5/30/2023 0 Comments Wake amanda hocking series![]() She’s taking a late night swim under the stars when she finds Penn, Lexi and Thea partying on the cove. ![]() Then one night, Gemma’s ordinary life changes forever. He’s always been just a friend, but this summer they’ve taken their relationship to the next level, and now there’s no going back. Gemma seems to have it all-she’s carefree, pretty, and falling in love with Alex, the boy next door. She’s the one they’ve chosen to be part of their group. Strangers in town for the summer, Penn, Lexi and Thea have caught everyone’s attention-but it’s Gemma who’s attracted theirs. They’re the kind of girls you envy the kind of girls you want to hate. I wouldn’t say its my favourite book series, maybe my second or third fave.įall under the spell of Wake-the first book in an achingly beautiful new series by celebrated author Amanda Hocking-and lose yourself to the Watersong. ![]() I think I would rate it 4/5 stars, but I don’t really have a reason why. ![]() I didn’t actually have a favorite character throughout this series but if I really had to choose, it would probably be Alex or Daniel. The series consists of four books: Wake, Lullaby, Tidal and Elegy (it also has an extra bonus story called ‘forgotten lyrics’ which has never been published.) This series isn’t for everyone but it has its far share of violence, romance and drama. I decided to read it because it was recommended by one of my good friends and because it is written by the same author as ‘The Trylle Trilogy’ which I wrote a review on two months ago. I finished reading ‘The Watersong Series’ around a week ago. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When Ruby Miller's boss announces he's sending her on an extended business trip to New York City, she's shocked. Originally only available online as The Office by tby789 - and garnering over 2 million reads on fanfiction sites - Beautiful Bastard has been extensively updated for re-release. All over the office.Īs their appetites for one another increase to a breaking point, Bennett and Chloe must decide exactly what they're willing to lose in order to win each other. ![]() But Chloe's so tempting he's willing to bend the rules-or outright smash them-if it means he can have her. Despite the rumors, he's never been one for a workplace hookup. He never expected that the assistant who'd been helping him from abroad was the gorgeous, innocently provocative-completely infuriating-creature he now has to see every day. A Beautiful Bastard.īennett has returned to Chicago from France to take a vital role in his family's massive media business. He's exacting, blunt, inconsiderate-and completely irresistible. ![]() Whip-smart, hardworking, and on her way to an MBA, Chloe Mills has only one problem: her boss, Bennett Ryan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it.Īusten's works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism. From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815), she achieved success as a published writer. ![]() During this period, she experimented with various literary forms, including the epistolary novel which she tried then abandoned, and wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth. Her artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years until she was about 35 years old. The steadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.Īusten lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pearson ends up in Bermuda where he meets the real James Bond who tells his life story for the record. The theory being that the truth is bound to come out sooner or later, so it is better to get the facts correct from the start. When the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) take an interest in the book, it is suggested that rather than trying to censor and suppress it, they could control the flow of information by cooperating. Pearson begins to search for the inspiration of the character of James Bond and begins to unearth details of an actual James Bond that knew Ian Fleming. Considering Pearson’s knowledge of Fleming, who else better to inhabit the Bond world with all the incidental knowledge of Bond and his creator. ![]() The writing style is some of the most Fleming-esque you will find, which puts this book in the frame as a bona-fide continuation author, as it describes additional Bond missions with flare and accuracy to the character. Most of James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 is Bond telling his life story, including school and first MI6 missions, referring to most every novel and short story The idea was to hide the truth, of Bond’s exploits, in plain sight along the way. MI6 instruct Pearson to write 007’s biography he is introduced to a retired James Bond - who is in his fifties, yet healthy, sun-tanned, and with Honeychile Ryder, the heroine of Dr. James Bond: The Authorised Biography, John Pearson ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The waste land and other poems![]() ![]() Cities are built out of the ruins of previous cities, as The Waste Land is built out of the remains of older poems.”, where the sun beats, Hugh Kenner, one of the great scholars of Modernism, explained this element well, arguing how the line evokes: “the manner in which Shakespeare, Homer, and the drawings of Michelangelo, Raphael, and the Magdalenian draughtsmen coexist in the contemporary cultivated consciousness: fragments, familiar quotations: poluphloisboio thalasse, to be or not to be, undo this button, one touch of nature, etc. A heap of broken images A heap of broken images Eliot’s endnotes for the poem connect the following line to Ecclesiastes 12:5: “Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.” But it also resembles Ezekiel 6:4: “And your images shall be broken.” Though the “heap of broken images” is one of many depictions of post-war decay in the poem, it can also be taken more generally as a metaphor for how present consciousness consumes past culture. ![]() ![]() What are you doing? There is nothing so important in your life that you can’t put it off in order to read this series. So, for the three misguided people who haven’t read this series - first off, get ON THAT. YES!!! The least fascinatingly detailed book in my favorite series! It just keeps getting better and better, folks. Unless you have an ear for such ghastly details as a tragic fire, a nefarious villain, itchy clothing, and cold porridge for breakfast, all narrated in chilly detail by the distinguished, and disturbed, Tim Curry with a team of talented readers, you would be better off listening to something else. ![]() This unique multi-voice recording brings the first book in Lemony Snicket’s alarming A Series of Unfortunate Events to such terrible life that no one should really have to experience it. ![]() Like a car alarm, bagpipe music, or a doorbell ringing in the middle of the night, listening to The Bad Beginning will only upset you. A MULTI-VOICE RECORDING OF AN UPSETTING BOOK, NOW ON VINYL.