5/11/2023 0 Comments Scrap Metal by Harper FoxWarning: Contains explicit M/M sex and the disruption of a quiet Scottish town by a fistfight and some tight designer jeans.Īs you all know by now I only post reviews of books that really blow me away. He’s given his heart away, and it’s time to pay the price. When tragedy strikes, Cam’s resolutely held secret is finally revealed and Nichol must face the truth. Even his grandfather takes to the cheeky city boy, whose hard work and good head for figures help set the farm back on its feet.Īs the cold Scottish springtime melts into summer, Nichol finds himself falling in love. Somehow, Cam quickly charms his way through Nichol’s defenses and into his heart. Something about the young man’s tired resignation touches Nichol deeply, and instead of giving him the business end of a shotgun, he offers Cam a blanket and a place to stay. He says his name is Cam, and he’s on the run from a Glasgow gang. Nichol? Not so much.Īs lambing season progresses in the teeth of an icy north wind, the last straw is the intruder Nichol catches in the barn. His late brother and mother had been well suited to life on Seacliff Farm. Now he’s hip deep in sheep, mud and collies. One year ago, before Fate took a wrecking ball to his life, Nichol was happily working on his doctorate in linguistics. Is there room for love in a heart full of secrets?
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Rudyard kipling quotes ifReaders Who Like This Quotation Also Like: Based on Topics: Nature QuotesĪ big part of letting go is recognizing when it is time to stay in a situation and when it is time to move on. If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you. More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.Īnd your rooms at college was beastly - more like a whore's than a man's.įifty-nine year old Richard Smith, of Sylvania Township, doesn't need a state poet laureate - or someone like Maya Angelou reading a poem at Bill Clinton's 1993 presidential inauguration - to appreciate poetry. More Quotes from Rudyard Kipling:Too little to love or to hate. Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. 5/11/2023 0 Comments The People Therein by Mildred Lee70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces swarmed into South Vietnam. In 1968, at the age of 50 years old, Mildred was alive when on January 31st, the North Vietnamese launched the Tet Offensive, a turning point in the Vietnam War. The Army allegations were found to be true. Army accused Roy Cohn (chief counsel to Senator McCarthy and later trusted mentor of Donald Trump) of blackmail. In 1954, at the age of 36 years old, Mildred was alive when from April 22 through June 17th, the Army v. It took 20 months of fighting for the Allies to reach the northern borders of Italy. After the Armistice was made public on September 8th, Germany attacked and occupied Italy. Under the terms of the Armistice, Italy surrendered to the Allied Powers. In 1943, by the time she was 25 years old, on September 3rd, the Armistice of Cassibile was signed in Sicily. It took another six months of negotiations to sign an actual peace treaty between the warring parties. This meant a complete defeat of Germany although Germany never formally surrendered. In 1918, in the year that Mildred Y Lee was born, on November 11th, an armistice was signed between the Allies and Germany, ending the fighting on the Western Front in World War I. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Mildred's lifetime. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Vampire breathBecause now there's a vampire in Freddy's basement. They should have never opened that bottle of Vampire Breath. Before they found the bottle of Vampire Breath.Poor Freddy and Cara. This can be anything from an object to a piece of property to an actual person. But that was before they went exploring in Freddy's basement. They run into a girl, Gwendolyn, who claims she's a human slave of the vampires and offer help. Freddy and Cara wind up chased into an underground lair where Nightwing's vampire minion rest. 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Painter looks at the free black population, numbering close to half a million by 1860 (compared to almost four million slaves), and provides a gripping account of the horrible conditions of slavery itself. The book describes the staggering number of Africans-over ten million-forcibly transported to the New World, most doomed to brutal servitude in Brazil and the Caribbean. Painter offers a history written for a new generation of African Americans, stretching from life in Africa before slavery to today's hip-hop culture. Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter blends a vivid narrative based on the latest research with a wonderful array of artwork by African American artists, works which add a new depth to our understanding of black history. Here is a magnificent account of a past rich in beauty and creativity, but also in tragedy and trauma. 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But this film isn’t a nostalgia trip, like Netflix’s ’80s-worshipping SF/horror series Stranger Things its references are, for the most part, subtler and more entertaining. Hawkins’ “Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover,” among other tunes. As the title indicates, the first film takes place in the ’90s, and director/co-writer Leigh Janiak drives this point home by somewhat excessively loading up the soundtrack with classic songs from the era-the movie’s first 20 minutes, for instance, feature Nine Inch Nails’ “Closer,” Bush’s “Machinehead,” Portishead’s “Sour Times,” Cypress Hill’s “Insane in the Brain,” and Sophie B. The Satanic Verses: A Novel The Satanic Verses: A Novel: Salman Rushdie: 9780312270827: : Books Skip to main content. 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A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color. You can read this before Bluets PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Bluets written by Maggie Nelson which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Bluets by Maggie Nelson 5/10/2023 0 Comments Josie silver new book 2021After one year, at a Christmas party, Laurie was shell shocked to find that he’s the same man her best friend Sarah is deeply in love with. Up until then, she didn’t believe in love at first sight but that day changes everything.īoth their eyes meet and before she could do anything the bus drives away leaving her dejected. On a snowy Christmas day, Laurie James sees a man through a bus window and she instantly knows that he’s the one. One day in December is such a serendipitous discovery for me. Thus it proves again that the best feeling is to have a surprise when you least expect it. But I ended up reading 200 pages of it without a break. I picked it up nonchalantly just to read the first couple of pages and see how it was. But quite unexpectedly I had a great time reading this one. I had no expectations whatsoever for this book as I was let down by my last read. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Nick bostrom booksAnd in our post-Industrial Revolution era it shrunk to a mere 90 minutes.Ī technological advancement like the advent of superintelligent machines would mean radical change for the world as we know it. This number dropped to two centuries during the Agricultural Revolution in 5,000 BC. For instance, did you know that the pace of major revolutions in technology has been increasing over time? For example, improving at the snail’s pace of a few hundred thousand years ago, human technology would have needed one million years to become economically productive enough to sustain the lives of an additional million people. So what would the emergence of a new species, intellectually superior to humans, mean for the world?įirst we’ll need to review a bit of history. In essence, our superior intelligence propelled us to the top. What fundamentally sets us apart from the beasts of the field? Well, the main difference between human beings and animals is our capacity for abstract thinking paired with the ability to communicate and accumulate information. |