5/13/2023 0 Comments Nasty gal seriesIn Nasty Gal’s case, the inability to hold on to customers led to what’s called “a leaky bucket” situation, analysts said. “If you spend $50 on marketing to get a customer to buy something and they only buy once from you, you are probably not making money.” “You end up spending money via marketing online like banner ads (or paying) influencers,” said Ari Bloom, chief executive of Avametric, a fashion software company in San Francisco, and an investor in fashion startups. It’s a strategy that only pays off in the long-run if one-time buyers become loyal shoppers. (In a stark example of appearance versus reality, Forbes magazine predicted that its 2015 sales would top $300 million).Īnalysts said that Nasty Gal’s rapid growth was fueled by heavy spending in advertising and marketing. But it wasn’t long before sales started dropping - to $85 million in 2014, and then $77 million in 2015, according to bankruptcy documents.
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5/13/2023 0 Comments A painted house book reviewHe is afraid to tell the truth since Hank doesn't like him anyway, but the police officer who investigates appears satisfied with the explanation of self-defense. Luke witnesses a fight Hank gets into that results in a death. The prime suspect is Hank's disabled brother Trot, who can't work in the fields. Later in the movie, part of the house has been mysteriously painted. One day in the house, he makes demands of Luke and, figuring Luke looks down on him, points out that at least his house is painted, while to Luke's family, paint is a luxury. Hank Spruill is especially prone to getting in trouble. The hill people do not get along particularly well with those who look down on them, and sometimes they get into fights. To pick the cotton, the family must hire 'hill people' and Mexicans. In Arkansas during the Korean War, 10-year-old Luke Chandler lives with his parents and grandparents on a farm where cotton is the primary crop. 5/12/2023 0 Comments The toll book cherie priestI’ll spare you the details, but suffice it to say that it wasn’t the way she stopped eating, or the way she moved more and more slowly it was the way she was too weak and nauseous to greet the neighbor cat at the storm door (as she’s done daily for years now). Up until 2-3 days ago, she was very much herself. All I can do about that is sigh and appreciate that extra time. A couple of months and six thousand dollars later, I think we (me, plus you folks who were kind enough to chip in for the GoFundMe) bought her maybe one more month that she might not have had otherwise. Besides the usual kitten/cat stuff, she developed a degenerative joint condition that required daily meds - plus a kidney/bladder problem that called for pricey prescription food. Quinn semi-famously became The World’s Most Expensive Free Kitten because oh, she had issues. Immediately adored by Pyr-mix Greyson and grudgingly tolerated by the late Spain the Cat, Quinn was eventually treated fondly by Lucy, as well - when our husky/shepherd mix joined the family about a year later. She was born somewhere in Chattanooga, probably, and came to us as an engine block kitten - found by some old friends when they popped the car’s hood to find out what, exactly, was making that weird racket all the way home. (L to R) Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson, Joe Keery as Steve Harrington, Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield, and Maya Hawke as Robin Buckley in STRANGER THINGS. "And to think that we have to kind of say goodbye to that security and knowing that we won't be seeing each other for another season, it's scary and sad, but I think it's exciting to move on to the next chapter." STRANGER THINGS. People say it all the time, but I genuinely mean it," Sink shared, speaking for millions around the world (whether she realized it in the moment or not). These kids, this entire cast and crew, this is, like - I mean, it's family. It's that very thing that Sink addressed during her visit with NBC's TODAY show earlier this month to promote her critically-acclaimed film, The Whale. Just imagine what it's going to be like for Sink, her co-stars, the crew, and everyone else when this long-running journey comes to an end. If you're a fan of Stranger Things, and it's finally starting to kick in that the upcoming fifth season will also be the last, Sink feels your pain. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Slow Horses by Mick HerronWith a new populist movement taking a grip on London’s streets, and the old order ensuring that everything’s for sale to the highest bider, the world’s an uncomfortable place for those deemed surplus to requirements. But they have they actually been targeted? No wonder Jackson Lamb’s crew are feeling paranoid. Slough House has been wiped from Service records, and fatal accidents keep happening. Meanwhile, still reeling from recent losses, the slow horses are worried they’ve been pushed further into the cold. And given that the devil in question is arch-manipulator Peter Judd, she could be about to lose control of everything she’s fought for. What seems a gutless response from the government has pushed the Service’s First Desk into mounting her own counter-offensive – but she’s had to make a deal with the devil fist. What would be the point?’