Immortal by Gillian Shields7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() This book may be tons of excitement to some of you, but it only left me wondering why I picked it up in the first place. The best part of the book was toward the end where some action finally happened as the coven is trying to get to Evie, but even then it's over in a few pages, and breathtakingly droll. ![]() I found myself yelling at the book wondering why she couldn't put two and two together. The book is also broken up with journal entries of Lady Agnes, so we fully see and understand exactly what is going on, there is no mystery at all, and what is going to happen towards the end, while the main character doesn't. Evie refers to him as stunningly handsome, but I just couldn't see it, nor could I grasp how she fell in love with him. There was nothing leading up to the obsessive nature of both Sebastian and Evie having to see each other repeatedly at night. ![]() Personally, I don't even follow the whole romance angle between Evie and Sebastian. When Evie first met Sebastian on her way to the boarding school, there is no gasp-this-guy-is-mysterious-and-hot factor at all. Evie's character, and the supporting characters, were detailed as to where a reader could envision them tromping through the moors, see the lake, the winding countryside, but when it came to their emotions or voices it seemed stifled, lacking any passion. I truly went into this book excited as the summary sounded like a good YA paranormal/romance book, but from the very beginning I found myself bored. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The art's surreal combination of caricatures of famous dead men with unbelievable weapons battling incredible enemies is eye-catching and incredibly entertaining. As the focus moves from battling Nazis to battling belligerent space empires%E2%80%94and with the Americans wielding stranger and more sinister powers%E2%80%94the line between good and evil gets vaguer, and who's on who's side becomes a more difficult question. The plot jumps through this alternate timeline, shifting gears abruptly, but entertaining throughout. The story could easily veer into bland World War II fan fiction, but instead Hickman and Pitarra gleefully transform the historical figures behind the atom bomb into a collection of anti-heroes bent on using every dirty trick in the book to save America and the World from a myriad of evils. A secret plan to defend America with terrifying super weapons, a multi-personality psychotic Oppenheimer, a robotic-armed Wernher von Braun, and a galaxy full of hostile aliens are just a small part of the Hickman and Pitarra's alternate world. This is not the Manhattan Project you read about in school. ![]() The lost connection book7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() I’ve written about the lost art of connection between humans, the rise in mental health issues and the part that technology and social media play in this in great detail before. So why is it in a time when we have so many ways to connect with each other, no matter where we are in the world, that more of us feel lonelier than ever?Īccess to connect with anyone, anywhere, anytime through technology is amazing, yet if we step back and examine this in more detail, how has it affected the quality of our connections?Īre they meaningful or have we just learnt to develop lots of superficial connections that are causing pain and frustration? ![]() ![]() No one likes feeling alone, right? It sucks! ![]() Masterton tengu7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() His latest, Wild Sex For New Lovers is published by Penguin Putnam in January, 2001. ![]() At this time he started to write a bestselling series of sex 'how-to' books including How To Drive Your Man Wild In Bed which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. After training as a newspaper reporter, Graham went on to edit the new British men's magazine Mayfair, where he encouraged William Burroughs to develop a series of scientific and philosophical articles which eventually became Burroughs' novel The Wild Boys.Īt the age of 24, Graham was appointed executive editor of both Penthouse and Penthouse Forum magazines. His grandfather was Thomas Thorne Baker, the eminent scientist who invented DayGlo and was the first man to transmit news photographs by wireless. Graham Masterton was born in Edinburgh in 1946. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's such a telling story of how the prison system in this country, specifically solitary confinement, don't work. I was so happy to see this thread bumped! I read this book the first month I started writing to my pp. Think i'm gonna try seeking it out and have a lil read ![]() Funnily enough, i was wondering last night if you had managed to read it yet or not. I was looking for it, until you posted that you got the last copy from Amazon, i think it was? Ya bugger haha. I was back-reading posts and came across it. How he kept sane enough to right the book is beyond me, I would go off the wall I am sure. The book made me cry in places and his descriptions of his time in solitary is the most graphic thing I have ever read. The book is excellent reading for all who write to PP's I think, its given me such a deeper understanding and made me see