![]() ![]() Also, I need the “I love yous” to be stated somewhere. Not only was it because they had known each other for a while and were living together, but it felt more complete out of the three novellas. ![]() I found myself enjoying the first novella the most (again). Not every book will be everyone’s cup of tea and I’m sure my least favorite in this Novella trio is someone’s Favorite. I will not let one little novella that I didn’t care for ruin my love for her books. Life is too short for boring books!Why FIVE stars then?Well, I have enjoyed all the books I have read by Ali so far. ![]() An Instant New York Times Bestseller!From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a collection of steamy, STEMinist novellas featuring a trio of engineers and their loves in loathing-with a special bonus chapter!Under One RoofAn environmental engineer discovers that scientists should never cohabitate when she finds herself stuck with the roommate from hell-a detestable big-oil lawyer who won’t leave the thermostat alone. Stuck with YouA civil engineer and her nemesis take their rivalry-and love-to the next level when they get stuck in a New York elevator. Below ZeroA NASA aerospace engineer’s frozen heart melts as she lies injured and stranded at a remote Arctic research station and the only person willing to undertake the dangerous rescue mission is her longtime rival.Ī collection of 3 Novellas.Two were easily 5 star reads but one of them did not catch my interest, So much so that I didn’t finish reading it. ![]()
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![]() What a radical thing this novel is, even with its old-fashioned cover with an image of a woman from behind, with its sepia tones suggesting this would be a safe bet for your great-aunt’s book club. It all comes down to having the right to make the choice. Where they don’t need to hang themselves or try to slit their wrists in a bathtub just to know what it feels like to have control. To leave these women a world where no one can tell them that they don’t own their own bodies. To make sure a horrible cycle was broken, and the next generation would be better off than their own. ![]() This fight and this victory was for their daughters, and their daughters’ daughters. ![]() What people who haven’t thought much don’t tend to know is that abortion is not the opposite of adoption, or infertility, or miscarriage, or motherhood, or even choosing not to have children at all, and also there are plenty of people who’ve experienced two or more of these things, and that these things don’t even exist on some kind of moral spectrum, but instead, they’re a vivid constellation of lived experiences, and what I love about Heather Marshall’s extraordinary Looking for Jane is the way the story connects them all, making plain what so many women already know but still might not have the courage to put into words even almost 35 years after abortion was made legal in Canada.īecause the abortion rights activists didn’t win this fight just for themselves. ![]() ![]() With such busy lives, free time is rare and when asked how the couple find time to spend with each other when working at home, Tom said they have a system. ![]() Gi is also an award-winning podcaster for Happy Mum Happy Baby and Tom is, of course, a founding member of the band McFly. Now, Tom and Giovanna have three children- Buzz, Buddy and Max- and are both being best-selling authors. The McFly singer has been married to Giovanna for 10 years, but their love story extends way beyond that, beginning when they first met at 13 years old in 1998 when they attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School. ![]() Tom Fletcher joined the Chris Evans Breakfast Show with Sky to talk about his busy life with wife Giovanna and finding time to write a new book, Space Band. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m a non-believer and an over-achiever, laid-back but fashion-forward. You can’t dumb me down because I’m tireless and I’m wireless, I’m an alpha male on beta-blockers. I’ve got a personal trainer, a personal shopper, a personal assistant and a personal agenda. I’m a totally ongoing big-foot, slam-dunk, rainmaker with a pro-active outreach. ![]() I wear power ties, I tell power lies, I take power naps and run victory laps. A high-concept, low-profile, medium-range ballistic missionary. I’m in-the-moment, on-the-edge, over-the-top and under-the-radar. I’m on-point, on-task, on-message and off drugs. I interface with my database, my database is in cyberspace, so I’m interactive, I’m hyperactive and from time to time I’m radioactive.īehind the eight ball, ahead of the curve, ridin the wave, dodgin the bullet and pushin the envelope. I’m a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice activated and bio-degradable. ![]() I’m new wave, but I’m old school and my inner child is outward bound. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond! I’ve been up linked and downloaded, I’ve been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. A diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstruction that is anatomically and ecologically incorrect. “I’m a modern man, a man for the millennium. ![]() ![]() ![]() His books have been translated into twenty languages.