He's basically telling his friends, and his wife, that they have absolutely no clue what they're yammering on about.īut to be fair, Mel isn't in the nicest mood at this moment. This isn't the nicest thing in the world to say, because belittles everything everybody else has said about love so far. He says: You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love. So why isn't this story called "Knights and Bees"? Probably because the title comes from a line in the story itself, when Mel McGinnis introduces his example of true love, the story of an elderly couple who survive a car accident. When love is the topic, you never know what's going to come up next. They talk about domestic abuse, stalking, rat poison, suicide, car accidents, surgeries, hospitals, knights, and-how could we forget?-bees. It isn't all hearts and flowers and romance here. That sounds pleasant enough, but what comes out in their conversation might surprise us a little. This longish title does a nice job of describing the story – a story in which two married couples sit around drinking gin and talking about… wait for it… love.
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STREAM2016 focused on the Department of Energy (DOE) applications, computational and experimental facilities, as well software systems. This report describes the discussions, outcomes and conclusions from STREAM2016: Streaming Requirements, Experience, Applications and Middleware Workshop, the second of these workshops held on March 22-23, 2016 in Tysons, VA. The two-part workshop series, STREAM: Streaming Requirements, Experience, Applications and Middleware Workshop (STREAM2015 and STREAM2016), were conducted to bring the community together and identify gaps and future efforts needed by both NSF and DOE. However, there has been no corresponding effort in either documenting the critical research opportunities or building a community that can create and foster productive collaborations. There has been an explosion of new research and technologies for stream analytics arising from the academic and private sectors. The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (SC) facilities including accelerators, light sources and neutron sources and sensors that study, the environment, and the atmosphere, are producing streaming data that needs to be analyzed for next-generation scientific discoveries. The first thing that really sold me on this book was how it was a story more or less about Greek mythology being real and having its own place in our world, though it’s unbeknownst to majority of the world’s population, but what really drove it home was the narrative and overall writing. All my boxes were checked off and more, and I’m beyond happy to be delivering a beautifully glowing review of Lore. Everything I’ve been complaining about in 2020 books, everything I’d wished to see done differently, she did right. And thank every single god above that she delivered. I’m no stranger to Alexandra Bracken as an author as I’ve been reading her stories for a good handful of years now, so I expected a lot from this new standalone. And Lore blew that out of the water and gave me everything I’d been missing. That’s all I needed one, single new release that would simply be good. We all know that 2020 was a pretty shitty year for books and all I could hope for in 2021 is just one good book. Two summers ago, many of the summer reading books were writen by you. Like many schools, we have a summer reading list. Like Leap Day, I also loved your books Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life and Every Soul a Star. I took it so many places that I lost it! It took me a while before I could return it to the school library. I took this book with me everywhere I went, contiunally reading it over and over again. Leap day captivated me it became one of those books you stay up to midnight on “school nights” to read. I came into the library to sit with the rest of my class, and found I was the ONLY ONE to have already FINISHED their book. I remember the day after my class started the project. I only read books I truely love, and when I find one I love, I read it over and over again. I am going to be honest, I am hard to please when it comes to books. I used it for a school project where I was required to read a book, pick an excerpt from it that would inspire someone else to read it, and then write a little bio about the author. If it was up to me, I'd have worked more on the war and famine explanation for why Hänsel & Gretel's parents decided to abandon them. For example, why is the stepmother changed to the mother? And why is she punished but not the father who actually carried out the deed twice? Why does the witch drug the kids? None of that is in the fairy tale. Just wordier and with little changes that don't make much sense. I downright hated this retelling, and not just because it's boringly the same as the original fairy tale. This being Neil Gaiman, I was fully expecting shocking twists and gritty but unique twists to the Grimms' tale of Hänsel and Gretel, and instead I got confirmation that Gaiman doesn't know how meat is transported and how German names work. |