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![]() ![]() His bitter disposition, I’m sure, accounts for some of the interest in this show. Graham Hancock, the journalist who hosts the series, returns again and again to his anger at this state of affairs and his status as an outsider to “mainstream archaeology,” his assessment of how terrible “mainstream archaeology” is about accepting new theories, and his insistence that there’s all this evidence out there but “mainstream archaeologists” just won’t look for it. ![]() And the consequences could be catastrophic. The argument is essentially this: The authorities who study human prehistory are ignoring-or covering up-the true foundations of the world as we know it today. Netflix’s new hit Ancient Apocalypse is an odd duck: a docuseries filmed in many gorgeous and historic locations (Turkey, Mexico, Indonesia, … uh, Ohio) that advances a provocative thesis aimed furiously at a single academic discipline. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Refused sanctuary, Weyden is forced to be a cabin boy for The Ghost. Wolf Larsen is determined to beat Weyden into submission and show how his dog-eat-dog theory builds a man with legs he can stand on of his own accord. However, Van Weyden’s reclusive smarts won’t help him now that he’s been “rescued” from a shipwreck by Wolf Larsen, captain of the Ghost, a reckless seal hunting schooner. He stands on the shoulders of giants, as it were, and Van Weyden can talk philosophy with the best, including everything from Nietzsche to John Milton. He knows a lot – and that’s what counts, his book learning vs. Humphrey van Weyden admits that he’s never done a day’s work in his life, but he feels protected by his status and his advanced schooling. ![]() Rating: Mutiny, Kidnapping, and Fear: A Sea Adventure with SpiritĪ weak-willed aristocrat, a sudden shipwreck, an amoral captain, mutiny, murder, and multiple kidnappings all combine to make The Sea Wolf a high adrenaline sea adventure. ![]() ![]() ![]() Two years later, Miss Barbary has a stroke while Esther is reading to her from the Bible and dies not long after this. ![]() Miss Barbary bitterly tells Esther that she was “her mother’s disgrace.” Esther is distraught and does not understand what her Miss Barbary alludes to. ![]() Esther longs to be loved and accepted and, one day, on her birthday, she begs her godmother to tell her something of her past. Tulkinghorn continues to read and Lady Dedlock, who says she feels faint, retires to her room.Įsther Summerson is an orphan girl who has been raised by her godmother, Miss Barbary, a hard, pious woman who seems to dislike Esther and keeps her away from other children. Tulkinghorn, a reserved, steely man, explains that an anonymous law writer penned the document. Midway through, Lady Dedlock turns pale and asks who wrote the paper. Tulkinghorn, arrives and reads to them from some legal documents. ![]() She is considered a cold, haughty woman, but there is a rumor that she is not of noble birth and that Sir Leicester married her despite this. Lady Dedlock, the wife of aristocratic nobleman Sir Leicester Dedlock, is extremely bored in her fashionable London townhouse. ![]() ![]() When Warren falls victim to his own negligence, Rae Lynn undertakes a desperate act of mercy. Though the work is hard and often dangerous, Rae Lynn, who spent her childhood in an orphanage, is thankful for it-and for her kind if careless husband. ![]() Among them is Rae Lynn Cobb and her husband, Warren, who run a small turpentine farm together. In the dense pine forests of North Carolina, turpentiners labor, hacking into tree trunks to draw out the sticky sap that gives the Tar Heel State its nickname, and hauling the resin to stills to be refined. This captivating story of friendship, survival, and three vagabonds' intersecting lives will stay with readers long after turning the final page. Where the Crawdads Sing meets The Four Winds as award-winning author Donna Everhart's latest novel immerses readers in its unique setting-the turpentine camps and pine forests of the American South during the Great Depression. ![]() ![]() ![]() What I love is that from the different points of views, we see how a single night can be perceived in different ways. I found myself hating and then empathizing and then hating Sutton and Ethan throughout the book. ![]() Told through several narrators and traveling from past to present, she keeps the reader on the edge of their seat with wondering what in the hell is exactly going on! Completely addicting from page one, this is a book that is impossible to put down. ![]() Soon the common theory of the husband being the first suspect comes to fruition – did he kill Sutton? Did Sutton unravel so far after the death of their child that she’s a danger not only to herself but to those around her? Things don’t add up though and he becomes worried, hiring a lawyer and contacting the police. Then one morning Ethan wakes up with a note from Sutton not to try and find her. One tragic event magnifies smaller nuances that lead to financial problems, secrets and infidelity. Sutton and Ethan, both successful authors, made for each other but what goes on behind closed doors is more than you could imagine. Spoiler, the #CJSReads trio LOVED this one ![]() Happy release day to this amazing domestic thriller!