![]() ![]() I didn’t quite connect with the characters, but if you’re looking for an ace setting with vivid detail, you’ve come to the right book. Michael jacobson georgia retina, Roll up remix ft kanye west. With enough focus and attention, however, other readers shouldn’t have this problem. Even just the names of places – such as the Glass Desert – evoke such rich imagery, and there’s other gorgeous descriptions demonstrating good writing.Īs the story got more complicated, I had trouble keeping up, and so the novel seemed to lose some of its greatness. The strength is in the details, though I did have a little difficulty keeping track of life on the grid and in the Real. ![]() The first 100 pages are outstanding, a true example of fabulous world-building. As the revelations come to light, Talia has to figure out how to save the colony from a conglomerate owner gone mad. ![]() However, Robert Kovner is also Talia’s cyber-lover, and he knows more about FortuneCorp than she does. ![]() Thus Talia is sent to sheriff the place, and punish the outlaw who screwed up the interface. Talia Fortune’s uncle is in charge of running the off-world Fresh Havens, but he’s no longer a competent manager. Dorchester SHOMI (US: 26th February 2008)Ĭorporations own colonies in Michele Lang’s fabulously futuristic Netherwood. ![]()
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![]() Setting aside the humorous parts of "The Canterbury Tales," it is unquestionably the outstanding comic poem in English. But the keynote tone of the whole is this: the poem is funny. ![]() It's true, of course, that Byron employs a rich palette of tones over the more-than-sixteen-canto span of his masterpiece. Just one problem: his notion of the effects Byron is trying to achieve is spectacularly wrong-headed. He knows (or thinks he knows) what complex of effects Byron aims at in every moment of the text, calculates every nuance of his performance accordingly, and realizes those effects with pinpoint accuracy. ![]() Keeble is a superbly accomplished narrator, in complete command of his vocal instrument and of the tonal effects he wants to achieve with it in every passage, line, pause, and syllable. In some ways, Jonathan Keeble's new recording of Byron's "Don Juan" is far and away the best on Audible, being quite free from such impediments of timbre, mannerism, and affectation as detract from the earlier versions by Robert Bethune, Frederick Davidson, and Charlton Griffin. ![]() ![]() ![]() But after Philip’s older brother, Robert, follows him into the Battle of Waterloo, his worst fears come to pass. The second son of the Earl of Cumberland, Philip never wanted the title. Their bedroom encounters are scorching, but it breaks Rose’s heart to wonder whether her reckless behavior ruined her for Philip Flagstaff. Thanks to a string of steamy affairs, Rose is perfectly content to be known by polite society as the “Wicked Widow”-until she’s reunited with the man she fell in love with at age fifteen. As the wealthy widow of the Duke of Roxborough, she has cultivated an unsavory reputation meant to discourage wife hunters. ![]() A fiercely independent duchess and a brooding, reclusive earl are tested by the demands of desire in this unforgettable romance from the USA Today bestselling author of A Kiss of Lies and A Night of Forever.įor Rose Deverill, one husband was enough. ![]() ![]() Caitlin asks if she's backing out, but Mackenzie and the other girls say no. ![]() ![]() Mackenzie can't believe they're going to do what they're going to do next. All voice their distaste and hatred for Nolan, until Mackenzie gets a text from her new friend Caitlin. Parker, Ava, Caitlin, Julie, and Mackenzie are all at Nolan Hotchkiss' house for the biggest party of the year, only in their different social circles with their respective friends. So who did? Unless they find the real killer, and soon, their perfect lives will come crashing down around them. But when Nolan turns up dead in the exact way they'd discussed, the girls suddenly become prime suspects in his murder. They'd never actually go through with it. They come up with the perfect plan to murder Nolan-jokingly, of course. At first, the girls think they have nothing in common until they discover that they all hate the same person: handsome womanizer Nolan Hotchkiss, who's done things to hurt each of them. Ava, Caitlin, Mackenzie, Julie, and Parker are all driven to be perfect-no matter the cost. ![]() ![]() Featuring essential advice on how to get there, what to eat, where to stay and, in some cases, what to avoid, World Travel provides essential context that will help readers further appreciate the reasons why Bourdain found a place enchanting and memorable. In World Travel, a life of experience is collected into an entertaining, practical, fun and frank travel guide that gives readers an introduction to some of his favorite places-in his own words. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania’s utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman’s Empty Quarter-and many places beyond. ![]() A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony BourdainĪnthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It comes in handy again when they later rashly agree to clear Combe Carey Hall, renowned for centuries of sudden deaths and regarded as one of England’s most haunted manors. All are, however, resourceful and quick on their feet, which stands them in good stead when they inadvertently set fire to a house while discovering a murder victim’s desiccated corpse. The work is fraught with peril, not only because a ghost’s merest touch is generally fatal, but also, as it turns out, as none of the three is particularly good at careful planning and preparation. As its third member, she teams with glib, ambitious Anthony Lockwood and slovenly-but-capable scholar George Cubbins to entrap malign spirits for hire. Narrator Lucy Carlyle hopes to put her unusual sensitivity to supernatural sounds to good use by joining Lockwood & Co.