![]() ![]() ![]() The drug abuse took hold of Melody at a young age and spiraled out of control until Jane got the phone call that her daughter had passed away. What stood out again in this one was Jane’s pain and feelings of helplessness at the loss of her child. She lost her only daughter Melody to drug abuse. In this story, Jane is a forty year old grieving mother. I have been meaning to read the sequel, Jane’s Harmony, so I decided to read the first book again since it has been a while. ![]() Jane’s Melody is actually a re-read for me as I first read this one in 2014. And now Jane must decide if it’s too late for her to start over, or if true love really knows no limits. Sometimes our greatest gifts come from our greatest pain. A sexy but touching love story that will leave you both tantalized and in tears, Jane’s Melody follows a forty-year-old woman on a romantic journey of rediscovery after years of struggling alone. That’s the question a grieving mother must answer when she takes in a young street musician she believes can shed light on her daughter’s death-only to find herself falling for him. WHAT BOUNDARIES WOULD YOU CROSS FOR TRUE LOVE? First line: The day after the funeral, Jane came back to the island cemetery and sat in her car, watching rain fall on her daughter’s grave. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Clair lands a gig working at Heywood Hill she can't get on the plane fast enough. ![]() With war imminent, Nancy finds respite by taking a job at the Heywood Hill Bookshop in Mayfair, hoping to make ends meet, and discovers a new life. But Nancy Mitford's seemingly dazzling life was really one of turmoil: with a perpetually unfaithful and broke husband, two Nazi sympathizer sisters, and her hopes of motherhood dashed forever. "An absolute must-read!"-Madeline Martin, New York Times bestselling author The Last Bookshop in Londonġ938: She was one of the six sparkling Mitford sisters, known for her stinging quips, stylish dress, and bright green eyes. USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight brings together a brilliant dual-narrative story about Nancy Mitford-one of 1930s London's hottest socialites, authors, and a member of the scandalous Mitford Sisters-and a modern American desperate for change, connected through time by a little London bookshop. One of Hasty Booklist's Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Novels! ![]() ![]() ![]() Nick, just as blindsided by the affair, wants answers. But it was even harder to think that his final moments belonged to another woman-one who had left behind her own grieving and bewildered fiancé. And he wasn’t alone.įor Jacks, laying her husband to rest was hard. Her husband of eight years, the one who should have been on a business trip to Kansas, had suffered a fatal car accident in Hawaii. Or at least she thought it was…until two police officers showed up at her door with devastating news. Bestselling authors Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke make their suspense debut in this twisty, emotional thriller.Įlementary school teacher Jacqueline “Jacks” Morales’s marriage was far from perfect, but even in its ups and downs it was predictable, familiar. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of the time "Creepshow" works, though. King's rather funny, but he's not particularly scary. He plays a hick farmer who's consumed by astral grass after touching a meteorite. The elder King, author of "Carrie," "Night Shift"and "Salem's Lot," also acts in one episode: lawn doctors from space. Just coincidence? Rod Serling wouldn't think so. Presciently, Kamen's preliminary sketches showed a sinister little boy resembling King's son Joe, who ended up playing the part in the film. ![]() Romero and ghost-writer Stephen King.Ĭartoonist Jack Kamen's classy splash panels chain King's stories together and give "Creepshow" that pulpy look. It's an unabashedly juvenile junk movie by fiendish director George A. Here comes "Creepshow," a five-part comic anthology featuring the art of gross-out. ![]() ![]() ![]() Parker goes on to other advanced topics such as the zeta function, Cantor's aleph numbers and Gödel's incompleteness theorems. So he starts on a long journey meandering through a very diverse set of math related topics that leads to sphere packing in hypercubes and other objects in the fourth and higher dimensions. ![]() That being said and given the title of the book, Parker promises a lot, but to better understand everything that is needed to work in the fourth dimension, one has to start from the beginning and build things up step by step. As Richard Hamming formulated it in 1980: Mathematics is unreasonably effective. That mathematics is useful and turns out to have practical applications is a fortunate side effect. One should not necessarily necessarily do mathematics to solve particular problems. However, what Parker takes as a starting point is that mathematics is fun to do and that people should start doing mathematics for the fun of it. ![]() Many people experience mathematics as annoyingly difficult, extremely boring, and exclusively for nerds. In fact, that is a major point he wants to make with this book. ![]() So you may expect this book to be fun as well. Matt Parker is a "standup-mathematician", i.e., stand-up comedian and a maths communicator and he loves to mix both. