6/25/2023 0 Comments When dimple met rishi book buySo when his parents tell him that his future wife will be attending the same summer program as him-wherein he’ll have to woo her-he’s totally on board. If they truly believed she needed a husband right now, they wouldn’t have paid for her to attend a summer program for aspiring web developers…right? Dimple knows they must respect her principles on some level, though. With graduation behind her, she’s more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma’s inexplicable obsession with her finding the “Ideal Indian Husband.” Ugh. Spoiler-free Summary: Dimple Shah has it all figured out. There wasn’t any real conflict in this story–things fell together too easily. □ (I’m exaggerating.) I could guess everything that was going to happen five chapters before it actually did. It literally follows every YA trope in existence. One of the reasons why I didn’t like this book was that it was extremely predictable. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized I didn’t particularly enjoy this book as much as I originally believed. The main characters, Dimple and Rishi, are cute together, and the first impression is very nerdy and heartwarming feel where a happily ever after is expected. Things fell together like a stereotypical Disney movie. On a surface level, it was a fun and easy read. I honestly have pretty conflicted feelings about this book.
0 Comments
6/25/2023 0 Comments In the woods synopsis tana frenchSo it’s not particularly remarkable that Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series presents its readers with a portrait of contemporary Ireland wobbling in the aftermath of the Celtic Tiger’s collapse. The detective, an intruder, provides the friction. This is part of the genre’s allure: the windows it opens onto the street life of Victorian London, the sordid fringes of postwar Hollywood, the doldrums of Sweden’s welfare state, and the sooty haunts of working-class Edinburgh. Fictional detectives make handy protagonists because they have license to explore milieus that are off limits to other characters. Even the detective fiction that seems most untethered from real-world concerns-those British country-house puzzles in which ladies in drop-waisted frocks and gentlemen in evening dress gather in the drawing room to hear a sleuth dissect the murderer’s devious plot-murmurs of class and history: the wealth necessary to staff such a house, the far-off lands where Colonel Mustard earned his insignia. They can’t help it without a society to define, condemn, and punish it, crime itself wouldn’t exist. Photograph by Ciarán Óg Arnold for The New YorkerĪll crime novels are social novels. French’s Dublin Murder Squad series inspires cultic devotion in readers. 6/24/2023 0 Comments Dantes the divine comedySecond Circle (Lust) Paolo kissing Francesca Here, Dante sees many prominent people from classical antiquity such as Homer, Socrates,Īristotle, Cicero, Hippocrates, and Julius Caesar. They live in a castle with seven gates which symbolize Punished with eternity in an inferior form of Heaven. First Circle (Limbo) Dante among the great poets of antiquity in Limboĭante’s First Circle of Hell is resided by virtuous non-Christians and unbaptized pagans who are Journey into the underworld or the 9 Circles of Hell. Is rescued by the Roman poet Virgil who is sent by Beatrice (Dante's ideal woman). The poet himself) being lost in a dark wood where he is attacked by three beasts which he cannot escape. The story begins with the narrator (who is Inferno, the first part of Dante's Divine Comedy that inspired the latest Dan Brown'sīestseller of the same title describes the poet's vision of Hell. 6/24/2023 0 Comments Rachel ashwell furnitureBefore we chat about the future, let's discuss the past. And since most of you know Shabby Chic, I assume not much of an intro here is needed, so let's get right into the interview and meet the pioneer of muted California cottage bohemian, Rachel Ashwell.ĭecor8: Hi Rachel, it's such an honor to talk to you today, especially since Shabby Chic has a huge future ahead and we're about to see a lot of great things from you in '08. I did walk away with a bag of poplin bedding and a book she signed for me that I have in my library. a few years back, but was so star stuck that I didn't get to ask her all the questions that this interview allowed me to do. I was beyond thrilled when Rachell Ashwell, founder of the slipcovered empire that is Shabby Chic, agreed to meet with me to discuss her life, her company, and her inspirations. Olmsted's skill at narration, and in assuming the voices of each character as he told the tale, led to a variety of programs, such as Story for Today and World's Greatest Stories. By 1940 the storytelling show was on NBC for a 10 year run.” That was way back in 1939 - and it worked. WBAP gave me some time with which to experiment. Especially the work of that great dramatist who never wrote a play - Edgar Allan Poe. The cheapest drama for radio I could think of was good literature, read aloud. What to do about it? Dramatic shows cost money and there were no budgets. the announcer's life seemed endlessly sterile. For the album notes on his Sleep No More album, he offered a bit of biography: on Januin Minnesota, he was raised in Texas, where he became an announcer for local radio stations. Nelson Olmsted was one of the last great radio horror performers. With her trademark historical fiction exploration into the shadows of the past, acclaimed author Marie Benedict brings us into the world of Agatha Christie, imagining why such a brilliant woman would find herself at the center of such murky historical mysteries. The puzzle of those missing eleven days has persisted. Eleven days later, she reappears, just as mysteriously as she disappeared, claiming amnesia and providing no explanations for her time away. Her World War I veteran husband and her daughter have no knowledge of her whereabouts, and England unleashes an unprecedented manhunt to find the up-and-coming mystery author. Investigators find her empty car on the edge of a deep, gloomy pond, the only clues some tire tracks nearby and a fur coat left in the car-strange for a frigid night. In December 1926, Agatha Christie goes missing. The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room returns with a thrilling reconstruction of one of the most notorious events in literary history: Agatha Christie's mysterious 11-day disappearance in 1926. The ending is ingenious, and it's possible that Benedict has brought to life the most plausible explanation for why Christie disappeared for 11 days in 1926."