One of the last big pre-pandemic scandals we could read (and let’s be honest, slightly enjoy), without the knowledge that just a few scant months later, we’d all be sanitizing our groceries and logging into virtual school. By the end, I was both dismayed and slightly sympathetic to Elizabeth Holmes-I felt I really knew her story, and what more can we ask from a book?īillion Dollar Loser, by Rieves Wiedeman.Īh, the WeWork meltdown. The book flies, no small part thanks to Carreyrou, who is both a gifted writer and in the later parts an active part of the story, as he helps break the Theranos deception wide open. The setting (Palo Alto), the technology (just a drop of blood!), the crime (the product doesn’t actually work), and most importantly, the characters (some everyday heroes, a host of mini-villains, and a big, complex villain in the shape of Elizabeth Holmes). Some of my favorite non-fiction books about crime and general bad behavior in Silicon Valley:Įven though this is a later release, I think of Bad Blood as almost the big daddy of Silicon Valley non-fiction thrillers, partially because it’s got it all.
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It turns out that Bradley, your ex, has already moved on to another woman! But who is she? And how does Nick fit into this equation? Chapter 4: Caught In Your Web Will the two of you make it out unscathed? Chapter 3: Burning Bridges It's move-in day, and the proximity to Nick is already getting to your head. But when your ex leaves you with an empty apartment and a whole lot of rent, you're forced to shack up with the one man who never fails to get under your skin. Nick Ballantine is everything you can't stand: scruffy, arrogant, and all kinds of trouble. When he moves in with Taylor, he starts to turn up the heat with his sparring partner. Nick Ballantine, an eternally disheveled writer, doesn't play by anyone’s rules. But will living with her number-one nemesis, Nick, melt her icy heart? Taylor Carr is the "Ice Princess" of Oxford Magazine, and no one stands in her way. When the Radcliffes and the Pongos realize that their puppies have been dognapped, the humans turn to Scotland Yard. “I live for furs, I worship furs.” But the Radcliffes and the Pongos refuse to hand over the babies, and so Cruella hatches a plan to steal them: getting the material for her coats as well as revenge. “My only true love, darling,” she tells Anita re: furs. The pairs fall in love and settle down together in a neat row home near Regents Park (with a housekeeper known as “Nanny”), and it’s not long before Perdita gives birth to puppies: fifteen.īut when the puppies are born in the wintertime, Anita is visited by an old acquaintance, Cruella de Vil (incomparably voiced by Betty Lou Gerson), who attempts to buy the puppies to have their skins made into fur coats. The film is set in London in 1958, and tells the story of an affable dog named Pongo (voiced by Rod Taylor) who wants to start a family, and so concocts a plan to set up his human, a musician named Roger Radcliffe, with a young woman named Anita, who (more relevant to Pongo’s interests) just happens to own a beautiful female dalmatian named Perdita. If you have seen it (or even if you haven’t) you probably know the gist, but here’s a deeper dive. One Hundred and One Dalmatians (which IS a crime film) is a timeless joy, and an aesthetic marvel. Though indulging in several descriptions of feminine beauty, Scott deprives it of eroticism by painting an angelic, even childish portrait of his heroine. Despite such striking similarities, however, The Bride of Lammermoor and Tess of the d’Urbervilles deliver remarkably divergent views regarding female sexuality and violence. Devastated by his rejection, she commits an act of extreme violence that, considered unnatural to her gender and tender personality, is categorized as madness. Most importantly, both works involve a climax in which an innocent young woman is condemned by her lover for lack of virtuous firmness. Either in a Gothic or a pastoral manner, both authors draw on the pagan to illustrate the rural landscape and transform it into an active force that shapes the characters’ identities and development. This thesis explores the multiple affinities and key differences between Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891) and Sir Walter Scott’s The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), which Hardy commended as “an almost perfect specimen of form.” The two novels rely upon legends and omens to emphasize an inevitable destiny and advance the story toward a tragic conclusion. Over the years she turned more to fantasy The House Between the Worlds, although a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club, was "fantasy undiluted". She also edited an annual anthology called Sword and Sorceress for DAW Books. Bradley edited many magazines, amateur and professional, including Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, which she started in 1988. She wrote everything from science fiction to Gothics, but is probably best known for her Darkover novels. She had written as long as she could remember, but wrote only for school magazines and fanzines until 1952, when she sold her first professional short story to Vortex Science Fiction. She was a science fiction/fantasy fan from her middle teens, and made her first sale as an adjunct to an amateur fiction contest in Fantastic/Amazing Stories in 1949. in 1964 from Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, then did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1965-67. Marion Zimmer was born in Albany, NY, on June 3, 1930, and married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. |