#along that same vein of 'crazy mysteries in this media' like no. all of those were either DIRECTLY addressed

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Absolutely painful video phenomenon where someone is like "unsolved mysteries of (videogame) that haunt me to this day" and it is the most basic speculation that gets directly answered in game or requires the bare minimum of reading comprehension making you wonder if they even played the game theyre talking about

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10 Books That Will Transport You To The Beach If You Can’t Go IRL

Maybe you’re social distancing. Maybe all of your friends are. Maybe your funds are tight. Many of us have a good reason our summer is not quite like summers of our past. We miss the waves just as much as the next person not within walking distance to the ocean, so we’ve compiled a list of books where we can all escape to a far away island or beach town, no sunscreen needed. Or hey, lather it on. We’re not opposed to a little sensory enhancement.

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Big Summer: A Novel

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand

The Vacationers By Emma Straub

The Jetsetters: A Novel By Amanda Eyre Ward

The Guest List: A Novel By Lucy Foley

Beach Read By Emily Henry

Sex and Vanity: A Novel By Kevin Kwan

Hello, Summer By Mary Kay Andrews

The Summer Set Aimee Agresti

  1. Big Summer: A Novel

by Jennifer Weiner

Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favor to ask. Daphne hasn’t spoken one word to Drue in all this time—she doesn’t even hate-follow her ex-best friend on social media—so when Drue asks if she will be her maid-of-honor at the society wedding of the summer, Daphne is rightfully speechless.

Drue was always the one who had everything—except the ability to hold onto friends. Meanwhile, Daphne’s no longer the same self-effacing sidekick she was back in high school. She’s built a life that she loves, including a growing career as a plus-size Instagram influencer. Letting glamorous, seductive Drue back into her life is risky, but it comes with an invitation to spend a weekend in a waterfront Cape Cod mansion. When Drue begs and pleads and dangles the prospect of cute single guys, Daphne finds herself powerless as ever to resist her friend’s siren song.

A sparkling novel about the complexities of female relationships, the pitfalls of living out loud and online, and the resilience of the human heart, Big Summer is a witty, moving story about family, friendship, and figuring out what matters most.

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2. Beautiful Ruins

by Jess Walter

The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is dying. And the story begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio’s back lot, searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier. What unfolds is a dazzling, yet deeply human, roller coaster of a novel, spanning fifty years and nearly as many lives. From the lavish set of Cleopatra to the shabby revelry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Walter introduces us to the tangled lives of a dozen unforgettable characters: the starstruck Italian innkeeper and his long-lost love; the heroically preserved producer who once brought them together and his idealistic young assistant; the army veteran turned fledgling novelist and the rakish Richard Burton himself, whose appetites set the whole story in motion, along with the husbands and wives, lovers and dreamers, superstars and losers, who populate their world in the decades that follow. Gloriously inventive, constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a story of flawed yet fascinating people, navigating the rocky shores of their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams.

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3. 28 Summers

by Elin Hilderbrand

A “captivating and bittersweet” novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Summer of ’69: Their secret love affair has lasted for decades — but this could be the summer that changes everything (People). When Mallory Blessing’s son, Link, receives deathbed instructions from his mother to call a number on a slip of paper in her desk drawer, he’s not sure what to expect. But he certainly does not expect Jake McCloud to answer. It’s the late spring of 2020 and Jake’s wife, Ursula DeGournsey, is the frontrunner in the upcoming Presidential election. There must be a mistake, Link thinks. How do Mallory and Jake know each other? Flash back to the sweet summer of 1993: Mallory has just inherited a beachfront cottage on Nantucket from her aunt, and she agrees to host her brother’s bachelor party. Cooper’s friend from college, Jake McCloud, attends, and Jake and Mallory form a bond that will persevere — through marriage, children, and Ursula’s stratospheric political rise — until Mallory learns she’s dying. Based on the classic film Same Time Next Year (which Mallory and Jake watch every summer), 28 Summers explores the agony and romance of a one-weekend-per-year affair and the dramatic ways this relationship complicates and enriches their lives, and the lives of the people they love.

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  4. The Vacationers

By Emma Straub

For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, and their daughter, Sylvia, has graduated from high school. The sunlit island, its mountains and beaches, its tapas and tennis courts, also promise an escape from the tensions simmering at home in Manhattan. But all does not go according to plan: over the course of the vacation, secrets come to light, old and new humiliations are experienced, childhood rivalries resurface, and ancient wounds are exacerbated.