įeatures a transparent sea foam green record and full-length digital download of the A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning audiobook. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The hill we climb quotes![]() ![]() Read more about the National Youth Poets Laureate. That is the promise to glade, the hill we climb, if only we dare. ![]() Watch Amanda Gorman read Elizabeth Alexander’s Inaugural poem, “ Praise Song for the Day.” If we're to live up to our own time, then victory won't lie in the blade, but in all the bridges we've made. Read more about Inaugural poems and poets throughout history. Her poem honors three individuals for their essential work during the COVID-19 pandemic. ![]() She also is the first poet commissioned to write a poem to be read at the Super Bowl. Gorman was selected by President Biden to read her original poem “The Hill We Climb” for his Inauguration on January 20, 2021, making her the youngest poet to have served in this role. She previously served as the youth poet laureate of Los Angeles, and she is the founder and executive director of One Pen One Page, an organization providing free creative writing programs for underserved youth. In 2017, Gorman was named the first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States. She is the author of the The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country (Viking Books for Young Readers, March 2021), the poetry collection The Hill We Climb (Viking, September 2021) and The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough (Penmanship Books, 2015). She graduated from Harvard University in 2020. Amanda Gorman was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Ghostgirl lovesick![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Toxic Shock Sally died because she forgot to change her tampon.Maddy tried to kill her friend with a botox overdose but accidentally killed herself.Cruel and Unusual Death: Most of the ghosts suffered ridiculous deaths.Celestial Bureaucracy: right after Charlotte dies, she has to fill in a form.Annoying Younger Sibling: Scarlet annoys Petula to no end, but that's just their conflicting personalities acting up.While using the Possession incantation she learned, Charlotte begins to use Scarlet as a way to communicate with Damen, but Damen thinks he's talking to Scarlet and falls in love with her. She later finds out that no one is able to see her except her idol's sister, Scarlet. After dying, she is required to attend an alternative high school for dead kids called Dead Ed. While trying to be Damen's lab partner in Physics class, Charlotte accidentally chokes on a gummy bear and dies. Trying to get noticed by her peers, especially by her crush Damen Dylan, Charlotte starts this year off on the other foot. The series is about an ignored girl named Charlotte Usher who's starting her final year at Hawthorne High. It was followed by two sequels, ghostgirl: Homecoming and ghostgirl: Lovesick. The first book in the series, simply titled ghostgirl, was published in 2008. Ghostgirl note (that is the correct capitalization) is a book series written by Tonya Hurley. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Happy Deathday to You...and Other Stories to Give You Nightmares by George E. Stanley![]() ![]() Tree meets with her married professor, Gregory Butler, with whom she is having an affair. Her sorority housemate Lori Spengler gives her a cupcake, which she throws away. She ignores a phone call from her father and dismisses Carter, returning to her room. ![]() A sequel, Happy Death Day 2U, was released on February 13, 2019.Īfter a night of drunken partying, university student Theresa "Tree" Gelbman wakes up on her birthday in the dorm room of classmate Carter Davis. It grossed $125 million worldwide on a $4.8 million budget, with critics deeming the film entertaining and praising Rothe's performance while acknowledging the familiar premise, and describing it as " Groundhog Day meets Scream". It follows a college student who is murdered on the night of her birthday and begins reliving the day repeatedly, at which point she sets out to find the killer and stop her death.Īnnounced in 2007 under the title Half to Death, the film was released on October 13, 2017, by Universal Pictures. The film was produced by Jason Blum through his Blumhouse Productions banner, in association with Digital Riot Media and Vesuvius Productions. It stars Jessica Rothe and Israel Broussard. Happy Death Day is a 2017 American black comedy slasher film directed by Christopher Landon, and written by Scott Lobdell. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Underwater puppies![]() ![]() Each puppy's image is bursting with the wild and sublime range of puppy emotions-cute, irresistible, and always lovable. Casteel's bold and unique photographs capture colorful underwater scenes of romping retrievers and playful pugs, courageous Cavaliers and vibrant vizslas, and many more. ![]() ![]() Outrageously adorable puppy portraits presenting our best friends at their most playful and exuberant. "- Tina Jordan, Entertainment Weekly, "Seth Casteel's underwater puppies are the perfect portrait subjects: Full of personality, snuggle-worth, and (literally) read to play ball."- Ainsley O'Connell, Fast Company, "The genius of Seth Casteel comes into clear focus with the amazing images of diving canines. Now he's repeated the experiment - with predictably adorable results - in Underwater Puppies. capture the primal, playful, and oh-so-adorable side of puppies."- Good Morning America, "Simultaneously gorgeous and otherworldly, the book's exuberant pups had us at the get-go."- Connie Wilson, Modern Dog, "Seth Casteel's fabulous 2012 photo book, Underwater Dogs ,captured the exact moment that pets plunged into the pool, wide-eyed and happy. ![]() |