Land of Unreason by L. Sprague de Camp6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() At the end of Fred Barber's quest lay a shattering revelation. ![]() And, as the adventure continued, somehow it darkened and became more seriousness. Danger, seduction and magic lay all around him. Through the fields and forests he went, meeting dryads and sprites, ogres and two-headed eagles, on the way. He was given a magic wand - but not told how to use it. ![]() He had to penetrate the Kobold Hills, where it was said that swords were being made, and discover if an ancient enemy had returned. This made the mssion with which he was entrusted, as the price of his return to the normal world, even harder than he expected. The natural - or supernatural - laws there were, to say the least of it, distinctly odd. At the Court of King Oberon, to be precise. Barber found himself in an Old English Fairyland. So he had only himself to blame if the fairies got a bit muddled. He swapped the milk for a stiff dose of Scotch. Unfortunately - or fortunately - Fred Barber, an American diplomat convalescing in Yorkshire, didn't take the obligation with proper seriousness. On Midsummer's Eve, as everybody knows, you should leave a bowl of milk out for the fairies. ![]()
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Lord of the Deep by Dawn Thompson6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Simeon, noting Megaleen's excited voyeurism, soon returns and pulls her to his underwater lair, where he quickly and forcefully takes it to the next level. i suppose this must be that "love at first sight" thing that i hear about so often. ![]() how exactly they fall in love without having even the slightest clue about each other's personality, without even conversing, without any kind of anything really. Megaleen has fallen head over heels in love fortunately, Simeon feels likewise. from that point on, Megaleen moans and quivers and gushes just when thinking of Simeon - the girl literally can't keep her hands off of herself throughout the novel. her eyes remain rapt upon his gigantic, "savagely engorged" selkie-shaft during his various exertions. they are led by a selkie prince - Simeon, Lord of the Deep - who immediately captures Megaleen's heart, and more. Young Megaleen, future witch, gazes from her window and witnesses a magical midnight event: selkies coming from the sea, to strip off their sealskins and engage in an apparently typical selkie beachside orgy. Warning: Adult Situations and Language ahead: ![]() Here is new york essay6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() For decades, White appeared regularly in the New Yorker. White is famous for numerous books and essays, many of which share a theme: close observation of the world around him, from the streets of Manhattan to a pig fattening in his barn. And so, after stumbling on a quote from the book, I began reading E. When I moved here, I needed to orient myself to the do’s and don’ts of this strange and exciting new city. “Do not touch it! It is New York.”Īdvice was welcome. “Naman, do not touch that,” screamed a friend as I leaned over to grab the handrail on the escalator at a subway station. ![]() ![]() I am new to the city, so people give me advice all the time. How does it matter if the bag is on the train or the platform?” She heard me, picked up the bag, left the train, and threw it on the platform instead.Ī man sitting in front of me chided me sarcastically. I repeatedly asked a lady wearing Apple headphones to pick up a plastic bag she dropped while exiting the subway train. Image credit: Susan Law Cain / Shutterstock ![]() Miracle creek angie kim summary6/10/2023 ![]() But then the chamber explodes, two people die, and it’s clear the explosion wasn’t an accident.Ī powerful showdown unfolds as the story moves across characters who are all maybe keeping secrets, hiding betrayals. In a small town in Virginia, a group of people know each other because they’re part of a special treatment center, a hyperbaric chamber that may cure a range of conditions from infertility to autism. How far will you go to protect your family? Will you keep their secrets? Ignore their lies? The “gripping… page-turner” ( Time) hitting all the best of summer reading lists, Miracle Creek is perfect for book clubs and fans of Liane Moriarty and Celeste Ng WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL ![]() The King's Prey by Susan Peek6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Virtue Lady,” is masterminding a massive project, and I am honored to be a part of her amazing vision. ![]() But the psychology of child development is beyond the scope of this post.)Īs a Catholic mom, how do I instill in my concrete-thinking, talking-backpack-loving children, a love of quiet heroism? Or, to use a term more specific to the vocabulary of our Christian faith, a love of virtue? Is there a book or something?