![]() Another day, it was windy and Momo said that the umbrella would protect her eyes, but again, her mother asked her to be patient for the rain will come. One day, the sun was bothering her eyes, but her mother told her to wait, for the rain will come one day. Tired of waiting, she tried to use the umbrella because anyway. Every day Momo looked for the rain but the rain still didn’t fall. But, that year, an Indian Summer was lingering over the city and no rain was in sight. She was very happy, and could barely wait to use them, especially the umbrella. ![]() ![]() She had find her own self.Īt three years old, Momo got an umbrella and a pair of red boots for her birthday. Instead, she was holding an umbrella and she was walking straight up like a “grown-up lady”. It was the first time that Momo wasn’t holding her mother’s or father’s hand. ![]() They are taught that there is a right time for everything. Children learn to hold on their impulses. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() God of War is a dark romance, a college new adult book from Rina Kent. Rina spends her private days in a peaceful town in North Africa daydreaming about the next plot idea or laughing like an evil mastermind when those ideas come together. God of War is a dark romance, a college new adult book from Rina Kent. Her books are sprinkled with a touch of mystery, a healthy dose of angst, a pinch of violence, and lots of intense passion. Her heroes are anti-heroes and villains because she was always the weirdo who fell in love with the guys no one roots for. However, she likes to think she’s a romantic at heart in some way, so don’t kill her hopes just yet. Rina Kent is an international bestselling author of everything enemies to lovers romance.ĭarkness is her playground, suspense is her best friend, and twists are her brain’s food. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rainbow Rowell God gave women intuition and. She is like the Mona Lisa mysterious and unfinished as she held more behind her smile than anyone could ever see. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice it was supposed to make you feel something. ![]() She had brush strokes from the steadiest of hands, gracefully gliding over rough canvas in loud, bold statements to make a contrast against the stark whiteness stretched out on the wood like a man crucified at the mercy of the artist.Īt times she was carelessly painted and crudely pictured, obviously one of her rougher days, but she still looked like art. She looked like an abstract at times, pieced together after being taken apart time and time again only to find that the pieces won’t fit like they did before. She did look like art that at times was clumsily painted by the hand of a child as they whimsically imagined a vast landscape on white where their imagination could roam free. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice it was supposed to make you feel something.” Rainbow Rowell wrote in 'Eleanor & Park' that “She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice it was supposed to make you feel something. ![]() ![]() My best loved series at the moment is The Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch. And I love crime fiction that isn't too gory, or focussed on clue hunting, but is big on character. Unlike her six beautiful sisters, she has brown hair and freckles, and would rather have adventures than play the harp, embroider tapestries. I love witty, contemporary romances, not too much sex, Women's fiction by the likes of Fiona Harper, Julie Cohen, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Jennifer Crusie and Barbara O'Neal. Along with Wit, Charm, Health, and Courage, Princess Amy of Phantasmorania receives a special fairy christening gift: Ordinariness. ![]() Murder Among the Roses, published on 18 April 2023 She is a true star of the romantic fiction genre."Īnd now I've turned to a life of crime with my first cozy mystery. Hi, I'm Liz Fielding, and I'm a best selling contemporary romance author with more than 15 million books in print and Katie Fforde wrote, when honouring me with the Romantic Novelists' Association's Outstanding Achievement Award in 2019 said - "Liz Fielding's books, with their warmth, humour and emotion, have charmed millions of readers. And so the story of the Ordinary Princess began. ![]() ![]() ![]() Children can be cruel, especially to thin, bespectacled boys who purport to read Shakespeare. When word got out among my peers, the ridicule and taunting were unceasing. ![]() Those magical stories provided great pleasure and set me happily upon hours of daydreaming-shouldn’t every children’s book do just that? There was, however, one drawback to my enthusiasms. ![]() These days, it is to the colossal tragedies- Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra-that I return time and again, but back then, A Midsummer Night’s Dream seemed more beguiling. The prose was a bit beyond me at the time, though I did find the illustrations enchanting: Who was this Nick Bottom, with an ass’s head firmly affixed to his own? Soon, I grew into its prose, and the book became a favorite (replacing D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths, which had had no less an influence on my imagination). When I was a boy of seven or eight, my father brought home a copy of Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare-retellings of several of the Bard’s plays for children. ![]() ![]() ![]() I also really appreciate the use of various colors in the type itself, and the change from a plain black font to a more colorful and decorative one, when the text gets to the 'hoorays' throughout. The replacement of the gray scribble with a colorful hat was an effective visual representation of their changed mood. I really liked Brian Won's color scheme here - the vivid aqua blues, the subtler yellows and oranges - and I appreciated his use of a threatening gray scribble above each character's head, indicating their grumpy mood. Lion proves more of a challenge, as he feels that he shouldn't be happy when his friend Giraffe is unwell, but the animals companions all head to her home, and the day ends in happiness for all.