![]() What should be a quick trip to recharge the town’s ley lines and make an appearance at the annual fall festival turns disastrously wrong. That is until Rhys Penhallow, descendent of the town’s ancestors, breaker of hearts, and annoyingly just as gorgeous as he always was, returns to Graves Glen, Georgia. ![]() Sure, Vivi knows she shouldn’t use her magic this way, but with only an “orchard hayride” scented candle on hand, she isn’t worried it will cause him anything more than a bad hair day or two. Nine years ago, Vivienne Jones nursed her broken heart like any young witch would: vodka, weepy music, bubble baths…and a curse on the horrible boyfriend. Well, that was me this week and I had the perfect book to review that added to my low-stress weekend! The Ex Hex is a laugh-out-loud romcom that will put a hex on you! Read below for my full review. ![]() Ever had a crazy week and you just cannot WAIT to get home and curl up with a book? Maybe tune out for a full day over the weekend and grab a stack of books to de-stress and zone out? ![]()
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![]() ![]() And while family can be cruel, it’s the kindness of strangers that helps Yvonne and Peter move painfully forward. While Peter has to battle his father, his stepmother, and other people besides, Yvonne has her own demons to wrestle with. He continually runs away as he gets older, receiving beltings when he’s brought back home. ![]() Her decades-long internal struggle works as a complex counterweight to her son Peter’s desperate attempts to find his mother. The response of Yvonne to the theft of her baby is one of the most compelling aspects of this story. The train left the station and Yvonne didn’t see her son again for nearly 40 years. As she waited for the train to leave the platform, her husband entered the carriage and snatched her little boy out of her arms, telling her that if she ever tried to take his son again, he’d kill them both. Her one-year-old son, Peter, was cuddled in her arms and a second pregnancy – kept secret from her husband – was underway. Bringing her journalistic skills to what is described on the cover as a ‘family memoir’, Kristina Olsson uses perfectly balanced prose to weave breathtaking beauty into this sad yarn.Īs a 19-year-old, Olsson’s mother, Yvonne, got on board a train bound for Brisbane, hoping to escape the violent man she was married to. ![]() ![]() ![]() Celebrate yourself! You are awesome and unique, like that dancing eleven-year-old in the blonde wig from Sia’s Chandelier video, only a dog version! Ignore the hat-based norms of the dog universe and wear what makes YOU happy. I want you to take this in, hat-wearing female dog, lest you spend the next 15 years of your life trying to impress someone who is not worth your time. Who is this guy anyway, some sort of dog hat expert? Who cares what he thinks? Wear a hat you love and if he doesn’t like it? F*#% him. “Do you like my hat?” “I do not.”Īnd you don’t even know me, but I wanted to take a minute to tell you that what matters is that you like your own hat, hat-wearing female dog. Momentarily distracted by the humdrum parade of big dogs, little dogs, black and white dogs, I watched as you walked in, brimming with joy and confidence, and looked on as some total nobody, indistinguishable from most of the other dogs in this book, crushed you with his subtle rejection. I bought your book to help my son learn prepositions and adjectives and was, from the first read, inexorably drawn in by your heart-wrenching struggle for approval. ![]() ![]() ![]() The only thing that kept this one from earning five stars? The hokey romantic dialogue - it reads more like something out of True Romance rather than True Detective.īrute in Brass: A Cop on the Take and an Innocent Man on Death Row The last quarter of the book is action-packed. Ballard makes with the tough talk, and though you probably won't like him, you can't help rooting for the guy. They don't pay cops a decent salary, either. They don't like to think about the barrel. People like to believe there's just one bad apple. It's gettin' hard out there for a corrupt cop. His extra-curricular earnings are being investigated by internal affairs, and his other "employer" wants him to knock off the murder investigation. But now, to get the woman he desires, he's got to prove that an accused killer who's currently on death row is innocent. Sick of living on a cop's crappy salary, he'll take whatever he can earn on the side. ![]() Mike Ballard is a big, tough, bought cop. She was a bad chick the only time she was on the level was when she was staring at the ceiling. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You can draw a face on the egg and water it well. ![]() Sprinkle a few grass seeds on top and water in. ![]() Take an empty eggshell and fill it with soil. Plant the things you’d like in your soup and at harvest time, make the soup. “A fresh presentation of the gardening cycle with a joyful conclusion, and the added attraction of an easy and tasty recipe for vegetable soup on the flyleaf.”