![]() ![]() ![]() I won’t say that it beats her Ruthless King Trilogy, however there was something different about these books that I found myself drawn to. And when I find her? I'm keeping her.ĭirty Billionaire is the first book of the trilogy and I have to say that Meghan March did a delightful job with this trilogy. So what's an asshole to do? I took this problem to the street. Now I've had a taste of unicorn pussy-the sweetest, rarest of all pussy-and I need it again. She wouldn't tell me her name or her number when she disappeared from the hotel room after the hottest fucking night of my life. With her, it was like emergency flares mixed with jet fuel. And guess what? It works for me just fine. Do I sound like an asshole to you? That's because I am. I've just sold 99% of women on going home with me. Honestly, I don't need to say anything else. I've got a big dick and an even bigger bank account. ![]()
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![]() There will be no more references to 'that curly bit on top of the thing with the square protrusions'. The same is the case with Architecture: an inability to describe the component parts of a building leaves one tongue-tied and unable to begin to discuss what is or is not exciting, dull or peculiar about it.' With this book in your hand, buildings will break down beguilingly into their component parts, ready for inspection and discussion. As Matthew Rice says, 'Once you can speak any language, conversation can begin, but without it communications can only be brief and brutish. Its aim is to enable the reader to recognise, understand and date any British building. ![]() This beautifully illustrated book covers the grammar and vocabulary of British buildings, explaining the evolution of styles from Norman castles to Norman Foster. A new, larger format edition of Rice's Architectural Primer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And while they’re talking about novels, the conundrum of self-aware privilege and what to do about it is perhaps even more apparent in nonfiction prose. I don’t share all these critics’ assessments of all the books in question, but, broadly speaking, I’d say they’re onto something. The problem is the defensive postures that all the self-awareness seems to produce, among characters and the writers who create them: squirmy half-apologies, self-deprecating irony, piously articulated desires to do better, and, perhaps, an implication that self-awareness is “enough” - that simply acknowledging one’s luck amid the world’s cavalcade of injustice might count as doing something to make it better. The problem isn’t the self-awareness itself, exactly no one thinks we need more books by self-deluding buffoons. A recent crop of essays - by Katy Waldman for The New Yorker, Ryu Spaeth for The New Republic, and Lauren Oyler for Bookforum - have diagnosed an overabundance of self-awareness among writers today, at least the ones who write about comfortable people leading comfortable lives. Self-awareness is general in summer 2020, at least according to the people who read books and write about them. ![]() ![]() ![]() But as she draws closer to unraveling the mystery of two dead cops, Nichelle realizes that she's become the next target. The killer will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden. A master criminal with a deadly secret, covering their tracks with ruthless efficiency. People and evidence soon begin to disappear. But as Nichelle digs deeper into the case, she discovers this was no ordinary accident. ".five stars out of five." - Hot Mystery Reviews When two rookie cops are killed in a fiery crash near Richmond, Virginia, crime reporter Nichelle Clarke is sent in to investigate. This suspenseful thriller series is recommended for fans of James Patterson, J.D. ![]() And a ruthless criminal who will stop at nothing to tie up loose ends. ![]() ![]() ![]() My father was a clergyman of the north of England deservedly respected by all who knew him. Which in fact sheds light on not only Anne’s personal life but also her professional life. The beauty of this biography is that each chapter begins with a quotation from Anne’s two novels Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. ![]() ![]() It’s even more fitting being that this year is the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth. This happens to be the first biography I have read on any of the Brontës. She most definitely deserves more acknowledgement! So when I happened to come across a post about her on The History Press twitter page detailing a new release of theirs: In Search of Anne Brontë by Nick Holland I knew straight away that this was a book I needed to read and The History Press team were kind enough to send me a copy to review on here. The reason I went for a novel by Anne instead of one by her more well known sisters is because Anne felt like a mystery, she was not talked about like her sisters and since reading Agnes Grey in my eyes Anne is clearly underrated. However, when I decided that I wanted to read my first Brontë novel I decided to go for one of the novels written by the third Brontë sister – Anne. When it comes to the Brontë sisters and their books most people tend to choose to read either Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë or Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë first or in many cases these two books tend to be required reading for school or university. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s beautiful! Our New York team kept sending me pictures while they were reading it. So every time like, I’m like, do you have the hardcover? I want to gaze at it. Okay, because look at that hardcover is so beautiful, but I have yet to get my hands on it. The hardcover got sent to our PR team in America. Yeah! But do you have any questions for me or anything you want to talk about before we jump in?Ĭover of Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao So I’m excited for us to be chatting about it now. I appreciate it! I got a copy of Zachary Ying from Simon Schuster Canada a little while because they saw me talking about it on TikTok way before we confirmed this interview was happening. The book is out May 10th, and you can preorder it here! ![]() ![]() He spends most of his life cut off from his heritage and culture but all of that changes when he’s attacked by evil spirits and he hears the voice of China’s first emperor Qin Shi Huang beckoning him to release control of his body. For the release of their first middle-grade Sci-Fi fantasy book, we got to sit down and speak with Zachary Ying and The Dragon Emperor author Xiran Jay Zhao! Zachary Ying and The Dragon Emperor follows the journey of a young Chinese Muslim boy living in a mostly white town in Maine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() According to his family recollection of the event, Stephen King had gone to play with his friend when he returned speechless and in shock. Though he had no recollection of the event, Stephen King witnessed the death of his friend by a moving train. Stephen King Witnessed One of His Friends Get Struck by A Train Stephen King’s mother faced financial strain due to that and moved back to Maine, the town her parents stayed. When he was only two, Stephen King’s father, Donald Edwin King, left the family, leaving only his mother and his adopted older brother, David. Stephen King’s Father Left When He Was Very Young Stephen King wrote hundreds of literary pieces with 49 novels under his name, seven novels under his pen names, Richard Bachman and John Swithen, five non-fiction books, and 200 short stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() We rarely see stories in which the Mystery Box is used properly from beginning to end. How to Write a Mystery Box Story… or Notįirst, let’s talk about the elephant in the room: Let’s take a look at the impact of the Mystery Box on pop culture, and then consider one tweak to the formula that could fix nearly everything that’s wrong with it. The problem is the way it’s been used, and the troubling effect it’s had on audiences. In theory, there’s nothing wrong with using the Mystery Box as a storytelling tool. Audiences do love mysteries, and they enjoy trying to piece hidden clues together in order to see if they can figure out the ending before everyone else does.īut: a mystery is not necessarily a story. To be fair, in the case of Lost and other stories that have used this model - including Game of Thrones, Westworld, and nearly every Christopher Nolan film - he’s mostly right. ![]() This means the audience will keep coming back to scratch their intellectual itch, and spread the word about the mysteries in the process. In the Abrams formula for storytelling, more mysteries = better stories, because every new answer creates more new questions. In the case of Lost, those myseries were compelling questions like: Who are all these people? Where are they? Why are they there? ( When are they there?) How did their plane crash? How will they survive? What unseen force is behind all of this? Who can we trust? ![]() ![]() He suggests that in order to understand ourselves and the world we need science and intuition, reason and imagination, not just one or two that they are in any case far from being in conflict and that the brain's right hemisphere plays the most important part in each. Who are we? What is the world? How can we understand consciousness, matter, space and time? Is the cosmos without purpose or value? Can we really neglect the sacred and divine? In doing so, he argues that we have become enslaved to an account of things dominated by the brain's left hemisphere, one that blinds us to an awe-inspiring reality that is all around us, had we but eyes to see it. ![]() ![]() In this landmark new book, Iain McGilchrist addresses some of the oldest and hardest questions humanity faces - ones that, however, have a practical urgency for all of us today. ![]() ![]() Writing the names out by hand, as they had been doing, even after eliminating various nonsense combinations, would take another 15,000 years the monks wish to use modern technology to finish this task more quickly. Three centuries ago, the monks created an alphabet in which they calculated they could encode all the possible names of God, numbering about 9,000,000,000 ("nine billion") and each having no more than nine characters. They believe the Universe was created for this purpose, and that once this naming is completed, God will bring the Universe to an end. In a Tibetan lamasery, the monks seek to list all of the names of God. It was reprinted in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964. ![]() The story was among the stories selected in 1970 by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the best science fiction short stories published before the creation of the Nebula Awards. " The Nine Billion Names of God" is a 1953 science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. ![]() |