![]() ![]() ![]() She is just such a strong, bad ass, independent woman and getting to see her vulnerabilities and struggles was something else. I've always loved Shirleen and her big personality so getting to really know her and get more details on her back story was awesome and heartbreaking all rolled into one. From the sweet to the heat, as well as the entertaining moments and all the emotion, I couldn't get enough. This was an exceptional read and I enjoyed every second. Smart.īut Moses has a big challenge on his hands.Īnd then convince her she deserves to have more. He’s more interested in the Shirleen of now, mostly because she’s interesting. Moses has different ideas about Shirleen. She was raising two fine young men who weren’t hers, but she loved them anyway.Īnd then Moses Richardson crashed into her life, literally… and deliberately. She decided to settle for what she had and not want more. It affected who she was and would always be. Along the way, she also watched the dramatic love stories that came with those rides unfold.īut long ago, Shirleen made her choice. Rock Chick Reborn (Rock Chick #9) by Kristen AshleyĪs a Rock Chick, Shirleen Jackson lived through all the kidnappings and explosions. ![]() It did not disappoint! Awesome conclusion to the Rock Chick series! I’ve always loved Shirleen and her outgoing personality so I was really happy she was getting her own story. I was thrilled to see the surprise release of Rock Chick Reborn in April. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Audiences learn of a man breaking free of a lifetime of silence and isolation. After coming to terms with his diagnosis, Louganis collaborated with Eric Marcus to write his autobiography Breaking the Surface, which spent five weeks at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. He qualified for springboard and platform for the 1980 Olympics, which were boycotted, and went on to be the first male diver to get double gold in springboard and platform in the 1984 Los Angeles and 1988 Seoul Olympics.ġ988 was not only the year Louganis made Olympic history, but also the year he tested positive for HIV. Louganis became a United States national treasure when he won a silver medal at the 1976 Montreal Olympics on platform at the tender age of 16. He’s a five-time World Champion, won 47 national championship titles and was the first man to win two Gold Medals in diving in two consecutive Olympiads. Greg Louganis is considered to be one of the world’s best divers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sales of The Cat in the Hat in Tampa and Indianapolis were nearly 40% higher compared to the rest of the country, during this year’s Seuss Week, with significant jumps also seen in Orlando, Florida (28%), Phoenix (25%) and Charlotte, North Carolina (14%). Valerie Koehler, owner of Blue Willow Bookshop on the west side of Houston, said the calls started rolling in after the coverage on Fox and she spent the better part of March 2 explaining to customers scared that Seuss was being brought down by political correctness that she never carried any of the obscure titles being pulled but would gladly help them order any of the author’s other nearly four dozen books. “And the list that they give just happened to exactly match the list of books that were pulled from the market.” “They said things like, ‘My children each want a copy of this beloved book’,” says Justin Colussy-Estes, store manager of Little Shop of Stories in Decatur, Georgia, of the calls he got following the cancellations. ![]() After-market sales boomed for the discontinued titles, with one copy of And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street put up for sale by a collector for $12,500, while other shoppers hit up their local bookstores hoping for a chance to grab a copy. They can thank the outrage for that: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy posted a video of himself reading all of Green Eggs and Ham on social media Senator Ted Cruz is selling signed copies of the book for campaign donations, raising $125,000 in the first day of the effort-he credited “ lefties losing their minds” for the quick cash. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first line of this book also definitely caught my attention: ![]() A lot of things end up a series these days, so I was really excited to start with The Shadows Between us. It’s not often that a fantasy book is a standalone. After all, who better for a Shadow King than a cunning, villainous queen? The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller As attempts on his life are made, she finds herself trying to keep him alive long enough for him to make her his queen-all while struggling not to lose her heart. Regardless, Alessandra knows what she deserves, and she’s going to do everything within her power to get it.īut Alessandra’s not the only one trying to kill the king. Others say they speak to him, whispering the thoughts of his enemies. Some say he can command the shadows that swirl around him to do his bidding. No one knows the extent of the freshly crowned Shadow King’s power. Today I want to tell you what I thought of this book, so keep on reading!Īlessandra is tired of being overlooked, but she has a plan to gain power:ġ) Woo the Shadow King.2) Marry him.3) Kill him and take his kingdom for herself. ![]() The Shadows Between Us is this author’s newest release and was a TBR & Beyond group read in April. Tricia Levenseller is an author I’ve wanted to read more by since reading Warrior of the Wild. ![]() ![]() ![]() As is often said in Nigeria, when you point with one finger, there are four others pointing back at you. Beyond poking fun at the holders of power, it is also a summons, a provocation and a call for introspection among all levels of society. ![]() From the exploration of religious hypocrisy to inequality in matters of the heart, the collection is a jab at Nigerian society and what it means to be a Nigerian. A religious tells you It is a searing look at how power is abused, negotiated and performed in private and public in politics, business, religious institutions and in homes. ![]() In Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide, Elnathan John provides an affecting, unrestrained and satirical guide to the Nigerians you will meet at home and abroad, or on your way to hell and to heaven. You know how Nigeria is, things may be difficult, but they are always possible with money.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I realized with my last post, that I had only included 1 suggested way to read the books, but I thought with this post, that I would offer a few other ways to read it. Now new and improved! 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Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() When the first draft was shortlisted for the Gratiaen Prize in 2015, it was titled Devil Dance. Karunatilaka wrote his second novel in various versions with different titles. ![]() ![]() In this time, he hopes to retrieve a set of photographs, stored under a bed, and to persuade his friends to share them widely to expose the brutalities of the Sri Lankan Civil War. The central character, Maali Almeida, is a dead photographer who sets out to solve the mystery of his own death and is given one week ("seven moons") during which he can travel between the afterlife and the real world. The novel is set in Sri Lanka in the 1980s, and written in the second person. An earlier, unrevised version of the novel was originally published in the Indian subcontinent as Chats with the Dead in 2020. ![]() The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida was published on 4 August 2022 by the small independent London publisher Sort of Books ( ISBN 978-1908745903). It won the 2022 Booker Prize, the announcement being made at a ceremony at the Roundhouse in London on 17 October 2022. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is a 2022 novel by Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka. ![]() ![]() But it’s equally possible that the book would never have struck home. Possibly, this is because I’m at the wrong stage in life – like The Catcher in the Rye, this struck me as a book that has to catch you at a certain time to really work. Franny and Zooey didn’t get me in the same way. I found it moving to read these reflections on the book – but also, I have to admit, confounding. I read Franny and Zooey as a teenager, 35 years ago, and it launched an existential crisis that took me a few years to pull myself out of. There was also a more troubling reflection on the book’s influence: (Yes, I was subjected to erudite confessional onslaughts for years.) Zooey in particular amazed me – dapper, hectoring, some amalgam of Zen and street smarts – as he bore a resemblance to my elder brother, not least in his behaviour around me. I was a devotee of Salinger’s writing in the 1960s/70s and loved Franny and Zooey. Another wrote movingly of the book’s power to conjure a lost era: ![]() |