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quotes-for-the-soul · 2 months

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Once again, the stars mocked him. Out here you were fully aware of the speckness of your existence in the universe, the majesty of eternal creation compared with the swift and insignificant transit of one such as yourself. Nothing in your life made any difference in the countenance of the heavens bearing down on you, no more than the mountains and the cows and the rattlesnakes.

Mr. Texas by Lawrence Wright

#Mr. Texas #Lawrence Wright #stars #mock #speck #existence #universe #majesty #eternal #creation #transit #life #difference #heaven #mountain #cow #rattlesnake #place #time #quotes

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prosedumonde · 5 months

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Contagion « Pourquoi avons-nous cru que notre époque moderne était immunisée contre les assauts du microbe, fléau le plus fourbe et implacable de toute l’humanité ? » Certains diront qu’il faut être fou pour lire ce genre de livre au regard de la situation actuelle. D’autres diront que cette lecture a le mérite d’être dans l’air du temps. Pour ma part j’étais assez intriguée par Contagion, du journaliste — lauréat du Pulitzer en 2006 pour un essai sur le 11 septembre —, Lawrence Wright. 460 pages pour raconter la catastrophe, mais surtout 460 pages pour apprendre des choses ! Je crois que c’est bien la première fois que j’ai lu un thriller avec un crayon à la main. J’ai mis en exergue certains passages qui me paraissaient intéressants pour ma culture générale. L’auteur retrace un panorama des principaux virus, par exemple il s’arrête beaucoup sur la grippe espagnole, mais aussi sur Ebola. Pour une personne qui, comme moi, est très loin du domaine de la santé, j’ai appris énormément de choses et c’est ce qui fait la grande force de ce roman ! Ça, et son côté addictif ! En suivant Henry Parsons, épidémiologiste, le lecteur est entraîné au coeur de la pandémie autant que sur l’histoire des virus — combien de morts il y a eu, comment on a pu arriver à l’éradiquer ou comment un vaccin a-t-il pu être mis en place… Concernant l’aspect « prophétique » de l’oeuvre, il est vrai qu’il y a bon nombre de points communs entre la pandémie dans le roman et notre virus. Cependant il faut bien avoir à l’esprit que ce livre est un roman, un thriller apocalyptique, avec bien plus de morts que n’en fait le covid. Ici aussi le virus s’en prend aux poumons, ce qui créer une sorte d’hystérie générale : le virus est dans l’air, comment faire, dès lors, pour lui échapper ? Mais je trouve dommage de le réduire à ça car ce n’est pas uniquement une histoire de pandémie, c’est aussi une histoire de rivalité entre pays, de tensions entre pays. L’aspect politique est très présent et bien amené [...] • Traduit par Laurent Baruch au Cherche midi

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aromanticbuck · 11 months

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Harry: Would you guys be there for me if I was going through something? Lawrence: No. Chet: Nope. Lawrence: Absolutely not. Susan: I hope it sucks, whatever you're going through. Allison: I hope it emotionally scars you for the rest of your life. Todd: I hope you reach out to me so I can ignore you. Lyle: I can't wait to go to your funeral knowing that I could have changed that outcome.

#harry so help me todd #lawrence wright #chet venables #susan yang #allison grant #todd wright #lyle burton #so help me todd #all of margaret's kids would roast harry so hard #this is all i want from s2

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deadpresidents · 2 years

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Any books you'd particularly recommend outside of US/Presidential history?

I always will take opportunities like this question to recommend Charles Emmerson's 2019 book, Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924 (BOOK | KINDLE). I know it'll sound like hyperbole, but I am not exaggerating: it's one of the best books I've ever read, if not the best. It has stayed with me ever since I finished it, largely because of how absolutely riveting Emmerson's writing style is. I don't know if I've ever read a single book that has told so many incredible stories about so many remarkable people and so many fascinating places. And it does so without ever losing its overall focus or confusing the reader. I love this book and every time I see it on one of my bookshelves I get jealous that I can't read it for the first time over-and-over again.

Another book that immediately comes to mind is Lawrence Wright's Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (BOOK | KINDLE), which I'm sure many others would back me up on. I'm a huge fan of all of Lawrence Wright's work, so you can't go wrong with any of his other books, particularly The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (BOOK | KINDLE) and The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State (BOOK | KINDLE), both of which are journalism at its very best. And I understand you asked about books that didn't have anything to do with the Presidency, but it would be criminal if I didn't also suggest Wright's excellent history of the 1978 Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David (BOOK | KINDLE). The difficult peace negotiations between President Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat are detailed so intimately that Wright originally began writing it as a play, and the storytelling remains just as vivid as if it were being performed on a stage.

