6/24/2023 0 Comments Read the long game rachel reid![]() Most of The Long Game takes place as they try their best to keep their relationship secret, and we see the different way Ilya and Shane feel about all the different aspects of it: the distance, the secrecy, the yearning that comes with only being able to be together pretty much one night at the time, the endless wait for summer when they can spend more time together (but with the looming presence of the new season starting, always too soon). ![]() ![]() And it was everything I could have asked for. But Heated Rivalry, and especially Ilya and Shane, needed and deserved a sequel, and I couldn’t wait for it. I find it unnecessary in most cases and it makes me dread the potential for a dramatic break-up that seems to be so common with books about an established couple. ![]() I have to say that I usually don’t love the idea of a direct sequel to a romance book. I really think this series is the best use of this trope in a contemporary context I’ve read so far. Rereading that book immediately reminded me of all the reasons I liked it in the first place, and why I love the enemies (or in this case rivals) to lovers trope so much. Ilya and Shane’s story stayed with me for a full year since first reading their book, and I reserved a reread of Heated Rivalry for the moment before I’d (hopefully) get to read their well-deserved sequel. DO YOU ALL KNOW HOW LONG IT’S BEEN SINCE A CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE MADE ME CRY!! WHAT THE FUCK!!!! ![]()
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6/24/2023 0 Comments A red death by walter mosley![]() ![]() The nightcoat was stretched taut across her chest. She opened the door and draped her emaciated body against the jamb. "Poinsettia," I replied, then I turned quickly away as if my sweeping might escape if I didn't move to catch it. The open door let the stink of incense from her prayer altar flow out across my newly swept hall. She was a natural tenor but she screwed her voice higher to make me feel sorry for her.Īll I felt was sick. "Hi, Easy," she drawled in the saddest high voice. ![]() She was a tall young woman with yellowish eyes and thick, slack lips. The doorknob to Apartment J jiggled and the door came open showing Poinsettia Jackson's sallow, sorry face. ![]() I wasn't the only one to hear the Pontiac. I had money and the law on my mind, and Mofass was the only man I knew who might be able to set me straight. I knew that Mofass collected the late rent on the second Thursday of the month that's why I chose that particular Thursday to clean. Trajillo, who always sat at her window on the first floor?best burglar alarm you could have. I heard his door slam and his loud hello to Mrs. I knew it was him because there was something wrong with the transmission, you could hear its high singing from a block away. I had just gathered the dirt into a neat pile when I heard Mofass drive up in his new '53 Pontiac. It was a three-story pink stucco building between Ninety-first Street and Ninety-first Place, just about a mile outside of Watts proper. I always started sweeping on the top floor of the Magnolia Street apartments. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Trick mirror book![]() ![]() ![]() Bartsch goes on to examine the Roman treatment of the ethical and sexual gaze, and she traces how self-knowledge, the philosopher’s body, and the performance of virtue all played a role in shaping the Roman understanding of the nature of selfhood. Her reading of the Phaedrus, for example, demonstrates that the mirroring gaze in Plato, because of its sexual possibilities, could not be adopted by Roman philosophers and their students. She starts by showing how ancient authors envisioned the mirror as both a tool for ethical self-improvement and, paradoxically, a sign of erotic self-indulgence. ![]() Weaving together literary theory, philosophy, and social history, Bartsch traces this complex notion of self from Plato’s Greece to Seneca’s Rome. In The Mirror of the Self, Shadi Bartsch asserts that these links among vision, sexuality, and self-knowledge are key to the classical understanding of the self. ![]() Gazing upon someone-or oneself-was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an erotic element as well. People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Download The Mirror of the Self Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Book review the stationery shop![]() ![]() Their relationship develops and she learns this boy is Political involved and feels strongly about the Political uprising brewing in Tehran.Īs Roya gets to know this boy they find themselves in a whirlwind relationship in a world that is so uncertain. As Roya loses herself in poetry and theology of the West in a stationery shop in town she meets a boy. To break the constraints of traditional Iranian life and expectations and be the next great female scientist. ![]() The main chunk of the story follows a young Iranian girl, Roya, who has a forward-thinking Father who urges her and her sister to go to school and study hard. She mentions love and abandonment and then we are transported to the past, many, many years in the past. ![]() She compliments, again and again, her husband and how kind he is to let her do this. You, as the reader, are just burning to know the story and how we got here. The book opens in present-day watching an elderly woman as she talks about meeting someone from long ago and finally getting to understand why he left her that day. ![]() It was the perfect distraction for the world right now. This book was recommended by my good friend Devin, I am not normally a fiction fan but this story managed me to pull me in almost immediately as it bounced the reader from present-day to past and slowly intertwines each storyline with the other to create an intricate web of love, history, and deceit. Somehow, this is my FIRST finished book this year, wow, that is embarrassing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Selznick’s books aren’t like anyone else’s: His 500-plus page epics alternate between illustrations and text, rarely featuring both at the same time. Then, he shared how the book inspired a 15-year artistic exploration that culminated with The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Selznick’s Caldecott Medal-winning breakthrough. In our conversation for this series, Selznick gave a brilliant close reading of Maurice Sendak’s classic, explaining how the subtle interplay between text and image enhances and deepens the story. Then Where the Wild Things Are changed his life. ![]() Today, his ambitious, immersive picture books become New York Times bestsellers, but years ago, as a young Rhode Island School of Design graduate, Selznick tended to dismiss the entire genre. Brian Selznick, the author of The Marvels, never intended to make books for kids. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Blood Crazy by Simon Clark![]() ![]() ![]() This is a nice opener for the collection, filled with mystery, dread, and gruesome things happening to people you love to hate. But why is the house deserted and why is there an unnatural amount of salt that seems to cover the whole house? Their latest target –an old manor house by the sea- is occupied by a lone 18-year old girl, someone who should not pose any problem for the posse. Viper and his gang of traveling punks/vandals live off breaking and entering estates and looting the contents within. Don’t forget to read the classic creep-fest “Swallowing A Dirty Seed” at the end as well as the much-anthologized “A Grave-digger’s Tale”. So I elected to discuss the first seven stories plus two good representatives from the rest of the bunch. There is something for every horror fan here, be it violent stunners or calm and introspective (and maybe still gruesome) ghost stories.Īs usual, I planned to discuss all the stories but that would break the word count limit here in Goodreads. ![]() “Simon Clark! I know him! He’s the dude that writes about killer plants (Night of the Triffids), killer parents (Blood Crazy), killer Norse Vampires (Vamphyrric) and other killers.” (Random Horror book fan)īut do you know that he also writes great Aickman-Esque ghost stories and weird fiction? Or parables set in those lonely Greek islands? You wouldn’t know unless you have read this superb and eclectic collection. Simon Clark’s eclectic writing style is aptly represented in this great collection ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments The last time i lied book summary![]() ![]() Emma is clearly unwell, so her decision to go back to the site of her trauma makes some sense, but it’s hard to believe that the camp’s owners would want her back, especially since she played a pivotal role in turning one of them into a suspect and nearly ruining his life. It’s so slow that the reader has ample time to notice how contrived the novel’s setup is. Sager met the demands of the genre while offering a fresh, anxiety-inducing story in Final Girls. Thrillers are, by their very nature, formulaic. She’s ostensibly there to serve as an art instructor, but her real mission is to finally find out what happened to her friends. When she’s offered another opportunity to spend a summer at the camp, Emma barely hesitates. Fifteen years have passed, years in which Emma has revisited this ordeal again and again through her work as a painter. The other three girls in her cabin disappeared one night, never to return. It certainly was for Emma Davis during her first stay at Camp Nightingale. ![]() More psychological suspense from the author of Final Girls (2017).Īnyone who grew up watching horror movies in the 1980s knows that summer camp can be a dangerous place. ![]() ![]() ![]() And it has taken Jory and Sam and the readers on a long and complicated journey to get to their Happily Ever After. But now Jory and Sam have a family and a normal life and that’s worth fighting for! So the criminals had better beware.īut for You is the last book in the saga of Jory Harcourt and US Marshall Sam Kage which started with A Matter of Time novels. With criminals chasing them, and Sam after the criminals and Jory ending up in the middle, things are getting a little bit out of hand yet again. Then a hitman climbs their balcony of their hotel at the family reunion, and a missing informer may just not be missing after all. Someone Sam has never told Jory about to Jory’s consternation. But during his visit to the hospital, the Doctor on call turns out to be someone Sam was involved with down in Mexico during the three years they were separated. When Jory intervenes in a neighbors marital dispute by the curb, it figures that the only ones injured were Jory and his minivan. So of course, this means that trouble is about to barge into their life and turn it upside down. ![]() They have a house in the suburbs, a minivan Jory loves and their family and friends are happy as well. They have their two adopted children, their son Kola and their daughter Hannah, and even a deranged cat named Chilly. ![]() He has his husband, US Marshall Sam Kage, after many obstacles and stumbling blocks. Jory Harcourt finally has everything he has ever wanted. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Long winter rachel ember![]() ![]() The Nelsons named the business Ember Hairstream and registered it with the Colorado Department of Regulation Agencies. ![]() (the buyer planned to turn it into a food truck but was forced to sell the trailer due to a family emergency). Using life savings and a small loan from the Colorado Enterprise Fund, Nelson and her husband John purchased a 1977 Airstream Trailer from a young man in Casper, Wyo. But rather than abandon her dream, Nelson began to spin her wheels - literally. “I just didn’t see how opening a salon would ever be profitable unless you owned the space outright,” said Nelson.īuying a commercial building wasn’t feasible or desirable. But when the then 28-year-old Golden resident began researching the business operations, she made a troubling discovery: Roughly 80 percent of salons operate at a loss, and Denver’s commercial lease rates were well beyond what she could afford. She also had a toddler and was pregnant with her second child, and figured that it was as good a time as any to take on another big project. She had clients hiring her to travel and do makeup and hair for weddings and other events. ![]() After all, she’d developed a stellar reputation as a colorist and stylist at Boulder’s high end Twig Salon, where she’d worked for about seven years. Since memory serves, hair stylist Jamie Nelson had dreams of opening her own salon, and last year seemed a good time to manifest that goal. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu ![]() ![]() ![]() This volume also contains Stevenson’s 1887 collection of short stories, The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, which includes a further exploration of the mind of a murderer, ‘Markheim’, and the occult tales of terror, ‘The Merry Men’, ‘Olalla’, and ‘Thrawn Janet’. First published in 1886, this tragic study of the duality of man established Stevenson’s international reputation as an author. Wellss The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost, and Rudyard Kiplings They. He still wore his heavy boots, despite the spring thaw his mackinaw and knitted cap were reminders of the hard winter that had come and gone. In seeking to cleanse his soul of sin, Dr Henry Jekyll instead unleashes a monster. 3.63 Rating details 43 ratings 4 reviews It was dark by the time Lucas stopped his taxi in the driveway of the Wheeler home and lumbered up the path to the front entrance. Born from a nightmare and anticipating Freud’s theory of the unconscious, Stevenson literalises the concepts of the supernatural doppelgänger and the split personality in a timeless tale of guilt, desire, and violence by which all subsequent ‘double’ stories must be judged. In this powerful deconstruction of Calvinist belief and the hypocrisy at the heart of Victorian society, Stevenson creates a gothic icon in the divided self that is Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Collector’s Edition) ![]() |