![]() Vicious Little Snakes by Trilina Pucci is now live! Newsletter | Website | Amazon Author | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Goodreads | BookBub | FB Readers Group | Pinterest | Book+Main | TikTok She’s known for being a trope defier, writing outside of the box and creating fictional worlds her readers never want to leave. Now she can’t see her life without her characters, her readers, and this community. She wanted to check off a box on her bucket list, but what began as wish-fulfillment has become incredibly fulfilling. Pucci’s journey into writing started impulsively. When she isn’t writing steamy love stories, she can be found devouring Netflix with her husband, Anthony, and their three kiddos. Trilina is a USA Today Bestselling author who loves cupcakes and bourbon. These four are aiming for Santa’s naughty list and I’m pretty sure I’m getting: ![]() Talk about making you reconsider your life choices. Problem is, you work for them and that makes them off-limits.Įxcept now they’re looking at you like you’re Santa’s cookies. they’ve all played the hero in too many of your naughtiest dreams. Imagine being snowed in with four hot successful men. ![]()
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![]() Once Little House has your kids hooked on reading, it's a great time to get them to branch out! I have also specifically chosen a number of books with alternatives to the standard Anglo-American narrative. I curated this book list with the same goal I had in mind for my lists of books for kids who like Harry Potter, and books for kids who like Percy Jackson. The titles on this list are not necessarily books like Little House on the Prairie, although many of them have similar settings and pioneer themes. I just don't think its portrait of life as a pioneer should be as idealized as it has been. Seuss so clearly I cannot be trusted), but I do think the Little House books are examples of superior storytelling and its okay if you enjoy them. ![]() Now I realize this all sounds like blasphemy ( I also dislike Dr. ![]() As a kid I loved Laura Ingalls Wilder's books and read them over and over, but then as I started to branch out, the overriding theme of rugged individualism and how "hard work can win all", started to grate on me, especially as the books are touted as a fictionalized version of what happened, yet are far from the truth. ![]() I did start Farmer Boy one summer, but they were so disturbed by the whipping in the first chapter that we put it down and never returned to it. I have a confession: I have never read the Little House books to my sons. ![]() ![]() ![]() They were trying to bring back that feeling of the "oh my god, they were on earth the whole time" feeling from the original POTA, but here it's just absolute rubbish. And what was the point of trying to keep the ending secret? It doesn't even make sense. It's just a simple A to B to C, nonstop chase film. Look, I like Walberg, I think he's a decent enough actor, but he's not at the point where he has the emotional gravitas to carry the lead in a film. ![]() I remember reading all the publicity for the film and laughed when Burton and Zanuck tried to compare Walberg to Steve McQueen. Secondly, Mark Walberg is way out of his league trying to carry the lead in this film. If my memory serves me, I think Dick Zanuck, who at one time was running mighty 20th century fox, was sitting around and thought to himself, why don't we remake planet of the apes and get an A-list director for it? It's not a bad idea. the exception being "Ed Wood" and "Sleepy Hollow", although "Sleepy Hollow" just about gets by on the "Scooby-doo" style of ending. Planet of the Apes is a 2001 American science fiction adventure film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by William Broyles Jr., Lawrence Konner, and Mark Rosenthal.The sixth installment in the Planet of the Apes film series, it is loosely based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Pierre Boulle and serves as a remake of the 1968 film version. ![]() Burton has always been one of those directors whose films tend to fall apart in the third act. ![]() ![]() Little Bao’s father intervenes and the men leave, but they return later with a priest as converts to Christianity as such, they are above the law. They live a relatively peaceful, hardworking life - though, like many other areas of rural China, suffer because of a drought - but then thuggish Chinese strangers arrive and cause trouble. In the space of two years, Chinese rebels fought back against colonization and murdered Westerners, “foreign devils” (Christians), and “secondary devils” (Chinese converts to Christianity) in what would become known as the Boxer Rebellion.īoxers tells the story of Little Bao, a young peasant boy living in rural China. ![]() Both books begin in 1898, when Christianity was beginning to take a stronger hold on China. ![]() The books are sold as two separate volumes as well as in a boxed set, but the stories run parallel to one another and should definitely be read together. ![]() ![]() American Born Chinese pretty much guaranteed that I would read anything else Gene Luen Yang created, so when Boxers & Saints came out last year to great critical acclaim, I put the books high on my TBR list. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My biggest complaint, and perhaps this isn't fair since the principal character is a sixteen year old girl, is the complete inconsistency in her feelings towards the men in her life. The action and pace of the third volume are more consistent, giving the reader a solid return for their investment in the series. Not everything will go to plan as Raisa returns home in this volume. This is a fantasy series, and we all know the heroine and hero ultimately will prevail to win the day. Friction and violence increase as the people trying to keep Raisa out of the way increase their efforts. Overwhelmingly, though, this is Raisa's volume. Han must finally face the moment we've all waited for - when he discovers his friend and love interest Rebecca is in fact the Princess Heir Raisa of the Queendom of the Fells. The third volume of the Seven Realms series, it really felt like Chima finally has settled into the story of Han and Raisa. ![]() ![]() Simpson, the headmaster’s wife, was sitting at the head of one of the tables chatting with a lady of whom I know nothing, except that she was on an afternoon’s visit to the school. One afternoon, as we were filing out from tea, Mrs. You did not properly speaking do the deed: you merely woke up in the morning and found that the sheets were wringing wet.