![]() ![]() When I "talk back" to a book then I know it's time to listen to music and download another book. She tries to develop characters and "love" interests, but the relationships are obvious as is what is going to happen next. The author must have had a medical dictionary that she wanted to find a use for as she provides details that are supurfluous at best. As a character is asking questions I found myself asking better questions and providing better answers! The main character is supposed to be a doctor, but acts like an un-informed teenager. Boston Medical Examiner Maura Isless newest case provides clues to her hitherto unknown past in this fourth thriller to star her and Homicide Detective Jane Rizzoli. Most of the storyline is very predictable. Body Double by Tess Gerritsen (2004) Body Double by Tess Gerritsen (2004)Great READ One of the best by Tess Gerritsen. ![]() The story jumps from one storyline to another with the "anticipation" that it's all going to come togther. ![]() I had to stop with four hours to go as the story line, characters, dialog and the reader were all nerve racking. I was going to give this book up in the first hour, but as I didn't have anything else to listen to I stayed with it for another five. A high school level Patricia Cornwell wannabe ![]()
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The whole idea shook me not just moved me Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you? ![]() What about Erin Bennett’s performance did you like? Would you listen to A Crack in Creation again? Why? ![]() In to the abyss we ascend, a scary future ![]() ![]() ![]() The book also turns out to be an excellent follow-up to The Golden Bough as a study of how magic is practiced in the real world. Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England (Penguin History). This does not prevent it from functioning as a system of explanation, a source of moral injunctions, a symbol of social order, or a route to immortality but it does mean that it also offers the prospect of a supernatural means of control over man's earthly environment. ![]() NEARLY every primitive religion is regarded by its adherents as a medium for obtaining supernatural power. ![]() It turns out that about half of the length of this book is notes and index, however, so it’s not as intimidating as the file size makes it look. However, this was not one that inspired teeth-grinding, despite being almost the longest of the bunch. ![]() Earlier this year I was grinding my teeth over trying to read too many extremely long non-fiction books. Its original purpose was to explain some of the belief systems that were current in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England but which are mostly no longer believed today – things like astrology, witchcraft, magical healing, ghosts, and fairies. Religion and the Decline of Magic is a very long book of non-fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Losing her identity, her sense of self-worth, and her hope for the future, Holly found herself sitting alone in a bathtub contemplating suicide.īut instead of ending her life, Holly chose to take charge of it. But like Alice in Wonderland after she plunged down the rabbit hole, what seemed like a fairytale life inside the Playboy Mansion-including A-list celebrity parties and her own #1-rated television show-quickly devolved into an oppressive routine of strict rules, manipulation, and battles with ambitious, backstabbing bunnies. The real, untold, and unvarnished story of life inside the legendary Playboy Mansion-and the man who holds the key-from the woman who was Hef's #1 girlfriend and star of The Girls Next Door.Ī spontaneous decision at age twenty-one transformed small-town Oregon girl Holly Sue Cullen into Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner's #1 girlfriend. ![]() ![]() Asterios Polyp is a successfully ambitious novel, elegant and epic. ![]() This beautifully illustrated graphic novel of painterly images and muted colors even distinguishs each character's dialog in thought balloons with appropriately unique fonts. The wraparound pictorial dust jacket-band is sized to about 4/5ths of the book's height. The other half-panel is a deep purple with blue and white titles, the colored endpapers decorated with sketches of flowers.and some weeds. This striking, large and heavy hardcover is half-bound in what looks like a dense pressed cardboard with individual blindstamped impressions of Asterios to each panel dressed in a jacket and smoking to the front and in shirtsleeves without a cigarette to the rear panel. Nearly fine, new, clean, crisp and unread scarce stated first edition with the full number line including the 1. