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THE IMPOSSIBLE manages to do what I would have indeed thought impossible: Make a tsunami boring.
Actually, that's not accurate. The tsunami, which occupies the first twenty minutes or so of the movie, is breath-taking. The film makers used models, CGI, and live action, and when the wall of water sweeps over the edge of an Indonesian resort and carries everything along with it, I felt I was there... Read more of this blog post »
Actually, that's not accurate. The tsunami, which occupies the first twenty minutes or so of the movie, is breath-taking. The film makers used models, CGI, and live action, and when the wall of water sweeps over the edge of an Indonesian resort and carries everything along with it, I felt I was there... Read more of this blog post »
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Beggars in Spain (Sleepless, #1)
— published 1993 — 27 editions |
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Beggars and Choosers (Sleepless, #2)
— published 1994 — 11 editions |
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Beginnings, Middles & Ends
— published 1992 — 8 editions |
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Beggars Ride (Sleepless, #3)
— published 1996 — 11 editions |
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Steal Across the Sky
— published 2009 — 11 editions |
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Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting Dynamic Characters and Effective Viewpoints
— published 2005 — 3 editions |
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Probability Moon (Probability, #1)
— published 2000 — 7 editions |
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After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
— published 2012 — 3 editions |
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Probability Sun (Probability, #2)
— published 2001 — 6 editions |
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Probability Space (Probability, #3)
— published 2002 — 4 editions |
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| A book I liked for young readers (age 10 and up): DARKBEAST, by Morgan Keyes, published by Simon & Schuster. As a former 4th-grade teacher, I sometimes read kid-lit. This one has an appealing protag, a richly drawn fantasy world, and an ending I...more | |
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| This beautifully written, deeply disturbing non-fiction book is the result of journalist Katherine Boo's spending three years in one of the poorest slums in India. People here earn their livings mostly sorting and reselling trash. Boo draws character...more | |
“…Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.”
― Nancy Kress, Probability Moon
― Nancy Kress, Probability Moon
“Miri once told me that there were only four important questions you could ask about any human being: How does he fill up his time? How does he feel about how he fills up his time? What does he love? How does he react to those he perceives as either inferior or superior to him?
If you make people feel inferior, even unintentionally," she had said, her dark eyes intense, "they will be uncomfortable around you. In that situation, some people will attack. Some will ridicule, to 'cut you down to size.' But some will admire, and learn from you. If you make people feel superior, some will react by dismissing you. Some by wielding power — just because they can — in greater or lesser ways. But some will be moved to protect and help. All this is just as true of a junior lodge clique as of a group of governments.”
― Nancy Kress, Beggars and Choosers
If you make people feel inferior, even unintentionally," she had said, her dark eyes intense, "they will be uncomfortable around you. In that situation, some people will attack. Some will ridicule, to 'cut you down to size.' But some will admire, and learn from you. If you make people feel superior, some will react by dismissing you. Some by wielding power — just because they can — in greater or lesser ways. But some will be moved to protect and help. All this is just as true of a junior lodge clique as of a group of governments.”
― Nancy Kress, Beggars and Choosers
“The strings in her mind grew flatter, calmer. The shapes in the hologrid had changed. She heard the man's words, and yet she didn't; the words were not what was really important. And wasn't that right? Words had never been important, only strings, and the strings had shapes like - but not like -the ones around the man. Only the man had disappeared, too, and that was alright, because she, Miri, Miranda Serena Sharifi, was disappearing, was sliding down a steep long chute and each meter she traveled she became smaller and smaller until she had disappeared and was invisible, a weightless transparent ghost that neither twitched nor stammered, in the corner of a room she had never seen before.”
― Nancy Kress
― Nancy Kress
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| Beyond Reality: Nominations for September! | 20 | 112 | Jun 20, 2009 09:29am | |
| Hard SF: * BotM: "Beggars in Spain" by Nancy Kress | 6 | 46 | Oct 16, 2009 12:43pm | |
| Beyond Reality: Nominations for August! | 19 | 64 | May 25, 2010 03:34pm | |
| SciFi and Fantasy...: Book suggestions? | 14 | 103 | Jun 04, 2010 11:22am | |
| The Seasonal Read...: 15.4 - Learn Your Numbers | 138 | 321 | Aug 19, 2010 10:47pm | |
| The Seasonal Read...: 10.7 - I Think We Can Handle The Truth | 40 | 217 | Aug 26, 2010 01:03pm |
