![]() ![]() flirting! (Adrian is incorrigible, and Noah so damn cute when he blushes.) dogs (two mutts: one big, one little Pixel, all eight sassy pounds of him, who just wants to play, and Ulysses, sweet but as anti-social as his daddy) sensual first-times (the kissing, the touching, the fucking oh, yeah, it was all there!) This book checked every one of my Perfect Story boxes: especially when they have hot sex and amazing chemistry. I love it when people get passionate and intense over stuff that matters to them, be it games or science or BOOKS.Īnd nothing makes me happier than two adorkable geeks coming together. ![]() ![]() But I am a GEEK: a huge, unrepentant geek. The last time I played a video game was in the mid-80s when I was in elementary school and obsessed with this: ![]()
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6/8/2023 0 Comments Underground fyodor dostoevsky![]() ![]() After graduating, he worked as an engineer and briefly enjoyed a lavish lifestyle, translating books to earn extra money. His mother died in 1837 when he was 15, and around the same time, he left school to enter the Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute. īorn in Moscow in 1821, Dostoevsky was introduced to literature at an early age through fairy tales and legends, and through books by Russian and foreign authors. His 1864 novella, Notes from Underground, is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature. ![]() ![]() His most acclaimed novels include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). ĭostoevsky's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. Numerous literary critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, as many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces. Fyódor Mikháylovich Dostoyévskiy, IPA: ( listen) 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881 ), sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Tell by Soraya Peerbaye![]() ![]() Bakul Banerjee, "Harrowing and deeply empathetic, Tell: poems for a girlhood traces the events surrounding the 1997 murder of teenager Reena Virk by a group of high school classmates. Peerbaye's language becomes a vehicle not just for exploring what others in the world may be capable of, but also of drawing readers into excruciating proximity with our own adolescent longing, fear, shame and rage." - Jury Citation, 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize "Peerbaye's brilliance-and yes, this poetry is transcendentally brilliant-is her commitment to image as memory, and memory as empathy." - Corrine Gilroy "An uncommonly meaningful collection." - Dr. ![]() The true miracle of Tell is not merely its choice to sing of such things, but its ability to sing in such a way as to urge the reader to embrace painful sympathies. ![]() ![]() And yet, the power of this book derives only partly from the unbearable facts of violence, hatred, and alienation. Peerbaye bears brave witness to the unspeakable brutality of these events, drawing from testimonies of the convicted, the victim's autopsy report, and a history of the landscape itself. "Harrowing and deeply empathetic, Tell: poems for a girlhood traces the events surrounding the 1997 murder of teenager Reena Virk by a group of high school classmates. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Every last word pages![]() ![]() The Wrong Side of Right by Jenn Marie Thorne “An outstanding second novel from a talented author, The Start of Me and You is pure heart and soul and the best kind of perfect.” (Full review here.) The Homo Sapiens Agenda is a spectacular book that fills your heart with the warm glow of infinite bliss.” (Full review here.) “An effervescent and uplifting coming of age story, Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli ![]() “Brimming with the brightest of hopes and the darkest of heartaches, All the Bright Places is a memorable tale of love, loss, and the beauty of being alive.” (Full review here.) These books are dear to me! Without further ado, I now present you The Lifelong Bookworm‘s Best Books of 2015! □ Hi guys! Today I’m sharing with you the books that impressed me this year because of their awesomeness. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Theodora tenpenny![]() ![]() And that’s why she goes to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Claudia, who decides to run away, wants to go someplace beautiful and comfortable, not someplace untidy like a picnic with bugs. Frankweiler by e.l.konigsburg is for older children (8 to 12) and is as incredibly delightful today as it was when it won the Newbery Medal in 1968. You’re free to click, look on Amazon and not buy.įrom the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. These are all books I’ve read and recommend. Your price is the same whether you use the affiliate link or find the book another way. Some of the links are “affiliate links” to, which means that Amazon pays me a few pennies if you end up buying the book through the link here. ![]() ![]() Here are six chapter books by authors that I like. