5/10/2023 0 Comments Sing me to sleep gabi burton![]() But when she meets Jamison Port, an orphan looking for clues, she can’t fight the sparks between them. ![]() However, Prohibition is threatening everything, including Luxe’s family’s livelihood, and when the son of Charmant makes her an offer she can’t refuse, Luxe believes she can save her family. But she knows all too well that the splendour is just an illusion. Lyssa Smith brings the story of Luxe Revelle, a star performer in her family’s show. Need I say more? Oh, and not to mention, this enigmatic story takes place on an island set in a magical version of Prohibition-era New York. ![]() Revelle by Lyssa Mia Smith (464 Pages) (February 14th, 2023) From magic to romance to coming-of-age literature, these books are blasting into this year with a bang. While researching 2023 debuts on the hunt for my next reads, I discovered a tremendous amount of debut authors with their books coming out so soon! These books will definitely have it all. We are in full swing for 2023, and that means a whole new batch of phenomenal books releasing this year! Every year, we see a ton of fabulous new debut authors launching their very first book baby into the world, and we readers love absolutely everything about it. ![]() 97 A Dazzling Batch of Debuts: Five YA Debuts to Be on the Lookout For ![]()
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5/10/2023 0 Comments Pearl by Kelly Rand![]() It’s kind of spoiler-y to even recommend it here, but in The Poet and the Prophecy (which is not at all stand alone – you have to read the whole series) the central romance involves a character who identifies as male but is biologically female at night (from sunset to sunrise) and biologically male during the day (because of a magical gender swap spell that partially unraveled). It’s not really romance (except for the last book, which does have a satisfying hfn romance), not really erotica (there’s a lot of sex but it’s not that graphic or sexy, imo), it may be triggering to some (both because of the non-consensual dream sex and because one of the main characters was abused as a child), but I’m mentioning it because I enjoyed it. The series is a rif on Harry Potter – if Harry Potter went to college in the US, had a lot of sex (both magical and mundane), and lived in a more morally ambiguous world. It’s a crazysauce series – I gobbled it up, but I also have reservations about it, especially book 3 (there’s non-consensual dream sex in it and not enough consequences for the offender, imo). Since others have mentioned SF/F books, I’ll mention Cecilia Tan’s Magic University series, especially the 4th and final one (The Poet and the Prophecy) – with a few caveats. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Waiting for godot book![]() This freedom and responsibility creates a sense of angst, as we are completely on our own, with no ability to depend on others to create our meaning. Therefore, man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. Just as a painter paints on a blank canvas, our life is a work of art and every action defines us. ![]() We first exist and only then do we define our essence. Jean Paul Sartre, who popularised the existentialist movement, tells us that “existence precedes essence”. Waiting for Godot has frequently been described as an existentialist play, however – while it does have existentialist themes, it is not an existentialist play, it belongs rather, to what is known as “The Theatre of the Absurd”, focusing on absurdist fiction. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time.īeckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature and commended for having “transformed the destitution of man into his exaltation”. Beckett’s language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured post-World War II Europe. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, landscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as mankind’s inexhaustible search for meaning. ![]() The story revolves around two men waiting for someone – or something – named Godot. ![]() ![]() Waiting for Godot is a 1953 play by Samuel Beckett that has become one of the most important and enigmatic plays of the 20 th century. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Book review a walk to remember![]() ![]() The film took the high road and made the characters likable and the story sweet. Initially, I thought (and, even assumed) that the film would go down the familiar path of most teen-age dramas but that was not the case. Normally, I read the book first before watching the film. ![]() If you enjoyed reading "The Notebook", you should enjoy reading "A Walk To Remember". ![]() They are truly inspirational and memorable. These books are well-written and have translated well into the movie screen. Two of my favorite works of his are: "The Notebook" and "A Walk To Remember". He has been rather prolific in the last few years in writing various books including, "The Last Song", "Dear John", "Nights at Rodanthe", etc. Nicholas Sparks is the best popular romantic writer out there. They make you look at your own relationships (or relationships to be). Romantic works that touches the heart are worth reading. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book's section on the revolution's infiltration of the churches is must-reading for anyone concerned about the fate of Western Christianity. The result is an indictment of the turn taken by much of the world following the post-1960s embrace of contraception and the stigmatization of traditional morality. ![]() The book also traces the dissolution of the home to signature developments in Western politics, especially the increase in acrimony, polarization, street violence, and identity politics. Empathetic yet precise, she connects the dots between shrinking, broken families and rising sexual confusion, seen most recently in transgenderism and related phenomena. With unflinching logic, Eberstadt summarizes the toll on Western society of today's fractured homes, feral children, and social isolates. ![]() Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. It also includes an analysis of the recent U.S. This follow-up book investigates the revolution's macrocosmic transformations in three spheres: society, politics, and Christianity. The book's predecessor, Adam and Eve after the Pill (2012), dissected the revolution's microcosmic fallout via its empirical effects on the lives of men, women, and children. Celebrated author Mary Eberstadt continues her ground-breaking examination of the legacy of the sexual revolution. