![]() ![]() ![]() When the hot 37 yr old President of the Knight's Rebels MC walks into his son Zayden's classroom, summoned there by his Teacher, Phoenix (Nix) doesn't expect to be blown away by the feisty, fierce and beautiful Kadence. I might try them if I come across another of their narrations but they are not one of my go to people.Ī SEXY, SASSY ROMANCE & A DIRTY TALKING ALPHA HERO As for narrators, they both did a good job. There is fighting, laughing, crying and hot hot times that will keep any romance lover entertained. In the end it all works out but its the journey there that make this story interesting. Kadence is a teacher and so in over her head when she falls hard for the parent of one of her students. Anyway beside this little flaw he is a dominant male who goes after what he wants. One of the things I found outrageous was Nix walking around opening talking bout club business. Nix is the president of a "reformed" MC club. In all honesty I would give this book a 3.5 In my opinion these is something about MC books that have a bit of bad and dark that makes the men so darn irresistible. Great story but a bit too fluff for an MC book ![]()
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![]() Would that this novel were required reading for every American citizen. The story is literature at its finest and history at its most barbaric. ![]() Throughout the book, Cora faces unthinkable horrors, and her survival depends entirely on her resilience. These include brief portraits of the slave catcher who hunts her, a doctor who examines her in South Carolina, and her mother, whose escape from the plantation when Cora was a girl has both haunted and galvanized her. Interspersed throughout the central narrative of Cora’s flight are short chapters expanding on some of the lives of those she encounters. ![]() In Whitehead’s rendering, the Underground Railroad of the early 19th century is a literal subterranean tunnel with tracks, trains, and conductors, ferrying runaways into darkness and, occasionally, into light. In powerful, precise prose, at once spellbinding and ferocious, the book follows Cora’s incredible journey north, step by step. That changes when Cora is raped and beaten by the plantation’s owner, and she resolves to escape. After a lifetime in brutal, humiliating transit, Ajarry was determined to stay put in Georgia, and so is her granddaughter, Cora. She finally arrives at the vicious Georgia plantation where she dies at the book’s outset. ![]() In America the quirk was that people were things." So observes Ajarry, taken from Africa as a girl in the mid-18th century to be sold and resold and sold again. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ajax of the Tiber, with his dragon named Dog is the one who often throws the spanner in the works and is the source of much wry humour. Vespir is the fiery servant girl of the Pentri family, a dragon whisperer in love with the daughter of the house, Antonia. ![]() ![]() Lucian Sabel, with Tyche the dragon, is an ex-soldier who wants to choose a peaceful path by becoming a Sacred Brother and looking after the poor. Each with a clearly defined personality and talent, teamed with distinctly individual dragons, they deliver their version of events in alternating chapters.Įmilia, from the House of Aurun, with her faithful dragon Chara, is an introverted intellectual with a dangerous secret. The catch is that somehow the Great Dragon’s signal has been lost in translation and five unsuitable, unqualified and unexpected teens are summoned. Emperor Erasmus has died and the Great Dragon has therefore called five challengers, with their dragons, to battle it out for the throne. The ‘loser teens’ story is played out in the warmongering world of Etrusia, which is imbued with the magic of Order Vs Chaos and is mapped on the geographical layout of Europe and North America. The author’s website describes her new book House of Dragons as “the intrigue of the Three Dark Crowns meets the cast of The Breakfast Club if they rode dragons into battle” and it is difficult not to agree with the author’s assessment. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hiruko and Knut set off together to look for other survivors from Hiruko’s vanished homeland who might speak the same mother tongue. ![]() It is not the national language of any single country, but can be understood by all Scandinavians. Over the course of her travels she has cobbled together her own hybrid language. ![]() Since then, she has moved from place to place as a migrant across Scandinavia. Hiruko is originally from Niigata but her homeland has disappeared while she has been studying abroad. He becomes fascinated by a young Japanese woman called Hiruko, who appears on the program speaking an unfamiliar language that turns out to be a homemade form of “Pan-Scandinavian.” One day he comes across a television panel featuring people who grew up in countries that no longer exist. Knut is a graduate student of linguistics at a university in Copenhagen. Over the course of the novel, they are led toward a certain goal, growing to form an impromptu community thrown together by chance and sharing the same destiny. There are six main characters, who take turns narrating chapters from his or her own perspective (although divisions of gender are not especially important in the story either), describing their own lives and backgrounds. Chikyū ni chiribamerarete, Tawada Yōko’s latest novel to be translated into English (by Margaret Mitsutani, as Scattered All Over the Earth), is the first installment of a trilogy whose narrative transcends barriers of ethnicity, nationality, and language. ![]() ![]() There is no need to seek reward because the reward is in the action itself. When doing comes out of being, there is no conflict. Who we are at core is what matters, not what we do. Osho informs us that it is our essence that matters. If you come to the point where it can be proved, he will take revenge.” Chuang Tzu would have said, “It is better to be foolish yourself, then people enjoy you, and then by a very subtle methodology you can help them change. Don’t try to prove to a madman that he is mad, because no madman likes it. ![]() Had he met Chuang Tzu – and at that time Chuang Tzu was alive in China, they were contemporaries – then Chuang Tzu would have told him the secret: “Don’t try to prove that anybody is foolish because fools don’t like this. This man was trying to prove that everybody is a fool. ![]() ![]() “Socrates would ask penetrating questions, analyzing everything, and everybody in Athens became angry. He speaks about the state of egolessness, “the empty boat” spontaneity, dreams and wholeness living life choicelessly and meeting death with the same equanimity. OSHO revitalises the 300-year-old Taoist message of self-realization through the stories of the Chinese mystic, Chuang Tzu. ![]() ![]() In modern settings, a sniper’s 2000-meter range would take the place of the bow, while an assault rifle can stand in for the javelin with its 400-meter range. In a medieval setting, a bow is long range with its 300 meters, while a javelin can be considered midrange with a 40-meter precision throw. Depending on your setting, these can vary greatly. Let’s remain in the range classic triad: long range, midrange, and close range. But how do you choose? We could come up with dozens of criteria to judge weapons by, but I’ll just mention a few to get you started. There are amazingly creative and real weapons you can draw inspiration from. Humans have invented better ways of killing each other over the ages, so the selection is broad. ![]() ![]() Yes, the sword is the queen, and hand-to-hand is king, but why not be a little creative? Let’s dive into the process of choosing the best weapon for your protagonist.