![]() But Darren has much to learn about his heritage, and some things will come as more of a surprise than he's certain he's ready to handle. Some days, he isn't sure what he works so hard for, when he's sure no one will ever want him.Īll of that changes when he meets Blake Marrock, the Alpha who triggers his first heat. ![]() And then he aged out and even the foster system wanted him gone. He only knows what came after - home after home and none of them permanent. His parents were killed in a car accident when he was a child, leaving him with no memory of them or the world he might have grown up in. Not that he has much time or energy for cleaning, when he's spending fourteen hours a day at work. ![]() He works two jobs he hates just to afford a one room apartment he's pretty sure is more mold than anything else, no matter how clean he tries to keep it. ![]()
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![]() Among her notable stage roles in recent years, in a Romanian-language production of The Blue Angel ( Îngerul Albastru in Romanian) at Bucharest's Odeon Theater, in 2001-2 she played (to great critical acclaim) Lola Lola, the character made famous by Marlene Dietrich. From 1990 to 1998 she was a member of the company of the National Theatre in Bucharest, and since 1998 of Teatrul Bulandra, also in Bucharest in addition, she continues to act at the Jewish State Theatre and other Bucharest theaters and elsewhere in Romania. ![]() She then played at Teatrul Tineretului (Youth Theater) in Piatra Neamț until 1988, and at the Teatrul Evreiesc de Stat (State Jewish Theatre) in Bucharest 1988, 1989, and 1990. Born in Bucharest, Romania, to a Jewish family, she attended the Zoia Kosmodeminskaia High School in her native city, and graduated from the Film and Theatre Academy of Bucharest in 1985. ![]() ![]() ![]() She starts out as a cruel and hard girl who grows into a cruel and hard young woman. This book follows Tenar, who is a priestess dedicated to vengeful and dark gods called the Nameless Ones. As I stated in my review of the previous book, I was not expecting such a well written and engaging book as this one is. I read this and A Wizard of Earthsea after watching the TV adaption. I might need to give this book 5-stars just to escape it. This isn't one of her GREAT novels, but I might even change my mind about that, if the ideas in this book are still pounding around in the labrynths of my brain in a couple weeks. Just like the secret to writing about light is to write about darkness. She recognized, I believe, that the secret to writing about strength is to write about weakness. Her prose is very good, but her characters are amazing. ![]() She is interested in power, in evil, in humanity, in big questions and nuanced answers. ![]() She was a feminist, but unafraid to write a book both with a female lead, and a female lead who is helped by a man/wizard. Le Guin could have writen self-help and business books and I'd gladly read them. Or, rather, I have told that to SO many people I believe it is true. "Alone, no one wins freedom." - The Tombs of Atuan I adore Le Guin's voice and her soul. ![]() ![]() ![]() What we need, here at the beginning of the century, is a fresh examination–one that begins from Tocqueville’s own concerns and not from our desire to use him for our political battles. ![]() “The best edition of the best book on America. Mansfield and Winthrop’s astonishing efforts have not only captured the elegance, subtlety, and profundity of Tocqueville’s original, but also give us some sense of how very essential this masterpiece continues to be. ![]() When it was first published last year, Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop’s new translation of Democracy in America was lauded in all quarters as the finest and most definitive edition of Tocqueville’s classic thus far–complete with the most faithful and readable translation to date, impeccable annotations of unfamiliar references, and a masterful introduction placing the work and its author in the broader contexts of political philosophy and statesmanship. ![]() ![]() ![]() My ratings here are subjective to me as an individual. Please don't consider every high rating a personal endorsement / recommendation from me. "I only rate or review books I enjoyed reading, and won't give any rating below 4 stars. Young adult, Adult, and literary romance. A.G.'s dark Alice in Wonderland inspired Splintered series has been published in over a dozen languages. ![]() As long as a story take #1 New York Times and International bestselling Author of gothic / fantasy & paranormal tales, mystical & romantic with a side of horror. Every writer's voice is individual and unique I've come to respect this truth during my own personal journey. ![]() Howard rates books on GoodReads: "I only rate or review books I enjoyed reading, and won't give any rating below 4 stars. ![]() #1 New York Times and International bestselling Author of gothic / fantasy & paranormal tales, mystical & romantic with a side of horror. ![]() ![]() ![]() The formalism is not developed logically, and, overall, the book is very weak in formalism. ![]() The author takes the shut-up-and-calculate approach to the extreme (like how standard freshman physics textbooks present QM). This is not helped by the fact that the book shies away from the math of QM: linear algebra and the concise Dirac notation, which is introduced but quickly discarded. The bad: While a step by step calculation makes it easy to follow, one often gets lost in details and misses the big picture. For example, Griffiths takes his time to explain standard deviations, separation of variables, and phase and group velocity in the beginning. Update (05/15/16): tl dr: I would give this book more stars if it is titled "Introduction to Wave Mechanics."