![]() Something Blue picks up where Something Borrowed left off, rehashing the last few pages – the only difference is it is now from Darcy’s point of view. Much to my surprise, I ended up enjoying this one as well. My thoughts: Even though I enjoyed Something Borrowed, I could not stand Darcy Rhone, and when I realize Something Blue was all about her, I was pretty skeptical. It’s a novel for anyone who has ever, even secretly, wondered if the last thing you want is really the one thing you need. Something Blue is a novel about one woman’s surprising discoveries about the true meaning of friendship, love and happily-ever-after. It is only then that she can begin her journey toward self-awareness, forgiveness, and motherhood. But as she attempts to re-create her glamorous life on a new continent, Darcy finds that her rules no longer apply. ![]() Never mind karma.īut Darcy’s neat, perfect world turns upside down when her best friend, Rachel White, the plain-Jane “good girl,” steals her fiance, while Darcy finds herself completely alone for the first time in her life…with a baby on the way.ĭarcy tries to recover, fleeing to her childhood friend living in London and resorting to her tried-and-true methods for getting what she wants. ![]() ![]() I am also using this book to count towards the Reading From My Shelves Project.įrom the back cover: Darcy Rhone thought she had it all figured out: the more beautiful the girl, the more charmed her life. Why I read this: I had recently read Something Borrowed and was curious as to what would happen with Darcy. ![]()
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5/23/2023 0 Comments Reunion by Lauraine Snelling![]() The story was more about, shocking (sarcasm) of finding out a family secret that would had been buried along with their mother had Keira and her husband not decided to go on a trip to Norway, and who then needed her birth certificate to apply for a passport. And wouldn't you know it, turns out someone ended up bringing a cake, so the boys were rewarded in the end. The actual party was a couple of pages of nothing too exciting, except for two little spoiled boys thinking it was a birthday party, and whining because there wasn't a cake with candles to blow out. There was lots of writing leading up to the party, like locating photographs from the deceased mother's home to be made into books for everyone, and all the food preparation for the party. Actually very little is about the family reunion party. The name of the book is "Reunion", but it's not really about the family reunion. Why complete a book if I don't like it? Because I need to finish a book I start, always. It was more like because I skipped paragraphs, and basically then skimmed over the rest. This one took me 2 days, and it wasn't because I couldn't put it down. It usually takes me a week to read a book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gosh, this one was really bad! So bad I can't even fathom passing it along to my sister to read, who I pass along all my books once I'm done. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments The First Last Kiss by Ali Harris![]() ![]() The first time Molly kissed Ryan, she knew they'd be together forever. ![]() PS, I Love You meets One Day in this magical tearjerker from Ali Harris How do you hold on to a love that is slowly slipping away from you? Can you let go of the past when you know what is in the future? And how do you cope when you know that every kiss is a countdown to goodbye? This is the story of a love affair, of Ryan and Molly and how they fell in love and were torn apart. ![]() Six years and thousands of kisses later she's married to the man she. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Blowback by Brad Thor![]() ![]() As horrible as this country was, there was another that was much more evil and in much greater need of an all-powerful, cleansing blow. Many, many times the man wished his employer’s ultimate target was Pakistan, but it wasn’t. Beyond the fortunate women of the privileged classes who participated in think tanks, ran charity organizations, wrote novels and plays, and even occupied a handful of token positions in General Musharraf’s cabinet, were those who suffered the daily horrors of domestic abuse, gang rape and murder at the hands of small-minded men professing their love of Allah and their devotion to the Muslim faith. Pakistan was a hypocritical tangle of class divisions, and nowhere was that more evident than in the role of women. Their plight was one of subcontinental Islam’s dirty little secrets, and it turned the stomach of the man sitting in the stolen Toyota Corolla outside the tomb of Muhammad Iqbal, poet and ideological godfather of modern Pakistan.Ī devout Muslim, the man was humiliated to see how the promise of Muslim brotherhood had been denied the Punjabis. Smaller and darker-skinned than the rest of Lahore’s populace, the most fortunate among them were doomed to lives of mind-numbing menial labor, while the balance found themselves sucked up into the ranks of street urchins, beggars, and homeless. ![]() Filth, squalor, and despair were daily accompaniments to the lives of Pakistan’s lowest of citizens-the poverty-stricken Punjabi Muslims. The narrow streets of the old city contained one of the worst slums in the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() In her thirties, Potter published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit and became secretly engaged to her publisher, Norman Warne, causing a breach with her parents, who disapproved of his social status. Because she was a woman, her parents discouraged intellectual development, but her study and paintings of fungi led her to be widely respected in the field of mycology. ![]() She had numerous pets, and through holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developed a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Helen Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, mycologist, and conservationist who is best known for her children's books, which featured animal characters such as Peter Rabbit.