5/30/2023 0 Comments Then There Was You by Kara Isaac![]() ![]() The very well written script poses philosophical questions such as is there moral or immoral ways to treat AI. How we interact with AI as humans, as well as how a seductive machine could in turn manipulate us. The central concept that it examines is artificial intelligence. That's not to say it isn't dramatic or even thrilling because it is both of those things as well but the focus is squarely on the science fiction speculation, and this is a very welcome thing. ![]() It's a hard sci-fi movie which examines concepts and ideas above everything else. Despite contributing several scripts for the screen, this is writer Alex Garland's first directorial effort. ![]() Specifically he is tasked with using the Turing test on her to establish if her AI is sufficiently convincing to pass as human. A reclusive CEO of a leading technology company hires a young whiz kid who works for him to test his latest development, a highly advanced android called Ava. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments She hulk by peter david omnibus![]() ![]() She She-Hulk has lost her license to be a lawyer. She-Hulk by Peter David was better than expected even if it feels a little uneven and cut short. ![]() I could def read more adventures with She-Hulk as a bounty hunter. It was great seeing some of the Lady Liberators show up along with the other cameos. Or the bit where Jen’s friend gets captured and Jen has to chose on letting out a big secret in order to help her. From some people in this foreign country dealing with a natural disaster where their dictator won’t help and has been hoarding all the supplies and aid that has been sent. There were a couple of different serious as hell story beats that Peter David gets into. The book is action packed and remains great as we get into the Secret Invasion tie in stuff that also crosses over with Peter David’s X-Factor. A few different artists in this one and they all do a good job. Jen is also working with a partner who has some of her luggage that comes calling later on. ![]() Pretty cool! Also, great fight with Creel. Something happens to Jen here that had me scratching my head like wait, what? Shortly afterwards you learn the twist that happened. The person she is chasing first has a relative, Creel, the absorbing man. Jen is no longer practicing law but now she a bounty hunter chasing down criminals who have skipped bail. ![]() The book starts off with big action from the jump. Awesome!!! This was my favorite out of the She-Hulk omnibuses. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You know me, I don't need much encouragement - a few of you have said you'd like to see what I read so here we go! In future I'll do each month's reading at the end of the month but here are the first five months together. I enjoyed the characters and style of writing and highly recommend it. Love Finds You in Snowball, Arkansas - Sandra D Bricker ![]() It's the first of the series and I plan to read every book this author has written.Īlways the Designer, Never the Bride - Sandra D Bricker I do like the old-fashioned language and the way things are phrased but it was a relief when I finally finished it.Īlways the Baker, Never the Bride - Sandra D Bricker I guess because I've been really busy and tired I just found it a chore to have to concentrate so hard. I really wanted to read this but oh my word was it hard work. This was recommended by a friend and I really enjoyed it! There's a twist that makes it really interesting. As always, clicking the picture or title will take you to the book on Amazon so you can read what it's about, but you may have to disable your ad-blocking software to see the pictures. Here's what I read in June, and my thoughts on each book. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Miracle creek book![]() ![]() The patients had all gathered together only once: last July, at the orientation outside the barn. On the right, behind the prosecution, she glimpsed familiar faces, those of their patients’ families. Wasn’t that why brides wore veils-to protect them from stares, to mute the redness of their cheeks? She glanced to the sides. Modesty, blending in, invisibility: those were the virtues of wives, not notoriety and gaudiness. She kept her head down, just as she had at her wedding twenty years ago she wasn’t usually the focus of attention, and it felt wrong. The small courtroom even looked like an old church, with creaky wooden pews on both sides of the aisle. If it weren’t for the variety in hair color and the snippets of whispers in English as she walked down the aisle-“Look, the owners,” “The daughter was in a coma for months, poor thing,” “He’s paralyzed, so awful”-she might have thought she was still in Korea. Certainly, her wedding was the last time-the only time-that a roomful of people had fallen silent and turned to stare as she entered. ![]() SHE FELT LIKE A BRIDE walking into the courtroom. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Clockwork angel book![]() ![]() The plot is beyond goodness,and it has every paranormal creature.The book is written in third person and who knows me knows that I don't like books in third person but in this one I didn't mind at all.It was perfectly build and the story fits well with characters,their personality with their actions,the style of talking with the time book is written in.Everything is in the right place. ![]() “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.” I never thought this could be that good.I had started "City of Bones" (the first book of The Mortal Instruments by the same author) but it didn't work for me so I thought this could be the same but I was totally wrong.This was an art,a fine peace of art.I read it in one day.Literally couldn't put the book down for a second.Everything is perfect and matches, and I really dig the lifestyle of the time before two hundred years,the classy outfits and the funny teasing. ![]() You can find the full review and more about this book on my blog! “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Emezi pet![]() No one has encountered monsters in years, though, and Jam's quest to protect her best friend and uncover the truth is met with doubt and disbelief. Pet has emerged from one of her mother's paintings to hunt a true monster - and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption's house. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature who some might call monstrous but, in reality, is anything but, she must reconsider what she's been told. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with the lesson that the city is safe for everyone. There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. The award-winning, genre-defying novel by the New York Times best-selling author of The Death of Vivek Oji that explores themes of identity and justice and asks: How do you share the truth when the world around you is in denial? Pet is a nesting doll of creative possibilities." ( The New York Times ) ![]() ![]() ![]() The author uses visual imagery to further the effects of his tone throughout the story. That is that death is inevitable and all that mortal men can to is postpone its effects. All these words which purposely hold a bleak tone instill in the reader a mood of hopelessness that drives the theme that the author believes. While explaining the condition the author decides to use an austere, somber diction like the phrases, “rolled themselves slowly open”, disappearing upward”, “cadaverous hue”, and “went out at once”. We see this in the story as he says,”The eyes rolled themselves slowly open, the pupils disappearing upwardly the skin generally assumed a cadaverous hue, resembling not so much parchment as white paper and the circular hectic spots which, hitherto, had been strongly defined in the centre of each cheek, went out at once.”. Through his melancholy tone and visual and auditory imagery poe conveys his repeated theme of how he believes that no matter what death is unavoidable.Įdgar allan poe is a written known for his bleak and hopeless stories that he conveys to the reader through the tone he uses as he writes. ![]() ![]() valdemar, edgar allan poe portrays for the readers an all to common conflict between man and nature. In the short story, the facts in the case of m. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments The glass menagerie book online![]() ![]() ![]() He explains the concept of a memory play. Tom Wingfield is in the fire-escape area outside the Wingfield apartment. The set has an interior living room area and an exterior fire escape. The setting is the Wingfield apartment in a shabby tenement building, in Saint Louis, Missouri, in the year 1937. The play is also almost unique historically, in that it first opened in Chicago, came close to flopping before Chicago newspaper theater critics verbally whipped people into going, and then played successfully for months in Chicago before finally moving to equal success in New York. ![]() Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie (1944) was regarded when first produced as highly unusual one of the play’s four characters serves as commentator as well as participant the play itself represents the memories of the commentator years later, and hence, as he says, is not a depiction of actuality its employment of symbolism is unusual and in the very effective ending, a scrim descends in front of mother and daughter, so that by stage convention one can see but not hear them, with the result that both, but especially the mother, become much more moving and even archetypal. Analysis of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerieīy NASRULLAH MAMBROL on Octo ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Optimism voltaire![]() ![]() It is also commonly known as the ‘Age of Reason’, although some say this is misleading (Porter 2001). In short, the Enlightenment was an intellectual movement beginning in the late 17 th century and continuing into the 18 th century, which emphasised reason and individualism instead of tradition. ![]() ![]() In particular, I am going to critically discuss the significance of optimism in Candide, a major recurring theme in the novel that Voltaire attacks.īefore we discuss Candide, we must first understand what the Enlightenment was. In this essay, therefore, I will discuss Candide and its impact on the Age of the Enlightenment. Candide quickly became a bestseller of the European book trade in the eighteenth century at least 20,000 copies of the book were sold within a month of its publication and, consequently, has become one of the key texts of the Enlightenment (Pearson 2008). Candide (1759), or Optimism, is a French satire written by Voltaire (1694 – 1778), a philosopher of the Enlightenment. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Come back to me jody hedlund![]() ![]() William Durham, a valiant knight comes to Marian's rescue and offers her protection.as his wife. Until Marian tests his theories and finds herself in the Middle Ages during a dangerous peasant uprising. He's left behind tantalizing clues that suggest he's crossed back in time. But when her father falls into a coma after drinking a vial of holy water believed to contain traces of residue from the Tree of Life, Marian must question all of her assumptions. That's exactly what research scientist Marian Creighton has always believed about her father's quest, even if it does stem from a desire to save her sister Ellen from the genetic disease that stole their mother from them. The ultimate cure that could heal any disease? Crazy. In Come Back to Me, the first book in The Waters of Time series, bestselling author Jody Hedlund is your guide down the twisting waters of time to a volatile era of superstition, revolts, and chivalry in this suspenseful story. ![]() |