7/5/2023 0 Comments Cabin Fever by Roe Horvat![]() ![]() After a security breach among his own staff, he has run out of options where to hide while the FBI hunts the killer.Ī high-profile private security expert Vincent Nowak is supposed to provide the miracle solution. Enjoying his wealth and freedom to the fullest, Michael has the world at his feet. He’s the infamous libertine behind the most extravagant parties in Manhattan, and his exploits often lead to juicy tabloid stories. Michael Bourgeon is a talented artist, young and gorgeous, a stinking rich heir from a well-connected family. Submission, punishment, bratty boy, protective & controlling Daddyīuy Links – Available on Kindle Unlimited Themes : bodyguard and his client, remote cabin in the woods, light kink, Trope/s : forced proximity, bodyguard, Daddy/boy, hurt/comfort ![]() Genre/s : Contemporary M/M erotic romance ![]()
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![]() When a boy stumbles into her shopfront after being shot, Letta chooses to protect him from the malevolent police force, known as gavvers. ![]() She loves language and is resentful of its forced subjugation. Letta is apprentice to the sole wordsmith, who is keeper of the words people are allowed to use, so she has access to the ancient words that have fallen out of use. There is an ever-restricting list of words that people are allowed to use, as Noa believes that language is the cause of humanity’s downfall. Food and water are heavily rationed, people are not allowed to speak freely and they are controlled in their walled community, known as ‘Ark’, by a dictator named John Noa. ![]() This dystopian middle fiction title is set in a world in the aftermath of great tragedy caused by global warming and human greed. ![]() ![]() ![]() I write because I want to give a long-overdue voice to a community that has experienced a tremendous array of challenges but who constantly face these challenges with the most wicked sense of humour, humility and dignity. I do this because the media representation of the global Somali community is one that is carved out of derivative clichés crammed with pirates, warlords, passive women and girls whose entire existence seems to be nothing more than a footnote on the primitive dangers of FGM. But my primary interest is in representing the complex but universal experience of Somalis. ![]() Who do I write for? I thought about this again and again over the next few days until the answer crystalized in my consciousness. As I sat on the bus, however, I gave the question serious consideration. ![]() ![]() On the other hand, a closer or simply more forgiving approach might be to submerge oneself in LaCava’s vivid inner life while she struggles to make sense of the outer world.īorn into privilege, if not great wealth - her grandfather enjoyed whisking her grandmother away from their home in Massachusetts to vacations in Monte Carlo - the 12-year-old LaCava moved to Le Vésinet outside Paris, when her father’s mysterious business demanded it. The resulting impression can be one of creativity run amok: highly imaginative, charmingly original, but not constituting a successful whole. ![]() And sprinkled throughout are whimsical illustrations by Matthew Nelson. ![]() Of almost equal weight are her lengthy, discursive footnotes. ![]() In the central text, LaCava relates the story of her mental deterioration during the 1990s when she was an American teenager living in France. Part memoir, part illustrated narrative, part digressive exposition, it tugs the reader’s attention first one way, then the other, an experience that must be somewhat akin to living with the inward focus of the author’s own restless mind. ![]() An Extraordinary Theory of Objects is a peculiar stylistic mash-up by a young writer with prodigious potential. ![]() ![]() ![]() Also in 2002, Cameron moved to Canada and married his wife, Sarah. In 2002, Cameron wrote his first solo novel, Washington and Caesar, which was published by HarperCollins in the UK and Random House in the US. It was published in 1998 as Night Trap in the UK and Rules of Engagement in the United States. Cameron left the US military in 2000 as a lieutenant commander.Ĭhristian and Kenneth Cameron proposed their first novel while Christian was still in the Navy. After University, Cameron joined the United States Navy as an ensign, serving in VS-31 as an air intelligence officer and gaining his air observer wings before going to spend the rest of his military career as a human intelligence officer, first with NCIS and later with the DHS in Washington, DC. He attended high school at McQuaid Jesuit High School in Rochester, NY, and got an honors BA in Medieval History at the University of Rochester. His best-known work is the historical fiction series Tyrant, which by 2009 had sold over 100,000 copies.Ĭameron was born in the US, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1962, and grew up in Rochester, NY, and Iowa City, Iowa, as well as Rockport, Massachusetts. ![]() Christian, a Canadian novelist, was educated and trained as both a historian and a former career officer in the US Navy. Christian Gordon Cameron (born August 16, 1962) also writes under the pen names Miles Cameron and Gordon Kent (used for those novels written with his father, author Kenneth Cameron). ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Howards end book review![]() Yeah, you can also tell that this is a Merchant Ivory film because it's way too blasted long, but hey, I'll take it, because cinema this British can be a little more entertaining than one might expect. ![]() Shoot, this film is already two-and-a-half hours of high-class British people problems so there better not be another two hours and fifteen minutes of this story to tell. They went way back into formula with this film, so I need to remind myself that the Merchant Ivory film with Hopkins after this is "The Remains of the Day", not "The Remains of 'Howards End'". Ironically, this was the first film set outside of America that Merchant Ivory had done in a while, but they made such a booming comeback to British filmmaking stereotypes that they went ahead and put Anthony Hopkins of the payroll. Forster, not necessarily because Merchant Ivory adapts a lot of Forster's books, but because this film is already so British that its story was authored by a novelist who goes by his first two initials, so it may as well be from Merchant Ivory. ![]() Its a dry period drama about class relations in England, so, uh, do you think that it's a Merchant Ivory film? I think you can figure that out just by seeing that this film is an adaptation of a novel by E. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Long ago, something sinister, something hungry, walked in the tunnels and the mountains and the coal mines of their hometown in rural Pennsylvania. Long ago, Maddie was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldn’t have-and is trying to remember that lost trauma by making haunting sculptures. Publisher’s summary: Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father-and has never told his family what happened there. The man, a stranger, seems to know far too much about her, and professes his love–shortly before he murders her. Young real estate agent Madison May is shocked when a client at an open house says these words to her. The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barryĭen of Geek says: Alternate universes meet serial killers in what looks like a twisty sci-fi horror story. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized-someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.īut the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.īuy The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Lynette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. ![]() ![]() After proving his credentials by making the statues of York Minster come to life, Mr Norrell leaves behind a reclusive scholarly life and moves to London, where he quickly becomes the toast of high society. So when a group of scholars in York discover someone capable of actually performing spells, it’s a major event. Set in the early nineteenth century, the novel describes an England where ‘theoretical magicians’ study learned texts but nobody actually practices magic. ![]() It has since been translated into many languages, and excited considerable film adaptation interest too. Yet Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004), which took Clarke over ten years to write, became a huge publishing phenomenon. Nobody could have predicted in 2004 that an 800-page story about 19th-century magicians and fairies would top the bestseller lists. ![]() Susanna Clarke’s debut novel was nothing if not distinctive. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments Enlightenment now reviews![]() Getting a BA or BS degree (and, obviously, all the more so for an advanced degree) is supposed to be proof positive that a person is capable of devoting themselves to intellectual labor. Although many people purport to hate physical labor, in actuality a higher proportion of people find intellectual labor more distasteful (on a day-to-day long term basis). ![]() These were listed in the order of difficulty / distasteful. There are three completely distinct kinds of "hard work" that people undertake: physical work, intellectual work, and spiritual work. That said, there is a purpose to academic credentialism that apparently has escaped you. A heck of a lot more than 30% of Americans work. Roughly 30% of Americans get a four-year degree. Then there are the millions more of self-made careers of businessmen and entrepreneurs who generated their own career by noticing something that people would pay for and doing it. ![]() There are millions of jobs in thousands of job categories that don't require a BA or higher. If you want a career where a BA doesn't matter, go be a plumber, an electrician, a carpenter, a welder, a car mechanic, a crane operator, an airplane mechanic, a truck driver, a train conductor. What would help us a lot more is the credentialism set up by middle-class snobs – the insistence that nobody is worth hiring unless they had the time and money to spend on a B.A., whether the degree is relevant to the job or not. ![]() ![]() ![]() Salinger (1988), an account of his attempt to write a biography of the elusive author of The Catcher in the Rye. ![]() He was the author of several non-fiction books including a study of the rise of literary biography, Keepers of the Flame (1992) and In Search of J.D. Ian Hamilton was an acclaimed biographer, whose subjects include Robert Lowell, Matthew Arnold and the footballer Paul Gascoigne. He was editor of New Review from 1974 to 1979, publishing new work by writers including Ian McEwan, Andrew Motion, Tom Paulin and Jim Crace, and presented the BBC television programme 'Bookmark' (1984-7). From 1965 to 1973 he worked as poetry and fiction editor for the Times Literary Supplement, and was lecturer in poetry at Hull University from 1971 to 1972. He was the poetry reviewer for London Magazine (1962-4), and poetry critic for The Observer (1965-70). He graduated from Keble College, Oxford, in 1962 and founded the poetry journal Review, which he edited until 1971. Poet, critic, editor and biographer Ian Hamilton was born on 24 March 1938 in King's Lynn, Norfolk. ![]() |