6/12/2023 0 Comments Wrath by ella james![]() ![]() Triggers include mental health struggles, trauma, abuse, drug use, and some themes that may be difficult for LGBTIQA+ readers struggling with faith issues. * This story is emotional and so romantic, but it has some dark parts. The best part about this twisted game is when I find out it gets hard for me. That ball bat he's got stuffed into his gray sweatpants-it swings "that" way. He's making my life worse than it already is. I've got secrets I'm taking with me to the grave.Įveryone thinks I moved to my dad's small town to play varsity football, but I've got other plans, and DG's trying to thwart them all. I don't think Do Gooder knows I'm starting senior year late. Everything about him is the picture of perfection-unlike me. ![]() All-American, baby-faced, blue-eyed band dork and star soccer player. You'd think it wouldn't matter since I won't be here for long, but this guy gets under my skin like no one ever has. ![]() From USA Today Bestseller Ella James-writing MM romance under the pen name Ellis James-comes an addictive, enemies-to-lovers MM romance that readers are calling one of the best love stories of the year. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() And here how singularly sounds that word which of old was wont to bring terror to all hearts-throwing a mildew upon all pleasures! ![]() You are confused and oppressed by the majestic novelty of the Life Eternal. How strangely, sweet Una, you echo my words! I observe, too, a vacillation in your step-a joyous inquietude in your eyes. Yes, fairest and best beloved Una, "born again." These were the words upon whose mystical meaning I had so long pondered, rejecting the explanations of the priesthood, until Death himself resolved for me the secret. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Fathers and Sons by Howard Cunnell![]() ![]() There's something special about the writing.A superb book about a man, his emotions, his family, a father who disappeared - and a son who appeared. Behold, and rejoice.ĭazzlingly beautiful.this is truly heart-stopping writing: a unique and hard-won perspective unfolded in lucid and unforgettable prose. There is so much aching love in this book, such pain and beauty. Melissa Harrison, Financial Times Books of the Year ![]() ![]() A fragmentary but utterly lucid multigenerational memoir in which the experience of fatherhood and the demands of masculinity are delicately parsed from all possible angles, it stood out for me for the extraordinary quality of Cunnell’s prose: glancing, agile, heartsore, preternaturally perceptive and above all, tender. 'In a publishing year packed with brilliant writing, nothing stopped my heart quite like Howard Cunnell’s Fathers and Sons. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Gladius by Guy de la Bédoyère![]() ![]() They served as tax collectors, policemen, surveyors, civil engineers and, if they survived, in retirement as civic worthies, craftsmen and politicians. Roman legionaries and auxiliaries came from across the Roman world and beyond. ![]() The Roman Empire depended on soldiers not just to win its wars, defend its frontiers and control the seas but also to act as the engine of the state. The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine the ancient world produced. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is married to a writer, has three children and lives in Sussex. ![]() ![]() Her books include the acclaimed social history Among the Bohemians - Experiments in Living 1900-1939, and Singled Out - How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War, both published by Penguin in 20. She studied at Cambridge University and lived abroad in France and Italy, then worked as a documentary researcher for BBC Television. Virginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and grew up in Yorkshire and Sussex. 'Passionate, fascinating, profoundly sympathetic' Artemis Cooper, Evening Standard 'Vividly entertaining, uplifting and humbling, Millions Like Us deserves to be a bestseller' Bel Mooney, The Daily Mail ![]() And how they would never be the same again. Millions Like Us tells the story of how these women loved, suffered, laughed, grieved and dared how they re-made their world in peacetime. But in conditions of "Total War" millions of women - in the Services and on the Home Front - demonstrated that they were cleverer, more broad-minded and altogether more complex than anyone had ever guessed. ![]() We tend to see the Second World War as a man's war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches. In Millions Like Us Virginia Nicholson tells the story of the women's Second World War, through a host of individual women's experiences. We tend to see the Second World War as a mans war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Kindred a graphic novel adaptation![]() ![]() Damian Duffy’s text succinctly captures the beauty of Butler’s language, taking her most iconic phrases and leaving them to stand their ground in modern text type amid the starkly contrasting colors of Dana’s teal blouse and the red and black world that surrounds her. Raw and hard-edged, like a wood carving, artist John Jennings cuts to the heart of the story in his quick, striking lines, from the very first encounter with Rufus and his father’s gun. Once Dana is drawn into the past, and wrapped up in the life of young Rufus, the danger is palpable on the page. As it opens with the tale of Dana’s life in L.A., round faces and familiar forms of clearly sketched out lines abound. The key to this power lies in the imagery. The graphic novel adaptation, while certainly abbreviated, loses none of the power of Butler’s original work. Her travel back in time is both a fast-paced adventure, and an unraveling of the fictions we tell ourselves. She has her own pre-conceptions regarding slavery and blackness and history and family and what it is to submit to another’s will. She feels comfortable in her interracial marriage. She is a modern woman, with her own way of relating to her Black identity. While there, she is forced to face hard truths about the reality of slavery, and learns quickly that to experience is not the same as to read. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Jordan the wolf of wall street![]() ![]() His only weapon was his remarkable charisma. As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom, she was once quoted as saying. Coco Chanel was famously outspoken on many things, but yachting, in particular, attracted her ire. ![]() ![]() This incredible story was that of a New Yorker from a modest background who was to make hundreds of millions of dollars without having any qualifications. How Jordan Belforts 37m superyacht Nadine sank off the coast of Sardinia. In the 1990s Belfort was the incarnation of American success with all its excesses, sex, drugs and dollars galore. From his expensive yacht, his helicopter and the most incredible parties, we see first hand how Jordan Belfort recklessly spent the fortune he had accumulated. The craziest part about Belfort’s story told in the film is that it is all true, this film uncovers footage previously unseen which reveals all the traders excesses. He’s the real hero of the film having inspired this incredible success story that you just couldn’t invent. Jonah Hill confronted Jordan Belfort on whether he actually felt. Although many people didn’t realise it was the story of a real man, Jordan Belfort. The Wolf of Wall Street's ex-wife Nadine Caridi has revealed the Margot Robbie scene that the film got right about their life. It’s a film about the extraordinary story of a trader who was worth millions at the age of only 27. Please support Elysian Blaze by purchasing the new song, 'The Virtue of Suffering', from Elysian Blazes Bandcamp page here. Martin Scorsese’s, The Wolf of Wall Street starring Leonardo DiCaprio, premiered on the 9th of December 2013. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments James herbert fluke review![]() ![]() The scene by the Gravestone, when she realises just who Fluke is, as he scrapes away the snow to reveal his name, is one of the most moving pieces of film I've ever seen!! But at the VERY end, something nice happens. But the WORST part is when his old friend dies by the lake,after being shot.God this film is a KILLER at times!!! At this point i sob like a baby!! Then when poor Fluke finally tracks down his old family,he comes to realise that they would be better off being left alone, and move on. ![]() The film begins after he dies in the crash, and from here on in.it just gets worse!! First, he has to say goodbye to his Doggy-mum,which cuts me up every time.then he sees his friend Bella,the tramp, die. Every time i watch this film,i cry like a 5yr old kid!!!Its so bad that i have to watch it on my own, and its a running joke amongst my friends.as they know the state I'm in whilst watching it!! This film is at first just another shaggy-dog story, but if you read into its meaning, it really makes you wonder about living life to the full, appreciating what you have in life, and realising that there are no 2nd chances. Somewhere in the depths of his consciousness was a memory clawing its way to the surface, tormenting him, refusing to let him rest. Recently i purchased both the D.V.D,The Video and also the book. 126 ratings ) About this audiobook He was a stringy mongrel, wandering the streets of the city, driven by a ravenous hunger and hunting a quarry he could not define. ![]() I am a male of 37yrs who first watched fluke a few years ago. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Henri by Ella Frank![]() These two together are like a match and gasoline and I was HERE. And then began a delicious slow-burn push-pull. But from Henri’s first encounter with Officer Bailey, the sexual tension was insane. It leaves me feeling rather anxious as to how this all going to play out at the end of the book. I loved that Henri was shrouded in mystery but as it seems, he is battling more demons than Priest was. Henri is the definition of bad boy and then when he gets involved with a cop, needless to say, I am a sucker for this troupe. As soon as I met Priest’s ex-boyfriend I was filled with giddy elation. I was ridiculously excited that Henri was getting his own story after he was introduced. No one’s ever accused Henri of being good man.Īnd Officer Craig Bailey is about to find out just how bad he can be. So when he winds up in bed with it, he knows that things are about to get…complicated.īut what’s life without taking a few risks?Īnd what’s a risk without the threat of being caught? ![]() Henri’s made a career out of getting in trouble and avoiding the law. ![]() That’s never been the case for Henri Boudreaux. ![]() Life would be easy if things were always that simple. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Keller helen the story of my life![]() It happens too often that your trumpet call is unheeded. The days before these ordeals take place are spent in cramming your mind with mystic formula and indigestible dates-unpalatable diets, until you wish that books and science and you were buried in the depths of the sea.Īt last the dreaded hour arrives, and you are a favoured being indeed if you feel prepared, and are able at the right time to call to your standard thoughts that will aid you in that supreme effort. Although I have faced them many times and cast them down and made them bite the dust, yet they rise again and menace me with pale looks, until like Bob Acres I feel my courage oozing out at my finger ends. ![]() ![]() ![]() “But the examinations are the chief bugbears of my college life. ![]() |