![]() ![]() Every step forward is a struggle, every breath is scratchy and choked.Ī buzzing sound echoes in my ears and I lean against the wall outside the toilets to catch my choppy breaths. I’m sluggish, lack energy, and I’m weighted down by heavy army boots. My muscles ache, and I groan with each movement. Ironically, this is the safest place for me and the only environment where I can survive beyond the metaphorical ticking time bomb I’ve been carrying around for years. ![]() ![]() I connived and snuck into this establishment that has never catered well to women and probably never will. Or maybe the right expression is: I shouldn’t be here. You can find the complete playlist on Spotify. The Darker The Weather // The Better The Man – Missio *************FULL BOOK START HERE*************īlood in The Water – Joanna Jones as The Dame This book is part of a trilogy and is not a standalone. He might also lure me to the point of no return. His charm and exterior perfection shouldn’t have tempted me.īehind the smokescreen lurks a manipulative emotionless monster.Īnd that monster might find out all my secrets, including the reason why I’m pretending to be a man. He’s my superior in the military and the man who’ll introduce me to carnage. We shouldn’t have been in the same frame or universe.īut we meet under the strangest circumstances. Kirill and I are as different as day and night. From the USA Today bestselling author Rina Kent comes a new dark mafia romance. ![]()
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![]() She is fiercely loyal and will always protect what she believes in, but perceptive enough to give Khalid the benefit of the doubt instead of immediately avenging her friend. ![]() She is also clever, as she entrances Khalid by telling her a story she can never finish in order to survive the dawn. Sharhzad is stubborn and has a fiery temper. However, Khalid will not allow it, having fallen for her in turn, and sends her away when her childhood friends and accomplices storm the castle to rescue her, ending the first book. ![]() ![]() Sharhzad plans to get close to Khalid and assassinate him, but she finds herself accidentally falling for him instead.ĭetermined not to let that deter her, she maintains her composure until she learns Khalid's secret and the blood curse, after which she is willing to be killed in order to save Korasan. Khalid is cursed with insomnia and the land with drought if he does not sacrifice his brides each morning, a blood curse of the grieving father of his first bride. She volunteers out of grief for her best friend, Shiva, who was killed by the Caliph, Khalid. Sharhrzad is the first to volunteer to be the Caliph of Korasan's bride. She is the main protagonist of the series The Wrath & the Dawn. ![]() Shahrzad al-Khayzuran is the 16-year-old daughter of Jahandar al-Khayzuran and the Calipha of Korasan. ![]() ![]() ![]() You just have to make yourself known to them. Your people, your readers, are out there. Whether you write traditional poetry or lean more toward Ginsberg or Bukowski, you may have considered starting a poetry blog. ![]() It survives because poetry still has the ability to move us in ways that Buzzfeed or Facebook never will. Yet, the written word survives and thrives in the face of overwhelming change. Most of the ink-on-paper poetry magazines of the 20th century disappeared with the rise of the internet. But a poetry blog would be no less a marvel to an early 20th-century poet than an ancient Egyptian.Īll of this is to say that technology and society have changed quickly and dramatically during our lifetimes. Contemporary poetry, the kind you may write, has a much more recent history. Egyptians built pyramids and wrote poetry, but it’s hard to imagine what they might make of a modern poetry blog. People have been writing poetry for thousands of years. ![]() ![]() ![]() Marian Keyes: the best-selling author on diets, sexism and being inspired by Gen Z Ordinary life zings with destructive potential. Characters are always at risk of taking a wrong turn. But even without that, the ominous sceptre of life’s pitfalls looms large. We know from the outset that something dreadful is going to split the group because of a prologue where the normally affable Cara gets concussion and the secrets start tumbling out. ![]() “Seriously, I get on my own nerves, but I’m not doing it to be sneery.” Marian Keyes tackles everything from bulimia to the decline of capitalism and the Syrian refugee crisis in Grown Ups (Photo: Dean Chalkley) And there is Liam, a former running champ, on to his second, younger – and very woke – wife Nell, whose earnest attempts to save the planet by buying only second-hand clothes and refusing to procreate are, in Keyes’ hands, somehow cute and not in the least annoying. There is kind Ed, whose wife Cara hates her body and for whom dieting is a Sisyphean battle. There is “maybe-ever-so-slightly slippery Johnny”, the charmer and eldest brother, who is married to Jessie (who used to be married to his late best friend Rory, something he’d like to forget, but which his stepson won’t allow). ![]() ![]() ![]() Beholden to The Family's strict rules, Daniella suffers physical, emotional, and sexual abuse - masked as godly discipline and divine love - and is forbidden from getting a traditional education.Īt fifteen years old, fed up with The Family and determined to build a better and freer life for herself, Daniella escapes to Texas. Her mother, at thirteen, was forced to marry the leader and served as his secretary for many years. ![]() Her great-grandmother donated land for one of The Family's first communes in Texas. In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a memoir about an exceptional upbringing, but about a woman who, no matter the lack of tools given to her, is determined to overcome.