![]() ![]() There is also some push away, but it was addressed very quickly and was understandable given both of their histories and concerns. I wasn't a huge fan of the Price storyline and I did feel that it dragged on a little too long and the resolution felt rushed. I appreciated that there wasn't a lot of drama between Weston and Abbi and that the majority of the angst was external to them. It snuck up so perfectly on them both and their chemistry was incredibly hot. I thought they complemented each other very well and it was so sweet how their relationship began and evolved. Weston and Abbi were so playful and I loved their banter and back and forth. These topics might be upsetting to some readers, however, so I recommend checking the content warnings below. It was such a feel good and funny book, while also addressing some very serious topics. This new adult sports romance had so many awesome tropes like: fake dating, friends with benefits to lovers, caring for someone who isn't feeling well, and a personal favorite - there's only 1 bed. I loved heading back to Moo U and Boyfriend definitely hit the spot. ![]()
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![]() ALL FOUR STARS is a genuine pleasure to read and I enjoyed every word of it. There’s so many words to describe ALL FOUR STARS, entertaining, real and amazing at the very top. I burned through ALL FOUR STARS and at the end, I just sat and thought about the book awhile. And every single time I read a book about food, I often myself transfixed on searching Yelp for places that might possibly have the mouth-watering dishes described in the story rather than the story itself. She’s devastated but soon finds just the right opportunity to pay her parents back when she’s mistakenly contacted to write a restaurant review for one of the largest newspapers in the world.īut in order to meet her deadline and keep her dream job, Gladys must cook her way into the heart of her sixth-grade archenemy and sneak into New York City-all while keeping her identity a secret! Easy as pie, right? ![]() ![]() ![]() Gladys Gatsby has been cooking gourmet dishes since the age of seven, only her fast-food-loving parents have no idea! Now she’s eleven, and after a crème brûlée accident (just a small fire), Gladys is cut off from the kitchen (and her allowance). ![]() ![]() Highly recommended."- Library Journal, starred review "The language is painfully, exquisitely exact, the scenes haunting and indelible. ![]() From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion."- The New Yorker His lines are both long and short, his pose narrative and lyric, his diction formal and insouciant. His poems are by turns graceful and wonderstruck. "Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition. Vuong's sincerity and candor, and from his ability to capture specific moments in time with both photographic clarity and a sense of the evanescence of all earthly things." Vuong can create startling images (a black piano in a field, a wedding-cake couple preserved under glass, a shepherd stepping out of a Caravaggio painting) and make the silences and elisions in his verse speak as potently as his words.There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from Mr. Vuong's new collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds.possess a tensile precision reminiscent of Emily Dickinson's work, combined with a Gerard Manley Hopkins-like appreciation for the sound and rhythms of words. Michiko Kakutani in The New York Timeswrites: "The poems in Mr. ![]() San Francisco Chronicle, Top 100 Books of the Year The New Yorker, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016 One of the most celebrated poetry books of the year: ![]() ![]() ![]() Then the feeling passed as swiftly as it had arrived and the squirrel released its breath and looked around. ![]() Somewhere, many miles distant, something was stirring, changing … wakening. The squirrel may have lacked the words for what stole into its mind, but in the same way that it knew the terror of jackal teeth and the lure of high branches, a vague yet frightening awareness was taking shape. In and amongst the trees, fur and feather trembled in a vice-grip. The deep, shuddering stillness flowed through the woods. Tawny hair all over its body now rose and quivered as moss began to prickle underfoot. It was like a swelling of the air, a flexing of the ground, as if some enormous power had been hurled into the earth hundreds of miles away sending tremors throughout the land.ĭirectly over a country lane, a young squirrel was clamped to the limb of an ancient walnut tree. It came from the east, from the mountain wilderness of DinEilan. The woods grew still as everything was pressed under a deep, vast silence. This table is intended as a reference, not a door for sneak previews.Ī hush of anticipation swept through the trees, causing forest creatures to hesitate in their scratchings and birds to falter in their songs. All characters and events in this book, other than those clearly in the public domain, are fictitious, and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. ![]() ![]() As jurors left the courtroom in front of him, Sheeran smiled, nodded his head at several of them, and mouthed the words: “Thank you.” Later, he posed for a hallway photograph with a juror who lingered behind. Sheeran, 32, briefly dropped his face into his hands in relief before standing to hug his attorney, Ilene Farkas. The emotions of an epic copyright fight that stretched across most of the last decade spilled out as soon as the seven-person jury revealed its verdict after over two hours of deliberations. ![]() ![]() NEW YORK (AP) - British singer Ed Sheeran didn’t steal key components of Marvin Gaye’s classic 1970s tune “Let’s Get It On” to create his hit song “Thinking Out Loud,” a jury said with a trial verdict Thursday, prompting Sheeran to joke later that he won’t have to follow through on his threat to quit music. ![]() ![]() But where Dan Brown builds a thriller from a vivid historical imagination, the author of How the Irish Saved Civilization (Doubleday, 1995) produces a no less fascinating but far more enlightening trek through the Middle Ages.