King of chaos eva ashwood read online6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() To let their demons loose on me.īut maybe these Kings of Chaos have let my pretty face fool them.īecause I'm just as vicious as they are. ![]() ![]() Even though they've agreed to help me, I know they want to punish me too. They’ll give me a chance to exact my vengeance, and in exchange, all they want is me. Lucky for me, the last name on my list is someone they’ve got their own grudge against, so instead of killing me, they offer me a deal. But it turns out revenge is a messy business, and when I end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, I royally piss off four brutal, twisted, gorgeous men. Six people who turned me into the monster I am now. Six people who wronged me, who hurt me, who took everything from me. Some people wear their heart on their sleeve. ![]()
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Ebony ladelle books6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() However, when an opportunity arises for him to date the girl of his dreams, Prince seizes it. Most of his time is spent taking care of his younger brother and disabled mother. He works as a radio DJ, giving out advice on love, but ironically Prince’s own life is lacking in the romance department. Meanwhile, her classmate Prince Jones has had a crush on her since middle school. Her sole refuge lies in writing letters to her idols-Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, bell hooks-sharing her thoughts and feelings. However, since experiencing a traumatic assault last year-something she has kept secret from her family and closest friends-Dani has been unable to write or socialize like before. She dreams of becoming an author like the Black women writers she looks up to and has spent years honing her skills. ![]() A story of Black love in its many beautiful forms.ĭanielle Ford is in her senior year of high school in Detroit. ![]() Foundlings by Cindy O'Quinn6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Member of HWA, NESW, NEHW, SFPA, Horror Writers of Maine, and Weird Poets Society. Her work has been published in the HWA Poetry Showcase Vol V, Nothing’s Sacred Vol 4, Sanitarium Magazine, Blood Moon Rising Magazine, Lycan Valley Press, Deadman’s Tome, Bewildering Stories, Rat’s Ass Review, Black Petals, Rag Queen Periodical, Moonchild Magazine, The Paragon Journal, Star*Line, SFPA Halloween Poetry Reading 2018, and The 2017 Rhysling Anthology. TikTok video from Drew Starling (scarystarling): FOUNDLINGS by Cindy OQuinn and Stephanie Ellis horrortok booktok horrorbooktok scarystories. They spent many a weekend in the 70’s going to the local drive in theaters.Ĭindy is the author of Dark Cloud on Naked Creek, and the dark poetry collection, Return to Graveyard Dust, which made it to the 2017 HWA Bram Stoker preliminary ballot. ![]() She has had a longtime love of everything horror, thanks to her mom who started her at a very young age. ![]() In 2016 Cindy, along with her husband and sons, made the move from Virginia to the northern woods of Maine and started homesteading. Cindy O’Quinn is an Appalachian writer who grew up in the mountains of West Virginia. Foundlings by Cindy O’Quinn and Stephanie Ellis A conversation not long ago with the wonderful poet and writer, Cindy O’Quinn triggered this collaboration. ![]() Etta and otto6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() If Wes Anderson's stylised dream worlds make you happy, you need a copy of Etta and Otto and Russell and James. Her debut novel is a magical, big-hearted book about one woman's walk to the sea. ![]() Luminous debut.there's a lovely musicality to her prose - care and attention have been spent on the rhythms and melody of her words. To paraphrase Wallace Stevens: A man and a woman are one. Hooper's steady hand creates the perfect setup for the unexpected. This may be the best novel to meaningfully feature windblown dust. Hooper has more or less nailed the 'Amelie' charm with this sweet, disarming story of lasting love.Hooper shows great restraint in balancing the quirky with the universal, blurring the lines between them. Hooper has written an interesting, nuanced and genuinely moving book. a clear and beautifully unadorned prose style. ![]() ( The Times)īeautifully written.this deserves to follow in the footsteps of 2014's big debut novels The Miniaturistand Elizabeth Is Missing. Only the thrills offered by this bright new star of literature are metaphysical and unexpected and will leave you thinking on a new level about the connections between men, women and places. as readable and gripping as any thriller. Writing that easily equals that of the Booker-winning Richard Flanagan. ![]() Netflix no rule6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() And while I cannot begin to describe Aleeza’s accompanying facial expression, I can say this – it matches the audio.Īnd that, really, is the essence of Jewish Matchmaking. ![]() ![]() In reality, it is a noise that makes even the hitherto impregnably confident Ori shrink visibly before her. On paper you might represent it as “Eeeugch”. She wasn’t the gorgeous, vivacious, intelligent, blue-eyed, blond Israeli Jewish woman who spoke Hebrew that he’d requested, was she? Imagine, if you will, the spirit of all middle-aged mothers gathering in the soul of one, fixing him with a gimlet eye and producing a single sound that speaks for them all. Matchmaker Aleeza Ben Shalom is talking to her 30-year-old client Ori about the date she sent him on with a gorgeous, vivacious, intelligent, brown-eyed, brunette Israeli Jewish actor who spoke Hebrew. I cannot do justice to the best scene in Jewish Matchmaking with only the paltry resource of the written word at my disposal, but as it encapsulates the entire series in one perfect moment, it is incumbent on me to try. ![]() First edition of the christmas carol6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Sold for $40,000.