6/10/2023 0 Comments Training season leta blake![]() ![]() Drawn into the brave new world of the local gay club, Peter embarks on a whirlwind of experiences-good and bad-which culminate in a hotel room where he has to make the ultimate choice.īut Adam will come back eventually, and there are promises that have to be kept. ![]() On the cusp of adulthood, Peter has a couple of months to explore who he is without Adam at his side.Įnter Daniel McPeak, a slightly older, out, responsible college guy with a posse of gay friends and an attraction for Peter. It’s the summer of 1991, and his secret relationship with his ‘best friend’ Adam Algedi is put on hold as Adam goes away to Italy for the summer. Follow Peter into the summer following his senior year to face new beginnings, new friends, and old baggage.Īfter a tumultuous final year of high school, Peter Mandel needs a break. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Pluto urasawa manga![]() They just tend to fly a little more beneath the radar, as was the case when the smaller Southwark Playhouse’s brought the feudal furry Japan Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo to life in 2014, thanks to some top-notch costuming and make-up work. ![]() ![]() Which isn’t to say page-to-stage adaptations are completely unheard of. There are the odd examples of blockbuster stage translations of comics - a musical version of Alison Bechdel’s autobiographical Fun Home transfers to London’s Young Vic this summer after a Tony award-winning run off-Broadway, and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark was a stuntman-crippling shambles yet it set records for week one ticket sales - but otherwise you don’t see Marvel, Image or DC dominating TKTS booths the same way that they do the multiplexes and bookshelves. Everyone appears to have accepted cinematic adaptations of comic books as totally natural, but the theatre is another matter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Again I loved this take on things and really enjoyed following the story as violet started to find out what happened. The story itself is based around a murder mystery involving a victim whose spirit appears to violet. I'm not going to say much about how it all turns out but needless to say I loved it. I suppose there is a first for everything) and his continually changing relationship with Violet. ![]() I loved Colin (never thought I'd swoon over a man named Colin. ![]() I particularly enjoyed seeing how she got to grips with her new found powers and how she balanced in her use of them compared to her mother who claimed to use similiar ones fraudulently. I loved Violet as a character and felt that the author did a brilliant job of making her modern and easy to relate to as well as fitting her in with the time period she belongs in. It is set in Victorian England and I felt that you got a real sense of the time period whilst reading it from the surroundings and the customs followed and it really felt like the author had done her homework to ensure every little detail was just so. The thing that did it for me with this book was the setting. Buy Haunting Violet by Alyxandra Harvey from Waterstones today Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25. However I shouldn't have been worried because I really enjoyed Haunting Violet and would definitely recommend it to others. This meant I approached this book very warily. I have to say I was not a fan of Alyxandra Harvey and was one of the few people I knew who didn't carry on with her vampire series. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Redeeming love book of hosea![]() ![]() I read Redeeming Love many, many years ago, and don’t remember much except that I really, really didn’t like Michael. She never wanted to marry him, and she keeps leaving, and he keeps pursuing, and then finally they end up together in the end. Michael hears God telling him to marry Angel, and he does (well, he marries Angel Angel doesn’t actually marry him, since she’s pretty much unconscious during the ceremony, but more on that in a minute). Angel has been sex trafficked since she was 8 years old, and works in a brothel. It’s supposed to be the book of Hosea in the Bible put in the 1850s goldrush in California. ![]() This year Universal Pictures made it into a movie, and it opened in theatres last week. Redeeming Love was originally a novel written by Francine Rivers in 1991, and it quickly became one of the best-selling Christian novels of all time. Everyday for the last month I’ve received multiple social media messages asking me to write a review of the Redeeming Love movie. ![]() ![]() Not only does the film bring together a star-studded cast ( Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Zac Efron and Michelle Williams, to name a few), but it also features the highly acclaimed songwriting duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. Barnum & Bailey Circus broke down its wonder-filled tents for the last time in May. Loosely based on the real-life visionary, the film shows how Barnum ( Jackman), a family man, turned his misfortune into a world of mystique and magic that would become the "Greatest Show on Earth." The release of the film seems timely after the Ringling Bros. The musical biopic was inspired by the imagination and innovation of Phineas Taylor Barnum, who "helped invent show business," according to Hugh Jackman. Barnum's traveling three-ring circus to life on the big screen. In a series of whimsical and colorful musical numbers, Greatest Showman brings the menagerie of P.T. ![]() Step right up to see The Greatest Showman, which hit theaters Dec. ![]() ![]() Music By AudioNautix With Their Kind Permission In the book, Lenin describes the role of the State in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. The State and Revolution (1917) is a well known book by Vladimir Lenin. ![]() Ideologically a communist, he developed a variant of Marxism known as Leninism. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. ![]() In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account. ![]() ![]() The audience is longing to warn the characters on the screen: 'You shouldn't be talking about such trivial matters. In these conditions, the same innocuous conversation becomes fascinating because the public is participating in the scene. The public can see that it is a quarter to one. The public is aware the bomb is going to explode at one o'clock and there is a clock in the decor. The bomb is underneath the table and the public knows it, probably because they have seen the anarchists place it there. The public is surprised, but prior to this surprise, it has seen an absolutely ordinary scene, of no special consequence. Nothing happens, and then all of a sudden, 'Boom!' There is an explosion. ![]() Let's suppose that there is a bomb underneath this table between us. We are now having a very innocent little chat. ![]() "There is a distinct difference between 'suspense' and 'surprise,' and yet many pictures continually confuse the two. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Hopeless book series![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Their chemistry together was awesome throughout the entire book. I just loved her attitude about things and I loved her interactions with Holder. Once I read Slammed and saw what Hoover was capable of, I made sure I had the entire Hopeless series in my grasp before I moved them to the top of my to-read pile. And truth be told I probably wouldn’t have picked up for a little while longer if I hadn’t read–and loved–Hoover’s other YA novel, Slammed. So I purchased it for my Kobo but didn’t end up reading it until much, much later. When I first got into New Adult novels, Hopeless graced every recommended read list I encountered. Genre: Young Adult/New Adult, Romance, Drama There is a FREE standalone novella after book 2 called, Finding Cinderellaīook Order: Alternate POV Sequel The novella is Connected SERIESous’ Top Book Series: Fav New Adult 2015 Must Read Author Series Review: Is this series worth your time? Does it get better as the novels progress? Or does it get worse? Find out below: ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Hug jez![]() ![]() And all the time the story is told purely by the expression on the little monkey's face as his hopes are built and dashed again until eventually, with a huge smile, he finds his mum and reaps the reward. ![]() How can it be that a book with only one word, repeated throughout, can be so good? The proof is in the pudding (well, the jungle actually) in Jez Alborough's superb Hug,a fantastic picture book that follows a baby monkey on the hunt for his mum and a cuddle.Īs our little friend wanders through the jungle, enlisting the help of other jungle animals as they snuggle together with their young families. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Vortex by sj kincaid![]() ![]() Kincaid’s futuristic World War III trilogy continues to explore fascinating and timely questions about power, politics, technology, loyalty, and friendship. Will his idealism and bravado cost him everything - and everyone - that matters to him?įilled with action and intelligence, camaraderie and wit, the second book in S. But when he realizes that he’s unwittingly made the most grievous error imaginable, Tom must find a way to outwit an enemy so nefarious that victory seems hopeless. Drawn into a power struggle more dramatic than he has ever faced before, Tom stays a hyperintelligent step ahead of everyone, like the exceptional gamer he is - or so he believes. ![]() Kincaid List price: US8.70 Currently unavailable See our Closure FAQs Add to wishlist AbeBooks may have this title (opens in new window). And the more aware he becomes of the corruption surrounding him, the more determined he becomes to fight it, even if he sabotages his own future in the process. Kincaid - 9781471400421 Categories: Sci Fi Books for Kids School Stories Share Vortex 4.27 (7,281 ratings by Goodreads) Paperback Insignia Trilogy English By (author) S. As training intensifies and a moment arrives that could make or break his career, Tom’s loyalties are again put to the test.Įncouraged to betray his ideals and friendships for the sake of his country, Tom is convinced there must be another way. ![]() Now in their second year as a superhuman government weapons-in-training at the Pentagonal Spire, Tom Raines and his friends have been promoted to midlevel cadets in the elite combat corps known as the Intrasolar Forces. ![]() |