![]() ![]() From the award-winning author of If I Was Your Girl, Meredith Russo, comes a heart-wrenching and universal story of identity, first love, and fate. Six years of birthdays reveal Eric and Morgan’s destiny as they come together, drift apart, fall in love, and discover who they’re meant to be―and if they’re meant to be together. Maybe one day I’ll be ready to become the person I am inside. With a dad who cares about his football team more than me, a mom I miss more than anything, and a best friend who can never know my biggest secret. MORGAN: I know that every birthday should feel like a new beginning, but I’m trapped in this mixed-up body, in this wrong life, in Nowheresville, Tennessee, on repeat. That there’ll be a day, a minute, a second, where it all falls apart and there’s no turning back the clock. But sometimes I worry that Morgan and I won’t be best friends forever. The years where we stuck by each other’s side―as Morgan’s mom died, as he moved across town, as I joined the football team, as my parents started fighting. There was the minute Morgan and I decided we were best friends for life. Six years.ĮRIC: There was the day we were born. ![]() “Lovers who surmount the odds have always been intense emotional fodder, but rarely have we seen a story like ue and raw, haunting and undeniable.” ― The New York Times Book Review ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Y la historia empieza bastante bien, con Batman teniendo que hacer frente a sus propios compañeros de la Liga de la Justicia, que han caído bajo la influencia del gas del Joker. Y esto, ojo, es una percepción de segunda lectura, no recuerdo que me pareciera así en la primera lectura que hice en su momento.įin de Juego es heredera directa de La Muerte de la Familia, y supone el regreso del Joker a la primera línea, habiendo desarrollado un virus que extiende por Gotham, el Fin de Juego, y que además de "jokerizar" a los afectados por el gas, los mata pasadas unas horas de esto. En este caso, los dos últimos arcos de la etapa Snyder/Capullo, fueron Final de Juego y Superpesado, y ambos mantienen las características del resto de los arcos que habíamos visto anteriormente: están alargadísimos. Remarco que yo tengo la edición española de estos cómics en grapa, y que esta segunda parte me parece menos densa que la primera, no sé exáctamente como han cuadrado las 928 páginas que se supone que tiene este tochazo de omnibús, pero bueno, en fin. Con la segunda parte de la etapa de Scott Snyder y Greg Capullo en Batman, llega también la última parte de los cómics que coleccioné en su momento, antes de que me diera la bajona comiquera, así que podría decir que Batman fue el último héroe al que dejé de lado. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He has narrated a number of Anthony Trollope's classic audiobooks, including the six Chronicles of Barsetshire and the Palliser series. Timothy West is prolific in film, television, theatre, and audiobooks. A prolific and respected novelist of the 19th-century he created 47 novels and many short stories that have continued to be popular and well-loved. The Last Chronicle of Barset is considered by many, including Trollope himself, to be his best work. This final volume manages to resolve many threads started in the first volume and is a fitting conclusion to the series. The Bishop Proudie and his formidable wife also receive their most dramatic portrayal with Mrs. As well as this central mystery we find Johnny Eames attempting to woo Lily Dale and the now grown-up Major Henry Grantly falling in love with Reverend Crawley's daughter, Grace, against the wishes of his father, the Archdeacon. ![]() In the last and most complex of the Barsetshire audiobooks, many of Trollope's best-loved characters appear, but the mood of the recording is darker and more uneasy than in earlier volumes.Īt the heart of the audiobook is the penniless Reverend Josiah Crawley, first encountered in Framley Parsonage, who in the opening of the story is accused of theft, creating a public scandal that threatens to tear the community apart. ![]() ![]() ![]() What she can’t handle is Trent Emerson in apartment 1D. Armed with two bus tickets and dreams of living near the coast, Kacey and Livie start their new lives in a Miami apartment complex, complete with a grumpy landlord, a pervert upstairs, and a neighbor with a stage name perfectly matched to her chosen “profession.” But Kacey’s not worried. She just needs to keep it together until Livie is no longer a minor, and then they can get the hell out of Grand Rapids, Michigan.īut when Uncle Raymond slides into bed next to Livie one night, Kacey decides it’s time to run. Kacey can swallow the constant disapproval from her born-again aunt Darla over her self-destructive lifestyle she can stop herself from going kick-boxer crazy on Uncle Raymond when he loses the girls’ college funds at a blackjack table. Now she’s working hard to bury the pieces left behind-all but one. ![]() Kacey Cleary’s whole life imploded four years ago in a drunk-driving accident. A moving story about a girl submerged in the depths of tragedy, drowning in her own emotional turmoil as she struggles to breathe again… to love again… and to forgive in order to find life again. ![]() ![]() ![]() Misogynistic, pathetically trying to grab the lowest common denominator reader with simple, salt of the earth heroine and evil posh anti-heroine (the only half-drawn character in the book) and just.God, so boring. ![]() Not only utterly banal characterisation making the whole thing absurd (not helped by the narrator's baby voice for the heroine), but plot involving spiral staircases, hidden tunnels and clues in paintings that a second woman-with-no-personality randomly catches sight of while being fed clues. ![]() So, completely characterless girl who never tells a joke, laughs or says anything interesting but is a simpering cliché of a heroine - so bland it's actually weird - loves mummy, hardly ever wears make up, doesn't approve of swearing and studies hard - oh, wait, she's also, very importantly 'not posh', gets mixed up with