![]() ![]() ![]() He uses much primary source material such as diaries and letters and first hand accounts. He doesn't actually say that the British could have prevented the tragedy but he presents the facts and allows one to draw their own conclusion. ![]() I am a retired librarian and I was impressed with his research. I also saw several interviews with him and a book talk on CSpan. I can't remember but it seems to me that there was a bibliography of materials he used for his research at the end of the book. He reads letters and diaries and gets access to material others might not have seen before. He reads letters and diaries and gets access to material others might not have seen …more Larson is known to do extensive research before writing his book. Connie Schuchard Larson is known to do extensive research before writing his book. ![]()
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![]() She goes hide in her ice cream van, and when she gets out of it, Roman is there to apologize. When Roman decides to leave the water pool, he goes to his car and Layla comes to offer him icecream, which he refuses pretty harshly and hurts Layla's feelings. She offers him a massage to relax which works but she has to go. Layla arrives at the hotspring and sees Roman. This will be SPOILERS and I don't even care. What annoyed me was how dramatic it was for two strangers to have all those back and forth, just like a teenage couple would act. All the events happen in less than a day. Now this plot looks very simple, and it is. ![]() It's pretty much love/lust at first sight for them. He goes to a hotspring where he meets Layla, a girl who lives in her icecream van and who likes to invent new flavors to sell. Roman is a boss mobster who is forced to go on a vacation to learn to relax. But before I start my rant, here's the premise: Now the main thing that bothered me was how unrealistic it was and how the pacing just didn't make sense. It was original, sweet and I liked what I read at first. The concept, as per usual, was promising. ![]() It's one of those stories I kept thinking 'Are you serious? You can't be serious'. Not Cassie Mint's best work, I'll tell that much. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Something was coming down over the house like a net," he says. Jimmy's sense of foreboding grows and grows and, one evening, when he looks at the sky, he sees a giant shadow. It was the words that made the opening." A mist one sees in adolescent boys so often, captured perfectly by Jimmy. If he said a word, even one, the word made a space for the thing he didn't like or want to come crashing in and detonate him. "If Robby stayed quiet, the distance between him and something he didn't like or want grew more quickly. Robby is Jimmy's older brother, whose eyes are becoming guarded as he shuts down in this troubled family. Gav is his bitterly disappointed father, whose depressing job is scraping away rust in the Mobil refinery in Melbourne, and who becomes violent when he drinks too much Cutty Sark. ![]() ![]() Paula is Jimmy's big, doughy, overprotective, asthmatic mother, who smells of vanilla and whom he adores. Not a book one would pick up lightly, but Laguna has made it more than tolerable, with a beautiful, sombre writing style, relieved by occasional happy-go-lucky moments and strangely surprising resilience and pure joy in Jimmy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Plus, you have to be able to take that technical mastery and apply it across multiple genres, from quiet character dramas to epic action-packed blockbusters. For one, you have to be able to act – to really inhabit a character’s deepest emotions, to step into their skin so that the words on the page come across as lived and felt. Ever since there have been movies, there have been movie stars – and becoming one of the world’s greatest actors involves being able to be many things at once. ![]() ![]() ![]() To top it all off, there is no way for her parents to return to her home country. School has been canceled all over the world due to a pandemic, and everyone is on lockdown. What could possibly go wrong when Clary is locked up with the one man she doesn’t like? Clary’s senior year has been ruined. Stuck with You by Alexandra Moody is a standalone novel. She only needs to persuade him to date her and ensure that they are caught… Thanks to her friends, Ally’s overprotective father won’t be able to keep Chase in the house forever. She has been on his bad side for years and is well aware of how sneaky and manipulative he really is. The majority of women would give anything to live across the hall from Chase Williams, but Ally is not deceived by his intimidating charm or attractive looks. Everyone’s heard the expression “keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” When the hottest guy at Fairview High and Ally Lockwood’s sworn enemy moves in with her family for her senior year, Ally Lockwood must do exactly that. ![]() ![]() ![]() If You Like Alexandra Moody Books, You’ll Love…Īlexandra Moody Synopses: I Hate You More is a standalone novel by Alexandra Moody. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story, about two girls whose families have been spending summers at the same lake for years, perfectly captures the moment when everything changes - when feelings, both expressed and unexpressed, begin to color and distort a childhood friendship, when long-simmering jealousy, fear and rage finally bubble over. But relatively few comics have taken up the transition from girlhood to womanhood, and none have done so as sensitively and searchingly as This One Summer, written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by Jillian Tamaki. ![]() ![]() Comics about awkward young men struggling with adolescence are thick on the ground, which makes sense, given that the medium seems expressly suited to exploring the anxiety, self-consciousness and other ephemeral emotions that come with puberty. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 'A time-bending, location-hopping tale of love, truth and the power of seeing. Until, in 2016, Saul attempts to cross the Abbey Road again. He carries this photo with him to East Berlin: a fragment of the present, an anchor to the West.īut in the GDR he finds himself troubled by time - stalked by the spectres of history, slipping in and out of a future that does not yet exist. ![]() Apparently fine, he gets up and poses for a photograph taken by his girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau. In 1988, Saul Adler is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research in exchange, he must publish a favorable essay about the German Democratic Republic. 'An ice-cold skewering of patriarchy, humanity and the darkness of 20th century Europe' The Times An electrifying and audacious novel about beauty, envy, and carelessness by Deborah Levy, two-time Man Booker Prize finalist. SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2019 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Villanueva that asks whether it's ever okay to take away someone's free will.īook Synopsis Can a bully be defeated by a magical love potion? Magic and reality mingle in this brilliant new middle-grade novel by Gail D. The magic demands payment, and it is about to come for Jolina in the form of a powerful storm. Controlling another person's ability to love - or hate - will certainly have consequences. But magic comes with a cost, and bad intentions beget bad returns. In fact, Claudine doesn't just stop bullying Jolina - now she wants to be Jolina's BFF, and does everything and anything Jolina asks. The love potion conquers Claudine's hateful nature. Jolina brews a batch of gayuma, a powerful love potion. Though Jolina knows she's still in-training to use her grandfather's arbularyo magic, she sneaks into his potions lab to get her revenge. About the Book Can a bully be defeated by a magical love potion? Jolina can't take Claudine's bullying any longer! The taunts and teasing are too much. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cassandra knows that Tom, a family friend who has appeared in earlier installments of the series, is notoriously devoid of normal human emotion. ![]() He’s never been so instantly attracted to anyone in his life and wonders if possessing this beautiful woman might be his ticket out of boredom. When he overhears a distraught Lady Cassandra Ravenel mourn her failure on the marriage mart, Tom volunteers himself. Having proved himself, he feels an inchoate longing for something new, something more. His razor-sharp intellect, cunning, and photographic memory have helped him win great political and financial power, even over the noblemen who would sooner spit on him than do business with him. Tom Severin has fought tooth and nail to raise himself up from the slums of London. Can instant attraction become something more for a ruthless railway magnate with a frozen heart? ![]() ![]() ![]() When we first meet her, 20-year-old Gianna Russo is sitting in prison, having been caught with drugs on her person. Then I got in the mood for a bad-girl heroine and this book was recommended to me, so I dove in. ![]() I saw one of my Goodreads friends raving about the first book in this series years ago, but I’ve never been a big mafia fan, so I never tried it out. Wow, am I late to the Danielle Lori party. She’s chaos embodied, not his type, and married, but none of that can stop his eyes from following her wherever she goes.Īll along, she doesn’t even know that she’s his-his frustration, his fascination. Nowhere in Christian’s plans had he ever prepared for Gianna. She hates him-his stone-cold demeanor, his arrogance and too-perceptive eye-but over the years, even as their games consist of insulting each other’s looks and intelligence, she begins to live to play with him. One winter night and their lives intertwine. With a proclivity for order and the number three, he’s never been tempted to veer off course. Christian Allister has always followed the life plan he’d envisioned in his youth, beneath the harsh lights of a frigid, damp cell. In the New York underworld, others know him as a hustler, a killer, his nature as cold as the heart of ice in his chest. Most see a paragon of morality a special agent upholding the law. Little do most know it’s just a sparkly disguise, there to hide one panic attack at a time. She laughs too loudly, eats without decorum, and mixes up most sayings in the book. Her dresses are too tight, her heels too tall. ![]() |