![]() ![]() ![]() The stories are scandalous, refreshing, and, of course, incredibly sexy. Misadventures is a romantic series of spicy standalone novels, each written or co-written by some of the best names in romance. A secret big enough to rip Jackson's carefully ordered world to shreds. But Jackson isn't used to rejection, and if Piper thinks it's going to be easy to move on from their tryst, she's underestimated his determination.Īs their work brings them together, temptation becomes too much, and Piper loses herself in all the wicked pleasure Jackson has to offer. When she agrees to be set up on a blind date, she never expects it to end with the hottest sex of her life.īut when she discovers that her very well-endowed secret lover is also her new boss, heartless womanizer and cutthroat CEO Jackson Dane, she chalks it up to a one-time mistake and puts up her best professional front. At twenty-nine, Piper Daniels is having the longest dry-spell of her life. ![]()
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![]() Granted, the storyline of Dim Sum for Everyone of a Chinese American family going out for a traditional Dim Sum is to a point captivating and delightful, but there just is not all that much to it (not all that much detail, not all that much that can be described as more than a rather obvious scratching the proverbial surface of rudimentary description and depiction of the joys and ways and means of Dim Sum). ![]() Also, and for me probably even more importantly, and as some of my GR friends have already pointed out in their own excellent reviews of Dim Sum For Everyone, the text itself (Grace Lin's printed words), they are rather, no actually, they are very much lacking in any kind of substance. However, and on a purely personal level, I really cannot say that I like the accompanying illustrations all that much, as they are simply much too cartoon-like for my aesthetic tastes (working well enough in conjunction with the narrative, but not in any way magical or spectacular, just simply and basically adequate). Grace Lin's Dim Sum For Everyone is for all intents and purposes sweet and enlightening (and perhaps even quite engaging for the very young). ![]() ![]() ![]() Emerson's love and compassion for her help her through this difficult time. Still lost and without a home, she agrees to stay with her longtime friend Emerson. After the death of her parents, she tried to lose herself in an unhealthy relationship. Rennillia 1: Ren (Rennillia) makes bad decisions, she always has. Caught between love, loyalty, friendship and restrained by obligations, these four discover the bond they formed long ago is not the only thing holding them together. ![]() After a six-year separation from her friends, Ren returns to the Roberts' house to start over. Set in a small southern town, death, love, hurt, friendship and anger bond Rennillia Cantinelli, Scott Herterand, Emerson Roberts and Jackson Thomas while shaping the paths they will follow into adulthood. Rennillia 1: Ren (Rennillia) makes bad decisions, she always. ![]() ![]() ![]() “On the High Marsh” tells of the love of power – and of the power of love. “Darkrose and Diamond” is a delightful story of young courtship showing that wizards sometimes pursue alternative careers. ![]() “The Bones of the Earth” features the wizards who taught the wizard who first taught Ged and demonstrates how humility, if great enough, can contend with an earthquake. “The Finder,” a novella set a few hundred years before A Wizard of Earthsea, presents a dark and troubled Archipelago and shows how some of its customs and institutions came to be. Le Guin writes in her introduction, explore or extend the world established by her first four Earthsea novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Raising his stick to defend himself, the man mistakenly broke a shop window. On Christmas morning, a tallish man, walking with a stagger (in celebration of the season perhaps), carrying a goose on his back had got into a scuffle with a group of roughs. Upon inquiring about it, Holmes informs him of the rather whimsical incident which has brought it into his possession. Here Watson finds Holmes lying on his couch (aside: I was interested to find the word ‘couch’ in the original story, only to learn of its French origin from Google, not simply an American word for sofa as I thought it was, the word sofa itself being Arabic), in a dressing gown and with his pipe rack close by, contemplating a ‘very seedy and disreputable hard felt hat’. The story opens with Dr Watson arriving at 221B, Baker Street, a couple of days after Christmas to wish him ‘the compliments of the season’. Holmes Studying Henry Baker’s Hat by Sidney Paget via Wikimedia Commons ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There's a body count in the story that includes villages (including children) burned, people dismembered and crushed, and necks broken. Then when the crew goes on their adventure, they have to defend themselves, and that includes drowning, sword-fighting, and hand-to-hand combat. ![]() There is quite a bit of violence: The mercy killing involves the use of poison or, more often, blades to quickly slit throats. Frey and her squad are paid mercy killers (or death traders) who eventually decide to track and kill a Giant laying waste to a kingdom. Parents need to know that The Boneless Mercies is author April Genevieve Tucholke's gender-bent YA twist on the legendary Beowulf tale, featuring glory-seeking young women warriors instead of men. