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Monster hunter international next book5/24/2023 1 reviewĪlessandro Manzetti, Shanti: The Sadist Heaven review Joe Mynhardt, Shallow Waters Vol.1 review The 100 Scariest Horror Novels of All Time Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Francesco Francavilla ‘Afterlife with Archie: Escape from Riverdale’ Review Horror Story of the Week – Mark Allan Gunnells: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Top 5 Creepy Episodes of Anthology Shows Read Kevin Wetmore’s ‘Halloween Returns’ Contest Winning Story “Ben Tramer’s Not Going to Homecoming!”ĭownload the ‘Halloween Returns: A Fan Fiction Anthology’ Now for Free!įive Reasons Drunks Will Always Survive Horror Storiesīloody Good Writing Volume 2: Does Sex Sell? Slenderman Video: Author Lee McGeorge Explores the Home of Slenderman!įear the Future: 10 Great Post-Apocalyptic Horror Novels Ranking Every Stephen King Novel, From Worst to First! Here are 10 Classic Scary Stories to Read for Free!ĥ Horror Authors You Have to Read and Follow in 2016! Is Stephen King Really the Greatest Horror Contributor of All Time? Jonathan Maberry, Ramsey Campbell and 16 Other Amazing Horror Authors Tell Us What Books Terrify Them! Interview: Jack Ketchum Talks Horror Roots and New Book ‘The Secret Life of Souls’ĥ Horror Novels That Deserve a Video Game Adaptation When in Paris, Revisit Gaston Leroux’s Timeless Masterpiece ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ Thrift Store Finds: Save the Last Dance for Me
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Queen of Hearts by Rhys Bowen5/24/2023 Meanwhile, I find myself caught up in the secret investigation of a suspected jewel thief. Crossing the Atlantic, with adventure in the air and wealthy men aboard, Mother all but forgets about Max and matrimony-especially when movie mogul Cy Goldman insists on casting her in his next picture. To offer my moral support, and since all expenses are paid by her new hubby-to-be, Max, I agree to make the voyage with her. My mother, the glamorous and much-married actress, is hearing wedding bells once again-which is why she must hop across the pond for a quickie divorce in Reno. "Lady Georgiana Rannoch, thirty-fifth in line for the British throne, knows how to play the part of an almost royal-but now she's off to Hollywood, where she must reprise her role as sleuth or risk starring in an all-too-convincing death scene.
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King of the World by David Remnick5/24/2023 King of the Worldfeatures some of the pivotal figures of the 1960s-Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, John F. His rebellion nearly cost him the chance to fight for the heavyweight championship of the world. And, to the confusion and fury of white sportswriters, who were far more comfortable with the self-effacing Joe Louis, Clay came forward as a rebel, insistent on his political views, on his new religion, and, eventually, on a new name. He refused the old stereotypes and refused the glad hand of the mob. From the start, Clay rebelled against everything and everyone who would keep him and his people down. Cassius Clay grew up in the Jim Crow South and came of athletic age when boxers were at the mercy of the mob. This unforgettable story of his rise and self-creation, told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, places Ali in a heritage of great American originals. He was a mirror of his era, a dynamic figure in the racial and cultural battles of his time. Ali was a transcendent athlete and entertainer, a heavyweight Fred Astaire, a rapper before rap was born. As Muhammad Ali, he would become the most recognized face on the planet. He changed the world of sports and went on to change the world itself. There were mythic sports figures before him-Jack Johnson, Babe Ruth, Joe Louis, Joe DiMaggio-but when Cassius Clay burst onto the sports scene from his native Louisville in the 1950s, he broke the mold.
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The piano teacher lee5/24/2023 And while Walter eventually yields to her demands, the moment he ejaculates, he becomes an arrogant, careless young man again. Unfortunately, her attempts at negotiating a sexual relationship with Walter are disastrous, as Erika struggles to exert her icy control over him the same way she might instruct and belittle her students. Through this we learn that, for Erika, sex and shame are hopelessly intertwined, but it's that very idea that arouses her repressed desire. We learn early on that Erika has some sexual hang-ups: she visits an adult store and watches porn in a private booth while inhaling a semen-stained tissue she sexually mutilates herself on the edge of her bath tub she urinates outside a parked car while a couple has sex inside. While her life at home lays the basic foundation for her psychology, it isn't until cocky young piano player Walter Klemmer manipulates his way into private lessons with Erika that the film veers into wildly compelling - and unsettling - territory. Erika squirms under the thumb of her mother, vacillating between simpering little girl and an adult struggling for autonomy, the way some people might play to their captors to beg release. Erika Kohut, a piano teacher in her 40s, lives with her domineering mother while her father is locked away in an insane asylum. Michael Haneke explores the dynamics of power, control and gender dynamics in a relationship in his masterpiece, The Piano Teacher.