This is a story of the sides of ourselves that we choose to show and those we try to conceal, of the ways we tear each other down and build each other up again, and the bonds that ultimately hold us together. With wry humor and tremendous heart, Emma Straub delivers a richly satisfying story of a family in the midst of a maelstrom of change, emerging irrevocably altered yet whole.

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  5. The Jetsetters: A Novel

By Amanda Eyre Ward

When seventy-year-old Charlotte Perkins submits a sexy essay to the Become a Jetsetter contest, she dreams of reuniting her estranged children: Lee, an almost-famous actress; Cord, a handsome Manhattan venture capitalist who can’t seem to find a partner; and Regan, a harried mother who took it all wrong when Charlotte bought her a Weight Watchers gift certificate for her birthday. Charlotte yearns for the years when her children were young, when she was a single mother who meant everything to them.

When she wins the contest, the family packs their baggage—both literal and figurative—and spends ten days traveling from sun-drenched Athens through glorious Rome to tapas-laden Barcelona on an over-the-top cruise ship, the Splendido Marveloso. As lovers new and old join the adventure, long-buried secrets are revealed and old wounds are reopened, forcing the Perkins family to confront the forces that drove them apart and the defining choices of their lives.

Can four lost adults find the peace they’ve been seeking by reconciling their childhood aches and coming back together? In the vein of The Nest and The Vacationers, The Jetsetters is a delicious and intelligent novel about the courage it takes to reveal our true selves, the pleasures and perils of family, and how we navigate the seas of adulthood.

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  6. The Guest List: A Novel

By Lucy Foley

A wedding celebration turns dark and deadly in this deliciously wicked and atmospheric thriller reminiscent of Agatha Christie from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hunting Party.

The bride – The plus one – The best man – The wedding planner  – The bridesmaid – The body

On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It’s a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has been expertly planned and will be expertly executed.

But perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes. The groomsmen begin the drinking game from their school days. The bridesmaid not-so-accidentally ruins her dress. The bride’s oldest (male) friend gives an uncomfortably caring toast.

And then someone turns up dead. Who didn’t wish the happy couple well? And perhaps more important, why?

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  7. Beach Read

By Emily Henry

They’re polar opposites.

In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block.

Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.

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8. Sex and Vanity: A Novel

By Kevin Kwan

The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with the glittering tale of a young woman who finds herself torn between two men: the WASPY fiancé of her family’s dreams and George Zao, the man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with.

On her very first morning on the jewel-like island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao and she instantly can’t stand him. She can’t stand it when he gallantly offers to trade hotel rooms with her so that she can have a view of the Tyrrhenian Sea, she can’t stand that he knows more about Casa Malaparte than she does, and she really can’t stand it when he kisses her in the darkness of the ancient ruins of a Roman villa and they are caught by her snobbish, disapproving cousin Charlotte. “Your mother is Chinese so it’s no surprise you’d be attracted to someone like him,” Charlotte teases. The daughter of an American-born Chinese mother and a blue-blooded New York father, Lucie has always sublimated the Asian side of herself in favor of the white side, and she adamantly denies having feelings for George. But several years later, when George unexpectedly appears in East Hampton, where Lucie is weekending with her new fiancé, Lucie finds herself drawn to George again. Soon, Lucie is spinning a web of deceit that involves her family, her fiancé, the co-op board of her Fifth Avenue apartment building, and ultimately herself as she tries mightily to deny George entry into her world–and her heart. Moving between summer playgrounds of privilege, peppered with decadent food and extravagant fashion, Sex and Vanity is a truly modern love story, a daring homage to A Room with a View, and a brilliantly funny comedy of manners set between two cultures.

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9. Hello, Summer

By Mary Kay Andrews

New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads Mary Kay Andrews delivers her next blockbuster, Hello Summer.

It’s a new season…

Conley Hawkins left her family’s small town newspaper, The Silver Bay Beacon, in the rearview mirror years ago. Now a star reporter for a big-city paper, Conley is exactly where she wants to be and is about to take a fancy new position in Washington, D.C. Or so she thinks.

For small town scandals…

When the new job goes up in smoke, Conley finds herself right back where she started, working for her sister, who is trying to keep The Silver Bay Beacon afloat—and she doesn’t exactly have warm feelings for Conley. Soon she is given the unenviable task of overseeing the local gossip column, “Hello, Summer.”

And big-time secrets.

Then Conley witnesses an accident that ends in the death of a local congressman—a beloved war hero with a shady past. The more she digs into the story, the more dangerous it gets. As an old heartbreaker causes trouble and a new flame ignites, it soon looks like their sleepy beach town is the most scandalous hotspot of the summer.

