![]() ![]() ![]() What ensues is a high level battle of wits, as Ishigami tries to protect Yasuko by outmaneuvering and outthinking Yukawa, who faces his most clever and determined opponent yet. After meeting up with him again, Yukawa is convinced that Ishigami had something to do with the murder. Yukawa, known to the police by the nickname Professor Galileo, went to college with Ishigami. Manabu Yukawa, a physicist and college friend who frequently consults with the police. Kusanagi is unable to find any obvious holes in Yasuko’s manufactured alibi and yet is still sure that there’s something wrong. If you want answers, you’ll have to wait until the end because like all great mysteries, the truth waits until the final unveiling. It’s a mystery crafted out of many character’s points of view, and even more layers of reality. ![]() When the body turns up and is identified, Detective Kusanagi draws the case and Yasuko comes under suspicion. The Devotion of Suspect X is a rare jewel of the mystery genre one often sought, but rarely found. Overhearing the commotion, Yasuko’s next door neighbor, middle-aged high school mathematics teacher Ishigami, offers his help, disposing not only of the body but plotting the cover-up step-by-step. When he shows up one day to extort money from her, threatening both her and her teenaged daughter Misato, the situation quickly escalates into violence and Togashi ends up dead on her apartment floor. Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. The Devotion of Suspect X is a 2005 mystery novel written by prolific Japanese author Keigo Higashino. ![]()
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5/21/2023 0 Comments Tikki tikki tembo by arlene mosel![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A boy named Tikki Tikki Tembo-no Sa Rembo-chari Bari Ruchi-pip Peri Pembo ("The Most Wonderful Thing in the Whole Wide World") and his little brother Chang ("Little or Nothing") are playing very close to a well at their house that their mother has warned them to avoid. Tikki Tikki Tembo is set in ancient China and invents an ancient Chinese custom whereby parents honor their first-born sons with long, elaborate names that everyone is obliged to say completely – no nicknames, no shortening of any kind – while second-born sons are typically given short, unimportant names. It is a sort of origin myth about why Chinese names are so short today. The book tells the story of a Chinese boy with a long name who falls into a well. Tikki Tikki Tembo is a 1968 picture book written by Arlene Mosel and illustrated by Blair Lent. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Full Tilt by Dervla Murphy![]() Written in a journal style it is mainly unchanged from when Dervla wrote her original diary entries, providing the reader with a daily account of hair-raising adventures that would leave many of us shaking in our boots. Reading Full Tilt is a truly humbling experience. Travelling with her bike, whom she affectionately calls Roz, and carrying only the very minimum of essentials, Dervla Murphy handled exposure to many frightening events with a calmness of mind and character. Her adventures across Persia, Afghanistan and on to Pakistan and India via the Himalayas was considered by many at the time as an absolutely bonkers and dangerous expedition. Although the travel information contained within is, no-doubt, much outdated for today’s traveller, Dervla Murphy’s ability to just get on with it in such drastic situations would put most of us to shame.ĭervla Murphy was an extremely modest individual who never considered herself brave. ![]() Dervla Murphy’s first book, Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle, was published in 1965 and is quite an exhilarating reading experience. ![]() Dervla Murphy won worldwide acclaim for her writing, often being described as a ‘travel legend’ and ‘the first lady of Irish cycling’. In May of this year (2022) the renowned travel writer Dervla Murphy passed away. ![]() Guitar Lessons for ChildrenĬhildren of around age five or six can start classical guitar lessons. Establishing a musical practice in your life, whether you are an adult or a child, can be a refuge from the world outside, the instrument in your hands a true friend. Many things can disappoint, but music tends to not be one of them. Studying an instrument is something that cannot be taken away from you. ![]() You'll learn something new in each lesson, and we won't forget to laugh and enjoy the ride. ![]() Music lessons should be a time-out from your life, a moment for yourself. My guitar lessons may cover classical repertoire as well as contemporary music. I offer flexibility and quality with the 5 or 10 lesson card. I'm private guitar teacher Leonie Roessler in The Hague. ![]() Acoustic guitar lessons for beginners and advanced. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Young mungo douglas stuart![]() It was a colour she had chosen to make her fingers appear fresher, because if her hands looked younger, then so might her face, so might her entire self. ![]() She raised her tea mug in one hand and tapped the glass with her pearlescent pink nails. Mo-Maw swept the curtain aside and leant on the window frame like a woman looking for company. He would do anything just to make other people feel better. As his mother watched him through the ear-of-wheat pattern of the net curtains, she tried to convince herself that his twitch was a happy wink, a lovely Morse code that telegraphed everything would be okay. Turning back, Mungo squinted up at the tenement flat, and his eyes began to twitch with one of their nervous spasms. It was such an assertive gesture that it took everyone by surprise. ![]() It was the winner of two British Book Awards, including Book of the Year, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, Kirkus Prize, and others.