![]() ![]() We propose the following publication order when reading Christopher Pike’s Remember Me books:
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![]() Yet such power carries a great cost, and when the revolution reaches the gates of the palace, Lin must decide how far she is willing to go to claim her birthright – and save her people.” – Goodreads blurb When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to the throne, she vows to prove her worth by mastering the forbidden art of bone shard magic. ![]() Lin is the emperor’s daughter and spends her days trapped in a palace of locked doors and dark secrets. But now his rule is failing, and revolution is sweeping across the Empire’s many islands. ![]() The emperor’s reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain law and order. The Bone Shard Daughter marks the debut of a major new voice in epic fantasy. “In an empire controlled by bone shard magic, Lin, the former heir to the emperor will fight to reclaim her magic and her place on the throne. ![]() Intrigue, ancient enemies, diverse creatures, an intricate magic system, characters with heart, and an island filled world come together in some fascinating world building to deliver a story that grabs you and won’t let go. Andrea Stewart weaves a thrilling new fantasy story with The Bone Shard Daughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All the number one and number two jokes are definitely old since I do have a six-year-old and an eight-year-old and practically live inside these jokes. Okay, so the story has turned out to be a little lackluster for me. Except this book is going on for too long, the romance is basically this zookeeper loving how muscular and good looking the captain is, and the only fun part is the llama eating the zookeeper’s hair. It has all the makings for a fun sci-fi story, and a bit of romance as this zookeeper is supposed to fall for the captain of a ship she’s found herself stuck on. It’s a heist that takes place in space and features this zookeeper who has decided to escape the sad zoo planet she’s been stuck on by taking a job for a mob boss to steal and deliver a two headed llama. The Galactic Zookeeper’s Guide to Heists and Husbandry by A.C. Right now, it’s just exhausting and I’d rather scrub the world free of them so I don’t have to tell him every day that right outside the school right at pick up time is not an appropriate time to be flinging these words around.īut it’s not just my son who has me rubbed a little raw. It’s gotten tiring trying to teach him when and where to use them because it’s basically an in one ear and out the other right now. My son is not quite nine, but already plays around with them. Then I’d say I’m a little tired of being turned into a toad. And how I wish I meant witch curses by that. I’m a little sensitive to cursing these days. ![]() ![]() When flirtatious banter turns into a kiss under the mistletoe, things snowball into a full-on fling.ĭespite a ticking timer on their holiday romance, they are completely fine with ending their short, steamy affair come New Year's Day.or are they? Book Review: He is intrigued by Vivian the moment he meets her and finds himself making excuses just to spend time with her. Malcolm Hudson has worked for the Queen for years and has never given a personal, private tour-until now. She's excited to spend the holidays taking in the magnificent British sights, but what she doesn't expect is to become instantly attracted to a certain private secretary, his charming accent, and unyielding formality. ![]() ![]() Vivian Forest has been out of the country a grand total of one time, so when she gets the chance to tag along on her daughter Maddie's work trip to England to style a royal family member, she can't refuse. I’ve read four out of the five books she’s put out, and even more excited that she has a new book coming out in 2022.īut the latest book I read, Royal Holiday, probably is one of my favorites. ![]() I will recommend Jasmine Guillory to anyone looking for a great romance read. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I wanted the scene of him picking out her tiara!!! I wanted the gang to cry and stand up there with them and Iko to scream with happiness. ![]() We got a whole short story about freaking Wolf and Scarlet, but you can’t give us anything about Cinder and Kai? Seriously?! I wanted Thorne to be his amazing, fun, helpful self to get her ready. Look, this whole thing would’ve been a super fun side thing for you to write at another time, but i wanted a god damn wedding. Out of FIFTY TWO chapters, you get ONE with their actual wedding except it was two pages and it started when they had already said I do and were about to kiss because she had fainted and woke up from her bizarre dream stories in the middle of it? The other three measly chapters where she “gets her happy ending” are also AFTER the wedding already took place. This was not about the wedding at all, nor did we even get there. Marissa, I love you, but why the hell did you lie to us like this? I can’t believe I waited ten fucking years for this bullshit. ![]() ![]() In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell embarks on a fleet-footed 'act of evangelism', showing us the many sides of Donne's extraordinary life, his obsessions, his blazing words, and his tempestuous Elizabethan times - unveiling Donne as the most remarkable mind and as a lesson in living. *From a standout scholar, a biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death. He was a man who suffered from black surges of sadness, yet expressed in his verse electric joy and love. He converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a high-born girl without her father's consent, struggled to feed a family of ten children and was often ill and in pain. ![]() ![]() He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. This book title, Super-Infinite (The Transformations of John Donne), ISBN: 9780374607401, by Katherine Rundell, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. ![]() ![]() Parser.add_argument("-z", "-zip", metavar="", required=True, help="Location and the name of the. Parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Unzips selected. My 'modernized' code as follows: import zipfile What I mean is to get accept an input like Project.py -z "Generic ZIP Name.zip" -d "Dictionary.txt" I did manage to recreate the args but couldn't get the code to work properly. ![]() My attempt of modernizing was using argparse instead of optparse. T = Thread(target=extractFile, args=(zFile, password)) If (options.zname = None) | (options.dname = None): Parser.add_option('-d', dest='dname', type='string', \ Parser.add_option('-f', dest='zname', type='string', \ Parser = optparse.OptionParser("usage%prog " \ ![]() The original code follows: import zipfile I've been trying to 'modernize' the ZIP Cracker code from "Violent Python" by TJ O'Connor which was written in Python 2.7 (I presume) ![]() ![]() ![]() The book features an assortment of characters, some good, some awful, and some indifferent. It is set in an almost unimaginably distant future when the Sun has dimmed to red, magic has returned, and civilization is spent and withered. ![]() Jack Vance did not create the dying earth setting–credit for that concept lies with several Romantic poets and authors–but he assuredly coined the term with the publication of his first book, The Dying Earth (1950). Explicitly, it will “constrict the subject in a pore some forty-five miles below the surface of the earth.” I knew the D&D magic system had been lifted from Vance, but I had to chuckle at such a blatant steal. ![]() ![]() Step forward a year or two and imagine my surprise when, reading The Eyes of the Overworld, Iucounu the Laughing Magician threatens the scoundrel Cugel the Clever with the spell of Forlorn Encystment. It seemed an oddly specific (and oddly-titled) spell, but who was I to question the wisdom of Robert Kuntz and James Ward? Under the section titled “The New Spells” in the chapter on Finnish mythology, was one called “Forlorn Incistment.” It allowed the caster to immediately bury, harmlessly, his target deep in the ground until released. The first roleplaying book I ever bought was the Gods, Demi-Gods & Heroes supplement for D&D. It was sometime during high school I’m sure, but an unapprehended brush with the story came several years earlier. I’m uncertain as to when I first read Jack Vance’s The Eyes of the Overworld (1966). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Partanen explains step by step, the Nordic approach allows citizens to enjoy more individual freedom and independence than we do. She debunks criticism that Nordic countries are socialist "nanny states," revealing instead that it is we Americans who are far more enmeshed in unhealthy dependencies than we realize. In The Nordic Theory of Everything, Partanen compares and contrasts life in the United States with life in the Nordic region, focusing on four key relationships-parents and children, men and women, employees and employers, and government and citizens. and Finland, Partanen began to look closely at both. ![]() To understand why life is so different in the U.S. ![]() But as she got to know Americans better, she discovered they shared her deep apprehension. At first, she attributed her crippling anxiety to the difficulty of adapting to a freewheeling new culture. She found that navigating the basics of everyday life-from buying a cell phone and filing taxes to education and childcare-was much more complicated and stressful than anything she encountered in her homeland. Moving to America in 2008, Finnish journalist Anu Partanen quickly went from confident, successful professional to wary, self-doubting mess. A Finnish journalist, now a naturalized American citizen, asks Americans to draw on elements of the Nordic way of life to nurture a fairer, happier, more secure, and less stressful society for themselves and their children. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I love venturing out of my quiet life to meet readers and other writers, and then I love to come back to my haven, full of ideas and renewed passion and creativity.Ĥ.5 When-beast-read-50 shades-before-falling-in-love-with-beauty stars I love living in the Southwest, with its big sky and vast desert views. I love to write, craft, garden, bake and mother, even if I don't always do it all perfectly. I love this manic, scattered life I lead. ![]() Maybe that's true, but don't we all feel like misfits sometimes? Even if the rest of the world thinks we have all our balls in the air, aren't we juggling like mad on the inside, desperately trying not to drop one? Reviewers like to say I write about misfit heroines getting the man of their dreams. Hi, my name is Celeste Bradley and I write "brain chocolate." That is, I write fun and sexy escapism is for hardworking women everywhere. Go to /newsletter for my Voice of Society newsletter. ![]() |