5/28/2023 0 Comments A scoundrel of her own stacy reidShe has a warrior way “Never give up on dreams!” When she’s not writing, Stacy spends a copious amount of time binge-watching series like The Walking Dead, Altered Carbon, Rise of the Phoenixes, Ten Miles of Peach Blossom, and playing video games with her love. Stacy lives a lot in the worlds she creates and actively speaks to her characters (aloud). Her debut novella The Duke’s Shotgun Wedding was a 2015 HOLT Award of Merit recipient in the Romance Novella category, and her bestselling Wedded by Scandal series is recommended as Top picks at Night Owl Reviews, Fresh Fiction Reviews, and The Romance Reviews. USA Today Bestselling author Stacy Reid writes sensual Historical and Paranormal Romances and is the published author of over twenty books. When she captures the attention of the rogue Devlin Byrne, the dangerously handsome owner of a gambling den, she’ll need to decide if seduction is worth shedding her wallflower persona. The conclusion to Stacy Reid’s bestselling Sinful Wallflowers series stars Lady Ophelia, who moonlights as a masked songstress under the alter ego Lady Starlight. This is book 3 of her popular Sinful Wallflowers Series. Oh I just love this cover for Stacy Reid’s upcoming book A Scoundrel of Her Own coming out on December 28th 2021.
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5/27/2023 0 Comments The year we fell downThis year, some political analysts are predicting another heavy turnout in this month’s midterms. The 2020 voting surge followed unusually high turnout in the 2018 midterm elections, when about 47.5% of the voting-age population – and 51.8% of voting-age citizens – went to the polls. More than 158.4 million people voted in that election, according to a Pew Research Center tabulation of official state returns, amounting to 62.8% of people of voting age, using Census Bureau estimates of the 2020 voting-age population. general election soared to levels not seen in decades, fueled by the bitter campaign between Joe Biden and Donald Trump and facilitated by pandemic-related changes to state election rules. Tellers in Seoul, South Korea, count ballots from the May 2017 presidential election. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Of women and salt reviewGOOD BITS: Gabriela Garcia knows how to write. However, I’ll totally round up on Goodreads! There were a few small issues – I wish it was longer with more historical sections and I was often confused at the jumps in time – which is why I’m giving it four and a half stars. While not all likeable, the characters were extremely engaging. The writing style blew me away and I couldn’t help but underline tons of quotes. The storyline jumps around so it’s hard to write a clear plot description but there’s a strong message about the role of women and complex families. Sitting somewhere between interlinked short stories and a literary novel, this book is incredibly powerful and emotional. When Jeanette decides to visit Cuba, discovering her family history ties together this fateful line of fearless women. In 2016, her granddaughter Jeanette is struggling to become free from drug addiction in Miami. One hundred years later, her descendant Dolores makes a fateful decision to save herself from an abusive husband as Fidel Castro’s forces take over the island. In 1866, Maria Isabel’s life is torn apart as her country experiences political upheaval. THE PLOT: ‘Of Women and Salt’ by Gabriela Garcia is a multi-generational narrative about women in a Cuban family. But questions begin to haunt them as the date draws nearer. They can pretend a little longer-until after the wedding. How can they spoil her joy with their announcement? But at the family meeting where they plan to tell their children, Nicole shares a surprise of her own: she's getting married, and she wants to have a marriage as happy as her parents’. In fact, they're waiting for the right time to tell the kids they're going to divorce after 21 years of marriage. But John and Abby know they're just pretending to be happy. John and Abby Reynolds are the perfect couple-envied by their friends, cherished by their children, admired by their peers. But is that the real reason their marriage is about to crash? Now a Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel event! Abby Reynolds, the wife of a high-school football coach in a small Illinois town, suspects her husband, John, of having an affair. She asks white, straight, cisgender, middle- and upper-class women to become “accomplices” rather than “allies” to stop fetishizing the bodies of women of color and to make a living wage, safe neighborhoods,“food insecurity,” voting rights, and access to quality medical care and education feminist issues. Grounding her critique in personal experiences of gun violence, police discrimination, single motherhood, poverty, sexual harassment, and the “school-to-prison pipeline,” Kendall accuses “theoretically feminist white women” of failing to “make common cause against white supremacy” and “turn to the patriarchy for protection” when they feel threatened. Blogger Kendall ( Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists) indicts mainstream feminism for focusing on “debates over last names, body hair, and the best way to be a CEO” rather than the basic survival of marginalized women in this searing essay collection. While checking out a used bookstore today I saw a copy and picked it up. This was my favorite picture book when I was a kid. What of their tales? What, for example, is the Big Bad Wolf's take on those damnable pigs? What of the villain's though? Does one need to have "sympathy for the devil" as the Rolling Stones might have said. This may seem obvious, we are after all supposed to follow them along their tale… and in most cases we are supposed to sympathize with them. Otherwise, how are they ever going to learn to lie?