#devin murphy

[hrh-spinach]

What I wanted most was to gather stories and experience it all. I wanted that so badly. To unhinge my jaw and swallow the world.

Devin Murphy, for Outside Magazine: I Saw the World on Cruise Ships

[con-or-bust]

Signed ARC of The Boat Runner by Devin Murphy

Item Name and Description:

One ARC of The Boat Runner by Devin Murphy signed by the author

Starting Bid: 5.00

Shipping: Ships worldwide. Free shipping within the US. For shipping outside the US, please add an additional $20 donation to Con Or Bust.

In the tradition of All The Light We Cannot See and The Nightingale, comes an incandescent debut novel about a young Dutch man who comes of age during the perilousness of World War II.

Beginning in the summer of 1939, fourteen-year-old Jacob Koopman and his older brother, Edwin, enjoy lives of prosperity and quiet contentment. Many of the residents in their small Dutch town have some connection to the Koopman lightbulb factory, and the locals hold the family in high esteem.

On days when they aren’t playing with friends, Jacob and Edwin help their Uncle Martin on his fishing boat in the North Sea, where German ships have become a common sight. But conflict still seems unthinkable, even as the boys’ father naively sends his sons to a Hitler Youth Camp in an effort to secure German business for the factory.

When war breaks out, Jacob’s world is thrown into chaos. The Boat Runner follows Jacob over the course of four years, through the forests of France, the stormy beaches of England, and deep within the secret missions of the German Navy, where he is confronted with the moral dilemma that will change his life—and his life’s mission—forever.

Epic in scope and featuring a thrilling narrative with precise, elegant language, The Boat Runner tells the little-known story of the young Dutch boys who were thrown into the Nazi campaign, as well as the brave boatmen who risked everything to give Jewish refugees safe passage to land abroad. Through one boy’s harrowing tale of personal redemption, here is a novel about the power of people’s stories and voices to shine light through our darkest days, until only love prevails.

[bigtickhk]

A Young Soldier’s Moral Compromise

Devin Murphy’s debut novel, “The Boat Runner,” tracks one man’s descent from his idyllic, small-town roots to the guilt-ridden life of a Nazi.

The Boat Runner by Devin Murphy http://amzn.to/2zKAo4s

[alivesoul]

Everything important to me had been taken away or destroyed. These people had probably gone through the same series of losses and were left holding the wreckage of their own lives. Any of them could have been family, and for a time, that is what they became. I realized that looking into these strangers’ faces. Each was my brother and father. The women were my mother, Hilda, Janna, and Mevi. The boys were Ludo and Pauwel.

The captain moved about them and I realized he wasn’t giving them last rites, but quite the opposite; he was willing them through. I watched him and thought maybe there were lesser gods who did walk among us. Lifting up others when they needed it most, offering an invisible push on the shoulder that can lead them back to the rest of their lives. Though, maybe that responsibility was for us all, to reach out when we could, to set the floor so people couldn’t free-fall forever.

-The Boat Runner by Devin Murphy

[republicansbeingawful]

GOP staffer crowdsources resolution from r/the_donald

From Wired:

This past Wednesday, a group of Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee presented an amendment calling for an investigation into alleged misconduct on the parts of Hillary Clinton and James Comey. It was a way to frustrate Democrats, but, more than that, it provided an opportunity to publicly discuss their very favorite thing: the many bygone misdeeds of Crooked Hillary. The amendment may sound to some readers like it's been ripped out of a conspiracy forum, because that's exactly what happened.

Sponsored by first-term Representative Matt Gaetz (R-Florida), the amendment itself sought to hijack what began as a resolution from Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) asking for information about Comey's firing. In response to Jayapal's proposal, Gaetz and a few fellow Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee effectively replaced the Democrats' resolution with one of their own. The new amendment (which you can read in its entirety here) asks for an investigation into things like "the propriety and consequence of immunity deals given to possible Hillary Clinton co-conspirators" and "James B. Comey’s refusal to investigate then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton regarding" a number of matters, including many of which may have come directly from r/The_Donald.

