Lufthansa, easyJet and Ryanair have all pointed to robust summer bookings, showing consumers prioritising travel spend despite high inflation and an uncertain economic outlook. Its positive outlook chimed with other major European airlines. IAG (ICAG.L), which also owns Iberia, Vueling and Aer Lingus, said on Friday strong ticket sales for summer and a winter season that beat expectations meant 2023 profit would come in above its previous forecasts. LONDON, May 5 (Reuters) - British Airways-owner IAG and Air France-KLM reported bumper summer bookings as travellers pressed ahead with holiday plans despite a cost-of-living crisis, though IAG's boss warned strikes and lack of staff could still disrupt major airports.Įuropean airlines and airports are under pressure to avoid a repeat of last summer's chaotic scenes that marred the return to mass travel after the freeze caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Mandel said that she probably wouldn't have written "Sea of Tranquility" if it were not for the coronavirus pandemic. One of my very favorite movies is Rian Johnson's film, 'Looper.' "I've always really enjoyed time travel fiction," she said. Mandel joined Wisconsin Public Radio's " BETA" on a book tour and explained why she wanted to explore time travel in "Sea of Tranquility." She also imports characters from her 2020 novel " The Glass Hotel" because as she said, she becomes attached to certain characters. This expansive timeline gives Mandel the chance to write about technology by considering what the world would be like without it. It’s a beautifully written, compelling book filled with complicated characters that starts in 1912 and fast-forwards to 2401. Now, Mandel is back with another novel called " Sea of Tranquility," and it’s just as powerful as "Station Eleven." It’s been translated into 33 languages and was adapted into an HBO Max limited series in 2021. The 2014 post-apocalyptic novel was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. John Mandel is probably best known for her novel, " Station Eleven." It’s set in the Great Lakes area before and after a pandemic that decimated the world's population. So now we have another group that uses crosses and slaughters people. There were crosses all over the place during the Inquisition and before that, during the Crusades. Did the Ku Klux Klan wear crosses-as well as burn them? The Nazis wore the swastika, which is a kind of cross, but I don’t think they wore it on their chests. It sounds like the sort of thing his people might do-a revival of something nasty out of the past. I couldn’t help wondering, though, whether these people, with their crosses, had some connection with my current least favorite presidential candidate, Texas Senator Andrew Steele Jarret. He did the same for her, so I won’t be able to ask her anything more until she wakes up later this morning. Bankole had given him something to help him sleep. I didn’t think of what it might be until after I had let Aubrey go back to the clinic to bed down next to her child. Carriger was the guest of honor at FenCon, a science fiction convention in Dallas, Texas, in September 2011. The five-book series continued with Heartless in late June 2011 and concluded with Timeless in March 2012. Her third novel, Blameless, was released in September 2010 and also became a New York Times bestseller. Her second novel, Changeless, was published in early 2010 and earned her a place on the New York Times Bestseller List. The book was a Compton Crook Award nominee, a Locus Award finalist for Best First Novel, and Locus placed her on their recommended reading list. She is a 2010 recipient of the Alex Awards.Ĭarriger's first novel, Soulless, was published in 2009 by Orbit Books and earned her a nomination for the John W. She received her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College, a masters of science in archaeological materials at England's University of Nottingham in 2000, and a master of arts in anthropology (with a focus on archaeology) at the University of California Santa Cruz in 2008. She was born in Bolinas, an unincorporated community in Marin County, California, and attended high school at Marin Academy. Gail Carriger is the pen name of Tofa Borregaard, an author of steampunk fiction and an American archaeologist. Steampunk, paranormal romance, urban fantasy, mystery, science fiction Where Thule, located on an island, is presented as an ideal society, where the people live in harmony with each other and nature, is het Badense Rijk presented as a conflict driven empire where the biggest part of the population lives in poverty. It tells the story about two imaginary nations, Thule and het Badense Rijk, that are in constant conflict with each other. At the end of the nineteen eighties the female Dutch writer Thea Beckman writes children’s novel about a future world, consisting of three parts, named Kinderen van Moeder Aarde. Sometimes utopia takes the form of a dystopia: a society with merely negative elements. The word utopia first appeared in the eponymous book of Thomas More in 1516 where it got its definition: a social planning, a design for a future ideal world or social order radically different from the criticised present world, casted in a literary form. A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association predicts that a child born in 2000 has a one-in-three chance of developing diabetes. The disease formerly known as adult-onset diabetes has had to be renamed Type II diabetes since it now occurs so frequently in children. Three of every five Americans are overweight one of every five is obese. “According to the surgeon general, obesity today is officially an epidemic it is arguably the most pressing public health problem we face, costing the health care system an estimated $90 billion a year. