5/11/2023 0 Comments Fear you by bb reidI absolutely LOVED Fear Me, and yes it ends on a cliffhanger. The characters and supporting characters were just fantastic, and each had their own role in the story. It was full of twists and turns and for me, was truly UNPREDICTABLE! The sex scenes were EXTREMELY hot! Some of the best that I have read in a long while. It kept me glued to it and constantly wanting, no CRAVING, to know more. I went in with only reading the blurb, and I think that's the best way - if you haven't read this yet, go in knowing as little as possible. I won't expand on the plot, as I feel it will too easy for me to give the story away. But that's the thing with fiction - you can indulge in secret fantasies, and in my case, discover new ones. It was the first "bully" book that I have read, and I'm a little disgusted with myself that I had the reaction that I did when reading it. And in all honesty, I actually hate myself a little right at this moment - because I did totally LOVE this story, but in my mind, I feel that I should have hated it. I don't mean that in a bad way, but I have literally JUST finished reading Fear Me, and I am almost at a loss for words! I am torn with my emotions about how I feel about this book! Torn between loving and hating it, the fact that I loved to hate it and that I hated that I loved it. My Thoughts What the heck did I just read?!?!?!
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Karl ove knausgaard my struggle"Kim Adrian's DEAR KNAUSGAARD isn't just for everyone who reveled in or fought with My Struggle, it's for everyone who reads-period, everyone who struggles with the profoundly complicated act of engaging with another mind. Through an examination of the curious operations of intimacy demanded on both sides of the page by all great literature, DEAR KNAUSGAARD ultimately provides a heartfelt celebration of the act of reading itself. Adrian's book of letters begins as a witty and entertaining response to a seminal work and transforms into a fierce and powerful interrogation of the darker social and cultural forces informing Knausgaard's project. In a series of warm and often funny letters, essayist and memoirist Kim Adrian delivers a compelling feminist critique of the 6-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle, by Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard. Agent: Jim McCarthy, Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. She has two loving moms, a supportive older half brother, and, as a triplet, she’s never without company. Though some details are passed over (Joey appears to have sensory sensitivities, but a possible relationship to her emotional dysregulation is never investigated), Melleby ( How to Become a Planet) persuasively, sensitively depicts Joey’s internal turmoil and the effects of the overwhelming emotions on her relationships, in an affecting story of a girl struggling to untangle her place in her family. 76 reviews Eleven-year-old Joey is angry.As part of a group assignment, Joey secretly researches her mothers’ sperm donor to find out if her anger might have biological roots. From the acclaimed author of Hurricane Season, an unforgettable story about what makes a family, for fans of Hazels Theory of Evolution and Ivy Aberdeens. Carried by their Mama after IVF, fraternal triplet Joey and her identical brothers are not genetically related to their Mom when her science class explores nature versus nurture during a genetics unit, Joey becomes anxious that Mom could possibly “fall out of love” with her, and curious about a possible genetic link to her rage. Her family is kicked out of their apartment after Joey punches a security guard, and the 12-year-old feels isolated at school after pushing her best friend and crush, Layla. Impulsive Joey often feels uncontrollably angry, a sensation whose intensity confuses her and causes her to react “with her fists,” straining relationships. And I can already tell this book will not only change the game for trans lit, but it will also change me. When Rapunzelle says “She said to me because you’re worth holding onto,” (1) I let go and begin softly sobbing into the whir of washers and dryers. As Rapunzelle gears up to tell our protagonist what Kimaya said to her when asked why she held on, I can feel the familiar sensation of tears welling up and a lump forming in my throat. One night she takes the heaviest dose she can find at a club on the Street of Miracles and shape shifts so rapidly and violently that she might have been lost forever, if not for Kimaya latching onto her and holding her through every transformation until she came down. Rapunzelle had become addicted to a drug that causes the user to shape shift, which she used to become lost to herself and to the world. I’m about fifteen minutes into my wash cycle and forty pages into the novel when Rapunzelle, described so far as “an obsidian globe of a woman,” tells the unnamed protagonist how she met her lover Kimaya, the Street of Miracles’ trans guardian angel. It is a Saturday morning in early Spring and I’m sitting in a laundromat with my partner reading Kai Cheng Thom’s Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Médicis Daughter by Sophie PerinotBartholomew's Day Massacre, she will be forced to choose between her family and her soul. When Margot's wedding devolves into the bloodshed of the St. But the promised peace is a mirage: her mother's schemes are endless, and her brothers plot vengeance in the streets of Paris. Though Margot's heart belongs to Guise, her hand will be offered to Henri of Navarre, a Huguenot leader and a notorious heretic looking to seal a tenuous truce. Eager to be an obedient daughter, Margot accepts her role as a marriage pawn, even as she is charmed by the powerful, charismatic Duc de Guise. Among the crafty nobility of the royal court, Margot learns the intriguing and unspoken rules she must live by to please her poisonous family. Known across Europe as Madame la Serpente, Margot's intimidating mother, Queen Catherine de Médicis, is a powerful force in a country devastated by religious war. Beautiful young Princess Margot is summoned to the court of France, where nothing is what it seems and a wrong word can lead to ruin. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Book chesapeake requiemA friend told her she should read this book. But he said in his 1992 memoirs that the circumstances of his birth remained cloudy and he did not know just when he was born or who his parents were.Ī friend of mine, upon moving to Baltimore, asked why the area was so eff'd up. Michener's entry in Who's Who in America says he was born on Feb. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, best known for its permanent collection of Pennsylvania Impressionist paintings and a room containing Michener's own typewriter, books, and various memorabilia. Toward the end of his life, he created the Journey Prize, awarded annually for the year's best short story published by an emerging Canadian writer founded an MFA program now, named the Michener Center for Writers, at the University of Texas at Austin and made substantial contributions to the James A. His first novel, Tales of the South Pacific, which inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. James Albert Michener is best known for his sweeping multi-generation historical fiction sagas, usually focusing on and titled after a particular geographical region. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Nutuk by Mustafa Kemal AtatürkBased on a textual analysis of his entire corpus, including Nutuk-the Great Speech of 1927 and the master-narrative of modern Turkish history and national identity-her article examines and documents how his charismatic leadership helped to consolidate both the myth of ‘murderous Armenians’ and that of the Turks as an ‘oppressed nation’ ( mazlum millet), monumentalizing both in official Turkish historiography. Ulgen aims to clear away the clouds of dust surrounding Kemal by delving into his texts and examining his role in the reification of Turkish denial of the destruction of Ottoman Armenians. The debate on where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey and universally known as the ‘Father of the Turks’, stood in regard to the colossal violence committed against Armenians during the First World War has become a fiercely contested part of the Turkish-Armenian reconciliation process, especially within the past few years. 5/10/2023 0 Comments How High the Moon by kyliselleIf all had gone well, ispace would have been the first private business to pull off a lunar landing. Official word finally came in a statement: “It has been determined that there is a high probability that the lander eventually made a hard landing on the moon’s surface." Flight controllers peered at their screens in Tokyo as minutes went by with only silence from the moon.Ī grim-faced team surrounded Hakamada as he announced that the landing likely failed. Takeshi Hakamada, founder and CEO of ispace, held out hope even after contact was lost as the lander descended the final 33 feet (10 meters). It was a disappointing setback for ispace, which after a 4 1/2-month mission had been on the verge of doing what only three countries have done: successfully land a spacecraft on the moon. More than six hours after communication ceased, the Tokyo company ispace finally confirmed what everyone had suspected, saying there was “a high probability” that the lander had slammed into the moon. A Japanese company’s spacecraft apparently crashed while attempting to land on the moon Wednesday, losing contact moments before touchdown and sending flight controllers scrambling to figure out what happened. 5/10/2023 0 Comments The seeker sequel to the hostLacey- Lacey was the Seeker’s host, and like Melanie, remained alive after insertion. Here’s what Andrew found out in his interview (read the full interview here) Q: So other projects. The other two installments were to be called The Seeker and the Soul respectively. The Host came out in the spring of It was originally intended to have two sequels and to therefore be a trilogy.Kazikora 23 January 2020: game of thrones season 5 episode 8 wiki Kigajas 2 January 2020: sandra and keanu movies Now, I was watching The Host Movie, and I just thought of checking if a sequel is available. Start by marking “The Seeker (The Host, #2)” as Want to Read: “Tonight in Philadelphia Stephenie Meyer announced that she is currently writing the The Host sequel. The Host has always been described as a trilogy with The Seeker and The Soul.
5/10/2023 0 Comments House by Frank E. PerettiShe also studied interior design in Rome and worked with an architect in Milan before moving to Spain in 1964, where she mingled with Salvador Dali, and “was an intimate,” as Vogue’s Joan Juliet Buck reported, “of la gauche divine, the divine left-intellectuals opposed to Franco.” Set adrift financially, Peretti supported herself by teaching Italian and skiing at her former finishing school. “I am a major adult and free, and I decide to live a life,” she wrote to her father. I was doing all those things, all the time, all the time.” In 1961, aged 21, she finally broke out. “The kind of romantic who decided to become an architect after falling hopelessly in love with Italian columns.” Peretti was raised in Rome in a Renaissance palazzo that seems, over time, to have become something of a golden cage.Ī restless teenager, Peretti told the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, “I was escaping from my house, at the seaside, when I was 15, just to run, at one o’clock in the morning, to watch the sea and watch the moon. “She was a ‘fantastic’ little girl, polite, diligent,” reported The Miami Herald in 1973. The Girl in the Gilded Cage Elsa Peretti, the second daughter of an oil magnate and an artistic mother, was born in 1940 in Florence, Italy. Photographed by Deborah Turbeville, Vogue, February 1975 Halston, at home, with Betsy Theodoracopulos (seated) and Elsa Peretti, both wearing his designs. |