![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve read and adored all the books so far in the Housemates series, each book for its own reasons, and even some more than others (Josh and Rupert in Like a Lover are still my faves). If Shawn’s going to get what he wants, he needs to find the courage to stop hiding from himself and be honest about who he is. ![]() But Jude isn’t looking to get involved with someone so deep in the closet. Jude agrees, and things get complicated-and kinky-fast. Keen to explore his bicurious side, Shawn suggests they do a show together. ![]() It makes Shawn want things that scare him, yet his fascination forces him to confront his attraction. When Shawn discovers Jude works as a cam boy, he can’t resist the urge to watch one of his shows. Out and proud, he’s everything Shawn’s been running from since he hit puberty. Jude is a student living in the same shared house. His girlfriend dumped him, his friends have moved on, and he’s still in Plymouth-going nowhere. Recently graduated, he’s stuck in a dead-end job that barely pays the bills. Title: Watching and Wanting (Housemates: Book Four)Īt a Glance: This is not only the most erotic book in the series, but it’s the most rawly sexual Northcote book I’ve ever read.īlurb: Watching Jude’s cam show stirs desires Shawn’s always denied… ![]()
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![]() ![]() Among the facts and causes Posner identifies are: excess savings flowing in from Asia and the reckless lowering of interest rates by the Federal Reserve Board the relation between executive compensation, short-term profit goals, and risky lending the housing bubble fuelled by low interest rates, aggressive mortgage marketing, and loose regulations the low savings rate of American people and, the highly leveraged balance sheets of large financial institutions. ![]() This is a book for intelligent generalists that will interest specialists as well. No previous acquaintance on the part of the reader with macroeconomics or the theory of finance is presupposed. How could it have happened, especially after all that we've learned from the Great Depression? Why wasn't it anticipated so that remedial steps could be taken to avoid or mitigate it? What can be done to reverse a slide into a full-blown depression? And why have the responses to date of the government and the economics profession been so lackluster? Richard Posner presents a concise and non-technical examination of this mother of all financial disasters and of the, as yet, stumbling efforts to cope with it. The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 is the most alarming of our lifetime because of the warp-speed at which it is occurring. ![]() ![]() It’s a fun and effective way to build your child’s vocabulary. My favorite part of these books is the fancy words Nancy uses and explains. ![]() In this first book she dresses up in her tiara and bright jewelry and convinces her family to be fancy too. I wish I hadn’t waited so long! Nancy, a sweet little girl who loves everything fancy, lives with a plain and simple mom, dad, and sister. Rhymes are so important for helping babies learn about language and will often keep their attention longer than a non-rhyming book.įor some reason the title of the Fancy Nancy books turned me off, and I avoided them until my daughter discovered them. Another bonus is that it’s a rhyming book. It has just eight pages with something interactive on each page (push the flap, turn the wheel). This board book is just right for babies. I just love this story! I recommend this book as one to own or give as a gift. Over the long walk the two become friends, and instead of putting the fish into the lake, Cynthia names it “Marigold” and heads back home. As she is about to dump the fish down the drain, it promises to grant her a wish if she takes it to the lake instead. ![]() ![]() But on her birthday she gets a terribly disappointing gift instead… a fish. She’s so sure she’ll get it that she’s picked out the name: Marigold. ![]() More than anything else, Cynthia wants a pony for her birthday. If you’re looking for some great books to read for Letter F, you’ll find what you need in this list. ![]() ![]() ![]() He won a six-round decision over Tunney Hunsaker, who was the police chief of Fayetteville, West Virginia. In Louisville, October 29, 1960, Cassius Clay won his first professional fight. Rather than the normal boxing style of carrying the hands high to defend the face, he instead relied on his quick feet and ability to avoid a punch. Standing at 6’3″ (1.91 m), Ali had a highly unorthodox style for a heavyweight boxer. He subsequently converted to Sunni Islam in 1975. Ali would later change his name after joining the Nation of Islam. He was named after his father, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr., (who was named after the 19th-century abolitionist and politician Cassius Clay). Not only do I knock ’em out, I pick the round. “Īli was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1942. “I’m not the greatest I’m the double greatest. He won the World Heavyweight Boxing championship three times and won the North American Boxing Federation championship as well as an Olympic gold medal. In 1999, Ali was crowned “Sportsman of the Century” by Sports Illustrated. Janu– 3 June 2016) was an Olympic and World Champion boxer, who also had a unique personality, based on self-belief and strong religious and political convictions. Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. ![]() ![]() ![]() While I didn’t agree with his ideas or rules, I found ways to adapt his lessons into guidelines that could I could make useful for myself in 2020. However! He is a veteran of the industry and does have wisdom to share. Only two of his sold scripts have ever been made, and you’ve never seen or heard of either. This is evident in his less than impressive resume. At the end of the day, Snyder is more concerned with selling a screenplay than telling a good and engaging story. ![]() The industry has changed so much since this was written, I think there’s more of a focus now on innovative and experimental stories and ways of telling said stories, with filmmakers like Tarantino, Denis Villeneuve, and Christopher Nolan (whose breakout film Memento is detested by Snyder for the absolute dumbest reasons) breaking the mould and ushering in this new mindset of Hollywood. While some of the references have been updated to as late as 2009 (the year he unfortunately passed away), the films he heralds as great models are generally unimpressive, heartless and forgotten comedies. The one word to sum up Blake Snyder’s rules and advice on writing movies is “outdated.” He comes from a time of Hollywood in the 80s and 90s where family comedies were the biggest fad and that’s where he has his experience writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her poetry chapbook One Year of Desire is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2021, and her cross-genre novel Central Valley was published by Kuboa Press in 2017. in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. They are author of The Heart's Traffic and recombinant (2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry) as well as how to make black paper sing and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters (Leslie Scalapino Award Finalist). Chen is co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities and Here Is a Pen: an Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets. They are currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell. He teaches English at the University of Alabama.Ĭhing-In Chen is a genderqueer Chinese-American hybrid writer, community organizer and teacher. His work can be found in cream city review, Paper Darts, and Whiskey Island Magazine. ![]() He's the author of a novel, Does Not Love, and a novella, Repetition, and is a founding editor at the literary magazine Always Crashing. ![]() James Tadd Adcox's work has appeared in Granta, The Rumpus, and X-R-A-Y, among other places. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Early in 1936, Mabel Carey, children's editor of J. In June 1932, she was elected to membership of PEN. In 1930, she began writing her first adult novel, The Whicharts, published in 1931. At the end of the war in January 1919, Noel enrolled at the Academy of Dramatic Art (later Royal Academy) in London. When things took a turn for the worse on the Front in 1916 she moved to London and obtained a job making munitions in Woolwich Arsenal. As an adult, she began theater work, and spent approximately 10 years in the theater.ĭuring the Great War, in 1915 Noel worked first as a volunteer in a soldier's hospital kitchen near Eastbourne Vicarage and later produced two plays with her sister Ruth. Sister Ruth was the oldest, after Noel came Barbara, William ('Bill'), Joyce (who died of TB prior to her second birthday) and Richenda. She was born on Christmas Eve, 1895, the daughter of William Champion Streatfeild and Janet Venn and the second of six children to be born to the couple. Mary Noel Streatfeild, known as Noel Streatfeild, was an author best known and loved for her children's books, including Ballet Shoes and Circus Shoes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Other titles with McNeilly included The Darkest Night ( 1966) and The Torturer ( 1966). He wrote some books of sf/fantasy interest under the House Name Peter Saxon, including two Guardians psychic investigator tales with McNeilly – Dark Ways to Death ( 1968) and The Haunting of Alan Mais ( 1969) – and one solo: The Killing Bone ( 1969). It is impossible to distinguish much of what he wrote from what he commissioned and what he doctored, under his own name and others. His work was brisk and brash, most of it sex-oriented thriller detectives under various names including W A Ballinger, and he did not waste much time seeking quality, though his war novels were of some interest his sf – as editor and as author – rarely ventured beyond the routine. His stable of Sexton Blake writers included Wilfred McNeilly, whose claims (see his entry) to have written most of Baker's titles are false, and Jack Trevor Story. ![]() He then set up his own publishing imprint, which continued to publish Sexton Blake books (among others). After working as an editor of Panther Books he began to write for the Sexton Blake Library in 1955, soon taking over as editor of the series for Amalgamated Press, writing many titles under various names, and in 1965 taking the series to Mayflower Books, where it flourished briefly. (1925-1991) Working name of Irish journalist, editor and author Arthur Athwill William Baker, in the UK after World War Two. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding storyof a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the schools tower thirty years before. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life. ![]() I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasnt. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. ![]() A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. It is the summer of 1950and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavias family calls home. Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, must exonerate her father of murder. In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Amatka is a beguiling and wholly original novel about freedom, love, and artistic creation by a captivating new voice. In Karin Tidbecks world, everyone is suspect, no one is safe, and nothingnot even language, nor the very fabric of realitycan be taken for granted. But when she stumbles on evidence of a growing threat to the colony, and a cover-up by its administration, she embarks on an investigation that puts her at tremendous risk. Intending to stay just a short while, Vanja falls in love with her housemate, Nina, and prolongs her visit. Amatka (2012 in Swedish 2017 English translation) is Karin Tidbecks debut novel, though youd be. Immediately she feels that something strange is going on: people act oddly in Amatka, and citizens are monitored for signs of subversion. Title: Amatka Author: Karin Tidbeck Publisher: Vintage. Vanja, an information assistant, is sent from her home city of Essre to the austere, wintry colony of Amatka with an assignment to collect intelligence for the government. A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE GUARDIANS BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY BOOKS OF 2017 A surreal debut novel set in a world shaped by language in the tradition of Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. ![]() |