![]() ![]() The military codes deciphered there were instrumental in turning both the Battle of the Atlantic and the war in North Africa.īut, though plenty has been written about the boffins, and the codebreaking, fictional and non-fiction – from Robert Harris and Ian McEwan to Andrew Hodges’ biography of Turing – what of the thousands of men and women who lived and worked there during the war? What was life like for them – an odd, secret territory between the civilian and the military? ![]() This country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was home to Britain’s most brilliant mathematical brains, like Alan Turing, and the scene of immense advances in technology – indeed, the birth of modern computing. Bletchley Park was where one of the war’s most famous – and crucial – achievements was made: the cracking of Germany’s “Enigma” code in which its most important military communications were couched. ![]()
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![]() If the title alone isn’t intriguing enough, this book will give you hard science to support the idea that your mind is truly your most powerful tool for healing yourself and attracting abundance into your life. It just took me a long time to unpack everything within its covers, and I was also working to put many of the ideas from the book into practice in my daily life as I went along. On the other hand, I was (and still am) supremely intrigued by the book’s contents. Joe Dispenza’s Becoming Supernatural for any lack of interest. ![]() But I want to be clear that it didn’t take me a long time to get through Dr. It’s truly not every day that it takes me months and months to get through a book. ![]() A New Collective Consciousness IS Evolving.The Heart and The Brain MUST Communicate Effectively. ![]() ![]() First, to write a book that would carry the reader only partway across the bridge of the entire story. The more I considered the project, the more I realized that there were two significant ideas at work. And I wrestled with how to write this project in a way that would fit neatly with readers’ expectations. I began to see a long story arc, one that, more and more, I realized would probably span two books. The comfort factor.īut does this always have to be the way? Can a mystery be satisfying even if it consciously doesn’t meet this powerful expectation? That was one of the questions-the biggest question, in fact-that I considered as the story of Mercy Falls formed in my thinking. It’s one of the reasons, probably, that they choose books in the genre. Second, never end a book without all the loose threads tied up, all the answers given, justice done, and the world set right again. ![]() ![]() You can be brutal to human beings, kill them in imaginative, excruciating ways, but an innocent little dog is off limits. Two things you never do in the crime genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Worse, when her actions put her father’s business at risk, a marriage of convenience may be her only solution. It may have cost her a fiancé, but she would much rather bring attention to crimes against those ignored by society than worry about what the ton thinks of her.Īfter Caro’s dear friend is kidnapped, however, she has no choice but to work with Lord Valentine Thorn, the same man who broke her heart. ISBN-13: 978-1538736159 | $15.99 USD | 352 pages | Victorian Romanceįormer lovers become reluctant allies in this delightfully witty historical rom-com from the bestselling author of A Lady’s Guide to Mischief and Mayhem-for fans of Evie Dunmore, Enola Holmes, and Netflix’s Bridgerton!Įngland, 1867: As half of the writing duo behind England’s most infamous crime column, Miss Caroline Hardcastle has quite the scandalous reputation. An Heiress’s Guide to Deception and Desire. ![]() ![]() ![]() When feedback started trickling in, I was seriously confused. I was very depressed at the time, and felt that I wasted many years chasing something that no one would ever care about. Giving it away for free was me giving up on it, so that it would at least exist somewhere after working on it for so many years. I first put Rema online because I believed it was absolutely unreadable. I can't thank you guys enough for this experience. I'll keep this blog up as a production blog, with updates on Rema's status and drawings here and there, and as a place to keep in touch with the readers who still check in. The one online doesn't reflect where the book is now, and to continuously update the rewrites seems a little overdone. ![]() If you follow my Twitter account, then you know I've rewritten the beginning and have been working on streamlining the entire book. This doesn't mean that you will never see the book again, but it does mean that the serialized online version won't be available after next week. It's a decision that's been on my mind since serialization ended, since that was basically its broadcast run. ![]() In preparation for Rema's next phase of existence, whatever that may be, I will be retiring the Rema novel archives Monday, June 30th (next week). ![]() ![]() Gasser delves into the science, psychology, and sociology that explains why humans love music so much how our brains process music and why you may love Queen but your best friend loves Kiss. Nolan Gasser-a composer, pianist, and musicologist, and the chief architect of the Music Genome Project, which powers Pandora Radio-breaks down what musical taste is, where it comes from, and what our favorite songs say about us.