![]() ![]() She has a new roommate, Petra, who never seems to leave the room, and makes a new friend in Gaines. ![]() She’s on the outs with Arthur over a perceived slight, and thinks that he is flirting with her nemesis, Bronwyn. ![]() *Review Contributed by Karen Yingling, Staff Reviewer*Īfter spending winter break in her Oklahoma hometown in So, This is Christmas, Finley returns to her prestigious boarding school in Connecticut, bringing her best friend Ayisha with her. Once again, Tracy Andreen has proven that no one writes a holiday rom-com like her. So, This Is Love is a perfect read for the Valentine’s Day season, or for anyone looking for a delightful romantic comedy that has just a dash of drama. Finley is at a loss when navigating the complexities of her new (maybe) relationship, which could very well turn into love. Finley and Arthur are back at boarding school and neither quite knows where the other stands-are they couple? Are they not a couple? What does one magical Christmas Eve kiss in Oklahoma mean for their relationship status? This confusion isn’t helped by the re-entry of old enemies into their school lives, especially ones that may or may not be crushing on Arthur. ![]()
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![]() The characters are always so easy to root for and I love the Ren Faire setting, so I have high hopes for this latest installment. This is the fourth book in DeLuca’s Well Met series and I’ve enjoyed every book so far. My selection for this week is WELL TRAVELED by Jen DeLuca. It is a meme that I have loved participating in since I first started blogging, but as Jill is no longer actively posting, from now on I’ll be linking to Can’t Wait Wednesday, hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings, which is a spinoff of the original WoW meme. “Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, which encourages fellow bloggers to spotlight upcoming releases that we’re excited about. ![]() ![]() ![]() I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, To be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, To be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile, * This reminded me of a beautiful poem by the Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh, titled “Call Me By My True Names”: ![]() And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time…īut, perhaps, the secret of happiness is to do precisely that. ![]() I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person.* But I am not omniscient. My love’s not impersonal yet not wholly subjective either. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Among the diary entires and letters to friends, culled by Plath’s husband, Ted Hughes, their children, Frieda and Nicholas, and Smith College rare books curator Karen Kukil, is this existential gem from July 1950, when Plath was 18 years old - a meditation so emphatic, so embracing of the world, so full of presence, it makes it hard, tragic even, to know that only twelve years later, this wholehearted being would take her own life. Her recently uncovered stunning drawings inspired me to revisit The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, who began keeping journals at the age of eleven and remained a diarist until her death at the age of thirty. ![]() ![]() So we know that it's really handy for dealing with pain that's being inflicted on you. ![]() Not only that: when afterwards you're asked about how painful that experience felt, you report that cold water as feeling much milder than the water that you had your hand in while you were using some neutral word. ![]() When you stick your hands, for example, in freezing cold water, you can stand it for about half as long again if you’re using a single swear word than if you're using a single neutral word. HZ: Another reason swearing is good for you: it relieves pain.ĮMMA BYRNE: That is really potent and surprisingly well documented. ![]() It's also really useful individually, both for a cathartic side of things when you do something painful or frustrating, letting it out there. Sometimes it needs to be something stronger than just putting your arm around their shoulder going, "Oh there, there". I feel the strength of your emotions," like saying "Fuck that shit" when someone comes to you with something that's obviously upset them. It's also a really good way of bonding, of saying "I hear you. EMMA BYRNE: It's good for us socially, in that it is this really useful telegraph of our emotions it's a good way of avoiding physical conflict. ![]() ![]() Blackbourne, they will have to stay strong and engaged. They all promised not to make a move on Sang unless she initiates, but the tension is driving them all to distraction. Hendrick's spies, watching all of them? Kota, Victor, Silas, Nathan, Gabriel, Luke and North will have to focus to get out of this mess, but with Sang assisting them, they're struggling to keep control. ![]() Where will Sang go? What will happen to Nathan? And what about Mr. She wants them out-all of them - and wants them to take Sang with them. Sang offers Nathan refuge in her home, but Marie is fed up with the boys. Adding to their complications, Nathan's father shows up, and he's just as ruthless and violent as ever, beating up on Nathan. ![]() They work together to uncover the true secrets happening at Ashley Waters High School, where Principal Hendricks will stop at nothing to take them all down. Sang Sorenson struggles with her growing feelings when the Academy boys take her in and draw her closer into their world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As with man-made machines, this damage can periodically be repaired, leading to indefinite extension of the machine's fully functional lifetime, just as is