![]() ![]() Unfortunately, Lish McBide’s debut novel with the delightful pun title wasn’t bad, but didn’t commit to being dreadful either, so it just ended being kind of heartbreakingly mediocre. A book with that much ridiculousness and black humour just in its name had to either be amazing or terrible. I read Sellevision because it was meant to be a witty satire of home shopping channels, and I mean, it certainly was that, but it was also a bizarre and hellish rollercoaster of an experience.Īnyway, this is also how I ended up reading Hold Me Closer, Necromancer-I saw it in a sea of Book Depository sales items and went “Whoa, now, what is going on there?” It’s not just a pun, but a singable pun, and promises to be about raising the dead. This title-based method is how I ended up reading Aphrodite’s Workshop for Reluctant Lovers and The Guy, The Girl, The Artist and His Ex. If I’m scanning a pile or web page full of books not looking for anything specifically, I’ll pick up the ones with eye-catching, interesting covers or titles that jump out to me. “Don’t judge a book by its cover” is an old proverb that we all know, and while it’s lovely as a metaphor about acceptance and understanding, there’s an entire industry devoted to the fact that we do this literally all the time. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This book is Andy's inspirational and very funny account of his expedition through literature: classic, cult and everything in-between. And so, with the turn of a page, began a year of reading that was to transform Andy's life completely. Books that whispered the promise of escape from the 6.44 to London. The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life is written by Andy Miller and published by Harper Perennial. Books that whispered the promise of escape from the 6.44 to London. Books he'd said he'd read, when he hadn't. Books he'd said he'd read, when he hadn't. But, no matter how busy or tired he was, something kept niggling at him. Andy Miller had a job he quite liked, a family he loved and no time at all for reading. ![]() Summary: A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir. ![]() ![]() Can you imagine a romance with a person you can’t touch or kiss? Quel Tragique!!! Watching their sweet and tragic love story unfold will make you swoon and break your heart. ![]() As is inevitable, Stella and Will fall in love. Will just happens to be afflicted with B. cenocepacia (a complication of CF), the separation is an even greater matter of life and death. And if one of those CFers is afflicted with B. ![]() The fear of cross-infection is just too great. He’s going to die anyway, so what’s the point? The guidelines of CF make it clear that people with CF are not to be within 6 feet of each other. Will handles his CF by rebelling against everything. She encourages others CFers on her YouTube channel. She obsesses over to-do lists and her treatment plan. Stella handles her CF by being regimented and disciplined. Stella’s parents have kept her close to home at their local hospital and it’s the one to which Will was just admitted. Will’s mother has taken him to hospitals all over the world. ![]() They both are dying from Cystic Fibrosis and have been in and out of hospitals (more in than out) their entire lives. ![]() Stella and Will have one huge thing in common but they are as different as two teens can be. ![]() ![]() ![]() The ultimate objective of the operation is to place one of the revived minds aboard a deep-space probe, to be sent out to explore the galaxy. He little expects that a freak accident will cause that death shortly after he does so.īob wakes up in the distant future to find himself the subject of a study conducted under the auspices of a religious extremist government called FAITH. The titular “Bob” is Bob Johansson, a software developer and science-fiction fan who signs up to have his brain preserved after his death, to be revived in some distant future. But it came recommended to me by not one, but two friends whose tastes run along the same lines as my own, so I had to give it a try. This book has over 2000 reviews on Amazon, so it’s not really hidden. ![]() I don’t often review widely-read books, as you may have noticed. ![]() ![]() ![]() An armrest like contraption has the controls: on/off, hot water, cold water, back, front, high pressure, low pressure. When our son built his house, he had the bathrooms installed with this device. In recent years in the U.S., the Lota is giving way to the toilet-seat bidet. In the Christian tradition, water is symbolic of washing away one’s sins, as in Baptism. Muslims use water to perform ablution five times daily to purify ourselves before offering the prayers. At Rest-Stops along the highways, you may have noticed someone fill a plastic bottle with water before going into the stall. Visit a Muslim home, and you are likely to see the Lota on the bathroom, resting between the toilet seat and the sink. Think of it this way: if your hand gets soiled, you don’t wipe clean, you wash your hands. You use 50% less toilet paper, you feel cleaner, and you are cleaner. This may seem gross, but there is no other way: (1) use toilet paper to wipe (2) use water to wash thoroughly (3) use toilet paper to wipe dry. In the Muslim tradition, one cleanses oneself with water, the ultimate purifier. Then there is the bidet, widely used in Muslim countries. those of us from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh. May I introduce you to the alternative: The Lota.