![]() In Still the One, Darcy isn’t some sad victim whose tragic past becomes her only defining characteristic, but neither does the author attempt to negate how much her life has been affected by the accident. ![]() After a car accident, Darcy is permanently scarred and, though not expected to be able to walk again, is out of the wheelchair. What I really liked about this book, though, was how Shalvis approached disability head-on. The romance between Darcy and AJ wasn’t my absolute favorite-especially in the first half-but I warmed up to it over time and, in the end, found this to be a satisfying romance novel altogether. ![]() Jill Shalvis’s Still the One is neither the best nor the worst of her ongoing Animal Magnetism series thus far, rather ending up quite nicely in the center of the pack. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He kneeled between Landon’s legs, with his knees on the floor. Landon pulled softly on his arm again, and Rod got the hint. If they want to truly move forward, before they hit the open road together, they’re going to have to let go of a past that could make them crash and burn. Neither man wants something serious, but the more they’re together, the harder it is to keep their hands to themselves, until eventually they stop trying.īut flings between friends are never simple, and as they attempt to shift gears, diving into their first relationship, they’re slammed with setbacks. Despite the fierce attraction between them, he’s not willing to risk his newfound friendship to get laid. He has to admit, Rod makes the adjustment a lot easier. ![]() Landon never thought he’d return home to the town where memories lurk around every corner. It seems as if Landon wants him too, so why won’t the man jump in the sack with him already? The second Landon Harrison walks in, he has Rod’s full attention. Spending his days at his adult toy store, Rods-N-Ends, he never knows who he’ll meet. ![]() Rod Nelson is used to being someone’s good time, and that’s fine with him. ![]() ![]() ![]() I love the usual hero and his 'gifts' matched with this historical world. That pretty much put him over the top for me.Īltogether, this is a great book in my opinion. Even though he's this big guy he's very kind to Evelyn and actually watches out for her. He is in fact unable to speak which kinda made him more endearing to me. Roderick terrifies everyone, some want to use him for war while others just want to kill him because of his pagan ways. ![]() I also liked the fact she had a bit of a mouth an a backbone which probably wasn't the bed thing for women of that time period. She seemed very intelligent and compassionate towards people in general but wasn't naive in thinking people were good. Evelyn had a hard life and ended up being a barmaid which obviously isn't a glamorous job during the medieval times in Scotland. The characters were very believable and likable to me. I didn't have that feeling that these two are only together because they wanna take a tumble between the sheets, which is really important in these historicals. ![]() I felt like the attraction and relationship between Evelyn and Roderick was real and could easily evolve into them building a life together. This book was just great, it was both deep and meaningful an sexy at the same time. ![]() ![]() Now we see Delaney recovering from a shattered heart after she walked in on her boyfriend cheating on her, and from this point onwards she's sworn off jocks indefinitely. ![]() She started dating a football player named Alex, Maverick never forgot her, since the bonfire night he'd always had a wee bit of a crush on her, but she was with his team mate now and he'd missed his chance. ![]() It would be exactly two years before she ever got to kiss him again. The contact of our mouths is electric, sparks of fire skating along my skin.”. “He kisses me, an almost imperceptible touch as he brushes his full lips against mine. On Delaney's freshman year at Waylon University, out of her element at a bonfire party where all the greek gods and jocks seemed to be, she's completely out of her element but she's trying to push herself to enjoy new things.Īt this very party she meets a guy, she doesn't know his name, or anything about him really, but she leaves with her first kiss and knowing exactly who he is. Straight away I’m pulled into the story of the first time these two met and I was hooked. It might be years later, and still their face is the one you dream about.” “Legend says the first person you kiss at the party is the one you’ll never forget. ![]() It’s spoken in ‘Dual Perspectives.’ In this we meet nerdy girl Delaney Shaw and football star Maverick Monroe. This is the first instalment in Ilsa Madden-Mills ‘The Hook Up’ Series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She earned a Master's in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University and Master of Arts in African Studies from Yale University.Īdichie's current catalog includes three novels, a collection of short stories, a collection of poems, and publications in numerous journals. At Eastern, she studied communication and political science, graduating summa cum laude in 2001. She studied communications on scholarship at Drexel University for two years, then transferred to Eastern Connecticut State University. In 2008, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant." She currently splits her time between Nigeria and the United States.īorn and raised in Nigeria, Adichie studied medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria for a year and a half before leaving for the United States at the age of 19. ![]() Her novels, short stories, and plays have all received both public and critical acclaim. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a writer and storyteller, best known for her themes of politics, culture, race, and gender. ![]() ![]() The thing is, as the chemistry builds between them, Molly isn't sure she wants to be a grad student anymore.if she ever did. But she absolutely refuses to get involved with a student. As the two women work together to make their case, they grow closer than Carmen ever imagined. She has no intention of coming out, least of all to Molly, a troublemaking grad student who can't stop picking fights with the conservative faculty.