6/30/2023 0 Comments Dark matter michelleIt started off strong, setting the scene and describing the hopelessness that would motivate someone like Jack to forgo all he knows to venture to no-mans-land. I can’t pin-point precisely where the story lost me. Not only are characters forced to contend with whatever supernatural entity is on their tail, the very land itself threatens their survival on a daily basis. I think that is what makes it the perfect landscape for a horror novel. It’s so hostile and isolated yet life miraculously persists in spite of it all. It’s a bastion of cruelty set against a backdrop of incomprehensible beauty. After they reach the remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year, Gruhuken, Jack feels a creeping unease. So when he’s offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. 28-year-old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO HAVE ANY FOREKNOWLEDGE OF THE CONTENTS OF THIS NOVEL, READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE BOOK.
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6/30/2023 0 Comments A Doll Like Me by Kimberly Gordon“Dying is not like you see on TV or in the movies. It is not peaceful or prepared. You may not have a spiritual or meaningful moment. You can plan for death, but death does not always comply with our wishes or plans.Ĥ. No matter how prepared you think you are for a death, you can never be fully prepared for the loss and the grief.Ģ. If you finish this post and you're annoyed about all the things we forgot, leave a comment to keep the list going! I wish someone had told me.ġ. So, with your help, that is what we have today: a quick and dirty list of the things we wish we had known about grief before we knew anything about grief. If it's in quotes, it's something one of our fabulous readers shared with us on Twitter or Facebook. just the really basic things that people never tell you about grief. So, we think back to the basics. Not the theory stuff, not the ideas about how to cope. We write about types of grief, grief theory, personal reflections, creative expression for coping with grief, practical ideas for managing grief, and on and on and on. But there are some days that all that seems like a lot to take in. Unique Nature of Grief, Lists, 64 Things, Grief Articles for Beginners, Is this Normal? 6/30/2023 0 Comments A New World by Lina J. PotterRead the continuation of the saga as the plots of different characters entwine. The story is coming to its culmination there are central questions to be answered, meetings to be had, mysteries to be unraveled. The Royal Court is the fourth in the Medieval Tale series by Lina J. She writes a letter addressed to her husband to come and meet her in the Royal Palace. She has to win the hearts and minds of the members of the Royal Family and of her own family. The situation is nearing an international crisis. Still, he is not the only ruler who has his sights set on Lilian. Meeting him might ruin everything or it could save and protect all. She could push medicine and industry forward, could bring lots of inventions to this world, new guilds and so on… the only thing in her way now: King Edward. After not playing for a while, we can all of a sudden add our own words and play custom games this opens up a whole new world of possibilitiesFrom Me. New land, new friends, and new rivals mean new opportunities. Everyone in the capital of Ativerna has sharp teeth and are not afraid to use them to their own advantage… and they all have heard contradictory gossip about Lilian Earton. Lilian steps up to another level of negotiation and intricacy in her relationships: much deeper and more dangerous than in her native Earton Castle. The royals and noblemen are far more sophisticated in matters of intrigue, gossip, and slander than anyone she has dealt with before. A fight which will decide her destiny in a world she’s sacrificed so much for. Countess Lilian Earton is now on the threshold of the royal palace, ready for a diplomatic and eloquent fight. 6/30/2023 0 Comments Ambrose band of brothersAmbrose, using information gathered during interviews with some of the surviving members of E Company, begins by detailing the grueling training exercises and excessive discipline they endured under a captain they couldn’t stand and who probably would get them killed when they went into battle. I guess I just wasn’t ready to let the story of these brave men go, and I wanted to see how different the miniseries was from the book.īand of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne From Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest follows the men of Easy Company from when they were trained to be paratroopers at Camp Toccoa in 1942 until the company was disbanded in 1945 in the months following the end of World War II. I finally finished the Band of Brothers miniseries last month (it premiered several years ago on HBO right around the time we moved from CT to MD, and I missed some episodes in the shuffle so just stopped watching it), and I bought the book as soon as the credits started to roll. It’s not like civilian life, where sudden death is so unexpected.” In the heat of battle you expect casualties, you expect somebody to be killed and you are not surprised when a friend is machine-gunned in the face. I wish I could persuade you to regard death as casually as we do over here. If I don’t come back, try not to take it too hard. I do not think I shall live through the next jump. Webster’s attitude was, as he wrote his parents, “I am living on borrowed time. |