5/13/2023 0 Comments Rees by Allyson James![]() ![]() He's learned that women crave to be with him, as hideous as he is, and he's created a world where they can indulge in their darkest fantasies with the Beast. He's used to an elderly medic who jabs him and lets him go, not the pretty, young highborn woman who wants to do everything by the book.Ĭalder hides himself because, unlike the rest of the Shareem-the handsome, arrogant, a-holes-Calder is scarred all over, the result of a plasma fire years ago. The first Shareem who shows up is the Calder, a level three, muffled from head to foot, refusing to bare even an inch of skin. Medic Katarina d'Arnal moves to the slums to work in a free clinic and ends up drawing the job of inoculating Shareem. Tales of the Shareem: Calder (Book 4) is a novel of 50,000 words, fourteen chapters. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Berendt john![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Arriving in Venice three days after the fire, Berendt becomes a kind of detective-inquiring into the nature of life in this remarkable museum-city-while gradually revealing the truth about the fire. The loss of the Fenice, where five of Verdi's operas premiered, is a catastrophe for Venetians. The City of Falling Angels opens on the evening of January 29, 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Fenice opera house. Its architectural treasures crumble-foundations shift, marble ornaments fall-even as efforts to preserve them are underway. Venice, a city steeped in a thousand years of history, art and architecture, teeters in precarious balance between endurance and decay. ![]() The author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil returns after more than a decade to give us an intimate look at the "magic, mystery, and decadence" of the city of Venice and its inhabitants. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Dear john sparks![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, tears of anger and disappointment will spout from your eyes, and the rolling credits will leave you feeling confused and unfulfilled. But unlike “The Notebook,” “Dear John” lacks a certain quality - a quality that makes tears of both happiness and sorrow stream down your face as the credits roll. The love story between Noah and Allie made every American girl pine for a quiet Southern boy to build them a white house with a special room for painting. Not to ruin the entire plot for those planning to see the film, but there is no happily ever after.Īuthor Nicholas Sparks wowed chick flick lovers across the nation in 2004 when his novel “The Notebook” made it to the big screen. The two lead characters, John (Channing Tatum) and Savannah (Amanda Seyfried), are handed a perfect, life-changing romance on a silver platter and throw it away because of Savannah’s utter stupidity. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m a sucker for books with daddy issues and this one has it in spades! Phoebe Somerfield inherits the Chicago Stars Football team from her father with the condition that the team wins the AFP Championships. It’s been 24 years since this book has been published and the plot is still as relevant today as it was when it was first published. It is a little funny reading the book now because we are dealing with athletes and celebrities and there is really no mention of modern tech, so that’s pretty neat!ĭespite all that, the romance alone stands the test of time. This book has a little bit of a nostalgia factor. I’m what you call someone who grew up in a time prior to the internet boom, so I know what it was like prior to that. ![]() ![]() It Had To Be You is my very first SEP book and I fell in love with it! This book was published in 1994 and that is really important to note because it affects your understanding of the book. Don’t want to read the whole review? Click to jump to the Skinny Review. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Munch knausgaard![]() ![]() Here we witness Knausgaard interviewing various artists and critics, fretting over a speech he must make on Munch because he cannot find a “unifying element” in the artist’s oeuvre, doubting his own curation of an exhibit of the painter’s lesser-known works for the Munch Museum, visiting Munch’s houses even though he is “not really much in favour of a biographical approach to art,” and filming a movie with Emil and Joachim Trier. Ostensibly “So Much Longing in So Little Space” is a book of art criticism, but it is as much about its author as it is about its subject. (Art criticism obviously can’t use the language of the thing it’s critiquing in a way literary criticism can, which is a problem Knausgaard recognizes in the book itself.) And yet, though the book fails in the ways it must, it succeeds where others have failed, in its ability to imbue its failure with its own blend of artifice and truth, cliche and possibility, openness and closedness, creating something that may prove to be classic. ![]() ![]() But it should not be expected to be a translator. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s treatise on the art of Edvard Munch, “So Much Longing in So Little Space,” fails - as art criticism is prone to do - to adequately “read” or “translate” Munch’s paintings for us. “Nevertheless Munch painted an oak.” This seems about as profound a thing as one can say about painting, which is wordless and beyond words. ![]() “Many had painted oaks before,” wrote poet Olav H. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Why mummy drinks gill sims![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, she clutches a large glass of wine, muttering ‘FML’ over and over again. ![]() She is staring down the barrel of a future of people asking if she wants to come to their advanced yoga classes, and polite book clubs where everyone claims to be tiddly after a glass of Pinot Grigio and says things like ‘Oooh gosh, are you having another glass?’