![]() was the recap that made me really reconsider the evidence and think ok this plot is also getting a bit too complicated as the characters developed. By chapter 30, it started to be a bit dry for me, at the same time I was also too invested to put it down so I guess it worked its way out. Though must say though it was a very long delay and I sort of grew impatient. It was well-thought-out with side stories that were intriguing, uneasy settings, and peculiar elements. I quite like this style of story and along with the setting, became my favorite aspects of the book. If you like a gradual, building up of sorts, mounting into one big aha moment, this one will be a gem for you. I love stories that take place in creepy aged houses, cottages by the woods type settings, so if that suits your taste, you will want to check this one out. I’d recommend it to anyone looking for a mystery thriller that has a modern outlook which I think some readers will appreciate and would enjoy discussing in a book club setting. Thank you to Book Club Favorites at Simon & Schuster for the free copy for review. ![]() I really enjoyed the story telling in this one. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When I wasn’t reading it, it seemed almost to beckon me like a half-curled hand, both pleading and accusatory. ![]() For the past 24 hours, there was nothing worth the investment of my time more than reading this book. My experience of reading Real Life was like a crush, an obsession, a compulsion. ![]() Real Life is a novel of profound and lacerating power, a story that asks if it’s ever really possible to overcome our private wounds, and at what cost. ![]() But over the course of a late-summer weekend, a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with an ostensibly straight, white classmate, conspire to fracture his defenses while exposing long-hidden currents of hostility and desire within their community. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends-some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice.Īlmost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. ![]() ![]() ![]() the mother who has been suffering postpartum depression? Maybe she killed her? Or maybe the father arranged the Kidnapping for ransom since his business was in serious trouble? Or maybe the babysitter who cancelled at last minute was guilty? a baby is gone - kidnapped her from the crib Lots of theories to choose from in this story. I've been guilty of the 'cleaning-crime' on occasion. That excerpt was simply a fun 'comic' release!!! She gets a bucket of warm water and a cloth and sits down on the floor by the front door, begins to clean it, getting deeper into the grooves. The scrolled ironwork is covered in dust and had to be scrubbed by hand. She starts in the front entryway, cleaning the antique grate thatĬovers the air duct. I started laughing - (to myself of course -my husband was sleeping).when the character, Anne, had a 'cleaning episode' moment. This is a question for my women friends: When you are stressed, do you start cleaning? If ever fueled with anxiety, do you need to clean something, even if your house is already spotless? ![]() Really.I'm not sure if I'm laughing at myself - or the story - or both!Ī few random thoughts - as you know I'm not going to give anything away: **HYSTERICAL**!!!! SO MUCH FUN!!!!! I could roll on the floor laughing right now. It's 3am.I just finish reading this -'sleep-killer'-story. ZERO SPOILERS!!!! ZERO SPOILERS!!!! LESS THAN ZERO!!! SAFE TO READ!!!! ![]() ![]() ![]() He is currently professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna. In History of Beauty, renowned author Umberto Eco sets out to demonstrate how every historical era has had its own ideas about eye-appeal. Umberto Eco is the author of many best-selling novels, including The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum, as well as many acclaimed nonfiction works. This is the first paperback edition of History of Beauty, making this intellectual and philosophical journey with one of the world’s most acclaimed thinkers available in a more compact and affordable format. The profound and subtle text is lavishly illustrated with abundant examples of sublime painting and sculpture and lengthy quotations from writers and philosophers. In terms of form and style, On Beauty has been conceived for a vast and diverse readership. What is beauty? Umberto Eco, among Italy’s finest and most important contemporary thinkers, explores the nature, the meaning, and the very history of the idea of beauty in Western culture. On Beauty is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics, but Umberto Eco draws on both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed us from the classical world to modern times. I will devote this paper to examining this very rich book. ![]() ![]() Now in paperback, Umberto Eco’s groundbreaking and much-acclaimed first illustrated book has been a critical success since its first publication in 