Ī cute book with winsome artwork, engaging typography and design, and a sweet story, Hooray for Hat! is sure to be a winner with toddlers and younger children. Fortunately, he has head-wear to share, and improves not just Zebra's day, but that of Turtle and Owl as well. ![]() Putting them on, he proceeds to his friend Zebra's, where he discovers that he isn't the only one who began his day feeling grumpy. Waking up one day in a very grumpy state, Elephant's mood is considerably improved by the arrival of a package containing some fun hats. ![]() ![]() This is Rachel Caine's second mystery/thriller for adults, I was hoping that she hadn't just written a one hit wonder with her first book- Stillhouse Lake. I have been waiting anxiously for this second book to be released. Turning tables on her husband the serial killer. And sure as the night, one of them will die. As trust beyond her small circle of friends begins to vanish, Gwen has only fury and vengeance to believe in as she closes in on her prey. ![]() She’s learned how from one of the sickest killers alive.īut what she’s up against is beyond anything she feared - a sophisticated and savage mind game calculated to destroy her. Now, with the help of Sam Cade, brother of one of Melvin’s victims, Gwen is going hunting. Gwen leaves her children in the protective custody of a fortified, well-armed neighbor. Her refuge at Stillhouse Lake has become a trap. Gwen Proctor won the battle to save her kids from her ex-husband, serial killer Melvin Royal, and his league of psychotic accomplices. ![]() Now her eyes are open, and he’s not going away. Every time Gwen closed her eyes, she saw him in her nightmares. ![]() ![]() Over the course of a summer, Linda makes a set of choices that reverberate throughout her life. It seems that her life finally has purpose but with this new sense of belonging come expectations and secrets she doesn't understand. Grierson is charged with possessing child pornography, the implications of his arrest deeply affect Linda as she wrestles with her own fledgling desires and craving to belong.Īnd then the young Gardner family moves in across the lake and Linda finds herself welcomed into their home as a babysitter for their little boy, Paul. Isolated at home and an outsider at school, Linda is drawn to the enigmatic, attractive Lily and the new history teacher, Mr. ![]() " -National Postįourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as the last vestige of a lost counterculture world. Garnering rave reviews from around the world, History of Wolves is novelist Emily Fridlund's darkly shimmering debut **A New York Times Editors' Choice and Notable Book of the Year An O magazine Book to Pick Up A USA Today Notable Book An Best Book of the Month A People Best New Book** ![]() ![]() ![]() Toll tells this grand tale with the political insight of Founding Brothers and a narrative flair worthy of Patrick O'Brian. From the complicated politics of the initial decision, through the cliffhanger campaign against Tripoli, to the war that shook the world in 1812, Ian W. It was the first great appropriation of federal money and the first demonstration of the power of the new central government, calling for the creation of entirely new domestic industries, and the extraction of natural resources from the backwoods of Maine to the uninhabited coastal islands of Georgia. The unique combination of power, speed and tactical versatility - smaller than a battleship and larger than a sloop - that all navies sent on their most daring missions. In 1794, President Washington signed legislation authorizing the construction of six heavy frigates. Would a standing army be the thin end of dictatorship? Would a navy protect American commerce from the vicious depredations of the Barbary pirates, or would it drain the treasury and provoke hostilities with the great powers? How large a navy would suffice? The founders - particularly Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, and Adams - debated these questions fiercely and switched sides more than once. Summary Before the ink was dry on the Constitution of the United States, the establishment of a permanent military had become the most divisive issue facing the young republic. ![]() ![]() Nothing terrible or infantile about either of these things, and in the painstaking attention she pays to her misfit characters, from the namesake of her debut novel, Eileen, to the protagonists of her novella McGlue and her many superb short stories, there is a great deal more layered compassion than there is boring transgression. She has a singular instinct for the jangled interiority of loners and outsiders, most of them women, and for their uncomfortable and often unpretty inhabitance of their bodies. Moshfegh, who has published a novella and a short story collection in addition to her novels, is that kind of writer: tempting to pigeonhole and likely, then, to write an epic, uncategorisable opus from the point of view of the pigeon. ![]() Ottessa Moshfegh’s publishers position her as an enfant terrible – the phrase is front and centre on the press materials for this, her second novel – which is, ironically, the kind of cringey move at which the narrator of a Moshfegh novel would direct a perfect, withering put-down. ![]() |