THE TEMPERATURE OF ME AND YOU is the story of first love, and the lengths we’ll go to figure out our hearts. But if the attraction between them defies the laws of physics, love may be the only thing that can keep Jordan and Dylan together. Jordan’s revelations of why he’s like this, where he came from, and who’s after him leaves Dylan realizing how much first love is truly out of this world. But as the pressure mounts and Dylan becomes distant with his closest friends and family, he pushes Jordan for answers. Jordan forces Dylan to keep his symptoms a secret. When the boys start spending time together, Dylan begins feeling all kinds of ways, and when he spikes a fever for two weeks and is suddenly coughing flames, he thinks he might be suffering from something more than just a crush. Then, in walks Jordan, a completely normal (and undeniably cute) boy who also happens to run at a cool 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Sixteen-year-old Dylan Highmark thought his winter was going to be full of boring shifts at the Dairy Queen, until he finds himself in love with a boy who’s literally too hot to handle.ĭylan has always wanted a boyfriend, but the suburbs surrounding Philadelphia do not have a lot in the way of options.
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Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid5/11/2023 The business, “LetHer Speak,” promotes female empowerment through letter writing. Alix Chamberlain is a white, older millennial woman with two children living in New York and running a business that she started at the height of the blogger era. The novel opens in 2015, when Hillary Clinton is running for president. Reid has constructed a complex tale of twenty-first-century millennial life that scrutinizes racism in America today. Now, as protests against police violence and institutional racism take place all over the world, ignited by the murders of Black Americans including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, the relevance of this book cannot be overstated. Covering race, class, job insecurity, and gender politics, this book has resonated with a large cross section of readers. In January, Such a Fun Age was the featured title for Reese Witherspoon’s monthly book club. Kiley Reid’s debut novel made a splash before being released, with advance praise coming from sources as varied as Jojo Moyes and Lena Waithe, Entertainment Weekly and The New York Times. The art of hearing heartbeats movie5/11/2023 I could never recommend this book enough. The words, the feelings, and the raw emotions all combine into one prodigious story. When she reaches Burma she is told of a blind man’s story about hardship, true love, separation, and getting back home. #booktok #theartofhearingheartbeatsreview #bookreview #theartofhearingheartbeats #janphillipsendker #bookrecommendations #leahsreadingjournalĢ4 Likes, TikTok video from Leah "⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Julia travels to Burma, her fathers home, after he disappears in search of him.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Julia travels to Burma, her fathers home, after he disappears in search of him. Artists in Crime by Ngaio Marsh5/10/2023 But he has another distraction on his hands – he’s only gone and fallen in love with Agatha Troy…ĭo they ever address why Agatha Troy goes by the appellation “Troy” rather than “Agatha”? That’s pretty standard for a male character in the Golden Age of detective fiction but it’s rare for a female character to be treated the same way. The disappearance of Garcia, a sculptor, puts him under suspicion, but Alleyn isn’t as convinced of his guilt as others. On Monday morning, as she is put into her standard pose by the artists, she is impaled on a booby trap.Įnter Inspector Alleyn who is staying with his mother nearby, interrupting his leave to investigate the murder. But it also attracted Sonia Gluck, a life-model of dubious morals, but she is not long for the world. Agatha Troy’s art school attracted all sorts, from the highs of the landed gentry to the lows of the lower classes, from as far afield as France and even Australia. The neverending story book series5/10/2023 In 1982 Ende signed the agreements to carry out the film production of The Neverending Story, but not before carefully reviewing the contract and discovering that they intended to change history. Due to its success, Ende received the Janusz Korczak Award. In 1979 he published what would probably be his most far-reaching novel: The Neverending Story. Try Kindle Unlimited for free: million books for youĪfter debuting as a writer, Michael devoted himself fully to literature, maintaining the same fanciful style in most of his works. Later, in 1989, he remarried Mariko Sato, of Japanese origin. He lived with her in Rome until she died of lung cancer in 1985. The writer se married singer Ingeborg Hoffman in 1964. With the arrival of the 60's, and after several rejections, Ende published his first award-winning novel: Jim Button and Lucas the Machinist (1960), with which he won the “German Children's Literature Prize. His first play was It's time (1947), and this was inspired by the most historic atomic bombing of all time: that of Hiroshima.