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  10. The Summer Set

Aimee Agresti

Recommended by Glamour * Bustle * Popsugar * Booklist * Playbill

Charlie Savoy was once Hollywood’s hottest A-lister. Now, ten years later, she’s pushing forty, exiled from the film world and back at the summer Shakespeare theater in the Berkshires that launched her career—and where her old flame, Nick, is the artistic director.

It’s not exactly her first choice. But as parts are cast and rehearsals begin, Charlie is surprised to find herself getting her groove back, bonding with celebrity actors, forging unexpected new friendships and even reigniting her spark with Nick, who still seems to bring out the best in her despite their complicated history.

Until Charlie’s old rival, Hollywood’s current It Girl, is brought on set, threatening to undo everything she’s built. As the drama amps up both on the stage and behind the curtains, Charlie must put on the show of a lifetime to fight for the second chance she deserves in career and in love.

“A page-turner set in the intoxicating theater world, The Summer Set considers the price of fame, the power of second chances and the enduring nature of love. A truly enjoyable read!” —Elyssa Friedland, author of The Floating Feldmans

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Malaysia prices 2 women with homicide of Kim Jong-nam

Malaysia on Wednesday charged girls with murder for their alleged involvement in the killing of the estranged half of brother of North Korea’s leader.

Siti Aishah, a 25-yr-vintage mother of one from Jakarta, and Doan Thi Huong, 28, from rural northern Vietnam, can be changed if they are convicted for the killing of Kim Jong-Nam at Kuala Lumpur Global Airport on Feb. thirteen.

Police introduced the two women to court docket handcuffed and sporting bullet-proof vests. No plea changed into recorded after the fees had been examining out against them.

Aishah and Huong have informed diplomats who visited them in custody that they had been unwitting pawns in an assassination that U.S. officials and South Korean intelligence have said changed into organized with the aid of North Korean marketers.

The next courtroom date could be on April thirteen, when prosecutors will follow for the accused to be attempted together.

South Korean officers believe the killing became completed with the aid of North Korean dealers, and Malaysia has identified eight North Koreans suspected of involvement in the killing.

Huong is believed to be the female carrying a white shirt emblazoned with the acronym LOL, whose image turned into caught on protection cameras whilst awaiting a taxi after the attack.

at the same time as Malaysian police arrested the women within the days after the attack, they’re also are protecting one North Korean guy and have diagnosed seven different North Koreans desired in connection with the sensational case.

Lawyer preferred Mohamed Apandi Ali said in advance in the week the North Korean in custody will now not be charged yet. recognized through police as Ri Jong Chol, his remand length ends on Friday.

The security camera pictures, which has been launched in the media, confirmed two ladies assaulting Kim within the departure hall of the airport, and the sufferer stumbling into a clinical sanatorium. He died within 20 mins of the attack.

Kim Jong Un: Variety three Is Number one

Kim Jong Un: Wide variety three, however primary.

So we have this dynasty. Dynasties usually pass their strength along to the primary born son. Kim Jong-Il became the best (surviving) son from which to pick, so he got the task. however whilst looking to determine which of his 3 sons might be next in line, he bumped into a few critical stumbling-blocks. At least one source near the circle of relatives indicates that Kim Jong-Il truly failed to want to carry on this dynasty enterprise, as it changed into so, not like socialism in his questioning. but, the need for stability drove him to choose among 3 no longer-so-proper opportunities.

Opportunity number one turned into Kim Jong-Nam. It might be a difficult sell to even the brainwashed North Koreans, who nevertheless have a piece of Confucian family values in their veins, to place Nam on the throne. You see, his mom changed into Kim Jong-Il’s, ahem, mistress. To be more precise, his preferred mistress.

However, the primary son determined to shoot himself in the foot and keep his daddy the trouble. A few years back he got a forged passport to Japan, and was in his manner to, might you accept as true with, Disneyland, whilst he was apprehended and turned back from his intended purposes. He and pop did not get along too well after that incident, and his name changed into sooner or later scratched out in phrases of desirability for such an august role.

These days number one son lives in Macao. And Beijing. And Singapore. Anyplace he can keep secure. With a baby brother in rate, who knows what may take place to a threatening sibling like this? Wasn’t it simply months in the past that Unfinished his uncle?

Each Kim Jong-Chul and Kim Jong-Un are from the same mother, the legitimate wife of the former dictator. There has been a quick time when Number two’s celebrity began to upward thrust. A touch. Word is this son changed into only a sadness without even doing whatever terrible. He, they say, is a chunk effeminate. now not positive how they are defining this. but something gave a person the sign, that this guy could not be the tough leader we want to hold on our photo. next, please.

