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![]() ![]() Maven, however, is as watery as a Coors Light. From the alleyways of New York to the palatial estates of Miami, Safecracker has all the makings of a Jerry Bruckheimer action flick. And Wick lays on the stress as nothing is easy. No longer a thief-for-hire, Michael must now break into a rival Cartel’s safe in order to win his life back. While attempting to pick off an ultra-rare coin he gets bogarted by a kick-ass karate babe who kills his mark and then has Michael set up by a Mexican Cartel. He is a high-class thief who ensures no one, except the insurance companies, gets hurt. Michael Maven might be among the best of what he does. ![]() ![]() Why then is master thief Michael Maven a boring character? Best of all? He has a cool story making Safecracker a fast, fun read. Wick has the genre’s tropes blended down into a delicious cocktail. You name it, author Ryan Wick has it in place all set to a swinging Dean Martin score. Safecracker skillfully contains all the elements of hip heist story: a daring burglary life-and-death situations a femme fatale high-class locations a British handler a friendly bar. ![]() ![]() He’s Nikhil now, a Yale School of Architecture grad with the Ratliffs, he’s Nick or Nicky. Gogol, proper name Nikhil, has dispensed with his pet name, which humiliates him. His parents settled and raised their kids in the bland suburbs north of the city, a short drive but psychologically far from Gogol’s posh 1990s Manhattan apartment - though he spends most of his time at either his fancy architecture job or the Ratliffs’ cavernous and lovely redbrick Greek Revival in Chelsea. His father, Ashoke, is away on a teaching gig. Gogol Ganguli has grudgingly brought his girlfriend, Maxine Ratliff, home to meet his mother, Ashima, en route to Maxine’s summer house for a long stay with her folks. It’s a small moment in The Namesake, directed by Mira Nair and adapted from the first novel by Jhumpa Lahiri. Photo: Credit: Allstar Picture Library Ltd./Alamy Stock Photo ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Please note that the personal and payment information shown by Google Pay and Apple Pay is stored only by your payment account, and is neither stored by our site or accessible to our team. If ordering from a device or browser that supports Google Pay or Apple Pay, you will be automatically shown the corresponding payment button on product pages, the cart page, and the checkout page. Read more about Stripe and security here. If you select to save your credit or debit card information during checkout to use again for future orders, your card information is encrypted and stored only by Stripe, who have been certified as a Level 1 PCI Service Provider (the highest level of security certification available for online payment services). Our credit and debit card payments are securely processed by Stripe, and your full card information is neither stored by our site or accessible to our team. Orders placed via our website can be paid using any of the following methods: ![]() ![]() Over a shared love of literature and old movies, Cornelia develops an instant bond with this warm yet elusive woman who has also recently arrived in town, ostensibly to send her perceptive and brilliant son, Dev, to a school for the gifted. ![]() ![]() A saving grace soon appears in the form of Lake. Perfectly manicured, impeccably dressed, and possessing impossible standards, Piper is the embodiment of everything Cornelia feared she would find in suburbia. Cornelia's mettle is quickly tested by judgmental neighbor Piper Truitt. Though she knows she and her beloved husband, Teo, have made the right move, she approaches her new life with trepidation and struggles to forge friendships in her new home. A devoted city dweller, Cornelia Brown surprised no one more than herself when she was gripped by the sudden, inescapable desire to leave urban life behind and head for an idyllic suburb. Some we keep to protect ourselves, others we keep to protect those we love. ![]() ![]() ![]() Me - "So is Homeland Security a Federal body?" ![]() Supervisor reads the list - "Yes we do accept forms from Federal bodies" (Supervisor points to the part on the list confirming that) Me - "Aren't they a Federal body? I thought that the list you provide said that you accept letters from Federal bodies?" Supervisor - "I'm sorry but we don't accept anything from Homeland Security" Me - "I thought that your list said that you accepted letters from Federal bodies" (hands over list) First I pulled out a letter from Homeland Security thinking its Federal and it says I'm here legally so it should help speed things along ![]() When I got called up to the desk I started handing over my documents to prove my identity and that I was allowed in the country. Knowing the run around we'd had with the SSA we over prepared, had more documents than we needed and brought in the list of what was acceptable. As a non-citizen I had to prove that I was eligible for a permit by providing documents from either State or Federal bodies. My only experience with them to date has been getting my permit. Why am I not surprised reading how the BMV handled this ![]() ![]() ![]() The grief of death is admitted but there’s no incredulity, no sense of thwarted entitlement.īut in western Europe in 2017 there is a narrative of lengthening lifespans, of extraordinary treatments that fend off death for decades and may, in the end, outwit it entirely. Inscriptions on gravestones acknowledge how soon the living will join those who are already under the earth, not lost but gone before. Death and the living walked hand in hand and could not easily pretend that they had nothing to do with each other. ![]() Men’s lives were scrubbed out by the first world war, children were killed by diphtheria, whooping cough and minor infections that bloomed into sepsis in the days before antibiotics. Go back another generation or so and childbirth, monstrous figure of attrition, cut short the lives of innumerable women, as it would have ended mine. A couple of generations ago I’d have done very well to live in reasonable health to the age I now am: 64. There never was, although I might have fooled myself about it. ![]() ![]() ![]() her thoughtful portraits will linger with you long after the book is finished' - Madeline Miller 'With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism. ![]() And how she was never really a monster at all. This is the story of how a young woman became a monster. That is, until Perseus embarks upon a fateful quest to fetch the head of a Gorgon. Medusa can no longer look upon anyone she loves without destroying them, and so condemns herself to a life lived in shadow and solitude to limit her murderous rage. Appalled by her own reflection: snakes have replaced her hair and she realises that her gaze can now turn any living creature to stone. When the sea god, Poseidon, commits an unforgivable act in her sacred temple the goddess, Athene, takes her revenge on an innocent - and Medusa's life is changed forever. Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know. Growing up with her sisters, she quickly realizes that she is the only one who gets older, experiences change, feels weakness. ![]() Medusa is the only mortal in a family of gods. Natalie Haynes - the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of A Thousand Ships - brings the infamous Medusa to life as you have never seen her before. ![]() ![]() ![]() What follows are some questions for discussion that might have surfaced in my reading group. ![]() ![]() So, if you've come this far, I owe you my heartfelt thanks. Meeting once a month, we started with Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past and have since worked through the works of Twain and Faulkner, Cervantes and García Marquez, Tolstoy and Nabokov-dwelling over dinner on our favorite passages, on themes and ambiguities, sharing our perspectives.Īs someone who has written quietly for twenty years, the notion that a group might gather to discuss a book of mine seems something so fantastic it must be a mirage. Five years ago, three friends and I set out to read some of the "great books"-or those works of literature that would merit rereading several times over the course of our lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Gorgeously illustrated and with a first-rate story’ ![]() Travel, adventure, friendship and kindness are the book’s main themes within a nautical tale that sounds best when read out aloud. ![]() The sea snail slithered all over the rockĪnd gazed at the sea and the ships in the dockĬontaining beautiful illustrations and featuring Donaldson’s trademark hypnotic rhyming The Snail and the Whale will delight children between the ages of 3 and 8. But when disaster strikes and the whale is beached in a bay, it's the tiny snail who saves the day. Together they go on an amazing journey, past icebergs and volcanoes, sharks and penguins, and the little snail feels so small in the vastness of the world. One tiny snail longs to see the world and hitches a lift on the tail of a whale. ![]() |