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Stuff matters chapters![]() ![]() ![]() For a science teacher, these analogies can used be to assist students in their learning. Using numerous analogies, he explains science for the non-science audience. Miodownik has an easy writing style and the science is not too technical. Miodownik, himself, is a professor of Materials Science in the UK. On a professional level for a chemistry teacher, it is an important - perhaps necessary - read as it provides background from a material science aspect often missing from chemical education. Stuff Matters is an extremely interesting and engaging book, cleverly written and thoroughly enjoyable on a personal level. Winner of the 2014 Royal Society Winston Prize for Science Books ![]() Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made Worldīy Mark Miodownik, 2014, 264 pages, paperback, Penguin Books, ISBN978 8 5 CAN $17.00. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Hercules 1 by Dan Abnett![]() ![]() He's a great guy to have around and can pull through in a crunch, but quite a bit of the time he was a slight liability. ![]() I realized that the slightly buffoonish quality of Hercules in the Marvel Universe - that may not be the right word, but we'll go with it right now for the purpose of this conversation - reflects that slightly more negative side of him. ![]() He's also capable though of enormous foolishness, violent rage, and terrible decision making. He's an extraordinary hero who's enormously capable, beloved by the gods, and will do anything to protect and look after you if he's on your side. Heracles is his most famous incarnation, but he's kind of this archetype and I was suddenly struck with this idea that it's almost like he's the first super hero. It's an incredibly ancient myth that probably even predates written language that's appeared in many cultures. I immediately went away and thought about Hercules the mythological character and immediately realized that his legend goes back to a time before he was even called Hercules. I understand you're doing something a little different in "Hercules" that allows for all of the title's character's past established Marvel continuity, but also adds to his history.Ībsolutely. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Deep summer by gwen bristow![]() ![]() He and Judith will struggle through their stormy marriage and the challenges of the American Revolution as they strive to build an empire for future generations. Three thousand acres of untamed jungle, populated by native tribes and overrun with jaguars and pirates, await Philip in Louisiana. He is a rogue, a killer, and a thief-and the first thing he steals is Judith's heart. As the family ventures down the Mississippi to make a new home in the wilderness, Judith meets Philip Larne, an adventurer who travels in the finest clothes Judith has ever seen. The New York Times-bestselling author of Jubilee Trail does "a grand job of storytelling" in this saga of pioneers who settled the Louisiana wilderness ( The New York Times).įor his service in the king's army during the French and Indian War, Judith Sheramy's father, a Puritan New Englander, is granted a parcel of land in far-off Louisiana. ![]() ![]() Tobacco trails: How popes past, present influenced the plant’s journey The Vatican immediately accepted his resignation which was already in the pipeline because he had reached the age of 75 years when bishops are required to tender their resignation. The prologue to A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church gives a dramatic account of these revelations in 2002 in “a blaze of TV cameras” and a remarkably courageous penitential rite that Weakland himself organised at Milwaukee’s cathedral, during which he begged forgiveness from his flock. It was alleged that he had blocked the artistic career of the man with whom he had the relationship. ![]() This ended on a sad note when it became public knowledge that he had had an adult homosexual relationship years earlier, which culminated in demands for money, a confidentiality agreement and the use of diocesan funds to prevent a public trial. Elected archabbot of a major Benedictine monastery at the age of 36, abbot primate of the whole Benedictine order at 40 and appointed archbishop of Milwaukee at 50, Weakland had a distinguished but controversial career. ![]() 2009.Īrchbishop Rembert Weakland OSB is one of the best-known Catholic leaders in the United States. ![]() A PILGRIM IN A PILGRIM CHURCH: Memoirs of a Catholic Archbishop, by Rembert G Weakland OSB. ![]() ![]() Lucian desires respectability and a wife above all else, but the woman of his choosing lacks the social graces to be accepted by the aristocracy. To protect those she loves, she would do anything-even strike a bargain with the devil himself. A proper young lady risks more than her reputation when consorting with the roguishly handsome Lucian Langdon, but Lady Catherine Mabry believes she has no choice. They call him the Devil Earl-a scoundrel and accused murderer who grew up on the violent London streets. Their lives are irrevocably changed when it’s discovered that Lucian is the lost heir to the Earl of Claybourne. Now I have an excellent excuse to re-read the series as part of my Retro Reviews feature.Ĭlearly inspired by Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, it tells the stories of Lucian, Jack, Frannie, James and William, who all grew up on the streets of London as members of Feagan’s ‘ merry little band of ne’re -do- wells‘. I have read it a number of times since but never reviewed the books. ![]() ![]() ![]() I first read this series many years ago and it has remained one of my top favourite series ever since. ![]() |