You can find me right here on my couch for the rest of the weekend. Following a crazy work week, my phone was stolen on the subway last night and I have an ear infection. 😫 So after spending most of my day at the Apple store replacing my phone, I decided to treat myself to a new book and a box of macarons from @maisonladuree. I think I’ll read for a bit tonight, then start something new on tv. What show are you loving these days? ✨
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‘Live well. Love deep. Tomorrow, we die.’
QOTD: Do you ever feel like there might be a series that you’re missing out on? Recommend your favourite underhyped fantasy series!
AOTD: My favourite underhyped fantasy series is Tairen Soul by C.L. Wilson. I avoided it for a while because the covers are a little bit scary. And, I’d say it doesn’t get really addictive until book 2 so stick with it! There are some really superb character arcs, the romance is beautiful, the plot twists are shocking and the battle scenes are ridiculously tense. When I was reading the ACOTAR series I could see possible influences that SJM had taken from this series and, if I’m not mistaken, SJM has recommended Wilson in her newsletter a few times. This is adult fantasy romance, so if you’re a fan of a romance heavy sub-plot in fantasy then this might be something you want to check out. There are 5 books in total and it’s complete!
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♛ #tinyloveapril19 - HEA vs heartbreaking
♛ #grimdragon - sometimes there’s beauty in the mundane
♛ #ofthethroneapr19 - unhappy endings
♛ #bookravensapr19 - fav prop
♛ #whatanovelread - books that deserve sequels
♛ #bookqueensapr19 - brutal betrayals
♛ #bookreadhappyhour - pick a colour, any colour
♛ #fireheartapr19 - morally grey
El anciano filósofo Pitágoras, uno de los personajes con más poder de su época, está a punto de elegir un sucesor entre los grandes maestros cuando en su comunidad se inicia una serie de asesinatos. Tras los crímenes se atisba una mente oscura y poderosa que parece superar al mismísimo Pitágoras. La enigmática Ariadna y el investigador egipcio Akenón tratarán de descubrir quién es el asesino a la vez que resuelven sus propios sentimientos. Un reto en el que los fantasmas del pasado se unen a las oscuras amenazas del presente.
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Here are some of the good folks who showed support and added titles from #theultimateinurbanliterature to their personal collection today. Have you???🤔🤔🤔
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Browse our selection in paperback and e-book format via the official paperchasepublications.com website (Click the link to shop and preview several chapters of each book). .
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In my day I've seen so many try only to get so far and fail, but when I talk to him...I see that hunger in his eyes...he'll be ready "in due time!" Had to go show support...the NBA says that's they're waiting for the King's Son #lbj23 to arrive...well I say just wait for the Queen's Son to arrive...@charlisa.rn #books &basketball #andthehoopdreambegins#nba20241strdpick#itoldu1st
Winterglass gets ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫/5 stars!
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Set in a futuristic Southeast Asia, Winterglass is an entirely POC cast retelling of The Snow Queen fairytale.
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The world-building in this novella is excellent and the prose is nearly unparalleled in its command of the English language.
Winterglass is an #ownvoices take FULL of lgbtq characters and relationships. Gender in particular is very fluid in the novella, and the use of several different pronouns is employed, much to the confusion of the western foreigners.
The one thing I will say about the book is none of the characters are described in much detail, so it’s difficult to know it’s an all POC cast when reading the book. Unless I missed something, the book never even implies it was set in Southeast Asia. It seems like the author just said “It’s set in South Asia” and everyone just went with it?
I would recommend Winterglass to anyone looking for an own voices lgbtq fantasy read.
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Next up for me is Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen!
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Para terminar a semana vamos de tags já que aparentemente eu resolvi tirar o atraso delas! A tags da vez é #MeuDarkSidePreferido e essa é a hora que mergulhamos no lugar onde o escuro é frio e confortável: os livros da @darkside .
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🦇 Um retrato assombrado! Qual a capa mais #dark da sua coleção?
〰️ Sem sombra de dúvidas é Evangelho de Sangue, a capa mostra bastante do que há nas páginas. Venham a leitura os de estômago forte.
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🦇 Um escândalo de outro mundo! Um livro da Darkside com um final de fazer cair o queixo:
〰️ Fábrica de Vespas é até hoje um dos livros que mais refletir a respeito de como o ser humano pode ser independente de sua idade.
