![]() ![]() Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Let her know what you really think of Murakami. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn. ![]() ![]() You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.įind a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. ![]()
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![]() ![]() With her outspoken ways and flashing eyes, Jessye Kane is more than tempting. Then he arrives in Texas, never expecting that a sassy saloon keeper’s daughter would capture his eye. ‘Harrison Bainbridge, the second son of an English earl, left his home seeking a scandal free life away from society’s stuffy restraints. On love.’I would not make a good husband. And Jessye vows to do anything to make him whole again forcing this rugged scoundrel who claims he has no heart to take the greatest risk of all… Then he’s suddenly injured, risking his life to save her from mortal danger. Jessye knows that noble born Harrison isn’t for the likes of her, but beneath his devil may care exterior, she senses a deeper vulnerability. But although she is willing to be his partner in a daring business venture, she is unwilling to take the passion he offers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Writing more than a decade-and-a-half before the publication of 1984, Aldous Huxley envisioned a very different "negative utopia". "The threat within 1984 is a threat that's entirely external to human society - it's the overweening censorious totalitarian state that tells you what to think, that tells you what to believe, that manufactures the economy of information," ABC religion and ethics broadcaster Scott Stephens says.īut what Orwell failed to foresee, says Stephens, was the rise of consumerist capitalism and its far subtler means of mass enslavement. Writing at the beginning of the Cold War, Orwell accurately cast forward to describe the tactics and reality-bending excesses of the Soviet Union, East Germany and Maoist China. In fact, there are other highly speculative classics that better fit our social and political times. But he wasn't the only 20th-century writer of prescient dystopian fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In another part of the city, three-year-old Omid witnesses the arrests of his political activist parents from his perch at their kitchen table, yogurt dripping from his fingertips. Neda is born in Iran's Evin Prison, where her mother is allowed to nurse her for a few months before an anonymous guard appears at the cell door one day and simply takes her away. New York Times bestselling author Khaled Hosseini says, "Set in post-revolutionary Iran, Sahar Delijani's gripping novel is a blistering indictment of tyranny, a poignant tribute to those who bear the scars of it, and a celebration of the human heart's eternal yearning for freedom." ![]() ![]() ![]() But when a wolf bites him and his features turn lupine, she discovers a resemblance between her family’s werewolf legend and the movie script. Since the novel’s publication, she has talked to college students about writing, has had numerous appearances on the radio and at author events, and has even been the guest of honor at an improv show.ĭig your claws into a hair-raising werewolf book! Actress Catherine Mercy falls for her costar Greg Byron while shooting the movie Werewolf Nights. A scholar, a writer, a public speaker, and a social media influencer–she’s been featured several times on Evan Carmichael’s list of the top one hundred twitter users in Los Angeles– she begins her career as a novelist with Werewolf Nights. This world traveler – she’s lived in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico Boston Montreal Paris Venice and Lausanne, Switzerland – speaks French, Spanish, German and some Italian. in English and the University of Michigan with a Ph.D. Mari Hamill graduated from Harvard with an A. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, the Watson clan still has plans for Maggie and Caleb. Maggie does not want to stand on ceremony, so she does her best to make herself accessible to all the Aces. True, she’s human, and very young, but they can’t keep themselves from liking her. Most of the Aces are glad to have the Visionary in their midst. Not only are she and Caleb the first couple to imprint in years, but Maggie is to be introduced as the Visionary, the leader the Aces have waited generations to meet.Īt first, she’s not sure how to act. This is an incredibly stressful time for Maggie. As Defiance begins, Maggie and Caleb are in London at the reunification of the Aces. This part of the review can’t help but contain some spoilers for the first two books in the series, so proceed with caution. I hate feeling like I’ve missed things in the time between books. It picks up where Accordance left off, something I appreciate. Defiance is the third installment in Shelly Crane’s Significance series. ![]() ![]() ![]() And there’s a dog named Toby who can see ghosts. ![]() Nightingale is…a lot older than he looks, and has a housekeeper who is not quite human. Before he knows it, Peter has been transferred to a division of the London police that investigates supernatural crimes, under the tutelage of Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale. ![]() While investigating the crime scene, Peter interviews a witness who, it turns out, is a ghost. Peter Grant is a newbie constable in the London Metropolitan Police, out on patrol one night when he’s called to investigate a murder scene. But it was not easy for me to track down the first book, because I didn’t realize that it got re-titled for the American release – so I spent a good amount of time wondering why on earth my library didn’t have a copy of Rivers of London (which is a much better title anyway, I don’t know why they changed it). This series has been on my radar for a long time, thanks to some people I follow online (thanks Tumblr!) who love the books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Esmeraude's challenge makes her far more intriguing than Bayard had dared to hope.īut when he follows her across the waters and rescues a tattered, ravishing damsel in disguise, he knows he has found her. It seems a simple matter to win the hand of a rural maid in a barbarian contest - until the chase begins. When they pay no heed to his message, he swears to protect the family holding himself.even if its price is a marriage of convenience. Newly returned from the Crusades, Bayard has warned his family of a pending attack upon their estate. Thus begins the Bride Quest of Bayard of Villonne, to compete for the hand of a woman he has never seen. ![]() And then she flees, daring her suitor to follow. To the knights gallant who ride from afar to do her bidding, she issues a challenge: a riddle that is both quest and test. "I will not wed a man who thinks to own me."įurthermore, Esmeraude of Ceinn-beithe declares that she alone will name the winner of her heart. ![]() ![]() Globalization of construction industry in developing countries is very important for their socio-economic development. These findings provide valuable lessons for both Vietnamese and international policy-makers by emphasising the need for assessing the practical impact of public procurement rules and practices on bid rigging practices. Responsive suggestions are accordingly made to tackle the problems identified. Particularly concerning are unnecessary and excessive selection criteria leading to limited participation of bidders, regulation of joint-bidding, information disclosure and frequent communication between bidders. ![]() The findings reveal that Vietnamese public procurement legislation as well as administrative practices of public pro-curers unintentionally facilitate the formation and stability of bid rigging. By looking at factors facilitating bid rigging in public procurement, this article determines the extent to which current regulations and administrative practices of Vietnamese public procurers facilitate bid rigging. While public procurers are advised to be vigilant as to bid rigging in public markets, public procurement rules as well as administrative practices of public procurement authorities, are integral contributors to the formation and stability of bid rigging. Bid rigging prevents public procurers from obtaining the best value for money. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a highly symbolic, psychological novel by a poet, Atocha has the atmosphere of Sylvia Plath’s frequently underappreciated The Bell Jar. The March 2004 Al Qaeda commuter train bombings fracture the novel, and protagonist Adam Gordon’s uncomfortable failure to come to terms with the place of the poet in global politics is Atocha’s core crisis. It is also his attempt to examine what it means to be an American artist of language in the first decade of the twenty-first-century. ![]() But what happens when a person suffers similarly, but for poetry? This is the question Ben Lerner pursues in his first novel Leaving the Atocha Station (2011), an autobiographical portrait of a young poet’s year spent in Madrid evading the responsibilities of his “prestigious fellowship,” smoking a not inconsiderable amount of hash, and mistaking cultural misunderstanding for “negative capability.” Following three notable collections of poetry- The Lichtenberg Figures (2004), Angle of Yaw (2006), and Mean Free Path (2010)- Atocha is Lerner’s first major foray into prose fiction. The Quixote syndrome, where a person suffers for a belief that the world outside is supposed to conform to the uncanny logic of fictional worlds, has been a recurrent trope in fiction since its seventeenth-century debut. ![]() We know all too well what can happen when a person reads too many novels. ![]() |