Ī year after a calamitous blunder by the Russian secret service left a British citizen dead from Novichok poisoning, Diana Taverner is on the warpath. ’Kill us? They’ve never needed to kill us,’ said Lamb. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Our missing hearts celeste ngBut when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is pulled into a quest to find her. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic-including the work of Bird’s mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old.īird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems he doesn’t know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn’t wonder. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve “American culture” in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. A novel about a mother’s unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Scott lynch red seas“RED does have problems, right? You aren’t just ignoring them because you love LIES so much, are you?” Indeed, RED does have some issues, and no, I’m not ignoring them. It’s just that RED doesn’t blow LIES out of the water that has people feeling the disappointment. Let’s face it, shall we? While RED SEAS UNDER RED SKIES isn’t as good as THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA, I feel that it is still an amazing novel and better than 99% of the stuff out there in the Fantasy genre. How could I expect anything less after reading the first novel? It wasn’t fair, and now that I’ve finished a re-read, I have a much better point of view on the novel than I did originally. Why? Because it wasn’t the best novel ever, of course. I remember reading RED SEAS UNDER RED SKIES and feeling a bit disappointed. So incredible that it set the expectations for RED SEAS UNDER RED SKIES ( Amazon) incredibly high. Scott Lynch’s first novel was incredible. When you first novel is THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA ( EBR Review), you’ve made things very difficult on yourself. Thus, Cameron begins her apology tour with Brendan, the guy whose social life she single-handedly destroyed. If she makes amends with everyone she's ever wronged, Andrew will have to take notice. To win him over, Cameron resolves to tame herself, much like Shakespeare's infamous shrew, Katherine. But when she slips up in front of her crush, Andrew, any affection he may have had for her quickly fades. high school-she's beautiful, talented, and notorious for her brutal honesty. It's no surprise she's queen bee at her private L.A. About the Book "Mean Girls" meets "The Taming of the Shrew" in this romantic follow-up to the acclaimed "Always Never Yours."īook Synopsis Mean Girls meets The Taming of the Shrew in this romantic follow-up to Always Never Yours Cameron Bright's reputation can be summed up in one word: b*tch. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Animal Farm by George OrwellTake the Safari Drive Thru tour in your own car for up-close encounters with both native and exotic animals – camels, zebras, warthogs, ostrich, llamas and more. Take a Drive on the Wild Side North Georgia Wildlife Park It’s an unforgettable experience! Atlanta. For families with children age 6 and older, exciting and educational after-hours programs include Survival Safari, Twilight Trek and Family Nightcrawlers. Adventure Cubs and Twilight Tots introduce children ages 5 and younger to the Zoo’s animals and their habitats. Don’t miss out on fun learning opportunities for all ages, including the new Toucan and Friends Wild Encounter, where guests can meet resident bird ambassadors. The African Savanna habitat is home to elephants, giraffes, zebras, ostriches, warthogs and meerkats. With more than 1,000 animals from around the world, including lions, pandas, gorillas, lemurs, orangutans, a southern white rhinoceros and reptiles, Zoo Atlanta is a favorite destination. It’s All Happening at the Zoo Zoo Atlanta Had the 500 pages of bloat been cut out of this kitten-squisher, it could have been pretty great. You can’t get out even if you’re not a fan of the experience. It must be what getting stuck in a bog feel like. If not for sheer stubbornness and terminal ability to DNF I would have not cared to keep picking it up. The heavy reliance on period-appropriate tell-not-show, the distasteful and often dull characters that built up my irritation (Norrell has a special place in boring hell), and the general slow monotony of the narrative - all that kept me at a distance, never allowing me to engage with the story. Once I got past all the “chuse” (!), “shewed”(!!!) and “sopha” (!!!) iterations, I still had to try to process the glacial pace and meandering nature of the story - and although I’m very partial to meanderings of Stephen King, here I just wanted so badly to get to any kind of a point, hoping for an editor’s red pen to trim some of the vignettes and descriptions. It’s a period piece with magic, I suppose.īut you see, I enjoy some 19th century novels *despite* them being such, not *because* of it. In Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke decided to emulate the style, the pace and the vocabulary/orthography of that time in a way that would have made Charles Dickens proud. I suppose whether you love this book or hate it will depend on how you feel about 19th century novels. |