Elvis and me priscilla5/23/2023 Presley penned all the lyrics for the album, only co-writing one track with Gus Black. 5 on the Billboard 200 album charts and was later certified gold. Singer-songwriter Presley released her first album “To Whom It May Concern” in 2003, which reached No. “I keep going because my son made it very clear in his final moments that taking care of his little sisters and looking out for them were on the forefront of his concerns and his mind. But I keep going for my girls,” Presley wrote in an essay for People magazine. “It’s a real choice to keep going, one that I have to make every single day and one that is constantly challenging to say the least. Presley opened up in August 2022 on National Grief Awareness Day that she struggled coping with life without her son Benjamin. Koko Da Doll, Star of Trans Doc ‘Kokomo City,’ Dead at 35: Sundance Breakout Found Shot in Atlanta
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Allure by Melissa Andrea5/23/2023 A well-written sex scene can explore pleasure, consent, emotional intimacy, and the dynamics of attraction. "TikTok, in particular, really brought the genre to the mainstream and allowed non-romance readers to realize that there is a lot more to the genre than bare-chested men on the covers," she says.īeyond carnal pleasure, there's more power in the sex scenes depicted in these books. Kennedy acknowledges the app's power when it comes to attracting new readers. Caroline now shares weekly "coffee chat" videos, in which she reviews her week in reading by analyzing each book's themes or literary elements. Caroline Green of turned to TikTok because "none of friends were really big readers" and #BookTok and #BookTok gave her a chance to discover new-to-her romance reads like Sarah MacLean's historical romance series Love by Numbers. Now, her content includes romance book reviews and academic discussions about sex and intimacy in literature, and she says TikTok has given her "a really great place to find community" among fellow romance readers. Like many creators, Sanjana Basker's BookTok following "started out as an accident." At one point, Basker devoured 500 romance novels in the span of four months. Readers are more vocal than ever about reading - and enjoying - sexually explicit novels. Gill isn't the only one: Social media creators are leading the spicy romance renaissance right now. Scandalous desires5/23/2023 Even having been married, her husband definitely hadn’t been as adventurous as Mickey. 5/5īesides the normal frequency of the sexy times on Maiden Lane, I thought these felt a little more scandalous, mostly because Silence had been fairly innocent. The way these two interact is still fun, with a lot of foreplay, a good girl turning to the bad boy trope, and some sweet angst. Mickey had a lot of bad things happen in his childhood. Silence is kind of a sad character who’s had a lot of bad things happen to her in her recent adult years. It definitely helped emphasize the bad boy/good girl thing she and Mickey had going on. I kind of loved that Silence was willing to go to extremes to care for a child she’d only taken in and that other characters seemed to like her right away. However, he really kind of maintains his bad boy persona through the whole book. Like all romance heroes, he had a sympathetic backstory that made me do a 180 on my previous opinion. By the time I got to the middle of the book, I loved Mickey. No more will I lose faith in this author. For a full synopsis, see this book’s Goodreads page. The guy was kind of a douche, and though I had faith that Hoyt would work her magic, it was still a little bit daunting at first.Ī pirate has to protect his daughter and the woman he ruined, not expecting his attraction to her to turn into anything more than lust. Though I love this series, I wasn’t as enthusiastic about diving into this one, mostly because I hadn’t been sold on the hero when he appeared in the previous books. Tezzeret is one of those cerebral villains who’s got plans within plans. I’m thrilled to be writing in the MAGIC comic book universe with the new one-shot MASTER OF METAL! If you feel a cold prickle of dread crawling up your spine, don’t worry everything is going according to plan. Once he finds it, he will manipulate anyone necessary and do whatever it takes to claim his prize… but to what end? When the fate of the Multiverse is at stake, what game will the scheming Master of Metal play? Tezzeret of Esper, the cruel artificer now free from his former master Nicol Bolas, the God-Pharaoh of Amonkhet, has traveled across the Multiverse seeking the answer to a question only he knows. Mark Hamill and His Return of the Jedi Prop Lightsaber Reunite in Pop Culture Quest Clip Monsters by barry windsor smith5/22/2023 The day he walks into a US military recruitment office, little does he know that he will become the subject of a top secret, experimental genetics program with loathsome Nazi origins. Set in a timeline spanning the 1940s to the ’60s, Monsters centers around young Bobby Bailey, a naïve, emotionally fraught young man with a tragic destiny. Fantagraphics will release MONSTERS on April 27, 2021. Best known for drawing the Conan series of the ’70s and creating several independent comic series of the ’90s - including Young Gods and The Paradox-Man - Windsor-Smith is now releasing his first major work since The Freebooters (2005). Over three decades in the making, the graphic novel MONSTERS by legendary comics artist Barry Windsor-Smith is a 360-page tour de force of visual storytelling. Comfort me with apples ruth reichl5/22/2023 Compact Disc (September 1st, 2001): $39. In Comfort Me With Apples, Reichl again demonstrates her inimitable ability to combine food writing, humour and memoir into an art form.Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs Picking up where Tender at the Bone leaves off, Comfort Me with Apples recounts Reichl’s transformation from chef to food writer, a process that led her through restaurants from Bangkok to Paris to Los Angeles and brought lessons in life, love, and food. In this delightful sequel to her bestseller Tender at the Bone, Ruth Reichl returns with more tales of love, life, and marvelous meals.is an extended, lilting song about lovesickness and the restorative succor of good food.Two courses of Reichl’s literary cooking will leave still-ravenous readers hoping for a third serving soon. This one tells just enough.The book reads not like life described but like life lived and then shaped.Each story affirms desire to get beyond the surface, even as she celebrates its unlikely depths.” “So many memoirs annoy by telling either too much or too little. “Reichl writes with gusto, and her story has all the ingredients of a modern fairy tale: hard work, weird food, and endless curiosity.” The home and the world by tagore5/22/2023 Aware of his growing influence, Sandip places himself between Nikhil and his wife while secretly attempting to convince Bimala to use her husband’s wealth to support the Swadeshi cause. When Nikhil and Bimala invite Sandip to stay as a guest at their home, Bimala moves further away from her traditional role as a wife and begins to develop romantic feelings for the radical figure. Although Nikhil remains passive, if not indifferent, regarding British rule, Bimala, who comes from a poor family, reaches a political awakening of her own. There, they hear the magnanimous revolutionary Sandip speak out against British imperialism and call for Indian independence. Through the lens of one family, Tagore illuminates the conflict between Western culture and Indian nationalism while exploring the complex relationships of men and women in modern India.Ĭoncerned for his wife, who spends most of her days inside, Nikhil, an educated aristocrat, brings Bimala to a political rally. Written after Tagore received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, the novel dramatizes the Swadeshi movement for Indian independence from British rule. The Home and the World (1916) is a novel by Bengali author Rabindranath Tagore. The book focuses not only on the classic systems of proportioning, such as the golden section and root rectangles, but also on less well known proportioning systems such as the Fibonacci Series. Explanations and techniques of visual analysis make the inherent mathematical relationships evident and a must-have for anyone involved in graphic arts. Geometry of Design-the first book in our new Design Briefs Series-takes a close look at a broad range of twentieth-century examples of design, architecture, and illustration (from the Barcelona chair to the Musica Viva poster, from the Braun handblender to the Conico kettle), revealing underlying geometric structures in their compositions. Kimberly Elam takes the reader on a geometrical journey, lending insight and coherence to the design process by exploring the visual relationships that have foundations in mathematics as well as the essential qualities of life. At last, a mathematical explanation of how art works presented in a manner we can all understand. The spirit of capitalism max weber5/22/2023 In the last chapter he says that extreme Protestant views run something like this - God has a perfect plan which he worked out at the dawn of time. Now, given the countries picked - Italy and Spain on the Catholic side, Northern Europe and England on the Protestant side, you could possibly argue that living in a country with an incredibly bad cuisine is the problem. All the same, he believes that there is something in Protestantism that makes Capitalism more or less inevitable and that is not present in Catholicism. Also, Protestant countries tend to be more economically developed than Catholic ones - so why? Marxism would say that people's ideas are a manifestation of the economic structure they find themselves in, but Weber believes this is only partly true, although he starts off strongly opposed to Marxism, in the end he is much less certain of the limits of the role of economics in providing the base for these ideas to flourish. There appears to be lots more Protestant capitalists than there are Catholic ones. It is in this final chapter that the real thesis is worked out.Ī thumbnail version goes like this. It is not that the rest of the book is completely uninteresting, but it is much less interesting. I think you could get away with reading just chapter five of this one - that is where the guts of the argument is. Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall5/21/2023 And it is, utterly unsurprisingly, delightful from its first chapter. ) This novel, which follows the story of a bed and bath manager who pretends to lose his memory when he thinks he’s about to be fired, encompasses many of the genre’s favorite tropes, including a central grumpy/sunshine pairing, an enemies-to-lovers romance, and-a personal favorite of mine-fake amnesia. (Eagel-eyed readers may remember that Jonathan has a cameo in sequel Husband Material. The story is set in the same world as Boyfriend Material but focuses on a brand new couple, Jonathan and Sam. The third installment in Hall’s London Calling universe, 10 Things That Never Happened, is set to arrive this Fall and kick off the author’s new Material World spin-off series. (And what I’m saying is, there’s a reason for that.) From his utterly charming Winner Bakes All series-a series of delicious romantic comedies centered around a competitive baking show-to the upcoming Regency historical fantasy Mortal Follies, Hall is one of the most prolific and popular romance writers working today. A popular writer of queer romance, fantasy and historicals, Hall’s books seem to be everywhere at the moment, and with good reason. If, for some reason, you have yet to read any of Alexis Hall’s books, now might be the time to think about changing that. |