![]() ![]() Wait for Youis told in Avery’s POV and I immediately connected with her. The AngstĪngsty romance is something that I don’t usually like but I could not help but fall in love with Avery. And it tore at my heartstrings even more. In fact, we find out about the full story when she confesses to Cam what really happened to her. I immediately knew something was wrong with Avery, the heroine and I liked that the full story wasn’t immediately revealed in the first few chapters. ![]() I am not a fan of slow-burn romance but Wait for You was PERFECT as a slow-burn romance. I was bawling my eyes out the couple nights I listened to the audio and if I didn’t have work the next day, I would have finished listening to it all night! This Slow-Burn Romance Worked! I don’t even KNOW WHY I picked it up and whatever fairy impelled me to pick it up, THANK YOU SO MUCH BECAUSE THIS BOOK BROKE ME! In a good way, of course! Let’s just say that I am kicking myself because I didn’t read these books. To be honest, I received four of the books in this series a couple of years ago but since this wasn’t a genre that interested me, I didn’t bother reading it. I don’t really know what made me pick-up wait for you by Jennifer L. Don’t want to read the whole review? Click to jump to the Skinny Review. ![]()
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![]() After being dumped five hours before spending Christmas with her dysfunctional family, she needs a plan to avoid their judgmental eyes. Deciding not to follow in her family's Oscar-winning footsteps, Jules chooses to take a more behind-the-scenes career in one of the Top 10 Talent Agencies in Chicago. Read onlineĪll families have secrets, and Jules Stone’s is no exception. This book was previously known as Between the Notes. I prayed for one more smile, one more kiss, one more laugh, one more touch…Įven though I knew his heart wasn’t destined to love. When our time was up, my heart didn’t know how to walk away.Įach day I prayed for my husband to love me again, yet slowly my prayers began to shift toward the man who wasn’t right for me. ![]() He was too closed-off for me, and I was too damaged for him.Įverything was fine, until one night my heart skipped a beat. Jackson didn’t believe in commitment, and I no longer believed in love. We were perfect for one another, because we both knew we wouldn’t last. ![]() He was supposed to be a distraction for my mind. ![]() I didn’t know how to exist without him by my side.Īll I wanted was for him to come back to me. Each day I prayed for my husband to love me again.Īfter fifteen years together, he walked away from me, and into the arms of another. ![]() ![]() ![]() In particular, the book describes the dynamics between the Japanese and Koreans, often filled with prejudice, discrimination and racism, and it is heartbreaking to read about these experiences. ![]() There is so much history, research and knowledge interweaved into the story – I think it’s by far one of the most educational pieces of fiction that I’ve read. I didn’t have a lot of background on the historical context within which this book is set and I learned so much whilst reading it. It’s an engrossing, sweeping epic about four generations of a Korean family, set against the backdrop of political unrest, the day-to-day grind of life during a war, and the hopes and dreams of finding a better life in Japan. Regardless, Pachinko comes up again and again as a must-read by everyone, even people who don’t normally read historical fiction. ![]() That my friend is hard to answer except to point people towards my TBR piles (plural) that teeter dangerously in most rooms of the house. When you work in bookselling, people are astonished if you haven’t read Pachinko. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With the single click of a "send" button, she has gone from an up and coming freshman girl on the cusp of major popularity, to a whore-a girl that "wants to sleep with the entire football team." Everything is so convoluted and upside-down that she can't imagine ever facing anyone again. ![]() She is hiding out because a scandalous photo of her has gone viral and her reputation has taken a major nose-dive. The book opens with Ally in a dark hallway in an abandoned wing of her high school. (OK sometimes I'm slow!) The last hundred pages were a frantic, fast-paced race for me, with the pages turning rapidly in my quest to see where things would end up.įorget Me Not is written in verse, and it focuses on two main characters: Ally and Elijah. That's when the metaphorical light bulbs went off in my head as I "got it" and the action picked up. I must admit, this one was definitely not what I expected it to be! That's not to say I didn't like the book - I just didn't get swept away by it until a little more than halfway through. This book was part of my latest order for the high school library, and I grabbed it, along with about a dozen other books to read this summer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “He and I are dangerous because we will always choose each other. “This kind of love doesn’t die out, it burns.” **Antichrist is not a retelling of Hunchback of Notre Dame, there are slight nods here and there toward the original tale. Please check triggers if think you may need to. It started with a bond that destroyed everyone around them… So when he rips away the walls she built around herself with his bare teeth, the secrets that she has so fiercely hidden away all of these years suddenly bleed onto the four unmarked graves laid out in front of his steel-cap boots… Niko fights for what’s his, and he’s only ever claimed one person in his life-Meraki. When the president of the New York chapter of the Seven Knights MC dies, he passes the gavel down to Niko… but unknown to anyone else, that’s not the only thing he left him. Niko knew her inside and out, and if he saw even a smidge of her soul, he would see that she was no longer