5/13/2023 0 Comments Emma lord tweet cuteMy cheeks, my lips hurt so much because of extra long smiling time! I felt like I did so many sitcom sound effects during my reads: 135 awww, 147 laugh out loud, 74 sighing, 32 giggling resulted with big permanent smile on my face! This is my favorite Emma Lord I’ve ever read! This is the sweetest thing I’ve lately read! Two things I may honestly say about this fabulous read: But how can you find a new part of your life and expect it to fit into your old one, without leaving any marks? And why is it that when you go looking for the past, it somehow keeps bringing you back to what you’ve had all along? And Beth, the chipper and sweet stage enthusiast with an equally exuberant fifteen-year-old daughter (A possible sister?! This is getting out of hand). There’s Farrah, ethereal dance teacher who clearly doesn’t have the two left feet Millie has. There’s Steph, a still-aspiring stage actress and receptionist at a talent agency. And when a left-open browser brings Millie to her dad’s embarrassingly moody LiveJournal from 2003, Millie knows just what to do. And not the “Millie Moods,” the feelings of intense emotion that threaten to overwhelm, always at maddeningly inconvenient times. Not her pesky and ongoing drama club rival, Oliver, who is the very definition of Simmering Romantic Tension. Not her lovable but super-introverted dad, who after raising Millie alone, doesn’t want to watch her leave home to pursue her dream. Nothing will get in the way of Millie Price’s dream to become a Broadway star.
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5/13/2023 0 Comments James talmage jesus the christOver the decades, it has had a place among the very few books in the “reference library” that Church missionaries are allowed and encouraged to carry with them as they are transferred from place to place within their missions. Talmage is still in wide use by Latter-day Saints and is what scholars reckon to be the best-selling doctrinal work in Church history.įrequently quoted by Church leaders, writers, speakers and teachers, it has served at least twice as an instructional manual in Church classes. Today, 100 years after its publication, Jesus the Christ by James E. It is the only book in Church literature to have been written in longhand in a temple, directly commissioned by the First Presidency. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Kathryn stocketts the helpHowever, "The Help" trending (as of Monday at No. George Floyd protests: Kanye, Banksy, Drake and more stars take action Looking for books about racism? Experts suggest these must-read titles for adults and wrote, "The Help is trending on Netflix which means a lot of people still don’t get it." Hunt, who also serves as a professor of sociology at UCLA, continued: "('The Help') does tend to flatten the consideration of things that have a bearing on the way race actually works… the film limits (racism) to individuals as opposed to systemic racism." "One of the problems with films like ‘The Help’ is that they're set in the safely distant past that lets the present off the hook," Hunt added. "It’s almost as if, ‘Oh gosh, look how horrible things were back then and look at how far we’ve come today.’ Which of course, isn’t true." "The Help" is also accused of playing into the white savior narrative, a trope where white characters come to the rescue of minorities in a feel-good tale that dilutes people of color in their own stories by minimizing and simplifying racial issues. Bunche Center for African American Studies, told USA TODAY. "Not to say the film isn’t entertaining and may have other benefits, but if I were to pick one film that helps us understand where (black people) are today and what problems we face, that wouldn’t be the one I pick," Darnell Hunt, director of UCLA's Ralph J. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Devil's Knot by Mara LeverittThe guilty verdicts were popular in their home state-even upheld on appeal-and all three remained in prison until their unprecedented release in August 2011. Jurors sentenced Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley to life in prison and Damien Echols, the accused ringleader, to death. Despite the witch-hunt atmosphere of the trials, and a case which included stunning investigative blunders, a confession riddled with errors, and an absence of physical evidence linking any of the accused to the crime, the teenagers were convicted. Then suddenly, detectives charged three teenagers-alleged members of a satanic cult-with the killings. Award-winning journalist Mara Leveritt's "The Devil's Knot" remains the most comprehensive, insightful reporting ever done on the investigation, trials, and convictions of three teenage boys who became known as the West Memphis Three.įor weeks in 1993, after the murders of three eight-year-old boys, police in West Memphis, Arkansas seemed stymied. In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley were released after eighteen years in prison. *SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON AND COLIN FIRTH * 5/13/2023 0 Comments Blackmail Boy by Parker AvrileMany people listen to Blackmail Boy first and Infinity in Blue last. Please note: The short stories in the Runaway Model universe can be listened to at any time. Will Stoney's attraction to Carlin heal him - or will it destroy him?Ī complete cliffhanger-free stand-alone 8,400-word gay romance short story set in the world of The Runaway Model. The trouble is, the paparazzi follow Stoney around everywhere he goes - and Carlin's old identity just isn't that hard to figure out. He has that outsider sound Stoney had forgotten. He thinks he's seen it all and done most of it. Stoney has been a famous rocker since his mid-teens. Now, all grown-up with a brand new name, Carlin is back to pursue his own music career. A contemporary male/male rock star romance short story complete in 8,400 words.