6/12/2023 0 Comments Heat by Penny Reid![]() Fortunately or unfortunately for Kaitlyn, where she gives her trust she can’t help but also give her heart.īut how will the world beyond the sanctuary of their newfound connection react to their relationship? Soon senators, chinless billionaires, and elements beyond Martin and Kaitlyn’s control want to weigh in on the young couple’s future. When things heat up between Kaitlyn Parker and Martin-previously known as the jerk-faced bully-Sandeke, she places her trust in the one person she never thought capable of earning it, let alone keeping it safe. Kaitlyn is finding life outside of the science cabinet of obscurity to be quite illuminating …and so are her pants. What’s the worst (or the best) that could happen? **Blurb contains spoilers if you haven’t read Elements of Chemistry: ATTRACTION**Īnd maybe less of a jerk-faced bully than originally thought. ![]() Elements of Chemistry: HEAT is part 2 of a 3 part series (65k word novel) and ends in a cliffhanger. ![]()
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![]() ![]() How did I get this book: Review Copy from the Publisher When everything is gone, what do you hold on to? As Sloane eagerly waits for the barricades to fall, she’s forced to witness the apocalypse through the eyes of five people who actually want to live.īut as the days crawl by, the motivations for survival change in startling ways and soon the group’s fate is determined less and less by what’s happening outside and more and more by the unpredictable and violent bids for life-and death-inside. Now seems like the perfect time to give up. ![]() Six months ago, her world collapsed and since then, she’s failed to find a reason to keep going. To Sloane Price, that doesn’t sound so bad. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won’t stop pounding on the doors. Genre: Horror, Contemporary, Young Adult, Zombies ![]() ![]() ![]() Hurricane Lily by Rebecca Rogers Maher (contemporary romance). ![]() I'm really excited about this series, and I hope you check this one out. Angel and her girlfriends have some great scenes, too, and we get a really creepy, evil villain. Cole may look like a blond Clark Kent, but once he decides he wants Angel, he becomes a sexy Superman. This book is full of action and such a sexy hero. Angel and Cole end up tangled in this heist together, and their attraction to each other quickly makes things more complicated. ![]() He is undercover trying to bring down this crime lord. What she doesn't know is that Cole is a brilliant agent who works for a secret organization called The Association. She assumes he is just one of the security guards at the sleazy crime lord party they are crashing. During this heist, she meets Cole Hawkins. Angel left the thieving business behind five years ago, but when her best friend's aunt gets kidnapped, she agrees to help her girlfriends pull off one more diamond heist to pay the ransom. What a fun and sexy book! With the start of a new series, Carolyn Crane gives us a book filled with jewel thieves, secret organizations and fun, quirky characters. This week I have a really fun romantic suspense, an angsty contemporary and an erotic novella that I really enjoyed.Īgainst the Dark by Carolyn Crane (romantic suspense). ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Creativity incorporated book![]() ![]() ![]() For Cameron, there is no "creative elite" we are all creative, she says. It is subtitled A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity because, she tells BBC Culture, "creativity is, to my eye, a spiritual experience". Life is energy – pure creative energy," is the first of 10 basic principles to be found in Julia Cameron's bestselling creative guide, The Artist's Way. "Creativity is the natural order of life. Three ideas for how to live your best life But the word – which derives from the Latin creare, to make – is most often associated with the arts and culture, and is believed to have first appeared in the 14th-Century literary work, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. We know creativity is alive in all fields of life, from medicine to business and agriculture. While advertising supremo David Ogilvy came at it from a business perspective: "If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative". "Creativity is intelligence having fun," is a phrase often attributed to Einstein. Creativity, according to Maya Angelou, is a bottomless pit: "The more you use it, the more you have," said the novelist. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Aspidistra flying![]() ![]() Writing (thanks for info, Martha) so this might be a relevant meaning,īearing in mind Gordon's poetic self-disgust. There are several friendly refs to Horace in Orwell's letters and Yourself, prevent you from extricating yourself.What will emerge thatĬan live up to your extravagant promise? The mountains will go into Treatment.do not in imitating another writer plunge yourself intoĭifficulties from which shame, or the rules you have laid down for Made your own as long as you do not waste your time on a hackneyed Translation: ".A theme that is familiar can be ![]() This is in a section where Horace is talking of the difficulties for a Ridiculus mus which means "The mountains will go into labour and will In Horace's Ars Poetica comes the line Parturient montes, nascetur ![]() I found a few old Usenet (Google Groups) discussions about it, putting forward and supporting some theories. This appears to be a frequently asked question for Keep the Aspidistra Flying, and while there's no fully confirmed answer, there is at least a prominent theory. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Joker scott snyder![]() ![]() Snyder has confirmed what readers inferred, speaking to website IGN: “So what I’m saying is, yes, they’re dead – and they went into it ready to die so there’s no trick to it”. “I’m just going to rest here a little while with my friend,” says Batman. Exhausted, both wounded, it ends with the two of them lying on a cave floor. ![]() There was always going to be a climactic battle – and it is one of the most gruesome in the comic’s recent history, with a highpoint being the Joker being skewered by the ears on Batman’s costume. The previous issue, in which the Joker lopped off Alfred Pennyworth’s hand, seemed to show that all bets were off in terms of game-changing developments.