5/10/2023 0 Comments The casanova miles high clubThe Casanova (Trade Paperback / Paperback) Turning him down was the highlight of my year.Six months later, he was the guest speaker at a conference I attended in France.Still arrogant and infuriating-but this time, surprisingly charming and witty.When he looked at me, I got butterflies.But I can't go there.He's just a player in a hot suit, and I'm just a widow with three unruly sons. In the shock of the century, he called me three days later and asked me on a date.I would rather die than date a man like him-though I do have to admit it was good for the ego. y.He was powerful, arrogant, and infuriatingly gorgeous, and I hated him with every cell in my body. Hate never felt so good.I first met Tristan Miles at a meeting where he was trying to take over my late husband's compan. *A Wall Street Journal bestseller*In bestselling author T L Swan's second hot installment to the Miles High Club series, he's sexy, rich, and her mortal enemy. The Takeover (Trade Paperback / Paperback)
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5/9/2023 0 Comments The Art of Memoir by Mary KarrKarr also offers numerous practical tips and techniques for writing effective memoirs, including advice on how to use sensory detail to create vivid descriptions, how to handle dialogue and character development in memoirs, and how to navigate the ethical issues that can arise in memoir writing.Īnother strength of the book is Karr's engaging and often humorous writing style. She also emphasizes the importance of creating a sense of narrative tension and structure in memoirs, and offers practical advice on how to do so. She argues that writers must be willing to confront their own flaws and vulnerabilities in order to create truly meaningful and engaging memoirs. One of the strengths of the book is Karr's emphasis on the importance of honesty and authenticity in memoir writing. The book offers a wealth of advice, insights, and examples to help writers develop their skills and create compelling memoirs. Gabriel!!! Haha! I love that alpha male! <33 He knows exactly how to push Ethan’s buttons and I live for it! XD “You’ve only been a vampire for ten months.” Welcome to my first eleven months as a vampire.” You’re at the stage where good intentions meet crappy abilities. ”It sucks because you’re trying to do the right thing, but the result isn’t showing it. They went through thick and thin together and no matter what they had to deal with, they never gave up! That’s #FriendshipGoals! The still strong friendship between Merit and Mallory. We glanced at Jeff, who was now cradling Connor in his unbandaged arm, Tanya looking over them both with a smile. ”Ethan didn’t verbally object to being called Uncle Ethan, although he did look a bit paler than usual – a difficult feat for a vampire.” Ethan the almighty Darth Sullivan getting all scared because he was called Uncle Ethan! XD Luc and Lindsey They are such a cute couple and I really ship them! <3 *lol* This is an official warning, I take no responsibility for trespassing this point. Don’t read my review if you don’t know the series, there might be spoilers that would … well, spoil your fun. What I didn’t like” reviews.Īs always here’s a short reminder to those of you who didn’t read the former books. “And we all have our parts to play.”Īnd here is another one of my “What I liked vs. He maintains that the communal life is not an ideal, but a divine reality. Of the nature of communal life, or Christian community, Bonhoeffer writes that it is unified through and in Jesus Christ. He aims to describe the nature of Christian community through five concepts and devotes a chapter to each: Community, The Day with Others, The Day Alone, Ministry, and Confession and Communion. He asserts that communal life, the physical presence of other Christians, is a gift of grace, that it is the “extraordinary, roses and lilies” of the Christian life. Having been imprisoned (and later hung) by the Gestapo for his participation in the political and military resistance against Nazism in Germany, the author writes with the authority of experience of Christian community. In his book Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community, Dietrich Bonhoeffer offers the Christian means with which to cultivate authentic Christian community. 5/9/2023 0 Comments Book as bright as heavenHis uncle has no children but has always liked Thomas, so he wants Thomas to take over the business when he’s ready to retire.Īnd it’s not just the country that the Brights are leaving behind. The Bright family – Pauline and Thomas and their three young girls – move to Philadelphia, leaving behind their life in the country so Thomas can take a job with his uncle running his mortuary. As Bright as Heaven SummaryĪs Bright as Heaven takes place in Philadelphia during WWI. This time, it sucked me right in and I couldn’t read it fast enough. Hallelujah! The reading gods were finally smiling down on me. The hardcover for As Bright as Heaven is fairly big, so I didn’t want to take that with us to Italy, so instead I requested a Kindle version and my hold came up two hours before we left for the airport. When we moved here, I requested it from the library and after two more renewals, I finally got got past that first page. I checked it out again, read a page or two, and then it went back again, unfinished. I checked it out back in April from my Arizona library and didn’t even crack it open before it was due back. It was possibly the book of the three I was most excited about, but somehow I just could not get into it. As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner was one of my three picks for the 2018 Summer round of Tell Me What to Read. 5/9/2023 0 Comments Synopsis of monkey beachPick wild blueberries when you’re hungry, let the tart taste sink into your tongue, followed by that sharp sweetness that store-bought berries lack. “Enter the trees, step over the fallen logs and watch out for the prickly, waist-high devil’s club … Wander