Īs the old saying goes, anything can become a weapon in skilled hands, but by definition, a weapon is a tool designed to enhance the capability of the user to inflict damage. ![]() Every story revolves around some type of conflict, but speculative fiction usually prefers physical fights. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() State Ward started as a series of episodes on radio in 1993 and was published as a novella in 1994. This somewhat simplistic message has proved highly controversial. The blame for Māori underperformance he puts squarely back on Māori, for not making the most of the opportunities given them. In this, and in his 1993 analysis, Māori: The Crisis and the Challenge, he has developed his ideas on the failures of Māoridom, castigating both the traditional leadership and the radical movement for dwelling on the injustices of the past and expecting others to resolve them, instead of encouraging Māori to get on and help themselves. He was also awarded the Frank Sargeson Fellowship in 1991, and began writing a weekly - later bi-weekly - column for the Evening Post (Wellington newspaper), syndicated to eight other newspapers. It was winner of the PEN Best First Book Award, was runner-up in the Goodman Fielder Wattie Award, and was made into the award-winning film of the same name in 1994.Īnother of his novels, One Night Out Stealing, appeared in 1991 and shortlisted in the 1992 Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards. The novel is written in juxtaposed interior monologues, making its style stand out from other works. He burned the manuscript and started writing Once Were Warriors, which had an immediate and great impact. He tried writing a thriller as his first novel, but it was rejected. Alan Duff (born October 26, 1950, Rotorua, New Zealand) is a New Zealand novelist and newspaper columnist, most well known as the author of Once Were Warriors. ![]() ![]() ![]() “ Countdown”: The only piece I read prior to reading Rise, “Countdown” is the story where it all begins-the story of Dr. A murderous home populated by zombies and mad scientists and even madder assassins and insane, scientifically-impossible bloggers and regular, everyday people pushed to their absolute limits on the brink of destruction-and all of them are what makes it home. ![]() And even with my baggage, reading Rise felt like coming home. Rise is the first book to collect all of Mira Grant’s previously published short fiction set in the Newsflesh universe-five novellas, one short story-as well as two brand-new pieces. We don’t talk about that, save that it is 100 percent personal.) (Hi, I have issues with the second half of Blackout. Having all of them here in one book is a joy-I was able to fully dive back into this universe and its characters that I love so much EVEN WHEN THEY DO THINGS THAT MAKE ME WANT TO BLOW THE UNIVERSE UP. I’ve wanted to read all the short stories set in the Newsflesh universe for ages but haven’t been able to obtain many of them for several reasons. The exception is the Newsflesh trilogy, which I love with the force of a thousand suns. I’ve read at least one book in every single series she’s published and had a “meh” response to all of them. ![]() ![]() I have the world’s strangest relationship with the writing of Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire. ![]() ![]() Reading challenges fulfilled: none since this was a novella Do all of your selves across the multiverse make the same choice in the same situation? If they don’t, what does that say about you? One of the characters was a therapist who provided a few stories that went in both directions – people who acted the same across the multiverse and people who reacted differently. However, the theme of the story was free will. The plot was about getting and selling the specific prism. ![]() He just needs to convince the owner to sell it to him so he can make some money off of it.įinal thoughts: An interesting premise to a story. Morrow, one of Nat’s colleagues, finds one like that. The trick is to find a prism that connects a universe different enough from your own to make it worth it to talk to it. Prisms are quantum entangled devices that allow people to talk to another universe. ![]() ![]() Summary: Nat works for a company that buys prisms. This is another novella nominated for a Hugo this year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I think the system should be clear enough for the to be able to handle it alone. “I'm a graduate, and the paperwork overwhelmed me,” she said. If I Have to Be Haunted ebook By Miranda Sun Format ebook ISBN 9780063252769 Author Miranda Sun Publisher HarperCollins Release 26 September 2023 Subjects Horror Young Adult Fiction Young Adult Literature Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive. She says there are plenty of existing aid programmes from the government, but none that are really useful – or easily accessible. ![]() Jill Barrett, who is English, says she had to jump bureaucratic hurdles to open her eco dairy, where she produces cheese, in Sierra de Gata. And a gang of kids and their dog ready to solve any mystery in this officially licensed Scooby-Doo picture book. He agrees that the government should help those who want to raise goats or open a dairy, “instead of putting up obstacles”. “This isn’t charity, it’s about getting things done,” Bongui says. “One winter you can get through, but one after another, after another.People need governmental aid to stay”. It’s not easy to be young in these villages of Sierra de Gata, some of which have only 70 inhabitants, says Carmen Hernández Mancha, especially in winter when the streets empty. Marta Rodríguez Martínezĭepopulation is a vicious cycle – the more people leave, the less others want to come or to stay. An Italian volunteer, Olivia, and a German one, Katharina, plant trees in Sierra de Gata in November 2019. ![]() |