īig thanks to Mira Books for sending the advanced copies in exchange for our honest reviews. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Last month, Universal preemptively bought the film rights for, in her words, “more zeros than I’ve seen in my life”. A week later, Lightlark had gone to auction and she had a six-figure deal with Amulet Books. The next day, however, she woke up to see her video had been viewed more than a million times. Maybe there wasn’t a market for Lightlark, a young adult story she had been writing and rewriting for years, to no interest from publishers. Maybe the books world was right, she thought. Then, on 13 March 2021, she decided to take to TikTok, asking her followers if they would: “read a book about a cursed island that only appears once every 100 years to host a game that gives the six rulers of the realm a chance to break their curses.” One of the rulers must die, the short video revealed, “even as love complicates everything” for the heroine, Isla Crown.Īster didn’t expect much, especially when she checked in a few hours later to see that her post had only clocked up about 1,000 views. The book had tanked during the pandemic and she had been dropped by her literary agent. ![]() H aving finally published her first novel, Alex Aster was feeling disheartened. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The speaker of the poem asks a series of questions. The poem is arranged into four stanzas: the first and last of these are just one line long, with the second comprising seven lines and the third two lines. Is this really true of African Americans, or do they face too much prejudice and too many obstacles as they try to make their way in America? ![]() This short poem is one of his best-known, and takes up the idea of the American Dream: the ideal, or belief, which states that anyone, regardless of their background, can make a success of their lives if they come to America. It’s another poem that bears the influence of Whitman, though Hughes does something very different with the expansive free verse style he learned from that nineteenth-century American verse pioneer. One day, as Hughes was travelling on a train that crossed over the Mississippi River, the idea of a poem was born, and it was published a year later, in 1921. ![]() ![]() ![]() The demon holding the plaque (with the lion face) is not the Chaldean devil, but is actually the SW wind demon Pazuzu, who was the bearer of drought but also protected children and pregnant women. The plaque is actually a scene of protection. This plaque was created by Chaldeans to show the world was going to end and how the devil was going to be in full control. The figure in the middle on the bottom standing on the horse/donkey is the god Elippu. He claims that this plaque resembles the world and the lion-faced monster holding the plaque is the Chaldean devil, who wants to destroy the world. ![]() Here's what this author claims to be a plaque of: There is a part of the book where's he's talking about "devil worship" in Mesopotamia. Holy HELL this book has a crapload of problems and inaccuracies that have been debunked today. ![]() Tries to be diverse and talks about all the parts of the world and how these religions and tribal groups worshipped/revered the devil. ![]() ![]() Soon they'll become pawns caught between two powerful enemies, on a journey with an unknown destination. But their stay in the walled city proves untenable when they find themselves dodging bombs and scavenging in the rubble. Not far away, trying and failing to flee from a vengeful army, Arno and his mother hide in the ruins of a Konigsberg mansion, hoping that once the war ends they can reunite their dispersed family. ![]() ![]() Neither of them realizes his stories will prove crucial and prophetic. He tells her of a besieged kingdom in the Baltic Sea from which spill the amber tears of a heartbroken queen. ![]() As they flee from the Soviet army, his enchanting folktales keep her mind off the cold, the hunger, and the horrors unfolding around them. As battle lines are drawn and East Prussia's borders vanish beneath them, they leave their farm and all they know behind for an uncertain future.īut Ilse also has Janusz, her family's young Polish laborer, by her side. In the harshness of winter, her family must join the largest exodus in human history to survive. ![]() Synopsis: With war looming dangerously close, Ilse's school days soon turn to lessons of survival. |