The lady obviously had a thing for married men: she was constantly being solicitous and accommodating with every husband in the massive room, and Gina wasn’t the only wife there who was getting fed up with the way their men melted before her. "Rems" was a fighting word, and was the most seductive thing about him, when he got brave enough to say it, though she vowed never to let him know it…), had watched this Sergeant Lisa Cipisi, NYPD, in action. She knew this too, and didn’t like knowing it, nor did she care at all for this big Italian lady everyone was calling “Sergeant Lisa” with such irritating admiration.įor eight days, Regina Crowley, or Gina, as she was called by everyone and always had been (besides her husband Jim, who occasionally called her “Rems” after her initials as Regina Elizabeth Martinez-Sanchez, when his thoroughly Anglo-Saxon temperament was put out with her exasperating “Texmexitude“. And, as the only daughter and youngest child of an Arlington police captain, and herself a prominent Dallas prosecutor, she knew better than anyone alive, how to handle a cop in uniform.īut this Officer Cipisi was getting under her skin. She was hot-headed and she knew it, and contained it within a fierce, quiet pride that had always stopped bad manners toward herself in their tracks before they started. Few people had dared cross Gina Crowley-Sanchez, ever, in her whole life.
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Synthesising new research and theory about sexuality with old-school sex-positive information of the sort you didn’t learn in sex ed (unless, perhaps, you are a Unitarian, or Scandinavian, or lucky enough to be in Dr. ‘Emily Nagoski has written one of the most important books about sex any woman (or anybody else) could ever pick up, full of insights that are both fascinating and deeply useful. It is a must read!’ – John Gottman, PhD, author of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work Come As You Are is an absolutely necessary guide for all couples who want to understand the ups and downs in their own sex life. ‘This is the best book I have ever read about sexual desire and why some couples just stop having sex, and what they can do about it. offers up hard facts on the science of arousal and desire in a friendly and accessible way.’ – The Guardian (UK) ’Nagoski’s book deserves plaudits for the rare achievement of merging pop science and the sexual self-help genre in prose that’s not insufferably twee. But she still had her family and Jill and origami and Sworddaughter reruns and hot chocolate and all kinds of critters and Takahiro. Robin McKinleys other books include the Newbery Award-winning The Hero and the Crown Newbery Honor Book The Blue Sword Sunshine Spindles End Rose. She might be tired and worried about those she loved most of the time. They might be fighting a war, and she might be right in the thick of the fighting herself, and she might have to drive several hours to close a cobey every few weeks when Jill’s forehead wrinkled and the f-word kicked in. Maggie (Shadows - Robin McKinley)/Takahiro (Shadows - Robin McKinley).For meretricula Fandoms: Shadows - Robin McKinley She moved to California to attend the University of California, Berkeley, and after graduation with a B.A in English in 1938, studied at the School of Librarianship at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she earned a degree in librarianship in 1939. Thereafter, she was a frequent visitor to the library, though she rarely found the books she most wanted to read - those about children like herself. It wasn't until she was in third grade that she found enjoyment from books, when she started reading The Dutch Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins. She was slow in learning to read, due partly to her dissatisfaction with the books she was required to read and partly to an unpleasant first grade teacher. When she was 6, her family moved to Portland, Oregon, where she went to grammar and high school. Mouse.īeverly Cleary was born Beverly Atlee Bunn in McMinnville, Oregon. Some of her best known and loved characters are Ramona Quimby and her sister Beatrice ("Beezus"), Henry Huggins, and Ralph S. Her characters are normal children facing challenges that many of us face growing up, and her stories are liberally laced with humour. Beverly Cleary (ApMarch 25, 2021) was the author of over 30 books for young adults and children. I however understand that if this is part of the character’s personality, in his head he will always be like that, regardless of whether the reader finds his humor appropriate for the occasion or not. For the most part that is, because at times Christian’s jokes felt out of place for me. I also like that you usually do amusing banter between the main couple really well and I think this book really delivered on that front. I really appreciate that the narrator in your stories is usually a wise ass and often cracks jokes. I have read several of your books and by now I have learned to recognize your style. I want nothing more than an honest future with Gray, but the past isn’t about to let me go without a fight.įortunately, I’m starting to realize that fighting is my specialty. The more I learn about myself, the less I want to know. My life is a tangled mess of lies and deceit. I console myself that at least I’ve reached rock bottom and things can’t get worse…until they do. He assures me that I’m imagining the distance between us, but I know better. Grayson Laurie has always been my kryptonite, and it would take more than a bullet to the brain to forget him. I learn that the hard way when I wake up in the hospital, my memory practically wiped. Sirius B Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book Reviews amnesia / m/m romance / Suspense 5 CommentsĪ gunshot to the head is bad enough. OctoReview: Chrysalis (The Formicary #1) by S.E. THE COVER LOOKS aMAZing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!