7/6/2023 0 Comments A christmas story capote![]() ![]() Small and sprightly, like a bantam hen but due to a long youthful illness, her shoulders are pitifully hunched. Believing in ghosts, taming hummingbirds and curing warts with an “old-time Indian cure” are just a few of Sook’s hobbies he mentions in the story, wherein her only name is “my friend.” She is: Her interests, while not in keeping with those of a lady of her time, place, race, and class, held enormous appeal for a lonely little boy with few playmates his own age. ![]() Sook was “the only stable person” in his life, Capote told People magazine thirty years after her death.Īnd according to Capote’s aunt, Marie Rudisill, “the only person that Sook ever cared anything about was Truman.” She was part of the household of distant relations where Capote’s mother, Lillie Mae, spent a portion of her childhood, and on whom she later dumped the 3-year-old Truman. Both the story and the hour-long adaptation are a love letter to an eccentric, much older cousin, Nanny Rumbley Faulk, known as Sook. ![]() The nostalgia may feel a bit thick at times. Combined with flour, sugar, dried fruit, and some hard-purchased whiskey, these gifts of nature yielded delicious cakes the main characters send to a long list of recipients ranging from FDR to a young man whose car broke down in front of their house, who snapped the only photograph of the two of them together. ![]()
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![]() When you have officers talking in a cozy, you can’t very well have them use what must be their favorite word in the whole world because they say it three times in every sentence. I learned a whole new vocabulary when I worked for the police department. Most of their words start with F and end with K. ![]() I worked as a police secretary for ten years. It’s sometimes hard to find adequate substitutes for swear words. I like to leave the rest up to imagination.Ĥ. Banter, innuendo, and an occasional kiss that leaves the character’s knees weak is enough for me. I’m perfectly content with not having to write those kinds of scenes. You have to describe what happened without actually describing what happened. The cozy writer has to get the horror of the murder across without showing much in the way of blood, guts, and the like. I’ve found it takes quite a bit of skill to kill someone and not gross out the reader. Obviously, they’ve never tried to write one. Believe it or not, there are readers out there who think that cozy mysteries are inferior to other mysteries. ![]() THE TOP FIVE THINGS I’VE LEARNED WRITING A COZY SERIESĥ. If you haven’t “met” Max O’Hara and visited Pittsburgh in these books, you’re in for a treat. We’ve kept up the schedule ever since, and her third novel, A Room With A Brew, was released on October 3. Joyce and I both had our debut novels come out in 2015, three months apart. ![]() By Julie, thrilled to welcome Joyce Tremel to the blog today. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Fall For You by Cecilia Gray![]() ![]() And it's about to turn the Academy-and the lives of its students-totally upside down… ![]() But over the summer the school has been sold, and like it or not, the guys are coming. ![]() The last thing that the girls at the elite Jane Austen Academy need is hot guys to flirt with. I loved all the friendships! Girl power! -Monique Morris, Goodreadsĭive into the fabulous, fun lives of six Academy girls as their friendships are tested, torn, and ultimately triumph… Indie JaneĪ lighthearted retelling…a series that is sure to delight young Austen fans. She invites her heartbroken friend to help with a weekend charity, but when that friend turns her eye toward the guy Emma wants for herself, how will she choose between friendship and her own feelings?Įngaging characters, a gentle romance, budding friendships, and a payoff that is incredibly rewarding. It's not like she keeps it all to herself-she's totally committed to helping those less fortunate. ![]() ![]() We see this from a handful of newly powered people moving into this world. It's kind of an uneasy acceptance of one another to keep things from being worse. In exchange, the villains don't go after heroes' families, try not to kill anyone, etc. ![]() Rules are in place where as long as the bad guys don't break them, the capes don't come after them hard core. There is a balance of power between the alliance of heroes and the villains' guild. The book is a unique take on the concept of building a super hero universe. I picked it up, got it signed, and then did what I am most likely to do: download the audiobook and listen to it. While I was there, he had a new series starting up called The Villains' Code with the first book, Forging Hephaestus, available in hardcover (Ashley bought the last soft cover copy). ![]() He's a nice guy and freely chatted about his work, the process, and gave me some tips for getting my own books onto Audible (working on that). It was an interesting read, and getting to meet Drew in person was very cool. ![]() ![]() It's a fun tale about an average guy becoming a vampire and basically staying an average guy… until he gets caught up with a girl from high school that fights monsters. My first experience with his work was a novel Ashley had bought for me called The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As I’m getting older, my athletic abilities will diminish, but I will always be in shape.” So I train every day but it’s just to maintain my shape. ![]() “Your nervous system, your muscles, your joints, the ligaments-your body’s not made to sustain that much impact all year long. And I don’t think it’s