![]() ![]() ![]() Abercrombie gives us a cast of characters that that have even more attitude than we dono easy feat. THE BLADE ITSELF is a refreshing first novel in what we would call a dark fantasy trilogy. Riley chases hard after him, insinuating himself in Lane’s life, highlighting Gresh’s faults. The chosen book this time around is THE BLADE ITSELF by Joe Abercrombie. Just when it feels like there could be something more between Lane and Gresh, the new doctor in town, Riley, sets his sights on Lane. Alone together, Lane and Gresh ignite in a flash of passion. Lane won’t give him the time of day so he forces the issue, setting up a date that Lane believes to be a business meeting. ![]() Gresh wants more from Lane than his ability to handle livestock, he wants it all. But doing the boss is out of the question. Lane Daniels loves his job, working as a foreman on the south Texas ranch gives him the type of satisfaction he’s always craved, but the owner of Crazy Hills ranch, Gresh Hamilton Miller the third, has woven his way under Lane’s skin, leaving Lane crazy for the man’s touch. Texas Rough The first book in the Texas Soul series If you like to be thrilled with suspense, read Not That Type of Guy. Are you interested in reading a Sara York book but are unsure where to start? Read Texas Rough first and read the Texas Soul series then move on to Colorado Wild and read the Colorado Heart series. ![]()
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![]() Delany's critique reveals how Times Square is being "renovated" behind the scrim of public safety while the stage is occupied by gentrification. He argues that starting in 1985, New York City criminalized peep shows and sex movie houses to clear the way for the rebuilding of Times Square. In Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Delany tackles the question of why public restrooms, peepshows, and tree-filled parks are necessary to a city's physical and psychological landscape. Delany sees a disappearance not only of the old Times Square, but of the complex social relationships that developed there: the points of contact between people of different classes and races in a public space. 42nd Street has, in effect, become a family tourist attraction for visitors from Berlin, Tokyo, Westchester, and New Jersey's suburbs. Over the last two decades the notion of safety-from safe sex and safe neighborhoods, to safe cities and safe relationships-has overcome 42nd Street, giving rise to a Disney store, a children's theater, and large, neon-lit cafes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, 42nd Street was once known for its peep shows, street corner hustlers and movie houses. If one street in America can claim to be the most infamous, it is surely 42nd Street. ![]() ![]() You little think, and less know, how soon the cup of fury may be put into your hands: my self, with many others, have been made stark drunk with that wine of wrath, the dregs whereof (for ought I know) may fall to your share suddenly."įrom: "Heights in Depths and Depths in Heights (or TRVTH no less secretly than sweetly sparkling out its Glory from under a cloud of Obloquie)" by the Ranter Jo. The world travels perpetually, and every one is swollen full big with particularity of interest thus travelling together in pain, and groaning under enmity: labouring to bring forth some one thing, some another, and all bring forth nothing but wind and confusion.Ĭonsider, is there not in the best of you a body of death? Is not the root of rebellion planted in your natures? Is there not also a time for this wicked one to be revealed? While we perambulate variety, we walk but as so many Ghosts or Shadows in it, that it self being but the Umbrage of the Unity. ![]() We seem to live in the State of variety, wherein we are not truly living but only in appearance: in Unity is our life: in one we are, from one divided, we are no longer. "Man walketh in a vain shew, he shews to be a man, and that's all." "I LIVE ON THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE AND I DON'T NEED TO FEEL SECURE." ![]() To Ella, Maldoror and those who helped this adventure upon its way. ![]() ![]() That’s why so many scientists in Three Body Problem seem to be killing themselves, having faced similar revelations. ![]() The trouble with believing in science as an immutable understanding of the universe is that life and knowledge seem meaningless if those rules turn out to be fake. The introspective sci-fi story deals with Professor Wang Miao, an applied physicist working in nano-materials who starts seeing subtle things that defy scientific logic and reality. A full 17 years after its initial publication, Three Body Problem mania has swept China and soon, probably, the world, with animated, television, and upcoming film adaptations of the story being hot topics in that country’s popular culture landscape, with sequel books suggesting plenty more grist for the mill in the years to come. ![]() ![]() It’s similar to what you would find in a children’s fairytale book, and only sets to make the violence more unsettling. The artwork is soft, almost a watercolour effect which is a lot clearer in the detail of the backgrounds. I loved seeing her transform from a princess trying her best to someone stone cold as she loses sight of everything because of the horrors inflicted upon her. ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s loyal to her people and intent on doing what is right for them, but is completely roadblocked because of their flighty moods. In spite of this, I did feel myself caring more for Aurora than any other character. They are loyal to noone but their own changing moods, and it’s fascinating to read a story where not a single character is reliable. With how this starts, you wouldn’t think it could get darker. But it doe s. In a similar fashion to the fairies in Peter Pan, the creatures lack compassion or, they do have compassion, but it is quickly replaced: one moment friends, the next letting their friend’s die and moving on to another person out of convenience. ![]() When she emerges, we realise she wasn’t in a building: instead, she was inside the body of a dead girl. It begins with princess Aurora having tea with the boy she has a crush on, only for things to turn sour when their surroundings suddenly start collapsing. Beautiful Darkness is, at its core, an anti-fairytale. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Harvard professor Amy Cuddy's revolutionary book reveals, we don't need to embark on a grand spiritual quest or complete an inner transformation to harness the power of presence. Too often we approach our lives' biggest hurdles with dread, execute them with anxiety, and leave them with regret.īy accessing our personal power, we can achieve "presence," the state in which we stop worrying about the impression we're making on others and instead adjust the impression we've been making on ourselves. Have you ever left a nerve-racking challenge and immediately wished for a do over? Maybe after a job interview, a performance, or a difficult conversation? The very moments that require us to be genuine and commanding can instead cause us to feel phony and powerless. ![]() ![]() MORE THAN HALF A MILLION COPIES Learn the simple techniques you'll need to approach your biggest challenges with confidence. ![]() ![]() ![]() His 2006 novel We All Fall Down came in at #88 on the list of the bestselling 150 Canadian books of the past 10 years. He's penned over 100 books, including Camp X, The Power of Three and Run. (From Orca Book Publishers).Įric Walters is one of Canada's most prolific writers for young people. Bear in the Family tells the fictionalized story of a bear cub found by a family after the forest surrounding their home was destroyed by a wildfire. The latest Orca Echoes early chapter book from award-winning author Eric Walters was inspired by Eric's visit to a wildlife sanctuary in Northern British Columbia. The cub turns out to be exactly what one would expect of a wild animal-a huge handful! ![]() Rescuing the tiny cub from the well was the easy part now they need to care for it until the people from the bear-rescue sanctuary can make it safely through the fires to pick it up. Jasmin and Hunter did not expect to find an orphaned bear cub stuck in the neighbors' well. ![]() On returning to their home after a massive wildfire, nine-year-old Jasmin and her seven-year-old brother, Hunter, thought the biggest surprise would be whether their fire-resistant house had survived. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Balzac lays out how this intricate society works, and he does so not from a front-row seat but from on the stage itself. To present the plot without all that context would leave you with little more than a soapy melodrama. Balzac's book is as much about the world the characters circulate in as it is about the characters. It's hard to imagine another way to handle Balzac's obsessively comprehensive presentation of all aspects of Parisian society, the striations and hierarchies at play in the intersecting incestuous worlds of entertainment, media, finance, art, sex, etc. This could be seen as a negative, but in practice the voiceover-heavy sections are some of the film's most successful. ![]() Xavier Giannoli's film adaptation of Balzac's book leans heavily on voiceover, so much so that some sequences are practically an audiobook with images attached. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tamara Lawrance plays July, the series' main character. The adaptation explores many of the novel's themes, including colonialism, slavery, racism, violence and love. It follows the life of July ( Tamara Lawrance), an enslaved woman on a sugarcane plantation. The story is set in early-nineteenth-century colonial Jamaica, focusing on the final years of slavery on the island, including the Christmas Rebellion of 1831, and the transition to freedom that took place after its abolition in 1833. ![]() It premiered on BBC One on 18 December 2018 and aired in the US on PBS on Januas part of the network's long-running series Masterpiece. Produced by Heyday Television, its three episodes were adapted by Sarah Williams and directed by Mahalia Belo. The Long Song is a three-part BBC television serial, which is an adaptation of Andrea Levy's The Long Song, a 2010 historical novel. 2018 British TV series or program The Long Song ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose remarkable gift for companionship is epitomized by Almondine, Edgar's lifelong friend and ally. The extraordinary debut novel that became a modern classicīorn mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. ![]() |