evil posh people who have 'priveleged laughter' and are generally bad. Incomprehensible that anyone could have enjoyed it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kindle Paperwhite review įirekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline BoulleyĪ Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Let’s Talk: Diversity and Representation in YA books I’m excited to see where JLA takes this series, because the cliffhanger from the second book was too much for me to handle. I’m only three chapters in and already so much has happened. I’m not super behind on my reading schedule, so I have confidence that I’ll get back on track soon. Hopefully with summer break coming up, I’ll have more time to catch up on reading. I finished a few of the books I’ve been meaning to read, but I only read one book from my physical TBR. Hopefully doing this will get me back on track, because I’m super determined to read all the books on my shelf before getting new ones. I noticed that I’m falling behind on my “get-my-physical-TBR-down-to-zero-by-2022” resolution, so in April, I decided to start setting monthly goals for myself. Quick thoughts: Amazing! I need the next book, stat! Short summary: Romeo & Juliet retelling but with gangs ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, at the center of a modern-day witch hunt, Jack is forced once again to proclaim his innocence: to a town searching for answers, to a justice system where truth becomes a slippery concept written in shades of gray, and to the woman who has come to love him. But amid the rustic calm of Salem Falls, a quartet of teenage girls harbor dark secrets - and they maliciously target Jack with a shattering allegation. Now, washing dishes for Addie Peabody at the Do-or-Diner, he slips quietly into his new routine, and Addie finds this unassuming man fitting easily inside her heart. Bride was destroyed when a student's crush sparked a powder keg of accusation. Love can redeem a man.but secrets and lies can condemn him.Ī handsome stranger comes to the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls in hopes of burying his past: Once a teacher at a girls' prep school, Jack St. From number-one New York Times best-selling author Jodi Picoult comes a compelling and disturbing novel about a prep school teacher accused of rape by a group of young girls, the woman who stands by him, and the repercussions of the case in a small New England town where the past is only a heartbeat away. If a reader can root for a character to achieve something they struggle with, overcome personal obstacles in their life. ![]() ![]() ![]() He and his parents are nervous, as his new baby sister was born earlier than expected and may not live because of a heart condition. ![]() Plot ġ0-year-old Michael and his family have recently moved into a house. In 2010, a prequel entitled My Name is Mina was published, written by David Almond himself.ĭelacorte Press published the first US edition in 1999. Since publication, it has also been adapted into a play, an opera, and a film. Printz Award, which recognises one work of young adult fiction annually. In the US it was a runner up for the Michael L. It was the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and it won the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British author. Skellig is a children's novel by the British author David Almond, published by Hodder in 1998. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was entirely too young to be diving into Jurassic Park in the early 1990s-what I had was the next best thing, a book called Lost in Dinosaur World by children’s author Geoffrey T. ![]() Was the book in question Michael Crichton’s classic 1990 novel Jurassic Park? Nope. There was a sage dinosaur expert, and a young protagonist named Tim. There were electric fences, and automated vehicles that shuttled guests around the park. There were scenes of dinosaurs hatching in a nursery, where they were tended like domesticated livestock by uniformed park scientists. There was one book in particular, though, that captured my attention as a young boy-a fictional account of a futuristic dinosaur amusement park, fraught with danger and thrills. Dinosaur books littered our home, and I absorbed an absurd amount of information that I somehow still partially retain now. ![]() My love of learning about the extinct reptiles was no doubt an early indication for my parents of the geeky bookworm that I would become, and they responded by showering me with all the nonfiction and fiction about dinosaurs I could handle, graciously putting up with an imperious 6-year-old who demanded correct pronunciation of species names, as if the dinosaurs would be offended otherwise. As a child growing up in the 1990s, I went through a long period of infatuation-obsession, really-with dinosaurs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The 12 Dukes of Christmas is a laugh-out-loud historical romance series of heartwarming Regency romps nestled in a picturesque snow-covered village. Erica Ridleys love stories are warm, witty and irresistible. How hard can it be to charm a spinster into changing her mind? But when Penelope does the charming, this rakish scoundrel must decide between losing the war. A woman accidentally kidnaps a duke in this fabulous Regency romp that Bridgerton author. Sexy pleasure-seeker Nicholas Pringle-known as “Saint Nick” for his wicked ways-wants to end the absurd cologne that has every young buck believing himself a ladies’ man. ![]() To prove the same aphrodisiacal potency of her upcoming version for ladies, the new perfume must cause a rake to fall in love with her in ten days. The 12 Dukes of Christmasis a series of heartwarming Regency romps nestled in a picturesque snow-covered village. Lady chemist Penelope Mitchell took England by storm with Duke, a perfume for men that has women swooning at their feet. ![]() An opposites attract, enemies-to-lovers, feel good romp from a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author: Kiss of a Duke by Erica Ridley 4.7 (20) Paperback 11.99 Paperback 11.99 eBook 2. ![]() |