By no means is that a complete list of suggestions, but those are the first books that came to mind when reading your question. But, seriously, don't hesitate to read Charles Emmerson's Crucible ASAP!!!

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newlabdakos · 11 months

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Regular and Recurring LGBTQIA+ Characters in series on TV & Streaming Video

These are characters who have first appeared or been revealed as LGBTQIA+ during the 2022/23 season, or whom I’ve recently learned about or whom I hadn’t mentioned in previous posts of this type (including on my old blog). Needless to say, this list is highly arbitrary and incomplete.

ABC

Grey's Anatomy

Dr. Mika Yasuda (portrayed by Midori Francis)

Dr. Kai Bartley (portrayed by E.R. Fightmaster)

Carlos Garcia (portrayed by Calvin Seabrooks)

The Rookie: Feds

SA Simone Clark (portrayed by Niecy Nash-Betts)

Dina Jackson “DJ” (portrayed by Jessica Betts)

CBS

So Help Me Todd

Lawrence Wright (portrayed by Matthew Wilkas) [standing, left]

Chet Venables (portrayed by Thomas Cadrot)

CW TV

Gotham Knights

Cullen Row (portrayed by Tyler DiChiara)

Harper Row (portrayed by Fallon Smythe)

Walker: Independence

Kate Carver (portrayed by Katie Findlay)

(Personally, I'm convinced that Deputy Augustus and Calian are more than friends, but there's been no on-screen confirmation so far...)

Continuing the tradition from my old blog (which has been unceremoniously deleted by tumblr without much of an explanation why) I’m doing daily posts during June to celebrate LGBTQIA+ pride by showcasing openly LGBTQIA+ celebrities and various content about or created by LGBTQIA+ people such as music videos, characters on TV shows, movie trailers, …

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nipresa · 1 year

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Ritagli

Una delle cose più pratiche che permette di fare un e-reader è sottolineare i testi e avere poi a portata di mano tutti i passaggi che si vogliono conservare.Di seguito, una piccola raccolta di sottolineature, senza un particolare filo conduttore, tra saggi e narrativa, dagli ultimi tre anni circa di letture. Alberto Grandi, Denominazione di origine inventataQuesto è il paese nel quale due tra…

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crushondonald · 1 year

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power couple ⚡️

Leah Remini and Mike Rinder

Yet again, I finished reading their compelling biographies and watching the fascinating documentary series "Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath" ... once more, I've realised how much I love and adore them both as well as all the other wonderful people who managed to escape the cult. Hopefully, their courage to speak out and continuous fight will help to eventually destroy that exploitative, brainwashing company! Oh dear! I will never comprehend how fascist, inhuman crap like CoS could ever become a "church" ... tax exemption included!!! 🫣

book recommendations on the subject:

Leah Remini - Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology (2013)

Mike Rinder - A Billion Years: My Escape from Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology (2022)

Lawrence Wright - Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief (2013)

#don't give up the fight you lovelies! 💪#Leah Remini #Mike Rinder #Scientology and the Aftermath #troublemaker #Lawrence Wright #Scientology sucks!!!!! 🤮😠#still important!#my edits

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snowyjay · 1 year

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So Help Me Todd has already created such beautiful and nuanced relationships between the Wright siblings, and should not be overlooked for having one of the most realistic depictions of siblings on television.

#so help me todd #skylar astin #todd wright #allison wright #madeline wise #lawrence wright #matthew wilkas #marcia gay harden #margaret wright

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slightly-misguided · 2 years

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August 2022 - Books in Review

August 2022 – Books in Review

Hey everyone! I don’t know about y’all, but it’s been crazy hot this last month of August. This month has been crazy; from me getting COVID to this kick starting the busiest season of my job; and I still managed to read 6 books this summer and start a 7th book that will be reviewed next month. Check out the podcast of course for all the lovely details including the concerts I went to this…

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#A Game of Fate #A Game of Retribution #A Touch of Darkness #A Touch of Malice #A Touch of Ruin #August Book Reviews #August Books #book reviews #books in review #boundtoRead #Culture of Wonder #Greek Mythology #Hades #Lawrence Wright #Pandemic #Perephone #Scarlett St. Claire #The End Of October #thriller

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dankusner · 5 months

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Lawrence Wright was sitting in algebra class at Woodrow Wilson High School in 1963 when he learned that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated just a few miles away on Elm Street.

