![]() ![]() He even has a boyfriend, Alex, a twenty-year-old actor living in Manhattan. This was supposed to be the summer of Lang's coming out. When Nevada hears Lang's secret, he figures Lang is a safe bet to show the seventeen-year-old daughter of some friends from France a good time in the Hamptons. He finds himself confiding in the retired star about his homosexuality. When they finally meet, Nevada is very different from the man Lang imagined. Lang passes the time walking on the beach and hoping for a glimpse of his idol. Seventeen-year-old Lang Penner and his mother are spending the summer in the caretaker's cottage at Roundelay, the sprawling East Hampton estate of legendary rocker Ben Nevada. ![]() I'd always think of it as the summer that I loved a girl. ![]() Edwards Award–winning author of Deliver Us from Evie comes a novel about a gay teenager who discovers a different kind of love during an unforgettable summer in the Hamptons ![]()
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![]() ![]() Will it be possible to construct a seed AI or otherwise to engineer initial conditions so as to make an intelligence explosion survivable? How could one achieve a controlled detonation? To get closer to an answer to this question, we must make our way through a fascinating landscape of topics and considerations. But we have one advantage: we get to make the first move. As the fate of the gorillas now depends more on us humans than on the gorillas themselves, so the fate of our species then would come to depend on the actions of the machine superintelligence. ![]() If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. ![]() Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. ![]() ![]() ![]() Vanessa and Zoe discuss the “homosexual agenda” on page 131 (hardcover edition).What, if anything, did you learn from her reflections? Vanessa mentally ponders what it’s like to be gay and encounter prejudice (pages 94-95).Is the author’s depiction of the gay lifestyle fair or biased? Do you think the depiction of conservative Christianity in the book is fair and accurate?.Why is the book titled “ Sing You Home?”.What one thing did you learn from reading “ Sing You Home?”. ![]() Here are some question and ideas that may generate some discussion for Thursday night. We’ll meet in the church Library at 7 PM. This Thursday, February 9, 2012, the All Good Books group will meet to discuss Jodi Picoult’s book “ Sing You Home” at the Community of Christ church at the corner of 79 th Street and Mission Road in Prairie Village, Kansas (7842 Mission Road). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's single POV, which I haven't seen a lot of lately, and really well written. Esther? Amon made it a little better with the whole ezzstar/my star thing, but that name belongs to an old prude, not a hedonistic former nympho.Īnyways, if you want a RH book full of monster smut and no plot with group scenes and (some) MM content, this one is great. I appreciated the arc that Amon went through, learning how to pull back on the reins and adapt to the life that Esther wanted (that is, a life full of monster dick).Īlso, Esther is my homegirl but she was done so dirty with that name. Book title: A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor (Monsters Book 1 Tempting) The Company of Fiends (Monsters Book 2) Kathryn Moon Language: English Printed by yourself. I also love how Jonathan's character completely subverts the tone that his introduction sets up with Esther listening to him "treating a woman's hysteria" and being all imposing n shit to actually being such a bumbling sweetheart (I'd argue that even Mr. ![]() Especially in the way that she writes MM content, with the whole "we've just known each other for so long and take care of each others needs from time to time."Īmon, Auguste, Ezra, Booker (BOOKER !!!), and Jonathan/Mr. Having just read Sol and Lune, I can definitely see similarities between those two books and this one. Top rated reverse harem, poly (3+ people) books set in historical times tagged as m-m, vampires, victorian, anal sex, exhibitionism, shapeshifters, menage. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tenamixtli also recruits a number of people with the same intention. Drive them out of all the lands of The One World.” “So that I can effectively raise a rebellion against them. “Is that why you are here in the city?” I went on to tell him how I intended to learn everything possible about the white man. “Studying the white man’s tongue?” Netzlin said. He starts by going to Mexico City and learning Spanish. It becomes Mixtli’s mission to rid his country of the Spaniards and he sets about the task with great deliberation. ![]() How’s that for getting a story started? As you can imagine, revenge plays a big part in the plot. Later, he discovers that the executed man was his father. Indeed, in the first chapter, Tenamixtli witnesses an execution, a burning at the stake