![]() ![]() Two checks saw Tilly continue for $4,000. Ivey likewise called from the small blind, Brunson came along from the big, and four players took a flop of. The hand took place about four hours into the game when Tilly raised to $2,500 from middle position and received a call from Chan. As you read, ask yourself whether or not you could have folded, because some at the table argued it was the right move. Before getting to the hand, let me set the stage by saying that I feel this one is demonstrative of cash poker at the highest level. ![]() I found one of those hands to be particularly interesting and worth exploring further in this week’s Hold’em With Holloway. I wrote a piece about the five biggest pots from Day 1 of the game, which you can read by clicking here. The game, appropriately called the Super High Roller Cash Game, featured blinds of $400/$800/$200 and required a minimum buy-in of $250,000.ĭay 1 of the three-day affair featured a lineup that included Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, Antonio Esfandiari, Johnny Chan, Jean-Robert Bellande, Jennifer Tilly, Bob Bright, and Matthew Kirk. ![]() Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to live report a prestigious invite-only cash game being held at the ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas as part of the Super High Roller Series. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet his book became one of the founding texts of the discipline-a way of telling history through the recorded voices of participants far removed from the seats of power and influence. Notably, Blythe, a novelist and editor, wasn’t aware of the category “oral history” when he started his project in 1966. Lynn Abrams revisited Akenfield on its 40th birthday to examine Blythe’s “attempt to capture the spirit of a community through the stories it tells about itself.” Studs Terkel-just then beginning his ascent to the pinnacle of American oral history-called it “revelatory.” A new American edition of Akenfield reminds us just how powerful a book it remains. were equally positive: the book was called one of the best of the year by the New York Times, along with Portnoy’s Complaint and Slaughterhouse-Five. Ronald Blythe’s Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village was first published in 1969 to great acclaim in the United Kingdom. ![]() ![]() ![]() Coming home to someone who you make your family rather than being born into a family with them. I thought that maybe it would be about a housewife? Middle age crisis? No?Īs it turns out, it’s about. But the name – The Kitchen – does hint at things. I had put The Kitchen on my TBR some 2 or 3 years ago, so naturally I didn’t expect to remember anything I might have read on the blurb. Before reading a book, I rarely read up about it – I like getting to know a book first-hand, without any background. The Kitchen is not what you expect it to be. It’s hardly surprising that I turned out to be no exception to this. So when I saw it at the book store two weeks ago, it wasn’t a hard decision at all! Even if it was a lot thinner than I had imagined it to be.Ī lot of people love this book. Which is why come 2016, I still hadn’t read one of the first books I ever put on my TBR. I would try to stalk it at the library, but it was just always borrowed. I think that must’ve been in 2012? Quite a while ago anyway. This is a book I’ve wanted to read basically ever since I joined GoodReads. I got two books, one of those was The Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto. It was one I got for a voucher my friends gave me for my birthday, which was ages ago, but I only spent it last week. So I read a really enjoyable book this week. ![]() Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Other episodes occur on Earth, where the leader is actually a pawn of the Hanseatic League's unscrupulous chairman. Some of this book's episodes take place aboard the spaceships or on different planets they involve human interaction with vegetable intelligence, ancient robots and beings who live deep in the atmosphere of a giant gas planet. After an exhausted Earth launches a swarm of spaceships in the desperate hope of finding new resources, the explorers are rescued by humanoid and apparently benevolent aliens, who divulge the secret of FTL (faster than light) travel and give humans the chance to colonize uninhabited planets. This book, billed as a prequel to that series, pictures a situation rich in tantalizing hints of intrigue. Now, he's created a space opera saga, with the first three novels either published or about to be published. Anderson has written bestselling Star Warsīooks and coauthored the expanded Dune series, so he's adept at handling big settings and complicated plots. ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘When are we going to start our makeovers and transform ourselves into goddesses?’ We were snuggling in the warmth of the Dolphin Cafe, one foggy afternoon in November. 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May be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.