īehind the tall, foreboding gates of a commune in Brazil, Daniella Mestyanek Young was raised in the religious cult The Children of God, also known as The Family, as the daughter of high-ranking members. ![]() ![]() Von Arnim wrote, and set, the book in the 15th-century Castello Brown. The work was inspired by a month-long holiday to the Italian Riviera, probably the most widely read (as an English and American best seller in 1923 1]) and perhaps the lightest and most ebullient of her novels. The Enchanted April is a 1922 novel by British writer Elizabeth von Arnim. ![]() Everything in their lives changes and nothing changes. Who can stay unhappy with all the glorious sunshine, blue sea, and fragrant gardens? Italy’s enchantment works its magic. Eventually four unhappy women go to the house in bella Italy. Although they do not know one another well, Lottie approaches Rose and the two dream of Italy. As she prepares to leave, Lottie sees Rose Arbuthnot reading the same ad. It starts her dreaming, she thinks if only she could have this little time away, one month, to be on her own and free then she could endure trying to be a better wife, to do things just right. She sees an ad on a house in Italy for the month of April. Lottie stopped at her women’s club to read the paper on her shopping rounds. But Lottie doesn’t fit well into such a strict and narrow life she cannot seem to do things right. ![]() He is all stiff upper lip British wanting things done just so and hoping his wife will be an asset to his business. ![]() Lottie Wilkens is a young wife married to a lawyer. The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim is one of my favorite books. ![]() ![]() Acontece que tudo o que Laura mais deseja na vida é solidão e a companhia de Virginia Woolf, sob a forma de seu romance Mrs. Laura busca, em vão, ajustar- se ao seu triplo papel de mãe, esposa e dona de casa, confeccionando, ao lado do filho Ritchie, de três anos, um bolo de aniversário para o marido Dan. Dalloway, romance que mantém com As horas uma habilidosa simbiose. Virginia, num dia normal e suburbano de 1923, esforça-se por manter sob controle os sintomas da loucura e para redigir Mrs. O talento de Cunningham consegue encapsular todo o drama de suas existências. Presenciamos, em capítulos alternados, um dia na vida de cada uma delas. ![]() Ela, mais Laura Brown, uma dona de casa angustiada num subúrbio de Los Angeles, em 1949, e Clarissa Vaughn, editora de sucesso na Manhattan de hoje, são as protagonistas deste livro apaixonante. As horas, prêmio Pulitzer de literatura de 1999, pode ser definido como a saga da consciência de três mulheres - uma real, duas fictícias - em busca de algum tipo de inserção no mundo "normal", tendo como pano de fundo constante a presença palpável e inquietante da loucura e da morte.Ī personagem real, espécie de matriz iluminadora de todo o livro, é Virginia Woolf, cujo suicídio, em 1941, é narrado de forma comovente e realista logo nas primeiras páginas. ![]() ![]() The lead character, Maren, wrestles with the weight of a terrible secret desire. It is based (rather loosely) on a novel by the same name which explores the loneliness of disconnection. ![]() “Bones and All” promotes itself as an edgy and disturbing romantic movie featuring disenfranchised young lovers on a road trip to self-discovery. Will all mankind eventually be saved? Answer ![]() Discover The HOPE!ĭiscover the good news that Jesus Christ offersĪre you good enough to get to Heaven? Answer Why is the world the way it is? If God is all-knowing, all-powerful, and loving, would He really create a world like this? (filled with oppression, suffering, death and cruelty) Answerĭealing wisely versus foolishly with profoundly DEEP LONELINESSĭiscover God’s promise for all people-told beautifully and clearly from the beginning. ORIGIN OF BAD THINGS-Why are they in our world if a good God created us? Answer What is SIN AND WICKEDNESS? Is it just “bad people” that are sinners, or are YOU a sinner? Answer Is the FEMINIST MOVEMENT the right answer to the mistreatment that some women endure in this sinful world? AnswerĪbout the fall of mankind to worldwide depravity we need to develop our consciousness of female oppression.” ![]() I’d be pleased if you wanted to read Bones & All through a feminist lens. According to the source novel’s author, Camille DeAngelis, “Many reviewers and readers have praised this novel for its metaphorical take on feminine sexuality. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, even a Tyler fanatic like myself must begrudgingly admit that Redhead is not one of the superior entries in her canon it’s rather slight, and doesn’t really offer readers anything she hasn’t already done better in the past. As someone who lived in Baltimore for many years, I always pay special attention to the locations she mentions-legendary watering hole Swallow at the Hollow makes an appearance in Redhead, and Micah visits a client who lives in one of my old neighborhoods, Rodgers Forge. I have confessed before to being somewhat obsessed with Anne Tyler, and everything about her books fascinates me. “He lives alone he keeps to himself his routine is etched in stone,” she writes in the very first paragraph. And Micah Mortimer, the protagonist of her latest book, Redhead by the Side of the Road, does not break the mold. That character appears in almost every Anne Tyler novel occasionally it’s a woman, but the fussy gentleman, a creature of habit who seems to have stepped out of a much-earlier decade, is definitely a Tyler staple. ![]() Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a middle-aged man, a resident of Baltimore, leads a strictly regimented and predictable existence, and then a stranger arrives and shakes it up. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He said in 2000 he was raised on welfare after his parents separated and that his absent biological father eventually was declared dead, although Chaykin, as an adult, located him alive. At 14, Chaykin moved with his now divorced mother to the Kew Gardens section of Queens. ![]() Chaykin was initially raised by his grandparents in Staten Island, New York City, until his mother married Leon Chaykin in 1953 and the family moved to East Flatbush and later to 370 Saratoga Avenue, Brownsville, Brooklyn. Howard Chaykin was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Rosalind Pave and Norman Drucker, who soon separated. Chaykin's influences include his one-time employer and mentor, Gil Kane, and the mid-20th century illustrators Robert Fawcett and Al Parker. Howard Victor Chaykin (/ˈtʃeɪkɪn/ born October 7, 1950) is an American comic book artist and writer. ![]() |