5/22/2023 0 Comments Halloween by Steven Heller![]() ![]() H50 storm the house and discover that Seth has fled with Lucas. Lucas escapes from the cage and is trying to call the police when Helen non-fatally stabs him. Research finds that the killer is Seth Tilton, who is caring for his ailing grandmother Helen, who is also involved in helping her grandson. The team soon realize that Heller attended a party in a condemned house and that the killer has taken another victim, a man named Lucas Hayes. Hawaii Five-0 investigates a road accident where the drivers of both cars have gone missing, and they soon discover that the driver of one car, Lisa Heller, is dead, having died as a ritualistic sacrifice. ![]() Steve, Chin and Kono discussing the case. They find themselves racing against time when evidence suggests that the killer will soon strike again. It's Halloween in Hawaii with the team investigating a grisly murder. ![]()
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5/22/2023 0 Comments George washington ron chernow![]() ![]() Cultivating aloofness as his political sword, the 6-foot-2-inch Washington owned any room he entered. ![]() ![]() Until his last breath, Washington epitomized self-control, sterling judgment, old-fashioned civility and noblesse oblige. “I thank you for your attentions, but I pray you to take no more trouble about me. Terms agreed-upon, Washington smiled contentedly. Seeking no religious comfort or last rites, Washington’s only deathbed request was that he not be buried until three days after his expiration he feared consciousness while being underground. But the poised manner of Washington is a gold-star example of a brave life lived with honor. There are many ways to measure greatness. “Though he never complained,” biographer Ron Chernow recounts of those last hours, “Washington was expiring in a particularly gruesome fashion and constantly gasped for air.” Washington may have defeated the British at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781, but an inflamed epiglottis got the best of him in 1799. In fact, Washington had contracted a vicious bacterial infection. The ex-president, his doctors believed, was suffering from “quinsy” (a throat inflammation). Sixty-seven-year-old George Washington was dying. ![]() 14, 1799, an ominous, fog-like gloom hung over Mount Vernon. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Butts backstory![]() ![]() But why? In Butts: A Backstory, reporter, essayist, and RadioLab contributing editor Heather Radke is determined to find out. ![]() ![]() A woman's butt, in particular, is forever being assessed, criticized, and objectified, from anxious self-examinations trying on jeans in department store dressing rooms to enduring crass remarks while walking down a street or high school hallways. It is a body part unique to humans, critical to our evolution and survival, and yet it has come to signify so much more: sex, desire, comedy, shame. Whether we love them or hate them, think they're sexy, think they're strange, consider them too big, too small, or anywhere in between, humans have a complicated relationship with butts. "Lively and thorough, Butts is the best kind of nonfiction." - Esquire, Best Books of 2022Ī "carefully researched and reported work of cultural history" ( The New York Times) that explores how one body part has influenced the female-and human-experience for centuries, and what that obsession reveals about our lives today. ![]() "Winning, cheeky, and illuminating.What appears initially as a folly with a look-at-this cover and title becomes, thanks to Radke's intelligence and curiosity, something much meatier, entertaining, and wise." - The Washington Post ![]() ![]() ![]() Manzoni forged the modern Italian language, and his novel-yes, he wrote only one-is still the greatest novel in the Italian language. Tradition weighs heavily on Italian artists, and when they create, they have to contend with that glorious tradition. While I’ve translated many contemporary authors (including Pope Benedict XVI), I have always wanted English readers to have a deeper sense of Italian literature and culture. ![]() Moore: I promessi sposi (the original Italian title of The Betrothed) is a beautiful, sweeping novel that every Italian has read. ![]() Keane: This book was a commitment to read I can only imagine what it was like to read in a different language, then translate. "Manzoni forged the modern Italian language, and his novel-yes, he wrote only one-is still the greatest novel in the Italian language." Moore has been edited for length, clarity and style. For many years, he was also an interpreter at the United Nations and a full-time staff member of the Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations. He is the former chair of the PEN/Heim Translation Fund and has a doctorate in Italian from New York University. Moore’s published translations range from 20th-century classics to contemporary novels. The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni (Author) and Michael F. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Red Hot by K.A. Merikan![]() “No one had ever kissed him the way Max had, and no one had ever fucked him with such ferocity.” Upon being freed, Max makes a surprise trip to finally meet Dayton and that is when the unexpected happens. During this time, Max and Dayton corresponded providing friendship and comfort to each other and knowing why Max was imprisoned made Dayton feel as though heroes actually existed. Max is a former professional boxer who was incarcerated for three years. ![]() ![]() “You gotta risk a bit if you want results.” Living alone with his cat, Cinnamon, Dayton has dreams but doesn’t believe he’ll ever be able to escape this small town and live as he wishes. Since then, Dayton learned to keep to himself in an effort to avoid any other confrontations or unwanted attention. ![]() Having grown up in this small town, he experienced hatred and intolerance as a teen when he was outed for gay. Dayton is a meek receptionist at a struggling hotel in Montana. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Glory and the dragonets are determined to find the missing dragons, even if it drags the peaceful RainWing kingdom where they never wanted to be - in the middle of the war. The WINGS OF FIRE saga continues The other dragon tribes think that the RainWings are peaceful at best-and lazy at worst-but Glorys friends know shes. Worst of all, they don't realize - or care - that RainWings are going missing from their beautiful forest. They nap all day and know nothing of the rest of Pyrrhia. except, of course, no one knows it.When the dragonets seek shelter in the rain forest, Glory is devastated to find that the treetops are full of RainWings that no dragon could ever call dangerous. After all, she isn't "as lazy as a RainWing" - she isn't lazy at all! Maybe she wasn't meant to be one of the dragonets of destiny, as the older dragons constantly remind her, but Glory is sharp and her venom is deadly. ![]() Deep in the rain forest, danger awaits.Glory knows the dragon world is wrong about her tribe. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer![]() They'd often go out of business or close for some other reason. She kept another scrapbook of the history of her life so that when her father found her she could catch him up on her life.Īddie was a great restaurant cook but didn't have good luck in choosing the best restaurants to work for. In fact, she kept a "Dads" scrapbook with pictures from magazines of men who looked like good "dad" candidates. Hope held on to the dream that her father was searching for her and that someday they would reunite. Deena claimed that she didn't know who Hope's father was but Hope didn't believe her. Deena "gave" Hope to Addie to raise.Īddie had been married and had wanted children but suffered three miscarriages and her husband left her for another woman. Deena was not equipped to raise a child-she was too caught up in her own life and her string of lovers. Hope's mother, Deena, had named her Tulip, a name which Hope hated and later had legally changed to Hope-because hope is a good thing to have. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But she had an inner strength that stayed with her throughout her young life. When she was born, she only weighed a little over two pounds, and the doctors didn't have much hope that she would survive. Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer is the story of Hope Yancy, a sixteen-year-old girl who is being raised by her aunt Addie. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The vampire diaries volume 1![]() ![]() The first omnibus of the Vampire Diaries, The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening and The Struggle, is the first two books of the Vampire Diaries combined into one. Speaking of The Vampire Diaries, that is going to be the book review this week. This week, I'm getting the second book in the Chronicles of Nick series, Invincible, I also plan on finishing The Vampire Diaries: The Return: Midnight this week. Due to the love I have for the show that I would like to remain untainted, I will not be continuing this series. To make things even worse, when she discovers he is a vampire, she doesn't freak out like any normal human would have done. She fixates on him and when he is eventually hers, she becomes one of those girlfriends where their boyfriends are their life. She treats people like they're minions and her one goal in life is to be with Stefan. Granted, I am not a huge fan of her on the show, but I hate her even more in the book. One character I just cannot get over is Elena. ![]() For starters, the characters aren't even the same people as the show and when I mean they aren't the same, I mean names, descriptions, and personalities. ![]() Usually I read the book before the adaption, but I decided to make an exception since I love this tv show so much. Recently, I discovered the show was loosely based off a book series. ![]() I recently was introduced to it by my friend and I have been binge watching it for months. Now "The Vampire Diaries" is one of my favorite tv shows. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Paul o zelinsky wheels on the bus![]() endless subplots playing out only through the illustrations.the boy with the box of kittens, the musician with the guitar whose end destination is the city library, the orange scooter that tails the bus a while. The testament to the true strength of the illustrations is that the book stands up to marathon rereadings- 10 times, 20 times in a row and there is still something new to notice in the illustrations. For example, the page where the babies on the bus cry 'wah! wah! wah!' there are only a few eye and mouth movements, but it creates the illusion of an animated panorama of wailing babies and distressed mothers in only a couple slight movements.Īlso, even the pull tabs for the moving parts are integrated in to the illustrations- one is a food, or when pulled it reveals additional text. This maybe my favorite pop up book of all time because he doesn't try to wow you with any amazing pop-out paper architecture, the moving parts work in harmony with and compliment the illustrations. ![]() While I may be tiring of singing the song, I still love Zelinsky's illustrations. We keep it up on a high shelf because it is a more delicate book and she will stand in front of the shelf and yell, "Bus! Bus! Bus!" ![]() ![]() I read Wheels on the bus at least 30 times this weekend. We were given this pop-up book as a gift and in the last week it has become my 17 month old daughters OBSESSION. I first read this in the 1990s when it came out, but appreciate it on a whole new level now. ![]() |