![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Complicating matters even further is that İpek's younger sister, Kadife, is considered the leader of the Kars headscarf girls. Of course, Islam strictly prohibits suicide, so no one is quite sure why these girls would kill themselves. ![]() Given that Kars is a poor city with little apparent future, this is a tremendous sacrifice. Turkey's strict secularism forbade female students from donning headscarves in class since many refused to take them off, they were denied an education. Each of the suicides was known for wearing a headscarf, in accordance with Muslim tradition. Kars is a poor town facing a crisis in which religious teenage girls have been committing suicide. He finds out that İpek's separated from Muhtar (who's become an Islamist), which at first seems a cause for much rejoicing. Ka's more or less abandoned politics, preferring his own artistic dreamscape to the world's reality. Ka finds himself going to the remote eastern city of Kars to reconnect with the beautiful İpek, a woman he'd loved ardently but lost to a fellow named Muhtar, during his student days. Orhan Pamuk's Snow tells the story of Ka, a lonely poet returning to his Turkish homeland after long years of exile. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It has the same crisp, easy dialogue, but the layering of the myth and the complexity of the plot adds something new. Review: Though I’m by no means an expert, this book felt like something a departure from the other Meg Cabot teen books I’ve read. I’d give this to a teen reader who has grown out of The Lightning Thief and is looking for something with the same source material and a little more bite. But I also think this really innovative retelling will appeal to mythology lovers, and could be a nice crossover book for fantasy and contemporary readers. ![]() Who would we give it to? Meg Cabot fans are definitely going to like this latest venture. Plus, throwing a cup of hot tea IN DEATH’S FACE to get away from him is pretty much on par with breaking a slate over Gilbert Blythe’s head. Pierce is no exception, and I like her attitude and her sense of responsibility towards the people she cares about. Meg Cabot writes protagonists who are smart and sincere and just the right amount of cynical. And the overall aesthetic of the cover, with the gold detailing along the sides, is really pretty.ĭoes it Break the Slate? Yes. But on the other hand, this book legitimately features a girl who died (and came back to life) it’s more or less appropriate I suppose. On the one hand, glamorized dead girl in a virginal white dress – a little creepy. Face Value: Hm, I’m not sure how I feel about the dead girl on the cover. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since I’ve never read or heard the audio of the first book (and I couldn’t tell from my Audible App that this was book 2 of the series), I can say quite honestly that this can be read/listened to as a standalone book, or at least done out of order. ![]() Review: So Into You is the second book in SE Harmons series, The PI Guys. Purchase Link: Audible US | Audible UK | Amazon US | Amazon UK Hot, electrolyte-sapping sex? Double check. Drew is looking for some-thing enduring.ĭespite Drew’s misgivings, it’s not long before they’ve got all the requisites for friends with benefits going. ![]() The classic rock would never succumb to the borderline sleazy tempta-tion of friends with benefits, no matter how sexy that temptation is. PI Drew Rodriguez is used to people depending on him. The PI doesn’t seem to entirely love the idea, but Noah has never been afraid to go after what he wants. Then he spends a little time with the gorgeous PI, and suddenly it seems like a really good plan. ![]() Still, because he’s an artist dedicated to his craft and she knows where the bodies are buried, he agrees. Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (22nd August 2016)īlurb: Screenwriter Noah Ashley has a few four-letter words for his agent when she suggests he im-prove his script by shadowing a PI. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Online orders can be returned within 14 days of initial receipt. 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By using the Platform and the Atome Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms and are deemed to have executed these Terms electronically. ![]() Please read these Terms of Service (“Terms”) carefully. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Tuck family, a husband, wife and two sons ages 17 and 22, are simple, salt-of-the-earth folk. ![]() The toad, in its own small way, will be significant later on. I still see a ten year old girl telling her troubles to a toad. I first read Tuck about 10 or 15 years ago and, even though it's a middle grade book, it has stuck with me all these years. (Thinking about this now, I kind of feel guilty about it, like I need to go give her some better books.) So I hung onto these few keepers and found a neighbor with a young daughter who was interested in taking the rest of the books off my hands. I was so disappointed.īut there were a handful of more interesting books scattered among the rest, and one of those was Tuck Everlasting. I have NO idea where my MIL got them from, or why. dozens of Sweet Valley High and Babysitters Club books. ![]() When I got home and opened the boxes, I found. With visions of a literary treasure trove in my head, I quickly offered to take them off her hands so I could keep what I liked and dispose of the rest. She mentioned, as we were leaving, that she had two boxes of books that she was going to get rid of. One day I was visiting my mother-in-law, a former high school English teacher. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now there are only three that make that amount, and they control every aspect of the process, from the egg to the chicken to the chicken nugget. ![]() At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the greatest capitalist country in the world has an oligarchy controlling much of the food we eat and a high-tech sharecropping system to make that possible.įorty years ago, more than thirty-six companies produced half of all the chicken Americans ate. He shows how they built a system that puts farmers on the edge of bankruptcy, charges high prices to consumers, and returns the industry to the shape it had in the 1900s before the meat monopolists were broken up. In The Meat Racket, investigative reporter Christopher Leonard delivers the first-ever account of how a handful of companies have seized the nation’s meat supply. The rotisserie chicken, the pepperoni, the cordon bleu, the frozen pot pie, and the bacon virtually all come from four companies. The American supermarket seems to represent the best in America: abundance, freedom, choice. ![]() The biggest takeover in American business that you’ve n ever heard of An investigative journalist takes you inside the corporate meat industry-a shocking, in-depth report every American should read. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alexandra Potter’s clever comedy, an affectionate celebration of books and readers and bookstores might lead you to. it turns out to be one of the wittier of this summers offerings, not to mention sharp and sad in its observations about what spinsterhood. Suddenly, every woman’s fantasy becomes one woman’s reality. Darcy offers a Pride and Prejudice - appropriate surprise. But that’s exactly what happens when she comes face-to-face with none other than Mr. The last thing Emily expects to find on her excursion is a broodingly handsome man striding across a field, his damp shirt clinging to his chest. Darcy has earned the title of Man Most Women Would Love to Date. Far from inspiring romance, the company aboard the bus consists of a gaggle of little old ladies and one single man, Spike Hargreaves, a foul-tempered journalist writing an article on why the fictional Mr. So when her best friend suggests a wild week of margaritas and men in Mexico with the girls, Emily abruptly flees to England on a guided tour of Jane Austen country instead. Darcy, the dashing, honorable, and passionate hero of Jane Austen’s classic. ![]() Dreams come true in this hilarious, feel-good fairy tale about life, love, and dating literature’s most eligible bachelor!Īfter a string of disastrous dates, Emily Albright decides she’s had it with modern-day love and would much rather curl up with Pride and Prejudice and spend her time with Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nothing good can come from sneaking around with Jake Connelly. Which means this bad girl is in big trouble. But fate is cruel-I require his help to secure a much-coveted internship, and the sexy jerk isn’t making it easy for me. Harvard’s star forward is arrogant, annoying, and too attractive for his own good. As the daughter of Briar’s head hockey coach, I’d be vilified if I hooked up with a player from a rival team.Īnd that’s who Jake Connelly is. But I draw the line at sleeping with the enemy. ![]() ![]() They’re only partly right-I don’t let fear rule me, and I certainly don’t care what people think. THE RISK takes you back to the world of hot hockey players, feisty heroines, bro banter, and steamy scenes…Įveryone says I’m a bad girl. One kiss can make me fall in love with someone.” – Elle Kennedy, “The Risk” What It’s About:Ī sexy standalone novel from New York Times and international bestselling author Elle Kennedy. Anyone can give me an orgasm, but not everyone can touch my soul. To see my review of book #1 – The Chase – Click HERE Total Star Rating: 4.5 StarsĪ kiss, at its very core, is an emotional experience. ![]() ***Warning! This review may contain spoilers from the previous book in the series, so continue at your own risk! You’ve officially been warned!*** ![]() ![]() ![]() It did not capture my interest or enthusiasm, but I was curious about why I did not like this book. ![]() NZ as another colonized country, has always been politically (it wasn’t just sports) tied with/to SA and this book did not inform me in the way that it might do for people of other nations/ countries. In no way would I claim that NZ is not racist but when I was growing up in the 50s and 60s my parents boycotted SA products in protest against the regime there. I’m quite a few years older that the author and I’m a NZer. It’s sense of authority and it’s lack of emotional engagement, which is in this case, I’m aware, a literary device. It certainly speaks to me in that way the very epitome of an apartheid “voice”. My impression is that this is a very masculine reading which seemed at odds with its main character - unless of course you think of SA as the main character. I have never felt quite so strongly about how much a reader can influence one’s appreciation. ![]() Had I actually read this book, I may have felt differently about it. This story was deeply affected by the reader’s voice. ![]() |