6/10/2023 0 Comments November 9 colleen![]() ![]() When I refuse to acknowledge his performance, he eventually sighs and drops his elbows to the table. He thinks I’ll eventually give in and tell him what he wants to hear, but he hasn’t been around me enough in the last two years to know that I’m not that girl anymore. His fingers drum the sides of his coffee cup as he watches me silently for several beats. And once again, I’m forced to be his audience. It’s only been five minutes since he sat down, and he’s already turned his side of the booth into his stage. I look at him and wonder if the regret I see in his eyes is a result of disappointing me or if he’s simply acting again. My back meets the booth behind me and I fold my arms across my chest. “What am I supposed to say?” I mumble, resembling a bratty child, rather than the eighteen-year-old adult that I am. ![]() ![]() I stab the hollow part of an ice cube with my straw, imagining that it’s his head. “Fallon?” He clears his throat and tries to soften his words, but they still come at me like knives. His voice causes my grip to tighten around the glass in hopes that it stays in my hand and doesn’t actually end up against the side of his skull. I’m a little shocked, but it’s happening,” he says. There are napkins on the table, but not the good kind that could soak up a lot of blood. ![]() The potential for a nice big THUD is there. I wonder what kind of sound it would make if I were to smash this glass against the side of his head. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Abdul kalam book wings of fire![]() ![]() There is a good, moral life and there is a bad, immoral life. He said, “The course of the journey, in the Quran, explains life as a moral journey. ![]() Kalam explained to me the metaphor of life as a journey that is given form in the Quran. ![]() Finally, the book emerged as pure gold (as Bhawani Prasad Chattopadhyay wrote in ‘The Statesman’).ĭr. Finally, we wrote 340 pages, which, on second thoughts, he cut down to about 200, removing the portions wherein he shared his conflicts with people. Then I would give him the manuscript, which he would return at the next session with corrections, sometimes even rejecting the entire material. He was in Delhi and I was at Hyderabad, so each session would happen after many months. ![]() There were no laptops then and I would take notes. Madhu Reddy of University Press stood by me and even gave the book its title.ĭr. APJ Abdul Kalam to share his story, stopping people close to him from inserting their own agendas into the book and finally, my own inadequacies as a writer. It took me close to six years to write this book, overcoming the resistance of Dr. Swaminathan, namely, ‘Super Vision’ (DESIDOC, 1988), ‘Broken Bones Don’t Kill, Broken Hopes Do’ (Wiley Eastern, 1992) and ‘Kindling Creativity’ (DESIDOC, 1996). This book was my fourth one and the first to attract acclaim, the first three being with R. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The starless crown book review![]() "This talented storyteller moves smoothly from Thriller to Fantasy. ![]() On the run, hunted by enemies old and new, they must learn to trust each other in order to survive in a world evolved in strange, beautiful, and deadly ways, and uncover ancient secrets that hold the key to their salvation.īut with each passing moment, doom draws closer. Her reward is a sentence of death.įleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts:Ī broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he's forbidden to wield and carves a trail back home.Ī drunken prince, who steps out from his beloved brother's shadow and claims a purpose of his own.Īn imprisoned thief, who escapes the crushing dark and discovers a gleaming artifact - one that will ignite a power struggle across the globe. ![]() An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world in this captivating, deeply visionary adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling thriller-master James Rollins.Ī gifted student foretells an apocalypse. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The enchantress land of stories![]() While Alex stayed in the Land of Stories after their second adventure, Conner and Charlotte moved into Bob's house. His father, John Bailey, died a few days before he and his sister turned 11. He was a Child of Both Worlds, and the boyfriend of Bree Campbell, later husband.Ĭonner was a boy of school-going age from the Otherworld who used to live in a small rental house with his twin sister Alex and his mother Charlotte. 2.7 Fighting the Witches and the Literary ArmyĬonner Jonathan Bailey (better known as just Conner Bailey) was the twin brother of Alexandra Bailey, and famed author.2.5 Adventures Through the Literary Worlds.2.4 Travelling Europe and Fighting the Grande Armée.2.3 Finding the Items for the Wand of Wonderment.2.2 Collecting the Items for the Wishing Spell. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The drowned world by jg ballard![]() Man apart from nature, but beholden to nature. Misanthropy, paranoia, nagging wives, misunderstood heroes. Jungles, watches, crystals, structures, beaches. Themes of time, memory, art, and nature abound here, usually glommed on to simple adventure narratives or sci-fi pulp treadthroughs. ![]() Several of these stories feel like sketches (or leftovers) from Ballard’s early novels like The Drowned World, The Burning World, and The Crystal World. I’ve lumped these stories together because they are somewhat unremarkable: Ballard does his Ballardian thing way better elsewhere. Too many for me to write about in full, anyway. There are 98 stories in The Complete Short Stories of J.G. “The Subliminal Man,” Black Friday, and Consumerism ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments My Fair Dork by Daisy Harris![]() ![]() ![]() I adored All He Ever Desired by Shannon Stacey. The romance was really slow to develop and the mystery as I said is fun at first but seemed to drag as the book went on. It features a wealthy heroine who at night sneaks out and keeps the gangs in order – also kills bad guys. It has a nice beginning but it loses some steam in the second half. I like Ford’s contemporary erotics so I wanted to give this one a try. I then moved onto In Her Sights by Charley Colins aka Keri Ford. And I didn’t like the set-up of the heroine forced to do construction work. News From Mandi: I had a very hard time with Construction Beauty Queen by Sara Daniel. B+ review – Exposed to You by Beth Kery (erotic contemp)ī review – My Fair Dork by Daisy Harris (m/m contemp)ī review – Stolen by Shiloh Walker (romantic suspense)ī review – Night Whispers by Alisha Rai (paranormal romance)ī- review – A Trace of Moonlight by Allison Pang (urban fantasy)ī- review – Heart of Danger by Lisa Marie Rice (romantic suspense)ī- review – Double Time by Olivia Cunning (erotic m/m/f)ī- review – Lord Gray’s List by Maggie Robinson (historical)Ĭ+ review – Tart by Lauren Dane (contemporary)Ĭ+ review – Lord’s Fall by Thea Harrison (paranormal romance)Ĭ- review – Merry Ex-Mas by Sheila Roberts (Fiction) ![]() ![]() Seyton is the fourth son of his family and will not inherit anything from his father. Ildred is jealous that Mary seems to have it all – beauty, poise and innocent optimism – while she is ugly, forgotten and lonely. Ildred is the youngest daughter out of a gaggle of daughters that was given to Lady Macbeth as a companion. This story is told mostly from the point of view of Lady Mary, however also includes snippets from the points of view of Ildred, Seyton and Fleance. She worries about her father and Asleif as there they are engaged in a war with Norway but she feels she can trust that the capable Lord Macbeth, the King's War Commander, will lead the Scottish army to success. Mary spends her days praying for the well-fare of her family and for her betrothed, Asleif, the squire for the Thane of Cawdor. Lady Macbeth controls all aspects of Mary's life, not allowing the girl to do anything but wander the castle, looking pretty and innocent. ![]() Mary is the daughter of the Thane of Cawdor and she lives under the care of Lady Macbeth at Castle Inverness in Scotland while her father is away at war. ![]() Lady Mary survives the reign of a usurper King and his mad wife and helps the rightful heir of Scotland regain his throne. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Hair love story book![]() ![]() NBC 5's Reading With You initiative is an innovative program encouraging elementary-aged children to read at least one book a week throughout the summer to help combat summer learning loss, often referred to as the "summer slide." This year, educators are dubbing it the "COVID slide" as students have been out of the traditional classroom for two months even before the summer.Įach week, NBC 5 will highlight a book from our online reading list compiled with the help of Reading Partners North Texas. The 2021 Summer Reading List, compiled by local literacy advocates Reading Partners North Texas, is full of diverse titles in English and Spanish - most of which can be found in North Texas public libraries. ![]() This book is considered great for kids 4 to 8 years old. ![]() It's up to Daddy to give his daughter an extra-special hairstyle in this story of self-confidence and the love between fathers and daughters. Cherry is based on the Oscar-winning short film. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Half wild book series![]() ![]() I purposely avoided the word wizard to emphasise the importance of females. The other thing that got me excited was that I thought I could create a witchy world where women had stronger witchy powers and higher social status. I didn’t know (and still don’t) much about witches but did know there were White Witches (who were ‘good’) and Black Witches (‘bad’) and it just seemed a perfect opportunity to play around with expectations – about labels and the assumptions we make about other people. ![]() My original idea was the Giving Ceremony and something happening when 3 gifts were given – becoming a witch seemed the obvious choice. What made you decide to write about witches? Caitlin Mehta from Children’s Book Chat asks YA author Sally Green some questions about her YA Book Prize-shortlisted novel, Half Bad:ġ. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Emily tesh![]() ![]() But when Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to the nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, she knows she must take humanity’s revenge into her own hands.Īlongside her brother’s brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, she escapes from everything she’s ever known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined.Ī thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is award-winning author Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. ![]() Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the all-powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the Majoda their victory over humanity. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. ![]() |