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🦇 Clássicos sempre estarão na moda! Um livro resgatado na coleção Medo Clássico da Darkside:
〰️ A coletânea + extras especiais dos contos de H. P. Lovecraft é o meu primeiro amor da Darkside e eu o defenderei com tentáculos e feitiçarias antigas.
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🦇 Último pesadelo! Qual o último livro Darkside que você leu?
〰️ Ed & Lorraine Warren: Lugar Sombrio. Um livro que me dividiu, mas que vale a pena para quem gosta de casos de atividades sobrenaturais familiares.
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🦇 Chama o padre! Um livro que te tirou o sono: 〰️ Amityville. Com toda certeza. É um terror sugestivo que cativa e te mantém querendo ler a próxima página mesmo achando que algo que anda naquela casa pode estar andando agora na sua.
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🦇 Um desejo mortal! Qual leitura da darkside é indispensável esse ano?
〰️ Geek Love e O Homem Que Caiu Na Terra são os dois que eu não posso deixar passar! Que venham as reflexões de vida.
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Mas não me deixa sozinho nessa, me diz qual seu livro preferido dessa editora que abraça o lado negro da força ;)
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❝— (...) Às vezes você planeja um rumo na vida e depois tem de desviar, e acaba sendo o caminho certo.❞
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Sigo amando os livros da @vi_keeland . Ela sempre surpreende com os personagens e as histórias, que nunca são apenas um romance com ótimas cenas de sexo, têm muito mais profundidade do que se espera.
Vi traz a narrativa alternando Nat e Hunter, mas inicialmente os capítulos narrados por Hunter são no passado, o que nos leva a crer que o motivo dele não ter relacionamentos sérios vem de algo que aconteceu nesse período. E quando enfim descobrimos o segredo que ele guarda é realmente doloroso. Fiquei literalmente de coração partido e pensando como aquela situação seria resolvida.
“People decide what you're like before they even get to know you.”—Celeste Ng
I finished the audiobook of Celeste Ng’s “Everything I Never Told You”. Truly one of the saddest books I have ever read—told in the past and in the aftermath of the death of the middle child of a mixed-culture family in small-town Ohio in the 70s, its a deep dive into family dynamics, the loss of dreams, the pressure to live up to parental expectations, and the inability to slow down time. The conclusion, while not what I was expecting, was ultimately sadder than what the book led you to believe. Ng’s ability to manipulate language in a way to make the reader truly feel the hopelessness and devastation from everyone left behind is breathtaking. 4/5 stars
📚 BOOK REVIEW 📚 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ “Music can dig, you know? It can take a shovel to your chest and just start digging until it hits something.” THIS BOOK.
You know how you feel when you’re at a concert and the sound and the energy is just right and it feels like the band is playing just for you? Or when you’re drinking coffee and listening to your favourite album and you think this moment right here is perfect? Or when you’re heartbroken or scared or lonely so you turn up some music and scream along to it and it eases some of that pain?
That’s what reading Daisy Jones and the Six felt like to me.
It’s a love letter to music but it’s also more than that. It’s a book about people and the choices they make. It’s a book about love, partnership, female friendships, addiction, loss, hope, and redemption.
I was surprised by how much I liked the interview format of the book. It made the story feel more intimate. It helped that Reid is a skillful writer who was able to give each character their own distinct voice.
Seriously, the characters felt so real that I kept reaching for my phone to look up a name or a song before remembering that they’re all fictional 😭
I’m not ashamed to say that I read the last few chapters with tears streaming down my face. It wrecked me in the best possible way.
Highly recommend.
