![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, the mystery aspect of this story lost effectiveness when the author began adding many, many different subplots into it. HWBMR explores some interesting concepts: how well do we really know even our closest friends? Is it possible to get to know someone even better after they've left this world? I loved that aspect of the story. ![]() HWBMR is, at its core, an interesting concept for a thriller: girl's lifelong best friend dies girl goes to her deceased friend's apartment to put her affairs in order girl discovers her friend might have been murdered. Unfortunately I have to say that HWBMR is better suited to the NA genre than to the thriller genre-I'm quite certain that Tucker's fans will love HWBMR, but if you are looking for a pure mystery/thriller recommendation here, I would not recommend this book. Tucker's HE WILL BE MY RUIN (HWBMR) is the first standalone thriller by a highly accomplished writer of New Adult fiction-many of you are already fans of her two NA series. This is going to be one of the more complicated reviews I've ever written, but it's important for your understanding of my rating for this book, so bear with me. ![]()
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The difficult but necessary topic of saying goodbye to a devoted companion, and offers comfort, wisdom, and a way forward from sorrow to acceptance. Now, in this moving and thoughtful book, Katz addresses In" Soul of a Dog, Izzy & Lenore, A Good Dog, "and other acclaimed works, "New York Times" bestselling author Jon Katz has written meaningfully about the cherished bond between humans and animals - especially our intense connection to our pets. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many young girls trek from the northern part of the country to the southern part where they believe there is more money, only to end up carrying goods for people so as to make money. It is very disheartening the number of young and beautiful ladies you see in the streets of our cities at night ready to open their legs for men in return for money, the least talk about kaayaayee the better. Many young ladies (women) resorts to prostitution. Sakawa which is believed to be the fastest means of all is resorted to by many young men. Many therefore fall on so many weird means. ![]() Ironically however many of these youth are not willing to go through the right and acceptable channels to acquire their money. ![]() The minds of many youth in Nigeria today are therefore preoccupied with so many ideas as to how to make lots and lots of money to enable them wear the best of clothes, eat the bests of foods, ride the best of cars and probably run the best chicks in town. One is therefore tempted to say that money rules the world, if that in fact is not the reality. Money is even needed when one wants to attend to the call of nature. Before one can eat he needs money, before you can clothe yourself you need money. Money is described and seen by many as a necessary evil. ![]() ![]() Note the email address associated with the device you want to use. In this case, we recommend using a standard EPUB reader for your device, like the built-in iBooks on iOS devices or Edge browser and ebook reader on any Windows 10 device. NOTE: If you are using a device other than a Kindle, and you don't see your device listed, it is probably not supported. Scroll down to the heading "Personal Document Settings" (about half way down the page) ![]() To the right of the "Manage Your Content and Devices" heading, select "Preferences". Go to your list of Kindle devices and apps: If this is the first time emailing your Kindle, you need to find or set the Kindle email address (something like and add the email address to the list of sender email addresses your device will accept.Īmazon provides general instructions here:, or you can follow our summary: ![]() ![]() ![]() Together they traverse the dark side of vigilante justice. They are joined by Dawson's ranch hand, Tadpole, and an orphaned boy they find in a deserted town. With little survival sense, Randall, fortunately, meets Charlotte Washington, a single-minded female gunslinger, intimately familiar with the deadly ways of the Wild West. Dawson, out of place in this rugged and violent part of the country, is utterly unsuited for a mission of revenge. Pushed by his wife to seek vengeance for their son's untimely death, Henry's father, Randall Dawson, pursues the Bentley brothers. ![]() Shifting between the viewpoints of a teenage boy and an older man, this story spans the historic southwest United States around the turn of the last century.