ĭr. ![]() In this sweeping and authoritative book, Dr. But what is it that makes music so universally beloved and have such a powerful effect on us? ![]() ![]() From the chief architect of the Pandora Radio's Music Genome Project comes a definitive and groundbreaking examination of how your mind, body, and upbringing influence the music you love.Įveryone loves music. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With its memorable cast of characters such as Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is the most heart-warming of seasonal tales, a timeless classic that continues to enchant readers around the world and a lesson in charity and hopefulness that is as powerful today as when it was first written in 1843. This experience teaches Scrooge the true meaning of the holiday and leaves him a transformed man. One Christmas Eve, however, he is visited by a series of ghosts who reveal to him the innocence he has lost, the wretchedness of his future and the poverty of the present, which he has so far ignored. Ebenezer Scrooge is a lonely, miserly old man who hates Christmas, which he dismisses as “humbug”. A musical retelling of Charles Dickens classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions. Something of a mash-up of Ebenezer Scrooge ( A Christmas Carol) and Charles Foster Kane ( Citizen Kane ), McDuck was a wealthy, bitter hermit living in a mansion atop Bear Mountain. ![]() ![]() But will the imposter wind up with it all, and will Laura ever learn the truth about her daughter? ![]() The drama builds as the day approaches when Laura is about to sign over her estate to Katie before she dies. However, Laura’s unscrupulous husband, Dylan (Adrian Paul), owes a ton of money due to gambling debts and plans to thwart any mother/daughter reunion so there is no possibility of finding himself outside of his wife’s last will and testament.Įventually Katie finds herself in her mother’s home but she thinks Katie is a maid as husband Dylan has planted an imposter posing as the real Katie. Soon the story unfolds that Katie’s real mother, Laura Bennett (Sherry Stringfield), has tumors and her condition is terminable, and Katie, raised by adoptive Amish parents, longs to see her real mother before she dies. ![]() It demonstrates so well that a movie can be entertaining without featuring a lot of sex, language or violence.Ī young Amish woman named Katie (played superbly by Katie Leclerc) is attempting to get her driver’s license when the movie begins. ![]() This story is so well written and well made that it is difficult to come up with enough words to praise its value as a wholesome and yet dramatic story. ![]() ![]() When his father Montrose goes missing, twenty-two year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George – publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide – and his childhood friend Letitia. ![]() ![]() ![]() A chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of two black families, Matt Ruff's Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism – the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today.Ĭhicago, 1954. ![]() ![]() ![]() But with his last breaths, grandfather Tock made 10 predictions – among them five dates in Jimmy’s life that would be horrible. “Life Expectancy” is the story of Jimmy Tock, who was born at the same minute his grandfather, Josef Tock, died. After all, it’s Koontz.īut we can’t help but think that if he had taken a little more time in its writing it would be meatier, would be a better book. Still, it’s moderately involving and ultimately charming. It’s like a half-hour “Twilight Zone” script stretched to two-hour feature length – too little butter smeared over too much toast, to paraphrase Bilbo Baggins. Such a near miss is “Life Expectancy,” which is eerie but also overwritten and obvious. Some of his books, such as “The Face,” are deep, wonderful stories that somehow combine creepy scares with real charm and an optimistic faith in humanity. ![]() “Compulsive” may be the word to describe his output, which is two novels a year or more. ![]() Give him a sharp pencil and a sheet of paper, and in a few days he’d probably hand back a new novel, scribbled in very tiny letters. ![]() |