![]() ![]() I really liked where the author tried to go for this book, but I don’t think she ever got there. Let’s talk about the longest three minutes ever: full of flashbacks, endless pages of the characters’ thoughts, and nothing happening in general. So why was I so disinterested in this story?Įvery three minutes or so, the perspective changes to a different character. I’ve even had multiple threats for shootings at my school. These things are scary, they’re real, and they happen more often than the news cover. Nothing about it was compelling, even though it should have been.įor Pete’s sake, we’re at a school shooting. More like, when is this book ever going to end?Īlthough this book was fairly short (292 pages), it took me ages to read. ![]() Together, we’ll be strong enough to face whatever comes our way. ![]() Told over the span of 54 harrowing minutes from four different perspectives, terror reigns as one student's calculated revenge turns into the ultimate game of survival. The students get up to leave the auditorium for their next class. The principal of Opportunity, Alabama's high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to excel and achieve.10:02 a.m. ![]() Published by Sourcebooks Fire on January 5, 2016 ![]()
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![]() ![]() Moving from the White House Situation Room to the dens of Chinese government hackers to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley, New York Times national security correspondent David Sanger reveals a world coming face-to-face with the perils of technological revolution, where everyone is a target. election from interference by Russia, with Vladimir Putin drawing on the same playbook he used to destabilize Ukraine. And if Obama would begin his presidency by helping to launch the new era of cyberwar, he would end it struggling unsuccessfully to defend the 2016 U.S. Two presidents-Bush and Obama-drew first blood with Operation Olympic Games, which used malicious code to blow up Iran’s nuclear centrifuges, and yet America proved remarkably unprepared when its own weapons were stolen from its arsenal and, during President Trump’s first year, turned back on the United States and its allies. Cheap to acquire, easy to deny, and usable for a variety of malicious purposes, cyber is now the weapon of choice for democracies, dictators, and terrorists. The Perfect Weapon is the startling inside story of how the rise of cyberweapons transformed geopolitics like nothing since the invention of the atomic bomb. “An important-and deeply sobering-new book about cyberwarfare” (Nicholas Kristof, New York Times), now updated with a new chapter.NOW AN HBO® DOCUMENTARY FROM AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR JOHN MAGGIO ![]() ![]() Share them with friends and have a party. Don't waste good drugs on killing yourself. Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking. ![]() Well, sorry to pop your death bubble, but there's no such thing. How sweet! You still believe in death."You Ask The Questions," The Independent Review ().I'll never be heard if I'm always ranting and griping. It's time - for me, at least - to be clever and seduce people by entertaining them. My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way. Why have I sold out? You think I'm supposed to grow old, beating some trite old protest drum that people don't hear anymore? Please protest is now just a backdrop for a Diesel clothing ad in a slick fashion magazine.Response by Palahniuk to Laura Miller's review. It's a lot more difficult to perform one. It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation.Interview with the San Francisco Bay Guardian ().'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television. ![]() I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it.You didn't invent anything." And I'm like, "Gramps, you should have put a name on it and sold it, because that’s all I did." I've gotten some irate letters from oldsters saying "We did this in the 1930s. 1.2 Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (2004). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lynn told me that when I was a baby, she used to take me onto our empty road at night, where we would lie on our backs and look at the stars while she said over and over, "Katie, say ' kira-kira, kira-kira.'" I loved that word! When I grew older, I used kira-kira to describe everything I liked: the beautiful blue sky puppies kittens butterflies colored Kleenex. Kira-kira means "glittering" in Japanese. I pronounced it ka-a-ahhh, but she knew what I meant. My sister, Lynn, taught me my first word: kira-kira. Luminous in its persistence of love and hope, Kira-Kira is Cynthia Kadohata's stunning debut in middle-grade fiction. But when Lynn becomes desperately ill, and the whole family begins to fall apart, it is up to Katie to find a way to remind them all that there is always something glittering - kira-kira - in the future. And it's Lynn who, with her special way of viewing the world, teaches Katie to look beyond tomorrow. When Katie and her family move from a Japanese community in Iowa to the Deep South of Georgia, it's Lynn who explains to her why people stop them on the street to stare. The sea is kira-kira for the same reason. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. ![]() That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. Kira-kira (kee' ra kee' ra): glittering shining ![]() A Japanese-American family struggles to build a new life in the Deep South of Georgia in this luminous novel, winner of the Newbery Medal. ![]() |