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![]() ![]() Donning myriad disguises and aliases, Dantès sets out to wreak havoc among those who cost him so dear.ĭespite its plethora of plot strands, places, and characters, and its layers of detail, rendered with a miniaturist's anxious exactitude, The Count of Monte Cristo remains compulsively readable. Mercédès, his betrothed, believing him gone forever, has married Fernand, his arch-rival, and borne him a son. The years of his youth are lost his father has died in penury. Staging a daring escape, Dantès finds the treasure, but his life is irrevocably changed by his imprisonment. Here he receives an extensive education from the Abbé Faria in the next cell acquires an aristocratic, unearthly pallor, allowing him, later, to masquerade as both a lord and a vampire and is told the location of an unimaginable treasure – a barren island known as Monte Cristo. But, framed by his jealous rivals as a Bonapartist traitor, he is arrested on his wedding day and summarily imprisoned.ĭantès is incarcerated in the notorious Chateau d'If for 14 years. ![]() ![]() Rich in nature's blessings, handsome, clever and well-made, he is about to be named captain of his ship, and to marry his Catalan fiancée, Mercédès. ![]() In 1815, Edmond Dantès, a 19-year-old merchant sailor, returns to port in Marseilles. ![]() ![]() ![]() Our fingers used to do the talking, and I bet we were a HELL of a lot happier, too. Gone are the days of the finger point to the vagina, the penis, the fire, the meat, the water, the baby, the sky, the ground. Gone are the days of “Ugga, Ugga, Ugga” and all of our problems were solved. Humans have strayed so far from the caves, our code for being human has become lost to us. ![]() The horse's trajectory is ruled by nature. A horse eats, it drinks, it sleeps, it plays, it procreates, it eliminates, it dies. Well, how can anyone argue with THAT? She's right. Horses know exactly what to do and they have more fun.” I don't want to come back as one, next time. She answered very matter-of-factly, “Being a person is too hard. ![]() Why are you asking God to bring you back as a horse?” I switched gears quickly, got serious, and said, “Honey. I laughed out loud at her prayer, but then I immediately realized my mistake, when I saw her face. Once, when my middle child was 7 or 8 years old, I was listening to the usual rhythm of her saying her evening prayer, when she surprised me by adding, “And Lord, please remember, when I die, I want to come back as a horse. ![]() ![]() Josie’s hell-bent on having it all, and that includes keeping Luke in the picture…unless the vengeful bandits on their trail find them first. If only Luke weren’t so damned proper, he’d see that the years between them don’t matter a whit, not when a single touch can set them both ablaze. Beneath their playful banter is a powerful current of lust-pure, but not so simple. Luke thinks Josie’s too young, too sweet to be despoiled by the rough life and hard-bitten land he loves.īut independent Josie won’t let any man-however commanding-decide what’s best for her. Whip-smart Josie has a voluptuous figure, a sunny disposition and a knack for getting into dangerous scrapes in pursuit of the perfect shot. But Luke suspects he will never know another minute’s peace when photographer Josie Kinder joins the wagon train. Unencumbered by wife or family, Luke Bellen is the obvious member of Hell’s Eight to lead a treacherous trek across Comanche territory. ![]() ![]() He’s the last bachelor standing among the men of Hell’s Eight, and he’ll settle for nothing less than passion. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() also, a very unique, ✨exceptional✨ male 'anatomy') and the virgin sacrifice that lacks fear and deemed to be cursed by the villagers. Second try!Ī Soul to Keep is one slow burn romance between a Duskwalker (imagine Elias from TAMB, furry body, wolf skeleton for the head and Impala's horns on the top. Okay, that is one of the most blasé reviews I've ever put out. the best monster romance I've read so far. She’s not afraid of him, and his insatiable desire deepens within every moment of her presence.īut will Orpheus be able to convince Reia to stay before she’s lost to him forever?Īs a fan of The Ancient Magus' Bride, you cannot not love this reimagining.Īlso, Orpheus is such a cinnamon roll. He'd thought it was a hopeless endeavour, until he met her. The brief companionship does little to ease his loneliness, and their lives were always, unfortunately, cut short. His skull face and glow eyes are ethereal, and she finds herself unwittingly enchanted by him.Įach decade, in exchange for a protection ward from the Demons that terrorise the world, Orpheus takes a human offering to the Veil – the place he lives and the home of Demons. When the next offering is due and the monstrous Duskwalker is seen heading their way, her village offers her an impossible choice – be thrown into the prison cells or allow herself to be sacrificed to a faceless monster. Known as a harbinger of bad omens and blamed for Demons eating her family, Reia is shunned by her entire village. ![]() ![]() ![]() (A warning – if you’re not familiar with the six novels that precede this series finale, you’ll likely have trouble keeping track of all the characters if that’s the case, go back to book one, The Parfit Knight and make your way through the other books I promise you won’t regret it!) ![]() In Midwinter Magic, the final book in her Georgian-era Rockliffe series, author Stella Riley bids a heartwarming and utterly charming farewell to her cast of much-loved characters by bringing them all together for a memorable and magical Christmas celebration. ![]() So accept your invitation for what promises to be the most talked-of house-party of 1778 … and is also a last Huzzah to the Rockliffe series. Above all, expect the unexpected because at Christmas anything can happen. There will be wassailers and kissing-boughs music, dancing and romance laughter and some tears. Celebrate among old friends … and perhaps a gate-crasher or two. ![]() ![]() Unless his heart is a metaphor for his heart, as everything is a metaphor for itself, so that looking at the paint is like looking at a bird that isn’t there, with a song in its throat that you don’t want to hear but you paint anyway. But it isn’t a bird, it’s a man in a bird suit, blue shoulders instead of feathers, because he isn’t looking at a bird, real bird, as he paints, he is looking at his heart, which is impossible. Who gets to measure the distance between experience and its representation? Who controls the lines of inquiry? We do. Why paint a bird? Why do anything at all? Not how, because hows are easy-series or sequence, one foot after the other-but existentially why bother, what does it solve?Īnd just because you want to paint a bird, do actually paint a bird, it doesn’t mean you’ve accomplished anything. The problem, if there was one, was simply a problem with the question. This went on for a long time.Ī man saw a bird and wanted to paint it. Sometimes the man felt like the bird and sometimes the man felt like a stone-solid, inevitable-but mostly he felt like a bird, or that there was a bird inside him, or that something inside him was like a bird fluttering. ![]() The bird had a song inside him, and feathers. 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Prayer in the morning can be as simple or as complex as you like, but the important thing is to find a prayer that resonates with you to speak from your heart. Morning prayer helps to focus your heart and mind on gratitude and love for God! Starting your day with prayer is a practical way to follow the teaching of Christ, " Seek first the Kingdom of God." (Matthew 6:33) ![]() ![]() ![]() I want to be holding in my hand a concise. ![]() ![]() Each time I leave one of these encounters with anti-feminists, I want to have in my hand a little book so that I can say, read this book, and it will tell you what feminism is, what the movement is about. ![]() OL277280W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 87.86 Pages 144 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0745317332 bell hooks' short introduction to feminist politics. 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