being publicly carried out by Spanish troops. The action in this one takes place 12 years after all the goings on in Aztec and concerns the adventures of 18 year old Tenamixtli, the son of Mixtli, the hero of the former novel. ![]() And here comes the sequel, which is almost as good. I gave it my highest accolade – five stars. Readers of these reviews may remember that I was a big fan of Jenning’s previous work, Aztec. Cogan’s Reviews The sequel to Aztec by Gary Jennings ![]() ![]() ![]() So please don't take them and claim them as your own. Our reviews, posts and special features are copyright of Under The Covers unless otherwise noted. I thought this was a perfect Christmas time romance, it has some intrigue and some action and the H/h are very likeable. She's not sure if he's a spy or just working undercover during the war but he's risked everything to come see her and ask her to give him a chance and wait for him. A bit unrecognizable, but still her Christian. ![]() She's been away from home at Spindle Cove ever since and now that is time to go back home and find a husband she receives a most unexpected guest. From then on, he's been referred to in her mind as The Disappointment. Then one night he finally notices her and takes her virginity, only to leave town the next day. She was in love with her neighbor, Christian, her whole life. I've never read this author either so it was the perfect sampler. ![]() I've been checking out this series for a while so when I saw this Christmas read for only $0.79 on Kindle I had to jump on it. ![]() ![]() As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. ![]() The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a “compelling” ( The Washington Post) account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. ![]() A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington Post ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's a solitary existence, and she likes it that way. Now in her late eighties, Maud contents herself with traveling the world and surfing the net from the comfort of her father's ancient armchair. That was how Maud learned that good things can come from tragedy. Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has lived in the family's spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg rent-free, thanks to a minor clause in a hastily negotiated contract. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home. ![]() Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ''If I am an advocate, it is for discoveries about human nature that have been ignored or suppressed in modern discussions of human affairs,'' he writes.Ī principal theme of Dr. In a book being published by Viking at the end of this month, ''The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature,'' he seeks to create greater political elbow room for those engaged in the study of the ways genes shape human behavior. Steven Pinker, a psychologist of language at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The role of genes in shaping differences between individuals or sexes or races has become a matter of touchiness, even taboo.Ī determined effort to break this silence and make it safer for biologists to discuss what they know about the genetics of human nature has now been begun by Dr. So biologists, despite their increasing knowledge from the decoding of the human genome and other advances, are still distinctly reluctant to challenge the notion that human behavior is largely shaped by environment and culture. ![]() Since then, a storm has threatened anyone who prominently asserts that politically sensitive aspects of human nature might be molded by the genes. Wilson set out to do so in his 1975 book ''Sociobiology,'' he was assailed by left-wing colleagues who portrayed his description of genetically shaped human behaviors as a threat to the political principles of equal rights and a just society. Who should define human nature? When the biologist Edward O. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meghan Maslow delivers another highly entertaining story in her Starfig Investigations series with Fairy and Impartial. Is there no one in the Elder Realm who’s fairy and impartial? With everyone in Lighthelm convinced of Bill’s guilt-and by association Twig’s-Starfig Investigations is on the case. To make matters worse, Twig’s old enemies start dropping like fairyflies, and they find themselves smack in the middle of an inconvenient murder investigation with a certain red fury as the main suspect. And getting quality time alone with his wizard is more difficult than keeping one’s virginity at an incubus party. ![]() Someone-or something-seems to be following them. Quinn’s little brother can’t seem to stop pining over their housemate. Instead, Twig and Quinn get roped into a new case involving missing orc stones. All Twig Starfig wants is to settle into mated life with his wizard and be a good leader to his clan. ![]() |