![]() ![]() ^I love how the only thing he was really concerned of from all Alex admitted WAS THAT SHE CHEATED ON HER TRIG EXAM.□♀️□ ![]() I cheated on my trig exam.”Īiden looked at me, frowning. ![]() His fierce protectiveness of Alex is so sweet, and yet even if he can be a totally strict rule follower, when he does loosen up a little….it’s the best.□ Haha and his convos with Alex.□ This guy is seriously just one of my all-time-favourite book boyfriends□(I guess I could say that with almost all of JLA’s male love interests xD). Oh also school’s started and Instructor Romvi totally loves making a fool out of Alex during training□-so not cool (I hate that guy sm□), but I mean it’s not really that surprising considering most pure-bloods are like that.□īUT Aiden St. Good thing she has his to keep her compnay……… or is it?□ ![]() Only a few friends know the truth and one of those ‘friends’ is Seth. To add on to that, practically everyone at the Covenant despises Alex, believing her to be responsible for daimon attacks in the summer. Nightmares have plagued her for weeks and the events from the previous book have traumatized her. □WARNING: SPOILERS FROM 1ST BOOK BELOW!!!□Īfter finding out that she herself was fated to be the second Apollyon and having to kill her mother-gone-daimon, to say Alex is feeling…….alot, is an understatement. Tell me that line above doesn’t just make you swoon? (Or maybe it’s just me hehe) “Ever since I’ve met you, I’ve wanted to break every rule.” ![]()
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![]() ![]() As a result of such interactions, trees in a family or community are protected and can live to be very old. Much like human families, tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, and support them as they grow, sharing nutrients with those who are sick or struggling and creating an ecosystem that mitigates the impact of extremes of heat and cold for the whole group. ![]() In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in the woodland and the amazing scientific processes behind the wonders of which we are blissfully unaware. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World. ![]() ![]() ![]() We can safely say that thirteen miles of water does not get in the way because we talk or text, no exaggeration, at least 150 times a day. We’re East coast girls separated by Long Island Sound who met in Physician Assistant School and have been besties ever since. He doesn't realize his world went dark the same day his wife's did, until Jules, his son's new nurse, shows him the light. ![]() Until it isn’t.įour years later, Guy is consumed by the challenges of being a single father, still struggling with the aftermath that derailed his life and left his son with special needs. An MBA and boardroom job is her ticket out. Jules Chiappetti loves her boisterous over-involved Italian family but is determined to pave her own way. Two unexpected blue lines don't even shake his resolve-he is on his way to having it all. Guy Hunter secures his dream fellowship with a beautiful free spirit by his side. ![]() Posted on 1 March, 2016 by momsread in Review, Riley Mackenzie / 1 comment Abruption by Riley Mackenzieĭr. Subscribe Review: Abruption by Riley Mackenzie Enter your email address to subscribe and receive notifications of new posts by email. ![]() ![]() as well as his masters degree in the field of film making. Once he graduated high school he want to Ohio State University, where he earned his B.F.A. Regardless, Dyrk continued to do well as a student. He read a lot and even though he generally was not as attentive to his learning and school as he could have been, he somehow received great grades anyway except for Algebra. He was an avid reader and some of his favorites included the Stuart Little series as well as gradually more complex and established adult authors that included Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allen Poe, H.P. The things that he did included climbing trees, exploring the woods and rivers, hanging out in ditches and haymows, wrestling, riding, and playing soccer and engaging in BB gun wars. ![]() ![]() His name is not a pen name but his real biological name given to him by his parents, although he has been told that it sounds like a very exotic name.ĭuring his childhood and teen years, Dyrk spent a lot of time outside having a normal childhood. Dyrk Ashton is an American author of fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was controlling, annoying and obsessive. Also, they should not be used to diminish the consequences of character actions.Įveryone in this book felt extremely unlikable or one dimensional. But plot twists should be used to advance the story and not provide a lackluster reason as to why something happened. Did I see those reveal coming? No, I did not. Everything, especially the reveals, felt a little too convenient and did the bare minimum to add any true excitement to the plot. This book seemed very all over the place in terms of story. ![]() It feels very far removed from any addiction story and I don’t know if I like or dislike that. The book doesn’t take any groundbreaking steps in dealing with the true side of being an addict nor does it have any hard-hitting conversations about addiction. The reader is told several times that Alex is an addict, Alex’s addiction is only used as a plot device to keep Indigo close to him. And unfortunately, is a huge jerk.įor a book about addiction, it rarely focuses on it. She’s not watching children, she’s watching an international rock star who has a drug and alcohol problem. To lessen the financial burden, she takes a job as a baby sitter. She is an average girl, whose family suffered a huge tragedy a couple of years prior and is still facing the aftermath. Midnight Blue tells the story of Indigo Bellamy. There were several times where I wanted to stop reading but I powered through. Midnight Blue was utterly disappointing and frustrating. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of My Favorite Reviews of this Book:įTC Disclosures: Some of the links in the post above are “affiliate links.” If you click on the link and purchase the book, I will receive an affiliate commission. It’s a perfect picture book for him and a delight for me to read with him. What’s really fun is that each time we’ve reread this book the story changes a little. ![]() On one rereading of this book my son started shouting at the pictures on the page saying, “Oh no! The dog popped her ball!” My son then wanted to read it himself and he “reread” it to me several times. We’ve looked through this wordless picture book about a dozen times in the past day followed by various reenactments of the story. However, on Daisy’s next visit to the park she is greeted with a new ball by her friend. One day, Daisy and her human go to the park where her precious ball is accidentally popped by her friend. ![]() She plays with it all the time and even naps with it. My son cannot seem to get enough of this book. It’s a deceptively simple book that lends itself to lots of imaginative play. If you haven’t checked this book out, please do. The illustrations are beautiful and (clearly) skillfully done. There’s a really great reason it received the Caldecott - it’s excellent. ![]() ![]() ![]() Goffman, now a professor of sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison, has recently come under criticism. ![]() Malcolm Gladwell called it “exceptional … devastating.” Cornel West said it was “the best treatment I know of the wretched underside of neo-liberal capitalist America.” The New York Times said it was “a remarkable feat of reporting.” Goffman, the daughter of esteemed sociologist Erving Goffman and a Philadelphia native who went to the Baldwin School, had already won a major award for her dissertation. It was met with massive praise upon release. ![]() She says she witnessed 24 different police raids, including one where she was handcuffed, and four instances of men from 6th Street released from police custody with bloody fingertips. She writes of police stealing from suspects. In the book, her subjects are profiled, beaten harassed and tracked by the Philadelphia Police. ![]() She changed names and calls it “6th Street,” to avoid identifying her subjects. For six years, while a student at Penn and at Princeton, Goffman immersed herself in a Philadelphia neighborhood that she writes is “a lower-income Black neighborhood not far from campus.” The book is an ethnography of the lives of the young men (and a few women) she hung out with in the neighborhood. Last year, Alice Goffman published On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, an adaptation of her dissertation at Princeton. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book was made into the 1969 film, The Illustrated Man, starring Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom. The man's tattoos, allegedly created by a time-traveling woman, are individually animated, and each tells a different tale.Īll but one of the stories had been published previously elsewhere, although Bradbury revised some of the texts for the book's publication. The unrelated stories are tied together by the frame story of "The Illustrated Man", a vagrant former member of a carnival freak show with an extensively tattooed body whom the unnamed narrator meets. It was nominated for the International Fantasy Award in 1952. A recurring theme throughout the stories is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people. The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of 18 science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. ![]() ![]() ![]() You're in for a treat, Reader/Elegba/Hermes/Alternate Being." It has also left me with big questions that don't necessarily have answers, but requires an intense process of thought and being, in order to come close to some answers. "Silverfish has left me with big feelings that I need to sit with and explore. More than just a damning indictment of our contemporary moment, Silverfish is fiction written both for and after the end of history. Part prophecy, part literary collage, and part social justice remix, it's a wholly immersive, intertextual sojourn. ![]() Silverfish is a syncretic tour-de-force that recombines elements of Afrofuturism, sci-fi, and wartime fiction with linguistic and literary theories to issue a dire warning about what happens when we choose to pretend our past never happened, thereby ensuring that we stumble blindly into a future we've already lived. ![]() ![]() That's the premise of this experimental novel, a dark Borgesian romp into the labyrinthine depths of language. And in this America, citizens are "born to fail" - mainly because they lack the language and cognitive skills by which to identify their condition. What if the apocalypse already happened and you just didn't notice? That's one of the central questions of Silverfish, a novel that details a slice of life in the Incorporated States of America: a country much like our own, but one in which the corporatization of culture is so total and complete, so deeply ingrained so long ago that no one can remember an alternative. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her family aren’t just eccentric: they’re monsters, with terrifying, hidden powers. She loves her nerdy job at the historic Holland House, and when her super cute co-worker Nick asks her on a date, it feels like everything is falling into place.īut she soon learns the truth. Sent to stay with her late mother’s eccentric family in London, sixteen-year-old Joan is determined to enjoy herself. Thanks to Hodder & Stoughton for the eARC of this book. Once I got started I read the whole thing in one day, kept entertained enough to chase through each page, though unfortunately the ending didn’t really land with me. This book wasn’t what I expected, more good-guy-monster than monster-monster, but I had so much fun reading it. I’m a sucker for villainous characters, as you can tell from my reviews of All of Us Villains and Beyond the Ruby Veil. I honestly requested this one based off the tagline, ‘Only a monster can kill a hero’. ![]() |