Avery flynn butterface6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Ford is trying to make his mark in the police force and get a spot on a team investigating organized crime. It turns out that Ford is actually a pretty compassionate, decent guy.Īs the story moves along, what started as kindness morphs into something else. When she gets thrown together with Ford Hartigan on a KissCam as a cruel prank at a wedding, though, something happens. All her life, Gina has been reminded by bullies of just how plain and awkward her features are, and after years of this treatment, her self-confidence is painfully lacking. Gina Luca plans weddings, but she doesn’t count on having her own happily ever after anytime soon. For those who want a romance with an HEA that feels like it really will last, this tale of a cop falling head-over-heels for a local wedding planner will be right up your alley. Butterface by Avery Flynn is sweet, funny, steamy at times, and really a delight to read. ![]() After a few false starts in my Harlequin backlist stack, I found a wonderful romcom waiting for me on my Kindle. ![]()
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Gracefully grayson by ami polonsky6/22/2023 ![]() Grayson is encouraged to try out by his humanities teacher, who plays the role of the “supportive adult who seems to know what’s going on” that many of us wish we had. ![]() The school is holding a play about the myth of Persephone and Hades. This adds to his detachment from others, but has other significance as well. His parents died in a car accident when he was four. Grayson lives with his aunt, uncle and their two children, making him the middle child. As can be easily guessed, she is trans (I will refer to Grayson as female in this review because I think she’d prefer that.) However, like so many of us at her age, we hid it. This is her first published book, and it’s aimed at a middle school audience. She is a teacher who decided to write a “middle age” book. A quick Google search took me to her website. ![]() The first to be released chronologically was Gracefully Grayson, which was written by Ami Polonsky. ![]() As they are similar, but not the same, I will review them together. This week I’m doing two books, and both are for children of various ages. ![]() The prime of miss jean brodie6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Smith is among the world's most distinguished and famous actresses and continues to be active on screen and on stage. Some of Smith's other accolades include a Golden Globe Award, several Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. ![]() ![]() She is known to many as Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series and also starred as Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham on Downton Abbey. Smith is one of only six actresses to have won an Academy Award in both the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories. This is a production of the play The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (by Jay Presson Allen and Muriel Spark) by Donald Albery for Calabash Productions Ltd. On screen, Smith gained first recognition in the film Nowhere to Go (1958). ![]() Smith won her first of five Best Actress Evening Standard Awards in 1962 becoming a fixture in the Royal National Theatre. Her first film debut was in 1956 (uncredited) and she made her Broadway debut the same year. Smith left school at the age of sixteen to study acting at the Oxford Playhouse and would begin her career at Oxford Playhouse as Viola in a production of Twelfth Night. Smith has over fifty films to her name, and she is one of Britain's most recognizable actresses. Dame Margaret Natalie Smith (1934-present) is an English actress with a varied career in stage, film and television. ![]() I broke my trunk6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() As readers expect, there is more to the story of Gerald's bandaged trunk than first imagined. Rhino shows up and he wants a turn, so Gerald lifts them both onto his trunk, and so on, until he has lifted Hippo, Rhino, and Hippo's big sister and her piano on his trunk. As Gerald tells Piggie, "a hippo on your trunk is heavy." But there is more to it. When he was playing with Hippo, he had the idea to lift him with his trunk. Gerald the Elephant recounts to Piggie the crazy story of how he broke his trunk. ![]() As usual, Willems' use of pastel colors and vast white backdrops work minimalist wonders, making this another fine outing of this most dependable of series. But that is not what broke his trunk, and neither is the addition of Rhino and Hippo's sister and Hippo's sister's piano. Memory bubbles let us follow along: first Elephant lifted Hippo with his trunk ("Why?" asks Piggie. After showing up with a bandaged proboscis, Elephant proceeds to tell the "long crazy story" of how it happened. Elephant and Piggie remain in the storytelling mode of We Are In A Book! (2010). ![]() The marriage plot by jeffrey eugenides6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() That fewer people are judging themselves against traditional measures of success, or longing for a nuclear family. That fewer people are entering long-term romantic relationships, or seeking public validation when they do commit. But the real conservative bugbear isn’t that fewer people can afford to get married it’s that fewer people actually want to. It’s hard enough these days for most young couples to rent a flat, never mind spend hundreds of pounds on a cake. That young people are tying fewer knots has triggered angst in certain quarters, though it’s hardly surprising. Marriage rates have since plunged even lower. Its heroine, reading English at Brown University, has to choose between two different men while studying virtuoso marriage plotters Jane Austen and George Eliot. What will become of the marriage plot in art and literature as the actual marriage rate declines? It’s a question we’ve been asking for decades Jeffrey Eugenides’s 2011 novel The Marriage Plot offers a postmodern spin on the issue. I researched some of the finer points, but I was largely able to rely on the knowledge I’ve absorbed from decades of media immersion, from books and poems, from paintings and song lyrics and movies. ![]() That’s how I could write a novel about a wedding without ever having been to one. We acquire this familiarity as much from art as from life. Everyone knows at least the basics of how their culture gets hitched. It brings together people who don’t normally meet, and occasions heaps of conflict. ![]() The ex games by jennifer echols6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() NY: Simon Pulse Press, 2007.