![]() In a world filled with serious books, it’s nice to have fluffy fun like the Bridgertons books to turn to for a bit of escapism every now and then. Yet, if he offers his heart, will Benedict sacrifice his only chance for a fairy tale love? He has sworn to find and wed his mystery miss, but this breathtaking maid makes him weak with wanting her. Who was that extraordinary woman? Ever since that magical night, a radiant vision in silver has blinded Benedict to the attractions of any other-except, perhaps this alluring and oddly familiar beauty dressed in housemaid’s garb whom he feels compelled to rescue from a most disagreeable situation. Alas, she knows all enchantments must end when the clock strikes midnight. But now, spinning in the strong arms of the debonair and devastatingly handsome Benedict Bridgerton, she feels like royalty. Sophie Beckett never dreamed she’d be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton’s famed masquerade ball-or that “Prince Charming” would be waiting there for her! Though the daughter of an earl, Sophie has been relegated to the role of servant by her disdainful stepmother. ![]() ![]() Will she accept his offer before the clock strikes midnight? ![]()
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6/27/2023 0 Comments Beyond shame by kit rocha![]() ![]() "No communes."Ī feminine hand pressed against the back of her neck. Her father had threatened her with an extended stay on the farms often enough to make her heart seize now. No electricity or running water, only backbreaking labor from dawn to dusk and being bred until you died in childbirth. The communes were horrifying places where farmers lived primitive lives of indentured servitude. The word dragged her fully out of confused darkness. You should have put her on the first transport out to the communes."Ĭommunes. ![]() "Don't kid yourself," the woman interrupted. "I didn't have a choice," a gruff voice murmured. And it had to be a shattered skull-nothing else would explain the pain knifing through her. Noelle groaned and pressed her hand to her forehead, as if she could hold the pieces of her shattered skull together. ![]() The words pierced darkness and splintered agony behind her eyes. "I can't believe you did this, you jackass." ![]() ![]() ![]() He can’t accept his own flaws and punishes himself because he can’t acknowledge he is only human. William is a more than honorable man but he lives with a guilt that is slowly eating at him. ![]() And even if she is no warrior, she stands for herself and can fight back when the need comes. And while she has found a measured happiness and some peace in her new life, and does not long to go back to her birth home, she is perfectly aware that those who tried to erase her from their equation might come back to finish their work. ![]() Isabel was only 8 when her existence as she had always known it came to a full stop. ![]() The young boy rescued her from a gruesome death, and without knowing it, offered her a shelter to lick her wounds and rebuilt her life. Isabel and William first met on the day her world was upended. I loved that it was more than a romance, the added mystery about the pendants supplemented the story with a dash of mysteriousness not often seen. Will he let what he believes to be his shortcomings draw the lines of his future. He swore to protect Isabel not seduce her, but their desire for each other could threaten the redemption he’s worked so hard to achieve… With every rushed mile, their intense attraction becomes dangerously thrilling. Yet, a mission to reunite lost heiress Lady Isabel de Clancey with her family is Will’s chance to finally atone for the torment of his past. Publisher Harlequin Historical / Mills&Boon HistoricalĮxiled Knight William Geraint answers only to himself. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments The storied life of aj fikry book![]() ![]() You know, reading has become to him sort of a way to not engage with other people, when the best thing about reading is that it kind of can help us engage with other people. He's both isolated physically, geographically, but also intellectually. So in the book, much like Martha's Vineyard, it takes, you know, a lot of driving, plane-taking, a ferry, all of that, to get there. The setting was really important to me because I wanted to have A.J. ![]() ![]() ![]() the best thing about reading is that it kind of can help us engage with other people. "I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read." "I thought as a strategy it would be really interesting to describe people in terms of what they read and how they read," she says. Zevin tells NPR's Audie Cornish that it's a book she's been wanting to write for some time. Each chapter begins with the title of a short story or a book and a note from Fikry describing what he likes about it, essentially introducing each character by what they read. Zevin's book is a love letter to the joys of reading. He's also at the center of Gabrielle Zevin's new novel, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry is an unlikely romantic hero: He's cranky, he drinks too much, his bookstore is failing and don't get him started on the state of publishing. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Storied Life of A. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Spin the dawn unravel the dusk![]() ![]() I know that for every dawn, dusk must unravel its darkness. Because the other option would be war and she is not willing to lose her kingdom and the people she loves into the cold grip of the shansen. Seeing A’landi vulnerable state with the absence of its enchanter, Maia have to make sure the wedding between Imperial Khanujin and Lady Sarnai will happen no matter what. ![]() Hiding her inevitable fate of becoming a demon, she urged Edan to leave the palace. She had a chance to free Edan from his oath to Imperial Khanujin and she took it. When she finally succeed making three of Amana’s dresses, her happiness doesn’t last long. It’s only a matter of time before her human life would be gone and she’d turn into a demon, a guardian in the Lapzur Isle replacing Bandur. When she traveled to Lapzur Isle to get the last material to make Amana’s dresses, she made a deal with the demon Bandur. ![]() Maia Tamarin disguised herself to be her brother, Keton Tamarin, to compete in an event as an imperial tailor. Here are the things you need to remember before reading the sequel: In case you forgot some important scenes, I got you. Spin the Dawn Recap! Beware of spoiler, please skip this part if you haven’t read the first book. YA FANTASY | MAGIC | ROMANCE | WAR | A TWIST IN A RETELLING ABOUT THE BOOK Title: Unravel the Dusk Author: Elizabeth Lim Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Date of publication: July 7th, 2020 ![]() ![]() ![]() Compound these with intense personal tragedy and super powers, and you can start to visualize the world of Peter Parker, a.k.a. High school, puberty, first dances there are many pitfalls to being young. ![]() With the dawning of a new age, however, comes a hero for a new millennium.Ultimate Spider-Man! In 1962, these prophetic words launched one of the most successful and recognizable characters of the 20th century - Spider-Man! The powers granted to bookish Peter Parker by a radioactive spider have fueled the imagination of fans worldwide for nearly 40 years. "With great power there must also come great responsibility.” (Click panel for larger image) _ Featured Characters: ![]() Uncle Ben, to Peter, Ultimate Spider-Man #4 And with that will come great responsibility." “Great things are going to happen in your life, Peter. ![]() ![]() ![]() This contemporary classic, the story of a Palestinian who becomes a citizen of Israel, combines fact and fantasy, tragedy and comedy. ![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C.Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games By POPULAR SERIES Chronicles of Narnia Curious Geoge Diary of a Wimpy Kid Fancy Nancy Harry Potter I Survived If You Give. ![]()
![]() We also move back and forward in time, and gradually start to piece together what happened to missing child Lulu that day at the lake.īut just when you think you know where this is going, the author completely pulls the rug from under you. I’d saved it up to read on holiday, and I’m so glad I did - I really got to immerse myself in this dark, twisting tale.Įach chapter of the book is written from the point of view of different characters, including the reclusive Ted, his difficult daughter Lauren, and even his superior (and highly religious!) cat Olivia. ![]() ![]() I finally read this 2021 release a couple of months ago, having hugely enjoyed “ Sundial” last year (one of my 2022 Top 15 books). In anticipation of Catriona Ward’s new novel, “Looking Glass Sound”, coming out next week, I wanted to share my review of “The Last House on Needless Street”. But nothing is quite what it seems on Needless Street… My thoughts: There’s something not right about Ted and his family, and Dee thinks she knows what it is. When new neighbour Dee moves in, she is determined to find out what happened to her younger sister Lulu, who went missing from a nearby lake years before. Ted lives in the last house on Needless Street with his young daughter Lauren and his cat Olivia. ![]() Cats don’t hold onto things.” “The Last House on Needless Street”, by Catriona Ward The story: ![]() The air began to calm, the electricity subsided. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Bell hooks on teaching![]() ![]() ![]() While working with hooks, Chapman recognized that much of her mentor's work was concerned with the loss of Black life. Chapman remembers that her classes were highly sought after, and that she led a support group of Black women, called "Sisters of the Yam," who idolized her. ![]() At that time, Rachel Chapman, now a tenured professor of anthropology at the University of Washington, had the professor as her undergraduate thesis advisor. Many noted the accessibility of her language, as well as her willingness to write from life experience as a way to speak on spirituality and family.īefore she was bell hooks, though, she was Gloria Watkins, a rising scholar teaching at Yale University in the 1980s. Since hooks' passing on December 15, social media has flooded with eulogies and poignant reflections on almost three decades of her work in feminism, teaching and theory. The rest of the world probably knows her best through her most popular books, Feminism is For Everybody, Teaching to Transgress and All About Love: New Visions, which re-emerged in the pandemic as a New York Times bestseller despite being published in 2000. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Aniara poem![]() ![]() ![]() All for Nothing: Everyone dies in the end.It is the humans' requests of recalling the fate of Dorisburg which causes mima to self-destruct. In 2018, the movie Aniara premiered at Toronto Film Festival.Īniara provides examples of the following tropes: The poem has been adapted for stage several times, most notably as an opera in 1959. The book consists of 103 poems, cantos, of which the shortest are one stanza ong and longest fill several pages.Īniara was acclaimed both by critics and the general public, and is generally considered to be the key factor in Martinsson receiving the Nobel Literature Prize in 1974. During the journey, Aniara is knocked off course and sets a new, irreversible course towards the constellation Lyra, and the colonists, knowing they will never leave Aniara, attempt to deal with their impending, inevitable doom and realizations of mortality in various more or less insane ways. Aniara details the voyage of the goldonder Aniara, which transports colonists from the polluted and irradiated Earth to new settlements on Mars. Aniara is the title of an epic poem, written by Harry Martinsson and published in 1956. ![]() |