![]() One with big daemons daunting him and the other likewise but in a different sense. ![]() It was a dark meet, two strangers found themselves in the same room, same time, lost but looking for something. Moving her kids to Georgia, she can’t believe that she stumbles upon the mystery man she met at a LA party she attended at her brother’s. When danger comes knocking on her door, there isn’t anything more she can do then be close to the one person that has always been there for her and always protected her, her big brother. Well while Mia is Lyrik’s little sister (he is the famous ever so singer or I should say rock-star) which bu the way YOU WILL ALSO LOVE. After a failed relationship (by failed i mena crashed and burned, been there done that a few times and had the t-shirt to prove it)I have a love/hate relationship with her and her ex that’s all I am saying. ![]() Mia the heroine is a interesting woman, she is shy, a little thing, beautiful beyond words, a mom and strong. Not my first read by author, she is one of my favorites & I have read all her books! I love LOVE her stand alone’s as much as her series! So I was super excited for this one, the blurb blew me away!! And the beginning…honestly, top favorite meets of hero and heroine! ![]()
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![]() Neil Gaiman's work has been honored with many awards internationally, including the Newbery and Carnegie Medals. I discovered that librarians actually want to help you: They taught me about interlibrary loans." I was the sort of kid who devoured books, and my happiest times as a boy were when I persuaded my parents to drop me off in the local library on their way to work, and I spent the day there. ![]() A self-described "feral child who was raised in libraries," Gaiman credits librarians with fostering a lifelong love of reading: "I wouldn't be who I am without libraries. Tolkien, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. ![]() As a child he discovered his love of books, reading, and stories, devouring the works of C. Neil Gaiman was born in Hampshire, UK, and now lives in the United States near Minneapolis. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Mystery of Edwin Drood was transformed into a Broadway musical in 1980s (which offered several alternate endings), then was refilmed in 1993. The film's relatively short running time required the screenwriters to drop several of Dickens' more colorful supporting characters: of those retained, Francis L. That Drood is murdered by Jasper is made abundantly clear: it is the mystery of how he was murdered and how Jasper disposed of the body that holds the viewer's interest. Pushing him over the edge is the fact that his beautiful ward, Rosa Bud (Heather Angel), has fallen in love with handsome Edwin Drood (David Manners). ![]() ![]() What no one suspects is that Jasper is an opium addict, given to fits of paranoia and jealousy. Funding for MASTERPIECE is provided by Viking and Raymond James with additional support from public television. Claude Rains stars as John Jasper, the seemingly respectable choirmaster of Cloisterham Cathedral. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is presented by your local public television station. Even so, the ending concocted by scenarists John Balderston and Gladys Unger for the 1935 film version of Edwin Drood met with near-unanimous approval from Dickens buffs, who felt that Balderston and Unger had remained faithful to the author's original intention. Charles Dickens' unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, has been a source of speculation and controversy ever since its posthumous publication. ![]() ![]() ![]() Your average Western thought leader will not accept a mantra such as this one. How can anyone journey through their life without running any interference? What does this look like? In fact, a lifestyle like this one seems to go directly against human nature for every reason you may be thinking. ![]() Pardon the sarcasm, but you see where I’m going with this. Maybe if I wander around aimlessly, nature will simply guide me to a successful, bountiful life. Please hold, let me cancel all my plans for the next week, stop applying for jobs, and take a trip to the garden behind my house. We we were meant to go with the flow and accept that whatever’s meant to be will be the end. In other words, this ancient Chinese practice advocates for the notion that everything happens for a reason. ![]() “Tao” (pronounced Dao) literally means “the way.” This mantra believes that a happy life can be achieved by following the course of natural events without interfering or overthinking. This is how I feel about Taoism - a Chinese philosophy that advocates for a life of utter simplicity and noninterference. ![]() Intro to Taoism and How it’s Counterintuitive to Human NatureĮvery here and there we find ourselves bumping into foreign concepts that could be either one of two things – extremely simple, or, entirely beyond our realm of understanding. ![]() ![]() “Everything was very dark and depressing and I just wanted it to kind of feel like living in a Yankee candle, but like a Halloween scented one.” “I wanted it to be this very escapist book because I was writing the proposal for it mid-pandemic,” Harper says. ![]() While many of us spent the dark early days of the pandemic baking bread and picking up hobbies we'd quickly abandon, author Lana Harper was brewing up something else: a pitch for a new novel that would combine witches with the winning formula of a romantic comedy. Witches have always been a staple of the fantasy genre, but in the last two years they've spelled over into romance novels - making contemporary romance just a little bit more magical. Well there's a new book genre becoming more popular that may be the perfect fit for you: witchy romcoms. ![]() (Courtesy)Īre you feeling bewitched, bothered and a little bad this Halloween? ![]() ![]() ![]() It was on this day in 1834 that the Emancipation Proclamation was read in King’s Square Spanish Town marking the abolition of the institution of slavery in the British Colony of Jamaica. The 1 st of August is an auspicious date in Jamaican history. The work contains all the signifiers of freedom and was meant to wordlessly communicate the ethos of that moment in colonial history. He stands on a whip (the symbol of the cruelty and oppression of enslavement), his children bury the shackles which once restrained him and his wife holds their youngest child who will never know slavery aloft. It depicts a recently emancipated family with the father triumphantly raising his hands to the sky in a gesture of freedom. ![]() ![]() The mezzotint The First of August was originally published in London to commemorate the abolition of slavery in the British colonies. ![]() David Lucas (1802 -1881) after Alexander Villiers Rippingille (c. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Since then, Marcie's letters to Ian have gone unanswered.Marcie tracks Ian to the tiny mountain town of Virgin River and finds a man as wounded emotionally as Bobby was physically. This Christmas she's come to Virgin River to find the man who saved his life and gave her three more years to love him.Fellow marine Ian Buchanan dragged Bobby's shattered body onto a medical transport in Fallujah four years ago, then disappeared as soon as their unit arrived stateside. Now a Netflix series!Last Christmas Marcie Sullivan said a final goodbye to her husband, Bobby. Return to Virgin River for the holidays in this uplifting tale from the beloved series by New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr. ![]() ![]() ![]() The film changes many elements related to gender and sexuality, and panders to its intended male audience, removing many of the more complex psychosexual elements from the novel. ![]() Since the film’s release, and the subsequent American re-make, The Ring (2002), little to no scholarly attention has been paid to Suzuki’s original novel and how issues of gender were handled in the process of adaptation from book to screen. In the end, the only way to survive is to copy the tape and pass it along for someone else to watch, thus propagating the curse infinitely. While attempting to find a way to break the spell, Asakawa uncovers the mystery of the woman behind the tape, the now deceased, seemingly unappeasable Sadako Yamamura. The story concerns a reporter named Reiko Asakawa (Nanako Matsushima) who faces a race against the clock to break the curse of a videotape containing a collage of disjointed, disturbing images that kills everyone who watches it in seven days. ![]() Chief among the films responsible for the boom was Nakata Hideo’s Ringu (1998), which is based on the 1991 Suzuki Koji novel of the same name. Note: this article contains spoilers for Ringuīeginning in the late 1990s, Japanese Horror Cinema experienced an extremely creative and financially successful period. ![]() ![]() ![]() And they're willing to use every secret Miel has fought to protect to make sure she gives them up. Now they want the roses that grow from Miel's skin, convinced that their scent can make anyone fall in love. But as odd as everyone considers Miel and Sam, even they stay away from the Bonner girls, four beautiful sisters rumored to be witches. Anna-Marie McLemores debut novel The Weight of Feathers was greeted with rave reviews, a YALSA Morris Award nomination, and spots on multiple 'Best YA Novels' lists. Sam is known for the moons he paints and hangs in the trees and for how little anyone knows about his life before he and his mother moved to town. Atmospheric, dynamic, and packed with gorgeous prose, When the Moon was Ours is another winner from this talented author. Roses grow out of Miel's wrist, and rumors say that she spilled out of a water tower when she was five. To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. ![]() Now, McLemore delivers a second stunning and utterly romantic novel, again tinged with magic. Atmospheric, dynamic, and packed with gorgeous prose, When the Moon was Ours is another winner from this talented author.Īnna-Marie McLemore's debut novel The Weight of Feathers was greeted with rave reviews, a YALSA Morris Award nomination, and spots on multiple "Best YA Novels" lists. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was surprised by how sexy this book was. But to my amazement, it also contains one of the hottest love scenes ever written, not because of any graphic sex, but because of the chemistry and tenderness of the two characters. It's funny, sexy, and completely engaging. Cat is my favorite heroine since Scarlet O'hara! This book is so different from any other "vampire" or paranormal book I've ever read. Bones is surprisingly funny and charming but very different from the smoldering alpha males in every other romance novel I've read. I'm addicted and in love with these characters. ![]() ![]() After listening to a heavy depressing book, I needed a break and put this on. I was judgmental of the cover and the silly name, and it just sat in my audible library for months. After dabbling in a few JD Ward books, "The Night Huntress" series was recommended to me and I downloaded this book. Somehow, I stumbled into the paranormal/time travel genre with Karen 's Fever series, and then finally read Outlander. I snubbed my nose to it bc of the pop culture craze of Twilight, and a strict loyalty to the Vampire world of Ann Rice. Halfway to the Grave is delicious! The Best of the Genre! 10 stars! A+ I am 30 and I write this review for anyone who might think this is young adult nonsense: Personal Disclaimer: Im new to the genre. ![]() |