![]() ![]() In this, the first in the Patchwork Mysteries, we meet several key characters: Sarah Martha, Sarah's best friend Ernie, Martha's husband Sarah's son Jason and his wife Maggie and their twin 12-year olds Amy and Audrey, and many other individuals. She painstakingly restores the quilt from long ago and utilizing some unique techniques, she painstakingly uncovers clues to the mystery. Sarah is hoping to discover something about this strange disappearance many years later when a 4' x 4' quilt is discovered in a secret passageway in an old home. more 24 years old when she disappeared leaving behind her 6-year old son, and the Town always blamed her husband. Review 2: guideposts #1 in this seriesSarah restores vintage quilts and has discovered one that is attached to a 90-year old mystery involving her missing grandmother-a grandmother she's never met. ![]() It was also wonderful to see that the author lives in Central Nebraska! ![]() THIS BOOK IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION WITH NO SIGNS OF ANY WEAR AND TEAR. Themes include love of family and friends, faith and appreciating one's family history play key roles throughout the book. FAMILY PATTERNS Patchwork Mysteries GUIDEPOSTS INSPIRATIONAL HARDCOVER BY KRISTIN ECKHARDT PUBLISHED IN 2010. all entwined in a backgroud of crazy quilts! My 91 year old aunt recommended this one to me! I think she especially enjoyed the main character, Sarah Hart, a senior citizen always on the go and with a special talent for restoring old quilts. Review 1: Blest be the tie that binds! This very cute modern-day mystery includes oldsters, youngsters, and a decades old mystery. ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments Sanderson the lost metal![]() ![]() He could feel the mine out there nobody wanted to live nexta it, so Wayne and his ma did. Rusts knew there was nothing else in this one-window home Uncle Gregr had cared about.ĭ o n t think about it, Wayne thought, bungling his shuffle and spilling cards over the table and floor. Wayne kicked the table sometimes, in case Gregrs spirit was watching and was fond of it. Back before he got crushed by a billion rocks in a landslide and mushed into a pulp what couldnt hit people no more. You just had to give it something it wanted, like someone else to eat.Īnyway, no bed for him. ![]() He could make friends with something what lived unner a bed. Other kids were scared of mistwraiths, but Wayne figured they just didnt know how to negotiate properly. ![]() Which made beds soft and squishy on top, with someone underneath you could talk to. Theyd hide unner your bed and steal the faces of people you knew. A bed sounded much better than a mat on the groundespecially one he had to share with his ma when the nights were cold, because they didnt have any coal. Other kids in Tinweight Settlement had them. The Lost Metal (Mistborn 7) Weekly Update ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Southern reach books![]() ![]() It’s set at the Southern Reach the headquarters of the Area X initiative where we follow a new protagonist and interim director John Rodriguez (aka “Control”). I blew through Annihilation but Authority left something to be desired. I had hopes of finishing Acceptance as well (the final book in the trilogy), but as I type I’m still less than 100 pages into it… thanks to Authority. So, for this month I read Authority, the sequel to Annihilation and the second in James VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy. But I enjoyed that it was unlike anything I’d read before… a cast of all female leads, an unearthly terrain, a mystery with an unforeseeable solution, and a layered writing style that kept me wanting more. A lot bizarre, especially toward the end. ![]() A short book (only 200 pages or so) and a great page-turner. It was a great first read to get me back into books after having my second daughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has built a mansion and a school to flaunt his power to the local Portuguese administrator, but he abandons Ndani when he finds she's not a virgin. Ndani is expelled from the house and drifts towards home, where she becomes the wife of a village chief. ![]() The mistress of the house, Dona Deolinda, embarks on a mission to save Ndani's soul through religious teaching, but the master of the house has less righteous intentions. Ndani leaves her village to seek a better life in the capital, finding work as a maid for a Portuguese family. The first novel to be translated into English from Guinea Bissau, The Ultimate Tragedy is a tale of love and emerging political awareness in an Africa beginning to challenge Portuguese colonial rule. Translator: Jethro Soutar Cover design: Marie Lane The Ultimate Tragedy Author: Abdulai Sila ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Sing you home reviews![]() ![]() This mission becomes personal for Max when Zoe and her partner want permission to raise his unborn child. Max, meanwhile, has found peace at the bottom of a bottle, until he is redeemed by an evangelical church where the pastor has vowed to fight the 'homosexual agenda' that threatens traditional family values. When Zoe allows herself to start thinking of having a family again, she remembers that she and Max still have frozen embryos they never used. When Vanessa, a guidance counsellor, asks Zoe to work with a suicidal teen, Vanessa and Zoe's relationship moves from business to friendship and then, to Zoe's surprise, blossoms into love. In the aftermath she throws herself into her career as a music therapist. But a terrible turn of events takes away her baby and breaks apart her marriage to Max. Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to have a baby, and finally it looks as though her dream is about to come true - she is seven months pregnant. 