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Imagine it: Every meal would connect us to the joy of living and the wonder of nature. But we can change the way we make and get our food so that it becomes food again-something that feeds our bodies and our souls. Most people don’t want to learn to garden or hunt. I don’t want to have to forage every meal. We would no longer need any reminding that we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and that what we’re eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world. We would not need to go hunting for our connection to our food and the web of life that produces it. If that was the reality, then every meal would have the potential to be a perfect meal. Imagine if we could eat every meal knowing these few simple things: What it is we’re eating. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that restored the land. “Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. The red pages mentioned earlier shows off rough sketches but the page is only one side with the other wasted as blank. While most are actual finished artworks, there are also some preliminary pencil drafts, and layouts indicating areas to be inked. The artworks featured are a selection of covers and pages from the various Sin City main and short stories. It's an interesting read, interesting enough that I hope one day there will be a Frank Miller artbook and biography. Harvey who recounts the rise of Frank Miller and his art since the Daredevil days in late 1979. The book starts of with an introduction by R.C. The paper used are low gloss and thick, occasionally interspersed by matte red pages. This is a large 128-paperback artbook published by Dark Horse. They have the same page number so the content should be the same, but don't quote me as I don't have the first edition. Here's a reprint of the first edition that came out more than 10 years ago. Namely, people select clues, extract significance from them, and weave meanings together into a narrative that forms their sense of reality. However, Pynchon uses Oedipa’s fruitless investigation to show how everyone interprets the world just like Oedipa investigates Tristero and readers analyze literature. Eventually, she realizes that she might have just become a paranoid conspiracy theorist, pursuing a fantasy with no basis in reality. Although Oedipa dedicates all her time to figuring out these clues, she never figures out precisely what Tristero is, if it has anything to do with Inverarity, or if it even exists at all. As she sorts through the assets that Inverarity has left behind, Oedipa gradually uncovers clues that point her to a centuries-long, anti-government conspiracy of mail carriers called Tristero (or Trystero). Set in 1960s California, Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 follows the unassuming housewife Oedipa Maas after she discovers that her ex-boyfriend, the wealthy real estate mogul Pierce Inverarity, has recently died under mysterious circumstances and named her as the executor (or “executrix”) of his last will and testament. Their friendships can be mean and messy, but they are also fiercely loyal. "These authentic teen girls are smart, complicated, sexual, and sensitive. Told in alternative viewpoints and set against the backdrop of Los Angeles in the springtime, when the rainy season rolls in and the Santa Ana's can still blow-these two girls are about to learn that in the city of dreams, anything is possible-even love. She never did really get over that first crush, even if Rachel can barely stand to be in the same room as her. Rachel was furious that Sana tried to prank her by asking her on a date.īut when it comes time for Rachel to cast her senior project, she realizes that there's no more perfect lead than Sana-the girl she's sneered at in the halls for the past three years. Rachel is a film buff and aspiring director, and she's seen Carrie enough times to learn you can never trust cheerleaders (and beautiful people). The first time Sana Khan asked out a girl–Rachel Recht-it went so badly that she never did it again. Aminah Mae Safi's Tell Me How You Really Feel is an ode to romantic comedies, following two girls on opposite sides of the social scale as they work together to make a movie and try very hard not to fall in love. I think it will make the book a great point of discussion for our book club as there are sure to be varying views on Jude and her parenting. Truthfully Jude annoyed the heck out of me as a mother, which is ironically one of the reasons I found the novel so compelling. The one event she never planned for is a tragedy that takes place along Night Road after a night of teenage drinking. She is super involved in her children’s lives down to planning where they will go to college. Since she’s had the twins, she has tried to be the loving mother that she never had. Mia and Zach’s mother Jude is a helicopter Mom. Mia and Lexi soon become best friends, while Lexi also harbors a secret crush for Zach. She feels like an outcast until she meets Mia and her twin brother Zach. Lexi attends a school full of rich kids on Pine Island in Washington State. Aunt Eva doesn’t have much in the way of material goods, but she does have a lot of love. An orphan after her mother dies from a drug overdose she goes to live with her Great-Aunt Eva. Lexi Baill is a girl from the wrong side of the tracks. It was a great page turner with many plot points to discuss at our FLICKS book and movie club next week, particularly since we are a book club of mothers. I’ve been reading a lot of good books lately, Night Road was another book that I literary couldn’t put down, reading far too late into the night. |