7/6/2023 0 Comments Wolf's Head by Steven A. McKay![]() ![]() Wolf's Head is also FREE to Amazon Prime members in the USA for a time as well. ![]() One note - by new I don't necessarily mean brand new, but rather, new to me although in the case of Steven McKay both cases apply as Wolf's Head is his debut novel. I really enjoy 'discovering' new authors and thanks to the Twitterverse I keep 'discovering' them. If you loved Wolf's Head and want to read more about the same wonderful cast of characters, Blood of the Wolf. Browse plot descriptions, book covers, genres, pseudonyms, ratings and awards. ![]() Listen to Blood of the Wolf Audiobook by Steven A. ![]() We have followed the tale of Robin Hood from his ear Source: A review of Blood of the Wolf. McKay Reaching the end of this book, and indeed the Forest Lord series, is like saying farewell to a dear friend. It will be flowing down your telephone cables, bouncing off orbiting satellites and being delivered by postmen worldwide! Blood of the Wolf – the end of a long journey My fourth and final book in the Forest Lord series, Blood of the Wolf, will be published in just a few short hours. "Blood of the Wolf" is the fourth and final book in the Forest Lord series which has over 90, sales so far. McKay was born in Scotland in His first book, "Wolf's Head", came out in and was an Amazon UK top 20 bestseller. ![]()
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7/6/2023 0 Comments The next by rafe haze![]() ![]() Rafe catches her upper arms and moves her behind him, nudging her toward the car. She whirls around to face him and screams, “It’s Cam, not Karen, you asshole!” “Come on, Karen,” he calls, laughing, clearly wasted. As Rafe opens his door and gets out, a guy runs out after Cam. ![]() The door opens and a pretty girl comes out, walking unsteadily, clutching her phone. At least the neighborhood doesn’t look as bad as Rafe seemed worried it would be when he told Camille to stay inside. “Okay, Cam, come outside.” He points to a three-story brick house on the corner. He squeezes my forearm and lets go, fumbling with his phone. “It means, maybe spending more time not lying about who you are has made you aware of the ways you had gotten used to lying about it.” Rafe says this gently, hand on my arm, but it still packs a punch I can’t process right now. “Well, I just mean, are you sure you used to feel comfortable as opposed to just being used to feeling uncomfortable?” But, I don’t know, I didn’t feel totally comfortable there… which is strange, because I always used to.” Income Protection Insurance: Detailed Discussion ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Dekameron giovanni boccaccio![]() His most notable works are The Decameron, a collection of short stories which in the following centuries was a determining element for the Italian literary tradition, especially after Pietro Bembo elevated the Boccaccian style to a model of Italian prose in the sixteenth century, and On Famous Women. Some scholars (including Vittore Branca) define him as the greatest European prose writer of his time, a versatile writer who amalgamated different literary trends and genres, making them converge in original works, thanks to a creative activity exercised under the banner of experimentalism. ![]() ![]() Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was sometimes simply known as " the Certaldese" and one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century. Giovanni Boccaccio ( UK: / b ə ˈ k æ tʃ i oʊ/, US: / b oʊ ˈ k ɑː tʃ( i) oʊ, b ə-/, Italian: 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. ![]() ![]() Recommendation: If you’re in the mood for lighter SF fare, check it out. ![]() If you’re in the mood for hard SF, this is not your jam. This was so off-putting that I stopping reading the book a couple times before picking it up again. Few of the aliens in the book feel actually alien, but rather like humans in costumes. Several of the chapters feel unnecessary, and the book’s ending was a little lackluster. There are some issues that keep me from giving The Long Way a full-throated recommendation. The characters are real, the situations true, the aliens pretty alien. ![]() The feeling of being in a place was so good you feel you could go there. Most of the story is the adventures the crew has as they travel to the planet (hence the book’s title). Read the first one 'The long way to a small angry planet' and LOVED it. ![]() The characters are bright and quirky, so if you’re in the mood for a story about goofy people getting along in a sci-fi setting, you should pick this up.Ī ragtag crew in a rickety spaceship are tasked with creating a wormhole near a planet populated by an exceptionally warlike race. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is a fun, breezy book that feels like an eccentric Star Trek episode. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Roderick gordon books![]() ![]() BBC Audiobooks and Recorded Books have released audio editions. It is the first book in the Tunnels series, and was followed by Deeper (2008), Freefall (2009), Closer (2010), Spiral (2011) and Terminal (2013). The book placed on The New York Times Children's Chapter Books Bestseller List in February and March 2008. Tunnels was critically well received, although some complaints about its lengthy, slow start were recorded. Will and his friend Chester flee The Colony and set out to find Will's father, in the Deeps, a place even deeper in the Earth than The Colony. The story follows Will Burrows, a 14-year-old 'archaeologist', who stumbles upon an underground civilization called The Colony. It was initially self-published as The Highfield Mole in 2005, and re-released as Tunnels by The Chicken House in 2007. Tunnels is a subterranean fiction novel by British authors Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams. 2007 novel by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams ![]() ![]() And if she thinks that I'm going to act like a "professional" and pretend like that shit never happened, she has another thing coming. I haven't forgotten any of the filthy fantasies she told me about, and I never deleted our dirty messages. The same woman who stood me up with nothing more than an "I can't meet you anymore, sorry," after we agreed to move our online talks into reality. Until I realized that our new "doctor" was none other than the woman I was supposed to meet over dinner two weeks ago. When my team finally came to their senses and decided to bring someone more competent into the practice last month, I was actually elated. (This would be acceptable if I was still interested in general medicine, but I'm not. Over the past six months, I've performed one too many pap smears, three too many "breast exams," and scrubbed in on several reconstructive surgeries. ![]() Especially for someone like me who has a private practice and an incompetent staff who insists on leaving me to fill in for them. ![]() ![]() "Lean back on the table and spread your legs for me."īeing a doctor in New York City has never been easy. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Murakami sputnik sweetheart![]() ![]() How important the world outside is to me, how I maintain a sense of equilibrium by coming to terms with it. What I'd like to know more about is the objective reality of things outside myself. The more I think about it, the more I'd like to take a rain check on the topic of me. It's enough to make me ask the question: How well do we really know ourselves? And those "good at sensing others' true feelings" are duped by the most transparent flattery. ![]() Self-styled honest and open people, without realizing what they're doing, blithely use some self-serving excuse to get what they want. "I'm honest and open to a ridiculous degree," they'll say, or "I'm thin-skinned and not the type who gets along easily in the world." Or "I am very good at sensing others' true feelings." But any number of times I've seen people who say they've easily hurt other people for no apparent reason. Given the chance, people are surprisingly frank when they talk about themselves. This kind of thing doesn't seem to bother most people. I've always been disturbed by the thought that I'm not painting a very objective picture of myself. But when I talk about myself, all sorts of other factors-values, standards, my own limitations as an observer-make me, the narrator, select and eliminate things about me, the narratee. Sure, no one knows as much pure data about me as me. I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I? paradox. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments The inheritors golding novel![]() The general story is just rather…lackluster. ![]() ![]() There are some really interesting and good points in the story, but for the most part, it is quite forgettable. The primitive men live a culture of togetherness and unity, which is really emulated well in the story telling, and you can really feel the loss as the characters start to disappear and succumb to modern man one by one. It’s quite an interesting concept, especially when you see how well Golding tries to emulate the culture of primitive man, who is essentially the collective main character of the story. The book is the story of when primitive man and modern man encountered each other for the first time in prehistory, marking the end of one civilization and the beginning of a new one. (Might as well be honest from the start.) I was, sad to say, rather disappointed by it. I was excited to read another William Golding, and had been told about this novel by some university professor or other. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments As I Am by E.M. Leya![]() ![]() On her third full-length, As I Am, Keys takes a step closer toward the soul revival popularized by John Legend, with full-band arrangements and bright horn hooks, only occasionally falling back into the piano/melisma combination that drove the singles off her first two albums. By now established as a major and talented force in the mainstream music world, Alicia Keys has perhaps earned the right to explore a little, to venture into new genres while still keeping a foot firmly planted in the R&B/neo-soul she grew out of. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Their friend Emma, meanwhile, seems to have it all figured out - job, mortgage, engagement - yet the long hours working for tech giant Arko and endless wedding admin have left her similarly anxious and unsatisfied.īut when Katie's latest job finds her tutoring the daughter of Arko's formidable CEO, and Emma welcomes the eccentric and enigmatic Alicia to her team at Arko, neither are aware that all of their lives - and possibly the future of society itself - are about to change forever. While Katie bounces from job to job and obsesses about falling behind in life, Nas has bigger things in mind, such as waiting endlessly for their visa to come through and working on a seismic art project that will revolutionize politics and society as we know it. They share everything, including a tiny room in a North London townhouse belonging to their landlord, Jeremy, former host of the hit 90s show Football Lads. Katie and Nas are best friends, exes, and co-dependents. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo A hilarious new graphic novel from the author of Bloodlust and Bonnets ![]() |