[...]

That Murphy sought out legislative advice from r/The_Donald, specifically, is all the more troubling given its history. Even though the forum officially condemns anti-Semitism and racism, racist, neo-Nazi, and anti-Islam tendencies have permeated the community since its inception.

r/The_Donald has also provided a breeding ground for a number of unfounded conspiracies. Most recently, it helped promote the Seth Rich murder conspiracy theory, which eventually found its way to Sean Hannity. Before that, r/The_Donald also acted as an incubator for the Pizzagate subreddit, which ultimately led to a man firing a rifle inside of a crowded restaurant. Devinm666 apparently sought to give that same community a platform in Congress.

[natedrake-archive]

Devin at the dog park w/ Steak

"Sir, are you sure that’s a dog?” “Not really but I love him regardless.”

[natedrake-archive]

[12:47:13 AM] iced americano: ROB I'M GETTIGN REAL GAY ABOUT DEV GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN [12:47:23 AM] Robin.: TELL ME MORE HOE [12:53:27 AM] iced americano: SHOUTS DEVIN WAS THE SON OF IRISH IMMIGRANTS AND AFTER HIS MOTHER DIED IN A CAR CRASH, HIS FATHER WITHDREW INTO ALCHOHOLISM WHICH RESULTED INTO DEVIN GOING INTO A FOSTER HOME WITH HIS TWIN BROTHER BUT DEVIN WAS A TROUBLE MAKER AND KEPT BOUNCING FROM HOME TO HOME UNTIL HE HIT 18 AND JOINED THE MARINE CORPS TO RIGHTEN HIMSELF OUT

HE WAS A NATURAL BORN LEADER AND PEOPLE PERSON SO HE ROSE IN THE RANKS UNTIL HE WAS ASSIGNED A SPOT IN THE SPECIAL FORCES

AND DURING THAT TIME HIS SON WAS BORN AND DEVIN SWORE HE WOULD DO EVERYTHING TO MAKE HIS SON HAPPY AND SAFE SO HE DID E V E R Y T H I N G FOR HIM UNTIL HE WAS CAPTURED AND NEARLY KILLED BY THE ENEMY RESULTING IN A PERMANENT NECK SCAR AND WHEN HE RETURNED HOME HE WAS WRACKED WITH SUCH TERRIBLE PTSD HE COULDN'T COPE UNTIL HIS WIFE TOLD HIM HE NEEDED TO TRY AND HELPED HIM ON HIS WAY TO RECOVERY NOW HE BALANCES BEING A FATHER AND HUSBAND AND A GOOD PERSON BUT HE WORKS INCREDIBLY HARD TO HELP EVERYONE AND LOVE EVERYONE AND HE KEEPS EVERYONE SAFE EVEN THOUGH HE'S A GIANT LOTR LOVING NERD WITH A PAST FROM HELL [12:56:44 AM] iced americano: HE ENDS UP HAVING THREE KIDS AND HE LOVES ALL OF THEM AND HIS YOUNGEST, HIS DAUGHTER, LOOKS AT HIM LIKE THERE'S NO ONE BETTER IN THE WORLD AND LEAE V ME THFI FUCK ALOEN [12:56:46 AM] iced americano: IM NTO OK [12:56:47 AM] iced americano: FUCK [12:56:50 AM] iced americano: GODDAMN IT

[12:56:02 AM] iced americano: DEVIN IS SO

GOD WHEN HARLEY IS BORN HE IS SO EXCITED BECAUSE IT'S HIS FIRST AND ONLY DAUGHTER AND HE LOOKS AT HER LIKE SHE'S THE WORLD AND ALL HE WANTS TO DO IS PROTECT HER AND TEACH HER HOW TO PROTECT HERSELF AND HE'S SO AMAZED THAT SOMETHING COULD BE SO BEAUTIFUL IN THE WORLD