![]() ![]() However, let me quickly disabuse you of a similar thought. Since I’ve read a few of Marsha Canham’s pirate-themed historicals (which I enjoyed for many of the same reasons I love medievals), I had high hopes for her 1990s twist on Robin Hood. They’re fun and totally addictive.Īfter EXTENSIVE research (wink), I recently spent a small fortune on medievals and made a false start with a major dud. Reader, they’re wildly different from Regencies, my life, and the depressing reality on the news every day, and I can’t quit them. Yes, these medievals frequently find me wincing at the treatment of women (among other things), and are way beyond politically incorrect. ![]() I want swashbuckling heroes, damsels in distress, knights, sword fights, lust, betrayal, murder, adventure, and smoldering sensuality. I, for one, would rather focus on the magic of the story, the slow and inevitable intertwining of the lives of the hero and heroine: their troubles, frustrations, attractions and their ultimate mutual joy in each other against a backdrop of great, sweeping ideals. … if you insist upon immersing yourself in the nitty-gritty of everyday medieval life (and let me warn you, it isn’t pretty), go buy a history book. Friends, I’m also squarely in the Shana Abe camp: I’m currently having a love affair with medieval romances, and two recent blog posts ( HERE and HERE) only fueled the fire. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Draig D’Alikar warriors are scattered to the winds, battling the enemy on several fronts. ![]() Others are marched into caves to become slaves for his allies, never seeing sunlight again. His armies capture more kingdoms every day, forcing survivors to worship his religion or face torture. The resurrected emperor’s power expands and threatens to overwhelm her. Keely Staghorn is trapped in a gilded prison. ![]() Follow Geoff and Bevvo as they commence their assault and discover that what they believe is the end of the scourge of mankind may only be the beginning.Ģ8th February – Risking Destiny (Naturae Series PREQUEL) by Jan Foster All they have to do, is get in, do the place over, and get out. A virtually untouched shopping centre is begging to be looted. In the small town of Hanley in Stoke on Trent, they believe they have hit the jackpot. As professional salvagers they go where the average scavenger fears to tread, into the towns, into the shopping malls. ![]() Three years later, Geoff and Bevvo are doing what they do best. They moved out of the cities and into the hills. From out of the blue a weakened human race now had to face their former friends and family trying to eat them. After the virus, an unknown, unfathomable plague that prevented people from digesting food, decimated the population, things looked as though they might get better. ![]() ![]() The film made for under $140,000 and brought in $30.9 million at the box office. It is also important to note that the flick was narrated by John Larroquette. Partain, Allen Danziger, William Vail, John Dugan and Teri McMinn. According to a report on Deadline, the book has been adapted by David Dubos and will be a dark comedy focusing on the craziness that took place before, during and after the filming of the cult classic.ĭirected by Tobe Hooper and released in 1974, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre starred Gunnar Hansen, Marilyn Burns, Ed Neal, Jim Siedow, Paul A. A special book about the making of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre which was authored by the original Leatherface Gunnar Hansen and released in 2013 through Chronicle Books, Chain Saw Confidential: How We Made the World’s Most Notorious Horror Movie, will be getting the big screen treatment. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can’t just sit down and write a book, especially if you’re a beginning writer. For example, we might say we want to write a book. We fail to build good habits because we think to vaguely. ![]() The “swarm of bees” approach to build good habits Since I wrote a book about building writing habits with the aim of writing a book, I’ll use that as an example to apply BJ’s concepts in this post. If you need help deciding on one popular habit: Should you make your bed? I’ve got you covered with that episode. It’s up to you what you consider to be a good habit. But some of the most common good habits that people want to build are writing, and meditation. What is a good habit? Well, that’s up to you. What are some of the hardest good habits to build? Or, life gets in the way, and that causes your priorities to change. You may have felt very motivated by something – such as the New Year – but that will pass. You might start off trying to build good habits and feel very motivated, but your motivation will wane. Specificity makes behavior easier to change. We think things like “I want to eat healthier” or “I want to lose weight.” If you want to make something a reality you have to break it down into actions. Most resolutions to build good habits fail for two reasons: Download as an MP3 by right-clicking here and choosing “save as.”.WANT TO WRITE A BOOK? Download your FREE copy of How to Write a Book » (for a limited time) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He needs the lucrative job the Rajes offer, but he values his pride too much to indulge Trisha’s arrogance. Up-and-coming chef DJ Caine has known people like Trisha before, people who judge him by his rough beginnings and place pedigree above character. So long as she doesn’t repeat old mistakes. But now she has a chance to redeem herself. Trisha is guilty of breaking all three rules. Never do anything to jeopardize your brother’s political aspirations.But that’s not enough for the Rajes, her influential immigrant family who’s achieved power by making its own non-negotiable rules: ![]() ![]() Trisha Raje is San Francisco’s most acclaimed neurosurgeon. It is a truth universally acknowledged that only in an overachieving Indian American family can a genius daughter be considered a black sheep.