![]() ![]() ![]() Publication Dates: March 2015 – September 2018 Genre: Teen, Historical Fiction, Christian Fiction, Romance, Adventure If only one of the knights the one who appears the most guilty had not already captured her heart. But when the competition for her heart seemingly results in a knight playing foul, she begins to wonder if the cloister is the best place after all. If Rosemarie can marry before the eve of her eighteenth year, she will be exempt from the ancient vow.īefore long, Rosemarie is presented with the three most handsome and brave knights in the land. Then, a month before her birthday, a friend of her father’s enters the kingdom and proclaims her parents’ will left a second choice. Synopsis for An Uncertain Choice (from Goodreads):ĭue to her parents’ promise at her birth, Lady Rosemarie has been prepared to become a nun on the day she turns eighteen. Series Review: Is this series worth your time? Does it get better as the novels progress? Or does it get worse? Find out below: ![]()
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![]() She creates those effects with the help of favorite actresses and models, largely unknown, acting as a repertory cast. Turbeville's vision is unorthodox-at once haunted and haunting. They remind the viewer, as one critic has written, of films they would have liked to have seen, and inspire comparisons to Luchino Visconti, Jean Cocteau, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Joel-Peter Witkin. ![]() ![]() Some 15 series, structured like short stories or novellas, encapsulate that unique sensibility and elegant aesthetic. Past Imperfect looks into the heart of the influential American photographer Deborah Turbeville's oeuvre, surveying her groundbreaking narrative work of 1974 through 1998, when she pioneered a look of antique decadence, using distressed film and prints to capture models as Miss Havishams in faded fin-de-siecle glory. ![]() ![]() ![]() I do not read the passage because I, too, have written a book about an obsession with a married woman, about the body as a palette, a metaphor, a dinner plate we fill and refill with our insatiable hungers. No, I wanted to fit you, not just in the obvious ways, but in so many indentations.’ You asked me if I wanted to strangle you. ‘I suppose the cleavage is the proper focus but what I wanted to do was fasten the index finger and thumb at the bolts of your collar bone, push out, spreading the web of my hand until it caught against your throat. ‘You have a dress with a décolletage to emphasize your breasts,’ the ungendered narrator reminds her lover, Louise, a married woman, and the object of an obsession that drives the entire novel. This excerpt appears in a short ode to the clavicle. Just beyond the halfway point of Jeanette Winterson’s otherwise unchaptered novel, Written on the Body, she diverts the narrative into a series of passages under headings such as ‘The Skeleton’ and ‘ The Cells, Tissues, Systems and Cavities of the Body’. It is a rare classroom of students to whom I do not read this passage. ![]() – Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body The physical memory blunders through the doors the mind has tried to seal. To remember you, it’s my own body I touch. I thought difference was rated to be the largest part of sexual attraction but there are so many things about us that are the same.īone of my bone. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An introduction from noted librarian Nancy Pearl is included. There is no time to be lazy But will Walter ever see his family again? First published in 1937 and back in print for the first time in decades with Marjorie Flack's own illustrations, this is a classic tale of adventure and friendship, and the importance of perseverance. With his own island-and friends who depend on him-Walter must learn to take care of himself. His froggy friends live nearby, and Walter tries to teach them things. Walter decides to create a new home on Mouse Island. He travels through a dark forest and soon meets a turtle and some frogs. ![]() Alone and scared, Walter heads out into the world to search for his family. He is so lazy that eventually his family forgets about him and moves away.without him. He is so lazy that he always misses school and spends all his time in bed. The classic tale by award-winning author Marjorie Flack is back in print for the first time in decades ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book follows Meira, Mather and Ceridwen, with chapters alternating among the three characters according to the action. This inner conflict and the resulting angst lasts through much of the book, but, thankfully, there is much else going on that distracts from this slightly annoying self-inflicted emotional drama. YA fiction books are notorious for their teenage angst, and readers will get a double dose of this from Meira and Ceridwen, the hot-headed princess of Summer who witnesses her estranged brother and king being publicly murdered by her lover’s wife, the Queen of Ventralli, during a coup d’etat. Meira believes that the stranger, Rares, is a member of the Order of the Lustrate and will be able to help her learn how to control her magic and locate the keys that are crucial to destroying the source of magic in the world of Primoria – but she is still riven with conflict over her decision to leave her allies behind. ![]() The protagonist and young Queen of Winter, Meira, has just seemingly abandoned her best friend Mather and some of their people to make their own escape from the dungeons of the Donati Palace in Ventralli while she follows a relative stranger who claims to be from the mysterious kingdom of Paisley. At the end of Ice Like Fire, the second book of the young adult (YA) fantasy Snow Like Ashes trilogy by Sara Raasch, we are left with a cliffhanger. ![]() ![]() has that ever happened before? hell fucking no. ![]() ![]() no “filler” here to speak of: every story gets a 5-star rating from this reader. schow, he who coined the term “splatterpunk”-reads like a rock ‘n’ roll show where every act should be the headliner. ![]() An anthology i genuinely hate to finish reading, silver scream was produced in ‘88 by dark harvest press and later republished as a mass market paperback and is now, woefully, out of print and hard to score for less than twenty or thirty bucks-still worth that price of admission, though, because this is a horror film marathon you won’t soon forget.