Unscrupulous by Avery Aster5/10/2023 At twelve, Lex was already a slave to fashion, especially couture. The season’s periodicals were spread out on Tabitha’s bed. “Anyways, there’s a resemblance between Elle Macpherson, the model who wore the red dress, and you.” She held Vogue’s fall issue up, Macpherson gracing the cover. “Valentine?” She puffed on a cigarette, exhaling from her mouth. “Remember when my mom took us to Milan to see her friend’s spring show?” Lex’s mother, Birdie Easton, a rock-n-roll legend, received invitations year after year to the best parties, extravaganzas, and fashion shows in the world. Her friend grabbed the Hello Kitty notepad off the pillow and read, “Thirty-six C, twenty-five, thirty-five.”Ī few weeks’ shy of starting the seventh grade, Tabitha had blossomed over the summer into a woman. “Holy shiiit! Mommy and Daddy are both under five-ten. Lex put down the latest Manhattanite Times issue she was reading and replied, “About six feet.” “How tall is seventy-two inches?” she asked her best friend, Lex Easton, who sat on her pink canopy bed. Tabitha Adelaide Brillford stood back from her bedroom wall, where she’d measured her height with yellow tape then marked it in pencil. I don’t know what happened or why I stopped.” -Warner Truman, CEO of Truman Enterprises and third richest man in the world. “I used to strive to live my life for happiness, not money or status. Sister's Lament by Marie Kammerer Franke5/10/2023 We see bleakness, unnerving uncertainty - like its title, it is 'a charming nightmare' of a far off future. The mixed with the darkness of Vonnegut tones. I liked the futuristic science elements which draws enough from science fiction and science theory, to be plausible. I feel it is worth it, and once you are 5 chapters in, you'll be hooked. You'll need all your focus to keep your bearings within the novel. I'd advise you to read this over a weekend with no distractions or noise. If you clear your mind, steady your metaphorical feet, then you'll find something interesting here. It takes some chapters into to get your feet grounded in the ACN universe. The language used has a interesting mix of formal eloquence and colloquialisms within the novel's text. Here we follow a story where the alien is us (as far as her captors are concerned), seen through the eyes of Aylin who acts as our guide through the strange new world. Imagine being in a far off world into the future, everyone you ever knew are dead and all that you know, are but relics of a forgotten past! We follow the protagonist - Aylin who is pushed into a far off future on a alien world. 'A Charming Nightmare' (ACN) (Volume1) by Marie Kammerer Franke book review The original hellraiser5/10/2023 Monsters, alternate dimensions, and Kirsty Cotton being a true hero… It's clear why "Hellraiser II" is so beloved. Hellraiser is not another entry into the franchise (which numbered up to ten before this one) nor is it precisely a remake of the 1987 original, written and directed by Clive Barker, based on his. It's also great to see that the series isn't afraid to establish other villains aside from its figure(pin)head with Julia and Channard. The sprawling set design of the labyrinth feels incredibly creepy, and Kirsty constantly feels like she's at the mercy of whatever's lurking around the corner. The sequel's mainly so exciting because fans get a closer look at the Cenobite dimension, which is ruled by a Lynchian entity known as Leviathan. Channard (Kenneth Cranham), who's equally obsessed with the Lament Configuration and even resurrects a skinless Julia Cotton (Clare Higgins). Unfortunately, Kirsty finds herself in the care of Dr. Kyle MacRae and Ashley Laurence as Kirsty Cotton.Ĭoming in third is "Hellbound: Hellraiser II." which picks up with Kirsty Cotton almost immediately after the events of the original movie, as she's placed into psychiatric care because of her encounter with her uncle, Frank Cotton (Sean Chapman) and Pinhead. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. Fairy Spell by Marc Tyler Nobleman5/9/2023 The public was both enchanted and skeptical. News of the pictures spread, even garnering the attention of Arthur Conan Doyle, who set out to investigate the photographs. Which was followed by another equally amazing photo: The girls returned with an astounding photograph. After much begging, Elsie's father loaned her his camera. One summer day in 1917, the girls attempted to prove to their parents that they had seen said fairies. It was a lush, almost mystical place where one could almost believe fairies frolicked among the ferns. The two girls spent much of their time playing near a stream at the back of the Wright's property. There, Frances became quite close to her sixteen-year-old cousin, Elsie. While her father was serving in World War I, nine-year-old Frances Griffiths and her mother went to stay with the Wright family in Cottingley, England. Writings of george orwell5/9/2023 White elephants have been venerated in Buddhist Burma for centuries, such as this one at an entrance to a temple After his death in 1950, the essay was republished several times, including in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays (1950), Inside the Whale and Other Essays (1957), and Selected Writings (1958). Orwell spent some of his life in Burma in a position akin to that of the narrator, but the degree to which his account is autobiographical is disputed, with no conclusive evidence to prove it to be fact or fiction. The story is regarded as a metaphor for colonialism as a whole, and for Orwell's view that "when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys." Because the locals expect him to do the job, he does so against his better judgment, his anguish increased by the elephant's slow and painful death. The essay describes the experience of the English narrator, possibly Orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma. " Shooting an Elephant" is an essay by British writer George Orwell, first published in the literary magazine New Writing in late 1936 and broadcast by the BBC Home Service on 12 October 1948. |