![]() Also, why does every protagonist in this series have to have crappy female friendships? It was the same in Jock Row. However, it seemed like the relationship turned romantic out of nowhere. I liked that this was a friends to lovers. There were some things that I wish were done differently. ![]() I mean who doesn’t love lumberjack looking dude who is crass and says whatever is on his mind? He and Teddy together were fun to read about. While Teddy was timid and learning her way around, Kip was so damn funny. Not as much as Jock Row, but it was still enjoyable. Not falling in love with her is going to be a losing game. Teaching her the RULES for winning a jock will be the easy part. But the minute their eyes meet? He’s a goner. Sasquatch finally broad shoulders his way through the crowd, offering to be her hairy godmother. ![]() Week-after-week, he watches beautiful but bashful Teddy getting overshadowed, and overlooked. The first time Sasquatch lays eyes on Theodora “Teddy” Johnson across the keg at a party one night on Jock Row, she’d been relegated to the sidelines by her jock hungry “friends.” Hair so unruly, and a beard so thick, his friends on the team call him Sasquatch. ![]()
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![]() Just seconds earlier we had been a happy family of four returning from a surprise dinner celebrating our older son Bart’s anticipated college graduation. The silence coming from the dark house was horrible. Though I had never heard that kind of cough before, I instinctively knew it was the sound of a person trying to clear lungs filling with blood. Although I couldn’t see her from where I had fallen, I knew that it was her because when I had first tried to get up, I saw her blond hair splayed out on the threshold of our home’s front door. I called to each of them but got no response except for a few quiet, wet coughs from my wife, Tricia. I told God that if it was my time, I was ready to die, but I prayed that he would spare my wife and two sons. There had been four shots, one for each of us. ![]() ![]() Instead, I found myself praying for my family. But that’s not what happened as I lay on the cold concrete that December night, watching the blood from a gunshot wound cover my white shirt. I had always heard that your life flashed before your eyes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rather than follow strict chronological order, Lee divided the book into thematic chapters, as follows: The identity of Rosie was revealed years later to be Lee's distant cousin Rosalind Buckland. It chronicles the traditional village life which disappeared with the advent of new developments, such as the coming of the motor car, and relates the experiences of childhood seen from many years later. The novel is an account of Lee's childhood in the village of Slad, Gloucestershire, England, in the period soon after the First World War. ![]() It has sold over six million copies worldwide. It is the first book of a trilogy that continues with As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). ![]() Cider with Rosie is a 1959 book by Laurie Lee (published in the US as Edge of Day: Boyhood in the West of England, 1960). ![]() ![]() ![]() The Italian government lauded Stone with several honorary awards during this period for his cultural achievements highlighting Italian history. For example, he spent many years living in Italy while working on The Agony and the Ecstasy. Stone additionally did much of his research "in the field". It seems probable that Vincent's letters to and from his own brother Theo provided a foundation for Adversary in the House. ![]() Stone's main source for Lust for Life, as noted in the afterword, were Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo. During their lifetime, Stone and his wife funded a foundation to support charitable causes they believed in. The Stones lived primarily in Los Angeles, California. Stone enjoyed a long marriage to his wife and editor on many of his works, Jean Stone. When at home, Stone relied upon the research facilities and expertise made available to him by Esther Euler, head research librarian of the University of California at Los Angeles, to whom he dedicated and thanked, in addition to many others, in several of his works. In the 1960s, Stone received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Southern California, where he had previously earned a Masters Degree from the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. In 1923, Stone received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. ![]() ![]() ![]() Benson especially loved doing loops in her plane and reveled in the time she flew at the edge of a tornado. ![]() She learned to fly when she was 59 and traveled by dugout canoe to explore archaeological sites in Central America. Married and widowed twice, Benson was the first person to receive a master's degree in journalism from the University of Iowa. In her younger days, Benson did swan dives off a bridge into the Iowa River, and she swam and played golf well into her 90s. ![]() She went on to publish 135 books, and also spent 58 years as a newspaper reporter, much of it with the Toledo Blade in Ohio.