įilled to the brim with dark fiction superstars and newbies alike, this anthology-edited by none other than david j. ![]() ![]() ![]() I loved this book, and in many ways, I thought it was even better than The Silent Companions. When I found out that her new book The Poison Thread (titled The Corset in the UK), you can bet I was excited and couldn’t wait to read it.Īnd holy crap, mind blown! What with the author’s previous novel setting such a high bar, I knew there was a good chance my expectations wouldn’t be met, but The Poison Thread ended up blasting them away and delivered a whole lot more besides. One of my favorite reads last year was The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell, a Gothic historical chiller whose innovative plot with its creepily delicious vibes and stunning reveals left me reeling for days. This does not affect the contents of my review and all opinions are my own. I received a review copy from the publisher. ![]() Book Review: The Poison Thread by Laura Purcell ![]() ![]() Peter Zumthor describes what really constitutes an architectural atmosphere as "this singular density and mood, this feeling of presence, well-being, harmony, beauty.under whose spell I experience what I otherwise would not experience in precisely this way."ĭelving deep into the mind and process of one of the centuries greatest architects, Atmospheres is a must-read for all aspiring and established architects as well as any individuals interested in architecture. ![]() ![]() In nine short, illustrated chapters framed as a process of self-observation, Zumthor describes what he has on his mind as he sets about creating the atmosphere of his buildings: images of spaces and buildings that affect him are every bit as important as particular pieces of music or books that inspire him.įrom the composition and “presence” of the materials to the handling of proportions and the effect of light, Atmospheres enables the reader to recapitulate what really matters in the process of house design. In Thinking Architecture Peter Zumthor expresses his motivation in designing buildings that have an emotional connection and possess a powerful and. Winner of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture 2009, Swiss architect Peter Zumthor is considered to be one of the most extraordinary and controversial architects working today.Ītmospheres is a poetics of architecture and a window into Zumthor’s personal sources of inspiration. What on earth is it that moves me? How can I get it into my own work? What really constitutes an architectural atmosphere, Peter Zumthor says, is this singular density and mood, this feeling of presence, well-being, harmony. ![]() Quality architecture to me is when a building manages to move me. ![]() ![]() ![]() All well and good, but it’s not like everyone’s gifted enough to turn their tragical tragedies into comic gold. ![]() It may not be a work of grit and suffering, but it’s fun and that, to my mind, is worth all the hoity-toity awards in the world. ![]() So hats off to Stand Up, Yumi Chung! Sure it’s a funny story couched in a meaningful one, but for what it’s saying and how it says it, I award it a great big rubber chicken. And, most importantly, show them that women can be just as hilarious as guys. Give them an alternative to the deadly serious fare that’s out there. ![]() You know what they’ll do instead? Make kids laugh. You might find one or two written for 9-12 year olds in a given season, but they’re probably not going to attract much literary cred. This is why funny books written by women are such unicorns in the publishing world. Humorists have a purpose on this planet, but you’re not going to win a Nobel or a Pulitzer or even an Oscar most of the time for making someone laugh. And being funny, quite frankly, isn’t something that tends to make the cut. Living as we do in an age when every other book published is an inspiring group biography, our children are currently steeped in the very serious nature of what makes a woman great. Kokila (an imprint of Penguin Random House) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Emilia was warned that when it came to the Wicked, nothing was as it seemed. Together, Emilia and Wrath play a sin-fueled game of deception to solve the murder and stop the unrest that’s brewing between witches, demons, shape-shifters, and the most treacherous foes of all: the Feared. Now, Emilia will do anything to get to the bottom of these accusations against the sister she thought she knew. When a high-ranking member of House Greed is assassinated, damning evidence somehow points to Vittoria as the murderer. ![]() She doesn’t just desire his body she wants his heart and soul-but that’s something the enigmatic demon can’t promise her. ![]() But before she faces the demons of her past, Emilia yearns to claim her king, the seductive Prince of Wrath, in the flesh. Only five days after its initial release, it became the first of Maniscalcos novels to ever find a place on the Sunday New York Times Bestsellers list, coming in at number five. All hail the king and queen of Hell.Įmilia is reeling from a shocking discovery about her sister, Vittoria. Kingdom of the Cursed is the second book in Kerri Maniscalco s Kingdom of the Wicked trilogy. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stalking Jack the Ripper series comes the steamy conclusion to Kingdom of the Wicked trilogy.Īnd a love more powerful than fate. 1 New York Times bestselling author Kerri Maniscalco delivers sizzling romance, sexy secrets, and unexpected twists in this unforgettable conclusion to the Kingdom of the Wicked series Suggested for ages 16 and up. ![]() |