![]() ![]() What authors or books have you been reading lately that you would highly recommend?ĭanielle Allen and Carla de Guzman are two recent new to me authors that I’ve loved! Readers should check out Sweatpants Season and If The Dress Fits. Missy Elliot and Rihanna doing the soundtrack to your favorite romantic movie/TV show. You can find Rebekah and her books on twitter at and her website An Interview with Rebekah How would you describe yourself to a new reader just discovering your work? Rebekah is from Southern New Hampshire and now lives in Southern California where she will remain because she hates moving. Rebekah Weatherspoon is a multi award-winning romance author whose contemporary romantic suspense Beards & Bondage titles were two of The Ripped Bodice’s best-sellers and named Best of 2017. ![]() It is definitely going to be a comfort reread for me, and I’m excited to share this interview with Rebekah about this amazing book! A Bit About Rebekah Her new contemporary m/f romance Rafe is hilarious, hot, and full of heart, and feels exactly like the fluff we need in this historical moment. Many of her books are comfort reads for me, and I pick them up repeatedly when I’m having a rough time. ![]() I’ve been a fan of Rebekah Weatherspoons romances for years, and especially love the way she writes characters with strong and distinctive voices, combines humor and heat, often centers queer characters in her books including her m/f romances, and writes heroines I want to be friends with. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In short, you can expect virtually every entry in the collection, whether it was written in the 1970s or in this century, to feel strikingly relevant today. Morrison turns her penetrating analysis on the mass movement of people across the globe, foreigners and foreignness, and what it means to be "exiled in the place one belongs." She takes on racism - in the media, society, and American literature - and examines how, step by deliberate step, nations move towards "its succubus twin fascism." Devotees should be happy to know that the Nobel laureate also delves into her own artistic process in addition to exploring the work of the painter Romare Bearden, theater director Peter Sellars, and writers ranging from Toni Cade Bambara to Chinua Achebe to Herman Melville. ![]() How?Įven though the essays, speeches, and meditations in Toni Morrison's most recent nonfiction collection were written over the course of four decades, The Source of Self-Regard speaks to today's social and political moment as directly as this morning's headlines. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Source of Self-Regard Subtitle Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations Author Toni Morrison ![]() ![]() ![]() The following review is for Book 1 named 'Eyes', which has been shared on Facebook as well as on Amazon. The Half-Alive Series is an ongoing book series written by Nghịch Tu and translated as well edited by Viet H. But can you honestly blame her for not choosing a total stranger, and a weirdo no less, over people she'd known her whole life? Their lives are on the line the trap has been set! Meanwhile, Thanh still hasn't trusted Mục yet. ![]() The fates of two unlikely companions intertwine on the spider web of a criminal mastermind who has been evading arrest for the past 40 years. On this journey, she meets Điền Mục, a young ghost catcher who can't see ghosts but was raised by a 500-year-old spirit and has about zero experience in human interactions. ![]() told from the perspective of a comedic protagonist!Īn eerie children's nursery rhyme lures Thanh - an intelligent college girl with an unnatural level of trust issues - into an adventure of her lifetime. A heart-pounding journey of betrayal and bond, strength and perseverance, with the looming threat of ghosts, demons, and black magic. Spirited Away meets Coraline in the Suburbs of Hanoi, Vietnam with a twist to the genre. Well translated to English." - Reedsy Discovery. "A Vietnamese Brothers Grimm tale! A little bit of creepy to read while curled up with on the couch. ![]() ![]() Moment, he would announce that he had changed his mind, and he would Had a grain of sense, he would break off this ceremony even at this last Maria was not the right woman to be his wife, evenĪdmitting that he was suitable material for marriage in any case. Seconds in which he could withdraw from doing something which he knew toīe ill-considered. The thought came up in Hornblower's mind that these were the last few Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.Īs part of the conversion of the book to its new digitalįormat, we have made certain minor adjustments in its layout,ĬONTENTS Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Chapter XI Chapter XII Chapter XIII Chapter XIV Chapter XV Chapter XVI Chapter XVII Chapter XVIII Chapter XIX Chapter XX Chapter XXI Chapter XXII Chapter XXIII Chapter XXIV Chapter XXV ![]() Mark Akrigg & the Online Distributed Proofreading This ebook was produced by Al Haines, Cindy Beyer, In your country, do not download or redistribute this file. If you live outside Canada, check yourĬountry's copyright laws. This work is in the Canadian public domain, but may be underĬopyright in some countries. ![]() Gutenberg.ca/links/licence.html before proceeding. If either of these conditions applies, please These restrictions apply only if (1) you makeĪ change in the ebook (other than alteration for differentĭisplay devices), or (2) you are making commercial use of ![]() ![]() This ebook is made available at no cost and with very few ![]() ![]() ![]() That was a really cool connection – and I hope if my kids get to read Dracula some day they remember Bunnicula! His delivery and diction felt very similar to Harker’s letters in Dracula. One of my favorite things about this book is that it does have a similar feel to Dracula in the narration by Harold the dog. ![]() However, unlike