5/13/2023 0 Comments Bad alpha by kathryn moonGhost’s raw vulnerability was incredible. The way he wanted in between Chance and Faith, his jealousy- fuck, I’m obsessed. Yet presented a very laid back and carefree façade. His need to be humiliated, but also cherished was so complex and fascinating. The way Ghost’s little brain worked was fascinated to me. And he’s into being degraded by Chance, who’s a Beta, but has more Alpha Dick Energy than any of the actual Alphas in this book. He’s in love with Chance, but he’s a mess. He had a very abusive Alpha father and he refuses to be like him. Ghost is an Alpha, who doesn’t care about being an Alpha. Or the dynamic between Faith, Chance and Ghost. I have never read a character like Ghost. And that’s exactly what Moon did with this book. Some of them are better executed than others, but that’s pretty much it.īut once in a while, an author brings up something new that blows your mind. I read a lot, and after a while, lots of books start to sound the same. Once again, Moon delivered the best sweet OV inimaginable. *sends flying kisses*Īnd this is how you do it, y’all. One year later, and I managed to survive. Oct 2021: I need to stay alive no matter what until Oct 2022 so I can read this book #priorities
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Vibrant, humorous, and fraught with entanglements, Rasheed Newson’s My Government Means to Kill Me is an exhilarating, fast-paced coming-of-age story that lends itself to a larger discussion about what it means for a young gay Black man in the mid-1980s to come to terms with his role in the midst of a political and social reckoning. Along the way Trey attempts to navigate past traumas and searches for ways to maintain familial relationships-all while seeking the meaning of life amid so much death. He volunteers at a renegade home hospice for AIDS patients, and after being put to the test by gay rights activists, becomes a member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). In the city, Trey meets up with a cast of characters that changes his life forever. A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a young gay Black man in 1980s New York City, from the television drama writer and producer of The Chi, Narcos, and Bel-Air.īorn into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family, Earl “Trey” Singleton III leaves his overbearing parents and their expectations behind by running away to New York City with only a few dollars in his pocket. 5/13/2023 0 Comments The Sentinel by Lee ChildBy coincidence he won a scholarship to the same high school that JRR Tolkien had attended. Lee Child was born October 29th, 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. For when the threat is Reacher, there is No Plan B. And relentless when it comes to making things right. There’s too much at stake to start running from shadows". “If any step is compromised, the threat will have to be quickly and permanently removed. There is no room for error, but they make a grave one. With a killer on the loose, Reacher has no time to waste to track down those responsible.īut Reacher is unaware that these crimes are part of something much larger and more far-reaching: an arsonist out for revenge, a foster kid on the run, a cabal of powerful people involved in a secret conspiracy with many moving parts. When another homicide is ruled an accident, Reacher knows this is no coincidence. But Jack Reacher saw what really happened: A man in a gray hoodie and jeans, moving stealthily, pushed the victim to her demise, before swiftly grabbing the dead woman’s purse and strolling away. In Gerrardsville, Colorado, a woman dies under the wheels of a moving bus. Generously illustrated with historical examples of designing excellence?ranging from teacups, riding boots, and golf balls to the villas of Palladio and the fish-feeding pavilion of Beijing's Winter Palace?Rasmussen's accessible guide invites us to appreciate architecture not only as a profession, but as an art that shapes everyday experience.In the past, Rasmussen argues, architecture was not just an individual pursuit, but a community undertaking. A classic examination of superb design through the centuries.Widely regarded as a classic in the field, Experiencing Architecture explores the history and promise of good design. 