the girl he left behind… She burned with her demons instead of running from them, but when Niko Davis rode back into town with a bag full of secrets, she knew she would need to start hiding them instead. The one that everyone thought she did, and the one she worked hard to hide. ![]() ![]() What I loved the most was how she managed to convey Achilles’ and Patroclus relationship though. This book was just so beautiful! So, so damn beautiful! Madeline Miller definitely has a way with words and I loved how this story was written: Poetical with a lot of mythological facts and with so many details that it succeeded to make this a more than just intriguing journey. ![]() I was about 37% percent in (yes I looked it up! -P) when I first started to cry and it didn’t get any better after that. ![]() Well, both of those things came true, even way earlier than I had initially anticipated. The moment I read the first page I was already certain of two things:ġ.) This would become one of my all-time favourites and I’d gush about it like crazy.Ģ.) It wouldn’t only leave me devastated and heartbroken but also sobbing like a little child. ”We were like gods, at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.” ![]() ![]() Swift is unflinching about the catastrophe on the ground, but careful not to belittle the beliefs of those at the heart of the calamity. His new book, Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island, is part regional history, part crabber ride-along, part disaster narrative in slow motion.Īt its best, Chesapeake Requiem is a meditation on belief and disbelief in an America shouting about fake news. Earl Swift, an author of six previous books and a former correspondent for The Virginian-Pilot, immersed himself for the better part of two years with the 481 inhabitants of Tangier. In recent years, they’ve garnered some media attention for the paradox of largely rejecting sea-level rise while simultaneously suffering its wrath. ![]() ![]() Tiny, waterlogged Tangier Island, off the coast of Virginia in Chesapeake Bay, is full of people of faith. If you live on an island in the middle of 18 trillion gallons of warming, expanding water, you’re eventually going to sink no matter what you believe. Either way, if you step off a cliff, you will most certainly fall. “The good thing about science,” Neil deGrasse Tyson tells us, “is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” Your stance on gravity is irrelevant. This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. ![]() ![]() The main character goes on a quest that takes him into a mystical world full of danger and possible rewards. In this first part, the author traces the path of the hero’s journey. Finally, he explains how all these things relate to each other. ![]() The author also discusses tragedy and comedy in myth as well as the role of heroes, gods, and other beings. ![]() In addition, he draws connections between modern dreams and ancient myths, which share a common symbology. He believes that this is due to the human mind, which has an Oedipus complex and infantile fears that have been analyzed by contemporary psychoanalysis. The author explores why there are so many similarities in myths from different cultures. He also provides examples from various creation myths. The author, a literature scholar and professor of mythology, talks about the hero’s journey. ![]() Joseph Campbell’s “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” is a non-fiction book about the common elements in world mythology. 1-Page Summary of The Hero with a Thousand Faces Overall Summary ![]() ![]() ![]() She won the Prix de Monaco in 1984 in recognition of all of her work. She had one son, Denis, from her second marriage. First married in 1958 to Guy Schoeller, a publisher, they divorced in 1960, and she was then married to Robert James Westhoff, an American ceramicist and sculptor, from 1962 to 63. Sagan was twice married and divorced, and subsequently maintained several long-term lesbian relationships. Her habit of driving fast was moderated after a serious car accident in 1957 involving her Aston Martin while she was living in Milly, France. She was known for her love of drinking, gambling, and fast driving. She chose "Sagan" as her pen name because she liked the sound of it and also liked the reference to the Prince and Princesse de Sagan, 19th century Parisians, who are said to be the basis of some of Marcel Proust's characters. ![]() Later that year, She won the Prix des Critiques for Bonjour Tristesse. ![]() ![]() She submitted it to Editions Juillard in January 1954 and it was published that March. She went to her family's home in the south of France and wrote her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse, at age 18. She was an independent thinker and avid reader as a young girl, and upon failing her examinations for continuing at the Sorbonne, she became a writer. Born Françoise Quoirez, Sagan grew up in a French Catholic, bourgeois family. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Written by one of the greatest scribes in the history of the medium, Alan Moore, V For Vendetta is considered not only one of the most important graphic novel works ever, but also one of the great works in fiction. It s a gripping tale of the blurred lines between ideological good and evil. In a world without political freedom, personal freedom and precious little faith in anything comes a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask who fights political oppressors through terrorism and seemingly absurd acts. The seminal graphic novel masterpiece V For Vendetta is available in hardcover in this new deluxe edition, featuring an essay from writer Alan Moore, sketches from artist David Lloyd and other bonus material!Ī powerful story about loss of freedom and individuality, V For Vendetta takes place in a totalitarian England following a devastating war that changed the face of the planet. ![]() |