![]() ![]() I think I own most of the books in Dare’s Spindle Cove series but as yet have only read one or two. Since Nora Browning seems to believe he overlooked the passion of a lifetime, Dash challenges her to prove it. He returned to England with the goal of marrying and creating an heir-only to find his reputation shredded by an audacious, vexingly attractive bluestocking and her poison pen. George Travers, Lord Dashwood, has traveled the globe as a cartographer. She’s forced to wait out the storm with the worst possible companion: Lord Dashwood himself.Īnd he finally seems to have noticed her. ![]() Now she’s on her way to speak in Spindle Cove when snowy weather delays her coach. Lord Dashwood Missed Out was a love letter to every young lady who’d been overlooked by gentlemen-and an instant bestseller. One night, inspired by a bit too much sherry, Nora poured out her heartbreak on paper. Miss Elinora Browning grew up yearning for the handsome, intelligent lord-next-door…but he left England without a word of farewell. A snowstorm hath no fury like a spinster scorned ![]()
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R/RomanceBooks is a discussion sub for readers of romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here too is a 1976 piece from the New York Times magazine on "Why I Write" a piece about short stories from New West in 1978 and from The New Yorker, a piece on Hemingway from 1998, and on Martha Stewart from 2000. Here are six pieces written in 1968 from the "Points West" Saturday Evening Post column Joan Didion shared from 1964 to 1969 with her husband, John Gregory Dunne about: American newspapers a session with Gamblers Anonymous a visit to San Simeon being rejected by Stanford dropping in on Nancy Reagan, wife of the then-governor of California, while a TV crew filmed her at home and an evening at the annual reunion of WWII veterans from the 101st Airborne Association at the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas. From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt. ![]() ![]() ![]() For example, swindlers boil in what would be the body of a fish and those dominated by anger beat themselves incessantly, while sinking in the mud.Īrriving in Purgatory, they see how mountains and precipices surround it. In Hell, frightful scenes of the dead paying for their sins are narrated. There Dante makes his journey in the company of the poet Virgil and is guided by him through the infernal circles. ![]() The Inferno is perhaps the part of the book best known to readers throughout time. The crossing lasted from the night before Good Friday until the Wednesday after Easter, in the spring of 1300. ![]() Written in the first person, the poem narrates Dante’s journey through the three realms of the dead: hell, purgatory and paradise, in that order. Loading fileĭownload book Summary of the Divine Comedy If you prefer, you can download the file by clicking on the link below. *Wait a few seconds for the document to load, the time may vary depending on your internet connection. | Classic Authors: Free Classic Authors Books The Divine Comedy in PDF format | Free Books: The Best 5 Dante Alighieri Books for Free! ![]() ![]() ![]() It only brings her pain.īut when life catches up with Matty on the night of her unexpected (and unwelcome) surprise 30th birthday party, she sets out on a nerve-wreaking last-minute trip home to confront her family that might just result in her coming full-healing-circle. And the only goal she has (other than filling her stomach) is to avoid any and all reminders of her birthday. ![]() Since sprinting away from her sister's wedding (and knocking over a bridesmaid in the process) Matty Bell has lived in a self-made monochromatic life of work-eat-sleep-survive. In and out of work, she hasn't seen her family in over a decade, lives vicariously through her best friend's seemingly perfect life. ![]() ![]() ![]() For example, while touring through the Jim Crow South with an all-white band, Holiday sees a lynched man, and this scene merges into a brief performance of the song “Strange Fruit.” In another scene, the tour bus is actually attacked by a Klu Klux Klan rally. The film hints at the racism of the 1930s-1950s when Holiday performed and attempts to link the torment of these experiences to her drug addiction. The music is an excellent combination of Diana Ross as herself, not exactly imitating Billie Holiday, but incorporating some of her techniques to make Holiday’s songs recognizable. Ross does an admirable job at portraying Holiday’s emotional swings, her heroin addiction, and her affair with Louis McKay (standing in for all three of Holiday’s real husbands, played by Billy Dee Williams). Timelines and places are vague, multiple people are combined into fewer and fictionalized characters, but essence is there, making for a compelling film. Starting with Holiday thrown in prison on drug charges and flashing back to a childhood filled with rape and prostitution, there’s no sugar-coating Holiday’s life story, even if the events depicted in this movie are only a rough outline of the way it happened. Take legendary Motown diva Diana Ross and let her portray legendary jazz diva Billie Holiday, and well, of course, you’ll get an iconic ‘behind the music’ style biopic that is Lady Sings the Blues (1972). ![]() ![]() ![]() Hades has spent his life in the shadows, and he has no intention of stepping into the light. With no options left, Persephone flees to the forbidden undercity and makes a devil's bargain with a man she once believed a myth.a man who awakens her to a world she never knew existed. But all that's ripped away when her mother ambushes her with an engagement to Zeus, the dangerous power behind their glittering city's dark facade. Society darling Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start over far from the backstabbing politics of the Thirteen Houses. *A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Hades and Persephone that's as sinful as it is sweet.* ![]() But from the moment I crossed the River Styx and fell under his dark spell…he was, quite simply, mine. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() All Love Is Unrequited: Between the Fantastic Four. ![]() ![]() Everything seems perfect to outsiders, but among them, not so much. (Yes, Cassie is pretending to be a woman who pretended to be a woman whom Cassie once pretended to be.) But the further she investigates, the more Cassie realizes that she might like Lexie's life more than her own - which will wreck her head even more than when she started. Cassie lives Lexie's life for some time, trying to find out whoever Lexie actually was and why she ended up dead. What's more, she's carrying ID that identifies her as Lexie Madison, an alias that Cassie once used years ago.įlash forward a few chapters, and Cassie's gone undercover as Lexie, pretending that Lexie was merely knocked unconscious, and begun living with Lexie's housemates, four English postgrads at Trinity College Dublin (Cassie's boss derisively refers to them as the Fantastic Four). Cassie Maddox, a Dublin detective still wrecked from her last case (which is the subject of French's previous novel, In the Woods), is called to what looks to be a rather peaceful cottage, except it's also a crime scene. The Likeness is a 2008 novel by Irish author Tana French, the second in her Dublin Murder Squad series. "Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside out."Ĭassie Maddox, Lexie Madison. ![]() ![]() ![]() I just needed to know what made him tick! In the first book, he was described as somewhat cold, calculating and the unfeeling one, and honestly his lack of emotion was what had me curious to read his book (more so than the oh-so hot Remo). ![]() Twisted Emotions is the second book in the Camorra Chronicles and centers around the second oldest Falcone brother Nino. Onto my honest and spoiler free review (at least until it’s officially released on Jan 8, then I’ll spill my guts out. After her father betrayed his Capo and paid with his life, her family thinks marriage is her only chance to bring honor to her name but only Kiara knows she’s a faulty prize given in return for peace.Ī man incapable of emotions and a woman scarred by the past – an arranged marriage with the potential to unite, or destroy… ![]() Kiara Vitiello, cousin of the Capo of the New York Famiglia, is chosen to marry Nino Falcone to prevent war with the Camorra, but what she hears about Las Vegas makes her veins pulse with terror. As the right hand man and brother of the Capo of the Camorra, his lack of feelings is a blessing, not a curse – until his brother asks him to marry for the sake of the Camorra. ![]() |