The case against sugar5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() The sugar allows smokers to inhale the smoke more deeply, making tobacco “as addictive as possible,” author Gary Taubes says. “If sugar consumption increases our risk of dementia as we age, surely eating less of it would help to minimize the risk,” says Taubes, assuming we want to age “with all our faculties intact.” Shutterstock It makes cigarettes even worse for youĬigarette tobacco is often cured using a technique that turns its starches into sugar, or by soaking the tobacco leaves in sugar. ![]() ![]() Researchers believe insulin resistance, associated with high sugar intake, can impair some brain functions and weaken the brain’s ability to clear away the “plaques and tangles,” which are thought to cause Alzheimer’s disease. Here, Taubes tells The Post why sugar is the prime suspect in a deadly diet. “People are dying today, literally every second, from diseases that seemed virtually nonexistent in populations that didn’t eat modern Western diets or live modern Western lifestyles,” Taubes writes. In his new book, “ The Case Against Sugar” (Knopf, out now), health and science journalist Gary Taubes argues that our collective sweet tooth isn’t just making us fat - it could be killing us in ways we can’t even imagine. ![]()
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The ruin of kings jenn lyons5/9/2023 ![]() It’s an interesting premise, but one that nevertheless has its own challenges. If that isn’t complicated enough, the resulting recoding (magical rock, remember?) from which this book is supposedly drawn is then provided with somewhat snarky commentary in footnote style from a whole other character who is also involved in the story at various points. But here’s the hook, she has some very particular skills that means the story she’s telling is also his, adding parts of the plot not only on a different timeline, but from varied perspectives too. ![]() His tale is told in alternating chapters, while his jailer, Talon, accounts for the other. Kihrin languishes in a jail cell, bullied by his captor into narrating the events that led him to this point. ![]() Right from the outset, it’s clear this book isn’t set up in the usual fashion. After all, he’s in prison when we meet him. well, his chances don’t seem like they’ll be looking up any time soon. But since his new life involves evil magicians, a death cult, a war between gods and demons, the kind of family that epitomises the whole keep-your-enemies-closer philosophy, and dragons…. ![]() Everything he’s ever believed is lies, new truths discovered through violence and death. Kihrin is many things: orphan, thief, long lost son of a prince, destroyer of the world? Whatever else he is, he’s also having a really bad time of it. ![]() The outsider novel by albert camus5/9/2023 ![]() Camus believed that this last option was the best. One must acknowledge the absurd but continue to live. One takes a “leap” into the unprovable in this scenario. Second, one might turn to religion or spirituality to find a meaning that doesn’t really exist. The first of these is to commit suicide or “escape existence.” It’s an option, neither Camus nor Kierkegaard believed was the right one. Camus believed that human beings have three different ways that they might confront that meaninglessness. Specifically, absurdism that is, the belief that life is essentially meaningless despite the human desire for it not to be. Today, Albert Camus (along with Soren Kierkegaard) is regarded as a leader of the existentialist movement.
![]() ![]() The grave digging parts can be pretty stomach turning additionally the evil Archduke is marrying young girls and then killing them after he obtains their dowry (again pretty disturbing when you think about this old man marrying 12 year old girls). ![]() I know this is aimed at the middle grade audience but I doubt I would want my son (who is nine and reads lots of middle grade books) reading most of this. The story reads a lot like a fairy tale and has a lot of elements of stories you’ve probably read before (a young girl running from an unwanted marriage, a young man who doesn’t know his parents and finds out they have noble origins).Parts of the story are pretty gruesome. It’s decently written but very predictable. I have has this book to read for a couple years it ended up being an okay read. ![]() A twisted tale aladdin5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() And readers will never look at the story of Aladdin in the same way again. What happens next? A Street Rat becomes a leader. But soon their fight for freedom threatens to tear the kingdom apart in a costly civil war. The stories are standalone and can be read in any order. Some of young adult's favorite writers reimagine Disney classics in some surprising ways. ![]() This young adult series explores What If scenarios with some of Disney's most popular characters including Belle, Cinderella, Mulan and several more. Agrabah lives in fear, waiting for his third and final wish.To stop the power-mad ruler, Aladdin and the deposed princess Jasmine must unite the people of Agrabah in rebellion. A Twisted Tale (Disney) Multiple Authors. Agrabah lives in fear, waiting for his third and final wish. When Jafar steals the Genies lamp, he uses his first two wishes to become sultan and the most powerful sorcerer in the world. Written by Liz Braswell, it is based on the 1992 film Aladdin. Plus, it includes an excerpt of book two, Once Upon a Dream, a twist on Disney’s Sleeping Beauty! When Jafar steals the Genie’s lamp, he uses his first two wishes to become sultan and the most powerful sorcerer in the world. A Whole New World (A Twisted Tale) is the first novel in the A Twisted Tale series. She also wrote A Whole New World, a twist on Aladdin, and Once Upon a Dream, a twist on Sleeping Beauty for the A Twisted Tale series. ![]() What if Aladdin had never found the lamp? This paperback edition of the first book in the A Twisted Tale line will explore a dark and daring version of Disney’s Aladdin. ![]() The sword of kaigen review5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() As a writer, what are some things to keep in mind when developing characters? I was really impressed by the character development Misaki had in the series. This one was just a (frankly overdue) projection of my adult issues instead of my teenage ones. My books have always been a way for me to work out my emotional issues. My most recent release, The Sword of Kaigen, is a Japanese-inspired military fantasy with ice-elemental magic.