7/8/2023 0 Comments Wallbanger series book 2![]() ![]() ![]() I’m sure it’s because Alice somehow manages to exaggerate real life situation and you can relate to them so well – she gets us to see the funny side of life and it’s such a joy to read her books. There were parts of this book where I had to put my kindle down and wipe tears away from crying with laughter. Jenny: Haha! You’re so right Gitte, this should definitely come with some sort of warning LOL. Got to say though that ‘Clive the cat’ deserves to grace the cover on this one, as to me, he stole the show so many times! There are no excessive frills, which is actually rather refreshing as it makes the characters that much more down to earth, lovable and attainable. Alice writes characters that are cheeky, funny, unassuming, clever and sexy. Again, one of those that needs to come with the warning of: “You will make a fool of yourself in public when you pee yourself from laughing”! I knew it probably would be from the start, as The Redhead Series by Alice had me in absolute *swoony stitches*. Gitte: No doubt Jenny…funniest book I have read in a very long time. ![]()
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![]() He’s not wearing his bandanna and his hair has been shaved short. I instinctively reach up to touch my neck I hope they don’t make me wear a collar. I stare at the thin metal collar around his neck and my gaze falls to the thick, metal bands encasing his wrists. I was so excited to see him that I didn’t notice he’s wearing a uniform, similar to a surgeon’s scrubs, except it’s grey and a red stripe runs down the leg of his pants. I bury my head in his neck and breathe in his familiar scent and the feel of his muscles beneath my fingertips. It’s good to see Kayden again I’ve missed him so much this past month. ![]() ![]() “You stay with your friend, I’ll take care of it.” “Hurry up and get these dishes cleared away,” the guard yells.Īmy places her hand on my shoulder. No part of this publication can be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writing from the author, except for reviewers who may quote parts of the book for review purposes. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Names, characters, places and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. ![]() Michelle Abbott grew up in London in the United. ![]() ![]() And the countdown to midnight begins in ten. But first she needs to sneak out of the house. Escape from Planet Loser starts.now!Ĭlaire Lyons Is psyched times 10 to win a last-minute invitation to the New Year's Yves satellite party in Orlando. Kristen Gregory Has made a New Year's resolution to make friends and get a life. But who would be brave enough to stand up to someone so Marvilous? Will she prove herself alpha-worthy - or will she need to find a whole new clique?ĭylan Marvil is done, done, and done with people kissing her teeny-tiny butt just because her mom is famous. With the captain on vacation, BADSS's live performance on Merri Lee Marvil's New Year's Yves show is her chance to shine. When will it be her time to rule?Īlicia Rivera: is dying to lead the Body Alive Dance Studio Squad. She has ah-mazing ideas - Friday night sleepovers, Gossip Points, and matching charm bracelets. Massie Block: Is destined to lead, but trapped as a beta in the Ahnabees, the top clique at PMS (Presbyterian Middle School). Because sometimes when you meet someone, it just.cliques. It took a miracle to bring the Pretty Committee together - or rather, a New Year's Yves party. ![]() Kristen cant go because her parents cant afford it. Sysnopsis Please add in a sysnopsis for this book Plot This book is about when OCD and Briarwood go on a field trip. ![]() ![]() Once upon a time, in Westchester and Orlando, there were four betas just waiting for their alpha. The Pretty Committee Strikes Back is the fifth book in The Clique Series by Lisi Harrison. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Pond claire![]() ![]() ![]() The book is shot through with Annie Dillard-like epiphanies – ‘A divination came to me’ – and yet remains earthbound, funny and occasionally vulgar, like Lydia Davis valorising the humdrum without the familiar baggage of work, family, the weight of expectation and panic over time. This item: Pond: Claire-Louise Bennett by Claire-Louise Bennett Paperback £8.66 by Keith Ridgway Paperback £6. Instead it is a first-hand examination of solitude: an unrestrained account of the mind at play as it ricochets from simple objects – vegetables, thatch, underwear – to suggestions, ideas, memories and impressions of the external world. ![]() Pond, her debut book of stories, published earlier this year by pioneering Irish press The Stinging Fly, and now in London by upstarts Fitzcarraldo Editions, is hardly a book of stories at all. Bennett’s unnamed narrator is a young academic who’s. ![]() 2015) Review by Daniel Hartley The stories in Claire-Louise Bennett’s Pond feature a consistent narratorial voice: a female first-person narrator who recounts past events, hypothetical situations, and self-discoveries to an implied interlocutor. ‘Regrettably I don’t think my first language can be written down at all … I think it has to stay where it is simmering in the elastic gloom betwixt my flickering organs.’īennett is an English-born writer who lives on the west coast of Ireland. The Irish writer Claire-Louise Bennett’s first novel, Pond, dabbles in a black art we don’t get enough of in summertime: misanthropy. Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett (Fitzcarraldo Editions, Oct. ‘English, strictly speaking, is not my first language,’ explains the unnamed narrator whose feverish reflections are the subject of Claire-Louise Bennett’s Pond. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments The grishaverse trilogy![]() I truly cannot help but to scream about the best duology in the world!! The Six of Crows duology is Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom. The Shadow And Bone Trilogy (The Grisha Trilogy) ![]() ![]() ![]() also I was going to add more pictures but truly I cannot deal with adding images in this block editor I swear next post I’ll be back to the classic block truly I spent longer formatting this post than writing it Im dying Yes i stole this image from their twitter header i don’t think they mindĪnyways, I get easily intimidated by long book series haha but somehow I’ve managed to get through eight Grishaverse books! And since Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom are two of my all time favorites, and the other books are, well, good enough, and I want to encourage everyone to watch the show and read the books, here’s your nifty guide on each of the books/series, and several different ways/orders to read them depending on what you need!