5/22/2023 0 Comments The boyfriend project book![]() ![]() Couldn't put it down!" -Abby Jimenez, USA Today bestselling author of The Happy Ever After Playlist What are the chances? But is Daniel really boyfriend material or is he maybe just a little too good to be true? "A smart, funny digital-age romance about real women living in the real world. Which is the exact moment she meets the deliciously sexy Daniel Collins at work. No men and no dating. For once Samiah is putting herself first, and that includes finally developing the app she's always dreamed of creating. Now the three new besties are making a pact to spend the next six months investing in themselves. Suddenly Samiah - along with his two other "girlfriends," London and Taylor - have gone viral online. But a live tweet of a horrific date just revealed the painful truth: she's been catfished by a three-timing jerk of a boyfriend. ![]() A smart and delightful romantic comedy featuring fabulous female friendships and " a great love story." - Jasmine Guillory, bestselling author of Party of Two Samiah Brooks never thought she would be "that" girl. ![]()
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5/21/2023 0 Comments Rilla of ingleside gutenberg![]() Of course, as in any girl’s diary, there are also chronicled the romances of Miranda, Gertrude, Mary and Rilla herself. LM Montgomery, in this final installment of the Anne of Green Gables books, takes us through the terror, the suspense and the sacrifices of ‘The Great War’ as told through the eyes of Rilla. What can she do back home to support the war effort? How can she be involved in doing good in her own backyard? What difference can one person’s ‘keeping the faith’ make in the titanic struggle of world events? ![]() Her sisters will become nurses, but Rilla herself is too young. Her brothers and sweetheart will go to war, and not all of them will come back. The young Rilla will need all her strength for the dark days ahead, as her coming of age will be in the midst of World War I. ![]() LibriVox recording of Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery.Īnne of Green Gables is all grown up and married, and this is the story of her daughter “Rilla”, named for the indomitable Marilla Cuthbert of Anne’s childhood. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Francois truffaut hitchcock book![]() ![]() Memory - Slice of life and slice of cake - The Secret Agent - You don't always need a happy ending - What do they have in Switzerland? - Sabotage - The child and the bomb - An example of suspense - The Lady Vanishes - The plausibles - A wire from David O. The Man Who Knew Too Much - When Churchill was chief of police - M - From "The One Note Man" to the deadly cymbols - Clarification and simplification - The Thirty-nine Steps - John Buchan's influence - Understatement - An old, bawdy story - Mr. Hitchcock - A melodramatic shooting: The Pleasure Garden - The Mountain Eagle - The first true Hitchcock: The Lodger - Creating a purely visual form - The glass floor - Handcuffs and sex - Why Hitchcock appears in his films - Downhill - Easy Virtue - The Ring and One-Round Jack - The Farmer's Wife - The Griffith influence - Champagne - The last silent movie: The Manxman - Hitchcock's first sound film: Blackmail - The Shuftan process - Juno and the Paycock - Why Hitchcock will never film Crime and Punishment - What is suspense? - Murder - The Skin Game - Rich and Strange - Two innocents in Paris - Number Seventeen - Cats, cats everywhere - Waltzes from Vienna - The lowest ebb and the comeback ![]() Childhood - Behind prison bars - "Came the dawn" - Michael Balcon - Woman to Woman - Number Thirteen - Introducing the future Mrs. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Letter to my daughter angelou![]() We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home.Our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias. Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity. ![]() Wining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood. If you cannot make a change, chance the way you have been thinking. Make every effort to change things you do not like. Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.My highlights copied straight from Maya Angelou’s Letter to My Daughter: We’ll kick off our call chatting about how the grateful practice is going for those who are participating. ![]() Inspired by Angelou, our empowering exercise, announced during our March mentoring mixer, is each day to write down one thing for which you are grateful. Tomorrow, during our morning and evening sessions, we will discuss the lessons learned from Maya Angelou's writings, stories, and poetry. Our March book for Women in Auto Care is Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou. ![]() ![]() ![]() Japan, which had only recently emerged from over two centuries of relative isolation, should have been a dream assignment. “The pattern of Hearn’s life,” Christopher Benfey wrote, “was to arrive in a place just as what he loved there was on the point of disappearing.” In Cincinnati, he had written about the music of the black community that lived on the city’s riverfront in New Orleans, about the songs, food, and folkways of the Creole population (including a book that contains the first published recipe for gumbo). Just shy of forty years old, he was a popular journalist and novelist, his work marked by a hatred of modern industrial life and a fascination with what he called “survivals”-traditions or folktales that he hoped would provide a living link to a more ancient form of narrative. In 1890 Lafcadio Hearn arrived in Japan on a reporting assignment for Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. Lafcadio Hearn and his second wife, Setsuko Koizumi, circa 1891 ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Mariama ba