Īs they neared the corner, Mungo halted and shrugged the man’s hand from his shoulder. His New York Times -bestselling debut novel Shuggie Bain won the 2020 Booker Prize and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. ![]() ![]() The following is excerpted from Douglas Stuart's new novel, Young Mungo. ![]() ![]() ![]() As an academic, Wilson also taught at City University of New York from 1981 to 1986 and at the College of New Rochelle from 1987 to 1995. Wilson worked as a psychologist, social caseworker, supervising probation officer and as a training administrator in the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice. Early life and education īorn in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1940 or 1941, Wilson completed his undergraduate degree at the Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, master's degree at The New School of Social Research, and attained a PhD degree from Fordham University in New York. ![]() Psychology, Sociology, Black Studies ĬUNY, New York Institute of Technology Īmos Nelson Wilson (Febru (or 1940 ) - Janu ) was an African-American theoretical psychologist, social theorist, Pan-African thinker, scholar, author and a professor of psychology at the City University of New York. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments The white people by arthur machen![]() ![]() HP Lovecraft was influenced by him, and acknowledged the influence Stephen King has praised his stories to the skies. "Few people read Arthur Machen nowadays," said one commentator many years ago, "he is the preserve, zealously guarded, of lonely men who step into the gutter when the bowler hatted jostle them in the street." I think he gets a mention in Antal Szerb's wonderfully crazy The Pendragon Legend, which would make sense, as that book is saturated with Welshness and spookiness, and those are things that Machen possessed to his fingertips.īut his legacy has been extraordinary. Machen had existed on the fringes of the fringes of my literary knowledge: the kind of writer whose name one is unsure how to pronounce (it's "makken") someone more referred to than read. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments The Imjin War by Samuel Hawley![]() The Cambridge history of Japan volumes 3 and 4 edited by Kozo Yamamura and John Whitney Hall Translated by Ha Tae-hung.Ī History of Korea: from “Land of the Morning Calm” to states in conflict by Jinwung KimĪ concise history of Korea: from antiquity to the present by Michael SethĪ concise history of Japan by Brett Walker ![]() Nanjung Ilgi: War Diary of Admiral Yi Sun-sin by Yi Sun-shin. Translated by Ha Tse-hungĪdmiral Yi Sun-sin of Korea by Jong-dae Kim. Imjin changch’o: Admiral Yi Sun-sin’s memorials to court by Sun-sin Yi. Samurai invasion: Japan’s Korean war by Stephen Turnbull (2002)īook of Corrections: Reflections on the National Crisis During the Japanese Invasion of Korea, 1592-1598 by Song-Nyong Yu and Byonghyon Choi ![]() Red figures show Japanese lines of attack. You can find part two here and part one here. This is the story of that conflict – the Imjin War. ![]() ![]() Hundreds of thousands died in the ensuing combat. Tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers linked up with tens of thousands of Korean guerillas and warrior monks to drive the samurai across the Korean peninsula and into the bitter Korea Strait. Luke details the massive Chinese counterattack which spilled across the Chinese-Korean border in the winter of 1593. In this third episode of an ongoing series, Dr. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments The of being earnest![]() “Jack” is the name he goes by in the country, while “ Ernest” is his alias in the city. The case is engraved with an inscription: “From little Cecily, with her fondest love to her dear Uncle Jack.” Faced with such evidence Jack comes clean, revealing that he has been leading a double life. Jack initially denies the existence of this woman, but Algernon produces a cigarette case that he left behind the last time they dined together. Upon hearing this news Algernon confronts Jack about a woman named Cecily. Jack discloses to Algernon that he has returned to town to propose to Gwendolen, whom he has been courting. Ernest Worthing (Jack).Īlgernon greets his friend, who has been in the country. ![]() Surprisingly, Lane announces the arrival of Algernon’s friend Mr. The play opens as Algernon Moncrief plays the piano in his fashionable London flat, while his butler Lane prepares a tea service for Algernon’s Aunt Augusta, ( Lady Bracknell), and her daughter, Gwendolen Fairfax, whom Algernon expects to arrive shortly. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Getting things done book review![]() ![]() ![]() My favorite perk of GTD is the noticeable increase in creativity. Instead of feeling overwhelmed, GTD helps you organize and prioritize your tasks so that you can feel good about tackling one at a time. Getting Things Done gives you the tools to become a more focused person. But overall, I believe that focus is a learned skill that anyone can improve. Focusįocus sometimes feels like a superpower that some people just have and others don’t. When you learn GTD, you stop trying to juggle everything in your head and instead rely on tools and habits to keep track of important information. But having a system like Getting Things Done helps. They make promises that they can’t keep.Īs you get busier with more responsibilities, it becomes more challenging to be reliable. In a speech delivered to the graduating class of Harvard in 1986, Charlie Munger suggested that those who wished to live a life of misery need only to build a reputation for being unreliable. ![]() Everything you do improves when GTD is running in the background. Getting Things Done is like having your own personal operating system. ![]() |