![]() ![]() I loved the chemistry between Hayden and Jace. Oh this book was way too short! I did not realize it was a novella until after the fact, and now I want more! I think I read this book in an hour, it was such a fast read. But when the night is over, will Jace be able to let her go? And will Hayden leave with her heart intact? In one last attempt to keep her, Jace offers Hayden the one thing she wants: a night of hot sex, no strings attached. When fate traps them in the storage room of his bar together, barely contained desire simmers to surface. Hayden isn’t just leaving the country, she’s risking her life-just when he’s realized he’s in love with her. The second? Figure out why her best friend, sexy bar owner Jace Jennings, stopped speaking to her the night she told him about the job. The first thing on her list? Erase the memory of her cheating ex with a wild night of anonymous sex. Hayden Summers just landed the job of a lifetime taking pictures for Time magazine, but she’s determined to leave with no regrets. ![]()
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As the Boxer Rebellion gains momentum, Vibiana must decide whether to abandon her Christian friends or to commit herself fully to Christianity.īoxers & Saints is one of the most ambitious graphic novels First Second has ever published. ![]() A girl whose village has no place for her is taken in by Christian missionaries and finds, for the first time, a home with them. Against all odds, their grass-roots rebellion is successful.īut in the second volume, Yang lays out the opposite side of the conflict. Little Bao, inspired by visions of the Chinese gods, joins a violent uprising against the Western interlopers. The first is of Little Bao, a Chinese peasant boy whose village is abused and plundered by Westerners claiming the role of missionaries. Boxers & Saints is a groundbreaking novel in two volumes, presenting two parallel tales about young people caught up on opposite sides of a violent rift. ![]() In two volumes, Boxers & Saints tells two parallel stories. One of the greatest comics storytellers alive brings all his formidable talents to bear in this astonishing new work. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rewatching this episode nearly 15 years later, I became stuck on what Boondocks creator and head writer Aaron McGruder’s idea of a “nigga” is. Ī “Nigga Moment,” as described by character Huey Freeman during the first season of the Adult Swim series The Boondocks, is when “ignorance overwhelms the mind of an otherwise logical Negro male, causing him to act, well, like a nigga.” At face value, it was a simple and funny premise when first introduced in the 2005 episode “Granddad’s Fight,” as barbed commentary wrapped in wry observational humor. What was the world like when you first considered this piece of culture, and what’s changed? Does it hold up as timeless, or is it better left to the past? Pitch us at. ![]() Hits Different is a new series that takes a second look at a TV show, song, album, episode, movie, scene, or clip from the past that, in our current context, just hits different. ![]() ![]() ![]() But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson’s Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. ![]() ![]() I listened to this book narrated by Tom Stechschulte, who gave each character a distinct voice. There is a strong feeling of reality to the story and setting: Small town life means that almost everyone knows the details of everyone else’s life, from who drives what truck to who is sleeping at whose house. Haruf reveals the traits of the seven main characters only as the plot requires so that there is always a sense of the private nature of each person. The characters are so well drawn that it is easy to care about what happens to them. ![]() ![]() Rather than wallowing in the negative, Haruf punctuates the novel with laugh-out-loud moments, especially when he focuses on the aging bachelor McPheron brothers.ĭon't be thrown off by the publisher's summary of this novel, which implies that the book is a bit of a soap opera. Each character's personality has been molded by a difficult or tragic event, but each one faces life head-on, bucking up in the stereotypical Midwest fashion. The common thread among them is another schoolteacher, who lives alone with her senile father. Plainsong, set in a small plains town in Colorado, revolves around two groups of three people-a schoolteacher and his two young sons and two bachelor ranchers and the pregnant teenager they take into their lives. Every once in a while I post mini-reviews of books I read in my pre-blogging days. ![]() In the years before I started blogging, I kept notes about the books I read. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although Truffaut had intended to quickly publish. ![]() During August 1962 and with Helen Scott acting as translator, Truffaut interviewed Hitchcock at his Universal Studios office, recording over 25 hours of discussion to tape. The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection will be available on September 8, 2020. The full breakdown of special features and the cover art for the 4K + Blu-ray + Digital release is below. The experience convinced Truffaut that only a prolonged in-depth interview would allow him to breach Hitchcock's defences. There had been no official confirmation of this uncut version until now, but a few videos like the one below point out the small scenes and differences that appear to come from the original uncut version. Rumors of the "uncut" Psycho began with the German television print of Psycho, which had a few noticeable differences from the 2010 Blu-ray release of Psycho. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When a guest drowns in a diving incident the following day, Elin starts to suspect that there’s nothing accidental about these deaths. But the victim wasn’t a guest-she wasn’t meant to be on the island at all. Once the playground of a serial killer, it’s rumored to be cursed.ĭetective Elin Warner is called to the retreat when a young woman’s body is found on the rocks below the yoga pavilion in what seems to be a tragic fall. But someone's here for revenge.Īn eco-wellness retreat has opened on an island off the English coast, promising rest and relaxation-but the island itself, known locally as Reaper’s Rock, has a dark past. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Sanatorium, a Reese’s Book Club Pick, detective Elin Warner’s second outing, as she uncovers the truth behind the suspicious deaths on a stunning island getaway. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In his account Mark Twain assumes two alternate roles: at times the no-nonsense American who refuses to automatically venerate the famous sights of the Old World (preferring Lake Tahoe to Lake Como), or at times the put-upon simpleton, a gullible victim of flatterers and "frauds," and an awestruck admirer of Russian royalty. The Innocents Abroad (1869), based largely on letters written for New York and San Francisco papers, narrates the progress of the first American organized tour of Europe-to Naples, Smyrna, Constantinople, and Palestine. The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It (sometimes called The Innocents at Home) were immensely successful when first published and they remain today the most popular travel books ever written. This Library of America volume contains the novels that, when published, transformed an obscure Western journalist into a national celebrity. ![]() |