The Wizard's Daughter is a fantasy novel written by Jeff Minerd. This is the story a woman named Brieze, who is of mixed race and culture. This is a world, her world, that lives in the sky on islands. They travel on ships through the air like airplanes but are more like ships on water. Brieze needs to understand who she is, so she makes the journey to East. There are many issues she will need to combat on her journey to and home.
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Mark Graham
I am a person who really likes to read and write and to share what I learned with all my education. My page will mainly be book reviews and critiques of old and new books that I have read and will read. There will also be other bits, too.
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The Boy and the Dolphin
Dick Schmidt has written a novel for youth entitled 'The Boy and the Dolphin'. This is the story of a boy named Toby who loved the water and all that it entailed. One day he saves a mother dolphin, and a relationship enthralls with her calf who he names Phinney. As the years go by and Toby matures, he still thinks a lot of his dolphin, but thanks to his grandparents Toby does learn and accepts his life and the decisions that he makes one way or another. The illustrations in the book are well done as pencil sketches but also tell the story too. This is also like two books in one for there are chapters written in italics that tell the story of Phinney.
By Mark Grahamabout a year 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 LAYTH7 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 Ayolov5 days ago in Critique
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sounds like a book I'd definitely want to read. thanks.
Ships in the air reminded me of Treasure Planet! Loved your review!