īUT AUGUST? DO THESE PEOPLE HONESTLY THINK I CAN SURVIVE THAT on Oct 11, 2013Įither my reading improved, or Chris Colfer's writing deteriorated, cuz this time I actually noticed his writing style. I'll just enjoy them more once Colfer relaxes and realizes his audience can and will find his cleverness without him having to hand feed it to them. And of course none of this is to say I haven't enjoyed these books, I truly have. That being said, Colfer is very young and very smart and I have little doubt that his tendency to self congratulate will dissapate as he matures as a writer. I get it, you're clever, you can stop beating me over the head with it. Which comes across as pompous and condescending to the reader. It isn't enough to write a great little bit of dialouge, there has to be a "see what I did there?!" moment immediately following it. The entire time reading these books I got the distinct impression that there is a LOT of self flagalting going on. Colfer definitely has a talent for storytelling, but it is so very obvious that he knows this. But the wink wink, nudge nudge quality to the writing makes me crazy. The characters are fun and interesting for the most part. The stories of Ficciones had a seismic impact on the development of world literature its aftershocks can still be felt today." (Literary Encyclopedia) N. With The Aleph (1949), it is one of the twin pillars upholding Borges's reputation as one of the greatest literary artists of the twentieth century. The former was first published in 1941, in Spanish, as a stand-alone collection of eight short stories, and republished with the latter under the title Ficciones in 1944. Ficciones "is composed of two distinct sections, The Garden of Forking Paths and Artifices. A collection of essays and short stories, and the first of Borges books to be translated into English. Diefendorf (NYPL Books of the Century), p. A sharp copy of the uncommon British edition. About Fine lightly read copy, square and tight with former owner's name neatly penned on front fly-leaf about Fine jacket, the fugitive pinks and yellows still vibrant, spine panel without usual heavy toning, lightly soiled back panel, very short closed tear to lower left front panel. Publisher's grey coarsely woven cloth, spine lettered in gilt, typographic dust jacket priced 21s. First Impression, translated from the Spanish, of this "landmark of modern literature." (Diefendorf) Edited and with an introduction by Anthony Kerrigan. In Search of Lost Time follows the narrator's recollections of childhood and experiences into adulthood in the late 19th-century and early 20th-century high-society France, while reflecting on the loss of time and lack of meaning in the world. Enright adopted it for his revised translation published in 1992. The title In Search of Lost Time, a literal rendering of the French, became ascendant after D. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin as Remembrance of Things Past. The novel gained fame in English in translations by C. The most famous example of this is the "episode of the madeleine", which occurs early in the first volume. This early 20th-century work is his most prominent, known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory. In Search of Lost Time ( French: À la recherche du temps perdu), first translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past, and sometimes referred to in French as La Recherche ( The Search), is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past) at Wikisource Betty Smith's poignant, honest novel created a big stir when it was first published more than 50 years ago. Like the Tree of Heaven that grows out of cement or through cellar gratings, resourceful Francie struggles against all odds to survive and thrive. But she is her mother's child, too-deeply practical and in constant need of truth. She is her father's child-romantic and hungry for beauty. Francie learns early the meaning of hunger and the value of a penny. She grows up with a sweet, tragic father, a severely realistic mother and an aunt who gives her love too freely-to men and a brother who will always be the favoured child. Francie Nolan, avid reader, penny candy connoisseur and adroit observer of human nature, has much to ponder in colourful, turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. The pre-sale estimate was £30,000 to £40,000.Ĭommenting on the acquisition, Minister for Arts, Jimmy Deenihan praised the joint purchase as a "wonderful example of our cultural institutions working together" and said they had ensured that "a wonderful piece of our cultural and literary heritage, will be preserved for, and made accessible to, the people of Ireland".īonhams said the core of the archive consisted of some 40 letters from Brown to Katriona Delahunt “the social worker who first met Brown in his adolescence and nurtured his love of writing and painting”. The archive includes a previously unseen collection of sketches, paintings and unpublished poems by Brown as well as a large cache of correspondence and personal effects including his birth certificate and a passport. It is understood that members of the extended Brown family in Dublin were the vendors. The archive sold for £37,500 (€44,733) at a Bonhams auction in Knightsbridge. An archive of material relating to the work of writer and painter Christy Brown, best-known as the author of My Left Foot, is to remain in Ireland after being purchased jointly by the National Library of Ireland and the Little Museum of Dublin at auction in London yesterday. |