Charlie and the Chocolate factory, it did not quite translate to a 5-star read for me as an adult and, if I had not been enjoying it along with my kids I might have not enjoyed it quite as much. I did enjoy reading this to my kids and have enjoyed the fact that they have now consumed three straight books one chapter a night with great enthusiasm. Everything from, “Wow, I haven’t read this in years! I was one of my favorites!” to, “WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU READING!” I mean, it is a book about a vampire bunny and if you saw the cover come across your feed, and you had never heard of it, you might have had a similar shocked reaction! Probably the best part of the experience was when it came to sharing my progress on Goodreads and the wide array of responses I got. Another fun time reading a classic and nostalgia filled book to my kids! ![]() ![]() ![]() Shortly after "The Artist" was released, Uggie appeared on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," performing tricks for the host. ![]() That year, the pup also released a memoir titled "My Story," which was co-written by best-selling author Wendy Holden. In June 2012, Uggie retired from acting after imprinting his paws in the iconic cement outside Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, according to the Washington Post. Those are considered the world's top honors for canine actors. Uggie's performance in "The Artist" won him a Golden Collar Award and the Cannes Film Festival's Palm Dog Award. Uggie, 13, was the Jack Russell terrier featured heavily in 2011's Academy Award-winning film "The Artist." He also had roles in 2011's "Water for Elephants" and 2012's "The Campaign," among other films.Īccording to TMZ, Uggie was put down on Friday after battling a prostate tumor. One of the world's most famous dogs has passed away after a career that included award-winning acting roles and a published memoir. ![]() ![]() ![]() While Saint-Exupéry may be most famous for The Little Prince, his other stories hover closer to his personal experiences as one of the pioneering pilots of his age. Original Manuscript Page by Saint-Exupéry Recreated on a Journal Cover ![]() What exactly happened to him remains a mystery but decades later, his work continues to be read, a lofty legacy for any writer. Saint-Exupéry disappeared on a reconnaissance mission over the Mediterranean while flying for the Free French Forces in July, 1944. He was one of the grand adventurers of his time but he is most famous today for his self-illustrated, philosophical story, The Little Prince, which tells of the meeting between a stranded pilot and a prince born on an asteroid. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) was a man intimate with the mysteries of wind, sand and stars. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some other adult said he heard guns shooting. And while I was sitting there, I heard adults saying that they saw smoke and pointing toward the village that we came from. We went to the market, and I sat underneath the big tree where a lot of people come from all different villages, selling and buying. What happened that day you were taken, in 1986? ![]() He's now telling his story in the new book, Escape from Slavery (St. Francis was 7 years old, and he spent the next 10 years in slavery, where he worked on a farm. In 1986, Muslim invaders attacked the village where Francis's mother had sent him on an errand. An estimated two million people have been killed in the conflict. A 20-year civil war in Sudan has pitted the Muslim majority north against the Christian majority south. ![]() ![]() ![]() "I took such great care of her when she was dying," Myles writes. ![]() ![]() As death comes closer, Myles lifts Rosie higher up, fortifying her slow exit with a buoying sense of awe, not just for young Rosie but for old Rosie, dying Rosie and dead Rosie, too. But it is in this portrayal of decline that the love story gains muscle. It is not pleasant to visualize how a sweet pitbull named Rosie withered. It's fair to find descriptions of affliction overwhelming. "Mainstay of my liturgy for sixteen point five almost seventeen years. She wears her body like her favorite clothes," writes Myles, finding valour in Rosie even as she weakens. A soft torso that used to be strong but the width and the heroic bone structure, ripples and inclines now say where the muscles were. ![]() "The sun highlights all the wrinkles in her barrel chest. In Eileen Myles's new book Afterglow: A Dog Memoir, the celebrated writer and poet shells out great detail of their beloved pitbull Rosie's physical decline. It keeps bad relationships going long after they need to end, it drags us through morasses of suffering and servitude just to try and corroborate the bond. The concept of unconditional love is dangerous, of course. If you can look right at your sidekick's vomit, rashes, lumps, drool, at the unravelling that renders us all destitute sacks of biology, and still be at par: It's love. Where is the threshold between love and what orbits outside it nigh enough to be a spoof? In my opinion, it's the burden of disgust. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the center of the story is Sarat Chestnut, who is a young girl when the war breaks out but gradually comes to play a decisive role in its outcome. This devastated landscape, and the catastrophic Second Civil War that ensues, is the subject of Omar El Akkad’s pitch-black debut novel, American War. And the states of Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi, enraged by a governmental ban on fossil fuels, have seceded into a Free Southern State. ![]() The capital has relocated from Washington DC to Columbus, Ohio. ![]() Mexico has reclaimed large swathes of the southwest. The United States, its shorelines eaten away by mega-hurricanes and rising seas, has splintered apart. ![]() |
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