īut Mummy does not want to go quietly into that good night of women with sensible haircuts who ‘live for their children’ and stand in the playground trying to trump each other with their offspring’s extracurricular activities and achievements, and boasting about their latest holidays. Unfortunately I have not yet actually managed to buy the bento boxes for their lunches or book jiu jitsu lessons, and I will have to learn to like green tea, as it is foul, and I have not yet mastered French plaits, but I am quietly confident that these are mere details in my grand master plan… And I most certainly will not slump on the sofa at the end of the day, glugging wine and muttering ‘FML’ repeatedly. Yes, this year is definitely going to be much better – I am absolutely not going to shout at the children, let them stuff their faces with crisps or goggle away on the iPad. ![]() I am going to 100% nail being a school mummy this year. Tuesday 8th September First day back at school. ![]() ![]() ![]() Narrator John explains the middle names of the Fitzgerald boys with a story of a betrayal that occurred in his family in County meath Ireland over two hundred years ago. ![]() And yes, these books are loosely autobiographical. The Fitzgerald family, part of the 500 non-Mormons in a town of 2,500, is made up of Mamma, Papa, Aunt Bertha (who is not a blood relation) and brothers Sweyn Dennis, Tom Dennis and John Dennis. ![]() ![]() The Great Brain begins in 1896 in Adenville, Utah and, much like the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder, is fascinating for the glimpse into a not-too-distant history that it offers. Sadly, only the first three books in the series are in print today, but I highly recommend tracking down all seven if you can. Upon rereading The Great Brain as an adult, I found it just as funny, suspenseful and hard to put down as I did when I was a kid. I read all seven of the books in Fitzgerald's series (an eighth, The Great Brain is Back, was published in 1995 after the author's death using notes left by Fitzgerald) as a child and still mourn the fact that they did not make it to adulthood with me. While the writing is vivid, Mayer's pictures bring the story to life. Although I didn't read Wilder's books until I was an adult and reading them out loud to my daughter, I am sure that as a child I was predisposed to like The Great Brain books because of my familiarity and love of Mercer Mayer's illustrations. First published in 1967, The Great Brain by John D Fitzgerald is a wonderful counterpart to Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The last true poets of the sea![]() Whether or not they find the Lyric, the journey Violet takes-and the bridges she builds along the way-may be the start of something like survival.Įpic, funny, and sweepingly romantic, The Last True Poets of the Sea is an astonishing debut about the strength it takes to swim up from a wreck. ![]() At least thats what Violet and her younger brother, Sam, were always told. ![]() She finds a fellow wreck hunter in Liv Stone, an amateur local historian whose sparkling intelligence and guarded gray eyes make Violet ache in an exhilarating new way. The Larkin family isnt just lucky-they persevere. Desperate to make amends, Violet embarks on a wildly ambitious mission: locate the Lyric, lain hidden in a watery grave for over a century. Shipped back to Lyric while Sam is in treatment, Violet is haunted by her family's missing piece-the lost shipwreck she and Sam dreamed of discovering when they were children. ![]() And, one beautiful summer day, brilliant, sensitive Sam attempts to take his own life. No, Fidelia swam to shore, fell in love, and founded Lyric, Maine, the town Violet and Sam returned to every summer.īut wrecks seem to run in the family: Tall, funny, musical Violet can't stop partying with the wrong people. When the Lyric sank off the coast of Maine, their great-great-great grandmother didn't drown like the rest of the passengers. At least that's what Violet and her younger brother, Sam, were always told. The Larkin family isn't just lucky-they persevere. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Blood feud rosemary sutcliff![]() ![]() ![]() Justyn becomes blood brother with Thormod and takes up his feud as well, but it is not until Thormod is killed much later that he feels it as his own-and not until the end, when Justyn is peacefully learning medicine in Constantinople, that he consciously passes up his chance for vengeance. The blood feud of the title is thrust upon Thormod on his return home from Dublin, making him the sworn enemy of his former best friends-two brothers whose father's accidental death began the feud and whom Thormod, to avenge his father's death, now pursues to Constantinople. Remarkably wide-ranging yet tightly cast, Sutcliff's cross-cultural chronicle takes her orphaned hero Justyn Englishman from a Celtic outpost to Saxon Britain, on to Viking slavery in Dublin, and then, freed, home to Norseland with his former master Thormod-and with him across the Baltic and down river to Constantinople, drafted en route to fight for Byzantine Basil II. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments George herbert famous poems![]() ![]() The joy of Christ in the believer comes through words (John 15:11): “These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.”.Christian love and purity of heart and a good conscience come through words (1 Timothy 1:5): “The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.”.The grace of edification comes through words (Ephesians 4:29): “ as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.”.Saving faith comes about through words (Romans 10:17): “Faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.”.This word is the good news that was preached to you” (see also James 1:18). through the living and abiding word of God. ![]() The new birth comes about through words (1 Peter 1:23–25): “You have been born again.The reason for this is that God has designed the world and the church and the human being and the process of salvation so that his ultimate aims for humanity come about through human words. But pastors cannot do their work without using words. Truck drivers can do their main work and carpenters can do their main work without using words. They may never even meet their patients, and yet do a totally successful work in removing the cancer. Surgeons can do their work without talking to their patients. If we don’t use words, we cannot do our ministry. Pastors are people who do their work with words. ![]() |