6/24/2023 0 Comments Love lettering clayborn![]() ![]() ![]() “What was that book called” posts are exempt from this rule, as they are unlikely to show up in future searchesīook requests must be specific and contain detail.Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for.Inflammatory titles like Does Anyone Else, Unpopular Opinion, or similar are not allowed. ![]() Gush and critique posts should contain the book title/author if applicable. Reviews and screenshots of book excerpts must contain the book title/author in the post title.Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for and/or keywords that will inform future searches.Rules Post titles must be clear and informative For updated information regarding ongoing community features includings upcoming AMAs, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with informative links about Book Clubs, AMAs, etc. Home of the magic search button and endless book recommendations as well as discussions about tropes and characters, Author AMAs, book clubs, and more. R/RomanceBooks is a discussion sub for readers of romance novels. ![]()
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6/24/2023 0 Comments The mister el james book 2![]() ![]() The Telegraph guarantees a steamy read with sexual innuendo embedded in every line, as well as a protagonist who can be involuntarily thrust into dissociative sexual fantasies with little to no prompting. Forced for the first time in his privileged life to assume responsibility (of his family’s business ventures), Maxim is immediately thrown off guard by the close company of one Alessia Demachi, his maid - and a woman we expect must be a two-dimensional, walking pair of breasts with a secret past that only matters when she is not in bed with Maxim. The Mister tells the story of a present-day, uber-horny British aristocrat named Maxim Trevelyan. ![]() James is back in the romance game with The Mister, a 512-page romantic romp through Great Britain that promises, apparently, to be better than the last. ![]() If you’re looking for another mindless, sex-crazed fantasy from the mommy-porn mogul who brought you Fifty Shades of Grey, you may be looking in the wrong place. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Captivating john eldredge summary![]() ![]() Like the Eldredges, I believe it’s a part of our nature that as children we imagine ourselves as heroines, as the center of attention, and as the princess. It should come as no surprise to any of us that we are the stars of our own daydreams. To be the beauty, abducted by the bad guys, fought for and rescuedīy a hero-some version of this had a place in all our dreams (pg. Sadly, the problems with the book outweigh this good message. I agree wholeheartedly with the premise of the book-that we were created for a love relationship with God, and that the deepest longings of a Christian woman’s heart are to be loved by God, and to love God 1. It was refreshing to see that Captivating deviates from the predictable “how-to” pattern of most Christian women’s literature. And then there were the books that gave me the “secret” to victorious womanhood in a few simple steps-steps that never seemed to work for my family and my situation. Over the years I’ve read dozens of worthless books aimed toward Christian women. I never picked it up again.” Can you identify with her feelings? I certainly can. ![]() In the introduction to Captivating, Stasi Eldredge writes, “As a new Christian, the first book I picked up to read on godly femininity I threw across the room. Eldredge, John and Stasi, Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman’s Soul, Published by Thomas Nelson, Nashville 2005, 225 pages. ![]() ![]() Preston recounts the story of "Charles Monet" (a pseudonym), who might have caught Marburg virus from visiting Kitum Cave on Mount Elgon in Kenya. "The Shadow of Mount Elgon" delves into the history of filoviruses, as well as speculation about the origins of AIDS.Along with describing the history of the devastation caused by two of these Central African diseases, Ebola virus disease and Marburg virus disease, Preston described a 1989 incident in which a relative of Ebola virus, Reston virus, was discovered at a primate quarantine facility in Reston, Virginia, less than 15 miles (24 km) away from Washington, D.C. The filoviruses-including Ebola virus, Sudan virus, Marburg virus, and Ravn virus-are Biosafety Level 4 agents, extremely dangerous to humans because they are very infectious, have a high fatality rate, and most have no known prophylactic measures, treatments, or cures. The basis of the book was Preston's 1992 New Yorker article "Crisis in the Hot Zone". ![]() The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story is a best-selling 1994 nonfiction thriller by Richard Preston about the origins and incidents involving viral hemorrhagic fevers, particularly ebolaviruses and marburgviruses. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Underworld delillo![]() ![]() DeLillo’s great facility with a language perfectly tuned for irony and satire allows him to range the breadth and depth of these themes.Īll these thematic strains are present in Americana. ![]() This basic set of ideas includes the function (misfunction) of language as it relates to being, the absurdity of death and the meaning of apocalypse, the complications and chaotic workings of societies (particularly governments and institutions), the ontological purity of women and children, the notion of sacred spaces, and the interrelatedness of time, history, and myth. Thematically, each novel is a profound reworking of the familiar precepts that make up the core of his literary belief system. What little there is of traditional narrative structure in a Don DeLillo (1936- ) novel appears to serve principally as a vehicle for introspective meanderings, a thin framework for the knotting together of the author’s preoccupations about life and the world. ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments The ritual tessier![]() A way that the Lords manipulate you into doing what they want.After being sucked into the dark, twisted world of the Lords, I embraced my new role and allowed Ryat to parade me around like the trophy I was to him. He made me believe that anyway, but it was just another lie. He offered me what no one else ever had freedom.I chose to be his. I never got the chance to do what I wanted until Ryat Alexander Archer came along and gave me an option for a better life. My entire life has been planned out for me. And during their senior year, they are offered a chosen one.People think growing up with money is freeing, but I promise you, it s not. They devote their lives to violence in exchange for power. They are above all the most powerful men in the world. ![]() ![]() We vow.Barrington University is home of the Lords, a secret society that requires their blood in payment. AN AMAZON TOP 100 BESTSELLERAn all-new dark standalone romance from the USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Shantel TessierTHE CHOSEN ONEI vow. We will rebind this book after purchasing from the original Publisher/Distributor. ![]() We are bringing this book for our Elite readers in our Unique Premium Leather Bound. 493 It is a Bestselling Title, recommended by many readers around the Globe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In December 2022, when she came to speak in Erie, PA, at the university from which I am retired, we took advantage of the situation to meet face to face. We had exchanged emails and worked together over drafts of the foreword, but had never met. We had become digital acquaintances in 2019 when she wrote the foreword for my book An Unladylike Profession. I finally connected with veteran journalist Judy Woodruff. He is the author of numerous books, including An Unladylike Profession: American Women War Correspondents in World War I (Nebraska, 2020), American Journalists in the Great War: Rewriting the Rules of Reporting (Nebraska, 2017) and America’s U-Boats: Terror Trophies of World War I (Nebraska, 2014). Chris Dubbs is a military historian living in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, and has worked as a newspaper journalist, editor, and publisher. ![]() ![]() ![]() What a way to start second grade!Īs the year goes by, though, Billy figures out how to navigate elementary school, how to appreciate his little sister, and how to be a more grown up and responsible member of the family and a help to his busy working mom and stay-at-home dad. forgoing the overdramatic or zany, it shows the substance, warmth and adaptability of beautifully common family love." When Billy Miller has a mishap at the statue of the Jolly Green Giant at the end of summer vacation, he ends up with a big lump on his head. The New York Times declared: "Henkes's delightful story is restrained and vivid. The Year of Billy Miller includes black-and-white art by Kevin Henkes and is perfect for fans of the Ramona books Frindle, by Andrew Clements and the Clementine series. Newbery Honor Book and New York Times Bestseller!Īward-winning, nationally bestselling author Kevin Henkes introduces second-grader Billy Miller in this fast-paced and funny story about friendship, sibling rivalry, and elementary school. ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments The winter sea book review![]() ![]() Unfortunately, Carrie is suffering from writer's block, but while visiting Scotland fate takes a hand and she ends up at a place that calls to her, Slains Castle in Cruden Bay and there meets a man with winter sea eyes. Carry moves to a cottage within sight of the Slains Castle and begins the process of writing her story from the perspective for a fictional woman as the central character, one she names after a long-dead Scottish ancestor, Sophia Paterson. Kearsley uses one central character, Carrie McClelland, to tie both storylines and romances together.Ĭarrie McClelland is a seasoned historical fiction author writing a historical fiction romance that took place in the midst of the failed Jacobite conspiracy to return James Stuart or James VIII to the throne of Scotland in 1708. The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley is a combination historical fiction and contemporary with romances taking place during both time lines and running parallel to each other. ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments Dante's alighieri![]() ![]() Dante entitled it Commedia the adjective Divina was added in the 16th cent. He died at the court of Guido da Polenta in Ravenna, where he is buried.ĭante's reputation as the outstanding figure of Italian letters rests mainly on the Divine Comedy, a long vernacular poem in 100 cantos (more than 14,000 lines) composed during his exile. ![]() Exile made Dante a citizen of all Italy he served various princes, but supported Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII as the potential savior of a united Italy. After the victory of the Black Guelphs he was dispossessed and banished (1302). In the complex politics of Florence, he found himself increasingly opposed to the temporal power of Pope Boniface VIII, and he eventually allied himself with the White Guelphs. ![]() This woman, thought to have been Beatrice Portinari, was Dante's acknowledged source of spiritual inspiration.ĭante married Gemma Donati, had three children, and was active (1295-1300) as councilman, elector, and prior of Florence. ![]() The next year, after the death (1290) of Beatrice, the woman he loved, he plunged into intense study of classical philosophy and Provençal poetry. He was a member of the Florentine cavalry that routed the Ghibellines at Campaldino in 1289. Dante's central work, the Commedia ( The Divine Comedy), is considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and aīorn into a Guelph family of decayed nobility, Dante moved in patrician society. ![]() |