ĭirty Little Secret. ![]() Received the National Readers Choice Award for Major Crush the Aspen Gold Award for Major Crush the Aspen Gold Award, the Booksellers’ Best Award, and the Beacon Award for The One that I Want.Ĭontemporary Authors online Jennifer Echols website. /rebates/2fThe-Ex-Games-Jennifer-Echols2fbook2f11457153&. Worked as a college teacher, newspaper editor, and copy editor before becoming a freelance author of novels for young people. ![]() Jared diamond books6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Which means not only are we are experiencing today conditions that can and likely are increasing the evolution of the human species at speeds exponentially faster than ever before, but also that this evolution will have a net positive progressive outcome. I prefer the latter, and I'm convinced it's a renaissance. ![]() Some call it the 'fourth industrial revolution,' others the 'communications revolution.' Rather, I want to share the perspective that we are currently today somewhere in the lifespan of history's most influential revolution. Of course Jared's award winning books are old news, and I'm not suggesting you run out and buy them, or set your sights on world domination (but if you really want to buy one, e-mail me and I'll send you a copy). ![]() He argues geographic proximity enabled trade in skills, technology, and biological development, by which he means bacterial and viral immunity. Jared's argument tells us world domination is not a function of racial superiority, but one of geographically enabled knowledge transfer. In addition to featuring Jared Diamond's cool voice, the National Geographic film "Guns, Germs, And Steel, The Fate of Human Societies" outlines a theory as relevant to the world we know today as it was when Columbus 'sailed the ocean blue.' ![]() Author: Yuri Tricys | : | : agriculture, , civilization, , geography, , history, ![]() Lament for the Living by David Nicol6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Nicol has created a world full of uncertainty and fear. When she finally gets her chance to go out with the Rangers, another group threatens the very existence of the Survivors and the peace they've created. Sacks is one of the Sanctuary survivors, she patrols the area surrounding the Sanctuary every day but wants to be a Ranger (who travel further). Ultimately everyone has to choose: Survivor, or Nomad? When the Rangers of the Sanctuary head out to investigate a mysterious fire, they find the true nature of humanity and the societies that evolve after the zombie apocalypse. Set three years after the Outbreak that destroyed their lives, 'Lament for the Living' follows the inhabitants of the Sanctuary as their safe and secluded existence is threatened by a group of nomadic survivors. What happens after the zombie apocalypse? ![]() John maxwell coetzee disgrace6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Coetzee now lives permanently in Adelaide, Australia. He had two children, a daughter Gisela, born in 1968, and a son, Nicholas, who died in an accident when 23. He also advocates that Coetzee's childhood fascination with the semi-desert Karoo landscape, where he spent school holidays on his uncle's farm, was crucial in the choice of later novel settings.Ĭoetzee married South African Phillipa Jubber in 1963, and was divorced in the 1980s. Supporters of the liberal South African party of General Jan Smuts, his parents opposed the conservative Afrikaner nationalists who ultimately came to power in South Africa in 1948, beginning a racist and oppressive apartheid regime.Ĭoetzee’s formative experience was bilingual, enabling him to depict his Afrikaans and English characters sensitively: "an uncommon occurrence in South African literature which, as part of the legacy of a divided society, is riddled with ethnic stereotypes" believes Michael Marais, PhD, who studied Coetzee. Coetzee spent his childhood in there, as well as in Worcester, a picturesque Western Cape town northeast of the famous South African harbour city. Coetzee was born to German and English parents in Cape Town on 9 February 1940. ![]() Saving grace book debbie babitt6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() The case becomes even more fraught as a cult of white supremacists brings its gospel of hate to Repentance and violence explodes, claiming more lives. With old prejudices and new secrets spilling out into the open, the modern world soon illuminates the village's darkest corners. Keeping order and her demons at bay becomes an impossible task when the Black drifter suspected in the earlier disappearances returns to Repentance. Today, Mary Grace is the first female sheriff of her rural town, a position that doesn't sit well with some of the locals. Everything changed when a newcomer to town became her only best friend, and changed a second time when that friend and another classmate vanished two months later, never to be seen again. ![]() At school, a bully made her life a nightmare. Orphaned at eleven, she was forced to go live with her Bible salesman uncle, wheelchair-bound aunt, and a cousin who tortured and killed small animals. For twenty-four years, Mary Grace Dobbs has been searching for salvation. ![]() |