The Next Big Story by Soledad O'Brien5/29/2023 ![]() (The EV “high end” keeps getting higher.)The EV story, analysts point out, remains one of net carbon impact. An editorial in the Los Angeles Times decries a wave of bigger – and bigger-battery – EVs. Those are pricier than EVs like the little Bolt hatchback, which General Motors discontinued in favor of pickups. They’re more resource-intensive, too. ![]() The demand side – that is, consumer preferences – plays an important role, too.There are full-size EV pickups that can power homes, and some drivers do need big vehicles. ![]() For 2022, the firms involved in the mining and manufacturing for those accounted for 27% of Tesla’s total emissions, reports Quartz.But the supply side isn’t the only thing to consider as we think about EVs and making the future work. ![]() And such “Scope 3” emissions – including those of suppliers – represented the deepest part of the product line’s carbon footprint.Batteries are a big factor. But this time, in Tesla’s report, it was part of the tally. ![]() What should we make of a recent report from carmaker Tesla reminding us that, even though its cars have no tailpipes, there are significant carbon emissions associated with getting them built and on the road?It’s worth thinking about, though there’s a lot more at play when it comes to electric vehicles and CO2 emissions.The vast network needed to supply raw materials and component parts for EVs makes for difficult accounting. ![]()
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The White Devil by Justin Evans5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Much of the rest of “The White Devil” is Andrew trying to unwind the mystery of this ghost. ![]() And Andrew quickly realizes that the ghost is stalking him, targeting any new friend Andrew makes at Harrow. Evans makes his antagonist truly evil and threatening. This is no typical Victorian ghost, however, who can only rattle cages and make windows blow open. He deals with suspicious and bullying fellow students, makes a few friends, and even lands a starring role in a school play due to his physical similarity to the Victorian poet Byron.Īndrew also hears about a school ghost who roams the hallways, the “Lot Ghost.” Andrew laughs off these stories as mere rumor until he sees the ghost kill one of his schoolmates. The novel begins with 17-year-old Andrew Taylor, an American with a history of family and school problems, arriving at the England boarding school Harrow. Combining mystery, gothic horror, and a little literary history, this is a novel well worth reading. ![]() It’s not until around page 150 that the terror really begins to boil over. Justin Evans’ novel “The White Devil” is a horror novel that builds slowly, perhaps a little too slowly. ![]() The divine comedy paintings5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() The analysis of the figurative “licence” taken by Blake thus points us toward a fascinating interpretative pathway wherein, besides a number of radical divergences, we not infrequently come across an aesthetic ideal in which the work of art expresses a religious spirit and universal knowledge that earns its rightful place within humanity’s sacred texts. ![]() ![]() Therefore, although Blake fully acknowledged the authority of the Commedia’s inspiring vision, the imaginative re-formulation in pictorial terms of that same vision opens the way to an independent creative act capable of revisiting and amending Dante’s text. Unlike other illustrators, for William Blake the illustration of a literary work meant commenting on and interpreting it in the light of his own creative, visionary experience. ![]() The one hundred and two drawings and the seven engravings which William Blake dedicated to Dante’s Commedia, considered by some to be the English artist’s greatest masterpiece, sprang from a complex relationship. Blake & Dante: A Study of William Blake’s Illustrations of ‘The Divine Comedy’ including critical notes. (*This page is adapted from a full-length monograph: De Santis, Silvia. ![]() Jasmine warga the shape of thunder5/28/2023 ![]() You’ll find yourself flipping page after page which can be tough with stories about tough issues. ![]() ![]() Warga depicts all those emotions flawlessly. Her quiet grief, the feeling of guilt and responsibility for a crime she did not commit, and the complicated emotions she felt about her brother whom she’d known her whole life. I loved both girls, but I felt especially drawn to Quinn. It also tackles a (sadly) timely topic in a realistic, age-appropriate way. This is a much different book, but just as brilliant. So many readers - both of middle grade and adult books - were fans of Warga’s Other Words for Home. This is a very moving book and so well written too. The story is told from alternating points of view (Quinn and Cora) as both girls try to figure out time travel, while processing the grief and trauma they both hold. As they approach the first anniversary of the shooting, Quinn thinks she’s found a way to undo what happened and reaches out to Cora to work with her. Understandably, this created a rift between both girls, even though they still deeply care for each other and have been friends since kindergarten. ![]() Quinn’s brother Parker killed Cora’s sister in a school shooting. The Shape of Thunder follows two former best friends Quinn and Cora whose lives have been altered by a tragic event. ![]() Descendent of the crane5/28/2023 ![]() I do know why I finally picked it up, my thanks to the 52 Book Club, I used this for the prompt ‘a book that intimidates me’ purely because its the longest netgalley I had awaiting a review.