Nonsense, Ukrainians and Americans respond.So, what really happened?Was it the Ukrainians, worried that their spring counteroffensive might falter, or simply eager to take out the leader laying siege to their country?Or was it the Kremlin itself? Was it a so-called false flag operation – in which Russian air defenses destroyed the threat – aimed at stirring Russians to greater anger and enthusiasm for the war, or to generate support for a bid to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy?That was the question we were asking ourselves at the Monitor this morning. Ukraine intended to kill President Vladimir Putin with American help, Russian authorities say. Through the grainy eye of a surveillance camera, a drone descends toward the heart of the Kremlin and explodes. That nonfiction book opened our eyes to the deviousness and callousness of the pharmaceutical companies that pushed those addictive drugs which ruined many people's lives and may still be doing so.The video is spectacular, and the event was surely intended to be so. When the young man became addicted to opioids after they were prescribed due to an injury, I was reminded of The Empire of Pain The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe, which our Page Turners read last year. I gave it a 4 rating because Kingsolver's writing is excellent, and I felt she portrayed Demon realistically. This was the second 500+ page novel I have read recently, and it got a little tiresome partway through. The novel is inspired by David Copperfield which I sort of wish I had read, or reread, beforehand. In contemporary southern Appalachia he survives an abusive stepfather, foster care, child labor, poor schooling, athletic success and addiction, among other obstacles. I taught fifth grade and that is about the age at which Damon Fields, nicknamed Demon, begins his story.
Maybe you have figured out by now that I am a sucker for stories of kids trying to survive tough circumstances. Demon, referring to Catcher in the Rye and David Copperfield "Likewise, the Charles Dickens one, seriously old guy, dead and a foreigner, but Christ Jesus did he get the picture on kids and orphans getting screwed over and nobody giving a rat's ass.
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