![]() Among them: a successful, first generation Chinese immigrant musician suffering sexual dysfunction a young woman whose father abandoned her at age nine with her younger siblings in an isolated cottage in the depth of winter and a glamorous workaholic whose narcissistic, negligent mother greeted her each morning of her childhood with "Good morning, Monster."Įach patient presents a mystery, one that will only be unpacked over years. In this fascinating narrative, therapist Catherine Gildiner's presents five of what she calls her most heroic and memorable patients. In these pages, she has gorgeously captured both the privilege of being given access to the inner chambers of people's lives, and the meaning that comes from watching them grow into the selves they were meant to be." - Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone "Gildiner is nothing short of masterful- as both a therapist and writer. Fascinating." - Glennon Doyle, A Favorite Book of 2020 on Good Morning America ![]() ![]() "We need to read stories about folks who have been through hell and kept going. As seen on Good Morning America's SEPTEMBER 2020 READING LIST and FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2020! ![]()
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5/29/2023 0 Comments Rules of civility audio book![]() The story opens on New Year's Eve in a Greenwich Village jazz bar, where Katey and her boardinghouse roommate Eve happen to meet Tinker Grey, a handsome banker with royal blue eyes and a ready smile. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit, and her own brand of cool nerve, Katey embarks on a journey from a Wall Street secretarial pool through the upper echelons of New York society in search of a brighter future. Set in New York City in 1938, Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year- old named Katey Kontent. ![]() ![]() A sophisticated and entertaining debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Kevin brooks the road of the dead![]() ![]() Right away they know that something is wrong, as Ruben and Cole can get no answers or service in the local tavern, the local police warn them off, there is an attempted assault, and it seems that most of the businesses have closed up, making Dartmoor a virtual ghost town.Ībbie is not happy to see them, and seems to be hiding something, her husband Vince is even less happy, and seems to be hiding even more. Ruben and Cole are dispatched by Mary to go to Dartmoor to retrieve Rachel's body and bring her home, and to do this they have to find out who killed her, and where his body is buried.Īrriving in Dartmoor, they call Abbie, Rachel's friend, the woman that she spent her last night with, and arrange for her to put them up. Ruben's is a tough family of lower class, Irish/English citizens, they have no faith that the police will find out who killed Rachel, or why, and they don't care. Then the police inform the Fords they can't take Rachel home until her murder is solved. ![]() Ruben has another vision, and he knows that the person who killed Rachel is now also dead. Then the police show up and inform his mother (Mary) and his brother (Cole), his father is in prison for manslaughter, that his Rachel's body has been found, and it hadn't been an easy death. ![]() We start out with young Ruben Ford having a psychic experience, learning that somebody has killed his sister Rachel. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Madison kate series books![]() ![]() Of course, Archer snaps and Steph overhears the conversation which was a breaking point to her running away and getting snatched - but it worked out to get them off the task of protecting her. However, they hate that they cannot protect MK first, because she will ALWAYS be their main priority. ![]() The novella occurs during the same timeline where Archer, Steele & Kodiak are tasked to keep Steph safe as a favor to Hades. MK, Wittenberg Heir and still my favorite person. It’s cool that Kody and Steele are now “married” to MK but like… it didn’t do anything for me. I think the formulaic sex scenes were just a little… boring - I was skipping them! The plot was meh. I would count myself as one of those people, but it still fell flat for me. Was this novella necessary? No - but it was for the fans who want a bit more time with MK and the guys. This novella was fan service - which isn’t an insult! I love when authors do things for their readers (like J Bree re-writing book 2 of the Hannaford Prep series to be from the guys POV). Tate James does banter and twists really well, and her books are entertaining as hell - but… It already happened while I was reading the Hades series - I didn’t have the same “new to reverse harem” rose colored glasses on and I found it really lacking in relationship development. I’m almost scared to re-read the Madison Kate series because the first time I read it, I loved it - I thought it was super campy and fun and just a wild, sexy ride… but I’m worried that on re-read, I’ll see the flaws. ![]() ![]() "It possesses a conclusion of such power that it would be a literary crime to reveal it. "A triumph of form, pacing and power.character-driven as it is, it reads like a thrille, swift and complete." "An unexpected pleasure.It will leave the reader entranced as well as moved." "A first-rate work of fiction disguised as a page-turning thriller" ![]() "Both a beautiful, wrenching story of redemption, and a novel of exquisite suspense" Ethan and Grace Learner, played by Stanley Tucci and Anne Tw. "One of those rare-very rare-novels that you don't so much read as inhabit.But it's the novel's conclusion, as perfect as it is sudden, shocking and completely unexpected, that will stick in your memory." The aftermath of a fatal hit-and-run is perceived through the eyes of three eyewitnesses. "A lovely book, full of life and feeling" L08 ANGELES TIMES 'Quietly breathtaking.' VANITY FAIR JOHN BURNHAM SCHWARTZ R E RVAT'I 0 N R AD Reservation Road JOHN BURNHAM SCHWARTZ. "A poignant thriller.quietly breathtaking.a suspenseful literary novel" "A powerful and affecting pelling to read." John Burnham Schwartz is awfully young to own this much wisdom, but there it is, on every page." And though it begins in catastrophe, Reservation Road turns out to be a kind of map of connectedness: Touch a child here and the whole world trembles out of orbit everyone bleeds finally, perhaps, after great pain, everyone heals. ![]() "This is a shattering book, imagined with startling emotional precision and generosity. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments The next person you meet in heaven![]() ![]() But when her wedding night day ends in an unimaginable accident, Annie finds herself on her own heavenly journey-and an inevitable reunion with Eddie, one of the five people who will show her how her life mattered in ways she could not have fathomed. ![]() When, as a young woman, she reconnects with Paulo, her childhood love, she believes she has finally found happiness.Īs the novel opens, Annie is marrying Paulo. Bullied by her peers and haunted by something she cannot recall, Annie struggles to find acceptance as she grows. Injured, scarred, and unable to remember why, Annie’s life is forever changed by a guilt-ravaged mother who whisks her away from the world she knew. It took her left hand, which needed to be surgically reattached. The accident that killed Eddie left an indelible mark on Annie. ![]() Now, in this magical sequel, Albom reveals Annie’s story. Eddie’s journey to heaven taught him that every life matters. In Mitch Albom’s beloved novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, the world fell in love with Eddie, a grizzled war veteran-turned-amusement park mechanic who died saving the life of a young girl named Annie. In this enchanting sequel to the #1 bestseller The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom tells the story of Eddie’s heavenly reunion with Annie-the little girl he saved on earth-in an unforgettable novel of how our lives and losses intersect. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Graphic novel road to perdition![]() ![]() Collins writes a good gangster yarn based on historical personalities and full of crisp dialogue, violent action and brooding overtones of religious redemption. The Looneys go into hiding, and O'Sullivan and son set out to find them, encountering the celebrities of gangland Chicago along the way. They murder O'Sullivan's wife and younger son, leaving him stunned but determined to have his revenge. Fearing what the kid saw, the Looneys set the O'Sullivans up to be killed. He inadvertently witnesses his father and one of the Looneys murder a crooked cop and his partners. ![]() stows away in his car to see what he does for a living. Curious about his dad's mysterious "job," Michael Jr. It's 1930 and O'Sullivan works for the Looneys, an Irish mob family with a stranglehold on the politics and businesses of a small Midwestern city. ![]() It's the story of Michael O'Sullivan, a feared and religiously inclined mob hit man who's brutally betrayed-and the fierce vengeance he wreaks. Originally published as a single-volume graphic novel in 1998, this is the comics work upon which the Tom Hanks movie is based. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Book review great circle![]() Both struggle to find loving relationships with significant others. ![]() Shipstead follows Marian and Jamie as they approach adulthood and begin to discern where their passions lie: for Jamie creating art for Marian piloting airplanes. Left mostly unsupervised, Marian and Jamie spend an unforgettable childhood pursuing adventures with Caleb, their neighbor who similarly has little adult supervision. Great Circle lays out the story of Marian and Jamie Graves, orphaned at an early age, then deposited with their eccentric, artist uncle in Missoula, Montana in the early 1900s. Great Circle is a masterpiece and I cannot recommend it strongly enough. To say that this was the best book I have read in a long time, is an understatement. The characters had become my friends and I didn’t want to have to leave them forever. Despite the slowness with which I read it, however, I found myself consciously slowing down as I came to the end of the book. Quiet times for reading were few and far between. ![]() ![]() But while I was reading it, I had five weeks of the delightful company of my L&L co-editor and her two small children. And I read it at a pace slower than any book I can remember reading in my recent past. There is no question that Great Circle requires a commitment-at 589 pages. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is because Chaucer wrote in English that there is a written record of the roots from which the modern language grew. Because of this work, all of the great writers who followed, from Shakespeare to Dryden to Keats to Eliot, owe him a debt of gratitude. To a great degree, The Canterbury Tales helped make it a legitimate language to work in. ![]() English was considered low class and vulgar. Before Chaucer’s time, even poets who lived in England wrote in Italian or Latin, which meant that poetry was only understandable to people of the wealthy, educated class. For one thing, The Canterbury Tales is recognized as the first book of poetry written in the English language. ![]() Having recently passed the six hundredth anniversary of its publication, the book is still of interest to modern students for several reasons. the uncompleted manuscript was published in 1400, the year he died. Geoffrey Chaucer began writing The Canterbury Tales sometime around 1387 A.D. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments So We Read On by Maureen Corrigan![]() ![]() First of all, Fitzgerald was in New York, and he was friendly with people like H.L. To one extent or another, we have seen Jay Gatsby and he is us: reaching out toward a green light on a shore we may never reach, teetering on the edge of the dark water of the American Dream.Ī: Right. ![]() In "So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures," Corrigan examines the multifaceted phenomenon of the novel, including its creation, its reception over the decades, its place in world literature and its continued, perhaps increasing relevance in an America still bound and confounded by class. But for those who come to "Gatsby" as adults, for the first time or the second - or, as in the case of Georgetown University professor and book critic Maureen Corrigan, on so many occasions that she's lost count - Fitzgerald's slender opus reveals itself as perhaps the greatest of the great: brief yet weighty, packed with meaning yet easy to digest, its pessimism belied by sentences that shimmer like gems on the page. As a staple of high school curricula, the novel has been widely read and, nearly as widely, dismissed by generations of teenagers who can't understand what all the fuss is about. ![]() Scott Fitzgerald, occupies an oddly precarious position in the ranks of Great American Novels. But "The Great Gatsby," the 1925 masterpiece by F. Its greatness is right there in the title, not to mention on every page. ![]() |