įirst edition cover (1843) click to enlarge Sanders Auctions can obtain up to this amount or more for you: Charles Dickens Christmas Carol 1843 1st Edition First Issue. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.īelow is a recent realized price for a Charles Dickens Christmas Carol 1843 1st edition first issue item. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. Sell Your Charles Dickens Christmas Carol 1843 1st Edition First IssueĪ Christmas Carol. ![]() FREE VALUATION. To buy, auction, sell or consign your Charles Dickens Christmas Carol 1843 1st edition first issue that is for sale, please email your description and photos to of Nate D. ![]() Princess diana mario6/24/2023 ![]() The gown is a strapless Victor Edelstein creation that was part of the designer’s autumn 1989 collection and features a sweetheart neckline and gathered, twisted detail at the bust along with a full, tulip-style skirt.Įdelstein’s design was immortalized in two 1991 portraits: a photograph by Princess Margaret’s ex-husband, Lord Snowdon, and another a painting by British artist Douglas Hardinge Anderson, which hangs at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London. The purple velvet dress Princess Diana sported in two 1991 portraits and during a 1997 Vanity Fair photoshoot will hit the Sotheby’s auction block on January 27 in New York - and the “rare” dress is estimated to be worth between $80,000 and $120,000. Royal fashion fans can dress like a princess … for the right price. ![]() ![]() Elizabeth Taylor’s ‘lucky charm’ 1961 Oscars dress found, up for auction ![]() Forbidden by Elizabeth Lowell6/24/2023 ![]() I haven’t read much metaphorical before so this was a thing I had to get over.) (Re: the prose, this was written in the early 90s, where metaphor heavy love scenes were pretty commonplace. Even the metaphor-heavy love scenes, though they took some getting used to, felt right for the time period. Indeed, I found the world building pretty believable. Having been to see Stonehenge and a few other stone circles IRL, I can kinda understand the creepiness of an unknown man found INSIDE such a sacred place and how people of that time might have reacted. This book features light mysticism, which I typically don’t like, but worked well within the guise of the story. Drama ensues when the naked man regains his memory. ![]() She nurses him back to health, with the blessing of her friend / the local heir, so that they can find out if this mysterious man is friend or foe….and of course he’s the one person she can touch where she feels pleasure, not pain. She is born under a foreboding prophecy that promises an extraordinary love followed by “rich life might grow, but death will surely flow.” A man is found naked in a stone circle, wearing her sign (an amber talisman, though she has never met this man before). ![]() Plot summary: Amber the Forbidden is a young woman who can sense others’ feelings when she touches them, though it hurts her to touch others. ![]() And more feminist than an initial reading might suggest. Angsty - tense - gripping (at least towards the end) - and deeply, satisfyingly romantic. I wanted to read an old school romance and this was a very pleasant surprise. ![]() Neuromancer sparknotes6/24/2023 ![]() I liked it, though with a few reservations, which I’ll explain at the end. ![]() ![]() However, I think Idoru is by way of being a return to form, combining Gibson’s street-smart, cyberpunk attitude and jive prose style, with passages of genuinely visionary writing about the experience of cyberspace and virtual reality, passages as strange and poetic and haunting as anything in Neuromancer. a rough, tough hero of the type found in all airport thrillers, I found myself noticing on every page, barely disguised by Gibson’s gee-whizz, cyberpunk style and settings, all the clichés of the American thriller genre. Once I’d realised the tough ex-cop hero of the book, Berry Rydell was, underneath all the sci-fi add-ons, basically an avatar of John McClane from the Die Hard movies or Jack Reacher, i.e. Virtual Light, the first novel in William Gibson’s ‘Bridge trilogy’, made me fall out of love with Gibson. Arleigh’s van smelled of long-chain monomers and warm electronics. ![]() Jhumpa lahiri in altre parole6/24/2023 ![]() In 1998, reviewing Milan Kundera’s eighth novel Identity (his second in French), the critic and film director Antoine de Gaudemar wondered where Kundera’s sense of humor had gone what had happened to the ironies, digressions, and jokes that made his first novels so original? Kundera undoubtedly loved French literature (when he migrated to France in 1950, he started translating-rewriting, really-his first novels, insisting they should be considered part of the French canon), but it is not clear he gained more than he lost when he abandoned Czech, the language that had allowed him to write novels like The Joke and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Changing languages is a great risk for a writer, especially for one who has already developed a style. One has to love a language to write in it. She shares this anecdote in her first Italian book, In Other Words (first published in 2016 as In Altre Parole). By then, she had stopped writing in English. Years later, she walked into a library in Rome, and for the first time, a story came to her in Italian. ![]() ![]() The prediction was correct: without knowing it, that formula encapsulated the uncertain process of adopting Italian as a new literary language. ![]() Around that time, a friend of hers predicted she would soon be living in an Italian dictionary. ![]() When Jhumpa Lahiri started learning Italian, she wrote on the first page of an Italian dictionary a formula: “provare a = cercare di” (try to = seek to). ![]() |