The story is told in Cassie’s and Elena’s viewpoint. What is Cassie hiding from when she is drinking? What is the root cause of the excessive drinking?Ĩ. How do you feel about the recent rise in female characters who alcoholics in mystery or thriller books? Does this plot device work in The Flight Attendant?ħ. Black-out drunk was more embarrassing the next morning when she woke up in strange beds with strange men, and not a clue how she had gotten there.” “ pass-out drunk was more humiliating when it happened: she was the woman with her face half buried in the throw pillows on the couch, oblivious to the party moving on without her. On page 4-5, she talks about the difference between pass-out drunk and black-out drunk. It’s no secret that Cassie liked to drink. Were you shocked or surprised by anything in the book?Ħ. How did you find the pace of the book? Did you find the book suspenseful? Were you on edge?ĥ. Do you think Cassie was suited to her job as a flight attendant? What aspect of her personality do you think was suited to her job? Did you think the author succeeded in depicting the life of a flight attendant?Ĥ. Did your like or dislike of Cassie change as the book progressed?ģ. What did you think of the main character Cassandra Bowden (Cassie)? Did you like her? Why and why not?Ģ.
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There will also be struggle-damaged souls desperate to transcend terrible pasts-and there will be child abuse, both physical and emotional, before the novel ends. There will be racism, specifically, that of light-skinned blacks toward dark-skinned and there will be heartache, specifically, that of a daughter spurned and belittled by her own mother. Right away, the Morrisonian themes are there. Although I was raised in the Christian church, I was never confirmed and I do not attend church regularly. If I believed the message of this book I would think only practising Christians would be called to heaven and the rest of us will be left to suffer on earth. Ironically, I am writing this review on J(06/06/06) which some people claim will be the day of the apocalypse. Not as bad as I thought it would be, but not great either. He sets about recording everything because he knows this is the biggest story of his career, hell of his lifetime! Buck, the stewardess, the pilot, and his daughter start finding their paths crossing as they try to figure out what on earth has happened to all their loved ones and how they are going to survive what comes next. One of the passengers on the plane is an award winning, international journalist named Buck. At first he thinks it's a joke but he soon realizes that all their clothes have been left behind as well. Rayford Steele is piloting an aircraft when a stewardess he'd been lusting after rushes into the cockpit tells him that they're suddenly missing over 100 people. The whole premise of this series is what would happen if the rapture occurred and you were one of the millions (probably billions) left behind. Man, this thing took FOREVER! I don't know how many books there are in the series, but I know that I won't be reading them all (and judging from how much space they take up on the shelf at the library, there is a TON). It is the only book I have read in the dystopian. Today, I want to talk about one such book that I found, thanks to NetGalley: The Warehouse by Rob Hart. This promises to be Hart’s breakout book. There are so many fantastic books that have recently been published or are coming up that address this theme, that this is the perfect time to be interested in these futuristic endeavours. Hart’s detail-oriented worldbuilding, which credibly extrapolates from the Trump administration’s antiregulatory agenda, makes this cautionary tale memorable and powerful. Paxton, whose business was bankrupted by Cloud’s monopolistic practices, hopes for a meaningful relationship with Zinnia, who’s actually on a corporate espionage assignment for an unidentified employer and looks to use Paxton to further her mission. Wells, who’s dying of cancer, presents Cloud’s history, which includes taking over the FAA from the federal government to help expedite Cloud’s drone deliveries. The story is told from three perspectives: multibillionaire Gibson Wells, the founder of Cloud Paxton, a newly hired security employee at a MotherCloud facility, where he also lives and Zinnia, a shipping worker and resident of the same facility. What if the totalitarian regime controlling people’s lives was a mega-corporation rather than a fascist government? That’s the conceit of this intelligent Orwellian thriller by Hart (the Ash McKenna series), who imagines an all-too-plausible near-future in which an Amazon-on-steroids company called Cloud dominates retail sales and the labor market. Wyeth called it a view of “a woman pulling away from life.” Each of Wyeth’s Helga images stands alone as emotionally powerful works of art. 2), a 1985 drybrush painting that shows Helga at a time when she was undergoing treatment for depression. It also features the last work in the Helga series, Refuge (Fig. 1), a 1971 head portrait of Helga, so named because Wyeth considered it to be his first successful treatment of his subject. The Adelson exhibit offers a broad view of the suite and includes First Drawing (Fig. The entire Helga suite tends to be remembered for its highly detailed nudes, particularly the image of Helga wearing a black ribbon around her neck, which is often compared to Manet’s Olympia. The gallery chose to focus on the works on paper because, as president Warren Adelson noted, “Andrew Wyeth’s draughtsmanship may be his least heralded virtue, and I feel it may be his greatest.” The works in the exhibit were selected from the Helga collection recently sold to an unnamed American for an undisclosed amount by the Japanese collector who owned it since 1989. The show comprises sixty drawings, watercolors, and drybrushes. Wyeth.Īndrew Wyeth: Helga on Paper -the first exhibition of Helga works in New York-is on view at Adelson Galleries from November 3 through December 22, 2006. |