Įdward has lived in London, New York, New Hampshire and Ireland. Since then he has written five more bestsellers: RUSSKA, a novel of Russia LONDON THE FOREST, set in England's New Forest which lies close by Sarum, and two novels which cover the story of Ireland from the time just before Saint Patrick to the twentieth century. Four years later, when the book was published, it became an instant international bestseller, remaining 23 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. After numerous attempts to write books and plays, he finally abandoned his career in the book trade in 1983, and returned to his childhood home to write SARUM, a historical novel with a ten-thousand year story, set in the area around the ancient monument of Stonehenge, and Salisbury. ![]() Educated locally, and at the universities of Cambridge, and Stanford, California, he worked in political research, bookselling and publishing. Francis Edward Wintle, best known under his pen name Edward Rutherfurd, was born in the cathedral city of Salisbury. ![]() ![]() ![]() One such method of attention manipulation was with the introduction of Facebook’s ‘thumb’s up’ button, exploiting our deep desire for tribal acceptance and social approval. This came later, with the work of social media engineers. Indeed, the first iPhone and Facebook version were never designed to be addictive. ![]() AddictionĬurrent symptoms many of us experience while not engaged with our phone is one of disquiet, a nagging sensation that we need to check notifications, emails and texts. Newport performed his own min-study which formed the basis of the book, in which 1,600 volunteers followed a month-long tech sabattical, providing valuable insights digital minimalism. ![]() Soon it was defacto for social media, allowing companies to keep us hooked with endless notifications while gathering user preference data.įinally people are becoming aware of the pernicious effects of online technology and beginning to push back. When the innocuous ‘like’ button emerged on FriendFeed in 2007 it was a portentous moment. So if you’re glued to your phone day and night, the Digital Minimalism summary is for you. ![]() In his book, Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University (and successful blogger), Cal Newport, argues that we need a digital detox to restore emotional health and wellbeing. Is your online media consumption causing anxiety and overwhelm? ![]() ![]() ![]() So when a deadly vampire threatens to destroy Murphy’s reputation unless Harry helps her, he has no choice. Karrin Murphy is the head of SI and a good friend of Harry’s. And though most inhabitants of the Windy City don’t believe in magic, there’s a department that’s been set up within the Chicago PD to deal with “strange” cases: the Special Investigations department. Luckily Harry’s not alone in this struggle. Paranormal investigations are his stock-in-trade, and Chicago is his beat as he tries to bring law and order to a world that exists on the edges of imagination. Harry Dresden knows full well that such creatures exist. So are a lot of other things you’ve heard about in stories, and even more you’ve never heard of…Vampires. There are powers, nations, monsters, wars, feuds, alliances – everything. There’s an entire world that exists alongside the everyday life of mankind. we now finally Return to the your regular scheduled telecast of Harry’s miserable life. ![]() But knowing Harry we knew it won’t last forever so. Ever since the second book in the series Fool Moon things have somehow turned south in a blink of an eye for Harry Dresden and it had made me believe that Harry the Supernatural investigator is somehow the worlds most unlucky man alive until the last book happened which ended with all Rainbow-farts-jolly-good-sunshine of an ending. ![]() ![]() ![]() On its surface, Both Sides of the Moon is a romance between a werewolf cowboy and the amnesiac vampire who shows up on his ranch… but it’s also a little more complex than that description might sound! This is a book about finding belonging in the face of overpowering grief and guilt as much as it is a story about falling in love it’s layered and thoughtful, both angsty and sweet, funny and dramatic, a fun exploration of tropes and a unique reading experience all at once.Įach chapter alternates between our romantic leads’ (3rd-person-)POVs we’re given access to Roa’s adjustment to the arrival of a strange vampire to whom he is immediately attracted, as well as Fae contending with the loss of his memory and his guilt over potentially endangering the werewolves. Marsh is my friend and writing partner, and I played a role in the creation of this book, so I am a little biased - but I genuinely think people should read this book and want to talk about how good it is! Marsh is my friend and writing partner, and I played a role in the creation of this book, so I am a little biased - but I genuinely think people should read this book and want to talk about how good it is! On its surface, Full disclosure that Fell A. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 starsįull disclosure that Fell A. ![]() ![]() In the Dam Square in Amsterdam, long-haired young people wearing vibrant clothes and burning incense could be found meditating, playing music and discussing sexual liberation, the expansion of consciousness and the search for an inner truth. ![]() In Hippie, his most autobiographical novel to date, Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to re-live the dream of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order – authoritarian politics, conservative modes of behavior, excessive consumerism, and an unbalanced concentration of wealth and power.įollowing the “three days of peace and music” at Woodstock, the 1969 gathering in Bethel, NY that would change the world forever, hippie paradises began to emerge all around the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Brideship Wife is a beautiful historical fiction novel, inspired by the Voyage of Bride Ship Tynemouth. As Charles’s reputation and standing in society is threatened over the rumours, Charlotte is forced to leave England and start her life over in the New World. However, she’s put into a situation that could ruin her reputation, over the course of the next few days, rumours begin to swirl. Harriet and Charles host a large party where Charlotte is instructed to win over Charles’s colleague, in the hopes for an offer of engagement. ![]() Charlotte’s lived with her sister Harriet, and her wealthy brother, Charles for a few years, and knows she’s overstayed her welcome. Twenty-two-year-old Charlotte is shy, literary, and knows her sole duty in life is to marry a man important in society, she has no dowry to provide so, she has little to say in the matter. ![]() |