Both authors, while acknowledging the centrality of debt to human relations, challenge the assumptions, mythologies, and platitudes that make it seem so obvious that one must always pay their debts. The Bonds of Debt by Richard Dienst, and Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber, both ask what it ought to mean to live with debt today, and, in Graeber’s case, what it has meant historically. In 2011, as the scramble from above for a status-quo-preserving scheme to deleverage the global economy entered its third year, two books approaching debt from a less lofty angle were released.
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It’s all about Bones. “As soon as I saw you,” I purred, “I knew I wouldn’t be needing these.” I just elbowed the pretty blonde he’d been speaking to aside and slapped my panties on his chest. Taking place four years after the ending of the last book, Cat is now an agent working for a special branch of the FBI – working with her team of awesome badasses to lure and take down bad vampires, just like she was taught all those years ago. And warning – this review will be a little spoilery if you haven’t read book 1 yet – Halfway to the Grave. Her itinerary results in insights about both Haru and Japan, but she is at first resistant to her newfound heritage. Rose visits the assigned sites, along with local restaurants, tea houses, and bars. He was a well-regarded art dealer, and his housekeeper, chauffeur, and assistant, Paul, are all intent upon making Rose’s stay as meaningful and comfortable as possible. Haru arranged for her to stay at his home, and to be taken to various Buddhist temples and gardens. When she’s summoned to Kyoto for the reading of his will, she begins a journey of personal and cultural discoveries. Rose is forty, lives in France, and has never met her mysterious father, Haru she only knows that he is Japanese and wealthy. In Muriel Barbery’s evocative novel A Single Rose, a woman travels to Japan following the death of her father. |