The "Decline and Fall" can be best described as a brilliantly written exposition of Gibbon's views on events after the death of Marcus Aurelius and how these contributed to the downfall of the Roman empire, interwoven within a chronological narrative alongside colorful anecdotes and digressions. This audiobook is absolutely phenomenal-and I have much to say about that-but let me first be clear about what this book is and what it is not. Masterpiece - Best Audiobook I’ve Listened To
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I’m going to start with the first book I read in 2020, which was The Sun-Down Motel, by Simone St. Not sure if that’s too ambitious, but we’ll see! While I’m not sure if I’m going to go with a specific theme for book reviews (only women, or only the classics, only literary fiction, etc.), I’d like to expand my book-reading horizons – lately I’ve been reading a lot of thrillers and romance novels, which I love – and I’m going to try and hit a goal of reading 100 books in 2020. Plus, I love book reviews, and I’ve long wanted to try my hand at writing them myself, but unfortunately, books coverage is a dying beat in the journalism world. I can’t think of a better way to do than to simply read more. I’ve always loved to read (I was definitely that kid who packed at least four or five books into my backpack to take with me on 30-minute runs to the grocery store with my mom, because what if I needed to read them all at that exact moment?) and I’m trying to stretch my creative muscles and really challenge myself to improve my own writing. My personal goal/resolution for 2020 is to spend less time online (doing a great job so far!) and more time reading for fun. Hey, I don’t make the rules! Okay, I do – and I’d like to start publishing book reviews. This blog is a book review appreciation account now. Chinese online fiction is now the largest publishing platform in the world.įueled by her passionate engagement with the arts and ideas of China’s people, Megan Walsh, a brilliant young critic, shows us why it's important to finally pay attention to Chinese fiction-an exuberant drama that illustrates the complex relationship between art and politics, one that is increasingly shaping the West as well. The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you’ve never seen before: a vast migrant-worker poetry movement, homoerotic romances by “rotten girls,” swaggering literary popstars, millionaire e-writers churning out the longest-ever novels, underground comics, the surreal works of Yu Hua, Yan Lianke, and Nobel-laureate Mo Yan, and what is widely hailed as a golden-age of sci-fi. What does contemporary China’s diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics? Kingsolver’s epic is deftly woven from the voices of the women of the Price family as they are moved to the mission field of the Belgian Congo in 1950’s by their misguided and over-zealous husband/father. I read this on the heels of The Mosquito Coastand was entrenched in a deep fascination with post-colonial family sagas led by fervent, overbearing patriarchs. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family’s tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.” They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it - from garden seeds to Scripture - is calamitously transformed on African soil. “The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. But he cannot allow either one of them to forget he is her enemy and she his pawn in the deadly Highland feud between the clans. The Devil Wears Plaid Teresa Medeiros 3.87 3,582 ratings331 reviews Passion sparks in USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Teresa Medeiross irresistibly tempting new romance after a sexy Highlander kidnaps his rivals spirited English bride. Jamie expects Emma to be some milksop English miss, not a fiery, defiant beauty whose irresistible charms will tempt him at every turn. and a perilous temptation for her yearning heart. Though he is Hepburn's sworn enemy, Emma's mysterious captor is everything her bridegroom is not-handsome, virile, dangerous. Retrouvez lebook The Devil Wears Plaid - Brides of the Highlands, 1 de Teresa Medeiros - diteur Amber House Books - Format ePub - Librairie Decitre votre. The Devil Wears Plaid Teresa Medeiros 3.87 3,582 ratings331 reviews Passion sparks in USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Teresa Medeiros's irresistibly tempting new romance after a sexy Highlander kidnaps his rival's spirited English bride. The Devil Wears Plaid ('Brides of the Highlands' Book 1) - Kindle edition by Medeiros, Teresa. Passion sparks in USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Teresa Medeiros's irresistibly tempting new romance after a sexy Highlander kidnaps his rival's spirited English bride Emmaline Marlowe is about to wed the extremely powerful laird of the Hepburn clan to save her father from debtor's prison when ruffian Jamie Sinclair bursts into the abbey on a magnificent black horse and abducts her in one strong swoop. She’s especially good at making the strippers more than clichés. Rutkoski uses the familiar plot of a police search for a killer targeting women to paint moving portraits of desperate lives on both sides of the law. Amador investigates, with the help of colleague Holly Meylin, who is still traumatized by her infant’s accidental death due to her ex-husband’s negligence. The exact cause of death isn’t immediately clear, but the coroner finds date-rape drugs in the woman’s system, and the figure of a crown was carved into the sole of one foot. When he responds, he finds blood and, eventually, the corpse of a woman who worked at a nearby strip club. Victor Amador, a police detective in an unnamed state, is hoping for a quiet overtime shift when he gets a call to investigate a report of an abandoned car in a ditch. YA and children’s author Rutkoski ( The Kronos Chronicles) makes her adult debut with a haunting crime novel.
Intense stories also help you enjoy powerful emotions. It becomes a welcome break from mundane realities and lets you discover and explore your own fantasies in a safe and consensual manner. You’re transported from an ordinary life to one that’s full of passion and desire. With books like these, people have a space to enjoy, express, and discuss subjects that would otherwise be frowned upon.Įrotica is a powerful form of escapism. Writing and reading about such a “taboo” subject as sex may be risky but there’s something about people’s desires that can start a domino effect in society. But can they maintain the sparks or will the fire burn them up? Why Do People Enjoy Reading Erotica? They both bring out each other’s deepest, darkest desires. But moving from her small office to her company’s larger, more upscale headquarters makes her doubt herself.Įspecially when she meets Logan McCoy, her new boss. Samantha Kielty thinks she’s seen it all and knows what she’s made of. Pleased, Raymond now considers Meursault his friend. He gets Meursault to write a letter luring her back to shame her. Monday, Meursault's neighbor Raymond invites him to dinner and recounts his thirst for revenge on his mistress. Marie is startled to hear Meursault's mother just died. They swim, flirt, go to a comedy, and go home together. Saturday, Meursault goes to the beach and runs into Marie. They walk across the hot, shimmering landscape to church for the funeral, which Meursault barely remembers. Meursault's closest friend (and rumored fiancé). Next morning, the funeral procession is joined by Thomas Pérez, Mme. They drink coffee and smoke together, then sit vigil over the coffin with his mother's friends, whose crying irritates the unemotional Meursault. Meursault goes to the mortuary and surprises the caretaker by declining to see his mother's body. He tells Meursault he's arranged a religious funeral, in accordance with her wishes, though Meursault reflects privately that his mother wasn't religious. Meursault meets with the director of the home who quells Meursault's inner defensiveness about sending his mother away by assuring him she was happier at the home than she would have been in Algiers. The novel opens when he receives a telegram saying his mother has died. Meursault is a shipping clerk living in a decrepit Algiers apartment he shared with his mother before he sent her to an old people's home he rarely visits. In his dreams Gilman is taken to a city of Lovecraft's "Elder Things", and even brings back tangible evidence that he's actually been there. The dimensions of Gilman's room in the house are unusual, and seem to conform to a kind of unearthly geometry that Gilman theorizes can enable travel from one plane or dimension to another. Gilman discovers that for the better part of two centuries many if not most of its occupants have died prematurely. The first part of the story is an account of the history of the house, which has once harboured Keziah Mason, an accused witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem jail in 1692. Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics and folklore at Miskatonic University, takes a room in the Witch House, a house in Arkham thought to be accursed. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror fiction. "The Dreams in the Witch House" is a short story by H. |