![]() ![]() Leave it to Anthony and Dave to worry more about the quality of their whiskey than their stench. She blew absentmindedly at the long strands of auburn hair that fell across her brow. Karen couldn't help but laugh while she descended the stairs, lifting her frilly skirt to keep from tripping. You smell like a bunch of roses," Ellis said. Anthony and Dave, the owner and his employee of the general store next door, stared back at him. ![]() Most of them were from other towns - just passing through as they headed further west. He looked back at everyone else drinking at the bar. If you would just drink some of this rotgut like the rest of the girls, you wouldn't care so much." That was rare for a man who ran a brothel. He treated her well, and he never hit his women. She considered him her closest friend, which she found odd because she considered herself little more than his slave. She stood at the top of the stairs, looking down at Ellis. Even more than the rest of them," Karen said. You got to be the worst hooker I ever had." ![]() "How is someone so smart so stupid? You can't make money if you always insult my customers. ![]() Shaking his head, he turned around and glared at her. "You need to control your whores!" the filthy cowboy said, shoving his way through the saloon doors.Įllis let out a heavy sigh as he watched another patron, who would likely never return, storm out of his saloon because of Karen. ![]()
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For updated information regarding ongoing community features, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]() ![]() Lines are being drawn in a war Luce barely understands, and she just might be on the wrong side of them. There's no turning back, even though her search for the truth threatens to burn her old life down around her. Luce is doing her best to pretend her two worlds aren't crashing into each other, but what should be a routine arson investigation takes a shocking turn when Luce discovers a link between the suspects and her own dark secrets. Life as a cop in Canton Town, Mississippi, is never dull - particularly when hiding deep within you is a demon bent on the apocalypse. The bayou is burning, the battle is just beginning - and Luce Boudreau is smack in the middle of no-man's land. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading Challenges: Holly's 2019 GoodReads ChallengeĪmazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play Books Also in this series: Bayou Born, Death KnellĬliffhanger: View Spoiler » Yes, Continuing StoryArc « Hide SpoilerĬontent Warning: View Spoiler » Violence, Abuse, Death, Destruction, Arson « Hide Spoiler ![]() ![]() ![]() His short stories, like The Most Dangerous Game, were regularly published in The Saturday Evening Post and Collier’s magazine. Richard Connell was a fiction writer and journalist. Best Known For: The Most Dangerous Game.While this may be a stretch, it is certainly one of the most widely read and often anthologized tales in literary history. “The Most Dangerous Game” has been called the most popular short story ever written in English. ![]() In 1943, Orson Welles adapted it for the radio show Suspense. Schoedsack and starring Joel McCrea, Fay Wray and Leslie Banks, and again in 2022 by director Justin Lee. The story was adapted into the 1932 movie of the same name directed by Ernest B. This tale of survival and hunting is an early forerunner for many novels and movies that came later : The Running Man by Stephen King, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Rollerball starring James Caan, and The Grounding of Group 6 by Julian F Thompson. There he squares off against the ruthless General Zaroff, a madman who hunts human beings on his private island. ![]() It tells the story of Sanger Rainsford, a big game hunter who finds himself stranded in the Caribbean on the desolate Ship Trap Island. ![]() “The Most Dangerous Game” is a classic short story written by Richard Connell. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fisher’s natural effervescence and keen sense of comedic timing endears us to Rebecca, a character who could easily read unsympathetic. Isla Fisher, carrying the movie on her petite shoulders, is flawlessly cast as neophyte journalist Rebecca Bloomwood. Honestly? Confessions of a Shopaholic has a closet-full of these elements. ![]() In order for a romcom to work, it has to feature a compelling protagonist, look pretty, and generally follow the classic screwball blueprint of comedy stylings and romantic dynamics. The film was called loud (it is), a hybrid of The Devil Wears Prada and Sex and the City (it was) and an ode to materialism (although it’s more like a cautionary tale), but despite all of this, I find myself returning to it, like a perfectly lived-in leather jacket. ![]() “If you spin out the unintended analogy of Confessions of a Shopaholic to the current financial crisis, the film starts to mutate from a not-that-funny comedy into a tragic allegory,” wrote Slate. A good chunk of the criticism surrounding Shopaholic centred upon its tone-deaf timing: a movie released during a global recession about a young woman addicted to shopping, whose desire for Gucci boots and Marc Jacobs underwear leaves her in over $16,000 of debt. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story, told from the point of view of the Egyptian priest Harmachis, is recounted in biblical language, being in the form of papyrus scrolls found in a tomb.