- School Library Journal “Provides a healthy dose of completely digestible information on growing and nurturing living things. You can grow vegetable soup, like the book. ![]() ![]() In noting traditions in European art dating from the fifteenth to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Berger makes considered reflections upon the intersections of seeing and possessing, convention and securing status – pondering the linear relationship between glamour, dreaming, and the language of publicity. Sharp but convivial and often magnetic, Berger’s writing on the function of art has an almost contemporary feel – a sensibility produced by an enduring fascination with aestheticism and the image. Perhaps the pre-eminent work of popular art history and criticism, John Berger’s Ways of Seeing manages to retain its sublime suggestive quality several decades after its initial publication in 1972. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Also: You will be a Debbie Downer at parties and all other social gatherings. This is not attractive and will not help you pick up chicks. Also, you may forget to wipe the snot stains, caused by spurts of booger-expelling crying, from your sleeves. You’ll find yourself awake and emotionally broken at three in the morning. ![]() No matter how many times it breaks your heart you will keep coming back to this goddamn book. You’ll get dark circles under your eyes from staying up reading. First off, it’ll significantly decrease your good looks. Examples: a teddy bear, a kitten, a boob, an afro.īefore you begin this book, I should also warn you that it will wreak havoc on your social life. A box of Kleenex for cleaning yourself upģ. So, to help you be prepared to clean up this mess while staying sane throughout your Fall on Your Knees reading experience, I’ve made you a list of things to have on hand:Ģ. ![]() ![]() Brown's works maintained a focus on the American West, but ranged anywhere from western fiction to histories to children's books. Having grown up in Arkansas, he developed a keen interest in the American West, and during his graduate education at George Washington University and his career as a librarian for both the US Department of Agriculture and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, he wrote numerous books on the subject. īefore the publication of Bury My Heart., Brown had become well-versed in the history of the American frontier. Helen Hunt Jackson's 1881 book A Century of Dishonor is often considered a nineteenth-century precursor to Dee Brown's book. The government's dealings are portrayed as a continuing effort to destroy the culture, religion, and way of life of Native American peoples. Brown describes Native Americans' displacement through forced relocations and years of warfare waged by the United States federal government. The book expresses details of the history of American expansionism from a point of view that is critical of its effects on the Native Americans. ![]() Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West is a 1970 non-fiction book by American writer Dee Brown that covers the history of Native Americans in the American West in the late nineteenth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once a soul becomes a demon, it gains the basic demonic powers ( possession, superhuman strength, etc.) and from there, it can work its way up the ladder to positions of greater authority and power within Hell. He says they look horrible even going as far to call Ruby "one ugly broad." Their true forms have not been shown onscreen, however Dean has seen their true forms, before he was taken to Hell. ![]() Crowley appears as the only exception, appearing as a blood-red cloud. They manifest on Earth in the form of a long, slender cloud of black smoke. There are many ways of becoming a demon, from making a deal with a Crossroad Demon, to being a witch, and making a deal with another demon. Some demons, however, are true believers in Lucifer's agenda to "cleanse" Earth, and actually consider themselves morally superior to humans. In general, demons engage in torture and destruction because it is fun or to avoid being tortured themselves. Some have even forgotten that they were once human. According to Ruby, most demons forget what it means to be human. ![]() Demons are the result of human souls going to Hell and being tortured until no humanity is left in them, thus turning into demons - dark, malicious spirits that revel in pain, chaos, and death. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is at once a collection of biographies and a testament of female empowerment. Women Who Launch is filled with inspiring true stories of women activists, artists, and entrepreneurs who launched some of the most famous companies, brands, and organizations today and changed the world. ![]() ![]() These women who launched prove, in the words of Rosie the Riveter, “We can do it!”īiographies of women creators, innovators, and leaders. The tradition of these Mothers of Invention continued when, compliments of knitter Krista Suh, the heads of millions were adorned with pink, pussy-cat ears in the largest women's march in history. Estee Lauder revolutionized the cosmetics industry. Sara Joseph Hale, authoress of Mary had a Little Lamb, convinced Lincoln to launch a national day-of-thanks while Anna Jarvis persuaded President Wilson to initiate a day in tribute of mothers. Juliette Gordon Low showed what’s good for the goose is good for the gander when she created the Girl Scouts of America. Unlike the matrons of the 1950s, these kick-ass females left their DNA in the annals of time.Ī history of women in business and beyond. “These soaring stories will inspire you to live your dreams!” -Becca Anderson, author of The Book of Awesome Womenĭorothy Parker observed, “It’s a man’s world ” the lady entrepreneurs and game-changers profiled in Women Who Launch would beg to differ. ![]() |