![]() Just when Blaise thinks he can navigate the treacherous asteroid field of emotion to find common ground with Keller, an interstellar war tears them apart. The star of startling passion that flares every time they touch. Serving in the roles of prisoner and captor defines their ‘relationship’, but no power can stop a shooting star… The privateer can’t deny that suffering the handsome admiral’s punishments makes him burn like the fires of the Horsehead Nebula. ![]() ![]() Keller dispenses his own forms of painful justice and sensual discipline, which usually involve a not so resistant Blaise on his knees bound and determined to give as good as he gets. After their first close encounter, Blaise figures that serving Keller in such a personal capacity won’t be such a terrible sentence. But when the chemistry between them rivals the heat of the twin Talixin suns, the dominant admiral decides he wants to handle the rehabilitation of the provocative pirate himself. ![]() Captured and accused of piracy, privateer Blaise Risner, captain of the Golden Stallion, finds himself in a clinch literally with Confederation Admiral Peter Keller, who promises to see justice done by way of hard labor. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He proved he could strut on Harlan Coben’s turf in Mr. It’s about taking the stuff King is familiar with – homicidal cars, mass murderers, psi powers, lunatic fans – and putting in in a whole new type of of fiction. Of course, this is all simplistic: boil down any story to its component parts and you start to see similarities. With the final book in the Hodges trilogy, End of Watch, we’re treated to a look at what the scientists in Firestarter might have gotten up to in the twenty-first century, and how technology and social media might have made their meddling worse. The book it reminds us most of is Misery, but there’s a bit of The Dark Half and Bag of Bones and even “Secret Window, Secret Garden” sprinkled in. ![]() Finders Keepers is yet another in a long line of King stories about stories, how they affect people, and how people affect them. Mercedes, with its unhinged mass murderer and vehicular homicide, pulled from classics like Carrie and Christine, with a touch of “Apt Pupil” thrown in for good measure. What’s interesting about these Bill Hodges crime capers is how they’re all basically riffs on classic Stephen King tropes, but instead of following them down horror corridors, they lead us down alleys of modern noir and crime fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() One concern that needs attention: the diary format, which this series has shown effectively engages readers, makes pretenses that the book is a real one. Laskys narrative transports the reader to Mems world, where ships rock and heave, and food must be scratched from the ground. The New World, filled with uncertainty, provides a perfect backdrop for a novel since simple existence proves to be a battle that must be won daily. In this rerelease of 1996s A Journey to the New World, Newbery Honor-recipient Kathryn Lasky vividly brings the struggles of the pilgrims to life, portraying gritty details realistically but appropriately for her audience. Despite the help of Squanto and Samoset, friendly Native Americans, Mem must cope with great loss as she and the settlement struggle to survive. When they arrive in the new land, they hope to forge a new, better life, free from religious persecution, but their new home proves to be a harsh onegrueling work and death follow them, claiming many of their numbers. Twelve-year-old Mem Whipple and her family have endured a difficult trip to the New World aboard the Mayflower. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shelf Awareness A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched cultural observers of her generation In these funny and insightful essays, Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of color (The Help) while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years (Girls, Django in Chains) and commenting on the state of feminism today (abortion, Chris Brown). ![]() She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always careful, always right there." - Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be? A New York Times Bestseller Best Book of the Year: NPR Summary: "Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. ![]() ![]() Early inspirations can also be found in the Austromarxism and its seeking of a "Third" democratic way to socialism. ![]() Eurocommunist parties expressed their fidelity to democratic institutions more clearly than before and attempted to widen their appeal by embracing public sector middle-class workers, new social movements such as feminism and gay liberation and more publicly questioning the Soviet Union. The main theoretical foundation of Eurocommunism was Antonio Gramsci's writing about Marxist theory which questioned the sectarianism of the Left and encouraged communist parties to develop social alliances to win "hegemonic" support for social reforms. ![]() Jean-François Revel once wrote that "one of the favourite amusements of 'political scientists' is to search for the author of the term "Eurocommunism." In April 1977, "Deutschland-Archiv" decided that the word was first used in the summer of 1975 by Yugoslav journalist Frane Barbieri, former editor of Belgrade's NIN Newsmagazine. ![]() The origin of the term "Eurocommunism" was subject to great debate in the mid-1970s, being attributed to Zbigniew Brzezinski and Arrigo Levi, among others. Eurocommunism was a new trend in the 1970s and 1980s within various Western European communist parties to develop a theory and practice of social transformation that was more relevant in a Western European democracy and less aligned to the partyline of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. ![]() ![]() ![]() After following events set during the times of Charles II’s reign, with the main characters being Charles, his brother James, and James’s daughters Mary and Anne. ![]() Every “had” in the above quote could’ve been cut or replaced.