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Today’s Read #GoingGlobal My homie @2womuchme (John Lewis) sent me this book. John is actually one of the featured men discussed in the book. Book Description: In the search for peace of mind, relaxation, fulfillment, and work/life balance, many Americans look for all possible options. As American Black Men, this search carries a heavier weight. From the constraints of familial and cultural roles, to the binding weight of making-ends-meet with the responsibility of breadwinning. Let us also add ever-present racial injustices and our roles in training our children to recognize, prepare for, and respond to them (while remaining alive), all while maintaining our sanity and cool. We fight through these constraints, but constantly yearn for something more. We, whether being fed up with the status quo, wanting to try something new, or wanting to get away from it all, took a leap of faith and moved to foreign land. On this journey, we have learned, experienced, accepted, and have had our eyes opened to who we are as men, Americans, fathers, husbands, brothers, Black Americans and more. You will learn about 10 Courageous Black Men in this text. We are business men, educators, writers, and military service men. We have made the decision to pack up our knowledge, skills, and Black Power from America and we are now Going Global. To anyone who has ever wondered, considered, or dreamt of living abroad, we write this book to serve as your motivation to let go and live the life of your dreams. Jason D. Etheridge M.Ed. Author,
Tyree Simmons Ed.S Author, John David Lewis Author #books#read#financialsecurity#livingabroad#education#family
INTELLECTUAL ART | PERSONAL EXHIBITION: ART, BOOKS, INVENTIONS, ARTS AND SCIENCE BY LUCA FALACE GENIUSOM GREEN ECONOMY: N° 41 INVENTIONS AND PATENTS BY LUCA FALACE 🇮🇹 ITALY |
SKILLS: - N° 31 Books published
- N° 5 Presentations of published books.
- Professor of art history in N° 4 colleges.
- N° 1 Academic Theory: Creative Synchronism. Innovative and continuous theory on the basis of the Theory of Synchronicity by Carl Gustav Jung.
- N° 2 Cultural Associations Art and Science. - N°1 Cultural Center Phenomenology of Significant Coincidences Study. - N° 151 Published works of arts: figurative and abstract paintings, drawings, sculptures, frescoes.
- N° 3 Personal exhibitions of works of arts: painting, video-art, sculpture, performance, literature. - N° 40 Musical compositions and Public musical experiment on creative synchronism.
- N° 1 Personal Exhibition on Theory of Synchronous Creative. Public experiment.
- N° 2 Experiment Sync Brain. Phenomenology of Significant Coincidences Study. Public experiment.
- N° 41 Inventions in the field of new technologies: robotics, industry 4.0, alternative energy, green economy.
- N° 3 Television participations as a protagonist. TV participations as the lead Inventor. - N° 8 Conferences as an Entrepreneur, Manager and Inventor.
- Managers of N° 2 companies and founder of N° 1 startup. - Mediator of N° 4 millionaires negotiations of which N° 1 on national television network. - N° 1 🇮🇹 Prize Italian President Green Economy: for Invention and Patent. N° 2 Prize for Invention and Patent.
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Luca Falace Skills: Art Historian, Anthropologist, Teacher, Art Advisor, Art Curator, Writer, Painter, Musician, Designer, Inventor, Entrepreneur: www.geniusom.com www.lucafalace.com
The Carmo Archaeological Museum in Lisbon, Portugal. We still have not had chance to visit this museum. It’s on our list of places to visit! #mummies#egyptianmummy#books#booksandbones
INTELLECTUAL ART | PERSONAL EXHIBITION: ART, BOOKS, INVENTIONS, ARTS AND SCIENCE BY LUCA FALACE GENIUSOM GREEN ECONOMY: N° 41 INVENTIONS AND PATENTS BY LUCA FALACE 🇮🇹 ITALY |
SKILLS: - N° 31 Books published
- N° 5 Presentations of published books.
- Professor of art history in N° 4 colleges.
- N° 1 Academic Theory: Creative Synchronism. Innovative and continuous theory on the basis of the Theory of Synchronicity by Carl Gustav Jung.
- N° 2 Cultural Associations Art and Science. - N°1 Cultural Center Phenomenology of Significant Coincidences Study. - N° 151 Published works of arts: figurative and abstract paintings, drawings, sculptures, frescoes.
- N° 3 Personal exhibitions of works of arts: painting, video-art, sculpture, performance, literature. - N° 40 Musical compositions and Public musical experiment on creative synchronism.
- N° 1 Personal Exhibition on Theory of Synchronous Creative. Public experiment.
- N° 2 Experiment Sync Brain. Phenomenology of Significant Coincidences Study. Public experiment.
- N° 41 Inventions in the field of new technologies: robotics, industry 4.0, alternative energy, green economy.
- N° 3 Television participations as a protagonist. TV participations as the lead Inventor. - N° 8 Conferences as an Entrepreneur, Manager and Inventor.