Īfter the second or third offence I was warned that I should be beaten next time, but I received the warning in a curiously roundabout way. There was no volition about it, no consciousness. Some nights the thing happened, others not. Night after night I prayed, with a fervour never previously attained in my prayers, Please God, do not let me wet my bed! Oh, please God, do not let me wet my bed! but it made remarkably little difference. For my part I did not need to be told it was a crime. In those days, however, it was looked on as a disgusting crime which the child committed on purpose and for which the proper cure was a beating. It is a normal reaction in children who have been removed from their homes to a strange place. ![]() Nowadays, I believe, bed-wetting in such circumstances is taken for granted. I was now aged eight, so that this was a reversion to a habit which I must have grown out of at least four years earlier. ![]() ![]() SOON after I arrived at Crossgates (not Immediately, but after a week or two, just when I seemed to be settling into the routine of school life) I began wetting my bed. ![]() ![]() I had a pit in my stomach and truly felt her emotions right along with her. Perhaps because I could relate to Nina so much, reading about her experience was PAINFUL. Dropkicks her from the heaven of new love back down to the aforementioned level of hell. After months of dating and his profession of love, he ghosts her. Societal pressure to couple up and lock in a baby daddy before her biological clock goes ding sends her to a dating app, where she meets her match in Max. In Ghosts, 32-year-old Nina Dean is a confident, independent, successful cookbook author. ![]() ![]() And if you haven’t, Dolly Alderton has written a book to give you a tour. ![]() There’s a particularly heinous level of hell reserved exclusively for single women in their thirties. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In an era when children's authors were not particularly photogenic, Dare Wright stood out as a stunning, articulate and mysterious beauty.Īuthor Brook Ashley was the young child whom Dare Wright brought into her magical world of dolls, bears and fairy tales to co-create scenes for Dare's early books The Lonely Doll and Holiday For Edith And The Bears. Her protagonists were a felt doll named Edith and her two ursine companions, Mr. Written by Brook Ashley, Dare Wright's godchild and heir to her estate, the biography reveals the source of Dare Wright's family trauma, her fascination with mythical storylines, and the personal tragedies and creative successes that punctuated her extraordinary life.ĭare Wright captivated the children's literary world of the 1950s and 60s with a new genre of storytelling through simple text and haunting black and white photography. A poignant and revealing biography of Dare Wright, the beautiful and enigmatic photographer and author of The Lonely Doll children's book series, illustrated with over five hundred photographs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dialogue Balthazar had with other Bastards was almost non-existent. How did he end with Band of Bastards? Who his family is? His relationships with other Bastards? Nothing. So, he is 300 years old and we don't get any kind of his backstory. Balthazar on the other hand was a carbon copy of her heroes. Erika was a really interesting lead with so much backstory which was revealed only at the end. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book was a good ensemble cast book and a very mediocre main pairing book. Will the very thing that brings them together lead to the ultimate destruction of the Brotherhood? Or will they have to lose everything in order to save the race’s most sacred defenders? When Devina’s wish for true love is finally granted, Balthazar and Erika unwittingly become the gateway for the rebirth of an old enemy of the Brothers. Mutilated bodies that cannot be explained are all over her case list-and then there are her nightmares in which she’s hunted by shadows and captivated by a mysterious man who is both a suspect and a savior. Especially not a human.Īs a homicide detective, Erika Saunders knows there is something otherworldly going on in Caldwell, New York. As a thief, he has stolen a lot of things…but he never thought his heart would be taken by another. Possessed by the demon Devina, Balthazar is once again on the hunt for the Book of Spells-and fighting an undeniable attraction to a woman. Ward’s #1 New York Times bestselling series. True love brings a deadly threat to the Black Dagger Brotherhood in this sizzling new novel in J.R. ![]() ![]() ![]() It serves to remind people of an important and often overlooked moment in the women's rights movement."- Seattle Weekly " The Story of Jane is a piece of women's history in step with feminist theory demanding that women tell their own stories. ![]() ![]() Laura Kaplan, who joined Jane in 1971, has pieced together the histories of the anonymous (here identified only by pseudonyms), average-sounding women who transformed themselves into outlaws."- Cleveland Plain Dealer Wade decision, most women determined to get abortions had to subject themselves to the power of illegal, unregulated abortionists.But a Chicago woman who happened to stumble across a secret organization code-named 'Jane' had an alternative. "In the four years before the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. ![]() |