Ĭahill's basic question is simple: How did the Romans, "the military geniuses who conquered the world and crucified without remorse any troublemaker ' become the Italians, who light the Colosseum every time a country abolishes its death penalty? Cahill's answer is nothing less than an apology for Europe's Catholic heritage, in which he unearths the gifts given by the great figures of medieval Europe to the modern West. With its alluring subtitle, The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe, the latest addition to Thomas Cahill's "Hinges of History" series, Mysteries of the Middle Ages, may be accused of riding the coattails of The Da Vinci Code. ![]() MYSTERIES OF THE MIDDLE AGES By Thomas Cahill (Doubleday, 2006) APA style: Mysteries of the Middle Ages.Mysteries of the Middle Ages." Retrieved from MLA style: "Mysteries of the Middle Ages." The Free Library. ![]() ![]() ![]() He wonders about whether one can be closer or further away from a wrong, and how that affects culpability. He is terrified of the situation he has found himself in, but feels irrevocably involved once he has helped Jasper throw Laura's body into the dam. When Jasper takes him to see Laura's body at the beginning of the novel, Charlie himself has to deal with this question. This seeming need for scapegoats underlines one of Jasper Jones' main themes: the problem of culpability and how individuals and society bear blame. ![]() Lu is also attacked and called racial slurs by Corrigan townspeople. Lu is attacked by another member of the community, who blames her for the death of her son who died in the war. The novel is set in the hight of the Vietnam war. Likewise, Jeffrey and his family are also scapegoated and alienated in Corrigan due to their Vietnamese heritage. Jasper Jones becomes the perfect scapegoat, as he represents the stereotypical “bad boy.” But Jasper himself is not innocent in this regard, creating a scapegoat for himself in the person of Mad Jack. Every society has its scapegoat, to whom they transfer their collective guilt in order to unload their own culpability. As Charlie notes, "For some folks, it's easier to condemn another man than have the strength to right your wrongs" (213). ![]() ![]() ![]() Many such differences can be shown to exist, and we shall discuss some of them below. Much antifeminist literature, accordingly, is devoted to observing and measuring differences in men and women, from cognitive abilities and personality differences to athletic performance and upper body strength. Most content themselves with attempting to demonstrate that women and men are functionally equivalent (“equal”) in particular kinds of situations: within the family, in the workplace, in sporting competitions, even in combat. ![]() To deny the existence of two distinct sexes outright, of course, would not only harm their credibility, but impugn their sanity. Feminists differ in how far they are willing to go in this effort. The whole issue, then, comes down to whether or not women and men are in fact like cases, whether or not there are important natural differences between the sexes that may justify different treatment in at least some situations.Ī large part of feminist literature is, therefore, devoted to denying or minimizing natural differences between the sexes. If women are no different from men, it cannot be fair to treat them differently. ![]() If this doctrine seems plausible to many people, it is because it appeals to the basic principle of fairness that like cases ought to be treated alike. ![]() A key component of the ideology currently dominant in the West is the “equality” of the sexes and the consequent struggle to eliminate “discrimination” between them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When she had no control over, but felt guilty of anyway. If she had too much time on her hands, her mind wandered to the past. Always doing for others, leaving very little time or energy for herself. But when it came to him, he didn't see the need. Hannah Gives Elijah a run for his money, she’s sassy, witty and truly someone I believe Elijah’s needs in his life.Įlijah has always done what needed to be done, to help his best friends, Sebastian and Grant. I am completely obsessed with this cocky, confident, dominant as hell and absolutely delicious man known as Elijah Banks! Well, Elijah has knocked Grant into second place. I suggest starting the series from book one, which is FREE on all platforms at the moment What an incredible start to Elijah and Hannah's story!Įlijah's Whim is book 7 in the Shark's Edge series and it's the start of Hannah and Elijah's love story. Victoria Blue delivers an alluring, riveting, suspenseful, passionate, emotional, addictive and all-consuming start to Elijah and Hannah's story! Will Hannah be able to tame Elijah’s play boy ways or will the chemistry between these two fizzle out? ![]() I’m eager to see where the author takes us with these two! I love the character development and world building, the bread crumbs as the story progresses. I loved reading this relationship blossom. Elijah's Whim is book 7 in the Shark's Edge series and is the start of Hannah and Elijah’s love story. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Mukesh returns to tell Aleisha how much he enjoyed Mockingbird, they decide to create an impromptu book club. She also decides to read every book on the list herself, rationalizing that it will help pass the long days in the library. ![]() Even so, when she stumbles on a handwritten reading list tucked into a just-returned book, she impulsively uses it as a way to apologize to Mukesh, recommending the first book, To Kill a Mockingbird. She regrets her behavior almost immediately, but she’s more focused on difficulties in her home life, including her absentee father and her mentally fragile mother. As he pushes for a suggestion, she becomes defensive, even rude. When Mukesh, an older man who's recently lost his wife, visits the library seeking a book recommendation, Aleisha has little to offer. An aging widower and a lonely teenage girl form an unlikely friendship by bonding over books.Īleisha works at the Harrow Road Library in North London not for her love of books, but because she needs the money. ![]() |