Ī CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication ![]() Printing, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the (including without limitation electronic, digital, optical, mechanical, photocopying, Make available this publication (or any part of it) in any form, or by any means ![]() You may not copy, distribute, transmit, reproduce or otherwise ![]() This electronic edition published in July 2010 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The moral right of the author has been asserted Bloomsbury Publishing, London, Berlin and New Yorkįirst published in Great Britain in 2009 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ![]() ![]() ![]() Lunacy delves into the making of this iconic record and why it continues to speak to generation after generation of music lovers around the world. Selling over forty-five million copies, The Dark Side of the Moon topped the US Billboard charts when it was first released in 1973 and took up residence there for over 950 weeks. Their eighth album was a make it or break it proposition, and it's timing could not have been better. Pink Floyd became a rudderless ship and released a series of nebulous (yet highly enjoyable) jam albums and went on tours that almost bankrupted them. ![]() Lunacy also looks at Pink Floyd after the departure of the band's original leader and visionary songwriter Syd Barrett. ![]() With interviews of musicians, artists, DJs, and fans, Kruth gets to the heart of the lasting importance of The Dark Side of the Moon. Music biographer John Kruth starts with Pink Floyd's band history, leading up to the creation of their masterpiece and exploring what inspired the "sonic stew" of styles-a mixture of avant-garde electronic, jazz, and classical music all contributed to the timeless album. ![]() Selling over forty-five million copies, The Dark Side of the Moon topped the US Billboard charts when it was first released in 1973 and took up residence there for over 700 weeks. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meagher’s rebirth in America included his leading the newly formed Irish Brigade from New York in many of the fiercest battles of the Civil War - Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg. He escaped and six months later was heralded in the streets of New York - the revolutionary hero, back from the dead, at the dawn of the great Irish immigration to America. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. From the National Book Award–winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s probably been almost 10 years since I read The Blue Castle, and before that I was in my teens. I noticed this time around that there were several times I found myself wondering why I love this book so much. Stokes saying that “they have done so well with it that he wants me to write another similar to it as soon as possible.” Which, I believe, becomes A Tangled Web. She writes in her journal on Jan.22, 1927 that she received a letter from Mr. However, she did enjoy much success with The Blue Castle. ![]() “While she was censored for mentioning an unwed mother (who dies, no less), young writers like Callaghan were earning praise for sympathetic treatment of down-and-outers and prostitutes.” LMM found herself facing the same unfairness her characters must face. But it was often treated like a children’s book anyway. As a result, “its mature subject got it banned for children in a number of places”. According to Mary Henley Rubio in The Gift of Wings, she was tired of being pegged only as a children’s author. When she wrote The Blue Castle, LMM had intended it to be for adults. It has been for several months a daily escape from a world of intolerable realities.” (Mar. It seemed a refuge from the cares and worries of my real world.” (Feb. Montgomery Volume III: 1921-1929, she writes “I have enjoyed writing it very much. Unlike the last Emily book, LMM enjoyed writing The Blue Castle. Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote The Blue Castlein 1924, at the same time as she was attempting to write Emily’s Quest. ![]() ![]() ![]() Film fanatic Adam is seventeen and being asked out on his first date-and the guy is download: Henry Holt and Co. In the spirit of the author’s massively popular Twitter thread, Tucker Shaw’s When You Call My Name is a heartrending novel about two gay teens coming of age in New York City in at the height of the HIVAIDS epidemic, perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Mary H. 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Amongst the top five included, “I wish I hadn’t worked so hard” and “I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.” But the #1 ‘I wish’ was “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.” LIM: The study didn’t deal necessarily with older people, but rather “I wishe’s” from people that were about to pass away. What are the most common “I wish’es” people had? SPEAKING.COM: Some of the research you’ve used includes regrets older people had looking back at their life. The #1 ‘I wish’ was “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.” ![]() |