īoucher and McComas gave the novel a mixed review, saying that it combined "a not always believable portrait" of its title heroine with a "fascinating, wholly convincing" story line. Īs is the case with the majority of Haggard's works, the story draws heavily upon adventure and exotic concepts. Harmachis attempts to use his priestly magic to undermine Cleopatra's rule. ![]() The main character Harmachis (the living descendant of the pharaoh's bloodline) is charged by the Priesthood to overthrow the supposed impostor Cleopatra, drive out the Greeks and Romans and restore Egypt to its golden era. The story is set in the Ptolemaic era of Ancient Egyptian history and revolves around the survival of a dynasty bloodline protected by the Priesthood of Isis. Cleopatra mixes historical action with supernatural events, and could be described as a historical fantasy novel. Rider Haggard and first printed in 1889 by Longmans. Cleopatra: Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis is an adventure novel written by English author H. ![]() ![]() ![]() Loeb Classical Library, 5 volumes, Greek texts with facing English translation by H. B. Dewing: Harvard University Press, 1914 thru 1928. As elsewhere onsite, the header bar at the top of each chapter's webpage will remind you with the same color scheme. In the table of contents below, the sections are therefore shown on blue backgrounds, indicating that I believe the text of them to be completely errorfree red backgrounds would mean that they still needed that final proofreading. I ran a first check immediately after entering each book then I proofread the text word by word, a check which is meant to be final. ( Well-meaning attempts to get me to scan text, if successful, would merely turn me into some kind of machine: gambit declined.) The entire work as we have it today is onsite here in English translation.Īs almost always, I retyped the text and the translation rather than scanning them, not only to minimize errors prior to proofreading, but as an opportunity for me to become intimately familiar with the work, an exercise which I heartily recommend. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() John must make a stand for humanity and this time it's personal! Grant Morrison (WE3) and Steve Yeowell (Devlin Waugh) bring you the mind-blowing finale to one of the most celebrated series in British comics. Now they plan to incubate in the sun and evolve to the next level of existence, destroying the Earth as they do so. Zenith Phase 4, Grant Morrison's comics masterpiece with unforgettable art by Steve Yeowell, has been unavailable to trade for twenty years, but part four is published here for the first time! With the Lloigor defeated nothing can stand in the way of the super-humans and universal domination! The remaining members of the original British super-team Cloud 9 with some additional powered affiliates (including Zenith's infant son) have destroyed America in retaliation for an attempt on their lives. He’s surrounded by the people and the plots that a superhero contends against. It’s got everything: Nazi ubermen, hippie superheroes, Lovecraftian gods, anti-Thatcher politics, and a reluctant hero in the form of a pop star. Zenith is in the place where a superhero should be. ![]() Zenith Phase 4, Grant Morrison's comics masterpiece with unforgettable art by Steve Yeowell, has been unavailable to trade for twenty years, but part four is published here for the first time! Zenith is one of Grant Morrison’s early comics, published in 2000 AD and a great showcase for his admiration of superheroes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Inspiring, thought provoking, hopeful, and heart breaking all at once. It teaches all readers to dream big, reach their full potential, and learn from bad situations around them, as well as how what we are surrounded with impacts who we are. It teaches girls from communities to stand up for themselves and question the ways society hurts them. For public school classrooms with diverse make ups, this is a great book to read. Yes, the book contains a very vague scene of sexual assault that will likely only be understood by more mature readers. ![]() It seems likely that the reviews written here vilifying the book were done by those that care little about Literature, exposure to different cultures, or stories that resonate with adolescents. The House on Mango Street is an incredible book for a plethora of reasons. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Middle Ages clashes with the near future in an unforgettable quest for truth, unfolding a story rich in mystery, betrayal, and love.įor fans of medieval fantasy, fairy tales, anime, eco-pagan science fiction, dystopian romance, and murder mysteries. Legacy (The Biodome Chronicles series Book 1) by Sundin, Jesikah at .uk - ISBN 10: 0991345304 - ISBN 13: 9780991345304 - Jesikah Sundin - 2014. Their encounter launches Fillion into a psychological battle with his turbulent past as he rushes to decode the many dangerous secrets that bind them together-a necessity if they're all to survive. Risking banishment, the siblings search for clues, leading them to Fillion Nichols, an Outsider with a shocking connection to their family. Now everyone in their quiet town is suspect. A death Leaf believes is the result of murder. One that believes death will give way to life.Īll is ideal until their father bequeaths a family secret with his dying breath, placing an invisible crown of power on Leaf's head. Sealed inside this biodome since infancy, Leaf and Willow have been groomed by The Code to build a sustainable world, one devoid of Outsider interference. ![]() He's from the future, haunted by her death.Ī chilling secret binds their lives together.Ī sensible young nobleman and his sister live in an experimental medieval village. She's from the past, locked inside a world within a world. ![]() |