5/20/2023 0 Comments Haruki murakami dark nightThey meet each other not on purpose but by accidental circumstances that force them to admit one to another a common major truth. A room that seems to float into space, with a bed, a ‘'paranormal” T.V set and a haunting, abnormal male figure sitting in a chair.ĭo these people romantically blend into the night? I guess not. While the “deviation” is culminating with the help of Murakami's mesmerizing use of language, we observe Eri deeply sleeping in the unsettling environment of a room that is taken straight from a traditional Japanese horror story. There's a voyeuristic sense when we first notice Mari sitting alone in a table and later when Tetsuya randomly accompanies her in a casual dinner and subsequently takes her out in a date in the park. From the very first page of the book, Haruki Murakami introduces us to voyeurism. The reader is quickly identified as a no stranger to this kind of characters. Of course, there's always a seemingly preppy pervert hidden in the night named Shirakawa and a team of good Samaritans in an unfitted place, a love hotel named Alphaville, Kaoru, Korogi, and Komugi. Another might practice his trombone with his jazz band until the first morning hours like Tetsuya Takahashi – a proper slacker. One may read a book in a family restaurant like Mari Asai. A variety of activities can be done after midnight next to sleeping.
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I bring that up because my thoughts here are going to be undeniably ranty and I want to re-establish the fact that I have not been, like, hate-reading Ali Hazelwood from the start. The possibilities have all her neurons firing.īut when it comes time to actually make a move and put her heart on the line, there's only one question that matters: What will Bee Königswasser do?īefore we get into Love On the Brain, I would like to take a second and remind everyone that I gave The Love Hypothesis 5 whole stars LESS THAN A YEAR AGO. But Levi made his feelings toward Bee very clear in grad school - archenemies work best employed in their own galaxies far, far away.īut when her equipment starts to go missing and the staff ignore her, Bee could swear she sees Levi softening into an ally, backing her plays, seconding her ideas. Sure, Levi is attractive in a tall, dark, and piercing-eyes kind of way. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesis-with explosive results.īee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project - a literal dream come true - Marie would accept without hesitation. 5/20/2023 0 Comments Les miserables julie roseHe writes on various subjects for The New Yorker and has recently written introductions to works by Maupassant, Balzac, Proust, and Alain-Fournier. Adam Gopnik is the author of Paris to the Moon and Through the Children’s Gate, and editor of the Library of America anthology Americans in Paris. She is a recipient of the PEN medallion for translation and the New South Wales Premier’s Translation Prize. Julie Rose’s acclaimed translations include Alexandre Dumas’s The Knight of Maison-Rouge and Racine’s Phèdre, as well as works by Paul Virilio, Jacques Rancière, Chantal Thomas, and many others. Hugo returned to France in 1870 after the proclamation of the Third Republic. The novel-turned-musical has been released for film and television now 67 times in the past 115 years. He served in France’s National Assemblies in the Second Republic formed after the 1848 revolution, and in 1851 went into self-imposed exile upon the ascendance of Napoleon III, who restored France’s government to authoritarian rule. The new stage-to-screen adaptation of Les Misérables (which releases today) is proof again of the enduring power of Victor Hugo’s 150-year-old masterpiece. As a statesman, he was named a Peer of France in 1845. Hugo was elected to the Académie Française in 1841. Victor Hugo (1802-85), novelist, poet, playwright, and French national icon, is best known for two of today’s most popular world classics: Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, as well as other works, including The Toilers of the Sea and The Man Who Laughs. 5/20/2023 0 Comments Crime Rave by Sezín KoehlerSezin joined Looper in June of 2019 and has been exploring her love of a variety of visual media, but in particular her most favorite horror shows "American Horror Story" and "Dexter." When she's not writing about movies and television, she tends to the endangered monarch butterfly sanctuary in her yard as well as rescuing badly wounded orchids and bringing them back to life, kind of like Hannah McKay. She released her second novel "Crime Rave" in 2017 independently. Sezin Koehler is a weekly contributor to pop-culture site Looper and a film/TV critic for Black Girl Nerds, among many other bylines. She wrote her first horror novel "American Monsters" at 20, and it finally got picked up by indie publisher Ghostwoods Books in 2011, over a decade later. She’s the author of indie horror novels American Monsters and Crime Rave, and writes from a small Florida beach town where she raises orchids and endangered monarch butterflies in her yard. A horror aficionada essentially since birth, much of Sezin's pop-culture analysis has explored the dark beauty and raw power of this oft-maligned genre as seen in her writings for Black Girl Nerds, Bitch Magazine, Wear Your Voice, Huffington Post, and more. Sezn Koehler is a weekly contributor to Looper, a film critic for Black Girl Nerds, and has bylines in Medium, The List, Bitch Media, and many more. Sezin has been working in publishing on both the writing and editorial sides since 2002, and shifted almost exclusively to writing about pop-culture in 2018 when she joined the Black Girl Nerds movie and TV review team. The end of this story had me staring at my e-reader with my mouth gaping, thinking, "Wait! What? What does that mean?" ~ Sarah, Musings of the Modern Belle " WHAT THE HECK DID I JUST READ? Meghan March has seriously upped her alpha romance, sassy heroine, unexpected plot twist game. This is Meghan March at her best." ~ Mile High KINK Book Club " Ruthless King is a must read for all romantic suspense readers who crave some dark elements. THIS is the type of romance that I LIVE FOR! Brutally beautiful and one of the SEXIEST reads of the year! Meghan March is CONQUERING this genre! ~ Shayna Renee, Shayna Renee's Spicy Reads I couldn't put it down and Lachlan Mount left me begging for more!" ~ K.A. "Seductive and addicting with a bruising pace that never let up. "Mind blown in the best possible way! Ruthless King is a 5 STAR READ!" ~ Carly Phillips, Wall Street Journal and NY Times Bestselling Author Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-239) and index To support this point, Keeley provides a wide-ranging look at warfare and brutality in the prehistoric world Lawrence Keeley's groundbreaking War Before Civilization offers a devastating rebuttal to such comfortable myths and debunks the notion that warfare was introduced to primitive societies through contact with civilization (an idea he denounces as "the pacification of the past")īuilding on much fascinating archeological and historical research and offering an astute comparison of warfare in civilized and prehistoric societies, from modern European nations to the Plains Indians of North America, War Before Civilization convincingly demonstrates that prehistoric warfare was in fact more deadly, more frequent, and more ruthless than modern war. Prehistoric warfare, according to this view, was little more than a ritualized game, where casualties were limited and the effects of aggression relatively mild. Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, unimportant, and, like smallpox, a disease of civilized societies alone. The myth of the peace-loving "noble savage" is persistent and pernicious. 5/20/2023 0 Comments Pretty guilty women gina lamannaThe weekend is filled with bonding, lots of champagne, and no shortage of melodrama, but no one expects murder. Kate becomes fond of the young woman and her baby, Lydia, but something’s off about Sydney. The wild card is young mother Sydney Banks. Then there’s elegant 68-year-old Lulu Franc, the groom's aunt, whose fifth husband, Pierce, is acting squirrelly. Little does Ginger know, the loss of a child years ago has Emily drowning her sorrows in alcohol and a fling with handsome Henry, whom she met, and had sex with, on the plane. Her 15-year-old daughter, Elsie, is up to something, and Ginger must face her ex– best friend, Emily Brown, whom she caught drunkenly making out with Frank in college. Ginger Adler is a harried and married mom of three who is tired of being the “responsible one” compared to her beloved but free-spirited husband, Frank, and hopes for some peace and quiet, which is not to be. Gorgeous and successful lawyer Kate Cross has everything she’s ever wanted, except for a baby, and her boyfriend, Max, fed up with the stress of trying to conceive, dumps her at the resort’s front desk. The DeBleu-Banks weekend wedding extravaganza is underway at the Serenity Spa & Resort, and three college friends of the bride are about to be reunited after nearly two decades. Four women confess to the murder of one man during a wild wedding weekend at a swanky California resort. 5/20/2023 0 Comments Castle book by david macaulayThey also can be enjoyed in admission-free public screenings, which also makes them ideal for use by library patrons and businesses involved in community clubs and organizations. David Macaulay is the author and illustrator of more than twenty-five books including Cathedral, Pyramid, and Castle. Macaulay’s challenge, in making this book, has been to look at the stones of castles in Wales and to let them tell their story. AV versions come with limited performance rights so they can be shown in classrooms, at PTA meetings, during after school programs, and transmitted on a closed-circuit system within a building or on a single campus. Despite loving David Macaulays PBS programs Castle and Cathedral since childhood, I had never read this book until now. Essays and criticism on David Macaulays Castle - Critical Essays. Why the AV version? Because it provides additional usage options for PBS videos. Detailed animation dramatizes the building of the castle and portrays the lifestyle of the early inhabitants. His first book, Cathedral (1973), was a history, extensively illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings, of the construction of a fictitious but representative Gothic cathedral. Author David Macaulay, who wrote and illustrated the best-selling book of the same title, leads viewers on a castle tour, explaining its cultural and sociological significance and its architectural design. Macaulay is the author of several books on architecture and design. CASTLE combines colorful animation with live-action documentary sequences to tell the story of a 13th-century Welsh castle. The Lady Hellion (Wicked Deceptions Book 3) by Joanna Shupe- $1.99 for a limited time.īrock Lassiter has it all: good looks, good health, and the best job in the world. Soon all Quint knows for certain is that he will die trying to protect her… Yet that fight is as hopeless as stopping her outlandish plan. A woman with a perilously absurd request, no less! For Damien is fighting a battle of his own, one he wishes to keep hidden–along with his feelings for Lady Sophia. The last thing Damien Beecham, Viscount Quint, needs is an intrusion on his privacy, especially from the beautiful, exasperating woman he’s never stopped wanting. But only one person can help her: Lord Quint, the man who broke her heart years ago. All she needs is instruction on how to shoot it. Now her fate is in her own hands, along with a loaded gun. She’s not concerned about the criminals who will cross her path, for Sophie has mastered the art of deception–including the art of wearing trousers. Especially when she’s roaming London’s seedy underground…dressed as a man.Ī rabble rouser for justice, Sophie’s latest mission is to fight for the rights of the poor, the wretched–and the employees at Madame Hartley’s brothel. Lady Sophia Barnes doesn’t take no for an answer. 5/19/2023 0 Comments Rudyard kipling kim bookSoon after, Kim notices the symbol of his father’s team on a flag and Kim is forced to leave the Tibetan Lama and go back to school to become a Sahib. Without his knowledge, Kim delivers a message from a British secret service agent to an Officer. While he was enjoying this new adventure, Mahbub Ali, a stallion merchant asks him to run an errand for him. Excited about the Lama’s quest, Kim decided to join him. One day, a priest passed through Lahore in his search for the sacred stream. The main characters in the novel are Kim, a Tibetan priest in search of a sacred watercourse Mahbub Ali, a merchant in horses and a secret service agent colonel Creighton, the administrator of the secret service and a member of Maverick regiment Chunder Mookerjee, a secret service agent who assists Kim in carrying out a mission. His life on the streets is full of dangerous exploits like fighting and extortion. With no one to look after him, Kim earned his keep by begging on the avenues of Lahore and doing small favors. He was able to pass for an Indian even though he was White. Living under the scorching Indian sun, Kim’s skin pigment became so dark that no one could imagine he was white. |