![]() She deftly shows how Russia’s rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by spreading Russia’s rot into its rivals, its neighbors, the West’s most important alliances, and the United States. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe, revealing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas along the way, and drawing a surprising conclusion about why the Russian government hacked the 2016 U.S. Unlikely as it might seem, there is a thread connecting these events, and Rachel Maddow follows it to its crooked source: the unimaginably lucrative and equally corrupting oil and gas industry. And in 2014, Ukrainian revolutionaries raided the palace of their ousted president and found a zoo of peacocks, gilded toilets, and a floating restaurant modeled after a Spanish galleon. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia-including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove-was sold at auction for over $1 million to a guy who was, officially, just the lowly forestry minister of the tiny nation of Equatorial Guinea. ![]() ![]() Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy-Winner Take All In 2010, the words “earthquake swarm” entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. ![]()
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![]() I did enjoy the rules of magic, and the way the non-permenance of death affected the world and society was my favorite part. I cannot pin down what I did not like about the book other then it iss possible I was not in the mood for it and was not fully engaged while reading. I will say that I was not that impressed with the book and do not plan on continuing the series at this time. Using his familiar, witchcraft, and sass Vlad must find and kill the thief before the general population hears about the robbery and start to get ideas. Vlad is a human witch in a world of tall sorcerers called Dragaerans. Jhereg is the story of Vlad, a human assassin, in his journey to kill a thief who stole millions from the treasury. ![]() ![]() This book review was part of a podcast discussion. ![]() ![]() ![]() “ It’s shit,” said Lev… “I understand you now. ![]() “ I think it’s brilliant,” said Sophie… “it’s radical and brave and – ” For example, when Lev goes to see an experimental new play that features a character who watches child pornography, he thinks it’s ‘ disgusting’ and gets into an argument with his girlfriend, Sophie, about it: For much of the novel, Lev is positioned as a neutral social observer, and Tremain often seems to be using him (as well as some of the other characters that he meets) as a mouthpiece for the things she wants to say about the weirdnesses and excesses of English society. ![]() It follows Lev, an immigrant from a nameless Eastern European country, as he struggles to make a life for himself in England while sending money home to his mother and his young daughter. Rose Tremain’s The Road Home won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2008. I’m taking part in the Women’s Prize for Fiction’s #ReadingWomen challenge, aiming to read all 24 previous winners of the Women’s Prize before the autumn. ![]() |