Rafa nadals7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() With it, potential clashes with Djokovic or Carlos Alcaraz are on the table for as early as the round of 16. Rafael Nadal still has time to recover fitness and compete at Roland Garros, says Eurosport pundit Alex Corretja. 14 will be seeded outside of the Top 8 for the first time in 19 appearances. If he plays at the end of this month, the current world No. 5 seeding saw Nadal land in Novak Djokovic's quarter of the draw. He's been seeded inside the Top 4 on all but two occasions at the Paris major, including in 2022 when his No. ![]() Last year, the left-hander triumphed for a record-extending 14th time on Court Philippe Chatrier when he dismissed Casper Ruud in the final. Nadal has never previously arrived in Paris for the French Open without any European clay-court tournaments under his belt in the lead up to the season’s second major. ![]() But he revealed after the match that he needed an injection to his. “The recovery process has its own schedule and I have no choice but to accept it and continue working. Rafael Nadal overwhelmed Casper Ruud in straight sets Sunday to win his 14th French Open championship and 22nd Grand Slam title. “Despite having noticed an improvement in recent days, spent many months without having been able to train at a high level,” continued Nadal. He's been spotted practicing in recent days, though the sessions weren't at a desired intensity. On March 20, Nadal dropped outside of the Top 10 for the first time since entering the elite group on April 25, 2005, an improable stretch of 912 successive weeks. ![]()
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In real life by cory doctorow7/3/2023 ![]() Gaming is, for Anda, entirely a good thing.īut things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer - a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from developed countries with money to burn. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. ![]() It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. ![]() ![]() In Real Life by, Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang, paperback.įrom acclaimed teen author Cory Doctorow and rising star cartoonist Jen Wang, In Real Life is a sensitive, thoughtful look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture-clash.Īnda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. ![]() A Murder of Saints by Chris Miller7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() In Chip War economic historian Chris Miller recounts the fascinating sequence of events that led to the United States perfecting chip design, and how faster chips helped defeat the Soviet Union (by rendering the Russians’ arsenal of precision-guided weapons obsolete). Currently, as Chip War reveals, China, which spends more on chips than any other product, is pouring billions into a chip-building Manhattan Project to catch up to the US. ![]() ![]() (Virtually everything runs on chips: cars, phones, the stock market, even the electric grid.) Now that edge is in danger of slipping, undermined by the naïve assumption that globalising the chip industry and letting players in Taiwan, Korea and Europe take over manufacturing serves America's interests. America has maintained its lead as a superpower because it has dominated advances in computer chips and all the technology that chips have enabled. A nonfiction thriller - equal parts The China Syndrome and Mission Impossible' New York Times An epic account of the decades-long battle to control the world's most critical resource-microchip technology Power in the modern world - military, economic, geopolitical - is built on a foundation of computer chips. ***Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award*** 'Pulse quickening. ![]() ![]() It’s one of the best feelings to wake up on a cozy and dark Sunday morning to make some tea or coffee and delve into Lazy Sunday Book, while your cat sits on your feet and gives you an odd impression that Watterson really does understand how cat companions work. While I have several of the collection books, my boyfriend has even more. Running for ten years, from Novemto December 31, 1995, Watterson’s work rose from the confined Sunday morning newspaper section to flourish in the creative freedom of collections from Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat to Scientific Progress Goes “Boink” and The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury. That connection in the case of Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson is creative imagination, which appeals to children and academics alike. It takes a specific recipe to create a cartoon strip that transcends age groups. Thank you for always inspiring me, and for your endless patience and support. This one goes out to my guy, whose love of Calvin and Hobbes might exceed my own. ![]() ![]() 4 min read The last frame Bill Watterson created for his comic, Calvin and Hobbes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reid wrote this book and started with these encouraging words “Dear Woman, This is YOUR book. Want the best for yourself: Michael E.That’s why DEAR WOMAN has everything-quotes, letters, short stories, and poems to educate, motivate, encourage, and provide a little tough love. Take a journey: No one has just one page in their life story.Every woman is a queen, and you don’t have to wait for someone to give you your crown. Stop cutting yourself short: You must wear your crown at all times. ![]() Reid aka Just Mike The Poet to encourage all women to: This hardcover book is poetry+self help+inspirational all wrapped up into one dope read! This book was respectfully written by Michael E. I have heard so much about this author [ via social media and hearing how empowering this book has been for women that I was excited to read DEAR WOMAN. ![]() DEAR WOMAN by JUST MIKE THE POET- Michael E.Reid ![]() I broke my trunk by mo willems7/2/2023 ![]() I cannot exactly replicate here the way the words sit on the page (e.g. Mo Willems and Hyperion have generously allowed us to reprint the entire text of I BROKE MY TRUNK! here on this blog. ![]() I BROKE MY TRUNK!, then, is essentially a textual experience. Thus, it is the word that delivers the humor the picture merely supports it. The picture of Gerald with his bandaged trunk is amusing, but if I were to read the story without the words, I would probably describe the trunk as hurt, jammed, or sprained, none of which are nearly as funny as the word “broke” which plays off the absurdity of breaking something which doesn’t have a bone. On the other hand, if you cover the pictures and read the words alone, you miss the facial expressions and body language of the characters (which are terrible things to miss, admittedly), but you still have a full grasp of all of the literary elements of the story (as we shall see below). Is I BROKE MY TRUNK! a picture book or an illustrated book? If you cover the words and read the book, you do get the gist of the plot, especially in the few flashback scenes, but it’s nearly impossible to infer the nuances of the dialogue in most of the story. ![]() Coming Home by Lauren Brooke7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Furthermore, Amy's trying to care for Spartan, the horse they saved before the accident, but Spartan is an everyday reminder of the wreck and how it changed everything. And she misses her mom too much to dismiss her fear that she was responsible for the trailer crash. After the Storm: Although Amy is helping out with the horses at Heartland again, she is still weighted by a sense of guilt for her mother's death. But when her mother is killed in a tragic trailer accident, Amy realises she will never see her world the same way again. With her mother's help, she is developing her skills as a horse whisperer while tending to the animals at Heartland, a refuge for horses that have been emotionally or phy. Coming Home: The daughter of a respected horse healer, 14 year-old Amy has a powerful connection with horses. ![]() Facehooked by Suzana E. Flores7/2/2023 ![]() “ Facehooked talks about how teens connect through social-media networks like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and YouTube. Further, use of case studies and her own life experiences makes the book a very real and often emotionally charged piece of non-fiction." - Chicagoist Flores does an excellent job of recognizing both sides of the social media coin. Reviews" Facehooked, while most definitely a critique of contemporary media driven culture, looks at the issues associated with social media and other forms of technological communication from a very realistic and level-headed viewpoint. Reprinting Research and Shipping Logistics. ![]() Schools, School Libraries, and School Supply Stores.Independent Booksellers and Regional Wholesalers.IPG Academic and Professional Publishing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, this one - in my opinion - is one of the poop ones. I've always loved books about ghosts, whether that's horror novels or factual accounts of supposed real hauntings - many of the books I've read have been good and many have been poop. The writing was bland and uninspired, sometimes almost leaning towards fictional accounts of the reasons behind the supposed hauntings - this writing style was SO different to the Ripper book, I struggled to believe it was the same author. ![]() Unfortunately, this book was a considerably poorer effort, in comparison.ĭon't get me wrong, as a geographical listing of UK hauntings, it is decent, and the layout is pretty with keyed maps and some lovely photographs. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Haunted Castles of Britain and Ireland by Richard Jones. I was really looking forward to this guide to Britain & Irelands better-known hauntings, hoping that it would be as excellent as the Ripper book. : Haunted Castles of Britain and Ireland (9781843304364) by Jones, Richard and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. ![]() I read 'Jack the Ripper: The Casebook' by the same author last month and absolutely loved it. I was quite surprised by this book, but for all the wrong reasons. 2 / 5 for 'Haunted Britain and Ireland' by Richard Jones ![]() Kleypas hello stranger7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Soon the usual assortment of hucksters, pickpockets, drunkards, and prostitutes would emerge to crowd the area. The glow from the lamps on either end of the street strained through the fog that had settled in the recent summer calms, nearly obscuring the bloodshot moon. Most of the dilapidated buildings had been condemned and closed in preparation for a new development site. The soot-blackened tenements, built as close as a row of teeth, were eerily quiet. ![]() She would have liked to cover her mouth and nose with a scented handkerchief, but that wasn’t something a resident of the parish would do, and she wanted to blend in. Fortunately, she was only two blocks away from the new main road, where there would be a hansom cab for hire.Īs she passed the grates that covered Fleet Ditch, noxious fumes wafted upward and made her eyes water. The East London parish of Clerkenwell was not a place to be careless. Her gaze took in every detail of the environment. ![]() So far there had been no evidence to justify her unease-no glimpse of a person behind her, no sound of footsteps-but she could feel him somewhere close.Ĭarrying her leather doctor’s bag in her right hand and a hickory cane with the other, Garrett continued to walk at a brisk pace. Lately she had the feeling of being watched whenever she went on her weekly visit to the workhouse infirmary. The uneasy awareness crept along the nape of Garrett’s neck until the fine hairs stood on end. ![]() |