![]() ![]() ![]() A year of wedded bliss to sexy-as-sin cowboy Trevor Glanzer has brought her the happiness and contentment she never thought she'd find, and mellowed Trevor's rodeo wanderlust. Part 5: Chassie West Glanzer hasn't been a stranger to drama and tragedy.Now that she's old enough, she's pulling out all the sexual stops and riding hell-bent for leatherstraight for his libido. Part 3: Goody-two boots AJ Foster has waited her entire life for Cord McKay to see her as more than a girl in pigtails.Cash agrees on one condition: Theirs wont be strictly a working relationship. Struggling stock contractor Gemma Jansen swallows her pride and tracks down circuit rider Cash Big Crow to offer him a job managing her ranch. Part 2: Workin' up a hot, sticky sweat is pure pleasure with a hard-ridin' cowboyor two. ![]()
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![]() If this had of been the first Crusie that I had ever read I probably never read any more from her!Īnd then to contrast, I really enjoyed this book. There was a second romance in this book between Nick's friend Park, and Tess' friend Gina, and I didn't really buy into that one either. I didn't mind Nick that much, although yes he was very driven career-wise, but Tess - ugh!! If I had of met her in real life I would have punched her!! Annoying, selfish, annoying. And the reason why Tess was still holding out against Nick.because he wouldn't have sex with her in a public place. They had been apart long enough to miss each other but not much more than that. First problem that I had with this book was the ex-factor. When she agrees to accompany her ex-boyfriend Nick Jamieson, a conservative Republican lawyer who is desperate to make partner, on a weekend business trip as his fiance, Tess Newhart, an outspoken woman of the world, discovers that opposites really do attract. ![]() Well, I guess it was bound to happen.a Jennifer Crusie book that I really didn't like! ![]() My library had this as a 2 books in 1 book, but I cannot find any reference to that edition anywhere on the net, so I my cover looks nothing like either of these. ![]() ![]() ![]() Robinson punctuates the action with tiny chapters that, in a more conventional fantasy novel, would offer background on the story’s mythology. By the time Robinson throws cannibalistic river otters at you, nothing prevents them from being both utterly terrifying and extremely funny at the same time. Robinson skillfully blends wacky, over-the-top characters that would be at home in an edgy sitcom with a supernatural horror plot that draws on indigenous beliefs. His life is so crazy that when a raven starts talking to him, Jared barely has the mental space to worry about it. ![]() He keeps himself drunk or stoned just to maintain some level of calm. ![]() His parents are separated and strung out, and his mom is downright dangerous (an odd mix of neglectful and overly protective). The first book of a trilogy, Eden Robinson’s Son of a Trickster focuses on the tumultuous everyday life of Jared, a sixteen-year-old struggling to survive his family. ![]() ![]() ![]() Other times, Remini tempers his criticism - Jackson was not a racist who hated Indians, he argues, but paternalistic toward them and somewhat manipulative in doing what he thought was best for them, which also happened to be what was best for white settlers. He wasn't the greatest military strategist, for example, he could let his temper get the best of him, and in one of the harshest critiques Remini offers, Jackson could be "high-strung, opinionated and proud" and "readily violated rules and defied superiors when provoked by a prick to his vanity or pride." Remini admires Jackson but doesn't hesitate to criticize him. But despite a sometimes stiffer writing style as compared to more modern works, and some dated language ("red men" appears a lot - used in the context of the times, but still), I found that book #1 holds up fairly well and certainly provides more thorough coverage than any single-volume biography possibly can. ![]() Esteemed as it is, I was a little wary about committing to this trilogy on Andrew Jackson written some 40 years ago, considering how Jackson has been recontextualized and often villainized since then. ![]() ![]() ![]() This exhibition marks the first time their work-the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions-has been shown in dialogue together, taking visitors into their career-long conversations that began when they met in a photography class in 1976.ĭawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue is organized by the Grand Rapids Art Museum, with presenting support generously provided by MillerKnoll. Traveling to the streets of Harlem, the coastal Sea Islands, sites of the historical Underground Railroad, and the American South, the work of Bey and Weems explores ideas grounded in the experiences of Black people refracted through issues of gender, class, and systems of power. Longtime friends and mutual inspirations, Bey and Weems both explore complex visions of Black life in America through intimate portraits, dynamic street photography, and conceptual studies of folklore, culture, and historical sites. ![]() Join a conversation decades in the making.ĭawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue is an exhibition that presents over 140 works by two of today’s most significant photo-based artists. ![]() ![]() Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue – SEATTLE ART MUSEUM Get Tickets Become a Member ![]() ![]() The Winter Duke is slightly different from the two cited examples in that it is written completely from the newly crowned sister’s (Ekaterina or Ekata) perspective and it doesn’t include any chapters written from the point of view of the foreign royal (Inkar) who is suddenly forced to switch horses in the middle of the race (this is a pun because Inkar is a self-confessed Horse Girl). ![]() Add a dash of magic (in this case that’s pearls giving magical powers harvested in the underwater city Below the ice, for trade with the country Above) and you have to work quite hard for me not to pick up what you’re putting down.Īnd yet that still sort of happened this time. I am an absolute sucker for this premise because there’s lots of court intrigue, a murder mystery and/or conspiracy, the sexual tension of an arranged marriage, the romance where the two characters have to start by distrusting each other for that sweet sweet enemies to lovers dynamic – it’s the whole package. ![]() In premise it’s relatively similar to Queen Of Ieflaria or Of Fire and Stars: a woman of royal heritage is expecting to marry a male royal of another country, but the person they’re expecting to marry is unexpectedly killed and in order to maintain international relations, the person next in line (female in all these instances) takes the dead relative’s place. ![]() This was a mildly frustrating read, and depending on what you’re looking for in your fantasy romance this may or may not be for you. ![]() ![]() It is one of her most commonly anthologized pieces. ![]() “Yellow Woman” was first published in The Man to Send Rain Clouds: Contemporary Stories by American Indians. In her writing, Silko commonly addresses ideas of healing and reconciling conflicts (cultural, spiritual, internal). The novel led to Silko being awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1981. Her first novel, Ceremony, a World War II veteran’s attempts to find peace after the war, was published in 1977, to critical acclaim. In 1974, she published several stories in Kenneth Rosen’s anthology, The Man to Send Rain Clouds: Contemporary Stories by American Indians. After her graduation, she published her first story, “Tony’s Song.” She briefly studied law, but left the program to pursue a graduate degree in English. She studied English at the University of New Mexico, and graduated with honors. She is a talented poet and prose writer, whose work incorporates elements of Native American storytelling traditions. Leslie Marmon Silko was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, but was raised in Laguna Pueblo. ![]() Leslie Marmon Silko Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- ) ![]() ![]() ![]() Her relationship to her husband exists in the gutters of the day. Anxiety hums underneath every scene, a deep and fundamental instability. The tiny, contained shape of the story’s start belies the tension coiled tight in Strong’s rhythmic, propulsive prose. ![]() And sometimes creeps on an old best friend’s social media accounts. Later in the week, she leads a college course on literature. Afterward she breakfasts with her two kids, then teaches Literature and Language at a charter high school where the students are all of color and in economic need. The unnamed narrator, a white woman in her early thirties, wakes at 4:30 in the morning to run through Brooklyn, where she lives with her husband and two daughters in an apartment so small she sleeps on a bed lofted in a closet. ![]() Like our conversation, Strong’s new novel, Want, opens in motion. ![]() “I don’t think there’s a better place to run than New York City.” “I got a little weepy on the bridge just now,” she says over the phone, as she begins the long jaunt back to her apartment from the waterfront. She’d been sheltering at a friend’s place in Jersey since quarantine began in March, and is happy to be back in the city she’s called home for ten years, even during a pandemic. It’s a beautiful day in May and she just ran across the Brooklyn Bridge for the first time in months. Lynn Steger Strong greets me in a voice thickened by emotion, exertion, and a protective mask. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite her new abilities and the strange things happening in her world, Snow White, or “Snow” as her friends often call her, has been carrying on as normal…until now.Īs she returns to her cottage, Snow spots her seven friends with dark, angry expressions, and glowing white eyes. ![]() This isn’t the Snow White that Disney fans know: she has been recently transformed by the creation of the Disney Mirrorverse and given magical powers that she does not yet know how to wield. ![]() Set in a fantasy land that is familiar but slightly changed, the story begins as Snow White helps a young deer in the forest. Step into the Disney Mirrorverse, a brand-new realm full of endless adventure, where mirrored reflections of beloved Disney and Pixar characters are amplified and transformed, becoming battle-ready Guardians that must unite to defeat a powerful evil that threatens their home worlds and beyond. ![]() ![]() The Door, first published in 1987 in Hungarian, is unmistakably a work of fiction, with fiction’s allusive and ambiguous purposes and effects, but it is narrated in the first person by a writer and composed-perhaps almost entirely-of frankly autobiographical recollections. Between 19 both she and her husband, the writer Tibor Szobotka, were prevented by the regime from publishing, and the award of an important prize to her was revoked on the same day it was bestowed. She wrote in many forms-poetry, novels, plays, memoir, essays, and screenplays-and her work has been translated into many languages. ![]() Magda Szabó, who died in 2007 at the age of ninety, was acclaimed and widely read in her native Hungary. ![]() |