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The sundown motel goodreads5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() James has raised the standards of paranormal mysteries for me exponentially. The characters are good, but slightly one-dimensional. What begins as a promise to scare you ends up being a small town mystery for a large chunk of it. Back in 1800s, Sara was killed mysteriously with her body found skinned in front of her house, her child had been found dead a month before he was killed, and her husband killed himself by shooting his own face after finding his wife dead – being accused of madness and murder. ![]() Why would someone want to read a diary only meant to be cursed and written about some really bad, demonic things that still lurk within the woods? Well. The previous owner of the house in the 1800s, Sara is whose diary is coveted by most, people even ready to kill for her diary. The whole book runs in two parallel timelines of past and present. She finds some mysterious clues about how the place she lives in may actually things, creatures and entities that have only been rumoured to exist so far. She finds a diary written by an owner who lived in the house she lives in now, about a century ago. The book is about Ruthie, who lives in a remote town of West Hall in Vermont, with no internet, and minimal contact with the main settlement. ![]() It has creepy vibes, sure but it’s not something I’d even palpitate over. ![]()
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![]() I really enjoyed to get the backstory to Cardan, and to understand his mixed feelings of hate, love, desire and longing, and the reasons for his actions in The Cruel Prince.Īll in all, this was the perfect addition to The Folk of the Air series and a book that made me so happy! Everything in this book had a beautiful fairytale kind of vibe to it and the illustrations by Rovina Cai were simply amazing and added so much to the story and to the overall luxury feeling of this book. I loved how Holly Black managed to show that he wasn’t born cruel, but how his heart turned into stone because of the cruel things that happened to him. ![]() The character development that Cardan has undergone through the series is just amazing, and it’s so wonderfully described via these short stories. How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories is an illustrated novella that takes us back to the Elfhame universe, but this time from Cardan’s perspective and with added stories from his childhood before The Cruel Prince and all the way to adventures beyond The Queen of Nothing. ![]()
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Books like sputnik sweetheart5/24/2023 ![]() Many of his novels have themes and titles that invoke classical music, such as the three books making up The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: The Thieving Magpie (after Rossini's opera), Bird as Prophet (after a piano piece by Robert Schumann usually known in English as The Prophet Bird), and The Bird-Catcher (a character in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute). Shortly before finishing his studies, Murakami opened the coffeehouse 'Peter Cat' which was a jazz bar in the evening in Kokubunji, Tokyo with his wife. ![]() His first job was at a record store, which is where one of his main characters, Toru Watanabe in Norwegian Wood, works. ![]() Murakami studied drama at Waseda University in Tokyo, where he met his wife, Yoko. He grew up reading a range of works by American writers, such as Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and he is often distinguished from other Japanese writers by his Western influences. Since childhood, Murakami has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly Western music and literature. His work has been described as 'easily accessible, yet profoundly complex'. Murakami Haruki (Japanese: 村上 春樹) is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. ![]()
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![]() The clientele is Grade A certified prime beef, with the manly, meaty endowments to match. ![]() Morning Glory Milking Farm offers full-time hours, full benefits, and generous pay with no experience needed. When a lifeline appears in the form of a very unconventional job in neighboring Cambric Creek, she has no choice but to grab at it with both hands. Violet is a typical, down-on-her-luck millennial: mid-twenties, over-educated and drowning in debt, on the verge of moving into her parent's basement. The clientele is Grade A certified prime beef, with the manly, meaty endowments to. ![]() ![]()
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Sammy's Hill by Kristin Gore5/24/2023 ![]() But when the going gets really tough, Sammy proves she's better than all the rest by standing up for what she believes in - and beating the boys at their own game. When Sammy falls for Aaron, a devastatingly handsome hotshot speech writer for a rival senator, she manages to juggle lobbying and the high stakes of a presidential election campaign with late night assignations like a pro, until she mistakenly broadcasts an email message meant for Aaron involving whipped cream and lingerie to 200 power players in Washington. ![]() ![]() And when she's not rushing her Japanese fighting fish off for emergency resuscitation or making time to celebrate significant events like the 29th anniversary of 'The Partridge Family' series finale, she's encouraging her favourite telemarketers to call more often. Ever since she was a child she's been obsessed with being prepared for anything, from fending off a sudden attack by wild animals on the run from a nearby zoo to practising dressing for work with only one arm, just in case. ![]() Smart, hardworking and idealistic, Samantha Joyce is making her mark in Washington as a brilliant young analyst for an up-and-coming senator. The West Wing meets Sex and the City in this sharply funny portrait of Capital Hill seen through the eyes of an unusual new recruit. ![]()