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Alexa riley devotion![]() ![]() ![]() I sit back in my chair and pray it will be over quickly. We order drinks, and I slip the waiter a hundred, telling him to make mine a double and don’t let it get empty.īy the time the curtains fall, I’m done with niceties and thankful for the darkness. I sit in the back next to the curtain hoping that if I fall asleep while the performance is going on, they won’t notice. We are escorted to the box, and the couple sit close, looking over the edge and smiling at one another. At least if I’m going to be here I’m going to have a few drinks to get me through. ![]() Tonight I have no choice, and I toss back another Scotch in the limo as we pull up to the front of the theater. Next time I’ll just get two tickets for an easy way out. I should have known better than to rent the whole box. But she wouldn’t take no for an answer since I got such good tickets. Could that be any more pretentious? I want to roll my eyes at having to admit that I’m going along with them. A client and his wife are in town for a deal, and she begged for tickets to the ballet. Museums, plays, operas…all of it just sounds so exhausting. ![]() ![]() She often comes off as closed-off, snarky, and insecure, although readers get a better glimpse into her mind when the perspective switches from Park’s to hers. Eleanor is described as an overweight redhead who comes from a poor, abusive household. He enjoys spending his time listening to music and reading comic books, and is also deeply insecure about his Korean identity. ![]() Park Sheridan is a half-Korean, half-white high school student from an upper-middle class family. The young love story takes place in the late 1980s, in Omaha, Nebraska. If it’s such a great romance novel that features the rare Asian-American protagonist, why didn’t I love it? ![]() Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. Upon being published in 2012, the young adult novel by Rainbow Rowell received favorable reviews it made NPR’s list of Best Books of 2013, won the 2013 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction, and in 2014 was awarded the Michael L. I initially began reading Eleanor & Park because it features an Asian-American protagonist who doubles as the main love interest - a rare occurrence in popular contemporary American literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() She's just seven years old and she's been taken into the woods by the huntsman. In Snow White, the stepmother asks for the lungs and liver of the little girl. ![]() Comics from Japanese Manga to the erotic and ‘adult’ depict the characters of the Grimm brothers’ tales.īut even in their original, they are far from saccharine, according to Maria Tatar, professor of Germanic folklore and mythology at Harvard University: “These tales are not politically correct. They have morphed into countless adaptations Disney disneyfied them and new filmmakers and novelists continue to rework them. Some stories have fallen out of favour but some – Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White – seem eternal. ![]() They lived in the town of Kassel in Germany and studied law and language as well as writing more than 150 stories which they published in two volumes between 18. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were writing in a different world. On the covers are the most innocent of titles: Grimm’s Fairy Tales in their English version or Children’s and Household Tales in the original German editions published two hundred years ago. Nice tales for nice children.īut behind the safe titles lie dark stories of sex and violence – tales of murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide and incest, as one academic puts it. They are far from anything we might imagine as acceptable today. If they were a video game, there would be calls to ban them. ![]() 5/8/2023 0 Comments The nemesis sj kincaid![]() I would like to thank my dearest bff Zel for sending me this gorgeous book as a christmas present. With the Empire beginning to fracture and rebellion looming, that could be the one thing that saves her and the Empire itselfĭo you guys love Sci-Fi? with romance & action on it? Omg! this book is for you!īefore kicking off this book review of The Diabolic. ![]() Now one of the galaxy’s most dangerous weapons is masquerading in a world of corrupt politicians and two-faced Senators’ children, and Nemesis must find within herself the one thing she’s been told she doesn’t have-humanity. But when the power-mad Emperor summons Sidonia to the Imperial Court as a hostage, there is only one way for Nemesis to protect Sidonia. The two grew up side by side, and there’s no one Nemesis wouldn’t kill to keep her safe. Nothing else.įor Nemesis, that person is Sidonia, heir to the galactic Senate. A Diabolic has a single task: Kill in order to protect the person you’ve been created for. ![]() Book Title : The Moonstone (The Diabolic #1)Ī Diabolic is ruthless. ![]() 5/8/2023 0 Comments New divergent book![]() ![]() In her new faction, Tris realises how divided society is. At the initiation, Beatrice makes a surprising choice – to follow her true nature and transfer to Dauntless, becoming Tris. In this society, there is no such thing as free will.īeatrice Prior is born into the Abnegation faction, but when she turns sixteen, she must choose the faction to which she will devote her life. ![]() Each faction believes their characteristic to be the most important value: Candor value honesty above all things, Abnegation selflessness, Dauntless courage, Amity peace and Erudite intelligence. Society is divided into five factions where citizens live with other like-minded comrades. In post-apocalyptic Chicago, humanity is ruled on one principle: all citizens are defined by their dominant characteristic which they must live and act according to. ![]() |