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![]() ![]() The less than scientific rigour was tipped by the 28.3% score given to F. The story about Piketty’s tome was born of the fact that nothing was highlighted beyond page 26, giving a score of 2.6%. The higher the number, he assumed, the more that was read.Įllenberg found that the most read bestseller was Donna Tartts’ The Goldfinch, since all five of the top highlights were from the last 20 pages, giving a completion score of 98.5%. To arrive at the HI, the page numbers of a book’s top five highlights were averaged, and then divided by the number of pages in the book. ![]() If people didn’t get past the first chapter, the highlights would be clustered at the beginning. He assumed that the highlights of books read to the end would be scattered throughout the text. To work out the HI, Ellenberg used the “Popular Highlights” feature in Amazon’s Kindle reader, which lists the five most frequently highlighted passages in a book. The index was so-named after Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time, which has sold more than 10 million copies and is widely referred to as “the most unread book of all time”. ![]() As a lark, Ellenberg, an American mathematician, invented the “Hawking Index” (HI). The story was created by Jordan Ellenberg in the Wall Street Journal about two years ago. ![]() ![]() I am making my way through all things Sanderson and was anxiously awaiting for this book to make it do my doorstop. And reading an authors rendition of a world he’s built along the same concept is mind shattering too. The whole concept of not really knowing what’s out there makes my head hurt. Everything Spensa has been taught about her world is a lie.īut Spensa also discovered a few other things about herself–and she’ll travel to the end of the galaxy to save humankind if she needs to.īut really. ![]() When she made it outside the protective shell of her planet, she heard the stars–and it was terrifying. And she’s sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could happen to her. Spensa is sure there’s more to the story. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them. The rumors of his cowardice are true–he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. ![]() She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. ![]() From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, Words of Radiance, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive comes the second book in an epic series about a girl with a secret in a dangerous world at war for humanity’s future.Īll her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is twenty-nine year old, parole officer Jess Montell, and heir to the West Mafia Tristian ‘Trace’ West’s story line. REVIEW: A DIRTY BUSINESS is the first instalment in Tijan’s contemporary, adult KINGS OF NEW YORK erotic, Mafia romance series. They both know it’s safer to stay away, but the temptation is too hard to resist-no matter how great the danger ![]() She’s an absolute spitfire, and he wants to stoke that flame. Especially when it’s a brunette bombshell with attitude and legs for days. The last thing Trace needs is a romantic anything with law enforcement, and parole officer Jess has trouble written all over her. ![]() And forgetting is exactly what she wants to do when she learns he’s not just a successful Wall Street suit but the heir to one of New York’s biggest Mafia families. ![]() What she does know is there’s an instant attraction that’s impossible to ignore-or forget. When Jess Montell meets Trace West at a hockey game, she doesn’t know his name or occupation. A Dirty Business (Kings of New York 1) by Tijan-Review tourĪ / Amazon.ca / Amazon.uk / /ĭon’t own a Kindle? Download the FREE Amazon Kindle App for your mobile device or pcĪBOUT THE BOOK: Release Date December 6, 2022 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All beautifully illustrated by the brilliant David Roberts. A treasury of fairy tales with a difference - feminist, sparky and set in non-traditional periods, with funky clothes and recognisable settings. These are all deliciously, delightfully different takes on the fairy tales we all know. This special collection includes: a feminist Sleeping Beauty, set in the 1950s (and 2950s), in a story populated entirely with women and girls (no princes needed here!) a 1970s Rapunzel whose friend plays in a rock band a 1920s-set Cinderella with flapper girls and a fashion-conscious fairy godmother. A stunning collaboration between the brilliant illustrator David Roberts and his talented writer sister Lynn. A treasury of fairy tales with a difference - feminist, sparky and set in different decades of the 20th century, with funky clothes and recognisable settings. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hard Case's list includes both reprints of books from the pulp era (typically labeled Complete and unabridged on the cover), and new novels written for the collection (typically labeled First publication anywhere). The covers feature original illustrations done in a style that was common for paperbacks of that era, credited to artists such as Robert McGinnis and Glen Orbik. The series recreates, in editorial form and content, the flavor of the paperback crime novels of the 1940s and '50s. Hard Case Crime is an American imprint of hardboiled crime novels founded in 2004 by Charles Ardai (also the founder of the Internet service Juno Online Services) and Max Phillips. Winterfall LLC, in collaboration with Dorchester Publishing (2004–2010) in collaboration with Titan Books (2011–present) American imprint of hardboiled crime novels Hard Case Crime Founded ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet the literature professor in me certainly plays into my romances. It's like being Superman, with power suits for both lives. The other day I bought a delicious pink suit to tape a television segment on romance I'll never wear that suit to teach in, nor even to give a paper at the Shakespeare Association of America conference. When I'm not writing novels, I'm a Shakespeare professor. In her professorial guise, she's written a New York Times op-ed defending romance, as well as articles published everywhere from women's magazines such as More to writers' journals such as the Romance Writers' Report. Her "double life" is a source of fascination to the media and her readers. Currently she is an associate professor and head of the Creative Writing program at Fordham University in New York City. from Yale and eventually became a Shakespeare professor, publishing an academic book with Oxford University Press. A reviewer from USA Today wrote of Eloisa's very first book that she "found herself devouring the book like a dieter with a Hershey bar" later People Magazine raved that "romance writing does not get much better than this." Her novels have repeatedly received starred reviews from Publishers' Weekly and Library Journal and regularly appear on the best-seller lists.Īfter graduating from Harvard University, Eloisa got an M.Phil. Her novels have been published to great acclaim. New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James writes historical romances for HarperCollins Publishers. ![]() ![]() It doesn't take long for frindle to take root and soon the excitement spreads beyond the school and town and unleashes a series of events that rapidly spins out of control. He invents a new word for a pen - frindle. Granger's fifth grade language arts class, he comes up with the greatest plan yet. Andrew Clements Frindle Audio Book Online. I enjoyed loved enjoyed this publication. ![]() ![]() When he decides to liven things up in Mrs. Guides I mentioned are great books yet not ideal language for my kid. Nicholas Allen is not a troublemaker - he's just creative. ![]() ![]() ![]() "The novel, by a staff writer at Lit Hub, has generated a lot of buzz, and its unflinching forays into our culture wars are cleareyed. ![]() "Taylor's perceptive, challenging exploration of the many kinds of emotional costs will resonate with readers looking for complex characters and rich prose." - Publishers Weekly charged experience." - Booklist (starred review) "Breathlessly physical.steadily exciting and affecting. Real Life is a gut punch of a novel, a story that asks if it's ever really possible to overcome our private wounds and buried histories-and at what cost. But a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with a young straight man, conspire to fracture his defenses, while revealing hidden currents of resentment and desire that threaten the equilibrium of their community. ![]() For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends-some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a biochem degree. A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice.Ī novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend-and a lifetime of buried pain. ![]() ![]() He was also ranked at #44 on IGN's Top 100 Comic Book Heroes list. He has since been a prominent member of several Avengers teams, founding the West Coast Avengers, briefly marrying and subsequently divorcing Bobbi Morse / Mockingbird, adopting the Ronin alias after his death and resurrection before mentoring Kate Bishop as his successor as Hawkeye. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Don Heck, the character first appeared as a supervillain in Tales of Suspense #57 (September 1964) and later joined the Avengers as a superhero in The Avengers #16 (May 1965). Hawkeye ( Clinton Francis " Clint" Barton) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Hawkeye's first self-titled comic book and first appearance with Mockingbird on the cover of Hawkeye #1 (September 1983). Utilizes high-tech equipment, armor, compound bow, and various types of specialty arrows. ![]() ![]() Expert martial artist, hand-to-hand combatant, and acrobat. ![]() |