'Picoult writes with unassuming brilliance.' Stephen King ![]() ![]() ![]() Academicians as well as lovers of myths and legends will prize this authoritative but inexpensive edition. For many years, The Secret Commonwealth was hard to find - available, if at all, only in scholarly editions. Robert Kirks A Study in Folk-Lore and Psychical Research dates from 1691, and is perhaps a hallucinatory and delusional labor of love by a minister obsessed. Lang's introduction to Kirk's extraordinary blend of science, religion, and superstition is included in this edition. In 1893, the distinguished folklorist Andrew Lang re-edited the work. ![]() Left in manuscript form upon the author's death in 1692, this volume was first published in 1815 at the behest of Sir Walter Scott. Magic was a part of everyday life for Kirk and his fellow Highlanders, and this remarkable book offers rare glimpses into their enchanted realm. ![]() Robert Kirk roamed the Highlands, talking to his parishioners and other country folk about their encounters with fairies, wraiths, elves, doppelgangers, and other agents of the spirit world. In the late 17th century, a Scottish minister went looking for supernatural creatures of a middle nature betwixt man and angel. Kirk is a magnificent dish to set before any student of either folk-lore or folk-psychology. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Scene of subjection![]() ![]() ![]() Sensitivity to pain or produce a "narcissistic" pleasure that Making voyeurs of their readers, they tend to dull Verbal portraits of violence, arguing that they turn black suffering The first and more successful half of her book, Hartman dissects these In the examination of antebellum slavery that makes up Too often was a kind of racially charged pornography for middle-class Depictions ofĮxtreme physical abuse were common in abolitionist literature? which all ![]() Possibilities" has fortified black subordination. "blackness as an essentially pained expression of the body's This audacious hook's major achievements.Īnother is showing what's wrong with rhetorical devices like Repeatedly been "displaced as black criminality"-is one of These outrageous reversals are accomplished-how white violence has Nineteenth century, but her foray into the past is nonetheless aįreeze-frame expose of such contemporary sleight of hand. ![]() Hartman confines her account of American racial politics to the WhatĬourtroom alchemy transformed King, writhing under a rain of blows, intoĪ threat, the culpable originator of the assault upon him? Saidiya Rodney King invited a heating from officers of the L.A.P.D. Offers an illuminating cultural history of the forms of perception thatĬonvinced a jury in Simi Valley, California, that the prostrate body of $19.95Īlthough it does not mention him by name, Scenes of Subjection MLA style: "Scenes of Subjection." The Free Library. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Kendall ryan finding alexei![]() Seduce Me seemed like it would be a great romance read. Tucker will let Charlie think her plan is working, but in the end he is gonna get what he always wanted-Charlie. But he isn't going to let her believe for one second that he is letting her back into his life to help her save the very job that ripped her away from him in the first place. Should be easy right?.Tucker knows Charleston (Charlie) Monroe is playing him for a fool. In order to get Tucker to help Charlie-she will have to seduce him. The only problem is the two have silently vowed to hate one another for the rest of their lives. Now she needs his help the only way to do it is to make him think she wants him back. Charlie walked out of Tucker Middleton’s bedroom seven years ago, leaving him hurt and angry. ![]() ![]() What happens when you’re forced to seduce the one person you vowed never to love? You get screwed … in more than one way. Welcome to Romances of the Month! This is a monthly blog that offers a round-up of a couple of romance books that I've read for the month, and where I will also share my reviews of each book! Seduce Me by Kelly Elliott ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments The near witch series![]() ![]() ![]() Hence, I much prefer reading folk lore and horror as both give us that sense of the natural world being just a tad eerie and numinous often without any clear explanation. Structure and academic rules really don’t appeal to me very often. When it comes to magic, I like to it be wild and mysterious with a price for its users. The next night, the children of Near start disappearing from their beds, and the stranger falls under suspicion.Īs the hunt for the children intensifies, so does Lexi’s need to know about the witch that just might be more than a bedtime story, about the wind that seems to speak through the walls a night, and about the history of this nameless boy. But when an actual stranger, a boy who seems to fade like smoke, appears outside her home on the moor at night, she knows that at least one of these sayings is no longer true. These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life. There are no strangers in the town of Near. The wind is lonely and always looking for company. If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. The Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children. I would like to thank Lydia at Titan for providing me with an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review ![]() ![]() I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. What makes them all Paullina Simons books? ![]() And The Bronze Horseman is an historical novel. ![]() ![]() Your third book, Eleven Hours was a psychological suspense thriller. Your second book, Red Leaves, was a murder mystery. Your first book, Tully, was a rich, emotional saga. I don’t belong in Russia now anymore than I belong in Texas or Long Island, or Kansas, or Brooklyn, but when I think of things that affect me: of the songs that I love, or books that I adore, or foods that comfort me, or language that soothes me, invariably, those things are all Russian. The longest I’ve ever lived anywhere was the Fifth Soviet apartment which is one of the settings in The Bronze Horseman. But since I was ten years old, I have never lived in any one location longer than two years. Russian is what I am, American is what I have become, English is what I happily was and fondly remember. My blessing and my curse is that I have lived in so many places that I find myself easy to attach and easy to detach from all of them. You grew up in Russia, then lived in both the United Kingdom and the United States. ![]() We met up with Paullina Simons to talk in more detail about The Bronze Horseman and about her life in general. ![]() |