- Managers of N° 2 companies and founder of N° 1 startup. - Mediator of N° 4 millionaires negotiations of which N° 1 on national television network. - N° 1 🇮🇹 Prize Italian President Green Economy: for Invention and Patent. N° 2 Prize for Invention and Patent.
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Luca Falace Skills: Art Historian, Anthropologist, Teacher, Art Advisor, Art Curator, Writer, Painter, Musician, Designer, Inventor, Entrepreneur: www.geniusom.com www.lucafalace.com
Happy Easter to all our lovely customers, hope the Easter Bunny has been kind, best wishes Steph & Pamela 🐰
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“Todos somos guionistas de nuestros propios sueños”.
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Está frase es prácticamente la frase de vida del autor de "La princesa prometida" ; William Goldman. Hoy les traigo la reseña de esta hermosa novela, pero también quiero contarles antes que el autor, fue y será sin duda un genio en la pluma. Me dió tanta curiosidad su forma de escribir que tuve que buscar su biografía y me sorprendí muchísimo o no también. Este autor es un aclamado guionista, de películas célebres como Misery, la famosa adaptación cinematográfica de la novela de Stephen King y creador del guión de una de sus creaciones más célebres: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( clásico del cine).
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Ahora sí, después de la presentación más que necesitaría de este autor que además escribía bajo dos pseudónimos, vamos a hablar de esta novela. Ambientadas en dos tiempos está es la historia dentro de la historia. Nuestra trama principal cuenta la historia de la princesa Buttercup , la joven más bella del reino y mejor amiga de Westley ( joven enamorado de nuestra protagonista), ella es una joven despreocupada, fuerte y bastante caprichosa. A todo lo que es dice responde: cómo usted desee. Enloqueciendo al pobre muchacho. Pero todo cambia con la visita de unos nobles y acá comienza el drama. Por varias circunstancias que se presentan, el joven enamorado debe huir y buscar fortuna lejos para así poder pedir mano a su amada. Pero el destino hace que el barco sea atacado por un Pirata de renombre llamado Roberts. Llega a nuestra joven la noticia que su amado no volverá y acepta en compromiso al principe Humperdinck, un ser vil y desagradable. Pero la joven es secuestrada por tres personajes peculiares entre los que se encuentra: Iñigo Montoya. Desde este momento, las aventuras, el deseo de venganza, los secretos, las mentiras, la amistad, el amor, luchas y peleas épicas y entre el medio muchos momentos que nos harán reír a carcajadas, rodeados de paisajes y lugares pintorescos nos darán la historia más emocionante de amor, aventura y fantasía.
En medio, de nuestro relato tenemos la otra historia, la historia de nuestro narrador, un escritor que descubre que su padre le leía está historia a su manera.
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The caramelized white chocolate buttercream from this Sticky Toffee Date Cake matches my sheets and I’m pretty happy about it. Y’all know how much I love my sticky toffee anything. +pictured with a GF Nutella mug cake on the side on this rainy day. 🍫 🍰 #ad#icingonthecake
My first 5 star book of the year!
Ever since I read Sometimes I Lie, I instantly fell in love with Feeney's writing. She is just so amazing and is the master of twists!
Aimee is an actress and after having a fight with her husband, she comes home the next day and he is gone. Wallet and phone left at home, but no sign of him. The police suspect that she has something to do with it, but she doesn't really remember much. What happened?
I loved every second of it! I read it in two sitting and I finished it at 5 a.m because I could not stop reading and I wanted to know how it would end. It is told in two different timelines. One in 1988 in Essex, and one in 2017 in London. Both are linked somehow and the storytelling is so smooth.
It's so hard not fall in love with Feeney's characters. Aimee was full of secrets and everytime one was revealed, it was more shocking than the other. I don't know how Feeney does it, but she continues to succeed with her psychological thrillers.
Just like Sometimes I Lie, this one was psychological as well. It's very interesting to read books that are crazy because I always wonder how authors are able to get in that crazy mindset. I did not expect the final twist at all, and Feeney does it so well. We think we know what's going on and it seems very clear to us that this is what the twist is but nothing is as it seems.
Hooking until it's very last page, I Know Who You Are will keep you up at night flipping the pages and it is a novel that will keep you guessing until the very end. Another successful thriller from Feeney and I cannot wait to see what she whips up for us next!
Thank you to Flatiron Books for providing me with an advanced copy of this novel in exchange for my honest review.