2004. Umberto Eco, a 20th century scholar in medieval aesthetics, systematizes Aquinass theology of beauty in The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas. ![]() ![]() Sure to inspire giggles and requests to "read it again!". With its spare, rhythmic text and circular tale, 'If You Give a Moose a Muffin' (1991) is perfect for beginning readers and story time. This book is a great introduction to the 'If You Give.' Series, and also a perennial favorite among children. ![]() Young readers will delight in the comic complications that follow when a little boy entertains a gregarious moose. In this hilarious sequel to 'If You Give a Mouse a Cookie' (1985), the young host is again run ragged by a surprise guest. When he's eaten all your muffins, he'll want to go to the store to get some more muffin mix, If you give him a muffin, he'll want some jam to go with it. If a big hungry moose comes to visit, you might give him a muffin to make him feel at home. "If you give a moose a muffin, he'll want some jam to go with it." ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His “Fantastic Four” book was not to be found it had only come out that morning and was already sold out. Standing alongside him in a comic book store, I felt them, too. Or as Stan Lee described in the introduction to a 2012 reissue of “Marvels,” not until Ross “had that universe seemed quite so undeniably authentic, so unquestionably credible.” Ross made iconic characters that had previously lived only as pen and ink seem tangible in the real world. Ross wasn’t dressing famous faces in capes and boots and cowls the minister at the center of “Kingdom Come,” for example, was modeled on his own father, a minister in real life. Both - “Marvels” in earthier fashion than the widescreen mythological operatics of “Kingdom Come” - offered something rarely seen: a snapshot of a fantasy world as it might actually look if it were real. ![]() In the early 1990s, he made his name on a pair of limited series comics: “Marvels” for Marvel, with writer Kurt Busiek, and “Kingdom Come” for DC, with writer Mark Waid. More likely, Ross is closer to a pivotal innovation on the golden road that led to the MCU than some organizing force. 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In the show's four-year Broadway run-during which the team scooped up five Tony Awards, including musical awards for Best Book, Best Scenic Design, Best Lighting Design, Best Featured Actor for Gabriel Ebert's performance and Tony Honors for Excellence in Theater-19 young performers played Matilda on Broadway. Matildapalooza 2023: All Grown Up–A Reunion of Broadway’s Matildas. ![]() Break out the chocolate cake! To commemorate a decade since Matilda the Musical hit Broadway -the production, adapted from the beloved 1988 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl, premiered on Apand played its final performance on January 1, 2017-supper club 54 Below is bringing back the talented young actors who portrayed the famous character onstage for a special celebratory performance, ![]() ![]() ![]() I also saw that so many early reviews just loved this book. Hazelwood has really found a niche genre here and I was so excited to check out this latest book so I could experience the craze for myself. The Love Hypothesis has gotten a TON of hype over the last year and why not? It’s hot new and sexy. ![]() I love that the author features women in academia and STEM, I mean there really isn’t anything out there like that and when you throw in a hot romance with book and science nerds I think you really have something that stands out. Then I saw this one was coming out and I instantly added it to my review calendar because I just KNEW I would love this book! I have The Love Hypothesis on audiobook as well as a hard copy and have been meaning to read it. When I was asked to review this book, I was beyond excited! I haven’t read anything by Ali Hazelwood before but I was well aware of her STEM romance bestseller, The Love Hypothesis. ![]() ![]() "The genre needs new blood and Steve Vernon is quite a transfusion." –Edward Lee, author of FLESH GOTHIC and CITY INFERNAL WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT STEVE VERNON In three days Vic will rise again - a thing of dirt, bone and hatred. The very same field where the revenant spirit of Thessaly Cross lies waiting. ![]() She will bury him in the field as she buried her abusive father years before that. Three hundred years later Maddy Harker will murder her bullying husband Vic. The Preacher Fell impaled the witch upon her very own broom but she dragged him down into the field to wait for three more centuries. A root,flung like a dirty javelin, cut a second man down. The first man died as a gust of wind harrowed the meat from his bones. ![]() When they finally tried to bury her alive Thessaly set the field against them. They beat her, they shot her, they hung her - but nothing worked. In 1691 the town of Crossfall taught the witch Thessaly how to die. ![]() |