![]() ![]() This novelette features Tina and Blake from Trade Me when their parents meet at Lunar New Year. They hate each other, but neither of them knows he’s the commenter she’s been interacting with on her blog for 18 months. This contemporary series that revolves around tech company Cyclone Technologies was my introduction to Courtney Milan books. She’s a courtroom witness he threatens with imprisonment. He’s a magistrate devoted to his duty and running from his past. She’s a secret courtesan, hired to destroy him. He’s her former tormenter, hoping to make up for it. She’s a wallflower headed for spinsterhood. But that means displacing her, and she’ll do whatever she has to in order to stop him. He “stole” a dukedom and was recognized as the rightful heir. This series is set in the early Victorian period in England. The Turner family has fallen on hard times. He’s a rake (aren’t they all?) with an infamous advice column who moves in next door and takes an interest in her. She’s a mathematical genius who keeps to herself. He’s a forger bent on revenge who is hired to take her down. ![]() She’s a suffragette who runs a newspaper her enemies are bent on destroying. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Seventeen year old Elizabeth “Lizzy†Hayes and best friend/boyfriend Michael Young have loved each other for most of their lives. The summary can tell you about the book, but I will briefly reiterate it for you. Overall, I give “In My Dreams†by Cameo Renae 4.5 STARS! If you like YA Paranormal Romance, then I would definitely recommend this book to you. The author would add in some humor at just the right time to help balance out your tears though. ![]() Renae would throw that twist in there and start the action right back up! This novel was also jam packed with emotions you just might need some tissues nearby while you’re reading. As soon as I thought everything was falling back into place, BAM! Ms. I loved the twists incorporated into this story. There are feelings of love, loyalty, grief, fear, and more while dealing with relationships, betrayal, death, and danger. This is a great Young Adult story that deals with such strong emotions and heavy issues. I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review.Ĭameo Renae, your debut novel is a HIT – you nailed it! You wrote an amazing story and added an amazing cover. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lily and Kath's high school has a diverse student body ("Chinese, Italians, Negroes and Caucasians"). Some wear cocktail dresses to the club while other trousers, vests, and ties. The queer women Kath and Lily get to know at The Telegraph Club are college students, artists, and sales clerks. Tommy Andrews, a male impersonator, is a prominent supporting character in the novel. She's asked several times "if she speaks English," and someone comments that she's surprised Lily doesn't speak with an accent. People make assumptions about Lily because she's Chinese American. While it's important to both parent that they're looked upon as a "typical American family," her mother worries about losing their Chinese identity. The family is Christian and active in their church. Lily's mother was born in the United States while her father was born in China. ![]() Lily is Chinese American and Kath is White. ![]() ![]() ![]() Following international pressure from Israel and Jews around the world, Poland softened the law by removing criminal penalties in June. Consider the lingering controversy over the use of the term “Polish death camps” to refer to concentration camps located in Poland, which culminated earlier this year in the passing of a law that made it illegal to attribute any complicity in the Holocaust to Poland as a nation, as Tokarczuk did in her remarks. The rabid response to Tokarczuk’s measured call to scrutinize Poland’s history and acknowledge its complicity in atrocities is unsurprising, given the alarming recent resurgence of the Polish far right. ![]() Yet we committed horrendous acts as colonizers, as a national majority that suppressed the minority, as slave-owners and as the murderers of Jews. ![]() ![]() We have come up with this history of Poland as an open, tolerant country, as a country uncontaminated by any issues with its minorities. When Jennifer Croft, one of Tokarczuk’s English translators, went searching for the source of this outrage, she found it in these remarks by Tokarczuk: In 2015, after receiving the Nike Award for her most recent novel, The Books of Jacob, the Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk gave a televised interview that earned her a barrage of hate mail, including death threats. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Adam Piette, professor of Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield, explains that ‘contemporary readings of the play concentrated on the existential bleakness, the philosophical nihilism: and zeroed in on the question of God.’ The set of Waiting for Godot in Sheffield’s Crucible Lyceum Studio in YorkshireĪll who witness this production will no doubt sing the praises of director Charlotte Gwinner and her production team. Waiting for Godot questions the absurdity of everyday life as its protagonists become caught up in a repetitive series of acts with no apparent point and which result in discussions about killing time and committing suicide (one is reminded of Albert Camus’s philosophical writing The Myth of Sisyphus). Receiving its British première in 1955 in the Arts Theatre, London, Beckett’s play creates a bleak and limbo-like world in which the dwellers are neither inhabitants nor simply passing through. According to the artistic director Daniel Evans, ‘this is the third Beckett production to be performed at the Crucible since 2011’. ![]() Samuel Beckett’s minimalistic and thought-provoking play Waiting for Godot was brought to life once more on Saturday 13 th February, 2016 in Sheffield’s Crucible in Yorkshire. It was energetically mesmeric and I was gripped. I went to see Waiting for Godot in Sheffield’s Crucible last night. ![]() ![]() This is a story of hope, resilience and reclamation, proving that the choices made by our ancestor’s can echo for many generations to come. A Child Called Happiness is a beautiful and emotive work of historical fiction. ![]() Faced with taxation, abductions and loss of their land at the hands of the white settlers, Tafara joined forces with the neighbouring villages in what becomes the first of many uprisings. Years earlier, the hill was home to the Mazowe village where Chief Tafara governed at a time of great unrest. ![]() ![]() A story of love, race, power and consequences that spans generationsThree days after arriving in Zimbabwe, Natalie discovers an abandoned newborn baby on a hill near her uncle’s farm. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.”-Carol Saline.“Nobody fights you like your own sister nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.”-Jojo Moyes.I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister.”-Erin Morgenstern “A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life.”-Deborah Tannen.That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other’s frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we've had since childhood, and then we come back together. “We’ll always fight, but we'll always make up as well.“As you’re growing up and you’re close, you can’t trust anyone the way you trust your sister, but also they have the power to wound you in ways no one else really does.”-Ally Condie.“A sister is a dearest friend, a closest enemy, and an angel at the time of need.”― Debasish Mridha. ![]() ![]() ![]() We may also be able to assess potential sources of this morality and perhaps attempt answer the question of whether there is, as has been suggested, a "heroic code" in the Iliad.īefore we can make any sort of useful comment about these concepts and Homer`s treatment of them, we must actually define what we mean by them. Ultimately, we may hope to extract, by such examination and analysis, a series of rules or principles by which we should live (imagining ourselves as Homeric characters). We can primarily examine this by the speeches of his characters explaining their reasons for acting as they do, and especially (for the purposes of establishing the morality of war in Homer`s poem) the exhortations that captains of both sides deliver on the battlefield. ![]() ![]() His characters do not act purely in their own interests, which implies morality or ethics are in place in the poem. Morality and ethics must form a central part of any civilised society, and Homer`s epic is by no means devoid of the hallmarks of such a society. ![]() ![]() ![]() We called ourselves Today’s Entrepreneurs ( Ondernemers van Nu) and we took a critical stance towards handing over even more power to multinational companies, and towards ongoing environmental degradation and socioeconomic inequality. So that’s why me and a couple of other entrepreneurs decided it was time to raise our voices. Which was odd, because the negative consequences of trade agreements like TTIP (and later CETA) on the environment and on equality were potentially massive. Strangely enough in my circles of green and social entrepreneurs no one really talked about it. It was 2015 when there was quite some public debate going on in Europe about TTIP, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in the making. Such a person (…) is putting himself in the difficult moral position of the kind hearted slave master. Think of a hundred variations of this example. Think of the person who runs an impact investment fund aimed at helping the poor, but is unwilling to make the connection, in his own head or out loud, between poverty and the business practices of the financiers on his advisory board. Think of the person who seeks to ‘change the world’ by doing what can be done within a bad system, but who is relatively silent about that system. Anand Giridharadas will speak in Rotterdam on October 16 and in Amsterdam on October 17 on behalf of Ondernemers van Nu and The Tipping Point Foundation. This article was first published on Medium in February. ![]() ![]() ![]() This time the story focuses on Parker and Mal’s story. ![]() My thoughts: I was so excited to read this book and yest, at the same time a bit sad because it is the final book in Nora Robert’s Bride Quartet series. Parker’s business risks have always paid off, but now she’ll have to take the chance of a lifetime with her heart… His passionate kisses always catch her off guard, much like her growing feelings for him. No man has rattled Parker in a long time, but the motorcycle-riding, raven-haired Mal seems to have a knack for it. But as a good friend of Parker’s brother, Mal knows that moving from minor flirtation to major hookup is a serious step. Mechanic Malcolm Kavanaugh loves figuring out how things work, and Parker Brown – with her mile-long legs – is no exception. ![]() And now she’s the face of Vows – the one who meets every bride’s demands keeps every event on schedule and brings Emma’s romantic flowers, Laurel’s delicious treats, and Mac’s stunning photography together in one glorious package. Parker Brown turned the quartet’s childhood game of Wedding Day into their dream jobs. First line: Grief came in waves, hard and choppy, buffeting and breaking the heart.įrom the inside cover: #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts cordially invites you to meet childhood friends, Parker, Emma, Laurel, and Mac – the founders of Vows, one of Connecticut’s premier wedding planning companies. ![]() |