But digging into the case brings new danger to the school.įive years ago, a string of accidents killed a group of cheerleaders in Sunnybrook. But it’s also known for a famous cold case where the owner’s wife and daughter were kidnapped. But who did? As she gets closer to the truth, Pippa also gets closer to danger.Įllingham Academy is a prestigious private school for artists, inventors, and creators. She’s not convinced the sweet Sal Singh could have done it. If you’re looking for a true crime mystery to get into as summer starts to hit, check out some of these great YA books! Top Read-a-Likes for Sadie Looking for true crime mysteries?Ī Good Girl’s Guide to Murderby Holly Jacksonįor her senior project, Pippa decides to find out what really happened to Andie Bell five years ago. I’ve actually heard that it’s phenomenal on audio, which has me intrigued! I might have to pick it up at some point. And a podcast runner who picks up the story. It’s about a girl trying to find out what happened to her sister. Sadie by Courtney Summers is a true-crime novel featuring a lot of different elements that make it unique. I got a request to write about Sadie on Facebook, so that’s the direction I’m taking next! Friendly reminder if there’s a book you want read-a-likes for, just let me know! My first post was about Illuminae, and it was a hit! One of my more popular posts from recent weeks. A few weeks ago, I started a new series called “So You liked…” where I give book recommendations based on population YA books.
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In her day job she uses mathematical models to study patterns in human behaviour, and has worked with governments, police forces, health analysts and supermarkets. Hannah Fry is an Associate Professor in the mathematics of cities from University College London. So how much should we rely on them? What kind of future do we want? Hannah Fry takes us on a tour of the good, the bad and the downright ugly of the algorithms that surround us, lifting the lid on their inner workings, demonstrating their power, exposing their limitations, and examining whether they really are an improvement on the humans they are replacing. Welcome to the age of the algorithm, the story of a not-too-distant future where machines rule supreme, making important decisions – in healthcare, transport, finance, security, what we watch, where we go even who we send to prison. Which car should you choose? (And which car do you want?) Another promises they’ll always put the life of you, the driver, first. In her day job she uses mathematical models to study patterns. One manufacturer promises their vehicle will be programmed to save as many lives as possible in a collision. Hannah Fry is an Associate Professor in the mathematics of cities from University College London. You are buying your first driverless car. They grow hungry, homicidal and suicidal. People try to leave but find they are trapped by some acidic goo surrounding the entire drive-in. A comet, red and smiling with jagged teeth, flashes across the sky. But then suddenly the world changes in front of their eyes, not on the screens. Horns honk, BBQ grills sizzle, people yell and act the fool, ready for the marathon of one low-budget horror film after another. It's a lit city that fills to the brim on Friday nights, crowds gather for the Dusk-to-Dawn Horror Shows. A drive-in theater so large it houses multiple stories-high screens that fill the sky, and can hold four thousand cars and all the people who can squeeze in them. Drive-in movie culture is mostly dead with one significant exception: THE ORBIT DRIVE-IN. THE DRIVE-IN 2: Not Just One of Them Sequels THE DRIVE-IN: A B-Movie with Blood and Popcorn, Made in Texas Includes all three Drive-In novels from Mojo Storyteller Joe R. Weaving fact and imagery into a rich tapestry, Galeano fuses scientific analysis with the passions of a plundered and suffering people. These are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States and Europe. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, petroleum, iron, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminum ore, nitrates, and tin. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. The classic survey of Latin America's social and cultural history, with a new introduction by Isabel Allende Tech credits are far better than the material deserves, though laugh track is (of necessity) oversweetened. Uhry’s script is rife with sitcommy lines like Hoke’s asking Daisy, if she and her friends play mah-jongg, “You think that rich Chinese widows play poker all the time?” Though thoroughly racist, Beulah had evidently earned Daisy’s friendship right up to this confrontation. Language might be apt for the period, but here it smacks of “Amos & Andy.”ĭaisy’s Jewishness is underplayed in pilot, which spends inordinate amount of time introducing characters and relationships, ending with a visit to Atlanta by Eleanor Roosevelt (Toni Gillman).Ī political liberal, Daisy has a showdown with mah-jongg partner Beulah (Zoaunne Le Roy). Guillaume is forced to spew archaic dialogue like “Ain’t we lucky the hot weather done broke” with a straight face, which may substantiate Media Image Coalition’s charges that such lines perpetuated “an archaic, negative stereotype” (Daily Variety, Aug. That lecture was just the beginning of Lustig’s campaign to prove that sugar is the cause of the rise of obesity and other dangerous diseases. Lustig’s lecture-a combination of righteous anger and dry science-went on to become a surprise viral hit: since it debuted on YouTube in 2009, it’s been viewed almost five million times. Photo: Wendy Goodfriendīefore the New York Times asked if sugar was toxic, before Michael Bloomberg tried to ban large sodas in New York City, before people starting calling sugar “ the new tobacco,” UCSF endocrinologist Robert Lustig stood in front of a crowd of UCSF extension students and told them that the increase in obesity over the last 30 years is the result of one thing: increased amounts of sugar in our diet. Robert Lustig gave a lecture at KQED titled: Sweet Revenge: Turning the Tables on Processed Food. The combination of computer technology and Barthian theology would have been enough to sustain most novels, but this one also has the Hawthornean ( Scarlet Letter) intertext, making it the most layered and artful of Updike’s novels and a possible precursor to Richard Powers’ The Gold-Bug Variations. This was Updike’s new novel at the time I was discovering Pigeon Feathers and Couples, and so I bought it in hardcover as a college sophomore. Roth, for instance, wouldn’t address the era directly until American Pastoral, which responds to this novel in fascinating ways. It’s remarkable to look back at the high sixties, as John Barth called them, and see how few of Updike’s contemporaries were truly taking the pulse of the times. Replete, lyrical, full of big themes, and yet gossipy and sexy as well, this is the brightest of all his books, I think, and the ur-text of his later adultery novels. The prose in this book was in 5.1 Surround Sound. As I told my students recently, before I’d read these stories, all the writing I had experienced had been in stereo. This is the one that started it for me, and might be the single book that prompted my career. Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories (1962).Professor of English, Rhodes College (Tennessee)Īuthor, John Updike’s Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered Irony in Motion |