I’ve never quite a read a story like it, and it’s still sitting with me because of its ambiguous ending. It’s hard for me to pick a favorite, but I think I might pick Lost Cat. The one thing all of these stories have in common? Beautiful settings, gripping plots, and believable characters. Some humorous, some poignant, some exploring historical settings and some horror. An eclectic mix of magical stories that explore many different topics. This is what I found in Alexis Lantgen’s Saints and Curses. I find authors abilities to create a gripping story in such a short amount of time awe-inspiring. I’m personally a huge fan of short stories when they are done well. These stories and more await you, if you dare to turn the page… Goodreads * Saints & Curses * Sapience Your child might be stolen away in the night and replaced with an ancient, evil creature of the fae, waves of plague-ridden vermin consume everything, and only a saint could hope to turn the tide. Indulge in tales of the fantastical where enchantments are bought and sold at the local corner store, your morning latte gives you special abilities, and you might just adopt a murderous, vampiric cat. Special thanks to Alexis for providing a copy of her book in exchange for an honest review.Įxplore worlds of light and dark, where magical whimsy and grim tidings alike are painted across the tapestry of human experience. I’m very excited to be reviewing Saints & Curses by Alexis Lantgen today! Let me know in the comments what you think!
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Some readers have found this book to be a light read while others have found it triggering. PLEASE READ THE WARNING: Dark romance is subjective. But then he took everything away from me. The person who saved me from drowning in loneliness. Once my legal guardian and savior in life. It took, the end of the world, for me to come back here. We are all back here and quarantined together. I have spent years avoiding this place, and the cold hard reality of what happened here.īut I have no choice. And I definitely did not expect to be back in this house, where it all started. The last thing I expected was to be back in this city, after all these years. New York City-not for the faint-hearted or the sweetest of souls. A gripping, friends-to-lovers-to-enemies, dark romance. He wrote full-scale, intuitive rather than objective, biographies of the French statesman Joseph Fouché (1929), Mary Stuart (1935), and others. He achieved popularity with Sternstunden der Menschheit (1928 The Tide of Fortune), five historical portraits in miniature. Zweig's essays include studies of Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky ( Drei Meister, 1920 Three Masters) and of Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich von Kleist, and Friedrich Nietzsche ( Der Kampf mit dem Dämon, 1925 Master Builders). Zweig's interest in psychology and the teachings of Sigmund Freud led to his most characteristic work, the subtle portrayal of character. Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide. In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York. Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913. He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942. Among his most famous works are Beware of Pity, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. But his book is not an indictment of the church, per se. Because when you're wildly in love with someone, it changes everything.Īuthor Francis Chan sees massive problems with the American Church. And once you encounter His love, as Francis describes it, you will never be the same. Because the answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts-it's falling in love with God. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss. Whether you've verbalized it yet or not, we all know something's wrong.ĭoes something deep inside your heart long to break free from the status quo? Are you hungry for an authentic faith that addresses the problems of our world with tangible, even radical, solutions? God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. The God of the universe-the Creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor-loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. Have you ever wondered if we're missing it? Availability: Out 8th May 2023 on Steam.What was once a kind of hellish workplace simulator has become the world's worst commute. Still, here's a tentative, top-down perspective: this is more remake than sequel, an engrossing new version of 2016's nastiest town-and-dungeon RPG, which swaps overseeing a small army of fragile anti-heroes for leading just four along branching, apocalyptic roads towards an ominous mountain and its retinue of Lovecraftian bosses. I'd say I can't see the wood for the trees, but it's more that I can't see the rancid fleshpits for the piles of skulls. It has a way of engulfing my mind, much as its squalid landscapes of rot and flame are always threatening to swallow up the lonely stage coach that is, to all intents and purposes, the game's star. I find it almost as hard to summarise Darkest Dungeon 2 as I do to survive within it. A copious and often brilliant, if not quite unmissable reworking of a powerfully grim fantasy. The risk of scandal is great if top managers do not establish clear standards of behavior and display a disregard for societal norms with their own actions. Practically all corporate scandals stem at least in part from unrealistic targets coupled with draconian