7/8/2023 0 Comments Cotillion by georgette heyer![]() ![]() ***** 'This is one of Heyer's best books featuring one of her very best characters, that of Freddie Standen.' ***** 'If I was stranded on a desert island, this would definitely be one of the novels I would want with me!' ***** 'This is a Heyer novel, so of course I expected to enjoy it, but I hadn't planned on falling totally head over heels in love with it!!' ![]() Utter, immersive escapism' Sophie Kinsella 'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes. To make Jack jealous, Kitty impulsively convinces his cousin, the kind-hearted and chivalrous Freddy Standen, to enter into a pretend engagement.īut the more time she spends with Freddy, the more Kitty wonders whether Jack is the right choice after all. However, Kitty's clear favourite - the rakish Jack Westruther - doesn't appear at all interested in the arrangement. She must marry one of his five grand-nephews. Penicuik, is leaving Kitty all of his vast fortune - but with one condition. Her eccentric and childless guardian, Mr. ![]() ![]() Kitty Charing's life-changing inheritance comes with a catch. 'Georgette Heyer is second to none' Sunday Times Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' Joanne Harris 'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments Fierce fairytales nikita gill![]() ![]() I loved some of the pieces, but not all of them worked for me. ![]() ![]() Overall, for me, this collection was both a hit and a miss. I loved how the two pieces went together for each poem and story as it gave a new level to my reading experience. This is one reason I highly recommend the print over the audio, unless you do both, as you miss the drawings in the audio version. Along with the writing are illustrations done by the author that accompanies each piece which was gorgeous. There are princesses rescuing themselves, villains who are comfortable being villains, new perspectives on certain stories, and many other unique twists. There is a large mix of poems and stories, so there is bound to be something that every reader will enjoy. Fierce Fairytales is a collection of familiar stories with a new look whether it be a twist on good and evil or a feminist look on the idea of the damsel (or princess) in distress. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing on exciting new sources, including letters, memoirs, ballads, plays, illustrations, and even cookbooks, Diane Purkiss creates a rich and nuanced portrait of this turbulent era. However, the price of peace included the execution of a king, brutal persecution of Catholics and Royalists, and years of tyranny. Like the Magna Carta and the American Revolution, the English Civil War resolved fundamental questions of sovereignty and political rights that are still the guiding principles of democracies today. In this compelling history of the violent struggle between the monarchy and Parliament that tore apart seventeenth-century England, a rising star among British historians sheds new light on the people who fought and died through those tumultuous years. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments I have to go pee robert munsch![]() ![]() ![]() It put the power for Mi’kmaw education in the hands of the Mi’kmaq and encourages the education and employment of Mi’kmaw teachers. MK was founded three decades after the closure of the disastrous Shubenacadie Indian Residential School as the provincial education system continued to fail Mi’kmaw students. It’s one of seven that were recently translated into Mi’kmaw by MK, or Mi’kmaw Kina’matnewey, the organization that has coordinated the Mi’kmaw education system in Nova Scotia since 1997. You may know it as Love You Forever, one of the most popular among Munsch’s dozens of children’s books. Ksalultes iapjiw, nijanites ki’l” she sings, her voice warbling sweetly. Children across Nova Scotia can now read seven iconic children’s books in their mother tongueĪ grandmother tucks a child into bed and sings a song from a book with a tune she creates herself. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Ghosts by henrik ibsen![]() ![]() ![]() She doesn’t want to leave and she doesn’t think it is appropriate to keep house for him. He suggests his daughter should come with him and work there, assuring her that she will be well off she’s gotten too hoity-toity here at the Alvings’. Now that this project is done, he tells Regina his plans to open a home for seamen, insinuating that it would be a brothel but a very good one. ![]() She is not at all happy to see her father, whom she regards as dissolute and a drunk.Įngstrand has been working on the “Captain Alving Memorial,” an orphanage/asylum that is opening the next day. Jakob Engstrand, a ne'er-do-well carpenter, arrives at the garden room wanting to speak with Regina, his daughter, who works as a maid for the Alvings. The play is set in late-19th-century Norway in the wealthy household of the Alvings. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Soul taken by patricia briggs![]() ![]() Being able to process them via Mercy’s eye and thought process gives the listener an encyclopedia of knowledge. She weaves a detailed web of facts, shared in an array of scents, sounds, and visual clues. Briggs compiles a story that is completely engrossing and fascinating. The author does a great job of reminding readers of previous events of significance without an overload of information.Īs always, Ms. The story continues to build upon previous events, assuming a baseline knowledge of the characters and setting. Once again, it’s up to Mercy and Adam to protect the Tri-Cities and its inhabitants.