So we are delivered a story of the average man in the street, suffering intolerable mental torture as a result of a terrorist atrocity touching his family and friends. In the end, this reminded me of Andy Weir's "The Martian" in terms of character-building, attention to (most) detail(s), and excitement. It's more of a 'Young Adult' view of a revenge-killing story, but set in the real world with adult themes. He never delves too deeply into them, but provides just enough tidbits and details to wet the appetite. Reading the original words can be very uncomfortable but they help us understand regressive politics and the dangerous legacy of British colonialism with a modern eye. Denying Fleming’s stories all the details of their historical contexts can be perceived as whitewashing the past – worse, an Orwellian falsification that reeks of historical denialism. The imperialist attitudes the books depict are not only evidence of British thought at a moment in time, but also a window to better interrogate the past’s sins and to embrace modern conversations rather than ignore them through redaction. Note: I was forced to use one of the failed dragon experiments for this procedure. Whilst the dragons do not really suffer the full effect of the curse, they do possess a limited form of it as a result of dragonkin blood in their veins. I would have preferred a live kin as a test subject, but since the stone has been hidden away the number of available kin has reduced as we have gone into hiding on various worlds. A pity, this data will have to suffice. I mean, the title alone gives you an idea of where the story may go. I was expecting a twisted story of revenge and possibly redemption. I expected characters and a story.

The UK National Archives published a document, Redaction Toolkit, Guidelines for the Editing of Exempt Information from Documents Prior to Release, [1] "to provide guidance on the editing of exempt material from information held by public bodies." Cruelty and ignorance are targets too for Raymond Antrobus, poet-advocate for the D/deaf community. Antrobus made a powerful statement against the ignorance he perceived in Ted Hughes’s poem Deaf School when he included it, fully redacted, in his ( Ted Hughes award-winning) collection The Perseverance. Formally various, narratively propulsive, and relentlessly earnest in its psychospiritual excavations, Arthur Kayzakian's The Book of Redacted Paintings is a sincere achievement. That it represents the author's first full-length collection makes it even more remarkable. In one poem, the sound of gunfire "splits the wind in half." In another, "It rains, as if heaven crashes, it rains." Kayzakian's are poems of real stakes and scale, of the minute and the hour and the lifetime. His subjects-art, family, masculinity, empire-remain as timely as ever, but it's the uncanny juxtapositions of lyric and visual art that make The Book of Redacted Paintings an unforgettable text." Result: Whilst the subject experienced extreme pain, the curse was not deadened and the subject described the effects as layering the pain on top of the curse, adding to it, rather than deadening it. Subject's limbs were regenerated and the rods removed, subject appreciated being involved in vital research into curing the curse. Have recommended all further punitive action be removed.

Yesodey ‘raising its game’ , Ofsted says

To mark 70 years since Casino Royale, Fleming’s first book featuring the British spy James Bond, was published, a full set of the thrillers will be reissued. This time, they will contain the disclaimer: “This book was written at a time when terms and attitudes which might be considered offensive by modern readers were commonplace.” In his poignant and devastating debut collection, Arthur Kayzakian skillfully excavates personal memory and family history to reclaim a missing heirloom. Through poems ranging in documentary, to visual, to lyrical, Kayzakian confronts how the grief of war and displacement are compounded by the loss of stolen familial objects, beloved items that served as a reminder of the life before. Where the harms of war are intensified by new harms, these poems push against historical erasure to establish a new narrative. Kayzakian stirs with poetic prowess while achieving generational reclamation." I personally felt like the ending came a little abruptly and I’m still left with so many questions which in some books works fine but for me I really felt like with this particular book I needed the answers to what happens next and how things conclude. This is a very curious novel which I stumbled upon quite by chance, via the ebooks section of my local library. (I like that the title is stubbornly resistant to SEO; the ‘[redacted]’ section does not actually appear on the cover, and it was only listed as ‘Kill’ in the library’s catalogue.) daddy issues. the connection to characters will happen, i think, if you have any lived experience with any of the issues in the book - not as michael, but as someone who's had a michael in their lives, however briefly or tangentially. the therapy questions and callouts, if you will, were weirdly on the money. for instance, when michael describes a time he hit his daughter as a two-way argument and angela accurately calls it abuse, he doesn't even kind of consider she might be right and he might be a shitty dad. that shit hurted

Method: Target was subject to 6 months of intense mental enchantments. They were systematically stripped of their rationality, logical thinking and reasoning by carefully stripping away their sense of self and the memories they had accrued over their lifetime. Effectively reducing them to the mental state of a child. The character of Michael is a very complex one and slowly, with each revelation, the reader gets to see just how shaky his mental stability is under the buttoned-up surface of a forthright headmaster. If you enjoyed Consent, YOU and American Psycho, you’ll enjoy getting under the skin and into the mind of Michael as he tries to focus and openly justify his growing rage. It's not fair of the reader to judge a book for it's failure to match their high hopes but, I think it's a little fair if the writer contributes in the building of the reader's expectations. Anthony Good writes well, he builds a sharp, bullet-proof narrative but the outcome of all his efforts was quite disappointing. Now, if you've read the book yourself, you might tell me that was the whole point of it. And it may very well be but, I think ending the book with your reader feeling disappointed is a risk that is not without consequence.Yes, there are still holes in the narrative, and leaps of faith required for the plausibility of the preparation part, but in the end the book delivers.

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From Roald to Ian: Revising the past

the philosophical discussions related to death and grief will also hit if you're still having a hard time with thinking or talking about death, and the way michael's therapy progresses will hit if you know anything about being probed and analyzed when you'd rather not be. expecting to connect or relate otherwise feels like we're just looking for relatable placeholder characters to experience stories through, which we definitely won't - and shouldn't - find in literary crime. Michael is both articulate and evasive as he outlines how his attitudes to discipline and punishment have been shaped during his time as a teacher and an earlier brief career in the police. I went on a journey with Micheal though this book. I experienced his grief and anger and his decline as he becomes solely fixated on the murder of a politician. To read how Micheal rationalises his thought process and how he squares away with himself that was he is doing is morally right was actually terrifying.