I believe I have had written a critique on this novel entitled 'Once an Outlaw' written by Jill Gregory. It is the story of Emily Spoon and Clint Barclay and their many misunderstandings of what a relationship really means. To me the story is one of family and community and how Lonesome, the name of the town Emily and her family moved to and how one figures out how to fit in even though you are from the other side of the tracks. Jill Gregory has a good grasp of what a good historical romance is all about for the characters are well-developed and the reader will feel for the characters and what happens to them throughout the story.
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Blood Brothers
Nora Roberts's has written a family/romance/thriller novel entitled 'Blood Brothers' the first part of the 'Sign of Seven Trilogy'. The main characters are three boys by the names of Cal, Gage, and Fox who when they were 10 years of age well the night before all three turned 10, they made a pilgrimage to the Pagan Stone in their small town of Hawkins Hollow that is the center when in every seven years of the seventh month for seven days weird happenings occur. Nora Robert's in this part is a very show and tell writer and one needs to read it to really understand and know the fear that these three boys now men have been living.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Critique
Standing While Falling
Quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche "He who wrestles long with monsters should beware lest he himself become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Man is not destroyed by suffering, but by the meaning he makes of it."
By LUCCIAN LAYTH6 days ago in Critique
Angry People Click More: The Economics of Manufactured Dissent
(Ideas from the book The Economic Policy of Online Media: Manufacture of Dissent, Routledge, 2024) Abstract This article examines the formula ‘angry people click more’ as a core logic of contemporary online media and as a structural transformation of propaganda in the digital age. It argues that the defining feature of the current attention economy is not only the circulation of misinformation, but the systematic deployment of openly implausible claims designed to provoke moral outrage and sustain profitable engagement cycles. The analysis links Oxford’s 2025 Word of the Year ‘rage bait’ to earlier lexical markers of epistemic crisis such as ‘truthiness’ and ‘post-truth’, and situates this trajectory against the older ‘manufacture of consent’ model of Herman and Chomsky. While classical propaganda in totalitarian and mass-media systems sought ideological unity through censorship and the Big Lie, the emerging Propaganda 2.0 model, articulated by Peter Ayolov, monetises anger by manufacturing dissent and deliberately populating the public sphere with absurd, polarising narratives. The article interprets this dynamic through the allegories of ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ and Václav Havel’s greengrocer, showing how the move from fearful silence to permanent online rage changes both the psychology and political economy of propaganda. Drawing on Evgeny Morozov’s critique of fake-news moral panics, Frances Haugen’s disclosures about Facebook, and the documentary The Social Dilemma, it concludes that anger has become a tradable asset and that blatant lying has shifted from an authoritarian instrument of control to a market mechanism in a global ‘free trade in slogans’.
By Peter Ayolov4 days ago in Critique
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