5/13/2023 0 Comments Catching Kalen by Maya Nicole![]() Slipping the Do Not Disturb sign on the outside door handle, I let the heavy door swing closed. ![]() ![]() Fuck, he smelled like expensive cologne and a hint of tequila. His chest brushed against mine, and I inhaled his scent. I stepped out of the way, just enough for him to squeeze through. Will Monroe catch me, or will he strike out? Universal Link Add to Goodreads It was supposed to be a random hookup but when I walked into my summer school course there he was, standing at the front of the room. One night of passion left me questioning everything. ![]() When I locked gazes with a pair of gorgeous blue eyes, I knew the night was going to be anything but normal.Įspecially since I’d never been with a man. So, I did what any major league hopeful reject would do: I went to the bar to escape my reality. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Trials of death by darren shan![]() This maze is composed of a stone labyrinth with a low ceiling and only four exits. There is allowed only one day of rest and one day of preparation between each trial, but Darren's timing is lucky, as a festival will fall right in the middle of his trials, meaning that they will have to be put on hold and he will have more time to rest.ĭarren reports to the Hall of Princes and is presented with his first Trial: The Aquatic Maze. They range from "fighting wild boars to climbing perilous mountains to crawling through a pit filled with snakes." An ancient vampiric tradition, any vampire wishing to become a Vampire General had to pass five of these Trials. It is only now that Darren learns about the trials themselves. The catch? If he fails, he must be executed. ![]() The fifth book of the series picks up right where the last left off: half-vampire Darren Shan has just found out that he must pass the Trials of Death in order to become a true part of the vampire clan. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Nick michael farris smith review![]() ![]() Floundering in the wake of the destruction he witnessed first-hand, Nick embarks on a redemptive journey that takes him from a whirlwind Paris romance – doomed from the very beginning – to the dizzying frenzy of New Before Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby’s world, he was at the centre of a very different story – one taking place along the trenches and deep within the tunnels of World War I. This rich and imaginative novel from critically acclaimed author Michael Farris Smith breathes new life into a character that many know only from the periphery. This blog tour is organised by Oldcastle Books/No Exit Press and I am thrilled to have been asked to join the tour! ![]() Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for ‘Nick’ by Michael Farris Smith, a book that imagines the life of the character of Nick Carraway before he ends up as narrator of ‘The Great Gatsby’. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Transylvania by Bronwen Riley![]() ![]() Transylvania captures this vanishing world in words and pictures. : Transylvania (9780711227811) by Riley, Bronwen and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Transylvania only recently awakened from the deep sleep of Communism and, though life is now changing fast, traditions remain here that elsewhere died out long ago. While the 'King of the Gypsies' lives in a grandiose modern palace, the future King of England has bought a modest peasant's house in a remote village. ![]() It is a country of striking cultural contrasts: of Orthodox monasteries, Gothic churches and Communist follies. Streams run with silver, the mountains are full of gold, dinosaur nests are found in river beds and haystacks in trees. Indeed, although Transylvania is a real place, truth here is often stranger than fiction. It is the place where dragons live in Harry Potter and the country to which the Pied Piper spirited the children of Hamelin. ![]() Many people think Transylvania is a fictitious land, like Ruritania or Narnia. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments A river ran wild by lynne cherry![]() This pictorial history of the river, edging towards a hopeful scene of modern-day descendants of both Native Americans and European settlers who come together to combat pollution and restore the beauty of the river, is an intelligent tale that shows young readers how they can do their part in taking care of the world around them, one river at a time. Lynne Cherry’s contrasting illustrations of the lush valley and the eventual polluted river deliver an astonishing look at our dramatic need for conservation efforts. Each double spread examines brief periods of time when the river and surrounding areas teemed with wildlife. But the industrialization of nearby areas would lead to the deterioration of natural habitats. Over 7,000 years ago Native Americans settled on the Nashua River, a beautiful and leafy valley. ![]() Beloved author of the classic The Great Kapok Tree, Lynne Cherry explores the true story of the Nashua River in Massachusetts in this nonfiction picture book about restoration, renewal, and environmental consciousness. A River Ran Wild is This is the remarkable environmental success story of the cleanup of New England’s once polluted Nashua River. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Bordwell film![]() Louis gives us the opportunity to hear Bordwell’s latest pitch for why movie history matters.