you can guess the rest. Vira had no clues to this man’s involvement, no scent on the remains, but incredibly she picks him out of the curious crowd of onlookers at the crime scene. When a rescued golden retriever named Vira suddenly lands in his lap, he starts to take an interest in the new team member and in the female cop, Kippy, who saved the dog from a grim fate and delivered her to his door.Īfter Vira performs a near-miracle at the next crime scene, Mace helps track down a serial operative who kidnaps girls and keeps them until he tires of them, killing them and tying a velvet choker around their necks. His recent divorce still haunts him, and he lost his favorite dog. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Jeffrey Burton’s The Finders, Mace has had a lousy year. As a human remains recovery specialist, he helps out at crime scenes with his team of cadaver dogs – who, as any dog lover knows, has become his family. ![]() |