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Anne and Captain Wentworth, both single and unattached, meet again after a separation lasting almost eight years, setting the scene for many humorous encounters as well as a second, well-considered chance at love and marriage for Anne. The wife's brother, Captain Frederick Wentworth, was engaged to Anne in 1806, but the engagement was broken when Anne was persuaded by her friends and family to end their relationship. ![]() The story concerns Anne Elliot, an Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family moves to lower their expenses and reduce their debt by renting their home to an admiral and his wife. It was published on December 20, 1817, along with Northanger Abbey, six months after her death, although the title page is dated 1818. Persuasion is the last novel completed by Jane Austen. 1818 (published on December 20, 1817, although the title page is dated 1818) ![]() ![]() And if she fails, she's facing an execution of her own. But the identity of the would-be traitor is so shocking that no one believes her, and so Sophia decides to stop the treacherous plot herself, at great personal peril: She's young, she's a girl, and she's running out of time. Through her work she becomes aware that someone in the American army might be switching sides, and she uncovers a plot that will grievously damage the Americans if it succeeds. ![]() Recruited as a spy, she becomes a maid in the home of General Clinton, the supreme commander of the British forces in America. Sophia is horrified by the event and resolves to do all she can to help the American cause. ![]() In 1776, young Sophia Calderwood witnesses the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, which is newly occupied by the British army. Lives hang in the balance in this gripping Revolutionary War adventure from a beloved Newbery Medalist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, this has meant an almost complete neglect of how dystopia can contribute to understanding and thinking critically about society. Īs these examples illustrate, this renewed social-theoretical interest in the speculative tends much more towards utopia than dystopia. Similarly, Matt Dawson points to how social theorists like Émile Durkheim have long used the tools of sociology to critique and offer alternative visions of society. Ruth Levitas explicitly advocates a utopian approach to sociology: a provisional, reflexive, and dialogic method for exploring alternative possible futures that she terms the Imaginary Reconstitution of Society. ![]() Like Wells, recent sociological thinkers believe that the kind of imagination on display in speculative literature valuably contributes to understanding and thinking critically about society. Wells’ view that “the creation of Utopias-and their exhaustive criticism-is the proper and distinctive method of sociology”. Social theorists are increasingly showing interest in the speculative-in the application of the imagination to the future. ![]() ![]() Week 3 almost certainly sealed the deal with a dramatic 51% in viewing hours. ![]() Sadly, without a massive debut for Shadow and Bone season 2 and no growth in week 2, we changed our prediction to likely cancelation. Here’s how that breaks down week-to-week: Week Period Between March 12th and April 2nd, the show has picked up 132.43M hours in the top 10s. Here’s how its weekly ranking in the Netflix global top 10s looks thus far after two weeks. Let’s begin with Netflix itself, which releases hourly data for its top 40 shows and movies every Tuesday. Using several sources, we’ll be keeping track of the show’s progress on Netflix plus externally below: Netflix Top 10 Hourly Numbers ![]() As we’ve covered before, Netflix shows have to meet several internal metrics used at Netflix, with one of the most important metrics, we’re told, being the completion rate. Our Renewal Prediction: Likely Cancelation (Last updated: April 4th, 2023)Ī renewal of Shadow and Bone will come down to the numbers, given it hasn’t earned itself an early renewal upfront. Has Shadow and Bone been renewed? How well is Season 2 performing on Netflix? ![]() ![]() It's very diverse and has a lot to offer. She doesn't write these in a scholarly manner, but in a away you end up liking these woman even more and for you to research more about them yourself. They are all drawn, colored, and written by Bagieu herself. However, most of these woman I'm learning about for the first time, this is what makes this book amazing.Įach bio is about 5 pages more or less in comic strip format, although I wouldn't call this a comic strip. The others I thought I didn't know, but reading these bios I actually do semi-know about them or seen them elsewhere. Before hand, just looking at the names I only really knew of Josephine Baker and Margret Hamilton, maybe a few others, but that's all. This book, first of all, features woman that aren't really well know. ![]() ![]() Do we really need ten similar books with the same woman? ![]() They have nice art, but they usually have a one page short bio of a woman you most likely heard about making their life seem like nothing bad ever happened. I've seen so many of these types of books published now and they usually are the same thing. ![]() |