The Adultery Club by Tess Stimson6/7/2023 ![]() What happens when one of the links breaks? Ella Stuart has a high-flying career as a neonatologist. The Adultery Club is the irresistible story of the perfectly balanced eternal triangle which no one wants to be part of, but nor can they break away from.The Infidelity Chain-> Five people linked by infidelity. As Mal faces temptations of her own, she realizes she has to decide what she wants and whether it's worth fighting for. For Sara, what started as a harmless fling swiftly deepens into a painful battle for Nicholas heart with Mal, who is not quite as preoccupied in her world of food and school runs as Nicholas had believed. But whilst the chemistry between them is palpable, it takes catastrophic events to force him to recognize his own mortality and throw caution to the wind. Nicholas is stunned and horrified by the extent of his attraction to her. ![]() ![]() And then Sara Kaplan, a bright, vivacious young lawyer, explodes into his life like a sexual hand grenade. Whose side will you be on? Life couldn't be happier for Nicholas Lyon, a divorce lawyer and the adoring husband of Mal, a successful cookery writer who combines working from a comfortable home in Wiltshire with being mother to their three gorgeous daughters. ![]() Synopsis: -The Adultery Club-> A wife, a husband, a mistress. ![]()
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New jhumpa lahiri book6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Subhash, the dutiful son, does not share his brother’s political passion he leaves home to pursue a life of scientific research in a quiet, coastal corner of America.īut when Subhash learns what happened to his brother in the lowland outside their family’s home, he goes back to India, hoping to pick up the pieces of a shattered family, and to heal the wounds Udayan left behind-including those seared in the heart of his brother’s wife. It is the 1960s, and Udayan-charismatic and impulsive-finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty he will give everything, risk all, for what he believes. ![]() ![]() But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead. ![]() An extraordinary new novel, set in both India and America, that expands the scope and range of one of our most dazzling storytellers: the best-selling author of The Namesake and Unaccustomed Earth.īorn just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other in the Calcutta neighborhood where they grow up. A fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past. ![]() Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli6/6/2023 ![]() But despite having an uncomplicated shape, this story has an enduring, glittering quality that continues to charm readers (and now, viewers). The arc perfectly follows the standard Aristotelian structure you could easily pin every plot point on that familiar inverted check-mark shape. The interesting thing about both the book and the movie is that the story is rather simplistic, even a bit predictable. It can be uncommon for a movie to truly rise to the occasion of an outstanding book, but in my opinion, Stargirl the movie shines as bright as the novel. The title character, Stargirl, is one of my all-time favourite fictional characters.ĭisney recently released a film adaptation of the novel and the book, too, is having a resurgence. ![]() ![]() I first read it then and have returned to it several times over the years. When it came out in 2000, it was a New York Times bestseller and won several awards. Stargirl, by Jerry Spinelli, is a classic YA novel. This blog series is meant to demonstrate the universality of story structure with plot breakdowns of award-winning and classic novels and short fiction. Story structure relates to the psychological appeal of narrative, that which engages readers and builds in them a sense of anticipation-a desire to know what happens next. ![]() The bluest eye online6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() The researcher attempts to show how the black community, mainstream society, and the biological family affect Pecola’s victimization. In this essay Pecola’s search for self and identity in “The Bluest Eye” is demonstrated. Pecola’s story shows her complete victimization by both white and black culture. ![]() Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair and brown eyes that set her apart. Before Beloved and Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison gave us The Bluest Eye. ![]() She accepts her inferior position because society decrees her ugly and unworthy of affection, value, esteem, and encouragement. Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Raped by her father, she falls prey to absolute “absence” and “silence”. Pecola Breedlove, an unloved, 11-year-old black girl, believes that the absence of blue eyes is central to her ugliness. The novel is about a naive girl whose quest for self-esteem, self-definition, and self-value ends in identifying ugliness with blackness. This novel not only analyzes the destructive psychological effects of racism on both children and adults but also explores rape thoroughly and realistically, which affect forming one’s identity. Morrison’s first novel, “The Bluest Eye,” written in 1970, prominently expanded American literature. Toni Morrison brought recognition to the genre of African American literature, having won many honours, including a National Book Critics’ Circle Award, the Pulitzer, and the Nobel Prize. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I am a huge fan of holiday books, so when I first heard about this book, I was really excited. Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe, Melissa de la Cruz This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. ❃ I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. But why can’t she stop thinking of Luke? What is it about him? And can she fall in love, or will her pride and his prejudice against big-city girls stand in their way? When Darcy and Luke fall into bed after too many eggnogs, Darcy thinks it’s just another one night stand. He comes from a family of five brothers, each one less ambitious than the other. He’s a carpenter and makes beautiful furniture, and is content with his simple life. ![]() ![]() Luke is 32-years-old and has never left home. Her parents throw their annual Christmas bash, where she meets one Luke Bennet, the smart, sardonic slacker son of their neighbor. But when her mother falls ill, she comes home to Pemberley, Ohio, to spend the season with her family. Darcy’s never fallen in love, never has time for anyone else’s drama, and never goes home for Christmas if she can help it. She dates hedge funders and basketball stars and is never without her three cellphones-one for work, one for play, and one to throw at her assistant (just kidding). Darcy Fitzwilliam is 29, beautiful, successful, and brilliant. ![]() Final Girls by Riley Sager6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() She has a successful food blog, a loving boyfriend, and when she needs to talk about her past, she confides in Coop, the police officer who rescued her from the homicidal maniac. ![]() Years later, Quincy is living a quiet, somewhat normal life. ![]() Despite the plights of each of the girls being well publicized, the girls never meet. There’s also Sam, who survived The Sack Man motel attacks near Tampa, and Lisa, who escaped a sorority house bloodbath. Quincy Carpenter is a Final Girl, having lived through a massacre in the Pine Cottage cabin in a forest in Pennsylvania, in which her college friends, as well as the perpetrator, were killed. ![]() "Final Girl" is the term the media gives to the sole survivors of horror movie-like mass killings. Have you ever watched a horror movie and yelled, "Don’t go in there!" at the screen? Do you flee at the first sign of trouble? Do you always trust your instincts? Then you too could be a Final Girl, a member of a very exclusive club in this epic, adrenaline-fueled thriller! ![]() Lovely war julie berry6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Thirty years after these four lovers’ fates collide, the Greek goddess Aphrodite tells their stories to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, in a luxe Manhattan hotel room at the height of World War II. ![]() But that’s before he meets Colette Fournier, a Belgian chanteuse who’s already survived unspeakable tragedy at the hands of the Germans. A gifted musician who’s played Carnegie Hall, he’s a member of the 15th New York Infantry, an all-African-American regiment being sent to Europe to help end the Great War. When they fall in love, it’s immediate and deep–and cut short when James is shipped off to the killing fields.Īubrey Edwards is also headed toward the trenches. She’s a shy and talented pianist he’s a newly minted soldier with dreams of becoming an architect. It’s 1917, and World War I is at its zenith when Hazel and James first catch sight of each other at a London party. ![]() Huxley brave new world revisited6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() In the free world, however, the situation seemed even more to be one for despair. Looking behind the Iron Curtain, where people were not free but dominated by totalitarian power, Huxley could only bow to the grim prophecy of his friend (and, briefly, his student at Eton) George Orwell in the novel 1984. He was a far more serious man in 1958 - at the age of 64 - and the world was a very different place, transformed by the catastrophe of World War II, the advent of nuclear weapons and the grip of the Cold War. That he had been so prophetic in 1931 about the dystopian future gave Huxley no comfort. Taking a second look at specific aspects of the future Huxley imagined in Brave New World, Huxley meditated on how his fantasy seemed to be turning into reality, frighteningly and much more quickly than he had ever dreamed. ![]() Instead, he revisited that world in a set of 12 essays. In 1958, Aldous Huxley wrote what might be called a sequel to his novel Brave New World, published in 1932, but it was a sequel that did not revisit the story or the characters, or re-enter the world of the novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() TV dramas of the 1950s sharpened her talents, yet acclaimed turns in the live TV play "The Days of Wine and Roses" in 1958 and the 1961 movie "The Hustler" with Paul Newman didn't result in more top roles. Rebelling against her image as a "perky starlet," she tore up her contract in spite of an uncertain future. Her career as a Universal contract player in movies like 1951's "The Prince Who Was a Thief" turned out to be profitable but hardly challenging. But she wanted to say something meaningful, too. Laurie would find her voice through the make-believe world of acting. They accepted their youngest daughter's relative silence - she now believes she suffered from acute anxiety disorder - without much question. She was born in 1932 to first-generation American Jews - her mother's parents had emigrated from Russia, her father's from Poland. "Learning to Live Out Loud" is Laurie's absorbing memoir about that personal transition as well as her professional development from a popular star of grade B entertainments to an Oscar-nominated actress ("The Hustler," ''Carrie" and "Children of a Lesser God") who also had memorable roles on television and the stage. ![]() It would take time and heartache for her to reach a full-throated freedom. Only after she was a teenager and theater marquees began carrying her new name - Piper Laurie - did the quiet girl from Detroit begin to find the strength to speak up. "Learning to Live Out Loud: A Memoir" (Crown Archetype), by Piper Laurie: Rosetta Jacobs was a bright and thoughtful child but struggled to express herself. ![]() ![]() More than 500 people in several Peruvian cities were killed in the earthquake. “Full recovery for the tens of thousands of families and their children affected will take a long time.” ![]() “So many buildings, schools and homes have collapsed in Peru since the earthquake a fortnight ago,” Testino said. His biggest break came in 1997 when Diana picked him to shoot her for the cover of Vanity Fair. Proceeds will go to the Save the Children charity. A fashion photographer for 30 years, Testino is a world-class portrait artist. “I have decided to auction an image of Diana to help the people in Peru because, for me, Diana went out of her way to help people,” the fashion photographer said Wednesday. A memorial service was to be held in London on Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of her death. ![]() ![]() The image was used on invitations to the recent Wembley Stadium concert organized by Prince Harry and Prince William to honor their mother’s memory.ĭiana died in a Paris car crash on Aug. His photo, which shows a smiling Diana wearing a black dress, first appeared in Vanity Fair magazine in 1997. Fashion photographer Mario Testino will auction a signed photo of Princess Diana to raise money for victims of the recent earthquake in his homeland of Peru. ![]() |