![]() ![]() ![]() I was entertained from the first page, right until the very end. Perhaps I read this novel at the right time in my life or maybe it was just that good, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Percy, Annabeth and Grover are sent on a quest to find the bolt, as well as Percy’s mother who was kidnapped, and the mysterious lightning thief. Not too long after he arrives, Percy discovers that he has angered the gods, especially Zeus, who believes that Percy has stolen his lightning bolt. ![]() Percy is taken to Camp Half-Blood where he meets more of his kind, including Annabeth, the daughter of Athena, and Grover, a satyr. The Greek gods are alive and real and living in New York City. On a class excursion at his newest school, Percy is attacked by a teacher who turns into a horrible monster and he discovers a truth about himself: he is a demi-god, half-human half-god, and the son of the sea god Poseidon. I’m sure almost everyone is familiar with the story, but if you aren’t, the book follows 12-year-old Percy Jackson, an ADHD and dyslexic boy who is constantly kicked out of school due to regular mishaps and bad behaviour. ![]() On a whim, I borrowed it and fell in love with the incredible world and characters Rick Riordan has created. I think this novel has been on my TBR list longer than any other and I finally forced myself to read it after finding it at my local library. I’m sure we all have that book on our to-be-read lists, a book that you constantly stare at thinking, “I really need to read you,” but the timing is just not right. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “I don’t think a lifetime will ever be enough with a girl like Sadie.” Can he outmaneuver his mother before she’s taken from him? She brought light, happiness and love to his otherwise dreary reality and after years their friendship grew to something much more and now he’ll do anything to protect her and preserve their love. Will their love hinder her scheme?Īxton has lived a sad, lonely life, knowing he was nothing but a disappointment to his mother until he met Sadie. What Griselda didn’t plan on was for her own son to care so deeply for the human. Griselda, cruel mother to Ax and heinous ruler of the Tor, kidnapped Sadie from her human home and for years experimented, conditioned and trained her for her own evil plan to rule the galaxy. “I couldn't shake the feeling that you had taken something of mine. ![]() What would you do to keep the only person who’s ever loved you in your life? Even knowing she doesn’t belong to you and that her destiny lies somewhere else with someone else? I devoured it loving every minute until the bittersweet end. This story of two souls that were never meant to be is absolutely swoony and sweet, and breathtakingly sad. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Johnson said she won't miss the repetitive grading of blue book quizzes, though she did enjoy reading and evaluating research papers. "I have worked my entire life on a very high-powered schedule." "It's really unknown territory," she said, recalling that even sabbaticals and summers have been for writing books for decades. She is interested in volunteering to teach English as a second language, though she will wait to adjust to retirement before making big decisions. She wants to read mystery novels (especially ones with female protagonists) and play with her new kitten. She wants to spend more time at museums in her beloved New York City, on the beach and in the garden. ![]() Johnson is looking forward to a slower pace. But there was this feeling inside myself of wanting to have more time to be contemplative, to read quietly without the pressure to produce, to live in a way that's more appropriate to my age." "It was a discernment process," she told NCR, about her decision, which has been a couple years in the making. Joseph and as an academic theologian - two vocations that cannot be separated for her. In fact, Johnson is retiring from full-time teaching and university-related work precisely so she can better attend to her own quest for God, both spiritually as a Sister of St. ![]() ![]() Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs and also into the seamy world of L.A. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. When Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college, he re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. They live in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money in a place devoid of feeling or hope. The basis for the cult-classic film "Possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality." - The New York Times Where else can Clay go but down? "A teenage slice-of-death novel, no holds barred".-VILLAGE VOICE.īook Synopsis NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The timeless classic from the acclaimed author of American Psycho about the lost generation of 1980s Los Angeles who experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age. ![]() About the Book Clay comes home on break from his East Coast college to a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where the natives drive Porsches, dine at Spago, and gobble their Quaaludes from Pez dispensers. ![]() ![]() ![]() * Die in a raging blaze of humiliation when the super-hot and very delicious fireman waiting in your office is not in fact the strip-o-gram birthday present you suspected. * Re-stock wine and ice cream because that’s coming. Or debt, your crappy apartment, and nonexistent social life. ![]() * Don’t think about your birthday tomorrow. These two sweet, but awkward souls work so hard for their happily ever after and I hope everyone falls in love with them as much as I did.