Since then, Wright has written about the assassination as well as other topics, including 9/11 in his book The Looming Tower , which won him the Pulitzer and became a Hulu miniseries.

And now, a new honor. The Sundance Institute announced earlier this month that 82 films, including eight episodic titles, will be part of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, which will take place Jan. 18-28 in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah. A selection of titles will appear online Jan. 25-28. The film version of one of Wright’s previous books, God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State, released in 2018, has been chosen for the “episodic” portion of the festival.

God Save Texas will feature three episodes, each directed by a different filmmaker, with individual chapters falling under the umbrella of documentary and “anthology series.”

And yes, the appearance of God Save Texas at Sundance will be the world premiere of the film.

The episodes are: “God Save Texas: Hometown Prison,” directed by Richard Linklater, focusing on Huntsville, at the heart of our state’s “expansive prison-industrial complex”; “God Save Texas: The Price of Oil,” directed by Alex Stapleton, focusing on “the world’s energy capital,” Houston; and “God Save Texas: La Frontera,” directed by Iliana Sosa, examining “nepantla, an embrace of in-betweenness” that “characterizes relations to both her Mexican heritage and her hometown of El Paso.”

Past projects created for the episodic category include Willie Nelson and Family and O.J.: Made in America , a film directed by Ezra Edelman that won the Oscar for best documentary feature in 2017.

Michael Granberry

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sweetrain123 · 3 months

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For every fantasy romance with a princess, there's an alternate universe of a homoerotic romance filled with misfortune

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quotes-for-the-soul · 2 months

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It's too hard to hate a belief without hating the believer.

Mr. Texas by Lawrence Wright

#Mr. Texas #Lawrence Wright #too #hard #hate #belief #believer #politics #prejudice #opinion #partisan #quotes

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prosedumonde · 3 months

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#Lawrence Wright #Contagion #livre #book #citation #littérature #blog #blogger #bookblogger #article

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salcreus · 5 months

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Another drawing I did for @aabadendingzine ! You can get the zine for free here 🔥

#ace attorney #salty art #phoenix wright #maya fey #franziska von karma #regina berry #dick gumshoe #benjamin woodman #lawrence curls #putting my very strong feelings aside for this case.#i liked how the kitty cat came out :)#the whole idea for this drawing is that phoenix ends up badly injured (or dead) due to animal mishandling #which lets be real if ace attorney was a more realistic game it totally would have happened

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deadpresidents · 2 years

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Did you read any of those three Carter biographies ("His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life", "President Carter: The White House Years", and "The Outlier: The Life and Presidency of Jimmy Carter") that came out within the last few years? If so, which was your favorite/which do you recommend? I have usually heard Jonathan Atler's is the definitive Carter biography these days.

I still have not gotten around to reading Kai Bird's The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter (BOOK | KINDLE), but I've been meaning to do so. Kai Bird does great work and his biographies of J. Robert Oppenheimer (American Prometheus -- the basis of Christopher Nolan's next film) about and Robert Ames (The Good Spy) are both must-reads.

I have read the other two books that you mentioned and they are both excellent. I'd agree that Jonathan Alter's book, His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life (BOOK | KINDLE), is the best biography of Carter that I've come across. It's also a true biography that covers Carter's entire life.

Stuart E Eizenstat's President Carter: The White House Years (BOOK | KINDLE) is also very good. While Alter's book might be the definitive biography of Carter's full life, Eizenstat's book is arguably the definitive book on Carter's Presidency. Eizenstat focuses strictly on Carter's 1976 election, single term as President, and unsuccessful bid for reelection in 1980. Eizenstat goes deep inside the Carter White House and spends 1,024 pages covering no more than a five-year period of Carter's political life, so there's a remarkable level of insider knowledge, extensive research and impressive detail in his book.

One other book that I'd suggest checking out if you're interested in Jimmy Carter's time as President is Lawrence Wright's 2014 book, Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David (BOOK | KINDLE). It's not solely about President Carter, but he's obviously one of the main characters as he hosted Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and helped negotiate the historic Camp David Accords. Lawrence Wright is one of my all-time favorite writers and this book is packed with high stakes, tons of drama, and extremely fascinating characters, particularly Sadat. It's also an interesting look at the little-known but highly significant role that First Lady Rosalynn Carter played in helping hold the negotiations together when things got tense between the principals. Like I said, Carter is not the main focus of the book, but it's such an incredible read and it is the story of one of the most important and lasting accomplishments of Carter's Presidency.

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taiga-pine · 18 days

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