ĭr. Award-winning author Sonali Dev launches a new series about the Rajes, an immigrant Indian family descended from royalty, who have built their lives in San Francisco. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But as civil war threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself. In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, discovering her own capacity for bloodshed. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him-and face the consequences. The Folk of the Air Series 3 primary works 7 total works Book 1 The Cruel Prince by Holly Black 4.08 901,644 Ratings 82,818 Reviews published 2018 107 editions This is a previously published cover edition of IS Want to Read Rate it: Book 1. ![]() Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Discover Holly Blacks blood thirsty bestselling The Folk of the Air series in this gorgeous 3 book collection. Discover Holly Black's blood thirsty bestselling The Folk of the Air series in this gorgeous 3 book collection. ![]() ![]() The next thing he does is purchase and name his little donkey Modestine who is a major character in this travelogue's adventures.įor an author who is famous for his stories of kidnapped boys, pirates, buried gold, and evil alter egos this tale of mountain wanderings is surpisingly gentle and lyrical when speaking of sleeping in the open. The very first chapter talks about his preparations for this 12 day trip through the Cevennes region of France and the first thing he does is commission the making of a "sleeping-sack" which we know better as a sleeping bag and Stevenson is credited with being the first to use such a thing. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes is one of his early works and supposedly the first to feature camping as a recreational outdoor activity. ![]() I have never been a fan of Robert Louis Stevenson so this book was a delightful surprise for me. ![]() ![]() Brahms’s appreciation of Mozart was equally passionate and nostalgic: how wonderful it must have been to be a composer at the time of Mozart, he thought, “when it was easy to write music,” as if Mozart was the great representative of a prelapsarian age, before the exile from paradise. ![]() Bernard Shaw protested acutely that people did not realize how powerful Mozart was because his music was so beautiful. As the century proceeded, both Mozart and Raphael suffered, not from a loss of prestige-that was only too firmly in place-but from a growing disdain among the avant-garde of practicing artists and composers for the established classicism in favor with the academies of art and music. I pay no attention whatever to anybodys praise or blame. Chagall at the Met, Leon Amiel Publisher. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (1971). ![]() ![]() ![]() “The standard coupling of Mozart with another artist was to be Raphael, possibly initiated by the painter Ingres, who idolized both, and Mozart was transformed into an icon of classicism, an emblem of grace and purity. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 5 December 1791) was one of the most influential, popular and prolific composers of the classical period. An image attached to a snuffbox belonging to Mozart, by Joseph Maria Grassi, 1783. ![]() ![]() ![]() Genre Modern and contemporary fiction (post c. ![]() Amongst the vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in their grandmother’s factory, they try to craft a childhood for themselves amidst what constitutes their family – their lonely, lovely mother, their beloved Uncle Chacko (pickle baron, radical Marxist and bottom-pincher) and their avowed enemy Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grand-aunt). Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, Southern India, ‘The God of Small Things’ tells the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel. Arundhati Roy’s ‘The God of Small Things’ is an astonishingly rich, fertile novel, teeming with life, colour, heart-stopping language, wry comedy and a hint of magical realism. ![]() Here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian novel by a woman. For her work as an activist she received the Cultural Freedom Prize. ![]() She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays. The richly exotic story of the childhood the twins Esthappen and Rahel craft for themselves amongst India’s vats of banana jam and mountains of peppercorns. Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer who is also an activist who focuses on issues related to social justice and economic inequality. ![]() ![]() It wants to tear you apart to show you what's wonderful deep inside of all of us. ![]() "DON'T PUSH THE BUTTON is a beautiful, bluesy, angry, affectionate howl of a book. Very highly recommended!" Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author of Ink and V-WARS Funny, scary, weird AF, and always surprising. "DON'T PUSH THE BUTTON is John Skipp at his very finest. "Skipp's writing is so good, so insightful, so honest, gross, trippy and what-the-fucky, it makes you feel the dearest of friends has suddenly opened their heart all the way up to you, and you alone." Lucky McKee, writer/director of May, co-writer (with Jack Ketchum) of I Am Sam His best yet.” Josh Malerman, author of Bird Box “Startlingly honest, refreshingly revealing, funny, freaky, upsetting, unsettling. Revealing both the best and worst of us, one laugh and scream at a time. In this intensely personal collection of short stories, screenplays, and essays, horror legend John Skipp walks you through the light and the dark with an unflinching eye. ![]() You can try to negotiate the nightmare but total chaos and destruction is just one button-push away. ![]() |