Ĭarlin has appeared in the tabloids before - as the boy used by his mother to blackmail a rock star. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Life together bonhoeffer amazonIt is highly prescriptive and slightly antiquated, with many many "musts" and "shoulds." But in Bonhoeffer's words, "It's not legalism, it's fidelity and orderliness." What would happen if you applied principles of theology AND utter efficiency to living life together? This book. This book is essentially "German engineering for Christian communities." A theologically-rooted how-to manual for living life with other Christians, following a very precise order. I want to be like him, but maybe not in the exact manner he lays out here. An amazing spirit, executed in a concentration camp, after laying a foundation for modern hearts to follow Christ. Nazi-resister, Gandhi liaison, secret super spy pastor. Does the person have a life narrative I admire? Would I actually want to be like them? If so, perhaps I'll take their advice. Whenever I read how-to books, I "skip to end" the consider the actual bio of the person. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Macarthur american caesarIn the process, one veteran was shot to death, and many wounded. MacArthur, convinced the gathering was all part of a vast communist conspiracy, drove the veterans out of the city, burned their shelters, and destroyed their belongings. In the summer of 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, MacArthur personally commanded a contingent of troops, accompanied by tanks, that trampled and teargassed thousands of unarmed World I veterans-the so-called Bonus Marchers-who’d gathered to peacefully protest in Washington, DC. In modern evaluations, more often than not, “Dugout Doug” comes up short. In recent years, however, historians have reassessed Douglas MacArthur-not just his command style, but particular decisions he made, and particular episodes from his long and controversial career. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Octavia butler novelThat’s the source of the ever-reappearing Twitter hashtags #OctaviaKnew and #OctaviaTriedToTellUs.īut what did she know? And what did she see, not just for 2020 or 2022, but for farther into the future? On what would have been her 75th birthday, June 22, what knowledge might Butler have had for us about the next 75 years? That’s why in an annus horribilis of pandemic, ecological crisis, and political turmoil, the book (set in a decaying America of the 2020s) felt more like prophecy than ever. The rest of us are still trying to catch up. Butler saw clearly what would actually come next. Out of the dizzy techno-optimism of the 1980s and 1990s, Octavia E. There’s a reason, when reading Kindred with students in two courses last fall, I truly felt the book could have been written last year, as if it were responding to right now, rather than published six months before I was born. There’s a reason Parable of the Sower felt to so many people like a handbook for surviving 2020. Butler – but Butler’s fiction isn’t, not really. I may be a bit older now than I was in 1999 – the year I first read Octavia E. 5/13/2023 0 Comments The Long Weekend by Ross LennonRoss’s barbs were not confined to Celtic and he angered St Mirren – whose weekend fixture with Motherwell had to be called off after several players tested positive for Covid-19 - by stating that clubs could exploit the pandemic to get fixtures postponed so that key players could recover from injury. Ross also questioned the fitness of Leigh Griffiths and Albien Ajeti and implied that Shane Duffy is earning £5 million a year with the Hoops. Maurice Ross – who is in charge of Motherwell’s reserves and was also a Rangers defender for five years – declared that Celtic’s weekend line-up against his former club was “probably the weakest I’ve seen from them in 20 years.” He added: “I think Celtic’s understanding of playing 3-5-2 is very basic.” Neil Lennon was the target of a particularly virulent social media battering following defeat by Rangers in Saturday’s Old Firm derby but, as he prepared Celtic for Thursday's Europa League visit of AC Milan, he revealed that he had been more disturbed by the condemnation of a fellow coach. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Jarrod shustermanIt coughs and wheezes like it’s gone asthmatic. The kitchen faucet makes the most bizarre sounds. Check out the book's cover and an excerpt from the novel below. 2, 2018, but if you can't wait for the story, don't worry - MashReads has a exclusive sneak peek at the novel. And Flint, Michigan, still doesn't have clean water, almost four years after it was revealed that the city's water was heavily contaminated with lead in 2014.ĭry doesn't come out until Oct. The rapid spread of those wildfires aided by years of drought. In 2017, Southern California faced historic wildfires that decimated 1.2M acres of land (opens in a new tab). Of course, it's hard not to see parallels between the plight of Dry and the environmental disasters in our current news cycle. And when her parents don’t return and her life-and the life of her brother-is threatened, Alyssa has to make impossible choices if she’s going to survive," the book outlines. "Suddenly, Alyssa’s quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation neighbors and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. Neal Shusterman redefines dystopian fiction with his 'Arc of the Scythe' seriesīut when Arizona and Nevada pull out of a vital reservoir relief deal that brings some of the country's scarce water supply to Southern California, Alyssa and her community are left dry. |