![]() Toru realizes she is PMSing, Kumiko acknowledges this herself. She is upset, and tells Toru that she hates blue tissues and beef stir fried with green peppers. Kumiko comes home late from work.Ĭhapter 2 - Kumiko comes home late again from work, this time without calling. ![]() She invites Toru to sit with her to watch for the cat. Toru goes into the alley behind his house and meets an odd 16 year old girl sitting out in the sun reading magazines. The strange woman calls again, and when Toru agrees to talk to her, she begins describing explicit sexual details of what she is doing. The cat is named Toru Wataya, after Kumiko’s brother. Toru’s wife, Kumiko, calls, telling Toru about a gig editing a poetry column for a magazine, and reminding him to look for their cat, who is missing. ![]() Sorry this is on the late side, I just got done with work.Ĭhapter 1 ー Toru receives a strange phone call from a woman who claims that if he speaks to her for ten minutes, they will be able to understand each other. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Grist by heather waldorf![]() ![]() As revelation upon revelation builds, she discovers the unthinkable: Kerry is her half-brother and the man she's always taken to be her father isn't after all. Then she falls for Kerry, a handsome local hunk, and wants to tell him how she feels. For one thing, she agrees to compete in the gruelling Four Islands Race. ![]() Instead, she steps into a series of unexpected adventures that will alter her view of what seemed a dull and tedious existence. She decides to spend the summer with her grandmother on remote Lake Ringrose in rthern Ontario, where she thinks she can laze on a hammock all summer and get in touch with her mother's roots. ![]() Sixteen-year-old Charlie, an ambitious and dedicated writer who thinks her small-town life doesn't offer any material for her work, is sure of three things: That her blow-up at her tactless creative writing teacher must have contributed to his heart attack, That she doesn't want to spend her summer with her father's girlfriend and her triplets, And that she has to get away. Not her father, the boy she likes, or even the mysterious man from her mother's funeral. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Brooke by Veronica Rossi![]() ![]() Without Perry, who is she? And what is her role in this frightening new world? As these questions swirl about her, an old threat to the Tides resurfaces, and Brooke is forced to put the lives of her people before her own. Now, with her sister back from a haunting year in captivity and Aria lying unconscious in the sick bay, Brooke struggles to put the pieces of her life back together. That was before Perry fell in love with Aria and before Vale's dealings with the Dwellers altered the course of the Tides forever. ![]() But Brooke's memories of the cave go back much further, to when she and Perry used to come here together. Following the stunning climax in Through the Ever Night, the Tides have been forced to seek shelter from the Aether storms in a dismal, secluded cave. The only fight she can't win is the one for Perry's heart. ![]() Pulsing with romance and danger, Brooke will leave readers desperate for the conclusion to this epic and unforgettable saga. Set just before the events of Into the Still Blue, the conclusion to Veronica Rossi's "masterpiece" Under the Never Sky trilogy (), this breathtaking novella is a satisfying stand-alone for new readers as well as an exciting glimpse at favorite characters from the trilogy. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Nora roberts midnight bayou book![]() ![]()
5/13/2023 0 Comments The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune![]() ![]() I needn’t have worried in the end but expecting those things did mean that it wasn’t quite a five star read. There were a few things that I thought might happen that meant that I wasn’t able to 100% sink into it. ![]() I loved watching their interactions and the ways they support each other etc. Not to mention the friendship group of Nick, Seth, Gibby and Jazz was wonderful. ![]() It took awhile for them, well mainly Nick, to get it together but it was wonderful to watch. They are awkward and adorable and Nick is utterly oblivious. The slowly-burgeoning love between Seth and Nick was such a delight to watch. But then I picked up The Extraordinaries and for the first time in a long time, finished a book in 3 days. Although I was still reading, my heart wasn’t in it and I found myself unable to enjoy many books. ![]() Given the less than stellar start to the year I’d been in something of a slump for a good while. There’s something so wonderful about Klune’s writing, from his YA to his adult books, it never fails to pull me in and bring these wonderful worlds to life. It follows Nick, a boy who wants desperately to be extraordinary, as he finds himself catching the attention of Nova City’s extraordinaries whilst dealing with a crush on his best friend and constant setbacks in his grand plan. The Extraordinaries was an absolute delight of a novel that managed to break me out of a very long reading slump. ![]() ![]() Oh, and he’s designing seven entirely new and entirely green cities in China.