Įvery South-Asian knows the Lota i.e. The Muslims Are Not Coming! They are the only ones not rushing to the stores to stock up on toilet paper-perhaps just a couple of rolls. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When she meets Raoul, they discover a shared passion for the cause, for their homeland, and for each other. Sandrine, a spirited and courageous nineteen-year-old, finds herself drawn into a Resistance network in Carcassonne - codenamed 'Citadel' - a group of ordinary women who are prepared to risk everything for what is right. But when Léonie stumbles across a ruined sepulchre she uncovers a timeless mystery and a unique deck of tarot cards that seem to hold power over life and death.ġ942, Nazi-occupied France. Seventeen-year-old Léonie Vernier and her older brother abandon Paris for the sanctuary of their aunt's isolated country house near Carcassonne, the Domaine de la Cade. Although Alaïs cannot understand the strange words and symbols hidden within, she knows that her destiny lies in keeping the secret of the labyrinth safe.ġ891. Seventeen-year-old Alaïs Pelletier is given a mysterious book by her father, which he claims contains the secret of the true Grail. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this heartwarming and poignant memoir, Daphne shares her amazing relationships with a host of orphans, including her first love, Bushy, a liquid-eyed antelope Rickey-Tickey-Tavey, the little dwarf mongoose Gregory Peck, the busy buffalo weaver bird Huppety, the mischievous zebra and the majestic elephant Eleanor, with whom Daphne has shared more than forty years of great friendship.īut this is also a magical and heartbreaking human love story between Daphne and David Sheldrick, the famous Tsavo Park warden. Her deep empathy and understanding, her years of observing Kenya's rich variety of wildlife, and her pioneering work in perfecting the right husbandry and milk formula have saved countless elephants, rhinos, and other baby animals from certain death. Daphne Sheldrick, whose family arrived in Africa from Scotland in the 1820s, is the first person ever to have successfully hand-reared newborn elephants. ![]() ![]() ![]() But after going into a binge of questionable mpreg that left me craving a good read, I decided to give this one another go, and let me tell you, I am very impressed. I actually read the first chapter and put it aside because I wasn't feeling it. I downloaded the first book to my Kindle a few weeks ago, and it kind of just stood there for a while. Let me start by saying that I didn't expect to like this duology so much. ![]() Subreddit Schedule & Eventsĭetails on past, current, and upcoming special events, author AMAs, and monthly reading challenges are listed in the schedule section of the subreddit wiki. Or try this link to use Google to search the subreddit. Find a Bookįind all-time favorites and popular recommendations on our subreddit resources page and check out our New Reader guide. No complaints about author identities or over-generalizing about author or reader gendersįor more detail on the rules, please click here.įor our guidelines on how to write a book request that follows the rules, please click here. Mark your spoilers and warn us about books without a HEA/HFN No discrimination, bigotry, or microaggressions towards marginalized groups ![]() Requests must be text posts and post titles must be specificīook requests must be specific and follow our guidelines A place to discuss M/M romance books, including book requests, reviews and recommendations, non-book media, and general discussions of the genre. ![]() ![]() But even now that she's an adult, past pigtails and ponies, her sexy, grumpy neighbor ignores her.ĭivorced rancher Cord McKay is committed to two things: his young son and the family ranch. He has no time for women-especially not his little sister's best friend who has grown into the definition of female temptation. Besides, the thirteen-year age difference between them means he's too old for her. From the moment he'd rescued her after falling off her horse, she'd imagined the tall dark and handsome man as her very own prince charming. ![]() ![]() Except he can't seem to stay away from her.ĪJ Foster has loved Cord McKay her entire life. A single dad, little sister's best friend, age gap, small town romance from NY Times Bestselling author Lorelei James.Ī no-strings-attached arrangement should have been easy. ![]() ![]() Pippi is without parents: Her mother is dead, and her father disappeared at sea. ![]() Lindgren also wrote two sequels to this original book and broke parts out into storybooks for younger readers. Parents need to know that Swedish author Astrid Lindgren's novel Pippi Longstocking (first published in Sweden in 1945), has been a middle-grade favorite for generations. Annika says she will only accept one of Pippi's pistols if it is not loaded.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. Toward the end of the book, Pippi displays her pistols and a sword. ![]() In another scene, Pippi fires two pistols, blowing two holes in her ceiling. Pippi intervenes when some bullying kids are beating up a little boy. ![]() |