6/26/2023 0 Comments The bridge kingdom series in order![]() ![]() ![]() The writing is done well, with beautiful descriptions and in-depth characters. She finds herself torn between being the spy, and being the person to bring the two kingdoms together. Their marriage very much begins this way, but she sees different sides of him and his kingdom, that she was never taught. Lara is trained to steal his kingdom secrets, find ways to bring him down and kill him. ![]() You hear from Lara and Aren who are married for an alliance between kingdoms. Moral dilemma, weighty decisions, enemies-to-lovers and more. Also, book 2 is coming out at the end of the month, and it’s only being released in audio. I decided to reread it and get it on my site. (4.5 / 5) Loved it! I listened to this last June and I found myself thinking about it after I was done. **As an Amazon associate I earn from qualifying purchases. ![]()
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6/26/2023 0 Comments Nate blakeslee books![]() ![]() ![]() But the story is much bigger than the tale of just one bust. Anthony Lukas prize for excellence in nonfiction, Tulia is the story of this town, the bust, the trials, and the heroic legal battle that ultimately led to the reversal of the convictions. Despite the flimsiness of the evidence against them, virtually all of the defendants were convicted and given sentences as high as ninety-nine years. At trial, the prosecution relied almost solely on the uncorroborated, and contradictory, testimony of one police officer. In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty-nine people, almost all of them black, were arrested and charged with dealing powdered cocaine. a modern day To Kill a Mockingbird - or would, that is, if the novel were a true story and Atticus had won” ( New York Times Book Review) This true story of race and injustice in a small west Texas town “resembles. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a child and adolescent I read a ton of Sci-Fi which sparked my love of reading. ![]() You can live a long and fulfilled life without reading science fiction, but in my opinion you may be missing out and your life may have an additional bit of spice and merriment if you read a sci-fi book now and then. At the end of this IFOD I have a few recommendations. If the last science fiction book you tried was Fahrenheit 451 in high school, you may want to try sci-fi again. I know a lot of readers who say they don’t like science fiction, or that “science fiction is crap” (well 90% of most everything is crap). If you don’t read fiction, check out this IFOD about why reading fiction provides great benefits: Fiction or Non-Fiction, Which is Better? Reading both fiction and non-fiction is valuable. ![]() Screenshot from upcoming movie “Dune” based on the book by Frank HerbertĪre you a reader? If you are, good for you! Reading has a lot of benefits including possibly resulting in a longer life span, and benefiting your children’s future success. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Odalisque by Annabel Joseph![]() ![]() As time's gone by, I've started writing more romantic BDSM stuff and less hardcore stuff, although I've been itching lately to write something more in the style of my earlier work. Those are the books that seem to resonate most with my TPE and hard kink readers. ![]() I am, at heart, a romance author who just happens to be kinky and turned on by the hard stuff! These books are all romances, with happily ever afters. There's Comfort Object, which definitely deals in humiliation and intense sexual kink. Then there's Mercy, which is super intense and kinda controversial, but my TPE folks seem to LOVE it. Then Burn For You is the final book with both their points of view. There's the Club Mephisto series (which is Club Mephisto/Molly's Lips/Burn For You.) Club Mephisto and Molly's Lips tell the same story of a TPE relationship, but Club Mephisto is from her surrendered/slave point of view, while Molly's LIps is from the Master's point of view. Hi Heather! Yay, I'm excited! If you're into TPE and force-type books, I would suggest some of my earlier work. ![]() ![]() ![]() He did lots of research for his books but occasionally made up a scientific 'fact' if it suited the story. His stories were of fantastic adventures with a degree of realism in the descriptions of events and scientific content - he was a pioneer of science fiction. In the early 1860s, a magazine manager liked one of his adventure stories and gave him a contract to write similar stories for the next twenty years! The collected stories became known as Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires. He returned home and promised his mother that in future he would imagine travelling - this proved to be a prophetic remark. ![]() When he was eleven years old he tried, unsuccessfully, to run away to sea. Jules Verne (1828 - 1905) lived and died in France but developed an early passion for travel. Verne is often referred to as the 'Father of science fiction' because he wrote about space, air and underwater travel before aeroplanes, spacecrafts and submarines were invented. He is best known for his novels A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island and Around the World in Eighty Days. Jules Verne was born on February 8, 1828, in the city of Nantes, France. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Atlas by Eden Finley![]() ![]() ![]() no OW or OM drama at all - its not as much fun for me if they don't have choices □ - it also makes the j/p stuff a little hollow.I think that might just be the nature of a lead book in a series. there are a lot of characters in this book.I was worried I wasn't going to like the HFN ending, but it wasn't too bad, and made me look forward to the next books.she's super clever, but there's no doubt that he's in charge □.he makes a conscious decision to not wear a condom, and he doesn't consult her at all □.I guess is was the *right* mafia business □♀️ lots of mafia business but somehow still held my attention.the H is a mafia Prince - he's a j/p alpha - aggressive, fierce, and protective □ - struggling to find his place independent of his father.I loved that she managed to be strong without flashing a gun or throwing down with the dudes. h is a 20-yr old numbers and hacker prodigy with her v-card - she's clever, brave, and vulnerable.Did I devour it? You betcha! □ Fantastic lead off to a series ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Zamyatin![]() ![]() ![]() We is set at the end of the third Millennium in the One State, a highly mechanized state protected by a barrier, the Green Wall, from the outside world. The Soviet censorship officially banned We in 1924, although chapters of it appeared in 1927 on the review Volja Rossii, founded by Russian migrant writers in Prague: these fragments became an excuse to launch a campaign against Zamjatin, who expatriated in 1931 to France, where he died in 1937. ![]() Zamyatin had to face many vicissitudes in order to publish his novel, which contained a harsh critique of the socialist regime in the USSR. It was written between 19, but a complete Russian version of We was published only in 1988 when the perestroika encouraged the rediscovery of censored literature. We (My), by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin, is to be considered the progenitor of all dystopian novels of the XX century. If you have enjoyed binge-watching on Black Mirror and you are looking for something interesting to read, then you will probably appreciate a good old dystopian novel.įor an exhaustive definition of what a dystopia is, I highly recommend you to watch this animated TED-Ed. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this riveting and deeply insightful book, Bhutto explores the complicated history between the Middle East and the West. She was a renaissance woman who offered a way out. With her experience governing Pakistan and living and studying in the West, Benazir Bhutto was versed in the complexities of the conflict from both sides. She believed that by enabling dictators, the West was actually contributing to the frustration and extremism that lead to terrorism. Bhutto persuasively argues that America and Britain are fueling this turn toward radicalization by supporting groups that serve only short-term interests. ![]() With extremist Islam on the rise throughout the world, the peaceful, pluralistic message of Islam has been exploited and manipulated by fanatics. In Reconciliation, Bhutto recounts in gripping detail her final months in Pakistan and offers a bold new agenda for how to stem the tide of Islamic radicalism and to rediscover the values of tolerance and justice that lie at the heart of her religion. But she continued to forge ahead, with more courage and conviction than ever, since she knew that time was running out for the future of her nation, and for her life. Upon a tumultuous reception, she survived a suicide-bomb attack that killed nearly two hundred of her countrymen. ![]() Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan in October 2007, after eight years of exile, hopeful that she could be a catalyst for change. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Les miserables volume 1![]() Emerging from prison after 19 years, his soul is immersed in anger, bitterness, hatred and a feeling of vengeance against society. The best years of his life have been wasted because of the iniquities and injustice of the prevailing social order. Other than Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" I do not know any single novel in world literature which seeks to present a unique philosophy to change the world and give a new direction to human existence.Īccording to me, the plot-theme is : "The step-by-step purification of a man's soul and his achievement of spiritual perfection." ![]() Such an important, profound and philosophical theme could only have been selected by a visionary such as Victor Hugo - whom I consider the greatest novelist of the 19th Century. ![]() The theme of this masterpiece is : "The projection and glorification of a moral-spiritual force based on Love, Compassion and above all Conscience, aimed at overthrowing the existing order of human existence and establish a new world where these cardinal values will guide human life." In "Les Miserables", Hugo has given the best expression that his genius could to this element. With a few exceptions, such as Ayn Rand, there is no writer in world literature who has portrayed such a grand, noble, sublime and inspiring image of man as Victor Hugo. If you are the kind of person thirsting for the image of Man as a being to whom nothing is impossible - and to whom everything great is possible, then "Les Miserables" is the novel for you. ![]() ![]() "Les Miserables" : Victor Hugo's grestest achievement ![]() ![]() ![]() Published in the United States of America In a very small number of instances, the order of events given is not the exact order in which they occurred this was done chiefly to maintain thematic cohesion between chapters, and only in such cases where, by the author’s judgment, the substance of the story was not affected. Scenes and dialogue were rendered as closely as possible to how the author remembers them. The events were written mostly from memory, and, when available, from the author’s personal journals. All the people in the book are real and the events described actually took place. ![]() Many of the names, and some minor identifying details, have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals. To these organizations and individuals we offer our heartfelt thanks.ĭisclaimer: This is a work of creative nonfiction. ![]() Significant support has also been provided by the Jerome Foundation, Target, the McKnight Foundation,, and other generous contributions from foundations, corporations, and individuals. This publication is made possible, in part, by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund, and through a grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota. ![]() |