īenson "detested" dolls as a child but enjoyed sports - particularly swimming and golf - at a time when girls weren't encouraged in such physical pursuits. Millie Benson's life reads like an adventure novel.ĭetermined, even as a child, to be a writer, Benson sold her first story when she was 13. ![]() ![]() ![]() Originally published in 1927, The Big Four is the fifth outing for Hercule Poirot and sees him reunited with his faithful Watson-like Hawkins, who narrates the madcap adventure, having returned, temporarily, from his sojourn in the Argentine, where he has picked up a wife. Because of her reputation, I persevered, expecting that it would get better, but the only moment of relief came when I reached the end and moved on to another book. OK, I understand that she is the best selling novelist of all time and regarded as the doyenne of crime fiction and that if popularity is any judge she is the bee’s knees, but if I had known that this book had been written by anyone other than her, I would have given into my desire to delete it from my Kindle after the opening couple of questions. Sometimes I wonder if I am missing something with Agatha Christie. A review of The Big Four by Agatha Christie – 230404 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() No one is too old for love, for the pain, and its massively egocentric whims? Sometimes I felt I was a little too old to appreciate her love fantasies, or even her dependence on love and that elusive, perfect male but then I also felt jealous, perhaps re-inspired. This poem more or less reveals the age of the writer, who was born in 1954 and this collection - Loose Woman, was first published in 1994, so most of the poems are about a woman in her late 30s. Phones feature quite a lot in her poems and you certainly arrive at the sense that she is a woman, often waiting for her lover: ![]() Most in this section are in a similar vein, or mood, with a certain dry humour aimed at herself, which I think is what I like. Of the poems in this collection, the ones I like the most come from the central section entitled "The Heart Rounds up the Usual Suspects": here is the poem of the same title: ![]() ![]() ![]() Inspired by the events and people of World War II, writer Rhys Bowen crafts a sweeping and riveting saga of class, family, love, and betrayal. Can he, with Pamela's help, stop them before England falls? But Pamela has her own secret: she has taken a job at Bletchley Park, the British code-breaking facility.Īs Ben follows a trail of spies and traitors, which may include another member of Pamela's family, he discovers that some within the realm have an appalling, history-altering agenda. The assignment also offers Ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham's middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively loves. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man is a German spy. ![]() ![]() World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. ![]() Winner of the Left Coast Crime Award winner for Best Historical Mystery Novel and the Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel. Lake Union Publishing, 2017, 379 pages World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. "Instantly absorbing, suspenseful, romantic, and stylish-like binge-watching a great British drama on Masterpiece Theater." -Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author A cozy WWII mystery with a bit of Bletchley Park. ![]() ![]() ![]() Inflammatory titles like Does Anyone Else, Unpopular Opinion, or similar are not allowed.Gush and critique posts should contain the book title/author if applicable. 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Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with informative links about Book Clubs, AMAs, etc. Home of the magic search button and endless book recommendations as well as discussions about tropes and characters, Author AMAs, book clubs, and more. ![]() R/RomanceBooks is a discussion sub for readers of romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Which one is “best” just comes down to a matter of taste, but as for which telling is the most faithful rendering of the original, 1843 novel by Charles Dickens, well, that distinction can only belong to one adaptation, and it happens to be the movie featuring singing and dancing frogs, pigs and bears. ![]() Then there are offbeat ones, like Scrooged and Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol. Some of them are serious, straightforward retellings, like the ones starring Patrick Stewart, George C. Like, if you take a look on Wikipedia, there are hundreds of them. There are a lot of adaptations of A Christmas Carol. We can already feel the angry tweets nipping at our noses. Oh, you thought our Thanksgiving op-eds were bad? Gird your stockings for the least wonderful time of the year, when the merry gentlepeople of MEL attempt to outdo one another with the most heinous holiday takes we can unwrap. ![]() |