įor more information on THE DATING DILEMMA here is the back cover copy: It was just so much fun, from the meet-cute where Lexi thinks Dyson is a strip-o-gram, to the fake dating pact, the conflicting bets, and cabin with one bed (wink wink), and this cover captures that energy perfectly. ![]() THE DATING DILEMMA is a hilarious and steamy story that I absolutely loved writing. Might just have to draw a shirt on him when I share it over there, lol. Though I am worried it might be too spicy to show on my Tiktok account. While Dyson would never break the rules by coming to work without full firefighting gear on, I am so happy he decided to leave his shirt off for this cover. THE WEDDING DILEMMA had five-alarm fire cover hotness, but then I got a look at THE DATING DILEMMA and…what’s hotter than a five alarm? Is there a sixth alarm? (I feel should know this seeing as how I write firefighter romance). Every time I think Bree Archer has given me the perfect cover she outdoes herself with the next one. ![]() ![]() ![]() In previous class lectures we talked about casualization of labor which refers to the work place phenomenon wherein temporary workers outnumber the permeant workers. The demographic shift reflected in the first chapter of the book and the authors experiences connect to feminization of labor for example, When Ehrenreich goes to one of her job interviews they ask her questions that I feel like is kind of irrelevant for the job title that she is applying for they ask her questions like “Do you have any such child care problems that might make it hard for you to get to work? How many dollars of stolen goods have you purchased? Would you turn a fellow employee in if you caught them stealing? Are you honest?” this connects to feminization labor because if this was a male applicant the question would be totally different. Such workforce movement has been described as feminization of labor which refers to the increased integration of women. Since the 1980s, in the after math of mid-century civil right and women rights movements, the number of women who entered the work force has increased exponentially. I feel like based on your circumstances that you should be allowed a raise or “Mother Hours.” In my opinion I feel like “Mother hours” are good but also kind of unfair to the females that don’t have kids or kids that are old enough to take care of themselves to a point that their mothers don’t have to be home with them. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unsuspecting reader that I was, I picked up Perelandra in hopes of a good adventure story, not expecting light fiction to have much to say about my faith. In the first book, Out of the Silent Planet (which I read second), Lewis told the story of Elwin Ransom, a Cambridge professor who is abducted and carried off to Mars, where he learns the true story of what is actually going on in our corner of the cosmos. Perelandra is the second book of the “Space trilogy” (more accurately called the Ransom trilogy). ![]() ![]() Instead of finding something to wile away a few idle hours, I had stumbled across a book that turned my world upside down (or, more accurately, turned it back right side up). What I wasn’t expecting was a novel that would challenge me to re-imagine my faith, that would tackle head-on some of the very questions that I had been grappling with since my early teens. When I first picked up Perelandra, I knew the story had to do with interplanetary travel, so I was expecting a bit of “high brow” science fiction along the lines of H. ![]() ![]() ![]() Famously, even Nelson Mandela convinced his prison guards on Robben Island to let him listen to that match on the BBC World Service. You would have to go deep, deep off-the-grid to find someone who doesn’t have a familiarity with that fourth-set tie-break against Björn Borg at Wimbledon in 1980. There have been multiple documentaries and dramatisations of his life two autobiographies ( Serious, then But Seriously) and many other books he’s inspired pop and punk songs, as well as Ian McKellen’s portrayal of a megalomaniacal Coriolanus for the RSC and Tom Hulce’s petulant Mozart in the 1984 film, Amadeus. Few sporting lives – maybe only Muhammad Ali’s – have been as chronicled as McEnroe’s. But there is much about our conversation today that does surprise me. It’s not a newsflash that John McEnroe hates losing. Kings of the court: McEnroe with Björn Borg, Wimbledon final, 1980. ![]() ![]() ![]() Julian Montague, cover for Managing Structural Bird Problems, edited by R. Julian Montague, cover for Le sous-sol by by Sebastien Lefevre (editions orbite) Julian Montague, cover for The Cellar Archipelago: New Perspectives on the Northward Progress of the House Centipede by Masashi Tanagaki (Cottingham Sciene Editions) Julian Montague, cover for Spider and I by Fausto Castillo (Fairfax / Mosgrove Paperbacks) Keep up with all his projects on his main website Montague Projects.Īlong the lines of Daily Book Graphics, I’m a junkie for the blog Book Worship. Secondary Occupants / Collected & ObservedĪlso of interest is Julian’s Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification. ![]() They are part of an exhibit which opens this week: I have long followed Julian’s Daily Book Graphics series, and I am excited to present here his own designs for “books from an invented intellectual history concerned with the study of invertebrates and other animals as they relate to architecture and psychology.” Julian Montague is an artist and graphic designer living in Buffalo. ![]() ![]() Undaunted, Sydney and Brooke board the Lusitania for the seven-day voyage with Edward, not knowing that disaster lies ahead. As international tempers flare, the German embassy releases a warning that any ships making the Atlantic crossing are at risk. Sydney has other adventures in mind she is drawn to the burgeoning suffragette movement, which is a constant source of embarrassment to her proper sister. ![]() Brooke is engaged to marry impoverished aristocrat Edward Thorpe-Tracey, the future Lord Northbrook, in the wedding of the social calendar. As the First World War rages in continental Europe, two New York heiresses, Sydney and Brooke Sinclair, are due to set sail for England. ![]() For readers of Kate Williams, Beatriz Williams and Jennifer Robson, a captivating novel of love and resilience during the Great War, inspired by the author's family history. ![]() |