Ĭaleb and Shelby are on the run after stealing horses, killing young Henry Dawson in the process. This intense yet spellbinding debut novel by James Wade follows the story of teenaged Caleb Bentley and his mean-spirited older brother, Shelby. ![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t say this about very many books from this era but I enjoy her writing and I understand a little bit of that midwestern sensibility that I’ve found in some of her writing. I find Cather’s work to be very accessible. There’s not a lot of action in a book like this, but we do manage to get some romance – between Alexandra and her childhood friend Carl, and between Alexandra’s younger brother Emil and Marie Shabata … a married neighbor. But along with this almost bleak life, we also see the other side of what it takes to be a pioneer – a love of the land, a respect for neighbors and a simple belief in doing what’s right. The book was published in 1913, and really brings the harsh reality of pioneer life into focus. ![]() When the patriarch, John Bergson, dies, his daughter Alexandra inherits the farm and despite set-backs that have neighbors giving up and moving on, she is determined to make it work. Swedish immigrants, the Bergson’s, work a farm near Hanover, Nebraska. Willa Cather’s novel, O Pioneers! is a poetic look at the realities and struggles of these early pioneers – specifically the often unsung, over-looked women who fought and toiled in the country. It is a harsh and lonely life to be one of the pioneers in a young country. The American frontier … the prairie fields of Nebraska. ![]() I was impressed with the writing, but I never read anything else by Cather … until now. I first encountered Willa Cather’s work when I was in college and we read My Antonia for a modern lit class. ![]() ![]() T his story began when my editors, Michael V. POCKET and colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster,įor information regarding special discounts for bulk purchases, pleaseĬontact Simon & Schuster Special Sales at 1-80 art by Tom Hallman ![]() This Pocket Books paperback edition November 1996 Resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirelyĪll rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portionsįor information address Simon & Schuster Inc., 1230 Avenue of the Products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Names, characters, places and incidents are ![]() ![]() POCKET BOOKS, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.ġ230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “She has quite an imagination, and I didn’t want my grandchildren thinking less of me because my name is on a story that isn’t true.” “I told Christy that if we did this, it would have to be the truth,” Pokiak-Fenton says on the phone from her home in north-eastern B.C. John-based leather and beading artist and mother of eight hesitated. When Christy Jordan-Fenton first suggested writing down some of the stories her mother-in-law, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, had been telling for years around the family table - about living a nomadic existence in First Nations communities in Canada’s remote northern regions on the edge of the Arctic Ocean, hunting, trapping and trading with dogsleds and massive ice schooners - the Holman Island-born, Fort St. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's a real bonus that the reader is English and the story is set in England.Īll in all, I really enjoyed this book from start to finish. You can feel his fear and agitation, his joy and his confusion as his tale is told.Īdd to this excellent story, an excellent reader and you've got a hit. The main character meets and interects with various characters during his adventure and the relationships are brought out very well. Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, England in 1866 and educated at the University of London. The fact that you hear nearly the entire book in first person yet still get the feeling that the story is world spanning speaks volumes. Herbert George (or H.G.) Wells was an English author and political philosopher, most famous for his science-fiction novels with this prophetic depictions of the triumphs of technology as well as the horrors of 20th-century warfare. The world falling beneath the heel of alien oppression is told in this book in a very well thought out and detailed way. So it was with amusement that I found the version I knew so well from the songs was quite differnt from the book. I have read the book in the misty past, probably 20 years ago, I'm very familiar with the overall story however due to listening to the Musical version that was released. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lionel Barrett to investigate the possibility of survival after death in what he describes as “the one place where it has yet to be refuted” – Belasco House aka Hell House. I Am Legend author Richard Matheson adapted his own novel for the screenplay of this and while he admittedly toned down the sexual element of the source material quite considerably, he delivered a taut, intense and often quite terrifying experience all the same.Īn eccentric millionaire hires physicist Dr. When it comes to haunted house movies, it’s hard to see past 1963’s classic The Haunting as the greatest of them all, but if any film is going to run it close, or even perhaps top it, it’s The Legend Of Hell House. Starring: Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill, Gayle Hunnicut You can check out the rest of our “31 Days of British Horror” by CLICKING HERE. Hot on the heels of his “31 Days of Hammer” in January and the “31 Days of British Horror” in March, Jules is at it again in May, treating us to the continuation of his chronological run through the classic era of British Horror, from the late ’50s to the end of the ’70s, with one review every day for the entire month. ![]() |