5/12/2023 0 Comments The underneath appeltIt can help us learn the most fundamental skill of all-how to be human." In doing so, we invent, create new ideas, find alternative ways of life, etc. Fantasy touches our deepest feelings and in so doing, it speaks to the best and most hopeful parts of ourselves. Lloyd Alexander (via Kiefer 2010, page 286), however, states, "We call our individual fantasies dreams, but when we dream as a society, or as a human race, it becomes the sum total of all our hopes. However, some people argue against the benefits of modern fantasy and believe it leads to evil behavior, including but not limited to satanism. Not only can fantasy reveal new insights, itĬan also foster the development of children's imaginations. It helps children better understand themselves and the real-life Good fantasy might benefit children in that They satisfy the modern-day hunger for myth". They raise the questions of good versus evil and the meaning of life. Many themes apparent in modern fantasy are rooted in traditional folklore and in Kiefer (2010) defines fantasy as "a traditional folktale that has an identifiable author. And the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her young son. Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain is like a tape that begins to erase itself every eighty minutes), the Professor’s mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him.Īnd every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem-ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. The collection also includes short biographical sketches and a system of annotation. A reconsideration of many classic poets, from Shakespeare and Bradstreet to Larkin and Rich has been added in this edition, together with a wider representation of the beginnings of poetry in English: the Anglo-Saxon "Caedmon's Hymn" and selections from "Beowulf", as well as Middle English lyrics, popular riddles, romance, allegory, and the verse tales of Chaucer and Langland, are now included. There are 26 new poets representing the Commonwealth literature tradition: now included are more than 37 poets from Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Caribbean, South Africa and India. The book also includes a greater diversity of American poetry, with double the number of poems by African American, Hispanic, native American and Asian American poets. The Norton Anthology of Poetry: Fourth Edition Paperback 1 January 1996 by Jon Stallworthy Editors: Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter (Author) 1 rating See all formats and editions Paperback 526.00 1 Used from 134.00 4 New from 362.78 Will be shipped from US. The anthology offers more poetry by women (40 new poets), with special attention to early women poets. The fourth edition of this standard work contains 1800 poems by 300 poets, with 600 poems and 100 poets newly included. Each crime is solved using the intense observation, out-of-the-box thinking, and leaps of intuition of which only Holmes is capable. “The Adventure of the Second Stain,” the murder is a secondary issue. Most involve murder, but there is one (“The Adventure of the Three Students”) that involves a “crime” as mundane as test theft, and in some cases, e.g. The other twelve stories of the collection stand alone among the larger canon, and follow the usual Holmes narrative weave. In the first story in this collection, “The Adventure of the Empty House,” we discover that Holmes didn’t die, and has been exploiting his reputed death, playing a game of cat-and-mouse against the remnants of Moriarty’s gang, notably the deadly, Col. At the end of “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,” Doyle leads us to believe Holmes and his nemesis, Moriarty, wrestled off the Reichenbach Falls, plummeting to stony deaths. Doyle had tried to kill off the Holmes character so that he could work on other projects. This short story collection is the sixth book in the Sherlock Holmes canon, and – as the title suggests – it marks the return of the famous fictional detective after a hiatus. The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 5/12/2023 0 Comments Alfred the Great by Asser
5/11/2023 0 Comments Fakers lucy lennoxLicking Thicket comes further to life in the series’ first full-length novel that delves into the events hinted at in the prequel novella’s epilogue. However, the imbalance jarred me out of the story every time and is an unconscious bias I wish authors would be more aware of. This is far from a complaint about forced diversity, and I do applaud how Lennox and Archer never resort to forced exoticism in their description (no food references here!). Pet peeve: White skin is, unfortunately, still the assumed default in fiction, and the authors make multiple references to Colin’s skin tone without also doing the same for Ryder. This peek into one night between the two men is also an excellent look at the overall dynamics of the town they live in, even without the epilogue that throws multiple future characters at the reader. It’s not like things have changed now, but that those reasons suddenly seem less important in the face of a surprise snowstorm and forced proximity. Ryder and Colin have walked the knife’s edge of unfulfilled attraction for years, and both men had ample reason to resist. This novella blends onscreen sparks and sexiness with a narrative that provides the necessary context for the current relationship (or lack thereof) status of the two main characters. |