Īlso this is the first post I’ve written with the block editor and truly I hate it so much so excuse the bad formatting but I cannot stand the block editor!! ever since I was forced over I’ve just been using the “classic block” but I tried using legit blocks now and truly it is awful bring back the classic editor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Unlike any other book on homosexuality and the church, this is a call to examine your life and consider what God is asking you to lay down to take up your cross and follow him. Yarhouse, on his new book, Costly Obedience: What We Can Learn from the Celibate Gay Christian Community. Through the stories and struggles of gay Christians who are reorienting their lives around the costly obedience required to follow Christ, Mark Yarhouse and Olya Zaporozhets call the church to reorient as well, leaving behind the casual morality that is widespread today to pursue the path of radical discipleship. There is a price to pay in following Christ and devoting our lives to the call of the gospel, and it is one that we all must pay-gay and straight Christians alike. Download or stream Costly Obedience by Mark Yarhouse, Olya Zaporozhets, Adam Verner for free on hoopla. Instead, gay Christians who make the difficult choice to align their lives with the biblical view of sexuality are a gift to the church, reminding all of us that spiritual growth and maturity is costly. And yet, the answer is not to weaken the demands of obedience. Far too often, the church has elevated homosexuality above other sins and required a costly obedience from gays that it is unwilling to demand of others. Costly Obedience: What We Can Learn from the Celibate Gay Christian Community. The call to follow Christ is a call to costly obedience for all, not just for gay Christians. Though we often hear about the "gay problem" today, there is an even deeper problem in the church today-one that we often overlook. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the stories in that grim-looking and extremely cool volume is “The Hunters from Beyond,” by Smith (which begins with that quotation above). Howard, and Clark Ashton Smith, I have a single anthology to thank for introducing me to them… The Macabre Reader. And nearly everyone has a story of how they discovered an author that really made an impact on them. Discovering Clark Ashton Smithīefore you can collect the works of an author, you must discover them. Smith might have felt the same if he’d had any inkling that the world would still be discussing him and his writings more than a century and a quarter later. ![]() If I took my own birthday and added 128 years to it, that would put us in the year 2097 which sounds an awful lot like the setting for a dystopian science fiction novel. It has been 128 years since Clark Ashton Smith-whom I consider one of the world’s foremost fantasists-was born. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments A touch of darkness persephone![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve been sort of wanting to see how other authors have tackled the idea of gods not just as remote figures, but characters who are very present in a story. ![]() ![]() I’m working on two different books right now which both feature gods alive and well in the world. So, if this isn’t my typical read, why did I read it? It’s a huge, wildly popular genre, it’s just not my typical genre. I’m not big into stories with lots of graphic sex, and you do get that here. This isn’t the kind of book I usually gravitate toward. I’m going to admit right off the bat, this is not my typical read. As she struggles to sow the seeds of her freedom, love for the God of the Dead grows-and it’s forbidden. The bet does more than expose Persephone’s failure as a goddess, however. Hades, God of the Dead, has built a gambling empire in the mortal world and his favorite bets are rumored to be impossible.Īfter a chance encounter with Hades, Persephone finds herself in a contract with the God of the Dead and the terms are impossible: Persephone must create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom forever. After moving to New Athens, she hopes to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist. The truth is, since she was a little girl, flowers have shriveled at her touch. Persephone is the Goddess of Spring by title only. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments The boyfriend list e lockhart![]() This list of 8 rules include rule #5 which states “if your friend has already said she likes a boy, don’t you go liking him too. Roo and her friends made a list of Rules for Dating in a Small School. Roo lists her own physical descriptions in a list that include both the ones she likes and the ones she hates “1) No zits/boobs that already flop around more than they should and are destined for sagginess” and “Cute gap between front teeth/propensity to sweat in nervous-making situations.” (21) Learned gory details about my now-ex boyfriend’s sexual adventures” (p4) She had five anxiety attacks in ten days, the same ten days she tells us in a list, Roo starts off by making a list of the type of people who she thought went to shrinks “lunatics, tragics and neurotics” (2) This task is perfectly suited for a teenage girl who already views the world in lists. The therapist has asked Ruby or Roo as everyone calls her, to make a boyfriend list of all the boys she has kissed, dated or thought about dating as a way to sort out her feelings. ![]() Ruby Oliver has been having panic attacks so her parents take her to a therapist to get them sorted out. ![]() Have you ever wanted to get inside the mind of a teenage girl? Me either, but this is exactly where we live for 229 pages in E. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Rousseau novel emile![]() Initially published in 1763 at the height of the Enlightenment, Emile articulates Rousseau’s philosophy of education through the novelistic device of a fictional tutor’s encounters with his pupil from infancy to adolescence, illustrating how ideal citizens can be raised to survive in a corrupt society. The definitive translation of Rousseau’s Emile, a foundational text in the philosophy of education Widely hailed as the most accessible and authoritative edition of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emile, or On Education, this acclaimed translation by bestselling author Alan Bloom elevates what Rousseau considered to be the “best and most important” of his published writing into something a prescription, fresh and dazzling, for the education of autonomous, responsible-and truly democratic-human beings. ![]() |