Ī similar thing happens around one-third of the way into the story. It’s also a filler word, as the narrative is in the past tense. That’s the problem with using the past perfect “had” – it reports on the scene as opposed to taking the reader into the action as it unfolds. The above *reports* on what happens, rather than *dramatizing* the events. So distressed had she been that her attendants had feared for her life and in her despair she had begged the Bishop of Winchester to come to her, and before him and the Duchess of Ormonde she had taken a solemn vow swearing that Berkeley had never been her lover and that the father of her child was James, Duke of York.” “How she had hated the lying Berkeley! He had desired her and because she had refused his attentions, this was his revenge. The overuse of “had” (past perfect) in the opening chapter makes it a passive start: It uses backstory early on, which would’ve been better filtered in later through dialogue to make it more active, or cut out altogether, as it isn’t essential. Sadly, it’s one of those novels that’s so dry it makes you thirsty. “The Three Crowns” covers a period of England’s history that I’m not too familiar with, so I looked forward to this one. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Cassidy Hutchinson presents as one of the most credible witnesses possible in this way," Leonnig said. She also spoke about the credibility of Hutchinson. Leonnig also reflected on the reputation of the lead agent on Trump's detail, Engel, and former deputy Chief of Staff Ornato and their relationship with the then-president. "However, if they testify, under oath, 'this is what happened,' I think that is going to be important." "I am not saying that Tony Ornato or Bobby Engel did that but they are viewed as being aligned with Donald Trump, which cuts against them. "Some of them even took to their personal media accounts to cheer on the insurrection and the individuals rioting up to the Capitol, as patriots. "There was a very large contingent of Donald Trump's detail who were personally cheering for Biden to fail," she said. Leonnig, who has written a book on the Secret Service, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of The Secret Service, said it was "problematic" some of Trump's detail appeared to support the rioters on January 6. Hutchinson made multiple claims regarding the former President's actions and insisted that he demanded to go to the Capitol after the riots began, getting into an altercation with his security detail. Here is our conversation with, who literally wrote the book on the Secret Service, about the questions surrounding Cassidy Hutchinson's recounting of the story of Donald Trump lunging for the steering wheel when he found out he wasn't going to the Capitol. ![]() ![]() Any other details, he thought, should be left out. He believed that every detail in a story should be chosen carefully so that it helped to contribute to the mood he was trying to create. One of the rules Poe followed in his writing was to avoid excess. Events in History at the Time the Short Story Takes Place An ambiguous setting Leading readers there, the narrator relates a mysterious, horrifying story from his past. Poe sets most of the story in the gloomy underground tomb of a European aristocrat, far from the familiar United States. The story’s focus-revenge-and its climactic scene-burial of a living man-were chosen in part to fit the American reader’s appetite. ![]() Written in an era that valued sensational subjects, “The Cask of Amontillado” is a perfect example of this link to America. ![]() A short story set in the 1700s or early 1800s in Italy or France published in 1846.Īn aristocrat lures his enemy into an underground passageway with an offer of rare wine and buries him alive there.Įvents in History at the Time the Short Story Takes PlaceĮvents in History at the Time the Short Story Was WrittenĮdgar Allan Poe’s horror stories have always been associated with his own tragic life, but they are also closely tied to American popular culture in the 1800s. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a quiet, intense, emotional book about grieving and the changes death makes in the lives of the people who lived, and it’s a sweet love story about the things that can bring a grieving person back from their inconsolable sadness. This book is all of those things: the writing is lovely, the tone is kind of dark, and there’s lots of deep feels going on. LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP, Amy McNamara‘s debut, is one of those books whose title is basically perfect. When the chemistry between them threatens to pull Wren from her hard-won isolation, Wren has to choose: risk opening her broken heart to the world again, or join the ghosts who haunt her. Dealing with his own troubles, Cal’s hiding out too. ![]() Instead of heading off to college as planned, Wren retreats to her father’s studio in the far-north woods of Maine. Though she lived through the accident that killed her boyfriend Patrick, the girl she used to be didn’t survive. Summary: Since the night of the crash, Wren Wells has been running away. ![]() ![]() i wouldn't have known it was a dark romance book if the blurb didn't have say it was. This book literally was the most BORING book out there. was the plot ehhh in the first book? yes but at least the smut was good and the characters were loveable. Where do i fucking begin? i've never been more disappointed with a book especially since i liked the first book. “And you, Riley fucking Kelly, are beautiful in a way that’d make the constellations weep.” “You have scars, but they don’t have you.” I’m not sure if either of us is breathing anymore. If you are not a dark romance reader, this book may not be suitable for you. It is NOT fantasy, historical, or a retelling. *Vipers and Virtuosos is a full-length, standalone dark rockstar romance inspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Only, I disappeared before he could act on it. ![]() ![]() The siren who calls to the darkest parts of him. ![]() ![]() Orpheus in the flesh, with his sad songs and strange obsessions. Her past sins should be the least of her worries.įrom the moment he saw me, I knew I’d ruin his life.Īlone at the bar, I dared the monster to come and play. The ghost she’s tried for years to escape.īut I never stopped trying, and now that I have, Sitting all alone at the bar, she looked like an angel.Įurydice in human form her beauty eclipsed by demons. From the second I saw her, I knew she’d be my ruin. ![]() |