īut none of this prepared readers for the twist in the final part. ![]() Equal to the Joker’s mysteriousness has been the sense that he is nonetheless just as mortal, just as lacking in superpowers, as Batman. Certain groups of fans bridled at this swerve towards the magical. In Endgame itself, there were constant hints that the Joker was not just a psychopathic man, but an immortal, legendary figure with supernatural powers, a “Pale Man” haunting Gotham’s history. ![]() DC Comics’ Batman #40 cover, by Danny Miki and Greg Capullo. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Milkman book review![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We try to adopt a one-size-fits-all approach, when it’s much more effective to tailor your strategies to your specific challenges and weaknesses. When it comes to building habits and making changes, many of us make a similar mistake. This fuelled his resurgence to become the first unseeded tennis player in 28 years to win a U.S. Under Gilbert’s coaching, Agassi adopted a different approach-to analyze and target his opponents’ specific weaknesses. His new coach Brad Gilbert pointed out that Agassi was trying to make every shot a perfect killer shot, but ended up losing confidence each time he failed to knock out his opponent. In 1994, tennis professional Andre Agassi was feeling frustrated by his underperformance. Do check out our book summary bundle in pdf/mp3 infographic, text and audio formats! In this How to Change summary, you’ll get an overview of the strategies to help you achieve any desired change. By tailoring your strategies to your circumstances, you can successfully build new habits and achieve your goals. In this book, Katy Milkman explains the key obstacles to change, and identifies the specific strategies you can use to counter each obstacle. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Izakaya by Mark Robinson![]() ![]() ![]() Readers of this essential book will be guided through the different styles of establishments and recipes that make izakaya such relaxing and appealing destinations. As a matter of fact, a recent article in The New York Times claimed that the izakaya is "starting to shove the sushi bar off its pedestal." While Japan has many guidebooks and cookbooks, this is the first publication in English to delve into every aspect of a unique and vital cornerstone of Japanese food culture.Ī venue for socializing and an increasingly innovative culinary influence, the izakaya serves mouth-watering and inexpensive small-plate cooking, along with free-flowing drinks. Japanese pubs, called izakaya, are attracting growing attention in Japan and overseas. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The scarlets by madeleine roux![]() ![]() A new feeling knotted up in his gut, almost sharp enough to make him sick. The door shut slowly but with a hard snap at the end, as if to say she was leaving them alone but wasn’t happy about it. “Oh, I wouldn’t worry.” Roger-his dear old dad-managed a wry laugh. “Of course.” Cal could just imagine her rolling those beady eyes of hers. “This is the third time, Roger,” Professor Reyes was saying. It wasn’t exactly comfortable, but it was better than keeping his eyes open and feeling the light pierce straight through to the back of his skull. His head pounded, that sour taste in his mouth making his stomach turn. Maybe you should ask better questions, lady. The way she rolled her eyes when she posed a question and no hands went up. His mouth tasted sour and the world spun, everything skewed and fuzzy. His cheek stuck to the desk a little as he jerked his head up. When Cal woke up, the classroom was empty. Excerpt from Warden Crawford’s journal, spring 1953 It will be bigger, yes, and accordingly it will consume me that much more. I crave and dread to know what I will want then. When I achieve this-if, not when-it will surely cease to be the core of my longing. ![]() ![]() I myself desire a legacy that reaches beyond my own small life, perhaps even into immortality. The things we want are only thus because we cannot have them. There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Night sky with exit wounds amazon![]() ![]() The first season also received critical acclaim and was highly praised for its performances, visuals, narrative, themes and soundtrack from Ramin Djawadi. Westworld 's first season is the most-watched first season of any HBO original series. Westworld 's debut on HBO had the network's highest viewership ratings for a premiere since the first episode of True Detective, in 2014. The series was removed from HBO Max on December 18, 2022. However, in November 2022, it was announced that HBO had canceled the series. Nolan and Joy planned a fifth and final season, and were in negotiations with HBO to produce it. The second, third, and fourth season followed in April 2018, March 2020, and June 2022, respectively. ![]() ![]() Later on, the series' setting expands to the real world, in the mid-21st century, where people's lives are driven and controlled by a powerful artificial intelligence named Rehoboam. The park caters to high-paying guests who may indulge their wildest fantasies within the park without fear of retaliation from the hosts, who are prevented by their programming from harming humans. The story begins in Westworld, a fictional, technologically advanced Wild-West-themed amusement park populated by android "hosts". It is based upon the 1973 film of the same name written and directed by Michael Crichton and loosely upon its 1976 sequel, Futureworld. Westworld is an American dystopian science fiction western television series created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy that first aired on October 2, 2016, on HBO. ![]() |