īottom-line economic benefits are another specialty of McDonough’s practice. He is building the future of design on the site of the future of exploration: the NASA Sustainability Base. He has created buildings that produce more energy and clean water than they use. ![]() ![]() In a 20-year project, he is redesigning Ford’s city-sized River Rouge truck plant and turning it into the Rust Belt’s eco-poster child, with the world’s largest “living roof” for reclaiming storm runoff. The green-minded architect and designer asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account “all children, all species, for all time.” Why you should listenĪrchitect William McDonough practices green architecture on a massive scale. He champions “cradle to cradle” design, which considers a product’s full life cycle - from creation with sustainable materials to a recycled afterlife. ![]() Architect William McDonough believes green design can prevent environmental disaster and drive economic growth. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Madam president by blayne cooper![]() I adored watching these two strong and powerful women try to work out things everyone else takes for granted, like going on a date without gun toting security and the ever present press trying to get the latest scoop or getting called to the Sit room because of terrorist attacks… When you throw in a homophobic bigot a$$ (think trump) for an opponent, things can be kinda crazy. ![]() I thoroughly enjoyed this story!! It was well written, fun and flirty, sweet and romantic as well as full of lovely drama. There are so many things that stand in the way and so many decisions to make… Will it be worth the risk? Read this and find out, trust me, its worth the read. The attraction is mutual but how does the President of the US even start a relationship in the very public eye. Connie is a mom and a widow, an out bisexual woman oh yeah, she is also the President of the United States! She has pressure from all directions but for some reason, the charming Emily seems to relax her. ![]() On her first day in a new job, she finds herself in a situation where she calls out the President on national TV. She is outspoken and believes in her cause. ![]() ![]() ![]() When she comes out to her secondary print shop in the fictional seaside village of Melliton, Agatha is dismayed to find some bees have made a colony among some of the older printing plates in storage. She’s now widowed and stretched thin running her business, and hopes her politically minded son will take over some day. Although you don’t have to have read that book to enjoy this one, you’ll recognize one of the main characters, Agatha, if you have.Īgatha Griffin is a printer in London. I (Carrie) raved about The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics so I was very excited for this book. ![]() ![]() Tara and I loved The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows, a slow-paced f/f romance that is a standalone novel in the “Feminine Pursuits” series by Olivia Waite. Genre: Historical: European, LGBTQIA, Romance ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It becomes the final part of the work, thus demonstrating the growth and maturation of Anne as a citizen and a person who is willing to engage in a fight for her rights and the rights of other citizens. The fourth part of the work is titled “The Movement.” The author does not state the full name of the movement, which implies its importance and uniqueness for herself and the rest of society. The four parts of the work do not show the life of a girl as we are used to it rather, they show the psychological, educational, and emotional maturation of a woman as a citizen who begins to find the meaning of her life in the participation in social movements and grows to incorporate race into her understanding of herself. Moreover, it can be stated that the memoir is devoted to this increasing understanding to a large extent. ![]() The form of a memoir allows demonstrating how Moody grows to understand the politics of race and citizenship and how this understanding prepares her to fight for her rights. ![]() In this paper, I will consider some of the key topics that Moody raises in her work and dwell on my response to them. As a memoir of an African-American woman who was involved in the Civil Rights Movement, Coming of Age in Mississippi is most suitable for a discussion on race, social movement, and citizenship. ![]() ![]() The second half saw several scoring runs as both the Chico State and Stanislaus offenses heated up. Layups by Ferrall, Courtney Hamilton and McKenzie Dalthorp kept the Chico State offense clicking in the half's final minutes, and the Wildcats took a 40-27 lead into intermission. Stanislaus answered with a pair of buckets to cut the deficit to four, but Chico State proceeded to string together 11 unanswered points – Miller providing the exclamation point with a 3-pointer – to put the 'Cats up 29-14. With the contest knotted up at eight apiece, the Wildcats ripped off the first of two big runs – Marquardt delivered a pair of layups and Miller added a jumper and two free throws to highlight a 10-2 surge to put the Wildcats in front 18-10. ![]() Smith set the tone in the opening period, draining a 3-pointer for the first score of the ballgame. Katie Busi paced Stanislaus with 22 points, eight rebounds, three blocks and six steals Cristin Gowan scored 15 for the Warriors in the losing effort. Kristin Marquardt was held to just four points but hauled in a team-high seven rebounds. Pauline Ferrall poured in 16 points Jazmine Miller scored nine, and Molly Collins chipped in with eight points and five rebounds. Natasha Smith posted one of the biggest games of her Chico State career, leading the Wildcats with 28 points on the afternoon while also contributing five rebounds and three assists. ![]() |