5/14/2023 0 Comments Chelsea field books![]() ![]() Oh, and the fact that our heroine owes a loan shark money and they visited her mother once to scare her but never went back even after she was running away from them and they wanted to kill her. There is also some "sciencey" explanation for why certain people are picked to be poison-detectors and it's as believable as the rampant poisonings going on in Hollywood. 10 out of 10.Ĭhances of food without slobber in it? Not so awesome. ![]() It's all very hush-hush for some reason.Ĭhances of cuteness? Awesome. So, these food-testers are hired on and hidden as their flunkies so nobody knows they have these poison detectors on hand. Apparently all of those Hollywood drug overdose things are a bunch of hooey. ![]() Our heroine is a food-taster in modern day Los Angeles for a secret society. A strange mix, yes, but it has similarities to both enough to make me confident in that assessment. It reminded me of a combination of Poison Study and Stephanie Plum books. ![]()
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5/14/2023 0 Comments Books by queen afua![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With love, wisdom, and passion, Queen Afua guides us to accept our mission and our mantle as Sacred Women-to heal ourselves, the generations of women in our families, our communities, and our world Book Details Through extraordinary meditations, affirmations, holistic healing plant-based medicine, KMT temple teachings, and The Rites of Passage guidance, Queen Afua teaches us how to love and rejoice in our bodies by spiritualizing the words we speak, the foods we eat, the relationships we attract, the spaces we live and work in, and the transcendent woman spirit we manifest. The twentieth anniversary edition of a transformative blueprint for ancestral healing-featuring new material and gateways, from the renowned herbalist, natural health expert, and healer of women's bodies and souls "This book was one of the first that helped me start practices as a young woman that focused on my body and spirit as one."-Jada Pinkett Smith Queen Afua has more than forty years of experience as a holistic health practitioner and wellness coach. ![]() ![]() I was also in a reading slump at the time, so reading something different for a change really perked me up. Anyway, so I started, paused and then came back to it when the date for the donghua was announced, and then once I started again I practically read it in a frenzy. When I first started this novel, I will admit I was intimidated by its size – with 200+ chapters spanning across 5 books, the complete story is quite a lot, obviously, to undertake it is like reading an omnibus at length. Warnings: body horror, graphic violence and gore, cannibalism, character commits suicide, character attempts suicide, epidemic and mass death, death of children, self-harm, implied child abuse, war and mass murder On his first task as a god, he meets a mysterious demon who rules the ghosts and terrifies the Heavens……yet unbeknownst to Xie Lian, this demon king has been paying attention to him for a very, very long time. ![]() Now, eight hundred years later, Xie Lian ascends to the Heavens for the third time as the laughing stock of all three realms. ![]() Unsurprisingly, he ascended to the Heavens at a very young age. ![]() 天官赐福 by Mò Xiāng TóngxiùĮight hundred years ago, Xie Lian was the Crown Prince of the Xian Le kingdom one who was beloved by his citizens and the darling of the world. ![]() 5/14/2023 0 Comments The Soldier by Grace Burrowes![]() "Captivating… Burrowes's straightforward, sensual love story is intelligent and tender."- Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW Calling on Emmaline to become the girl's governess, he soon learns that she can nurture him too, in ways no other woman ever has before… With her confident manner, the lovely Emmaline Farnum commands all of Devlin's attention, even when he realizes the previous owner's five-year-old daughter has become a fixture on his property. His idyllic estate is falling down from neglect and nightmares of war give him no rest. ![]() Just, the oldest but illegitimate son of the Duke of Moreland, can find no peace. "Grace Burrowes is terrific." -Julia Quinn, NYT bestselling author of the Bridgerton seriesĪ New York Times and USA Today bestseller from Grace Burrowes's lush Regency series, featuring the beloved Windham family and a duke obsessed with getting his sons married…Ī beautiful neighbor who could be his salvationĮven in the quiet countryside, Devlin St. ![]() 5/14/2023 0 Comments Witches of lychford![]() ![]() This is Cornell at the height of his craft. ![]() Beautifully written, perfectly cruel, and ultimately kind. This is the story of a village, not a city, and all the more powerful for that not all big fantasy needs an urban setting. PRAISE FOR Paul Cornell's THE WITCHES OF LYCHFORD At once epic and terribly intimate. ![]() But if she is to have her voice heard, she's going to need the assistance of some unlikely allies. Judith Mawson (local crank) knows the truth - that Lychford lies on the boundary between two worlds, and that the destruction of the border will open wide the gateways to malevolent beings beyond imagination. Some welcome the employment opportunities, while some object to the modernization of the local environment. A supermarket wants to build a major branch on their border. The villagers in the sleepy hamlet of Lychford are divided. ![]() ![]() Sonnets contain 14 lines and the Elizabethans grouped these into three quartets followed by a rhyming couplet. I like to think I’ve grown up since then, and have realised that it’s possible to like more than one poet within the literary canon, but my point about the complexity of the structure still stands. In fact, as a teenager, I’m afraid this poem made me somewhat dismissive of Shakespeare and his choice of an ‘easier’ form. ![]() It was the first non-Shakespearean sonnet I ever read. It’s just too tempting to go with a list of how much I adore this poem, though I know my maths will end up being faulty because a short blog post can never do full justice to this most powerful of love poems.