Ī big oversight on my part, The Descendant Of The Crane is fantastic! Titan Books very rarely disappoint, maybe it was the massive hype around this release? Had I overdone it on the fantasy genre at that time? Who can say. I couldn’t tell you why I haven’t read it before now, I honestly don’t know. So here’s my secret I’ve been holding on to an ARC of The Descendant Of The Crane for THREE YEARS. With the future of her kingdom at stake, can Hesina find justice for her father? Or will the cost be too high? Using the information illicitly provided by the sooth, and uncertain if she can trust even her family, Hesina turns to Akira-a brilliant investigator who’s also a convicted criminal with secrets of his own. Determined to find her father’s killer, Hesina does something desperate: she engages the aid of a soothsayer-a treasonous act, punishable by death… because in Yan, magic was outlawed centuries ago. ![]() ![]() Princess Hesina of Yan has always been eager to shirk the responsibilities of the crown, but when her beloved father is murdered, she’s thrust into power, suddenly the queen of an unstable kingdom. ![]() ![]() Publication date May 2020/ Publisher Titan ![]() Susan cooper's the dark is rising5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() After attending Oxford, where she became the first woman to ever edit that university's newspaper, Cooper worked as a reporter and feature writer for London's Sunday Times her first boss was James Bond creator Ian Fleming.Ĭooper wrote her first book for young readers in response to a publishing house competition "Over Sea, Under Stone" would later form the basis for her critically acclaimed five-book fantasy sequence, "The Dark Is Rising." The fourth book in the series, "The Grey King," won the Newbery Medal in 1976. ![]() As a child, she loved to read, as did her younger brother, who also became a writer. Susan Cooper was born in 1935, and grew up in England's Buckinghamshire, an area that was green countryside then but has since become part of Greater London. Susan Cooper's latest book is the YA novel "Ghost Hawk" (2013) ![]() Quanta by Lola Dodge5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Now Quanta senses a terrifying new future brewing. A jailbreak would be suicide, but Tair is willing to sacrifice everything to give her a chance at happiness. As he watches her deftly maneuver through life in a perverse prison, his plastic heart melts. ![]() Everything is running like clockwork until he crosses paths with Quanta. The son of two senators, Altair Orpheus leads a life of privilege that provides the perfect cover for his side job: working with the rebel Shadow Ravens to undermine the ruling Seligo government. She’s spent most of her life imprisoned, feeding her captors information to keep herself alive, but she’s finally reached the endgame and her death creeps closer by the moment. Just because Quanta can see the future doesn’t mean she can change it. "THIS BOOK IS FREAKING AWESOME!!!" - No Escape Like A Book ![]() Bb alston author5/28/2023 ![]() She’s got enough to worry about!īut her refusal allows someone else to step forward, a magician with dangerous plans for the League. ![]() So when the secretive League of Magicians offers her a chance to stand up for magiciankind as its new leader, she declines. ![]() Perfect for 8+ fans of Percy Jackson and Nevermoor.Īfter finding her brother and saving the entire supernatural world, Amari Peters is convinced her first full summer as a Junior Agent will be a breeze.īut between the fearsome new Head Minister’s strict anti-magician agenda, fierce Junior Agent rivalries, and her brother Quinton’s curse steadily worsening, Amari’s plate is full. ![]() Sequel to the New York Times bestseller Amari and the Night Brothers!Īrtemis Fowl meets Men in Black in this magical second book in the New York Times bestselling Supernatural Investigations trilogy, soon to be a major movie starring Marsai Martin. ![]() Born to run cover5/28/2023 ![]() I might have listened to Born to Run over a thousand times. Let me get my Springsteen bona fides out of the way up top: I have been a passionate fan since 1974’s The Wild, the Innocent and E Street Shuffle, first saw him live on the Born to Run tour in ’75, didn’t miss a Northern California concert through the early ’80s. ![]() FROM THE SUMMER 2019 ISSUE OF UKULELE | BY BLAIR JACKSONĪ uke album covering Bruce Springsteen songs was bound to happen at some point, though I would have pictured an album of the Boss’ most commercial tunes (“Hungry Heart,” “Glory Days,” “Dancing in the Dark,” etc.) rather than this much hipper idea: The complete 1975 Born to Run album, it’s eight songs performed in order, by eight different artists, about half of them new names to me. ![]() Dancing at midnight by julia quinn5/27/2023 ![]() And even though he knows he can never be the sort of man she deserves, he can't help wanting her. ![]() ![]() Dancing at Midnight:. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Suddenly he's writing bad poetry and climbing trees in the pitch-dark night.just so he can dance with her as the clock strikes midnight. Buy Dancing at Midnight Unabridged by Quinn, Julia, Rayner, Lucy (ISBN: 9781470854409) from Amazons Book Store. She is intoxicating, infuriating.and she makes him want to live again. During an extended stay in the country, she never expects to meet Lord John Blackwood, a wounded war hero who intrigues her like no other man.Lord John has lived through the worst horros of war.but nothing could have been as terrifying to his tormented heart as Lady Arabella. Lady Arabella Blydon has beauty and a brain, and she's tired of men who can see only one without the other.When a suitor tells Arabella he's willing to overlook her appalling bluestocking tendencies on account of her looks and fortune, she decides to take a break from the Marriag. ![]() |