![]() ![]() ![]() This was light-hearted and fun! I liked both Vivi and Rhys. The Ex Hex was so cute! I know I am late to the party, but I enjoyed this one quite a bit. You can read more on my disclosures page. Vivi and Rhys have to ignore their off the charts chemistry to work together to save the town and find a way to break the break-up curse before it’s too late. Suddenly, Graves Glen is under attack from murderous wind-up toys, a pissed off ghost, and a talking cat with some interesting things to say. With one calamity after another striking Rhys, Vivi realizes her silly little Ex Hex may not have been so harmless after all. ![]() What should be a quick trip to recharge the town’s ley lines and make an appearance at the annual fall festival turns disastrously wrong. That is until Rhys Penhallow, descendent of the town’s ancestors, breaker of hearts, and annoyingly just as gorgeous as he always was, returns to Graves Glen, Georgia. Sure, Vivi knows she shouldn’t use her magic this way, but with only an “orchard hayride” scented candle on hand, she isn’t worried it will cause him anything more than a bad hair day or two. Nine years ago, Vivienne Jones nursed her broken heart like any young witch would: vodka, weepy music, bubble baths…and a curse on the horrible boyfriend. ![]()
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![]() I concur with Historico, keep it coming, regardless whether the world ends up as a utopia or a FOT-like hellhole.Īlmost immediately the novel situation of an acting President created ripples between the Agnew White House and the press. How will Agnew replacing Nixon affect that, if it is affected at all? Writing about Yom Kippur reminded me of another pivotal event in 1973, namely the Chilean Coup of 11 September. And with the Yom Kippur War starting that month. If the same thing that came to plague him OTL surfaces here, that would give him about eight months or so. In OTL he resigned as Vice President on October 10, 1973. I wonder how Moscow, Beijing/Peking and Hanoi will react to President Agnew, not to mention the Free World? I think it's safe to say that any resolution to the Vietnam War is out of the question as long as he occupies the Oval Office. ![]() ![]() Will the way how Agnew got the presidency lead to jokes about "One man, One vote" in which "Agnew's the Man and he has the Vote"? (To spoof Discworld ) ![]() ![]() Was Agnew really that sanguine about a Sino-Soviet conflict in real life? That was shades of For All Time back there. No wonder Nixon was shitting himself back there, with Agnew talking things like that. Mother of Jesus Christ and all the saints help us. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ford is a galactic Hitchhiker who works for the “Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy” He was sent to earth to study the planet. In this pub after a few drinks Ford tells Arthur that he is an alien. The entire planet is going to suffer the same fate as Arthur’s house. Then his friend Ford Prefect shows up and convinces Arthur to get up and go with him to a pub because “it’s the end of the world”įord is right, ironically the entire planet is scheduled to be demolished by the Vogons to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. Initially Arthur resists by refusing to get out of the way of the bulldozers. ![]() His house needs to be demolished to make way for a new highway bypass. It all starts when Arthur Dent is shocked when he finds bulldozers outside his house one morning, and they’re not coming over just for a cup of tea. This novel is about Arthur Dent and what happened to him during his travels across the universe. The text at the back is only a small summary, there are no special comments. The cover of the book is not very much related to the central theme. My edition was : 2002 published by Gollancz The story was first created as a radio series in 1978, and the book was first published in 1979. The title of the book is the Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The author of this book is Douglas Adams who was educated on Cambridge and studied English. ![]() ![]() ![]() We spotted the house Lee bought with the proceeds of the book, nice and handy for The Woolpack pub and with glorious views over his beloved valley, and how lucky we were to see it in all its summer glory with ‘all sights twice-brilliant and smells twice-sharp’. Lee describes him as ‘thick-legged, red-fisted, bursting with flesh, designed for the great outdoors … the sight of him squeezed into his tiny desk was worse than a bullock in ballet-shoes.’ ![]() It was tricky to find the village, but we knew we were getting close when we saw the sign at Bulls Cross – ‘that ragged wildness of wind-bent turves … a sort of island of nothing set high above the crowded valleys’ – the place Lee and his friends would frequent in the hopes of seeing a ghostly spectre.Īrriving at the village, we quickly spotted the school where the fabulously named Spadge Hopkins was taught alongside the young Laurie Lee. We recently had a little holiday on the Somerset coast but, with me navigating, we took a detour to the Cotswolds to visit a very special village – Slad, the setting of Laurie Lee’s wonderful book Cider with Rosie. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She hates him-his stone-cold demeanor, his arrogance and too-perceptive eye-but over the years, even as their games consist of insulting each other’s looks and intelligence, she begins to live to play with him. One winter night and their lives intertwine. With a proclivity for order and the number three, he’s never been tempted to veer off course. Christian Allister has always followed the life plan he’d envisioned in his youth, beneath the harsh lights of a frigid, damp cell. In the New York underworld, others know him as a hustler, a killer, his nature as cold as the heart of ice in his chest. ![]() Most see a paragon of morality a special agent upholding the law. Little do most know it’s just a sparkly disguise, there to hide one panic attack at a time. She laughs too loudly, eats without decorum, and mixes up most sayings in the book. Her dresses are too tight, her heels too tall. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Hours started out as an attempt to write a contemporary version of Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs. Sounds like a lot of fun, right? So, what if we told you that Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize winning, PEN/Faulkner Award–winning, and Stonewall Book Award–winning novel The Hoursis basically a novel-length piece of slash and fan fiction that pays homage to the work of Virginia Woolf? ![]() In slash fiction, fans pair up characters for sexy times that they never get to experience in the originals-just think of characters like Kirk and Spock, Dean and Castiel, and Xena and Gabrielle. If not, we'll fill you in: fan fiction is a popular genre in which diehard fans of movies, books, and television series expand their favorite narratives by writing or re-writing stories that take place in those universes. ![]() You've heard of fan fiction and slash fiction, right? ![]() ![]() ![]() And with the remarkable rise of suburbia, he assumed that all Americans would share in the wealth.īut fifty years later, he finds himself in an increasingly doubtful nation strained by bleak racial and economic inequality, on a planet whose future is in peril.Īnd he is curious: What the hell happened? As a teenager, he cheerfully led American Revolution tours in Lexington, Massachusetts. Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing-knowing-that the United States was the greatest country on earth. “I’m curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity.” ![]() One of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2022īill McKibben-award-winning author, activist, educator-is fiercely curious. ![]() ![]() With tales of friendship and revenge, plus two new stories from the Carve the Mark universe, this collection has something for new and old fans alike. ![]() In these six stories, Veronica Roth reaches into the unknown and draws forth something startlingly familiar and profoundly beautiful. And yet, for all the advances in these futuristic lands, the people still must confront deeply human problems. Within this masterful collection, each setting is more strange and wonderful than the last, brimming with new technologies and beings. ![]() Synopsis: Bestselling Divergent and Carve the Mark author Veronica Roth delivers a stunning collection of novella-length stories set in the future, illustrated with startling black-and-white artwork. The End and Other Beginnings by Veronica Rothīuy this book at: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository ![]() ![]() ![]() Hawaii was the first book she chose for me. Read several books, do book reports, get a grade. I only took her class "Hooked on Books" because I thought it was and easy A. ![]() Fine" introduced me to this very large book. But he said in his 1992 memoirs that the circumstances of his birth remained cloudy and he did not know just when he was born or who his parents were. Michener's entry in Who's Who in America says he was born on Feb. ![]() Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, best known for its permanent collection of Pennsylvania Impressionist paintings and a room containing Michener's own typewriter, books, and various memorabilia. Toward the end of his life, he created the Journey Prize, awarded annually for the year's best short story published by an emerging Canadian writer founded an MFA program now, named the Michener Center for Writers, at the University of Texas at Austin and made substantial contributions to the James A. His first novel, Tales of the South Pacific, which inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. ![]() James Albert Michener is best known for his sweeping multi-generation historical fiction sagas, usually focusing on and titled after a particular geographical region. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Septimus and his Italian wife, Lucrezia, wait in Regent’s Park. The point of view shifts to Septimus Warren Smith, a veteran of World War I who is suffering from shell shock. ![]() He follows a young woman, idealizing her from afar. ![]() Peter leaves when Clarissa’s daughter Elizabeth enters, and he walks to Regent’s Park, thinking about Clarissa’s refusal of his marriage offer. Peter and Clarissa have always been very close but also very critical of each other, and their brief meeting is laden with shared memories. Peter was once passionately in love with Clarissa, but she rejected his offer of marriage. She passes a car bearing an unknown but important personage, and an airplane sky writing an advertisement.Ĭlarissa returns home and is visited by Peter Walsh, an old friend from Bourton who has been in India for years. She enjoys the small sensations of daily life and often muses on her late teenage years at Bourton, her family’s country home. Clarissa is throwing a party that night, and in the morning she walks about London on her way to get flowers. Clarissa Dalloway is an upper-class housewife married to Richard, a politician in the Conservative Party. Dalloway takes place in London during one day and night in mid-June, 1923. ![]() |