![]() ![]() Her long-time agent has been calling and neither Yoli nor Elf’s loving husband knows what to tell him. Yoli is a beguiling mess, wickedly funny even as she stumbles through life struggling to keep her teenage kids and mother happy, her exes from hating her, her sister from killing herself and her own heart from breaking.īut Elf’s latest suicide attempt is a shock: she is three weeks away from the opening of her highly anticipated international tour. ![]() Yolandi, divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men as she tries to find true love: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive. Elfrieda, a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. You won’t forget Elf and Yoli, two smart and loving sisters. ![]() In her most passionate novel yet, she brings us the riveting story of two sisters, and a love that illuminates life. Miriam Toews is beloved for her irresistible voice, for mingling laughter and heartwrenching poignancy like no other writer. ![]()
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![]() Mixing magic with a war hero, superstitions with instruments and songs, haints and omens, a family must come together with their history and their place in the world and finding a way to be true to their culture while at the same time true to themselves. "In this created world of the Tuftas, Bledsoe has given us an outstanding story and wonderful characters. With death stalking her family, will she ever again join in the song of her people and let it lift her onto the night winds? Worse yet, Bronwyn has lost touch with herself and with the music that was once a part of her life. Cryptic omens warn of impending tragedy, while a restless “haint” has followed her home from the war. Private Bronwyn Hyatt, a true daughter of the Tufa, has returned from Iraq, wounded in body and spirit, but her troubles are far from over. But there are clues in their music, hidden in the songs they have passed down for generations. ![]() ![]() Dark-haired and enigmatic, they live quietly in the hills and valleys of Cloud County, their origins lost to history. When the first Europeans came to the Smoky Mountains, the Tufa were already there. No one knows where the Tufa came from or how they ended up in the mountains of east Tennessee. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Book seven days in june![]() But Williams never uses Eva’s illness to inspire pity or to cast her as somehow weak. Eva has experienced migraines since she was young, and she still struggles to manage them without revealing her pain to the world. In addition to addressing mental health concerns, Seven Days in June portrays the daily difficulties of having an invisible disability. Eva has a history of self-harm, and an early scene depicts an attempted sexual assault. Shane entered foster care as a child and is now in Alcoholics Anonymous. But this isn’t a light romance by any means, especially during flashbacks. Chosen family is a strong central theme in the novel, and characters like Eva’s spunky daughter, Audre, and book editor, CeCe, bring warmth to the pages. Seven Days in June is a slow burn as Shane and Eva attempt to heal old wounds, their love affair made all the more delicate by Eva’s history of abandonment. The Black literary world doesn’t know that Eva and Shane were teenage lovers-or that they’ve been communicating to each other through their books for years.ĪLSO IN BOOKPAGE: Summer reading 2021: 9 books to soak in this season ![]() ![]() ![]() The “time bomb” is Shane Hall, a literary novelist and former paramour who unexpectedly reappears in Eva’s life at a book festival. The “grown woman” is Eva Mercy, a 32-year-old romance novelist and single mom in Brooklyn. Teenage girls couldn’t wait to be ruined.” So writes Tia Williams, author of the smart and steamy Seven Days in June. “Grown women knew better than to attach themselves to time bombs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Great humor, fascinating history, interesting characters with unique conflicts, and of course, a staple in this readers diet, breath-taking romance. more eter devouring a deliciously healthy feast with all four food groups represented. But for now, I can't stop myself from devouring the Brothers Sinister series quickly, like a starving dieter at a cupcake buffet.no that's not a good analogy because these books have so much more substance than cupcakes.so like a di. I'm going to have to go back and re-read so that I can remember and savor each word. ![]() When he’s not scandalizing ladies in the bedchamber, he’s outraging proper society with his scientific theories. Review 2: I'm reading this series too fast. Sebastian Malheur is the most dangerous sort of rake: an educated one. Excited (and sad) to finish out the series now. (Perhaps moreso than I normally would have, as I just got finished reading a rather dreadful old school 80s romance novel that was just blaaaaahhh.) This was a nice palate cleanser, and I found myself unable to stop reading it, for whatever reason. Review 1: I'd heard this was the weakest of the series, but I thought it was rather adorable and quite enjoyed myself. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Attila the gathering of the storm![]() ![]() Shaman's quest chain is really short instead of other's He will send you back to the class hall, turn in the quest to obtain your award. Stand onto a wind platfrom that sends you to the central one, listen to Thunderaan's speech. Instead of Cata, you dont need to defeat them within any time, just do as you can. ![]() ![]() Nvm, these fights aren't hard, just dont run the scenario as restoration. It's strange that we have to fight them, they must remember that we defeated them in Cataclysm and surrender as we come. You have to defeat three wind lords: Rohash, Nezir and Anshal. There's a scenario starts, it has 2 stages: Comment by BoxofbeerSpeak wtih Consular Celestos and ask him to send you to the Throne of the Four Winds. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Animal taddeo![]() “I can tell you a lot about sex with a man to whom you are not attracted,” Joan says. The memory of their affair hangs like Spanish moss over the first half of the book. ![]() (No spoilers here: It literally happens in the first paragraph.) The dead man is Vic, the avuncular creative director of the Manhattan ad agency where Joan works, a besotted sugar daddy who mentored, promoted, bedded, spoiled and stalked her. ![]() The novel opens with an actual bang: Joan’s married boss, with whom she’s had a protracted affair, bursts into a restaurant where she’s having dinner with another man and shoots himself in front of her. ![]() Voracious and obsessive, Joan is addicted to love and its analogues - in particular, the adoration of men who happen to be married to someone else. “If someone asked me to describe myself in a single word, depraved is the one I would use.” So says Joan, the barely hinged, 30-something narrator of “Animal,” the propulsive, fiercely confident debut novel by Lisa Taddeo. ![]() ![]() ![]() She wasn't prepared for it to turn deadly. She expected the fashion industry to be ruthless. "Combining fashion and fatalities, Diane Vallere pens a winning debut mystery.a sleek and stylish read." -Ellen Byerrum, National Bestselling author of the Crime of Fashion mysteries "an impressive cozy mystery from a promising author." -Mystery Tribune A diverting mystery that offers laughs and chills." -Kirkus Reviews ![]() The surprise ending will satisfy and delight many mystery fans. ".the book is enriched by the author's cleverly phrased prose and convincing characterization. National bestselling author Diane Vallere delivers your new favorite fashionable amateur sleuth! Join Samantha Kidd as she trades high fashion for dirty laundry and learns a great wardrobe isn't enough to turn your life around, let alone catch a killer. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments William gibson neuromancer trilogy![]() ![]() ![]() In fact she shows few deep emotions towards anyone outside of hatred, suspicion or amused contempt. ![]() She is referred to as a "razorgirl" or "street samurai" throughout his stories and also as "Steppin' Razor" by the residents of Zion, a Rastafarian enclave aboard a space station.Ī useful contact for dealing with gangs and black market elements, she tends to show little remorse for the opponents she ruthlessly dispatches in the course of her objectives. In all three stories, Molly is a physically tough (but not instantly imposing) bodyguard/mercenary cyborg. She later appeared in Mona Lisa Overdrive under the name "Sally Shears". She first appeared in " Johnny Mnemonic", to which she makes an oblique reference in Neuromancer (where she is mostly referred to as "Molly" with no last name given). Molly Millions (also known as Sally Shears, Rose Kolodny, and others) is a recurring character in stories and novels written by William Gibson, particularly his Sprawl trilogy. ![]() Molly Millions as depicted on the Brazilian cover of Neuromancer. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Ulysses novel![]() ![]() ![]() The competition between the narrators produces the comedy. Episode 12: There are two narrators: one is hyper-colloquial to the point of not making sense and one is hyper-scientific to the point of not making sense.Episode 11: Everything is a music pun.The humor is that it is in fact largely pointless and that most of the side characters make fun of the main characters. It is instead presented as a series of short stories surrounding the side characters. Episode 10: This chapter has nothing to do with the main characters.Episode 9: Making fun of Hamlet and elitists who debate over obscure pieces of literature (in particular making fun of certain scholars who would later analyze Ulysses).Episode 8: Food puns, everything can be eaten and everything eats in this chapter. ![]() Episode 7: Making fun of journalism (it's written like a newspaper pay attention to the headlines).Episode 5: The hypnotic nature of religion.Episode 4: Poking fun at great historic heroes.Episode 3: Elitist masculine monologue.As such, here is a list of all of the episodes and their brand of comedy. Since each episode has a different style, knowing what to appreciate beforehand can help. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Thomas hobbes 1651![]() In the grand center is the figure of the Sovereign King, whose body is both literally and figuratively constituted by the blurring-together individual bodies of the citizenry, the co- signers of the social contract, who face away from the viewer and towards the Sovereign. This iconic image offers multiple representations that provide the viewer with access to many of the core themes of the Leviathan: At the bottom are juxtaposed competing, or perhaps balancing, sources of Sovereign Authority-images of Ecclesiastical Authority (on the right) and Human/Temporal Authority (on the left). ![]() ![]() The famous frontispiece of Hobbes’s Leviathan was inspired by the anamorphic art form, which originated during the Renaissance and remained popular during Hobbes’s lifetime in the 17th century. Frontispiece of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan, by Abraham Bosse, with creative input from Thomas Hobbes, 1651 ![]() |