īordwell’s advocacy for movie history can be situated in the earliest efforts to transform film studies into an academic field. ![]() An upcoming series of talks at Washington University in St. With the stakes so high, Bordwell has advocated passionately and mightily for movie history as a distinct discipline, as a unique way of understanding the major currents of modern art and life. A robust history of movies, his work demonstrates, not only promises an understanding of the business and art of moving image production over the last 120 years, but a sense of the roots of media culture today. ![]() Since the publication of his first book in 1981, David Bordwell has returned to this question repeatedly, consistently rethinking the role that movie history - or, better yet, movie historiography (the writing of movie history) - can play within the academy and culture at large. ![]() ![]() Dune Messiah (1969) and Children of Dune were collectively adapted by the Sci-Fi Channel in 2003 into a miniseries titled Frank Herbert's Children of Dune. The novel was critically well-received for its plot, action, and atmosphere, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1977. Initially selling over 75,000 copies, it became the first hardcover best-seller ever in the science fiction field. House Corrino schemes to return to the throne, while the Bene Gesserit make common cause with the Tleilaxu and Spacing Guild to gain control of the spice and the children of Paul Atreides. Awakened in the womb by the spice, the children are the heirs to Paul's prescient vision of the fate of the universe, a role that Alia desperately craves. It was originally serialized in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in 1976, and was the last Dune novel to be serialized before book publication.Īt the end of Dune Messiah, Paul Atreides walks into the desert, a blind man, leaving his twin children Leto and Ghanima in the care of the Fremen, while his sister Alia rules the universe as regent. ![]() Children of Dune is a 1976 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the third in his Dune series of six novels. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The Fall by May Archer![]() The heroine of the story is Vanessa Mazur, the long-time assistant to Aiden Graves, a football superstar. After two long years, Vanesss quits her job as his assistant and housekeeper. The Wall Of Winnipeg And Me is a sports romance novel where the hero is the top defensive end in the National Football Organization. Mariana Zapata is the undisputed queen of ultra slow-burn romance novels. The Wall Of Winnipeg And Me – Mariana Zapata However, we have put together some of the best slow-burn romance novels that will appeal to a wide range of interests and tastes including some literary classics. There are so many different directions that the story can go that won’t necessarily appeal to people in the same way. Romance is a genre that is particularly guided by the personal tastes of the reader. ![]() 50 Best Slow-Burn Romance Books You Should Buy Let’s take a look at 50 of the best slow-burn romance novels to add to your collection. The plot is often much more nuanced and involves more action outside of the romance between the hero and heroine. These books delve much deeper into the relationship between the characters that stretches far beyond the shallow level of other romance novels. If this is something that you find with the romance genre, have you thought about indulging in a slow-burn romance book? ![]() This can be off-putting for a lot of romance readers. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments What zola did![]() I feel like Nick making up with Meredith as soon as she apologized not only showed the type of person that Nick is (the type of person who seems to let go of grudges after an honest apology) but that he knows Meredith perhaps better than she realizes. ![]() Meredith is the queen of pushing people away when she feels like she's on the defensive, but Meredith is not the queen of apologizing for and explaining her feelings later. Joshua: Initially, I agreed with Meaghan that I wish Nick had let Meredith sweat it out a bit longer, but the more I thought about it, the more I appreciated that it played out like this. I'm sure this isn't the last disagreement they will have now that Mer is Nick's boss, but as long as they don't become Teddy and Owen, they should be fine. I can't lie I swooned a little bit when she told him she could feel again when she saw him in the hallway.Īs much as Mer can piss me off at times, I am rooting for her to get a happy ending, and Nick is part of that. She has been through so much in her life it's only natural to try to protect her heart as much as possible now. ![]() It was very refreshing to see Mer so self-aware and have her recognize what caused her to allow Nick to walk away in the first place. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Dead in a Bed by Henry Kane![]() Poor, poor Orson Welles: repeatedly talked about as a tragic disappointment, his achievements somehow held against him, as if he had culpably outlived his own genius. Then the major Hollywood studios gave him the chance to direct big-budget pictures, over which he gained more and more artistic control until he made his culminating mature masterpiece: Citizen Kane, the story of the doomed press baron Charlie Kane – played by Welles himself, partly based on WR Hearst – and told in a dazzling series of fragments, shards, jigsaw pieces and reflected images. The idea, effectively, is that Welles started life as a fat actor who got his first break doing TV commercials for wine, moved on to bigger character roles as fat men, but used his fees to help finance indie films which he directed himself their modest, growing success gave him the energy and self-esteem to lose weight. ![]() S pitting Image once made a joke about Orson Welles – that he lived his life in reverse. ![]() |