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The Uninvited by Tim Wynne-Jones5/13/2023 ![]() His big dramatic reveal is dropped with little fanfare in like the second chapter, and not only does it not add anything interesting to the character, it cheapens the later reveal for a later character. I honestly can’t give any information about Jay other than “plays guitar.” He was completely forgettable. Jay was a useless character and Iris even more so. (And it didn’t matter, because her plight was solved with a phone call.) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (I also didn’t need the elaborate description of Mimi’s butt and thong either.) Overall, Mimi was shoved down my throat so much that when I was supposed to care about her and her plight, I didn’t care. And right from the beginning she’s an unrealistic character, because what girl goes on an all day road trip wearing just a sports bra (imagine the seams of your car upholstery digging into your bare skin for hours on end) and then, upon arrival, changes pants outside in the yard. I literally felt the strain of reading any parts from Mimi’s point of view, as if someone was stretching out a long string of silly putty. She’s forcibly quirky, to the point that you feel like there’s a neon sign flashing in front of your eyes saying PLEASE SEE WHAT A MANIC PIXIE DREAM GIRL I AM. Mimi was literally the most insufferable heroine. I don’t care if Cramer skulked mysteriously for the millionth time in a row. I don’t care if Mimi changed her clothes for the sixth time. I don’t care if the main characters went out for margaritas. Not “building the intensity” slow but ACTUALLY PAINFULLY SLOW. ![]()
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Soul Music by Terry Pratchett5/13/2023 ![]() īut if it is true that the act of observing changes the thing which is observed,* its even more true that it changes the observer.Īnd then hed said things, and hed said things, and suddenly the world was a new and unpleasant place, because things cant be unsaid.įor Miss Butts sincerely believed that there were no basic differences between boys and gels. He let her grow to become sixteen because he believed that older children were easier to deal with than younger children, and this shows that you can be an immortal anthropomorphic personification and still get things, as it were, dead wrong. the Death of the Discworld, for reasons of his own, once rescued a baby girl and took her to his home between the dimensions. ![]() Copyright © 1995 by Terry and Lyn Pratchett ![]()
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Huxley novel5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() He then begins to seek a source of meaning, and seems to find it when he discovers pacifism and then mysticism. ![]() It describes Beavis's experiences as he goes through school, college and various romantic affairs the meaninglessness of upper-class life during these times and Beavis's gradual disillusionment with high society, brought to a head by a friend's suicide. The novel focuses on four periods in the life of a socialite named Anthony Beavis between the 1890s (when he is a young boy) and 1936 – but not in chronological order. Huxley's biographer, Sybille Bedford, whom Huxley knew personally (they were neighbours in the south of France), claims in her fictional memoir Jigsaw that two of the novel's characters – Mary Amberley, a drug addict, and her daughter – were partly inspired by Bedford and her mother, who was addicted to morphine. The chapters of the novel are not ordered chronologically. The title of the book, like Milton's poem, recalls the biblical story of Samson: he was captured by the Philistines, his eyes were burned out and he was taken to Gaza, where he was forced to work at grinding grain in a mill. Promise was that I Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the Mill with slaves. The title is taken from a phrase in John Milton's Samson Agonistes: Eyeless in Gaza is a bestselling novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1936. ![]()
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Avedon portrait5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He had been recruited to work as a staff photographer for Harper?s Bazaar in1945 soon after completing his military service, by the influential art director Alexey Brodovitch. When it took place, New York-born Avedon was 32 and had been a professional photographer for ten years. Avedon had a reputation for shooting his fashion work on location, but this setting was more unusual than most ? inside the famous Cirque d?hiver in Paris.ĭovima with Elephants, evening dress by Dior, Cirque d?hiver, Paris, August 1955 © The richard avedon foundation In August 1955, Richard Avedon set up an ambitious fashion shoot that was intended to showcase new work by French fashion designer Christian Dior. Richard Avedon?s image became one of the most famous fashion photographs of the 20th century, writes David Clark ![]()
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Horseshoe crabs and velvet worms5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() These are not "living fossils" but rather a handful of tenacious creatures of days long gone. From a moonlit beach in Delaware, where the hardy horseshoe crab shuffles its way to a frenzy of mass mating just as it did 450 million years ago, to the dense rainforests of New Zealand, where the elusive, unprepossessing velvet worm has burrowed deep into rotting timber since before the breakup of the ancient supercontinent, to a stretch of Australian coastline with stromatolite formations that bear witness to the Precambrian dawn, the existence of these survivors offers us a tantalizing glimpse of pivotal points in evolutionary history. Scattered across the globe, these remarkable plants and animals continue to mark seminal events in geological time. Evolution, it seems, has not completely obliterated its tracks as more advanced organisms have evolved the history of life on earth is far older-and odder-than many of us realize. 1 comes a fascinating chronicle of life's history told not through the fossil record but through the stories of organisms that have survived, almost unchanged, throughout time. ![]() From one of the world's leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author of Trilobite!, Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on Earth and Dry Storeroom No. ![]()