Kim Jong-Un changed into all that became left. He was 27 or 28 (no person seems to recognise his exact age) on the transfer of electricity. He had become a 4-megastar preferred in 2010. Of path, he had by no means served in the navy. That equal 12 months he became #2 in the Principal military Committee. 25 years in advance his father had taken the same course.

At first they dubbed him the “First rate chef.” A obese two hundred+ kilos at handiest 5’9″, many re-dubbed him the Awesome Eater. But the resemblance to Dad and even Grand-dad (Kim Il-Sung) become and is putting.

Kim spent more than one young youngster years in Bern, Switzerland, at a German language state college. He had to deceive his classmates approximately his proper identity. Every day he turned into pushed into and off of the grounds in a black van. The mystery student.

His love of factors Western after the ones days blanketed video games, action films, and the NBA, especially the Chicago Bulls. All pretty everyday stuff. I even got caught up inside the Bulls component once they have been riding the Michael Jordan waves. To suppose that I have this in commonplace with the son of a dictator. Michael was his preferred.

Michael obviously changed into now not “to be had” to satisfy his childhood goals remaining year, but there’s continually Dennis Rodman. This love I do now not percentage with Mr. Un.

What else can we realize approximately this man? not tons. You’ll see him now looking very grandpa-ish as he goes from manufacturing unit to area examining this and that, as Sung was wont to do. His birthday is celebrated as a country-wide holiday. And he is making an evil name for himself via championing aggression towards all, inside the name of the special rights of the Korean humans to be masters.

One smells Hitler at each turn. Grasp race. In your face.

His supervising of catastrophes clearly started together with his past due father. He was at Jong-Il’s face on the sinking of that South Korean vessel in 2010. The island shelling turned into in part his too. As became the April ’09 ballistic test.

So, he is calling lower back and looking to do what Daddy did. And Gramps. but as someone remarked, he is an Emperor without a clothes (of his own). He has offered the birthday party line, the dynasty line, and judge, and is trying to prove to anyone who will listen that the powers that be have made a terrific preference via permitting him to take over.

Has he heard of the Arab Spring? Does he see himself as one in all a protracted line of dictators that the arena is weary of and wants to rid itself of quicker as opposed to later? Does he lose sleep nights questioning he might be The following to head?

Is North Korea so unified by decades of thoughts manipulate that nobody will ever dare to project him?

Try those dates: 1981, 1983, 1985, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2011… And more. In every of those years, in the Hermit Country of Chosun, believe it or no longer, There has been both an uprising, a protest, an armed conflict, an assassination try, or At least vandalism and graffiti towards the authorities. Yep, the NK government.

No cause why Kim has to keep on to strength. No cause why God could not pay attention your prayers this very day and topple this disorder-ridden infestation known as the North Korean authorities. A human beings might be freed to pay attention the Gospel. The Christians will breathe once more. Cross in advance, pray. Kim isn’t eternal. He is not all-powerful. He may be stopped. He might be stopped. Pray.

but even as North Korea lives, Western believers want to research from it. will we now not see that Kim Jong-Un has been given energy over believers? Is that now not what the Bible says will show up to all believers in the future under antichrist? E-book of Daniel. E-book of Revelation. The saints might be given into antichrist’s fingers. That is what it says. You can name these saints “Tribulation Saints” in case you need to, but You may have a good deal trouble explaining that title from the Bible, which does not differentiate saints Nowadays from saints in that day. Saints are saints.

God needs the get away artists of our day to take a protracted look at the suffering church in North Korea. Get prepared, He says. problem is coming. Be sure your heart is proper. It’s no longer usually going to be like it’s far now. Awaken.

Assassination of the dictator or any political intrigue is by no means the advice of Scripture for believers caught in these traps. I’ve usually puzzled the heroism we have attached to Mr. Bonhoeffer. He become a real believer. but he was imprisoned and accomplished due to the fact he determined to assist do away with Hitler.

I study of no heroics including this in the New Testimony. Bear. Be robust. Triumph over inside the Spirit. those are the directives to persecuted saints in any regime. And the relaxation people are instructed to assist them in any manner we can. however never to violate State ideas in so doing. homicide is by no means an option for us.

As I stated in advance, I want this man long past. I pray that way. My coronary heart is aching for Koreans subjugated to this every day evil. Here’s a young man barely antique sufficient to run an amazing-sized enterprise having turn out to be Grasp-in-fee of the world’s greatest shame. One thinks of Caligula and Nero, in Paul’s time, elderly 25 and 17 respectively at their accession. Domitian, in John’s day, a trifling 30. Constantine and Theodosius, who introduced the church out of and into its best bondages, elderly 27 and 32.

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