7/8/2023 0 Comments The long weekend savita kalhanJay is expected to have only Indian friends, if she has any at all. She and her mother are moving in with distant relatives and they have super strict rules for girls. But the way her life is panning out she’s not sure it will ever reach that stage. Jay’s creative writing exercise is to write a fairy tale, to end with ‘they lived happily ever after’. I encourage you to check the other blog hosts, they are all amazing bloggers and I’m sure their reviews are going to be stellar! This hadn’t influenced my review, nor my rating for this book in any way. I want to thank Savita Kalhan for asking me to join the blog tour for her wonderful book, it’s a real honour to be a part of this as the subject is very important and everything about this book touched me entirely.
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"The horizon is so flat in all directions that they came right down to Earth. With very little infrastructure, and villages few and far between as they cycled through the Ustyurt Plateau, the stars above magically enveloped them. The blistering heat and wind of the desert in Uzbekistan forced Yule and Harris to bike at night. I felt like I was a tourist in an oppressive regime and that felt terrible." "There weren't just checkpoints marking the boundaries of the autonomous region as a whole, but the boundaries of every single village we passed through," she explained. Harris said going back to Tibet five years later was devastating. "But in the process we snuck through Tibet without permission from the Chinese authorities, and that's really what sparked my interest in borders." The bike trip down the Silk Road with Yule began as just an adventure, said Harris , who's been named one of Canada's top 10 adventurers by Canadian Geographic. "You don't have to go to a new world to feel like you've entered a new world." "For me, what I got out of the Silk Road was so much of what I was seeking in going to Mars," she said. Turquoise salt lake on the Tibetan Plateau. I did enjoy the book and the writing was excellent - the dialogue was also catchy and, at times, quite hilarious. I had to notch this one down a half star from 4 to 3.5. "I love this book!" - Sue Grafton Read more “Reminds me why I fell in love with the genre.”-Laura Lippman “The hard-living, wisecracking titular detective bounces around post-Katrina New Orleans trying to track down a missing prosecutor in this auspicious debut of a new mystery series-and the Big Easy is every bit her equal in sass and flavor.”- Elle When a respected DA goes missing she returns to the hurricane-ravaged city to find out why. Claire also has deep roots in New Orleans, where she was mentored by Silette’s student the brilliant Constance Darling-until Darling was murdered. A one-time teen detective in Brooklyn, she is a follower of the esoteric French detective Jacques Silette, whose mysterious handbook Détection inspired Claire’s unusual practices. This knock-out start to a bracingly original new series features Claire DeWitt, the world’s greatest PI-at least, that's what she calls herself. DeWitt’s mesmerizing character and memorable voice take your breath away.”- New Orleans Times-Picayune “What would you get if that punkish dragon girl Lisbeth Salander met up with Jim Sallis’s Lew Griffin walking the back streets of New Orleans? Or Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone transformed herself into a tattooed magnolia driving a 4x4? Clare DeWitt, that’s what you’d get. as if David Lynch directed a Raymond Chandler novel.”-CNN 7/7/2023 0 Comments Alarm of War by Kennedy HudnerTheyve been well trained - but will it be enough to save the kingdom? Alarm of War - audiobook od Kennedy Hudner możesz już bez przeszkód słuchać w formie audiobooka (mp3). As their web draws closed around Victoria, the band of new officers find themselves on the last line of defense. The Tilleke Empire and the Dominion of Unified Citizenry have been waiting a long time, and now is their chance. But it has grown complacent, and its enemies are ready to strike. Together, they survive the trials and hardships of training to join the Fleet, unaware that that their home is about to be plunged into a maelstrom.įor three hundred years, the Kingdom of Victoria has enforced peace across the galaxy. Perhaps its greatest downside was that it clearly was intended to have a sequel. Hiram, the nervous but brilliant strategist, and Cookie, intent on joining the Fleet Marines. A while back, I wrote a positive review of Kennedy Hudners Alarm of War. Grant, the arrogant son of Victorias most famous admiral. Emily, the young woman who dreams of becoming a Fleet historian, but discovers her real talents lay elsewhere. Gritty warfare in space as four young officers respond to the alarm of war.įour officer cadets in the Victorian Fleet meet in training camp. A devastating surprise attack and a frantic fight to survive. 7/7/2023 0 Comments Emma donoghue best booksArtt has chosen well, since each of these men has skills that will prove essential, and they take vows of obedience which put these skills at his disposal. The other is Cormac, one of the oldest monks, a garrulous storyteller who found his religious calling late in life after losing his wife and daughters to the plague. So when Artt has a dream that he must take two monks with him on a journey to an uninhabited place, Trian is pleased to hear that one of them is him. To the youngest monk, Trian, Artt is the most interesting person he's seen in the six years since he was given to the abbot by his parents at age 13 - for reasons which are withheld until the dramatic final chapters. He has "the bearing of a warrior king but he behaves like a scrupulous monk working out a long penance." The leader of the trio is a man called Artt, a wandering scholar and priest who shows up at Cluain Mhic Nois, a monastery on the River Shannon. 