įor the most part, stories take the hero's point of view. This is one of the books you've gotta have in your library if you're the owner of small children. It's not Alex's fault that he had a cold and sneezed, is it?Īnd he can't help it if some little porker constructs a house that's so shoddy it collapses and kills him, can he?Īnd you can't let a good ham sandwich go to waste, right? He's such a lying-liar pants, but his excuses are funny.if a tad see-through. Point is, it's an AWESOME story and since I bought it, that made me AWESOME by default. In her defense, it's a skinny little paperback that had probably been lost between 3 bjillion other skinny little paperbacks on the shelves. My daughter saw this on our bookshelf the other day and freaked out (she's 9, so cut her some slack) because she didn't realize we owned it. This is maybe the BEST 3 Little Pigs story out there. 5/26/2023 0 Comments They all saw a cat point of viewThe question I asked Álvaro Ybarra was how were you able to take this photo? From those horrifying situations so far in Ukraine, how do you rate it? A beast, a soldier of the Congolese Army with a knife in his mouth, and in one hand the severed hand of a soldier of the National Congress for the Defence of the People and in the other the genital organs of this soldier and a terrible look. November 2008, Democratic Republic of Congo. Álvaro Ybarra came to the microphones of "De Cara al Mundo" on Onda Madrid to talk about his work, his photographs and his experience in the armed conflict in Ukraine and other parts of the world in an interview with Javier Fernández Arribas. Álvaro Ybarra's photos and reports have been published in important media such as Time Magazine, New York Times, Le Monde, Libération, Newsweek, The Sunday Times Magazine, CNN, Vanity Fair, ABC XLSemanal, he has worked for major international agencies such as Vu and Getty Images, has published five books, has worked with NGOs and major companies on very interesting projects, has collaborated on documentaries, teaches at universities and now also runs his own audiovisual production company. 5/26/2023 0 Comments Sc gwynne comanche bookHowever the author’s real hero in this book seems to be the enigmatic Col MacKenzie, Quanah’s nemesis, rather than Quanah himself. Quanah described himself as having been a “bad man” but in later life he appears to have become a warm and generous one with little animosity to whites. The author appears to like and admire Quanah, particularly the Quanah of later years who struggled to lead his people in peace after years of violence. However while he spends time describing Comanche violence in some detail, he frequently skates across comparable white violence – explicitly avoiding a deep discussion of the Sand Creek massacre for example. He also notes the intensely political purpose behind Comanche terrorism on settlers and buffalo hunters, and that Texan warfare was itself brutal and racist. (Speaking as a Celt myself) the author draws a not unreasonable comparison of Comanche warfare to Celtic warfare of a bygone era to undermine any racist presumptions about the origins of warriors cruelty. However it is also intensely violent, taking a clear sighted, almost forensic, look at the practices of Commanche war-making, particularly their routine use of rape and torture. Its intensely exciting and sympathetic to Native Americans in general and the Commanche in particular. This book is a fascinating look at the rise and fall of the Commanche nation. In this groundbreaking and revelatory work, renowned criminologist Elliott Currie offers a vivid critique of our nation's prison policies and turns his penetrating eye toward recent developments in criminal justice, showing us the path to a more peaceable and just society. Today, there are several hundred thousand more inmates in the penal system, yet violence remains endemic in many American communities. When Crime and Punishment in America was first published in 1998, the national incarceration rate had doubled in just over a decade, and yet the United States remained-by an overwhelming margin-the most violent industrialized society in the world. "Earnest, free of jargon, lucid…This is a book that ought to be read by anyone concerned about crime and punishment in America."-The Washington Post Book World 5/26/2023 0 Comments The wonderful henry sugarThe character reads about a man with the ability to see, despite having his eyes sealed shut. The most recognizable, sharing its name with the title of the book, follows Henry Sugar. Roald Dahl’s stories continue to make readers shiver today. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More is a 1977 collection of short stories. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl’s Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Here you will find the suggestion of other-worldly goings on in a dark story about a swan and a boy the surprising tale of a wealthy young wastrel who suddenly develops a remarkable new ability and meet the hitchhiker whose light-fingers save the day.’An unforgettable read, don’t miss it’ Sunday TimesRoald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. Listen to The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar by Roald Dahl available from Rakuten Kobo. In The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, seven tales of the bizarre and unexpected are told by the grand master of the short story, Roald Dahl.Enter a brilliant, sinister and wholly unpredictable world. |