5/30/2023 0 Comments Center Mass by Lani Lynn Vale![]() January himself tells her to do what the gunman says, she’s had enough. Follow the rules and maybe possibly live, or go down swinging where at least she can salvage just a little bit of her dignity.Īnd when Mr. The moment the gun is pressed to her forehead, she knows she has a decision to make. ![]() She was just fired from her job for violating client confidentiality, and to make matters worse, she’s held up at gunpoint in a convenience store where she only wanted some ice cream to help mask the pain. Rowen Roberts had finally admitted to herself that the man she loved would never love her back. ![]() It goes from bad to worse when even on a SWAT call, the women won’t stay away. Now, every time Dax Tremaine walks around a corner, the women of Kilgore, Texas can’t help calling him Mr. ![]() Kilgore Police Department’s public relations specialists-were wrong. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Kidder digresses from the main story line, with a short sidebar on Don Knuth, the legendary computer scientist and author of the seminal treatise on programming, The Art of Computer Programming. ![]() For their trouble, they got $.75 per referral from the airline.With under 300 employees, they made a substantial profit that enticed Priceline to purchase them in 2012 for a hefty two billion dollars. I never really paid attention to Kayak’s business model before this, but Kayak didn't actually sell flights, like Expedia or Travelocity, and instead referred people to the airline websites. English’s diagnosis with bipolar disorder plays a big role in the narrative and his coping strategies are nothing short of heroic. ![]() English considered himself something a “Pied Piper,” recruiting the best and the brightest geeks to join him in his startups some successful, others, not so much. Kidder follows working-class Paul English’s journey from a rockstar programmer to a serial entrepreneur. It's a chronicle of the life of Kayak founder Paul English, and his struggle to figure out what he wants to do when he grows up after selling the Kayak travel search engine for travel to. The author of the Pulitzer prize-winning Soul of a New Machine has a new book out: A Truck Full of Money: One man’s quest to recover from great success. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Elric of melnibone books![]() ![]() This was a time when I was standing in line to see The Empire Strikes Back, discovering Dungeons and Dragons, and playing my Intellivision game console. Both books functioned well as stand-alone stories, and both immediately captured my imagination. It was those great Michael Whelan covers that sucked me in. My library had the fourth and fifth books in the series: The Vanishing Tower, with a giant bug on the cover, and Bane of the Black Sword, with a cool-looking, giant lich on the cover. ![]() Classic Review is a feature where I pull a book that is over 20 years old from my collection and re-read it, then review it…įormat: paperback, first Daw printing, 1976Īs I stated in my review of Nine Princes in Amber, the other major influence on my reading during my teen years was Moorcock’s Elric series. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Geisha books![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men and where love is scorned as illusion. We witness her transformation as she learns the rigorous arts of the geisha: dance and music wearing kimono, elaborate makeup, and hair pouring sake to reveal just a touch of inner wrist competing with a jealous rival for men's solicitude and the money that goes with it. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Cut Off by Adrianne Finlay![]() ![]() ![]() In this consistently well-structured world, Finlay weighs the cost of conformity verses rebellion, and the narrative's gracefully restrained style amplifies the story's profound underlying emotions. River, Trip, Cam, and Liza are all very different but compliment each other well. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 17. I was fascinated by the premise of Cut Off a bunch of teens are on a reality show where they are put in. Finlay introduces a second protagonist in Althea, a clone who develops an affinity for Jack that she doesn't understand and which threatens the collective harmony of her community. ARC Review: Cut Off by Adrianne Finlay My Review. After a life of painful isolation, Jack finds there are dangerous fissures in the clones' culture%E2%80%94some cracks he has caused but others that arise from generations of genetic manipulation. But the generation of clones who raised Jack failed to integrate him with clones his own age. Long after the death of the human race from the Slow Plague, a series of nine models of clones are all that is left resembling humanity%E2%80%94save Jack, the only human boy alive in the world. ![]() ![]() Finlay's fine debut novel is a dystopian story about a future society gone terribly wrong due to irresponsible cloning. Cut Off by Adrianne Finlay Competing in a wilderness survival reality show for a million-dollar prize, a group of teens discover that they have been. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments September Fair by Jess Lourey![]() I thought it was a very funny book and it was PG- fun reading for everyone.Īt the time of this posting you can download September Fair (The Murder-By-Month Mysteries) for FREE. In addition to trying to find a murdered she eats everything deep fried at the fair, lives in a trailer with two crazy people and spends her time screwing up her one liners in front of her crush. In this case it’s the beauty queen from the pageant connected to the state fair. Mira James, the main character in the story, keeps stumbling across dead bodies in her journey. There are even sculptures made from butter. ![]() It’s a straight up murder myself but takes place during the Minnesota State Fair with a concentration in the dairy area. I have to admit- I learned alot about the dairy business from this book. ![]() ![]() This week I read September Fair (The Murder-By-Month Mysteries) by Jess Lourey. Welcome to week 29 of the “ 52 Books in 52 Weeks” series! If you haven’t seen all the books take a moment and catch up! ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Eve book anna carey![]() ![]() I don’t usually share my thought process for the cover art on this blog, but please allow me to give an abbreviated version this time: This is typical for me as I am forever attracted by a lovely cover. ![]() I wanted to read Eve initially because of the cover. He promises to protect her, but when soldiers begin hunting them, Eve must choose between true love and her life. Separated from men her whole life, Eve has been taught to fear them, but Caleb slowly wins her trust…and her heart. Along the way she encounters Caleb, a rough, rebellious boy living in the wild. The night before eighteen-year-old Eve’s graduation from her all-girls school she discovers what really happens to new graduates, and the horrifying fate that awaits her.įleeing the only home she’s ever known, Eve sets off on a long, treacherous journey, searching for a place she can survive. The year is 2032, sixteen years after a deadly virus-and the vaccine intended to protect against it-wiped out most of the earth’s population. ![]() ![]() ![]() In an oddly appropriating act, the 2018 film version of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time expunged its many Christian references. Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion by Rebecca McLaughlin. Rowling, another author referenced on the side of good-o ld British paganism, chose not to disclose her fragile Christian faith until the last Harry Potter book was published, precisely because of its Christian influence: she feared it would give the story away. Rebecca McLaughlin confronts some of the hardest questions faced by Christians today with thoughtful, engaging responses rooted in Scripture. ![]() The author cited The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia as examples of stories shaped by paganism, failing to note that Tolkien and Lewis were passionate Christians who grounded their stories in the death-a nd-r esurrection truth claims of Jesus. ![]() ![]() In the same year, I stumbled upon an Atlantic article that promised to explain “Why the British Tell Better Children’s Stories.” 4 As a Brit living in America, I read it eagerly, only to find it arguing that American children’s stories are less compelling because they are more Christian. Confronting Christianity 12 Hard Questions for the Worlds Largest Religion by Rebecca McLaughlin Also available Can I really trust the Bible Barry Cooper £4.99 £4.24 Tricky Michael Dormandy, Carl Laferton £6.99 £5.94 If You Could Ask God One Question Barry Cooper, Paul Williams £6.99 £5.94 Take Heart Matt Chandler £8.99 £7. Likewise, at the 2016 “Reason Rally,” designed to mobilize atheists, agnostics, and “nones,” multiple speakers invoked Martin Luther King’s March on Washington-as if a rally that despised Christianity would have pleased one of the most powerful Christian preachers in American history. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Now you see her by linda howard![]() And every desire-including her hunger for Richard-is loaded with uncertainty as Sweeney races to unmask a killer. Now You See Her Linda Howard 4.08 13,194 ratings498 reviews With the scintillating sensuality and high-voltage thrills that distinguish all of her blockbusters of romantic suspense, Linda Howard grips the imagination and touches the heart as only she can, in her sixth dazzling New York Times bestseller. With every stroke of her brush, she risks incriminating herself with her inexplicable knowledge of a deadly crime. ![]() But when a shattering, real-life murder mirrors her creation, Sweeney falls under suspicion. Against her better instincts, she returns to the canvas time and again, filling out each chilling detail piece by piece. ![]() Now, the true dangers of her all-consuming urges are about to be revealed where Sweeney least expects it: in her paintings.Īfter a creative frenzy she can barely recall, Sweeney discovers she has rendered a disturbing image-a graphic murder scene. Suddenly, impulsively, Sweeney falls into a night of intense passion with millionaire Richard Worth. Life is good, and Sweeney, as she prefers to be called, is content.īut lately, Sweeney’s dreams seem to echo a growing restlessness that has taken hold of her. New York Times bestseller Linda Howard brings scintillating sensuality and high-voltage thrills to this novel following a painter as she embarks on a sizzling romance while also coming under suspicion for a shocking murder.Ī talented painter in her early thirties, Paris Sweeney has achieved enviable success: her work sells at an exclusive New York City gallery, and her popularity is at an all-time high. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Horns book joe hill![]() ![]() ![]() Fire and brimstone have rarely looked this good.” In 2013, the novel was adapted into a film starring Daniel Radcliffe, which made its debut at The Toronto International Film Festival before receiving a theatrical release on October 31, 2014. Horns was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award and hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “a richly nuanced story. Ig soon discovers the horns hold a mysterious power that forces people to reveal their deepest and darkest secrets to him as he defends his innocence and fights to avenge the death of his one true love. After the brutal murder of his girlfriend Merrin Williams, a grief-stricken Ig awakens one morning to find horns growing out of his head. A dark fantasy novel originally published in 2010, Horns is the book with which TIME Magazine proclaimed, “Joe Hill has emerged as one of America’s finest horror writers.” ![]() |