books![]() ![]() This short book was awarded the first Noma Prize for Publishing in Africa in 1980. Abiola Irele called it "the most deeply felt presentation of the female condition in African fiction". In it she depicts the sorrow and resignation of a woman who must share the mourning for her late husband with his second, younger wife. Her frustration with the fate of African women-as well as her ultimate acceptance of it-is expressed in her first novel, So Long a Letter. Bâ later married a Senegalese member of Parliament, Obèye Diop, but divorced him and was left to care for their nine children. Raised by her traditional grandparents, she had to struggle even to gain an education, because they did not believe that girls should be taught. ![]() Some of her works have now been published. Her earliest works were essays she wrote while at the cole Normale. Born in Dakar, she was raised a Muslim, but at an early age came to criticise what she perceived as inequalities between the sexes resulting from African traditions. ![]() Born in Dakar, she was raised a Muslim, but at an early age came to criticise what she perceived as inequalities between the sexes resulting from African traditions. The promising literary career of Mariama Ba ended with her death in 1981 at the age of 52, just before the publication of her second novel, Le Chant Ecarlate (. Mariama B felt the failure of African liberation struggles and movements. Mariama B (1929 1981) was a Senegalese author and feminist, who wrote in French. Mariama Bâ (April 17, 1929–August 17, 1981) was a Senegalese author and feminist, who wrote in French. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Nocturnes for the king of naples![]() ![]() ![]() That its author is gay informs the latter insofar that when referencing love or attraction he is doing so about another man. The book is emphatically NOT about being gay, it is about being alive and open to the current. Because White discusses trysts (in terms High Romantic) with the same sex, it must be filed thusly? I don't get it, seriously. The fact that this is touted as "homoerotic" (twice in the jacket blurbs) or 'gay literature' is completely baffling to me. Read more, get more of the references, love your animals. Any aspersions of this not being linear or overly precious are a) bullshit and b) that ol' problem that arrives when the wrong/unprepared reader gets their hands on a book and is so, so distraught to find that the book isn't what they wanted it to be. The naysayers on Goodreads, of which there are a few I casually spy, must be those kind of people that require to have their hand held in a crowd despite the fact that they are a fully grown adult. This is almost sacred some holy amalgam of pantheistic shout-outs and simultaneous inventorying of human anatomy. I'd never read White, though his reputation for saying some pretty crazy shit precedes him, so I went in blind on the suggestion of a friend. I'm finding these short-sharp-shocks of books are perfect antidotal medicine to whatever it is that ails me. ![]() Literary zounds! I've been on a lucky streak lately. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Junji ito's gyo![]() Everyone in the town eventually becomes obsessed with or possessed by the curse of the spiral, causing many bizarre deaths and transformations to occur. One of Ito’s most popular mangas, Uzumaki, is about a town called Kurouzu-cho that becomes plagued by spirals. ![]() Beware: spoilers ahead for Uzumaki, Gyo, The Enigma of Amigara Fault, and Smashed ! Uzumaki Here I’ll be discussing how some of Junji Ito’s manga involves aspects of ecohorror via the theme of nature taking over or reclaiming itself. Ecocritical analysis has been applied to a few forms of Japanese media, including Studio Ghibli films and Kaiju films. nature, natural disasters, and pollution or nuclear power. This can involve depictions of natural landscapes, the idea of man vs. Ecocriticism is concerned with environmental issues and the way in which nature is represented in literature. Disturbing visuals, mental illness, absurd events, and destructive jealousy are all themes in Ito’s works.Īlthough he might not have stated it directly, I feel that there is a common theme of ecocriticism across a few of Ito’s stories. A lot of Ito’s inspiration is either from his personal fears, dreams, or other horror writers such as Kazuo Umezu and H. ![]() The mangaka (manga author and artist) is perhaps most famous for his focus on body horror and cosmic horror, with extremely detailed and visceral illustrations to be found throughout his works. Junji Ito is one of the most successful horror writers/illustrators in Japan (and the world). ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Sex or Ice cream? by Ana Navarro![]() McCain, 34, also asked the network to ban former co-host Sherri Shepherd from returning after Shepherd said she needed to 'evolve' and 'lighten up', last year.Insiders told DailyMailTV the network has reportedly kowtowed to McCain's requests despite her feuds with co-hosts.Meghan McCain urged ABC execs to hire Abby Huntsman full-time and threatened to quit if they hired Ana Navarro.Ana had embarrassed her and the truth is, Meghan can dish it, but she sure can't take it,' a show insider told DailyMailTV McCain stormed off set last Friday after an on-air squabble with fellow conservative Ana Navarro, 47, who has a weekly spot on the show. ![]() ![]() ![]() EXCLUSIVE: How Meghan McCain told The View execs she would quit if they hired nemesis Ana Navarro full time and got Sherri Shepherd banned from the show after the former co-host told the cantankerous conservative to 'lighten up' ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Rogue sas book![]() ![]() ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. 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