-one of several firms that have risen to cope with the serious ghost Problem that has afflicted England in recent years. Three young ghost trappers take on deadly wraiths and solve an old murder case in the bargain to kick off Stroud’s new post-Bartimaeus series. ![]() ![]() Will I always have the same attachment style? The best we can do as adults is make an effort to understand our own stories and use that information to grow as partners and friends. Remember, none of us have control over the way we were raised. ![]() Learning about attachment styles can be illuminating, it might even make you involuntarily mutter, “Aha!” under your breath. While you’re not necessarily bound to one attachment style for life (more on that later), our adult style typically mirrors the one we developed as a kid. You may have gotten your braces removed and grown out your bangs, but chances are you still have close to the same attachment style you did as a child. Our attachment style formed in those first 5 years actually has a lasting impact, including on our romantic partnerships. Later research expanded on Bowlby’s concepts. ![]() Remember, you can also have a combination of styles. And the insecure category has several subtypes. ![]() They’re divided into two camps: secure and insecure. But exactly how does our style form? More than half a century ago, psychologists John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth developed attachment theory: How our parents or guardians cared for us in our first 5 years played a pivotal role in our emotional development.Īnd from that, we developed an attachment style that informs how we behave in intimate relationships, including close friendships, romantic partnerships, and even with family. ![]() ![]() ![]() This was the beginning of what a lot of folks today call “Literary Science Fiction” or “Speculative Fiction”. Story-wise, New Wave was much more inwardly focused, and valued style and prose as much as the Golden Age valued grand ideas and outward exploration. Instead of beginning there, I jumped forward to the New Wave era that hit in the mid sixties. The Golden Age science fiction stories of the thirties, forties and fifties were a little less focused on stylistic prose or quality writing, and a little too culturally and scientifically removed from my era to interest me. ![]() Catching up for lost time became a real priority in my thirties. I think I suddenly realized how many valuable novels and stories and how much interesting history and perspective I missed out on throughout my twenties. ![]() I was an avid reader during my teens, but I read very little during my twenties for whatever reason. Something clicked in my head when I turned thirty I started devouring older science fiction stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Sidra struggles to deal with the limitations and expectations of embodiment, from not being constantly connected to the linkings to making new friends. The three of them form a kind of family unit, with Sidra living with Pepper and Blue and working, at least for now, with Pepper at her tech mod shop. ![]() She accompanies Pepper to Port Coriol, a cosmopolitan planet where Pepper lives with an artist named Blue. The Lovelace AI that now has a stealth android body chooses the name Sidra. Nevertheless, Becky Chambers remains a delightful writer who embraces using science fiction to tell very human stories, even when her characters are alien. So I kind of came to this book with fresh eyes. ![]() Indeed, I had largely forgotten the events in that book that resulted in Lovelace’s embodiment and departure from her ship. You can read this without having read The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (though why would you want to skip that?). Fortunately, A Closed and Common Orbit is advertised as a “standalone sequel” and definitely fits that bill. ![]() As usual, I read the first in a series and then promptly don’t get around to the sequels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Library Journal noticed the "unvarnished language of erotica" of Coyote's Mate Fan events International Business Times News called Deadly Sins "a fun guilty pleasure". Dear Author panned Leigh's work, citing Leigh's Menage a Magick (Ellora Cave Publishing) that the world building was "perfunctory". Publishers Weekly has both praised ( Maverick) and panned ( Legally Hot) Leigh's work. Romantic Times reviewed Soul Deep (Breed Series) giving it two stars out of five for an overabundance of plot contrivances, but giving Lion's Heat a four and a half star rating. ![]() Leigh was born, in Ohio and raised in Martin County, Kentucky, US.Ĭritical reception for Leigh's books have been mixed over the years. ![]() Leigh's longest-running series is The Breeds. Leigh started publishing with electronic publisher Ellora's Cave in 2003. Lora Leigh (born March 6, 1965) is a New York Times bestselling author of erotic romance novels. ![]() |