that possibly I really can do some good with my PP's by offering the hand of friendship and hopefully letting them see that there is and can be a different way to be. I am now of the opinion, after watching maybe 15 full episodes of Lockdown/Lockup, Lockup Raw and reading this book that the correctional system in the USA in no way rehabilitates inmates. ![]() ![]() That being said, it’s interesting to know from the offset that Merete is safe. ![]() However the audience are frustratingly fed too much information along the way, as brief snippets allow for us to piece this story together with a little too much ease, thus devaluing the impact of the grand finale – which is therefore somewhat underwhelming and anticlimactic. Mørck is adamant however, that the missing victim Merete (Sonja Richter) is still alive, and so delves into deep, dark territory to uncover the truth once and for all.Īs with any mystery thriller of this ilk, the picture is entirely reliant on the inevitable, big reveal. Paired with his new assistant Assad (Fares Fares), the beleaguered Mørck becomes instantly intrigued by one case in particular, deciding to re-open it in spite of his boss’s strict instructions not to. Nikolaj Lie Kaas plays Carl Mørck, a downbeat, rough around the edges cop who is assigned to classifying cold cases having been shot on a previous investigation. His sophomore feature sees a continuing inclination to be diverse and eclectic, now proving his worth in the thriller genre, with The Keeper of Lost Causes. ![]() Since then he’s tried his hand at something a little more dramatic, helming four episodes of the popular TV series Borgen. ![]() Danish director Mikkel Nørgaard’s most recent cinematic endeavour, was the brilliantly quirky and obscene comedy Klown. ![]() ![]() ![]() Remember that millions of people may have been taught to use a different form of English from yours, including different spellings, grammatical constructions, and punctuation.
Two lives william trevor7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Hours of business: Mon-Fri 10 to 6 Number 46 is at the northern end of Shepherd Market, formerly the location of Shepherds bindery, a five minute walk from Green Park tube station (Jubilee, Victoria and Piccadilly lines) and only slightly more from Bond Street station. We also display a selection of stock at our Mayfair shop: 46 Curzon Street Number 48 is on the south side of Bedford Square, a five minute walk from Totten ham Court Road or Goodge Street underground stations and a ten minute walk from Russell Square. Great Britain Hours of business: Mon-Fri 9:30 to 5 Two beautiful, memorable novels in one volume, both focussing on women who retreat into their. Our primary address is our Bloomsbury shop: Buy Two Lives by William Trevor for 34.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. Stock Code: 228125 Members of: Antiquarian Booksellers Association Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association International League of Antiquarian Booksellers Signed by the author on TLS Bookstall's slip pasted to the title-page.ĭust jacket spine a little faded, but otherwise a near fine copy. Large 8vo., original black cloth, dust jacket. ![]() Thomas jefferson the art of power7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Jefferson was a politician and a philosopher, and an authentic leader: one who was fascinated by power and obsessed with change and the desire to transform an already existing entity into a new reality. ![]() With this political track record, it is easy to understand that the subtitle of Jefferson’s biography is entitled the “art of power”, referring to Jefferson’s efficient ability for manipulation and an unbounded capacity for reflection. He was responsible for some of the major landmarks which shaped the course of what was a crucial period for the history of North America: the acquisition of the state of Louisiana, the Lewis and Clark expedition, or the mythical colonization of the American West. Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States of America, and since then he has been considered one of the fathers of the nation, the author of the Declaration of Independence of 1776 and the person who to a great degree is responsible for the historical conception of the United States as “the empire of freedom”. The renowned biographer Jon Meacham ( Pulitzer Prize 2009 ), has published a new book in which he portrays one of the greatest political leaders of all time: Thomas Jefferson. ![]() ![]() ![]() That journal is now published electronically and, like China Heritage Quarterly, it appears under the aegis of the Australian Centre on China in the World. Michael Godley's 'The End of the Queue' first appeared in the pages of the December 1994 issue of East Asian History. From the 1890s cutting the queue was an overt gesture of rebellion, by 1911 it was an act integral to political revolution. In the early decades of the Qing dynasty the queue was the focus of resistance to Manchu dominance, and it became so again in the dying years of imperial rule. Attitudes towards the queue in China and more broadly were complex. Originally a physical expression of submission, the braided queue was also a sign of repression. ![]() ![]() The following essay offers a social history of the queue ( bianzi 辮子). ![]() |