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Kellan and kiera thoughtless5/13/2023 ![]() But this is what I want to give her.” My eyes were watering when I looked over at him. ![]() I shook my head as I stared at the glow emanating from the diamond. “Kellan…you can’t expect her to wear that. While she walked away, Evan stepped up to me. “I’ll take it,” I whispered, not even looking at the price tag. I couldn’t think of anything better to give her, to help her remember me, and what we’d gone through. It was me, and it was Kiera…the perfect embodiment of what we were, or rather, what we’d never be. The guitar was perfectly crafted, delicate, but sturdy, and there was a large circle diamond in the center that sparkled in the lights. She handed me the necklace, and my fingers were shaking as I took it. Now, no matter the consequences, Kellan is sure of one thing-he won't let Kiera go without a fight. ![]() Certain he could never be worthy of her love, he hides his growing attraction…until Kiera's own tormented heart hints that his feelings might not be one-sided. Kiera is the kind of girl Kellan has no business wanting-smart, sweet, and dating his best friend. These days his life revolves around three things: music, his bandmates, and hot hookups. ![]() Gripping his guitar in a darkened bar, he can forget his painful past. BLURB: The only place Kellan Kyle has ever felt at home is onstage. ![]()
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Right wing women dworkin5/13/2023 ![]() Neither men nor women believe in the existence of women as significant beings. ![]() The problem, simply stated, is that one must believe in the existence of the person in order to recognize the authenticity of her suffering. It is negated in the transactions of everyday life, and it is negated in the history books, left out, and it is negated by those who claim to care about suffering but are blind to this suffering. The tellers and the stories are ignored or ridiculed, threatened back into silence or destroyed, and the experience of female suffering is buried in cultural invisibility and contempt… the very reality of abuse sustained by women, despite its overwhelming pervasiveness and constancy, is negated. No matter how often these stories are told, with whatever clarity or eloquence, bitterness or sorrow, they might as well have been whispered in wind or written in sand: they disappear, as if they were nothing. ![]() The accounts of rape, wife beating, forced childbearing, medical butchering, sex-motivated murder, forced prostitution, physical mutilation, sadistic psychological abuse, and other commonplaces of female experience that are excavated from the past or given by contemporary survivors should leave the heart seared, the mind in anguish, the conscience in upheaval. ![]()
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Hornblower and the hotspur5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Midshipman Hornblower, Lieutenant Hornblower, and Hornblower and the Hotspur), and various alterations and additions are made to the source material (e.g., the recurring characters of Lt. The eight films cover the events of just three of the ten novels ( Mr. In the US, the series was retitled Horatio Hornblower, and some of the films were known by different titles. All were later released on DVD (with the original aspect ratio of 16:9 widescreen in Europe and 4:3 in the US). The series consists of eight television films, which are notable for their high production values. Other well-known actors appeared in guest roles, including Michael Byrne, Denis Lawson, Antony Sher, Ian McNeice, Andrew Tiernan, Samuel West, Christian Coulson, Cherie Lunghi, Greg Wise and Ronald Pickup. Jonathan Forbes as Midshipman Orrock (Films 7-8).Julia Sawalha as Maria Mason (Films 7-8).Nicholas Jones as Lieutenant Buckland (Films 5-6).David Warner as Captain James Sawyer (Films 5-6).Colin MacLachlan as Ship's Master Bowles (Films 1-4).Ian McElhinney as Captain Hammond (Films 2, 5-7).Dorian Healy as Midshipman Jack Simpson (Film 1).Jonathan Coy as Lieutenant (later Commander) Bracegirdle (Films 1-4, 8).Sean Gilder as Styles, Boatswain's Mate.Paul McGann as Lieutenant William Bush (Films 5-8). ![]() Jamie Bamber as Midshipman (and later Lieutenant) Archie Kennedy (Films 1, 3-6).Robert Lindsay as Captain (and later Commodore and Admiral) Sir Edward Pellew.Ioan Gruffudd as Midshipman (and later Lieutenant and Commander) Horatio Hornblower. ![]()
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Coffee Shops and Condoms by Eden Winters5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Starr, Will Parkinson, and John, who helped form the incoherent thoughts in my head into a readable story. Love and hugs to my amazing creative team: Feliz Faber, P.D. No part of this book may be reproduced without written permission of the author, except as brief quotations as in the case of reviews. What You Can’t Live Without ©2011, 2017 by Eden WintersĪll rights reserved. ![]() ![]() The Boy Under the Bridge ©2011 by Eden Winters Same Time Next Year ©2011, 2013 by Eden Winters Hell is Where the Heart Is ©2017 by Eden Winters Galen and the Forest Lord ©2013 by Eden Winters Any resemblance to actual people, places, or events is purely coincidental.Ĭoffee Shops and Condoms ©2014 by Eden Winters It is intended for mature readers only, of legal age to possess such material in their area. This book contains adult language and themes, including graphic descriptions of sexual acts which some may find offensive. ![]()
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Something borrowed emily giffin series5/13/2023 ![]() Giffin found an agent in 2002 and signed a two-book deal with St. ![]() ![]() Giffin began a new novel, then titled Rolling the Dice, which became the bestselling novel Something Borrowed, released in 2004, which received positive reviews and made it to the New York Times bestsellers list. Her first young adult novel, Lily Holding True, was rejected by eight publishers. In 2001, she moved to London and began writing full-time. Career Īfter graduating from law school in 1997, she moved to Manhattan and worked in the litigation department of Winston & Strawn. She then attended law school at the University of Virginia. Giffin earned her undergraduate degree at Wake Forest University, where she double-majored in history and English and also served as manager of the basketball team. She attended Naperville North High School in Naperville, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago), where she was a member of a creative writing club and served as editor-in-chief of the school's newspaper. ![]() Early life Įmily Giffin was born on March 20, 1972. Her notable works include Something Borrowed, Heart of the Matter and The One and Only. University of Virginia School of Law ( J.D.)Įmily Fisk Giffin (born March 20, 1972) is an American author of several novels commonly categorized as chick lit. ![]() |