Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis5/11/2023 It had been Mortara's idea, but Mortara persuaded Gutfreund to lend a touch of credibility to the ruse. Liars Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street (Kindle Edition) Published October 27th 2014 by W. He had been made the victim of what was known in the department as a goof. "Matty looked around him, however, and saw not only that everyone was laughing but that everyone was laughing at him. Here's what happened when Matty went back to his desk after meeting with managing director Michael Mortara, who orchestrated the entire charade: That afternoon Matty received a phone call from a man who claimed to work for the "special projects division of the Securities and Exchange Commission." The SEC, this man explained, had been granted jurisdiction over Wall Street's cafeterias, and he was investigating a reported theft of three trays of food from the Salomon Brothers cafeteria. His big mistake was to brag to one of the fat traders how he had done it. "Stealing food wasn't Matty's big mistake. It often indicates a user profile.Īfter being sent to fetch lunch for several traders, Matty bragged about having snuck out of the cafeteria without paying: Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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Concerning my daughter by kim hye jin5/11/2023 She is less successful at challenging the societal beliefs that affect her own child. Despite the pressure from her boss to cut corners and the suspicion that her co-workers are able to successfully “leave all sentiment and anything like it at home,” she is deeply troubled by the societal belief that the elderly-especially those who are alone-are disposable. A widow in her early 70s, the narrator earns a modest income by caring for a dementia patient named Jen, a journalist and activist who never married or had children and has no relatives to care for her in her old age. “I was born and raised in this culture where the polite thing to do is to turn a blind eye and keep your mouth shut, and now I’ve grown old in it,” explains the unnamed protagonist of Kim’s English-language debut. A Korean elder-care worker navigates a troubled relationship with her gay daughter and the expectations of her workplace in this challenging novella. A thousand pieces of you book review5/11/2023 It took the likable characters and allowed me to further connect with them and at the same time it expanded on plot points making this a much more intricate story. This book was just as good, if not better. But I liked it enough to give the second book a try and I'm glad that I did. I read the first book in this series, A Thousand Pieces of You, last December and liked it even though it didn't blow me away. The second book in the Firebird trilogy, Ten Thousand Skies Above You features Claudia Gray’s lush, romantic language and smart, exciting action, and will have readers clamoring for the next book. But with each trial she faces, she begins to question the destiny she thought they shared. Each world brings Marguerite one step closer to rescuing Paul. The hunt sends her racing through a war-torn San Francisco, the criminal underworld of New York City, and a glittering Paris where another Marguerite hides a shocking secret. Marguerite has no choice but to search for each splinter of Paul’s soul. She resists until her boyfriend, Paul, is attacked and his consciousness scattered across multiple dimensions. Synopsis: Ever since she used the Firebird, her parents' invention, to cross into alternate dimensions, Marguerite has caught the attention of enemies who will do anything to force her into helping them dominate the multiverse-even hurting the people she loves. Book review between two kingdoms5/11/2023 By the time Jaouad flew home to New York, she had lost her job, her apartment, and her independence. Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. Then a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Next came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. It started with an itch-first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter "the real world." She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. Jaouad's insights about the self, connectedness, uncertainty and time speak to all of us."- The Washington Post Her writing restores the moon, lights the way as we learn to endure the unknown."-Chanel Miller, The New York Times Book Review "Beautifully crafted. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman's journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into "normal" life-from the author of the Life, Interrupted column in The New York Times ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Rumpus, She Reads, Library Journal, Booklist - "I was immersed for the whole ride and would follow Jaouad anywhere. The Soloist by Mark Salzman5/10/2023 Salzman received several literary awards for Iron & Silk. His experiences in China are recounted in his first book, Iron & Silk: A young American encounters swordsmen, bureaucrats and other citizens of contemporary China, published in 1986. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude in 1982 and spent the next two years in Changsha, Hunan, teaching English at Hunan Medical College and studying martial arts with Pan Qingfu, a Chinese martial arts teacher and kung fu movie actor. He studied Chinese Language and Literature at Yale University. Salzman grew up in Ridgefield, Connecticut, the oldest child of a piano teacher mother and a social worker father. Salzman is best known for his 1986 memoir Iron & Silk, which describes his experiences living in China as an English teacher in the early 1980s. Mark Joseph Salzman (born Decemin Greenwich, Connecticut) is an American writer. Dan wells mirador5/10/2023 She might spend her days in Mirador, the small, vibrant LA neighborhood where her family owns a restaurant, but she lives on the net-going to school, playing games, hanging out, or doing things of more questionable legality with her friends Sahara and Anja. In a world where virtually everyone is online twenty-four hours a day, this connection is like oxygen-and a world like that presents plenty of opportunities for someone who knows how to manipulate it. One of those connections is a djinni-a smart device implanted right in a person’s head. Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. Bluescreen, which was released this month, is a cyber thriller set in the eerily near future. Dan Wells shares seven little-known facts about himselfĭan Wells recently appeared in an Epic Reads video in honor of the release of Bluescreen, the first book in his new YA series, Mirador. It is said that the pirates are the lesser of two evils as they guard the coast from illegal factory ships from Korea and China.Ģ. The Pirates of Somalia is a major first book by a young freelance journalist who talks his way into one of the world’ s most dangerous places.ġ. Bahadur also talks to some of the security personnel tasked with combating piracy, as well as with former pirate hostages who lived on their ships for months while awaiting news of a ransom. In the remote pirate havens of Somalia, Bahadur sits down and talks with some of the pirates, their cheeks bulging with khat (the local drug of choice), their cellphones ringing as the men conduct their business. In The Pirates of Somalia, Bahadur ventures to Puntland, a region in northeastern Somalia, and tells of the pirates’ lives beyond the attack skiffs: how they spend their money, how they conduct business, how they think and why they risk their lives in often suicidal missions. The world sees nothing but opportunistic bands of local bandits, but Jay Bahadur, the only Western journalist to venture so deeply into this world, truly sees how it operates. But the recent gangs of daring, ragtag pirates off the coast of Somalia, hijacking huge ships owned by international conglomerates, have brought the scourge of piracy into the modern era. For centuries, stories of pirates have captured the imagination of people everywhere. The aristocrat penelope ward5/10/2023 Leo and I formed an instant connection, even though we were technically opposites by all appearances. Turned out, the handsome Brits were only renting that house for the summer in my seaside town. That made for an interesting conversation starter when I inevitably ran into them. Then I noticed his housemate staring back at me with binoculars of his own-watching me watching Leo. I certainly never expected to find a man showering outside of the property across the bay in his birthday suit. Mine was a charming, British aristocrat who turned my world upside down one summer.įrom the moment I first spotted Leo in the distance through my binoculars, I'd been captivated. The Wall Street Journal and USA TODAY bestseller.įrom New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward, comes a new standalone novel. 100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions. David thomson breaking bad5/9/2023 Bridges was fine as Bad Blake, but the film wasn't sure whether to make him a deadbeat or a kind of Willie Nelson – a master gone to seed. Still, he and we should be careful.Ĭrazy Heart was nice entertainment, but no more. It's not that he hasn't earned such status. Now, Fat City looks like the real thing, while Bridges is an Oscar-winner (for Crazy Heart) – and there is some danger that he is about to become an institution and a national treasure. Bridges was the kid and Stacy Keach was the veteran who teaches him. No one in 1972 thought John Huston's Fat City (from a Leonard Gardner novel) was a masterpiece – it was simply a shabby, offhand movie about small-time boxers, made without sentiment or hope. The films were not all good or demanding, but Bridges was building a consistency all the more admirable in that not many of his films were hits. He was happy to play off situations and other characters. He was seldom caught acting or breaking a sweat. It was important to Bridges that he didn't seek important parts. It was said that Bridges was a natural, the closest we had to a second Robert Mitchum – a world-weary, handsome presence, who declined to fall for the lofty values thrown around in American stories. S ome of us have revered Jeff Bridges for decades – since his good-natured young studs and chumps: Duane in The Last Picture Show the boxer who keeps getting knocked out in Fat City and, with Barry Brown, as drifters and small-time thieves in Bad Company. |