![]() ![]() ![]() Rochester ant day before Heathcliff! Reply Delete ![]() Interestingly, they are both involved in gaming houses and Kleypas makes an oblique reference to that similarity in "Devil in Winter."įinally, regarding "Wuthering Heights," It has never captured my heart in print or on the screen and for all the reasons you make so clear. So now I have to go with Darek Craven and Sara Fielding from Kleypas' "Dreaming of You." They are very similar protagonists at heart even though one of the heros is an aristocrat and the other is a bastard who grew up on the streets and had to make his own way. (love your name!) Congratulations on your latest book, "Invitation to Scandal," it sounds terrific I'll have to read "Invitation to Sin" and catch up!ĭarn it, Mina! You got here before I had a chance to put in my two cents about Evangeline and Sebastian from Lisa Kleypas's "Devil in Winter." That is one of my all time favorites of Lisa Kleypas'. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() The point of view switches from Kate to Hoffman in a riveting game of cat and mouse.Īs I read, I also found myself becoming angrier and angrier. Kate may have her own obstacles to overcome, but so does Hoffman in the form of layer upon layer of Hitler's flunkies. ![]() ![]() She is in a situation where she can trust absolutely no one, and this adds to the fast pace and suspense of Three Hours in Paris- especially as she's being followed by a straight-arrow Munich cop named Gunter Hoffman. With no formal training in spycraft, she only had her quick wits, her instincts, and the bits and pieces of information she gleaned from the man who recruited her for the mission to aid in her survival. Kate Rees is a fascinating character, and I loved following her through the streets of Paris as she tried to get out alive. When a fascinating little nugget of information like this falls into the lap of a talented writer like Cara Black, it immediately becomes the catalyst for a high-octane historical thriller. In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the city- abruptly leaving, never to return. ![]() ![]() ![]() He fell for an eighteen-year-old girl with one of those deepdown, spooky loves that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going. She used to live with a flock of birds on Lenox Avenue. ![]() The nameless narrator tries to tell us everything right at the start: "Sth, I know that woman. Indeed, it's a book I found myself reading aloud - even when no one else was around to listen - just for the sheer pleasure of hearing the musical, yet perfectly natural and colloquial, sound of the never-to-be-identified voice that narrates the story. But "Jazz" is a book I found hard to put down. Reviewing scores of novels every year can induce a tendency to feel a little jaded. But in her sixth novel, Jazz, she demonstrates once again that she is one of the most brilliant and inventive American novelists writing today. It was hard to imagine what Toni Morrison would do for an encore after her stunning achievement in "Beloved," her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the psychic scars of slavery. ![]() ![]() ![]() There's a reason Holleran's debut novel was instantly declared a gay classic upon its publication back in 1978. Very much recommended, even it's not your world Holleran is writing about. "Dancer" has haunted me all these years, and I can still open it and feel that sense of longing and loss. Even if you were never on the gay scene, you could identify with Holleran's hero and his hopes for romance. It's suffused with that Japanese quality of mono-no-aware, the fleetingness of all things beautiful and earthly. "Dancer" calls up a world of melancholy dreams, of losing oneself in night and hopeless romances. That world was alien to me, but I shared the clubland belief in the redemptive power of dance and the enchantments of beauty (female beauty, for me). It's set in the lost NYC of the early/mid-'70s, in the gay club world that's lost almost beyond recall. It is that, very much so: a novel of doomed romanticism, memory and all its traps, and dreams of new identity. Someone at the old Atticus Books recommended it as "the gay Gatsby". ![]() ![]() I first read "Dancer From The Dance" long, long ago, in my days at New Haven. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Chaos by Sarah Bailey![]() ![]() ![]() “That goes for the players who’ll represent Australia at the World Cup too.”Ī CPA is a guideline for contract negotiations which the clubs use, so the eight teams are at the mercy of Netball Australia. That means the 80 contracted players have no idea what they’re doing at the end of the season, which for those who don’t make the finals, will be mid-June. “As we sit here right now, there is no 2024 Super Netball season because there isn’t a signed CPA. Now imagine trying to play elite sport – represent your country even – with that going on in the background. “Imagine the stress and anxiety of that uncertainty hanging over you. Not one netballer is contracted to play in the 2024 Super Netball competition due to ongoing CPA discussions. If you might have to move interstate, live apart from your partner, or be told you should retire,” Deiulio the Down Low. ![]() “Imagine not knowing if you’ll have a job in two months. Kathryn Deiulio, general manager of talent marketing at TLA sports management, says the situation is detrimental to the athlete’s mental health. Watch the latest sport on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >Įach player in the Super Netball competition and the Australian Diamonds have no clarity on their future beyond the current season which ends on July 8, which includes those named in July’s World Cup squad. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Mahbubani has china won![]() ![]() Kishore Mahbubani, a diplomat and scholar with unrivalled access to policymakers in Beijing and Washington, has written the definitive guide to the deep fault lines in the relationship, a clear-eyed assessment of the risk of any confrontation, and a bracingly honest appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses, and superpower eccentricities, of the US and China. America has abandoned multilateralism China welcomes it. America values strategic decisiveness China values patience.America is becoming society of lasting inequality China a meritocracy. A massive geopolitical contest has begun.Īmerica prizes freedom China values freedom from chaos. They eye each other warily across the Pacific they communicate poorly there seems little natural empathy. ![]() But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable?Ĭhina and America are world powers without serious rivals. The defining geopolitical contest of the 21st century is between China and the US. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Cross My Heart by Julie Wright![]() ![]() They speak their minds and stoke their mutual intellectual attraction. Thomas and Caroline discuss women’s rights and fair trade…their exchanges lead to sparks. ![]() “A ship traveling from England to India becomes a microcosm of Regency society in Wright’s touching novel. She loves writing, reading, hiking, playing with her kids, and watching her husband make dinner. She has one husband, three kids, one dog, and a varying amount of fish, frogs, and salamanders (depending on attrition). ![]() She is a Whitney Awards winner for best romance with her books Cross My Heart and Lies Jane Austen Told Me, and she is a Crown Heart recipient for the novel The Fortune Café. About the Author: Julie Wright wrote her first book when she was fifteen and has written over twenty novels since then. ![]() ![]() I was also fortunate to have interviewed Bagchi for my PhD Thesis research at IIM Bangalore, and I must say that of the 120+ interviews I have had by then, Bagchi was clearly one of the most articulate and thoughtful leaders. ![]() ![]() Such has been the influence of this wonderful manager-entrepreneur- thinker-writer on my life. Some of his stories, such as the one about his conversation with Azim Premji while leaving Wipro, narrated in The Professional, have became a staple in my talks and presentations. Ever since I first read his book, The Professional (not his first book), I have always been inspired by his matter of fact presentability, candidness, and wonderful insights which are studded with unforgettable stories. ![]() I am a fan of Subroto Bagchi's style of writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() My brain is about to explode because of the fact that L. The original series consists of four books, while each of the following individual series contains three books, except from Stephan’s Diaries, the prequel of the story, which consists of five books! We’re talking about many books here eighteen, to be exact!Īnd they could all claim to be original stories, considering the fact that they were written almost twenty years ago! Maybe more, I’m not really good at calculating right now. So, for those of you who don’t know, The Vampire Diaries has five series, containing of the following: So, if you wanna read this book (if you haven’t already) or if you don’t want to destroy the myth you created inside your head because of the TV series, you’re free to go.įor those of you who wanna stay though, we’re gonna have a little chat at the end of this post, so please, do me the honour and stay till the very end! ![]() There will be many spoilers ahead of you too many to count them now. The similarities are… beyond words! Not to mention that the editing is simply… invisible! It just doesn’t exist!įair warning, dearies. Smith’s book series, The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening.Īnd as you’ve probably already read, I consider this book to be the reason why Stephenie Meyer, the author of the Twilight series managed to write four extremely big books, plus a novella, in so little time. Hello wonderful creatures and welcome back to this time travelling, in the 90s decade, because today, I’m gonna talk about the first instalment of L. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Cut and run by abigail roux![]() Garrett is the perfect image of an agent: serious, sober, and focused, which makes their partnership a classic cliche: total opposites, good cop-bad cop, the odd couple. But when he’s paired with Special Agent Zane Garrett, it’s hate at first sight. He’s cocky, abrasive, and indisputably the best at what he does. Special Agent Ty Grady is pulled out of undercover work after his case blows up in his face. ![]() But when the two federal agents assigned to the investigation are taken out, the FBI takes a more personal interest in the case. This installment was co-authored by Abigail Roux and Madeleine Urban.Ī series of murders in New York City has stymied the police and FBI alike, and they suspect the culprit is a single killer sending an indecipherable message. ![]() In case you haven’t heard about it, Cut & Run is a romance/adventure novel that involves two male FBI agents who both have dark histories and were partnered together to solve a serial-killing spree case in New York. I’m pretty sure most of you guys who love reading books have your favorite characters that you somehow hold dearly in your literary hearts, right? This was the case for me after reading Cut & Run. ![]() |