īorn into a wealthy household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Beauty tempts the beast![]() ![]() ![]() He wants her to find her way in life, the same way he helps other ladies… by giving them chances to learn trades and escape. Beast immediately knows Althea doesn’t belong in his world, but how she got there bugs him to the point that he must get involved. He’s well-read, self-conscience and thinks heavily before he speaks or acts. Described as a hulking figure, he could easily be muscle only, but the man has brains for days. He’s got this air of mystery wrapped up in a big package. Of course, here is where she meets our hero, Benedict Trewlove, otherwise known as the Beast of Whitechapel.īeast is probably my favorite Trewlove, next to Fancy. Althea is relegated to a near non-existence, until she starts working at a local tavern to earn money. We have our heroine, Althea Stanwick, disgraced and stripped of her status since her father betrayed the monarchy by trying to kill the Queen. ![]() I’ll be honest I warred with myself during this book between wanting more external conflict for the characters to face and enjoying the subtle external conflict mixed with heavy internal conflict. This is the final book in the Trewlove series, and while this book can serve as a standalone, I would at least recommend reading the previous two books in the series. A good story, with a nice low stakes romance. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The Year of the Rat by Grace Lin![]() You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. ![]() Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments & comp. by Livius Ciocârlie![]() “Parkour Video” offers immediate access to the ideas that shaped the work of the artists as well as their stories, which have remained alive in the memory of the witnesses of the time. Similar to the series of printed interviews called “Parkour,” their digital correspondent has an oral history format and a dense path of themes, moments and events, accompanied by their context, which can be found in various configurations in the research, exhibitions and editorial projects of the Institute of the Present. It is a program consisting of short documentary-interviews made with the participation of artists and some invited art historians and writers. The films are produced in the frame of “Parkour Video,” a programme dedicated to the presentation and analysis of several artworks and art events representative of the recent history of Romanian art and culture, for the specific development of the work of the artistic personalities in focus. ![]() The Institute of the Present exhibits a series of film-interviews with Adriana Babeți, Livius Ciocârlie, Ingo Glass, Diet Sayler, Laurențiu Ruță, Dan Mihălțianu, George Săbău. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Outing the quarterback tara lain![]() ![]() Jamal’s dream was always to be a professional football player. This is not a sequel, so you can read it as a standalone. We meet both main characters in the first book in the series, Jamal as Will’s friend and Trevor as Trixie, the drag queen who was manipulated in ruining Will’s future. ![]() “Canning the Center” is a lovely story about friendship and love, loyalty and honesty and accepting who you really are. Is there a closet big enough to hold a football pro and a drag queen? But Trevor risks his position every time he puts on a dress. ![]() When he discovers Jamal’s future is threatened if he’s seen with a guy, Trevor becomes Trixie to let Jamal pass as straight. To Trevor, Jamal is the answer to a dream - a man who can love and accept both his personas. A mathematician so brilliant he can’t be measured, Trevor disguises his astronomical IQ and his quirk for women’s clothes behind his act as a gay activist undergrad at Southern California University. Trevor Landry, aka Trixie LaRue, hides more than his genitals. Then, at a small drag show, he comes face-to-face with his sexual fantasy in the form of Trixie LaRue, a drag queen so exquisitely convincing she scrambles Jamal’s hormones - and his resolve to nurse his straight side. Six foot seven inch, 300 pound Jamal Jones loves football, so when he finds out the ultra-conservative owner of his new pro football team fired their current center because he’s gay, bisexual Jamal decides to stay in the closet and hang with the females. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But there was a third figure: Alice Kober, without whose painstaking work, recorded on pieces of paper clipped from hymn-sheets and magazines and stored in cigarette boxes in her Brooklyn loft, Linear B might still remain a mystery. Two men have dominated Linear B in popular history: Arthur Evans, the intrepid Victorian archaeologist who unearthed Linear B at Knossos and Michael Ventris, the dashing young amateur who produced a solution. But, captivating as it is, this story is missing a crucial piece. ![]() The decoding of Linear B is one of the world's greatest stories: from the discovery of a cache of ancient tablets recording a lost prehistoric language to the dramatic solution of the riddle nearly seventy years later, it exerts a mesmerizing pull on the imagination. Print Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Deciphering of Linear B and the Discovery of a Lost Civilisation ![]() |