Īs the thirteenth Mercy Thompson title and nineteenth overall book in the Mercy Universe, Soul Taken is not a place for newbies to start. In addition, it appears that a possessed artifact is loose in the Tri-Cities, with real life imitating art. There is a lot to unload, including the fact that the mysterious Sherwood has regained his memories and there is upheaval in the local vampire seethe. Soul Taken opens shortly after both the last Mercy outing and Wild Sign (Alpha and Omega #6). ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Fulghum kindergarten![]() All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten is brimming with the very stuff of life and the significance found in the smallest details. ![]() sardines-and how these games relate to the nature of God. magical qualities found in a box of crayons. the love story of Jean-Francois Pilatre and his hot air balloon reminds us to be brave and unafraid to "fly". a spider who catches (and loses) a full-grown woman in its web one fine morning teaches us about surviving catastrophe. The little seed in the Styrofoam cup offers a reminder about our own mortality and the delicate nature of life. Here Fulghum engages us with musings on life, death, love, pain, joy, sorrow, and the best chicken-fried steak in the continental U.S.A. ![]() He has written a new preface and twenty-five essays, which add even more potency to a common, though no less relevant, piece of wisdom: that the most basic aspects of life bear its most important opportunities. ![]() Now, seven million copies later, Fulghum returns to the book that was embraced around the world. Fifteen years ago, Robert Fulghum published a simple credo-a credo that became the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. ![]() ![]() It’s my first Becky Chambers and now I have to read more. ![]() This is an amazing book, and I loved every minute of it. Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers The hope and desolation of this novel will stay with me for a long time.Ģ. There is a large cast of characters, and at times it seems they have no connection, but their lives do intersect – as all of ours do, in truth. It’s a perfectly comprehensible tale of the advent of the apocalyptic virus and the world inherited by the survivors. ![]() First published in 2014, this book was recommended to me by word of mouth from a trusted friend. Not all of these books were published this year, but with TBR lists growing faster than I can read, it’s not always easy to keep up. My aim was to read 60 books this year, but I am currently at 75 and hope to get a couple more in before 2019. ![]() In its place, I thought I’d give you a quick overview of my ten top reads of 2018. As December draws to a close and everyone gets busy with end-of-year tasks and (for the lucky ones) holiday preparations, we’re putting LWOTW away for this year. You will have noticed that this is not your regular ‘Last Word of the Week’ fix. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Salvation day book review![]() ![]() ![]() Key concept: the word “salvation” refers to more than just a single instant when your eternal fate is sealed. The first several chapters lay the groundwork, looking at what the Bible says (and hence, what Catholics believe) about the when’s and how’s of salvation. Per the glossary in the back of the book, verbatim.) (“Soteriology” is the branch of theology devoted to the doctrine of salvation. ![]() The book is about everything that has to do with what Catholics believe about salvation, and how that stacks up to common Protestant views of salvation. And yeah, I had to look up that word too.) So here’s a synopsis of what is in the book and who is the audience, to help you decide if this is for you. (Otherwise you might be kind of lost and bored – it’s a soteriology book. But only if you are the intended audience. Verdict: Excellent book – highly recommended. ![]() What with the promised Tiptoe Through The TULIP, how could I say no? And that was the week that The Salvation Controversy turned up on the Catholic Company’s list of blogger-review product choices. until the other week when a pair of friends called me on it using the highly effective Stony Silence method. So I used to have this bad habit of making jokes about double predestination (gross violation of my own rules, you might notice). Click through for the link to the Kindle edition. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Impossible to put down and perfectly claustrophobic and gorgeously atmospheric' Gytha Lodge, author of She Lies in Wait 'The queen of just-one-more-chapter has done it again' Clare Mackintosh Agatha Christie would have been up all night reading this one!' Shari Lapena, author of The Couple Next Door ![]() When an avalanche cuts the chalet off from help, and one board member goes missing in the snow, the group is forced to ask - would someone resort to murder, to get what they want? The clock is ticking on the offer, and with the group irrevocably split, tensions are running high. At stake is a billion-dollar dot com buyout that could make them all millionaires, or leave some of them out in the cold. Snow is falling in the exclusive alpine ski resort of Saint Antoine, as the shareholders and directors of Snoop, the hottest new music app, gather for a make or break corporate retreat to decide the future of the company. 'The sense of dread deepens as the snow falls in Ruth Ware's tensely plotted and deliciously cast alpine thriller' Louise Candlish, bestselling author of Our House **READ AN EXCLUSIVE FREE PREVIEW OF THE NEW THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TURN OF THE KEY AND IN A DARK DARK WOOD** ![]() |