6/10/2023 0 Comments Blind side book kandi steiner![]() ![]() ![]() And he cooks up this absurd plan.Īll by pretending to be in a relationship. But when he witnesses how I fall to pieces in front of my guitar-toting crush, his wheels start turning. ![]() ![]() We meet to discuss his behavior and review media relations standards. He used to be the easiest of all the players for me to wrangle as the Public Relations Coordinator, but after a nasty breakup with his high school sweetheart, he’s a mess. There’s hardly a day he’s not headline material during football season, and never a day he isn’t a bullseye target for every girl on campus. Blind Side is a fake dating sports romance that early readers are calling Kandi’s spiciest book yet! Add in that the heroine is a virgin and takes “lessons” from our star athlete Hero on how to please herself, and this is one hot summer release you won’t want to miss! ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book opens with Thomas Jellicoe, third son to an earl, returning home exhausted after spending years searching for his lost love, Catriona Rowan. In fact, it very much reminds me of an Old Skool romance, right down to the heroine’s apricot colored hair, except without the rapey bits. It has a sweeping plot, an over-the-top ballsy heroine, and a villain worthy of an Old Skool romance. I expected this to be a traditional Regency (I’m kind of Regency-ed out here), but was delighted to find that most of this book is actually set in India. It also made me wax half my eyebrow off (more on that later). I grabbed it and started to peruse and was hooked almost instantly. I was standing in line at the grocery store, waiting as the woman in front of me (who apparently traveled forward in time from 1991) finished writing her check, and it was sitting on an endcap next to me. I picked up Scandal in the Night by Elizabeth Essex by accident. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments The paris wife book review![]() I look forward to more from this author and would love to read and re-read some of Hemingway's work. ![]() In summary, a very engaging read that gives life to the Hemingway's, the era and the artists that made the Cafes of Paris their workshop. It's bittersweet to witness their marriage and love for each other before things begins to deteriorate- they are so well matched, yet doomed. Hemingway is notorious for being a womanizer even knowing this you like him and can understand Hadley's attraction to him. The dialog, the descriptions, the gentle clean writing style pull you in and make you care about Hadley. It takes place primarily in Paris in the 1920's, during prohibition, a vibrant and bold time - the Jazz Age- where boundaries are blurred and traditional values are scoffed at. ![]() PBR Book Review: (by- Linda ) This story gets so much into the mind of the Hadley Richardson, Ernest Hemingway's first wife and feels so real I had to keep reminding myself it was fiction. ![]() ![]() Fernand Khnopff, James Ensor, Jean Delville, William Degouve de Nuncques and Felicien Rops defined late period Symbolism, as it began to coalesce with German and Austrian Symbolists who would later be known as the masters of Art Nouveau. 'Der Kuss Der Sphinx: Symbolismus in Belgien' makes a compelling case for Belgium as the artistic pinnacle of the movement. Arnold Bocklin, Ferdinand Hodler, Giovanni Segantini, and Carlos Schwabe were giants all. 'Myths and Mysteries: Symbolism and Swiss Artists' gives a vast retrospective platform to examine its contributions as perhaps the soul of Symbolism. There have been some very significant monographs and exhibitions relating to Symbolism, most of them isolating what Symbolism meant in various European nations and periods. The fractal, tree-like chaos of the Post-Modern art world, however, sees Symbolism as a vital, loosely related movement whose choice of subject matter anticipated the rise of Psychology and Surrealism, as well as New Objectivism, Fantastic Realism, and scores of the most important names in Contemporary Art. Certain artists have been deemed worthy of study, but only as they relate to more 'relevant' artists for the most part they've been seen as transitional oddities. ![]() The linear view of art history that ignores everything branching off from the primary shoot culminating in Modern art has shown little interest in Symbolism. ![]() ![]() ![]() With Rawlins, he weaves in a tense racial element throughout, and raises the level of his achievement." "Fans of Mosley's private investigator were grateful Rawlins survived, and for good reason: Mosley's writing gifts go well beyond the gumshoe genre. ![]() ![]() A cop called Frisk, a guru who goes by Vandal, a boxer known as Hardcase Tommy Latour and a black militant with the excellent moniker of Most Grand all figure in Rose Gold, Mosley's endlessly entertaining new Easy Rawlins mystery." ![]() "When it comes to naming names, Walter Mosley knows no peer. These are the folks who provide a fascinating set of roadside attractions as Easy's case rolls on." This is the triumph of each Easy Rawlins story-documenting this changing panorama of a city where the migration of Southern blacks, eager to claim it as their new world, is constantly remaking the city as it remakes them. Every Rawlins novel can be read on its own, but it's a far richer experience to read them in sequence and follow Easy's complex evolution as well as that of his ad hoc family and tight circle of friends. "You know Mosley will bring things to a satisfactory conclusion, so you can let the story fall away in favor of its rich social fabric, rendered in well-observed details of skin color, speech, dress and, of course, neighborhoods. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Sula by toni morrison![]() When Nel marries, Sula leaves the Bottom and goes to Tennessee, where she attends college for an unspecified amount of time. Sula is impulsive, daring, and independent Nel, in contrast, obediently does what is expected of her. The girls are best friends even though they have completely opposite personalities. Sula also explores the life of Nel, Sula's best friend. In between these chapters, we learn of the events that shape Sula's and the black community's identities between 19. When the novel ends, the year is 1965, and the narrator tells us more about this neighborhood metamorphosis. The Bottom's black residents are moving down into the valley. Medallion's white citizens are moving up into the Bottom and building homes, television towers, and plush golf courses. When it begins, the narrator is explaining what has happened to the Bottom, the black neighborhood in the Ohio hills above the valley town of Medallion. Also, she questions to what extent mothers will go to protect their children from a harsh world, and whether or not these maternal instincts ultimately are productive or harmful. ![]() Morrison delves into the strong female relationships between the novel's women and how these bonds both nurture and threaten individual female identity. Sula, Morrison's second novel, focuses on a young black girl named Sula, who matures into a strong and determined woman in the face of adversity and the distrust, even hatred, of her by the black community in which she lives. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Pucked helena hunting series![]() ![]() Kodiak is witness to some truly terrible and tragic events that happen to Lavender and through the lens of childhood he believes he is an intrinsic part of her wellbeing. Kodiak understands Lavender even more than her own twin, River, much to River’s disgust. They are connected by “ invisible threads” and understand one another more than anyone else. And not just because of the relationships of their parents. Kodiak Bowman and Lavender Waters’ lives are intertwined from a young age. Helena Hunting has crafted one of my favorite books of the year, filled with detailed characterizations of severe anxiety in children and young adults, issues surrounding co-dependence, first love, heartbreak and finding your strength. ![]() ✔ All the children from the Pucked and All In Series ✔ Flashbacks throughout Lavender and Kodiak’s lives ✔ Kodiak Bowman (son of Rook and Lainey Bowman of A Lie for a Lie ) ✔ Lavender Waters (daughter of Alex and Violet Waters of Pucked) ![]() Hunting is a Five Star ReadĪn Incredibly Romantic, Angst-Filled Book That Will Have You Begging For More ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Tribute by Nora Roberts![]() ![]() ![]() The Rise of Magicks: Chronicles of the One, Book 3 Starting at 3.85. A cache of unsigned letters found in the attic points to a mysterious romance in her grandmother’s life, and may be what sparks a frightening, violent assault. Eligible for Free Shipping Expedited Shipping Available Item Condition Seller Rating. ![]() Determined not to carry on the family tradition of ill-fated romances, Cilla steels herself against Ford’s quirky charm, though she can’t help indulging in a little fantasy.īut it’s reality that holds its share of dangers for Cilla. Plunging into the project with gusto, Cilla’s almost too busy and exhausted to notice her neighbor, graphic novelist Ford Sawyer. So she comes to Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley to save the dilapidated farmhouse of her grandmother-a legendary actress who died of an overdose there more than thirty years ago. A young woman gets caught up in the secrets and shadows of a big-screen legend and a small-town scandal in this #1 New York Times bestseller from Nora Roberts.Ĭilla McGowan, a former child star, has found a more satisfying life restoring homes. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Taking Angels by C.S. Yelle![]() ![]() As Britt relishes her new cancer-free life and senior year of high school, her very existence threatens Allister's place in this world. It is forbidden an infraction punishable by death. The only problem is that an Eternal like Allister isn't allowed to touch those who have already passed from this world. Ignoring the warnings of his sister, Allister brings Britt back from the edge of death. When Allister Parks finds Britt's fragile body on the riverbank something calls out to him. Despite her father's attempts to reach her, she flies over the waterfall. She struggles to get back to shore, to cry out for help, but her atrophied muscles are useless and the frigid water steals the breath from her chemo-scarred lungs. ![]() As Britt tries to end her life by going into the frigid waters she realizes her mistake. No control, except for how she would leave this world. The cancer had won leaving her without a future, without any options, and without control. ![]() "item_description" : "Britt Anderson went along with everything the doctors said for nearly four years, but she was still dying at eighteen. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Are you actually saying that Valkyrie might be able to kill the Faceless Ones?” Cadaver tilted his head happily. Valkyrie probably isn’t even aware of this energy inside her, but it’s there, and I think it can be called upon.” “She’d be able to wield it? To use the black lightning without it killing her?” “If it hasn’t killed her yet, I doubt it will do so now.” “Wait a second,” said Temper. ![]() “And it’s still there?” “That’s what Malice detected when she was poking around. Even gods.” “Everything, it seems, apart from Valkyrie Cain.” “How’s that possible?” “My theory is that the energy chose a vessel that had already demonstrated its ability to contain and wield massive amounts of power.” “So she absorbs it without being damaged by it,” Temper said, lowering the gun. Anything that black lightning touches, it turns to dust. Be stored somewhere.” “And where’d it go?” “Into Valkyrie.” Temper frowned. ![]() “The black crystal that powered the Sceptre, the katahedral, shattered.” “So?” “When it shattered, it released all of that katahedral energy.” “So?” “Energy like that, Temper, doesn’t just evaporate. ![]() |