routinely done with classic cars. They explain that the aging of the human body, just like the aging of man-made machines, results from an accumulation of various types of damage. de Grey and his research assistant Michael Rae describe the details of this biotechnology. de Grey believes that the key biomedical technology required to eliminate aging-derived debilitation and death entirely-technology that would not only slow but periodically reverse age-related physiological decay, leaving us biologically young into an indefinite future-is now within reach. ![]() As has been reported in media outlets ranging from 60 Minutes to The New York Times, Dr. Aubrey de Grey is perhaps the most bullish of all such researchers. With a New Afterword Must We Age? Nearly all scientists who study the biology of aging agree that we will someday be able to substantially slow down the aging process, extending our productive, youthful lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() As such, Candide is the story of education of its hero, a young and naïve man called Candide, raised in a Westphalian baron’s estate and truly believing his preacher Pangloss that all is for good in this world and things cannot be different from what they are. Candide can be viewed as “a satire on systems a discussion of the problem of evil a comparison of Utopia and reality a pursuit of the secret of happiness an education…” (Pearson 110). Voltaire’s renowned shrewd outlook and sober judgment found reflection in his famous satire Candide, or Optimism – a book which, met with a scandal immediately after publication, has enjoyed great popularity for centuries due to the vital and burning problems discussed in it. In the scope of classical literature, the writings of Francois Voltaire occupy a prominent position. ![]() ![]() ![]() © Laken Cane (P) Laken Cane Show more Show less You're getting a free audiobook. ![]() Gruesome murders begin to pop up in River County, and Rune is introduced to the bird shifters-to one bird in particular, a woman named Cree Stark. ![]() A novel by Laken Cane Obsidian Wings is book four in the Rune Alexander series. Similarly to the Daybreak, the Tentacle Spike embeds the Tentacle Spike projectile into an enemy on a hit, each dealing 3 damage every second. On The Constant seed, the drop chance is increased to a 1*1/ (1%) chance. The Tentacle Spike is a pre-Hardmode melee weapon dropped by the Eater of Souls, Devourer, Crimera, Face Monster, and Blood Crawler with a *1/ (%) chance. Start by marking “Obsidian Wings (Rune Alexander, #4)” as Want to Read: Want to Read. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Obsidian Wings (Rune Alexander, #4) by Laken Cane. Gruesome murders begin to pop up in River County, and Rune is introduced to the bird shifters-to one bird in. Rating: Pages: Purchase: Share: Description Obsidian Wings is book four in the Rune Alexander series. Book Lists Laken Cane Obsidian Wings Published: May Formats: Print / eBook. Rune is definitely one of my favorite characters, in any book I've pretty much ever read. Review from Ashley 5 of 5 stars Obsidian Wings Laken Cane has a way with words. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gabe Habash is the fiction reviews editor for Publishers Weekly. Profane, manic, and tipping into the uncanny, it's a story of loneliness, obsession, and the drive to leave a mark. Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Lifeįoxcatcher meets The Art of Fielding, Stephen Florida follows a college wrestler in his senior season, when every practice, every match, is a step closer to greatness and a step further from sanity. ![]() This is a shape-shifter of a book, both a dark ode to the mysteries and landscapes of the American West and a complex and convincing character study. Habash has a canny sense of how young men speak and behave, and in Stephen, he's created a singular character: funny, ambitious, affecting, but also deeply troubled, vulnerable, and compellingly strange. In Stephen Florida, Gabe Habash has created a coming-of-age story with its own, often explosive, rhythm and velocity. About the Book A troubled college wrestler in North Dakota falls in love and becomes increasingly unhinged during his final season. ![]() ![]() ![]() He brings the bodies to the shore, where he sees thousands of gulls hovering over the sea. Nat returns home to collect the bodies of the dead birds, but cannot bury them because the ground has frozen solid. Jim, a cowhand, is similarly unconcerned. Trigg of the previous evening’s battle with the birds, she is dismissive of his story, positing that it was simply the weather. He sees his daughter Jill onto the school bus and then visits the farm to check on the Triggs. The next morning Nat insists to his wife that the sudden cold snap and east wind are to blame for the birds’ behavior. When day breaks, fifty birds lie dead on the floor. ![]() Nat ushers the children out of the room before wrapping a blanket around himself and fighting with the birds until dawn. He rushes to their room to find the window open and dozens of birds diving about in attack. Nat scatters them away with his arms, only to hear cries coming from his children’s bedroom. ![]() Upon opening it, half a dozen birds swarm about his face. That evening, Nat awakens to an insistent tapping on his window. ![]() Trigg asserts that the weather must be causing the birds’ behavior, and predicts it will be a hard winter. Upon finishing his work for the day, Nat tells the farmer Mr. Nat Hocken, a war veteran and farmhand with a disability, observes that there seem to be more birds than usual clamoring restlessly over the sea. On the third of December in a quiet, seaside town, the season shifts abruptly from autumn to winter. ![]() |