![]() ![]() Piper is a 28 year-old and living her life off her stepdad’s Hollywood money. After reading the synopsis, I knew this story sounded so good as I love opposites attract romances, but I was so surprised how much I fell for these characters. OMG, for my first Tessa Bailey book, I have to say that I hit the jackpot. This was the perfect book to read this summer! I loved it and only want more of Piper and Brendan!Ĭongrats to Tessa Bailey for this book’s nomination as one of the best romance books of the year according to the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards. Piper is determined to prove everyone wrong and can’t risk any distractions, including the feelings she’s beginning to have for the sailor. Hoping to teach her a lesson, he sends her off to Washington to run her late father’s dive bar where she meets a big surly sea captain who instantly knows she doesn’t belong in their small town.īrendan figures Piper won’t last a week outside of Beverly Hills even if there is an undeniable attraction between the two opposites. ![]() ![]() Piper Bellinger may be a fashionable influencer, but when her wild child reputation goes a bit too far and lands her in the slammer, her stepfather cuts her off. ![]()
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6/24/2023 0 Comments The indian and the cupboard series![]() ![]() In the story, he begins as a plastic figure given to Omri by his friend Patrick, on his ninth birthday. Little Bull (Little Bear in some editions) is an Iroquois chief from the 18th century. Who is the Indian, and what is the cupboard? The series comprises five books of which I’ve read the first three. ![]() I read the first one on my Kindle in October, then while at work at the end of last year I decided to head into the children’s stacks and grab the rest of books as they were all there (in non-matching editions), and I wanted some books to keep me going over Christmas and into the new year if we didn’t reopen straight away. ![]() I discovered it was a series in 2014 when I added the first book to my ‘to read’ shelf on Goodreads, though curiously I didn’t add the rest of the series until October last year. I actually got the film for my Christmas and although I enjoyed it, it wasn’t a patch on the book! I had seen the 1995 film before and had a certain fondness for it, but the notion of there being a book as well eluded me for a long time. Despite being known as a ‘children’s classic’ I have only read this series for the first time recently. ![]() ![]() He goes from happy to anxious to angry - not that we don't all do that in our normal lives, but he's now experiencing this sort of at a very amplified degree." He's having violent swings in terms of mood. "He's experiencing short term memory loss. ![]() "He's experiencing what I described as a deterioration of his frontal lobe," Vercher says of his character. The groceries rotted in Xavier's car because the beatings and head trauma he suffered over his years in MMA left him unable to remember that he'd bought them. The main character of the book, Xavier, is a veteran mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter who's also grappling with his biracial identity. That happens in the opening pages John Vercher's new novel, After the Lights Go Out. ![]() Imagine opening your car door one morning and being greeted by the stench of groceries, including raw chicken and vegetables, that were left in the backseat overnight in sweltering weather. John Vercher is the author of the novels Three-Fifths and After the Lights Go Out. ![]() ![]() She finds a piece of paper that says, “I believe in you.” She steals the paper and puts the wallet back before he returns. Alex then takes a bath and Sasha goes through Alex’s wallet. Afterward, Sasha and Alex return to her apartment and have sex. After a brief confrontation with the woman Sasha stole from, Sasha returns the wallet and admits she has a problem. She recounts a date she went on with a man named Alex, during which she steals a wallet in the restaurant’s bathroom. In the novel’s first story, “Found Objects,” Sasha meets with her therapist, Coz, with whom she is working to overcome an addiction to stealing. Several characters appear in more than one story, and through the ways in which they appear at different points in time, their narratives become clear. The novel is also split into two parts-A and B-which echoes the two sides of an album. Instead, they leap through time, showing slices of different time periods occurring between the late 1970s and the 2020s. The stories, as they appear in the novel, do not follow a traditional chronology. ![]() ![]() Each chapter stands as a self-contained story, but as a whole, the individual episodes create connections that form a cohesive narrative. A Visit from the Goon Squad is unconventional in the way its narrative unfolds. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Happily ever after by kiera cass![]() This gorgeous collection features four novellas from the captivating world of Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series, as well as exclusive, never-before-seen bonus content. See the Selection through the eyes of a guard who watched his first love drift away and a girl who fell for a boy who wasn't the prince. Meet Prince Maxon before he fell in love with America, and a girl named Amberly before she became queen. In this companion, all four novellas are included along with some bonus scenes from all three books and a Where are they now? feature for a couple of the girls that participated in the Selection with America. I liked each of them as it gives insight into America, Prince Maxon, and the other side characters. ![]() However I’m usually not a big fan of novellas unless they are done well AND the Happily Ever After novellas are. ![]() I devoured the series in one weekend and could not wait to get my hands on more. Last summer I fell in love with The Selection by Kiera Cass and could not get enough. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Kobzar poetry collection![]() ![]() Subsequently many editions of Kobzar were published, each of which included previously unpublished poems. Shevchenko's exile, when he was forbidden to write, and the strict censorship of his poetry made it impossible for a complete edition of his works to appear until after his death. ![]() It has acquired a meaning symbolic of the Ukrainian literary and national rebirth because of the national spirit of Shevchenko's poetry and of the fact that two other editions of his works incorporating the title ‘Kobzar’ but including newer works appeared during his lifetime: Chyhyrynskii Kobzar i Haidamaky (The Chyhyryn Kobzar and Haidamaky, Saint Petersburg, 1844) and Kobzar Tarasa Shevchenka (The Kobzar of Taras Shevchenko, Saint Petersburg, 1860 an offset facsimile appeared in 1981). The title has, with time, been applied to Shevchenko's poetic works in general. Martos in Saint Petersburg in 1840 (the most recent offset facsimile in 1976). Originally the title of the first collection of poems by Taras Shevchenko, consisting of eight poems, mainly Romantic ballads, published by P. Kobzar(literally the ‘kobza player’ or ‘minstrel’). ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Perfect chemistry simone![]() ![]() ![]() Summary: At Fairfield High, everyone knows that south siders and north siders aren’t exactly compatible elements. Why did I read the book: It was recommended to me by a LOT of people: readers of the blog and other bloggers and friends including Christine, Liz and Angie. Stand alone or series: It is a stand alone book with a sequel in the works. Publishing Date: Dec 2008 (US)/ 29 April 2010 (UK) Publisher: Walker Books / Simon and Schuster UK Enjoy ours and don’t forget to check the other two reviews later today. A Powerpuff Girls review is a fun way of combining forces between blogs: we all read the same book and post our thoughts on the same day. This is a Powerpuff Girls Collaboration, brought to you by Ana (aka Bubbles) and Katiebabs (aka Blossum) and on this occasion Kmont (aka Buttercup II). ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Ender's game book![]() ![]() ![]() Valentine Wiggin is Ender's older sister, being the middle child of the Wiggin family.In later books, he becomes Hegemon of the free world due to his prescient and charismatic leadership, and he found the Free People of Earth, the Enderverse's first world government. In Ender's Game, he helps end a global war (with Valentine's reluctant assistance). Peter is rejected from Battle School ostensibly due to his violence, but it is later revealed that his rejection was due to Graff believing that his men would never love him as a commander. A sociopath, he takes sadistic pleasure in manipulating and brutalizing other children, especially Ender. Peter Wiggin is Ender's older brother.He spends most of his life attempting to find absolution for his unknowing act of xenocide by becoming a Speaker for the Dead. He is eventually tricked into prosecuting the war against the Formics, resulting in the almost-complete destruction of that race. He was enlisted in the International Fleet's Battle School for his strategic ability and leadership skills. Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is the protagonist of the Ender quintet and also a constant presence in the Bean quartet.This is a partial list of characters in the Ender's Game series. This literature-related list is incomplete you can help by expanding it to include characters from the First Formic War trilogy. ![]() ![]() The notion that Protestantism contributed to or accelerated the development of capitalism is popular in the modern day. ![]() Though controversial, Weber's work remains much-consulted by sociologists. However, Weber asserts that over time the religious connotations behind capitalist enterprise largely disappeared the famous writings of Benjamin Franklin are cited as example, whereby notions of diligence were expressed eloquently but no longer cited God and holy virtue. By working hard, every man was contributing to a better world and society, in the name of the Lord. The veneration of hard work, discipline, and. In coining the phrase 'Protestant work ethic', Weber demonstrates a series of parallels between certain Protestant denominations and the modern business. Using examples such as Martin Luther and Calvinist doctrines, Weber demonstrates how ideas of the virtues of diligence were placed parallel with God and morality. Max Weber's celebrated thesis, which explores the relationship between Protestant work ethic and the emergence of capitalist enterprise, is presented here inclusive of his lengthy notes. The veneration of hard work, discipline, and carefulness with money birthed a culture that led over generations to the establishment of capitalism with enough workers sharing in these beliefs, entrepreneurs were able to create large businesses that could consistently deliver a profit. ![]() ![]() Max Weber's celebrated thesis, which explores the relationship between Protestant work ethic and the emergence of capitalist enterprise, is presented here inclusive of his lengthy notes. ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments Dostojevski the idiot![]() This edition also contains a new introduction by William Mills Todd III, which is a fascinating examination of the pressures on Dostoyevsky as he wrote the story of his Christ-like hero.įyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was born in Moscow. Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering Dostoyevsky sought to portray in Prince Myshkin the purity of a 'truly beautiful soul' and explore the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt world.ĭavid McDuff's new translation brilliantly captures the novel's idiosyncratic and dream-like language and the nervous, elliptic flow of the narrative. Utterly infatuated with her, he soon finds himself caught up in a love triangle and drawn into a web of blackmail, betrayal, and finally, murder. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna. Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin - the titular 'idiot' - pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General, his wife, and his three daughters. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Russian by David McDuff, with an introduction by William Mills Todd III. Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot is an immaculate portrait of innocence tainted by the brutal reality of human greed. ![]() |