consequences for employees who fail to deliver, often combined with outsize rewards for the star performers. In his book, Ewing writes: "The pressure to meet corporate goals at any cost is hardly unique to Volkswagen. And this was just about trying to defend market share and I think meet the expectations that top management had set for employees, that the people who did this were really just trying to hang onto their jobs," Ewing, who covered the entire scandal, said Monday on "CBS This Morning." "If you look at the banking scandals, it was usually people who were trying to get big bonuses to make money. He's out with a new book called "Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal," which takes a behind-the-scenes look at the German automaker's fraud. The car maker had steadily built up a reputation for. The biggest factor that separates the Volkswagen emissions scandal from other corporate scandals is that "money wasn't the motivation," according to author and New York Times European economics correspondent Jack Ewing. This book, which races along like Jenson Button, tells the inside story of the Volkswagen scandal. I lean my head back and close my eyes, attempting to figure out where I went right in my life to deserve her. I walk a few feet until I reach the edge of her house, then I lean against it and slide down to the ground. I stand up, back away from her and climb out her window without a word. I begin to ease off her bed and a silent thank you flashes in her eyes. I nod, silently answering the question I don’t want her to have to ask. She doesn’t even have to ask me to leave, because I know that’s what I need to do. And I’m afraid if I don’t get up and walk away, I’ll let her. It’s almost as if she’s torn between the girl she used to be and the girl she is now and she’s afraid if I try to kiss her again, she’ll cave. I can tell by the way she’s looking at me that if I tried to kiss her again, she’d let me. I’ve never believed in anything like I believe in the possibility of the two of us. She wants this to work with me as much as I want it to work with her and seeing the look in her eyes right now makes me believe that it will. Neither one of us is even remotely prepared for it, but I know we both want it. Whatever this is between us, neither one of us was searching for it. I can see on her face and in the way she’s looking at me that she’s just as scared as I am. She’s afraid of what might happen between us. My eyes scroll over her features, taking in her nervous demeanor. I lift my hand and stroke her cheek reassuringly. She looks both regretful and embarrassed that she suddenly asked me to stop. The book ends with his parents sitting nearby as the rabbit child swings from a tree branch, thinking "Your world. But certainly my chair." The child engages in various activities in parallel to his parents: brushing his teeth, playing with his toy car, etc. The child's understanding of the world exists in relation to his parents: "My slippers. My World features what appears to be the same rabbit child from its predecessor, but the bunny's consciousness now expands in scope beyond the green bedroom to a wide world. My World, The Runaway Bunny, and Goodnight Moon have been published together as a collection titled Over the Moon. In addition to multiple octavo and duodecimo paperback editions, My World is available in a board book edition, a book whose pages are actually stiff cardboard to make it suitable to give to a very young child. In 2001, HarperFestival republished the book, recolored by Thacher Hurd. My World was out of print by the 1970s, with some speculating that one scene showing the mother, father, and child sharing the bathroom may have been scandalous for that time period. It is dedicated to Clement Hurd's son Thacher Hurd (who was born shortly before it was published). My World was published in 1949, just two years after Goodnight Moon. The third book in Brown and Hurd's "classic series" (or " Runaway Bunny" series), it is the "companion" to Brown & Hurd's Goodnight Moon. My World: A Companion To Goodnight Moon is an American children's picture book written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd. The Kree and Skrull worlds are aligned - and only a man born of both can lead them. The child of the Kree hero Mar-Vell and Skrull Princess Anelle, Dorrek VIII - known on Earth as “Teddy” - has spent years evading the clutches of both bloodthirsty empires.
His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and unreliable narrators in his own novels and tales brought a new depth and interest to realistic fiction, and foreshadowed the modernist work of the twentieth century. James insisted that writers in Great Britain and America should be allowed the greatest freedom possible in presenting their view of the world, as French authors were. His method of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allowed him to explore the phenomena of consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting. His plots centered on personal relationships, the proper exercise of power in such relationships, and other moral questions. He is primarily known for a series of major novels in which he portrayed the encounter of America with Europe. He spent much of his life in England and became a British subject shortly before his death. Henry James, OM (1843-1916), son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born author, one of the founders and leaders of a school of realism in fiction. |