Ĭathy Gilmore, aka “Mrs. (Although, “concrete” becomes a bit blurred when we get into discussions about talking cars and backpacks. ![]() Such is the concrete mind of a young child. But the glamor of shiny, bullet-deflecting bracelets and invisible jets tended to tweak my childhood interest a tad more than things like washing my friends’ feet or going last. As a cradle Catholic, I’m sure I knew, deep-down, that Jesus’ teachings didn’t exactly support that message. “Go big or go home” is an attitude a lot of us grew up with. ![]() The american dirt6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() A petition calling for Oprah to rescind her book choice was signed by dozens of Latin American writers, and some reviewers started clambering over the fence. American Dirt was quickly labelled “trauma porn”. ![]() When Gurba’s article was picked up by The New York Times, it went viral. Boasting of “zealously hate-reading the book”, Gurba accused Cummins of cultural appropriation (Cummins is not Mexican), of filling her novel with stereotypes, and of exploiting “the gringo appetite for Mexican pain”. ![]() The article, Pendeja, You Ain’t Steinbeck: My Bronca with Fake-Ass Social Justice Literature by Myriam Gurba, a self-identifying queer Mexican-American writer, called American Dirt “an obra de caca” (a work of shit). The truth of their humanity is this gap in the middle that I felt like many people haven’t really thought about, so I think that’s what they were responding to.”īut while early reviews were mostly positive, an extraordinarily vitriolic piece, published on an obscure academic blog called Tropics of Meta a month before the book came out, proved to be a game-changer. “We have these political narratives from the Right and the Left, and everyone paints migrants with their own preconceived notions either they need our help and we need to save them, or they’re rapists and murderers. “The ways in which we’re engaged in the story of migration in this country tend to be very superficial,” she says. ![]() New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT. ![]() Tales of the shadowhunter6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() So when the Shadowhunter Academy reopens, Simon throws himself into this new world of demon-hunting, determined to find himself again. ![]() And when Clary and Isabelle look at him, expecting him to be a man he doesn’t remember…Simon can’t take it. He knows he was friends with Clary, and that he convinced the total goddess Isabelle Lightwood to go out with him…but he doesn’t know how. But the events of City of Heavenly Fireleft him stripped of his memories, and Simon isn’t sure who he is anymore. Simon Lewis has been a human and a vampire, and now he is becoming a Shadowhunter. Hope you enjoy! (The synopsis below gives heaps of it away anyways) It’s amazing to be back in the Shadowhunter world! I’ve missed it so dearly that I nearly cried when I first started the book! This review contains very mildspoilers as I would assume people have read The Mortal Instruments before even thinking about reading this. ![]() Carolyn keene books6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Carolyn Keene’s most popular book is The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew Mystery Stor. Not until 1980, when she testified in a court case involving the Stratemeyer Syndicate and its publishers, did it begin to become commonly known that Benson wrote the text of the first Nancy Drew books, following the outlines provided by Edward Stratemeyer. Carolyn Keene has 1248 books on Goodreads with 1574063 ratings. The books are ghostwritten by a number of authors and published under the collective pseudonym Carolyn Keene. While Benson never hid the fact that she wrote the text for the Nancy Drew books, the Stratemeyer Syndicate made it a practice to require that its writers remain anonymous and listed Carolyn Keene as the author of the Nancy Drew series. Benson received a flat fee of $125 from the Stratemeyer Syndicate for each book for which she was the writer. The Hardy Boys, The Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift, and Nancy Drew were among the series created through the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Stratemeyer created the characters and developed outlines of the plots for a variety of children's series and the Syndicate hired ghostwriters to turn them into books. The Stratemeyer Syndicate was established by author and entrepreneur Edward Stratemeyer for the purpose of developing children's book series. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2014, the book Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death was adapted into a full-length television movie. There were five different full-cast radio dramatizations of various Raisin stories that had been broadcast by the BBC.Ī few Agatha Raisin books were also adapted into a brief television series that aired in the UK on Sky 1. Raisin had been played by Penelope Keith. The Agatha Raisin series of books has been made into a radio series that has aired in the United Kingdom on BBC Radio 4. Her stories have even been made into a short-run television series in the United Kingdom. She is beloved by her fans for being a character whom is powerful and independent but also knows that she is not perfect. ![]() She has since appeared in more than twenty books. Raisin first appeared in 1992 in the novel Agatha Raising and the Quiche of Death. ![]() The rose code author6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything-beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses-but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. ![]() As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over.ġ940. "The reigning queen of historical fiction" - Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenu e ![]() |