īut when Molly discovers evidence implicating a homophobic colleague in a scandal, Carmen can't ignore it-even if the subject hits too close to home. Professor Carmen Vaughn is stuck in small-town Maryland with smarmy blowhards for colleagues and ungrateful students who can't handle her high standards. Molly decides to give a PhD a whirl but finds herself more interested in campus politics.and her strict and sexy statistics professor. The Love Factor by Quinn Ivins 4.6 out of 5 stars129 Kindle 6.996.99 Available instantly Audible Audiobook 0.000.0017.4917.49 Free with Audible trial Available instantly Paperback 16.9916.99 FREEdeliveryThu, Oct 6on 25 of items shipped by Amazon More Buying Choices12. It might be the nineties, and everything's shoulder pads, Doc Martens, and The X-Files, but people won't budge on gay rights. ![]() ![]() Molly Cook is almost thirty, with dismal career prospects, and has given up on saving the world. ![]() A smart, opposites-attract, student-professor romance filled with nostalgia, edgy politics, and the forbidden thrills of lesbian love in the nineties. ![]() ![]() John and Laura a couple holidaying in Venice spot two women at another table who inspire them to indulge in their old game of weaving imaginary stories around unknown people. These stories are each between about fifty and seventy pages long – my favourite kind of short stories are the meaty kind – and these dark tales are the kind to fully immerse a reader.ĭon’t Look Now – the darkest story – with a very Hitchcock feel to it – was definitely my favourite. One of the problems some readers have with short stories is that just as you’re getting into them they are over. ![]() My kind of short stories usually come wrapped in covers of soft dove grey these days, and these are of a very similar kind. ![]() Although not everyone does, I love short stories – the right kind of short stories, what I think of as my kind, which are those that aren’t trying to be too clever. I am reminded though, that I haven’t read nearly enough of her novels. ![]() Happily I now have a little collection of these VMC designer editions.ĭon’t Look Now a collection of five (long) short stories by Daphne Du Maurier first published in 1971 show her to have been a superb writer of shorter fiction as well as novels. Pretty isn’t it? – and yes this is the edition I own. ![]() ![]() ![]() "You work your whole life and you start second guessing yourself and you wonder 'Am I good enough to do it?' I was good one time and one time is better than no time."Īnchoring his final bag with a 7-5 Santee Cooper stud, Palmer was the only angler to catch a limit every day of the event. "This is special," said Palmer, who finished fourth in the 2022 Elite on Santee Cooper. The victory, Palmer said, provided an important shot of confidence. Notably, Palmer's winning margin was the sixth-largest in Bassmaster history. "I was so close to doing it last year, to finally get it done - I wanted to break 100 pounds, but I'll take 96-14." "I've been waiting a long time to hear you say that," Palmer told Bassmaster Emcee Dave Mercer after his 'Elite Series Champion' announcement. After adding 26-3 on Semifinal Saturday, Palmer slammed the door on the victory with a massive limit of 25-15 on Championship Sunday.įirst-place prize, besting second-place angler Palmer started the event strong with a Day 1 limit of 21-3 that put him in 10th place and followed with a second-round bag of 23-9 that moved him up to third. , posted a four-day total of 96 pounds, 14 ounces to win theĪFTCO Bassmaster Elite at Santee Cooper Lakes ![]() ![]() Turning in an absolutely crushing final-round performance, the fifth-year pro from ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Reeses, young Gazette subscribers, are edging toward tightwaddery. We head for the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood to join Symmon and Susan Reese, who’ve come up from Irvine to meet the grande dame of thrift. For TV guest shots, she’s brought her Gloria Vanderbilt suit ($1.50 at a church thrift shop). “I give my kids secondhand toys for Christmas.” One caveat: “You will never find a complete erector set at a yard sale.”ĭacyczyn is wearing jeans (firsthand) and a paisley vest (secondhand). “People get rid of their clothes when they gain weight. In clothes, small sizes are easiest to find. LP records are “a really good deal, if you can sort of delay your entry into the CD world for a few years.” ![]() Not worth $5, she decides, but she’d trash-pick it from a curb in a flash, if only for firewood.Īs we move along, she offers a few bargain-hunting strategies: She inspects an ornate jardiniere stand that’s minus one leg. A pair of Empire chairs are handsome, but at $200, Dacyczyn says, a bargain only for a do-it-yourself caner. We move on to Beverly Hills, to an eclectic mix of antiques and junque behind iron gates. “You have to be quick and move on,” she says. “Hit this thing with a little black marker and a little spit and you have a nice piece of folk art.” A dime she’ll take it. From a jumble of toys Dacyczyn plucks a small, slightly chipped, carved and painted cat. ![]() ![]() One of two poems Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) wrote about his beloved dog of 13 years, Wessex, who died in 1926, two years before Hardy himself. Thomas Hardy, ‘ A Popular Personage at Home’. Emily Dickinson, ‘ A little Dog that wags his tail’.Įlsewhere, Dickinson wrote beautifully about the movement and behaviour of the cat in this poem, she ponders the sheer delight of the dog wagging its tail, which is comparable to a little boy frolicking freely simply because he wants to – both the dog and the boy behave the way they do because that’s how they’re made, not for any more complex or cynical motive:Ħ. We’ve compiled more classic Matthew Arnold poems here.ĥ. These are just three stanzas from the much longer poem, which you can read by following the link included above. What, was four years their whole short day? ![]() That steadfast, mournful strain, consol’d ![]() To run their course, and reach their goal, ![]() |