-The Washington Post THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Inserts with excerpts from Susy's actual journal give added appeal. Place Hold on The extraordinary Mark Twain (according to Susy) Place Hold. Her frank, funny, tender biography (which came to be one of Twain's most prized possessions) gives rare insight and an unforgettable perspective on an American icon. In a journal she kept under her pillow, Susy documented her world-famous father-from his habits (good and bad!) to his writing routine to their family's colorful home life. from the award-winning creators of The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to. They saw Mark Twain as "a humorist joking at everything." But he was so much more, and Susy was determined to set the record straight. ISBN: 9780545222686 Author: Kerley, Barbara / Fotheringham, Edwin (ILT). He has illustrated numerous highly acclaimed nonfiction picture books, such as Barbara Kerleys What to Do About Alice, a Sibert Honor Book and a Boston Globe. Susy Clemens thought the world was wrong about her papa. 6/23/2023 0 Comments Fletch's moxie gregory mcdonaldThe Brave (1991) was adapted into a movie starring Marlon Brando and Johnny Depp. Fletch Lives (1989) was adapted into a 1989 American comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie and starring Chevy Chase. Fletch (1974) was adapted into a 1985 American comedy action thriller movie starring Chevy Chase. Running Scared (1964) was adapted into a 1972 British film by the same name starring Gayle Hunnicutt and Robert Powell. Additionally, Mcdonald wrote other two books in the Skylar series and several non-series and non-mystery books. The Fletch series also spawned another series titled Son of Fletch in which the author introduced Jack Faoni, the illegitimate son of Maurice Fletcher. Flynn appeared in four of his spin-off books. In the second book in the series, Confess, Fletch the author introduced his second protagonist, Inspector Francis Xavier Flynn, an intelligent but aberrant Boston homicide detective who served as a foil for Fletcher. In 1985, the first book in Fletch series was optioned into a film with Chevy Chase playing the role of Fletch, the irreverent investigative reporter. He quit his 4-5 job to become a full-time writer. Mcdonald worked as a teacher before becoming a journalist for the Boston Globe. He attended Harvard University paid his school fees by operating yachts. Mcdonald was born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Gregory Mcdonald was an American author of mystery novels famously known for the creation of the character Irwin Fletcher, an investigative reporter. An author of rare literary talents, Durant (1885–1981) won a wide readership through his ability to make history intriguing, lively, and dramatic. Exceptional for its masterful prose as well as its size and scope, the Story is a powerful combination of style and substance. Reading those volumes-sometimes poring over large portions of them multiple times-would be one of the most enlightening and enjoyable experiences of my life.įirst published between 19, The Story of Civilization is a work of great and enduring value. 1 Although I wanted to learn more about history, I wasn’t sure I wanted to learn that much. Finding the book at the library, I was surprised to see that it was but one volume in a massive series called The Story of Civilization-eleven substantial volumes spanning two feet of shelving. Because my immediate interest was ancient Greece, I decided to try a friend’s recommendation, The Life of Greece by Will Durant. I had taken several history courses but wanted more. Eleven years ago, toward the end of my undergraduate years as a philosophy major at the University of Virginia, I was feeling dissatisfied with my knowledge of history. And the story is, well, a corker."Īs a boy immersed in the scientific adventures of Doc Savage, the wonders of Jules Verne and H.G. NPR calls his work "adventurous and enormously engrossing." and the New York Journal of Books had this to say: "If you're a fan of smart, entertaining adventure fiction, this is your summer beach read writ large.All the science, all the history, and all the locations are masterfully intertwined. The New York Times says that his "roguish charm comes from his efforts to persuade readers the story is credible real-life sources for his novel's science, history and geography." Rollins' rare blend of action, suspense, and knowledge was also mentioned by the Huffington Post, which stated that "After Crichton passed away in 2008 he clearly passed the baton to James Rollins, who like Crichton, is a renaissance man." Known for unveiling unseen worlds, scientific breakthroughs, and historical secrets, Rollins' knack for breakneck pacing and stunning originality has been hailed by critics and embraced by scores of millions of readers around the world. JAMES ROLLINS is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of international thrillers that have been translated into more than forty languages. |