7/7/2023 0 Comments Sorrenti kate mossLast month, Sorrenti and W Magazine creative director Dennis Freedman released Kate, a collection of fifty previously unpublished photos-each an exquisite slice of Moss’s pre-fame glow-bound by a gray hardcover. At twenty years old, he and Moss sank deep into earnest, adolescent love, and while their relationship eventually expired, his adoration for her lives on in photographic memory. One of those lucky photographers was Mario Sorrenti. But before she became the ubiquitous and inimitable Kate, her piercing gaze met only a small circle of lenses. Her unmatched versatility quickly launched her to the top of the fashion industry and then into the wider realm of pop culture, where she came to represent heroin chic and the grunge era and eventually an entire decade. MARIO SORRENTI SHOWS A NEW SIDE OF KATE MOSSĮvery year since the Nineties icon Kate Moss was first discovered at JFK Airport in 1988, it has become increasingly difficult to imagine that any inch of her image remains foreign to the camera, to the public eye, to the consumer. Green's involvement in a campus protest against unfair dismissals of gay colleagues throws her into deeper shambles. Having centered her life on her husband and child, her daughter's definition of family is not one she can accept. Ideally, a steady income and, most importantly, a good husband with whom to start a family.īut when Green turns up with her long-term girlfriend in tow, her mother is enraged and unwilling to welcome their relationship into her home. When a widowed, aging mother allows Green, her thirty-something daughter, to move into her apartment, all she wants for her is a stable and quiet existence like her own. Prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-Jin's debut confronts familial love, duty, mortality, and generational schism through the incendiary gaze of a tradition-bound mother faced with her daughter's queer relationship. I have a degree in psychology and worked as a counselor. Basically, I like to write what I like to read: a little bit of everything! I reside in Floyds Knobs, Indiana with my husband, three children, and massive collection of books. My first and second books were released by Sarah Book Publishing: This Is Not About Love and Grayson’s Ridge. It turned out to be harder than I thought, but from that point on I was hooked. Several years ago, I didn’t have a book to read so I decided on a whim to write my own story, something I’d like to read. My love affair with writing started early, but it mostly involved journaling and writing silly poems. I received a five dollar allowance each week, and I always - always - spent it on books. I’ve always loved to read, and some of my earliest childhood memories are me, tucked away in my room, lost in a good book. Reading them, writing them, holding them, smelling them…well, you get the idea. Besides my family, my greatest love in life is books. 7/6/2023 0 Comments The sun down motel bookShe checked her eye makeup-not the frosty kind, like some girls wore, but a soft lavender purple. She touched her hair, which she'd had cut short, a sharp style that ended below her earlobes and was sprayed out for volume. With cold fingers, she pulled down the driver's-side visor. It was often so quiet that an observer would think that nothing ever happened here. The Sun Down had few customers, none of whom would notice if the night girl was late. Another minute and she'd be late, but she didn't care. The clock ticked over to eleven o'clock, and the news came on the radio. A truck droned by on the road in the rearview mirror. Outside, two drops of half-frozen rain hit the windshield. She looked at the glowing blue and yellow sign, the two stories of rooms in two long stripes in the shape of an L, and thought, I don't want to go in there. She sat in her beat-up Cavalier, the key in the ignition, the heat and the radio on, her coat huddled around her shoulders. Still, she pulled into the parking lot of the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York, and paused, feeling the familiar beat of fear. The person who could be truly alone, in the company of no one but oneself and one's own thoughts-that person was stronger than anyone else. It was something she'd discovered, working the night shift at this place in the middle of nowhere: Being with people was easy, but being alone was hard. The night it all ended, Vivian was alone. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Jasper jones the bookCharlie’s father just took it all in, never responding, looking at her with the same expression he looked at Charlie with when he arrived home that night: “in a faintly curious and disappointed way” (167). Charlie felt sad and defensive of his father, like his mother was taking the opportunity to attack him. She thought he “was so distant and self-involved that his own son could walk out in the middle of the night and he didn’t even know” (167). Charlie’s mother accused his father of being “a poor parent, a useless husband,” and “of not caring for either, not for anyone other than himself” (167). His mother yelled at him for some time, but it was Charlie’s father who incurred the majority of her wrath. The police bought his story easily, but that didn’t stop his parents from punishing him. During this interaction, Charlie “discovered a gift for lies” (164). The night the police were at his house, Charlie lied convincingly about being at Eliza’s in order to comfort her. It is the day after boxing day, December 27th. As the chapter opens, Charlie is finishing up his punishment for leaving that night with Jasper, which meant being grounded for weeks. |