ġ. Number 43 in the Barrett Browning’s sequence ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ is an enduring favourite and I defy anyone to read it and remain unmoved. I’m not going for cynicism today though, instead I’m going to revel in one of the most perfect love poems ever written. Valentine’s day can be a time for cliches, commercialisation and churlish rage. I shall but love thee better after death. Smiles, tears, of all my life and, if God choose, In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. ![]() Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. ![]() My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight ![]() I love thee to the depth and breadth and height How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. ![]() 5/14/2023 0 Comments Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller![]() The “orcamancer,” as she’s known, very subtly brings together four people-each living on the periphery-to stage unprecedented acts of resistance. When a strange new visitor arrives-a woman riding an orca, with a polar bear at her side-the city is entranced. ![]() The city’s denizens have become accustomed to a roughshod new way of living however, the city is starting to fray along the edges-crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside direst poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called “the breaks” is ravaging the population. ![]() After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Uncanny valley memoir![]() ![]() “I was an intelligent artifice, an empathetic text, a snippet or a warm voice, giving instructions, listening comfortingly,” she writes. Helping company clients, she often felt like she was one step above artificial intelligence. Friends who had left the city warned her that the San Francisco they loved had been replaced by “a late capitalist hellscape” that catered to the “on-demand” whims of young techies with “plump bank accounts.” Wiener quickly learned that the tech workplace was younger, more casual, and more male-dominant than she had expected. ![]() A former tech worker–turned-journalist gives the inside scoop on life inside the wickedly weird and wealthy world of Silicon Valley startups.īefore Wiener took a customer support job at a San Francisco–based tech startup, she was a broke 20-something pursuing dead-end jobs in the New York publishing industry. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Wayward pines kindle![]() ![]() When his off duty he spends most of his time writing and coming up with great stories that the world can associate with. Steven lives with his family in Indiana and it is the place that he has been able to do most of his writing. It is this specific thrill in the naval that has contributed to some of his thrillers. ![]() ![]() In this spell, he controlled aircrafts bombing runs and major naval gunfire strikes. He is accredited for enforcing United Nations sanctions against the Iraq government, as the maritime boarding officer. He has travelled the world for two years on duty in Japan, which makes more than twenty countries that he has travelled across Asia, and the Middle East. His journey around the world has also played a major contribution in his writing skills. This amazing experience in military work has heavily contributed to his writing style and made it unique among other writers. He directed close air support, as the main forward air controller assigned to specialized Marine Corps unit. During this time he led various visit, board, search, and seizure operations as the main operation officer in the Arabian Gulf. with a bachelor of science in English literature in 1993.His next eight years were spent serving on various Navy and Marine Corps unit. Steven Konkoly graduated from the naval academy in U.S. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Secret service by tal bauer![]() ![]() The film received critical acclaim, with praise being directed at the story, themes, characters and animation. ![]() Though it was made before Studio Ghibli was founded, it is often considered a Ghibli work, and was released as part of the Studio Ghibli Collection DVD and Blu-ray range. The Manson cut was derided by Miyazaki and eventually replaced in circulation by an uncut, redubbed version produced by Walt Disney Pictures in 2005. A heavily edited adaptation of the film created by Manson International, Warriors of the Wind, was released in the United States and other markets throughout the mid-to-late 1980s. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind was released in Japan on 11 March 1984. She becomes embroiled in a struggle with Tolmekia, a kingdom that tries to use an ancient weapon to eradicate a jungle full of giant mutant insects. Taking place in a post-nuclear futuristic world, the film tells the story of Nausicaä (Shimamoto), the young teenage princess of the Valley of the Wind. The film stars the voices of Sumi Shimamoto, Gorō Naya, Yōji Matsuda, Yoshiko Sakakibara and Iemasa Kayumi. Joe Hisaishi, in his first collaboration with Miyazaki, composed the score. ![]() It was animated by Topcraft for Tokuma Shoten and Hakuhodo, and distributed by Toei Company. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ( Japanese: 風の谷のナウシカ, Hepburn: Kaze no Tani no Naushika) is a 1984 Japanese post-apocalyptic anime fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, based on his 1982 manga. ![]() |