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is widely considered one of the best films of the 2010s, for both children and adults. The film received widespread critical acclaim on Metacritic and gained an approval rating of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, becoming the highest-rated film on the site until a single negative review was registered in 2021. The film was theatrically released on 10 November 2017 in the United Kingdom and 6 December 2017 in France, and grossed $227 million worldwide. Principal photography began in October 2016 and ended in June 2017. The film was confirmed to be in development in April 2015. ![]() In the film, Paddington tries to get a present for his adoptive aunt's birthday, but when the intended gift is stolen from a shop and he is wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for the theft, he and his family have to find the real culprit and prove Paddington's innocence. The film, a British-French-Luxembourgish co-production, stars Ben Whishaw as the voice of Paddington, with Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Brendan Gleeson, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi, and Hugh Grant in live-action roles. ![]() Based on the stories of Paddington Bear, created by Michael Bond (to whom the film is also dedicated, Bond having died that year), it is the sequel to Paddington (2014), and is produced by Heyday Films and StudioCanal UK. ![]() Paddington 2 is a 2017 live-action animated comedy film directed by Paul King and written by King and Simon Farnaby. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And in that same issue, that little glimpse of the Frankenstein monster in the center of the earth, that’s the last I thought we’d see of him. Mignola says that “At the end of B.P.R.D.: The Devil You Know when we burned down the world and then started it again with frog people, I really did think that would be all we’d see of it. The new four-part mini-series (from Dark Horse Comics) is set chronologically after the conclusion of B.P.R.D.: The Devil You Know and finds the monster preserved after the events of Ragna Rok. Mike Mignola’s version of the world renowned monster returns to the world of Hellboy in August’s Frankenstein: New World by Mignola, Christopher Golden, Thomas Sniegoski, Peter Bergting, Michelle Madsen, and Clem Robins. The Mignolaverse is populated with all manner of monsters and madmen from myth, legend, and literature, including Mary Shelley’s most famous monster. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Annabelle Conroy, the greatest con artist of her generation, struts onto the scene in high-heeled boots, the Camel Club gets a sexy new edge. Zion Cemetery, Stone, drawing on his vast experience and acute deductive powers, discovers that someone is selling America to its enemies one classified secret at a time. Staying one step ahead of his violent past and headquartered in a caretaker's cottage in Mt. ![]() And the outrageous iconoclasts of the Camel Club have found a chilling connection with another death: the demise of the director of the Library of Congress's rare books room, whose body has been found in a locked vault where seemingly nothing could have harmed him.Ī man who calls himself Oliver Stone is the groups unofficial leader. ![]() Speaker of the House has shaken the nation. ![]() Their mission: find out what's really going on behind the closed doors of America's leaders. In Washington, D.C, where power is everything and too few have too much of it, four highly eccentric men with mysterious pasts call themselves the Camel Club. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How Winston and Julia rebelled, fell in love and paid the penalty in the terroristic world of tomorrow is the thread on which Britain’s George Orwell has spun his latest and finest work of fiction. In short, the grim, grey London Times could not have been referring to Winston and Julia when it snorted contemptuously: “Old-thinkers unbellyfeel Ingsoc,” i.e., “Those whose ideas were formed before the Revolution cannot have a full emotional understanding of the principles of English Socialism.” And Party-Member Julia was outwardly so goodthinkful (naturally orthodox) that, after a brilliant girlhood in the Spies, she became active in the Junior Anti-Sex League and was snapped up by Pornosec, a subsection of the government Fiction Department that ground out happy-making pornography for the masses. ![]() After all, Party-Member Winston Smith was one of the Ministry of Truth’s most trusted forgers he had always flung himself heart & soul into the falsification of government statistics. In Britain 1984 A.D., no one would have suspected that Winston and Julia were capable of crimethink (dangerous thoughts) or a secret desire for ownlife (individualism). ![]() |