![]() ![]() ![]() Overall, I really enjoyed this one and I would definitely continue on with the series!ĥ I'm still in shock how good this was STARS ![]() but he had a sweet, caring side which you could really see in his relationship with his son. “Babe, you either come on my mouth, or you come on my cock. He was alpha, he was possessive, he was dominant, he was a dirty talker. They didn't treat their woman like crap, they weren't in to anything illegal, but they protected what was theirs at any cost. I liked that the Knights ran a "clean" club. His involvement with the MC ran pretty deep.Īs with most MC reads, you had your typical club and ex drama. Turns out Zane wasn't exactly who Kadence thought he was. All a result of her ex boyfriend owing another club money. Kadence is not a fan of bikers after her house was set on fire and she was left with burns covering her body. Kadence is a teacher and she meets Nix when he comes in for a parent/teacher meeting for his son Zayden. Kadence.which can I just say, not a fan of the name, I keep calling her Candice.but whatever. ![]() “Tell me, Kadence, if I stuck my hand down these tight-as-sin jeans,” his finger trails along the tops of my pants, “and touched your pussy, would you be wet for me?” I can't say it was super wowing or anything super original but the story was entertaining, the heroine was feisty and the hero loved to talk dirty. They can definitely be hit or miss and with a new author, you just honestly don't know what you're going to get. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He promised always to remember this spiritual sister when saying Mass, and the choice fell upon me. ![]() ![]() Teresa to ask for a sister who would devote herself specially to his salvation, and to the salvation of his future flock. It was washing day, and I was busy at my work, when Mother Agnes of Jesus, then Prioress, called me aside and read me a letter from a young Seminarist, in which he said he had been inspired by St. Teresa, sent my first brother as a gift for my feast. I should like to tell you, dear Mother, how Our Divine Master fulfilled my desire. Yet God went beyond my dream I only asked for one brother who would remember me each day at the Holy Altar, and He has united me in the bonds of spiritual friendship with two of His apostles. I greatly regretted being deprived of this joy. I often used to think that if my little brothers had not gone to Heaven, I should have had the happiness of seeing them at the Altar. For years I had cherished a longing which seemed impossible of realisation-to have a brother a Priest. It is not only when He is about to send me some trial that Our Lord gives me warning and awakens my desire for it. ![]() ![]() ![]() I also began to appreciate more fantastic cities, such as Stevenson and Machen's London and Leiber's Lankhmar. In childhood, my favorite Arabian Night's tales were the ones that took place in Baghdad, and from early adolescence I loved Sherlock Holmes' London, D'Artagnan's Paris and Nero Wolfe's New York. Hugo's novel had been on my lengthy “must read” list for years, but what finally moved it to the top was my growing fascination with cities in literature. It is also about the “genius loci” of Paris, the maternal spirit that offers sanctuary and support to its most unfortunate children, many of them literally orphans (Gringoire, Quasimodo, Esmeralda, the Frollos), be they ugly or beautiful, virtuous or evil, bringing a measure of comfort to their difficult and and often tragic lives. First of all, it is about the great cathedral that dominates and defines the city, the setting for much of the novel's action and most of its crucial events. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a shame that this book is so seldom referred to in English by its given name, for it is about more than the history of one hunchback, however moving that history may be. Best of all, it gives us one of literature's most loving and detailed depictions of a city, rivaled only by Joyce's Dublin in Ulysses. Although it lacks the depth and humanity of Les Miserables, it possesses a grandeur of architectonic structure and an Olympian compassion all its own. I recently read Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris for the first time, and was delighted and moved by the experience. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The problems of plastic and microplastic accumulating in the oceans have more recently raised genuine alarm. As Sylvia Earle says, Carson could not have known of the existence of microscopic organisms such as archaea and prochlorococcus which are so small but so effective in generating most of the oxygen available for powering life in the sea. For instance, there are only three fleeting references to carbon dioxide and none at all to acidification. ![]() In the light of recent knowledge about the ocean and its plight, reading Rachel Carson’s book with its magnificent prose, makes the reader realise just how much more has been learned in the intervening 70 years. ‘ Since the publication in 1951 of Rachel Carson’s epic tribute to the ocean, more has been learned about the nature of the ocean and why it matters to the existence of life on Earth than had been learned in prior human history.’ So reads the opening paragraph of the introduction to the 2018 reprint of the book by Sylvia Earle, a marine biologist and Geographic Society Explorer in Residence with several books on the ocean to her name. National Parks & Wildlife Service – budget cutsįirst edition published 1951. ![]() |