įrom my understanding, The Sword of Kaigen is your first adult fantasy, how different was it to write The Sword of Kaigen from your YA series? I’m always writing some mix of sci-fi and fantasy that helps me process reality. In the miasma of change, the constant is writing. Please introduce yourself to our readers and tell us a little bit about your work. WANG: A JAPANESE INSPIRED MILITARY FANTASY ON TRAGEDY, LOSS, AND FAMILY. ![]() The self-published military fantasy book completely amazed me! You can read more about my thoughts on my review: THE SWORD OF KAIGEN BY M.L. Wang, the 2019 winner of the Self Published Fantasy Blog-Off! I had the chance to read and review M.L. ![]() Today, I’m so excited to be interviewing M.L. ![]() Enduring Love by Ian McEwan5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() The buzzard’s image of being all-seeing and free can be linked to the image of God and once again further to Jed. The image of the buzzard is also significant as it creates a filmic perspective on the event, like the buzzard is the omniscient creature that observes the already highly anticipated event. There is also the personification of the wind “the wind roared” linking the wind to animalistic foreshadows that it will be a danger. There are numerous references to the wind in the opening which is involved with the tranquil setting but stands out as “strong gusty wind” suggests danger and creates tension. Furthermore including such fine details creates an early sense of reliability in the narrative voice. “As the cool neck and the black foil touched my hand”. ![]() ![]() ![]() The child, Harry Gadd, is in the basket of a hot-air balloon, which the wind is threatening to carry away. On a sunny afternoon, the middle-aged writer Joe Rose and his wife look up from their picnic in the countryside to see an elderly man desperately trying to anchor his giant helium balloon. Joe Rose and his wife, Clarissa Mellon, are picnicking in the English countryside when they hear the shouts of a child in distress. The reference to various senses heightens verisimilitude as every detail felt through the senses of the character is described. In Enduring Love, he sets a tale of obsession and desperation spinning amidst one mans comfortable British world. The inclusion of words like ”labyrinth” implies that confusion and complication are a part of the story and causes the reader to rely even more on the narrate voice of Joe. ![]() Get Off My Case by Lisa Oliver5/9/2023 ![]() Until Dimitri Polst was assigned as his new partner.Ĭonfirmed ladies man, Dimitri Polst knew Shane from before he'd ever shifted into his wolf form. Two years older and from the same pack, Dimitri had made it his teenage mission to bring as much pain and humiliation to pretty-boy Shane as possible. ![]() Gay from the first day he'd shifted, he also expected to live his long life alone, and provided it meant that he didn't have to come into contact with any of his ex-pack, he told himself he was happy. ![]() His enhanced senses helped him do his job efficiently and he prided himself on keeping control of his animal instincts. ![]() Shane West was used to being the only wolf shifter at the Stockton Police Department. ![]() 49,000 words have been added to make this into the book my characters wanted it to be. The first 20,000 words of this story were published as a free read for the Goodreads MMRomance Group Love's Landscapes Project. ![]() Ma’am Darling by Craig Brown5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The dashing, dishy Group Captain was banished to Belgium, where he soon met and married a pretty local aristocrat a decade younger than Margaret. Edward VIII’s abdication, of course, had propelled his retiring younger brother George VI to the throne and the unwonted limelight and changed the destinies of Margaret and both Elizabeths forever. ![]() Following the scandal of the abdication, when her uncle, the Duke of Windsor, renounced the throne to marry the twice-divorced, hatchet-faced Baltimorean go-getter Wallis Simpson, the royal family, quietly dominated by the fey-slash-steely Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother), were acutely conscious of projecting an image of propriety and conventional family life. My grandmother was endlessly tut-tutting that poor Margaret had never been able to marry the man she really loved, Group Captain Peter Townsend, her father’s equerry and an older, divorced man. I grew up fascinated by Princess Margaret’s harebell blue eyes, her Minnie Mouse white shoes that fractionally elevated her diminutive form, and her mallard raw-silk drawing room (revealed in a Sunday supplement story and, of course, the perfect backdrop to Those Eyes). In the rollicking, irresistible, un-put-downable Ma’am Darling, the brilliant British satirist Craig Brown takes as his fertile subject Princess Margaret Rose, the late sister of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. ![]() Stillhouse lake book series5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() I was probably so deep in so many series, I was already having a hard time keeping up. I have no idea why I never picked this series up. I heard rave reviews about this book, and each book in the series as they were released. Stillhouse Lake is a book that has been on my radar since it was first released back in 2017. One thing is certain: she’s learned how to fight evil. Gwen Proctor must keep friends close and enemies at bay to avoid being exposed-or watch her kids fall victim to a killer who takes pleasure in tormenting her. Though still the target of stalkers and Internet trolls who think she had something to do with her husband’s crimes, Gwen dares to think her kids can finally grow up in peace.īut just when she’s starting to feel at ease in her new identity, a body turns up in the lake-and threatening letters start arriving from an all-too-familiar address. With her ex now in prison, Gwen has finally found refuge in a new home on remote Stillhouse Lake. ![]() But when a car accident reveals her husband’s secret life as a serial killer, she must remake herself as Gwen Proctor-the ultimate warrior mom. Gina Royal is the definition of average-a shy Midwestern housewife with a happy marriage and two adorable children. ![]() Published by Brilliance Audio on July 1, 2017Īmazon, Audible, Audiobook, Barnes & Noble, Apple ![]() |