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Ellie eaton the divines5/24/2023 With the emotional power of My Dark Vanessa and the reflective haze of The Girls, The Divines is a compulsive debut exploring the intoxicating, destructive relationships between teenage girls. Ellie Eaton is a freelance writer, whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The Observer and Time Out. But the more Josephine recalls, the further her life unravels, derailing not just her marriage and career, but her entire sense of self. With each memory that resurfaces, she circles closer to the ugly secret at the heart of the school’s scandal. īut an impromptu visit reawakens blurry recollections of those doomed final weeks that rocked the community. She hasn’t spoken to another Divine in fifteen years, not since the day the school shut its doors in disgrace. But for Josephine, now in her thirties, her time at St. They were fiercely loyal, sharp-tongued, and cutting in the way that only teenage girls can be. John the Divine, were notorious for flipping their hair, harassing teachers, chasing boys and chain-smoking cigarettes. The girls of elite English boarding school, St. My mother was Divine and her mother before that, which isn’t uncommon.Īlthough that was at a time when being Divine meant something. Set in the final days before a shocking tragedy forces an elite boarding school to shut its doors for good, Ellie Eaton’s The Divines is a razor-sharp debut that asks the question: were you really as good as you remember?
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Twisted tales elizabeth lim5/24/2023 Along the way she must confront demons, ghosts, her own ancestors, a tricky enchantress, and finally herself. No human has ever dared entered the underworld, but aided by the Li family guardian the arrogant stone lion Shi-Shi, Mulan takes on the challenge to save her friend. Watching over Shang, Mulan speaks with the ghost of his father General Li who tells her that the only way to save Shang is to venture into Diyu and ask its ruler King Yama to erase Shang’s name from the Book of the Dead. Mulan manages to save the day by causing the avalanche, but Shang is mortally wounded when he comes to her aid. The action picks up at the climactic battle against Shan-Yu and the Huns. What did you like about the book? This is a novel full of action, adventure and magic as Mulan travels to the Chinese underworld to save the life of Captain Shang. Rating: 1- 5 (5 is excellent or a Starred review) 5
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So his book is filled with texture-little experiences in the lives of common soldiers (and leaders) that never seem to make it into the history books, but which make the story live. Remember, Foote is more of a novelist/storyteller than an academic historian. Don't look for footnotes here because they'll only slow you down. I know it might sound strange, but otherwise his broken sentences can be a bit confusing. I found that this book was best read by "hearing" Foote's voice. Obviously there's a difference between the written word and the spoken word. Foote writes like he talks-with lots of dashes interrupting his thought. As I read "Stars in Their Courses," at times I began to hear his voice, almost as if it was an audio book. If you're familiar with the Ken Burns series on the Civil War, you know Shelby Foote's voice.
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The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan5/23/2023 It’s so bad that I almost stopped reading it within 15 minutes of starting it. Timothy Egan’s The Worst Hard Time is probably the best worst book I’ve ever read. In an era that promises ever-greater natural disasters, The Worst Hard Time is “arguably the best nonfiction book yet” ( Austin Statesman Journal) on the greatest environmental disaster ever to be visited upon our land and a powerful reminder about the dangers of trifling with nature.Įxcellent history ruined by Egan's bias & cynicism Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, he does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, “the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency and respect” ( New York Times). Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award-winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.
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Ian toll six frigates5/23/2023 Twilight of the Godsis the last of Toll’s magisterial, three-volume account of World War II in the Pacific. decision-makers who picked the commanders and determined long-term strategy. Toll’s unique approach is to skillfully interweave narratives of the bloody, on-the-ground combat with an in-depth look at the Washington D.C. The second type is the “big picture” or strategic view, such as A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II, by Gerhard Weinberg. One example is Eugene Sledge’s With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, which was the basis for the HBO mini-series The Pacific. The first is the hour-by-hour account of individual battles, often told via accounts of individual soldiers. Books about World War II generally fall into two categories.
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The problem with pain by cs lewis5/23/2023 My main query with respect to Lewis’s argument in his first chapter is that there are many intellectual reasons for holding to the truth of Jesus’ claims, whereas there seems to be more than a little liberal British Bultmannian School Neo-Kantian existentialism in Lewis’s appeals to the supposedly undergirding roles of universal experiences of the numinous and of the moral impulse. The problem of pain, as an intellectual problem, simply emerges as the problem of how to understand the co-existence of these two historical realities intellectually. Suffering is a historical fact, and yet belief in a good all-powerful God is also a historical fact. I agree with Lewis’s basic argument that the problem of pain emerges historically, and not philosophically. Guest post by theologian Dr Rob Knowles on The Problem of Pain by C. |