good to be in fight shape all year long, because you’re going to hurt yourself.” “I will always be in shape for the rest of my life, but of course I will not be in fight shape. “I’m always in shape, but there is a difference between being in shape and being in fight shape,” he told GQ. You just never know what opportunities pop up in the future. But as the consummate athlete and martial artist, GSP is always going to be staying in shape and training regularly in some form. Now retired and nearly three years removed from his last fight at UFC 217, the pressure and fear don’t exist in GSP’s life anymore. Learn about the daily routines from the most successful people in the world by signing up to our newsletter If I didn’t have that fear, I should retire.” “I perform the best when I’m under pressure,” Georges St-Pierre said in an interview with My Fitness Pal. One of the greatest mixed martial artists the world has ever seen admitted that he was terrified before every one of his 28 professional MMA bouts. On Daily Routines, we profile successful leaders, entrepreneurs, artists, executives and athletes to explore their routines, schedules, habits and day in the life. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a way, the cheap labour provided by African and African-American slaves made possible the democratic 'rights' and processes enjoyed by free, white Americans. Morgan concentrates on colonial Virginia, and shows how the use of slave labour by white farmers/plantation owners became established side by side with 'democratic' institutions in the 18th century. "Although not a new book, it is spot-on about the centrality of slavery to so-called 'American democracy'. ![]() Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize and the Albert J. Morgan finds the key to this central paradox in the people and politics of the state that was both the birthplace of the revolution and the largest slaveholding state in the country. Morgan in American Slavery, American Freedom, a study of the tragic contradiction at the core of America. "If it is possible to understand the American paradox, the marriage of slavery and freedom, Virginia is surely the place to begin," writes Edmund S. ![]() ![]() Raine Tallentyre has always strived to follow her late Aunt Vella's counsel by concealing her supernatural abilities. Amid a whirlwind of secrets, lies, and half-truths, Clare and Jake embark on an investigation that demands the full extent of their extraordinary abilities while an electric chemistry ignites between them, hinting at something much deeper than mere attraction. With Jake's assistance, Clare starts to uncover a tangled web of conspiracy and murder tied to the influential Arizona family she joined merely seven months ago. She recognizes that most people conceal their true selves behind a façade, which poses a challenge for her in forming genuine connections.Įnter Jake Salter, her business magnate father's new consultant, who carefully navigates the thin line between honesty and deception in conversation, both revealing and concealing information. Clare Lancaster, a level-ten parasensitive, has come to terms with the possibility that, as a human lie detector, she may never find a compatible partner, as her unique ability to detect lies makes any form of deceit, no matter how minor, send her pulse racing. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Storm Witch by Ellen Renner![]() A powerful new fantasy series from Ellen Renner, prize-winning author of Tribute and Castle of Shadows. Soon Storm faces a decision that will change her life - and that of everyone who lives on her island - forever. And when the Drowned Ones - a savage band of pirates who roam the seas on floating towns - attack her island, will her powers help her to save the people she loves, or is her fate to betray everything she holds dear? ![]() ![]() Storm has powers that no one, not even the island Elders, can understand. ![]() The Elementals bestow her with a great and terrible gift. Child of Air, Water, Earth or Fire: now that she is thirteen Storm must undertake The Choosing and be claimed by one of the Elementals, which will determine her whole life's work.īut for Storm, daughter of a father murdered by Water and a warrior mother claimed by Earth, there will be no easy destiny. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Forrest gump a book![]() Promotional posts, comments & flairs, media-only posts, personalized recommendation requests incl. Please use a civil tone and assume good faith when entering a conversation. 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7/4/2023 0 Comments The deep novel alma katsu![]() The timelines alternated between the two tragic sinkings of the Titanic and the Britannic. ![]() I thought the life onboard the Titanic and Britannic were very interesting to see, especially through the lens of on-board maid Annie Hebbley. ![]() It got easier to tell them apart the more their backstories were uncovered. The Deep followed a slew of characters, which honestly was overwhelming at first. Something about adding a horror twist to the sinking of the Titanic and Britannic is so genius to me, and although it didn’t exactly live up to my expectations, I still thought the idea fell on the right hands with Alma Katsu. I’ve had this book on my radar for a while. While some guests and crew are willing to shrug off these strange occurrences, several-including maid Annie Hebbley, guest Mark Fletcher, and millionaires Madeleine Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim-are convinced something more sinister is going on. ![]() Someone, or something, is haunting this ship. ![]() |