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He also gained widespread attention for writing Iceman, Marvel’s first series to put an out gay male superhero at top billing. He was the artist for Li’l Depressed Boy, a comic based on a web series with a cult following. Grace wrote and illustrated the graphic novel/memoirs Self-Obsessed, Not My Bag, and Nothing Lasts Forever. ![]() It just goes to show that talented and ambitious writers and artists can have thriving and fulfilling careers without compromising their values. Snack, an independent arts and culture magazine based in Scotland, described Grace as “ one of the most versatile and innovative names in comics today, with queer characters and stories often at the core of his work.” Sina Grace has been hailed as a risk-taking, independent comics creator who is willing to push back against well-worn tropes and outdated stereotypes. Above: Sina Grace (photo courtesy the Drag File) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Other readers seemed to have the same reactions to this that I did. That said, maybe it's a selling point that the book is completely not scary? I know a lot of kids who get stressed out by suspense and adventure, and the fact that this is so quiet may be appealing to them. I think only kids who ruminate a lot will want to read this, but I don't think a kid under 8 will GET it, and will older kids want to read about a younger one? That's a small window of readership. My own very-much-in-her-head 9-year-old will love it, I think, but the fact that there's no big sweeping external drama and there's really only one kid in the book (the 10-year-old narrator - OK, there's also an unlikeable, uncute 5-year-old) may turn a lot of young readers off. I do worry that this very short novel (I would say novella but after reading that Eudora Welty hated the word novella, I try not to say novella b/c what if I accidentally insult some novelist who hates the word novella? GAH) will have a hard time finding an audience. Nothing HAPPENS - the book is all about the emotions and tiny changes in our female protagonist's head - but it's so real and so touching and so momentous despite being writ so small. Another Goodreads reviewer compared it to Mrs. ![]() ![]() When Foote was 15 years old, Walker Percy and his brothers LeRoy and Phinize Percy moved to Greenville to live with their uncle - attorney, poet, and novelist William Alexander Percy - after the death of their parents. Foote was an only child, and his mother never remarried. Foote's father died in Mobile when Foote was five years old he and his mother moved back to Greenville. As his father advanced through the executive ranks of Armour and Company, the family lived in Greenville, Jackson, Vicksburg, Pensacola, Florida, and Mobile, Alabama. Foote was raised in his father's and maternal grandmother's Episcopal religion. ![]() His maternal grandfather was a Jewish immigrant from Vienna. Foote's paternal grandfather, a planter, had gambled away most of his fortune and assets. 6.2.2 Titles excerpted from the The Civil War: A Narrativeįoote was born in Greenville, Mississippi, the son of Shelby Dade Foote and his wife Lillian Rosenstock. ![]() ![]() Image credit: Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity–What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves –Christian Rudder I borrowed an image from Christian Rudder, co-founder of OKCupid, to illustrate a better option. Rows and columns will never move someone to action because it’s too difficult to quickly decipher what’s important. Projecting one on the big screen during an executive meeting while asking them to make tough decisions based on the information, isn’t it. But there’s a time and place for spreadsheets. The ability to color code cells, sort columns, auto sum groupings, etc. Data within a story needs a purpose to meet the goal you set for an audience. It’s the reason you’re doing it in the first place. To succeed at something you need a goal – every goal is tied to a purpose. Here are three traditional techniques data storytellers use to add value and capture an audience within a story. While the narrative is key, pairing a story with value-added data is how you’ll drive action. ![]() Shirley said, layman’s terms) make analytics findings easy-to-understand – which is crucial when you consider the expectation of on-demand, data-driven, decision making has become the norm. If Clark had shared a story to explain how varnish improves the experience for cereal connoisseurs, maybe his peer would have been intrigued rather than underwhelmed.Įveryday examples (as Mr. Clark’s non-nutritive cereal varnish is so complex that in an earlier scene – while describing it to a peer – his colleague politely changes the subject. ![]() ![]() Lucy Score Author of Things We Never Got Over Pdf is a Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon Kindle Store bestseller of romantic comedies and contemporary romance. Now she’s stuck in town with no car, no job, no plan, and no home with an 11-year-old going on thirty to take care of. ![]() After helping herself to Naomi’s car and cash, Tina leaves her with something unexpected. Too bad for Naomi her evil twin hasn’t changed at all. She was riding to the rescue of her estranged twin to Knockemout, Virginia, a rough-around-the-edges town where disputes are settled the old-fashioned way…with fists and beer. Naomi wasn’t just running away from her wedding. Knox doesn’t tolerate drama, even when it comes in the form of a stranded runaway bride. Unless you count his basset hound, Waylon. ![]() Get A copy of Things We Never Got Over Pdf or Paperback By Lucy Scoreīearded, bad-boy barber Knox prefers to live his life the way he takes his coffee: Alone.Things We Never Got Over Pdf Paperback, Hardcover Book Information. ![]() |