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Restore Me by Tahereh Mafi5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() It was a set up, and next thing you know… Blink and you’ll lose your Supreme Leader. But the symposium didn’t quiet play out like we first thought. Remember when we thought Juliette accidentally slaughtered hundreds of people with her voice? Well, sike! Don’t get it wrong, Juliette is a powerhouse. It wasn’t a death… it was a perfect illusion. ![]() Now, from here on out, there are SPOILERS!!!Īnd once more for good measure, SPOILERS!! ![]() And now is the perfect time to recap, as the final book, Imagine Me, is just around the corner!ĭefy Me Recap: Everything You Need To Know For one, it’s the first full length novel in which Kenji gets a perspective!!! Even more, we get to learn more about this cast of character’s before we came to meet them in Shatter Me.įor anyone who wants a refresher before dipping into this recap, we have recaps for Shatter Me, Unravel Me, Ignite Me, and Restore Me. Without spoiling anything (yet-spoilers to come) there are some big changes in this book. Right from the first page, we were IN! And then we had our minds blown for next 356 pages. We just have to say, Tahereh Mafi did it again with Defy Me. ![]()
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An Officer's Duty by Jean Johnson5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() “There were some things that happened during the civil unrest, during the pandemic in which the officers were the only people, along with the Fire Department, who had to still go out on the street. They didn’t feel support from previous administrations.” Waller described himself as “old-school with integrity, professionalism and respect.”Īsked what it will take to restore morale among the rank and file, Waller said, “The main thing is support. We must rebuild trust and we must rebuild morale in the department. “If there’s one thing that could bring me out of retirement, it was this opportunity to lead and return to the place that I’ve given so much of my life to. “This is a moment for our city,” Waller said after he was introduced. Eric Carter, whose resignation takes effect May 15, inauguration day for Johnson and the new City Council. ![]()
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Quiet by Susan Cain5/23/2023 ![]() She gives introverts the tools to better understand themselves and take full advantage of their strengths.īefore reading 'Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking" I knew of differing temperaments, and that I was definitely at the introverted side of the spectrum. In Quiet, Susan Cain shows how the brain chemistry of introverts and extroverts differs and how society misunderstands and undervalues introverts. Introverts feel reproached for being the way they are. Shyness, sensitivity and seriousness are often seen as being negative. Without them, we wouldn't have the Apple computer, the theory of relativity and Van Gogh's sunflowers. Some of the world's most talented people are introverts. This defines who our friends and lovers are, which careers we choose and whether we blush when we're embarrassed.Īt least a third of us are on the introverted side. ![]() Our lives are driven by a fact most of us can't name and don't understand: whether we're an introvert or an extrovert. ![]() Quiet, the Sunday Times and New York Times best seller by Susan Cain, will permanently change how we see introverts - and how you see yourself. ![]()
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The pirates of somalia by jay bahadur5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, as portrayed by Peters, Bahadur is an annoying wiseass, even though he does eventually become an acknowledged authority on Somalia. Since Bahadur’s a stoner, he understands this well. So Bahadur schedules interviews with Somali bigwigs, all of whom expect to be bribed with the local drug khat, a chewable narcotic easily purchased in the open marketplace. ![]() At the airport, Bahadur is met by translator Abdi (Barkhad Abdi, Oscar-nominated for Captain Phillips), who advises him not to accept CBS News’s offer of $1,000 for hostage footage from a ship captured by Somali pirates. Having written a term paper on Somalia, Bahadur borrows money from his mother (Melanie Griffith) to travel to the country, where he hopes to meet with its newly-elected president about the complex socioeconomics of this region that was once known as a "land of poets" where people resolved their disputes with language. Tired of being rejected by leading magazines, wannabe Canadian journalist Jay Bahadur (Evan Peters) relishes a chance encounter with his idol, newspaperman Seymour Tobin (Al Pacino), who urges him to find a crazy, compelling story and pursue it. This dramedy delves deeper into the culture of Somalia and its precarious democracy. The Tom Hanks film Captain Phillips brought the issue of piracy and hijackings of cargo ships on the Indian Ocean off the Horn of Africa into the public eye. ![]()
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The secret history similar books5/23/2023 ![]() Repressed sexuality-of all kinds-ran like a river of hot lava throughout, now and then bursting into startling flame. The plot was dark and breathless and tumbling, the writing simple and clean and compelling, filled with images so beautiful they cleared the nasal passages. ![]() The book was infused with the thrill of the life of the mind, but its true secret was that its pleasures were visceral. Housman-and, just as easily, to TV, movies, and fast food. Until I read the novel in question: Donna Tartt's The Secret History.įrom the first sentence- The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation-I was drawn almost feverishly into what turned out to be, of all things, an intellectual thriller: a murder mystery whose core characters were a group of classicists at a small New England college, likely to break out at any moment into Latin or Attic Greek a page-turner that made easy reference to T. ![]() And so when Vanity Fair assigned me, in the spring of 1992, to profile the author of that fall's big, hot novel, a first novel that had fetched an advance of close to a million dollars, my initial reaction, as a recent first-novelist myself who had garnered some moderately good reviews and sold a couple of thousand books, was envious and dismissive. Writers, against all reason (and whatever we pretend), are competitive creatures. ![]() |