įirst, the good: this book doesn't require mastery of "advanced" classical physics and math such as Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, electromagnetism, partial differential equations, linear algebra, or statistics. ![]() ![]() ![]() When the famous couple decides to visit the whole Gardner clan, Karen must keep Michael’s secret under wraps in front of his questioning relatives…including Zach, the man who could be the real love of her life. But sparks fly the moment he and Karen see each other. Zach Gardner: Dark-haired, blue-eyed hunk Zach crashes Michael and Karen’s fancy one-year anniversary party, determined to meet the wife his brother hid from their family. However, as she prepares to exit her fake marriage gracefully, her drop-dead-gorgeous brother-in-law walks through the door…and into her heart. Now, her divorce sits just around the corner, along with a five million dollar payout. A year ago, she agreed to wed a famous actor to diffuse rumors about his personal life. ![]() Karen Jones: The petite blonde married a Hollywood star, yet she’s the one who spends every day playing a part: the part of a happy wife. She enjoyed her fake marriage…until she fell in love with her brother-in-law.Ĭatherine Bybee serves up excitement and dizzying romance in Single by Saturday, the sequel to Fiancé by Friday and the latest entry in her bestselling Weekday Brides series. Gwen Harrison: The beautiful, high-born daughter of an English duke came to America to take over her sister-in-law’s matchmaking business. Sinopsis de SINGLE BY SATURDAY (WEEKDAY BRIDES #4) From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Bybee comes the newest installment in her popular Weekday Brides series. ![]() ![]() During this novel, he’s of a similar age to me and has gone through disappointment and alienation, to what comes next and finding his own way, place and identity in the world. ![]() Favourites include the obvious such as Hilo and Shae but I empathised with Anden’s journey the most. The world-building and the magic system (Jade powers) are some of modern fantasy’s finest but it’s Lee’s characters, their dialogues and interactions, and the sublime character development that makes this series such an addictive and memorable read. By the end of this novel, we’ve been following some of these characters for almost thirty years, twenty or so of which happen throughout The Green Bone Saga’s final entry. In Jade Legacy, Lee has perfectly honed her fantasy and gangster thriller experience with more drama, bloodshed, showdowns, political intrigue, and higher costs. I’m certain that re-reading Jade City and Jade War prior to starting the mammoth-sized yet never dull Jade Legacy heightened my enjoyment of this entry greatly. ![]() I have spent the last month residing in Lee’s spectacularly detailed and wonderfully crafted fantasy world. I received an advanced review copy of Jade Legacy in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() 1 Brooklyn, Read It Forward, Entropy Magazine, Chicago Review of Books, iBooks and Publishers Weekly Named a Best Book by: Entertainment Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, Boston Globe, Fodor's, Fast Company, Refinery29, Nylon, Los Angeles Review of Books, Book Riot, The Millions, Electric Literature, Bitch, Hello Giggles, Literary Hub, Shondaland, Bustle, Brit & Co., Vol. Longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A Publishers Weekly Bestseller ![]() ![]() “A tragicomic picaresque whose fervid logic and cerebral whimsy recall the work of Bolaño and Borges.” - New York Times Book Review “Hearken ye fellow misfits, migrants, outcasts, squint-eyed bibliophiles, library-haunters and book stall-stalkers: Here is a novel for you.” - Wall Street Journal Winner of the John Gardner Award for Fiction ![]() Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() Tristan was a cute little muffin though! So that kind of saved the book for me. I don’t know why, I just couldn’t give a shit about the guy. Overall the book was great, it has quality and charm but I just could’t bring myself to care for Sebastian. Do not sleep with the students, it’s called and Sebastian wants to abide by this rule. They’d both like nothing more to get the other nacked and spend some sweaty quality time together. And Sebastian, the hot sociology professor Tristan gets to drool over each class. ![]() Tristan’s, an ice hockey player who goes back to university in his spare time because he wants to have something for when his sports career will end someday. The story is told in two different POV’s. I got a free ebook version of this via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. ★★★★☆ 3,5 stars for this funny and hot story about an ice hockey player and a sociology professor with an angsty bit of real life problems that sadly exist when you don’t fit the norm “I doodled your name in the cover,” Tristan had joked, grinning. ![]() |