slowly, careful where you step … In the time of the great dying, whole families were buried in one plot. The novel is also a primer for those who’ve fallen behind on Haida culture: Shipwrecked and just wrecked, Lisa enters the crow-ordered world of memory while watching and waiting for the sasquatch – and her brother – to show up on Monkey Beach. Her waking dream world is haunted by premonitions and wise ghosts her life is tortured by school and the deaths of loved ones her alcohol and drug consumption is its own exhausting dance. If you are pointing to Bella Coola or Ocean Falls, you are too far south.” The novel is told by Haisla teenager Lisamarie Hill, whose Olympic hopeful swimmer brother is missing off a seiner. Monkey Beach is Robinson’s command performance, set in her home town of Kitamaat Village, on the coast of B.C.: “If your finger is on Prince Rupert or Terrace, you are too far north. Her subsequent New Face of Fiction deal with Knopf Canada placed her in a troupe of elite young ’uns and flicked on the bright and hot lights: dance kid, or you’re out of the show. In 1996, it opened to New York raves and Canadian reserve (pun intended): pretty good for a beginner. Haisla-Heiltsuk writer Eden Robinson’s first book was a collection of four stories, Traplines. 5/9/2023 0 Comments Not Quite Human by Kaye DraperWhat is a common theme that follows all the books in Kraken's Cult series? (Like all alpha-male cardboard cut-outs all the time, for example). Magic (or something "other" even if it's more sci-fi etc.) and romance-the more inclusive and outside the box the better! I hate stories that use the same old tropes over, and over. According to you, what is the perfect recipe for an amazing story? The Path of Tempation series by Auryn Hadley, The Vale Chronicles by Joel Abernathy, and anything by Megan Derr. What are some great books you've read recently and who wrote them? I got my undergraduate degreein Biology/Pre-med in Michigian, then I moved to Florida where I completed my Master's degree in Occupational Therapy. I am one of those millenials who was pressured to go to college and get a "real" career that I ultimately regretted. Where did you get your degree in education? What was the most memorable part of college for you? I loved to write stories and awful poetry, horseback riding (very informally) and being outside as much as possible. My favorite place to be growing up was out in my grandparents' woods, riding my horse, swimming in the ponds/river/creek, finding allt he hidden places and talking to the fairies. My hometown is small and there wasn't usually much going on there. Where are some places in your hometown you liked to visit a lot as a child? 5/8/2023 0 Comments Big Time by Cynthia D. GrantGrant has received important awards for.for her work, including the PEN/Norma Klein Award in 1991.She lives in the mountains outside Cloverdale, California. They are realistic young people who overcome a variety of obstacles, and stand for the winning qualities of righteousness, maturity, humor, and independence. After all, Grant said, "Most of us who write for children or young adults know that they read books not only to be entertained, but to be enlightened and encouraged." Her characters are heroes who triumph over tragedy. However, the overall message she conveys is that, no matter what the problem, young adults can survive adolescence. Grant is not afraid to portray violence and other graphic situations. I'm an adult I write what sounds good to me." In her novels, Grant tackles difficult social problems such as alcoholism, child abuse, and homelessness. I don't ever sit down and write 'for' children. As Grant commented in an interview with Authors and Artists for Young Adults, "Since 1980 I have published ten books for children and young adults, primarily for the young adult category, which is considered age twelve and up. Her books appeal to young adults who want to read stories about life in the real world. Grant is the award-winning author of "Mary Wolf" and "The White Horse." She is a popular American author who writes novels about growing up. 5/8/2023 0 Comments My name is minaWhy should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line?" And so Mina writes and writes in her notebook, and through her stories, thoughts, lessons and dreams, Mina's journal and mind grow into something extraordinary. I'll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or a beast does, just like life does. Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I open the book and write the very first words: My name is Mina and I love the night. I keep on saying that I'll write a journal. "There's an empty notebook lying on the table in the moonlight. David Almond revisits Mina before she has met Michael, before she has met Skellig, in what is a thought-provoking and extraordinary prequel to his best-selling debut novel, 'Skellig' - winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award I decided to buy this book while making this list of 36 graphic novels for middle-schoolers - and it was a good call! I read it on my iPad using the Kindle app and the experience was seamless it felt like reading the real thing, except I could also zoom in, which is always nice. Imagine Raina’s shock when her best friend befriends the mean girl. There’s also a “mean girl” in the class who seems to gain a thrill from teasing everyone in her vicinity. Her best friend finds out that her family is moving away soon, which, of course, causes Raina a measure of anxiety. Her parents take her to see a doctor who after multiple tests assures them that Raina is “healthy as a horse.” Unsure what to do next, they take her to see a therapist.Īt school, Raina also deals with friendship issues. Her anxiety manifests physically as a stomachache which further exacerbates her fear of vomiting and intensifies her anxiety. After a case of the stomach flu in their family, Raina becomes terrified of vomit and vomiting. Guts is based on Telegmeier’s experience with anxiety as a tween. |