6/12/2023 0 Comments Darkhouse by karina halleHer uncle’s haunted lighthouse provides the perfect catalyst and backdrop for a horrific mystery that unravels the threads of Perry’s fragile sanity and causes her to fall for a man, who, like the most dangerous of ghosts, may not be all that he seems. Even though the show’s budget is non-existent and Dex himself is a maddening enigma, Perry is instantly drawn into a world that both threatens her life and seduces her with a sense of importance. Luckily for her, that all comes in handy when she stumbles across Dex Foray, an eccentric producer for an upcoming webcast on ghost hunters. I absolutely fell in love with her writing style, the way that she builds the world. While this book acts as a set-up and alludes to a slow-burn romance between the hero and heroine, the books get scarier, much sexier and darker as the series goes along. Though she’s been dealing with a quarter-life crisis and post-college syndrome like any other twenty-something, she’s still not what you would call “ordinary.” For one thing, there’s her past which she likes to pretend never happened, and then there’s the fact that she sees ghosts. Darkhouse is the first in the Experiment in Terror novels by Karina Halle. DARKHOUSE is the first book in Experiment in Terror, a romance series with a dark and creepy twist. There’s always been something a bit off about Perry Palomino.
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Guaranteed to Last by Jim GormanAnd it’s a story about how the company helped America learn to love the outdoors. Bean story-the tale of how an unknown hunter, working with $400 in borrowed capital, invented a new kind of shoe and, marching to the beat of his own drum, remade the outdoor industry. From the rugged, individualistic legacy of Teddy Roosevelt in the 1910s to soldiers’ experiences in both World Wars, from the “back to the land” movement in the 1960s and 1970s that brought millions of people to the wilderness for the first time to the Preppy Handbook craze of the 1980s when the styles of New England suddenly enthralled the nation, Guaranteed to Last tells a complete and fascinating story that will engage every reader.Īt the heart of the book is a fresh telling of the fascinating L.L. The ideas and events that drove the company’s development are all related to what was happening in the wider world. Hearing out scientific experts who study a wider time span than a Facebook timeline is key to tackling our planet's emergency. The second crisis, he argues, is worsening the effects of the first. Ialenti takes on two overlapping crises: the Anthropocene epoch, our current moment of human-caused environmental transformation and the deflation of expertise- today's institutional erosion of expert authority. The challenge, he says, is to learn to inhabit a longer now. In this book, Vincent Ialenti offers a guide for envisioning the planet's far future-to become, as he terms it, more skilled deep time reckoners. And yet we struggle to grasp the scale of the crisis, barely able to imagine the effects of climate change just ten years from now, let alone the multi-millennial timescales of Earth's past and future life span. We live on a planet careening toward environmental collapse that will be largely brought about by our own actions. 6/11/2023 0 Comments Innocents by Cathy CooteBefore me, a row of girls perched on the rickety wooden bench. I sat cross-legged on the grass, nibbling at my thin vegemite sandwiches. I met my friends for lunch behind the library. The recess before I met you passed like any other. My whole life was geared around avoiding it. A ring of empty space would start to form around me as the people shrank away, and I'd be left standing on my own, irrefutably alien. I kept assuming that eventually, inevitably, I'd be standing in a crowded place and suddenly everyone would start shifting uncomfortably and turning their heads at the smell of other. I was, as always, amazed at my ability to blend in with the masses of us. Red trim pointed like an arrow at our bellies. We also had semi-transparent V-necked white shirts. They were off-red, and looked the way the name sounded. The little shorts were called ‘scungies’. They showed your bum when you bent over, so you had to wear little shorts underneath. They were horrible, scanty, red-pleated things, obviously designed by a pervert. I'm not for one second suggesting that my legs were what you were after. I suppose, at the very beginning, you must have seen my legs. The very beginning seems so long ago, though. I know you think you're to blame for what happened. Many of his novels have themes and titles that invoke classical music, such as the three books making up The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: The Thieving Magpie (after Rossini's opera), Bird as Prophet (after a piano piece by Robert Schumann usually known in English as The Prophet Bird), and The Bird-Catcher (a character in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute). Shortly before finishing his studies, Murakami opened the coffeehouse 'Peter Cat' which was a jazz bar in the evening in Kokubunji, Tokyo with his wife. His first job was at a record store, which is where one of his main characters, Toru Watanabe in Norwegian Wood, works. Murakami studied drama at Waseda University in Tokyo, where he met his wife, Yoko. He grew up reading a range of works by American writers, such as Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and he is often distinguished from other Japanese writers by his Western influences. Since childhood, Murakami has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly Western music and literature. His work has been described as 'easily accessible, yet profoundly complex'. Murakami Haruki (Japanese: 村上 春樹) is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. 6/11/2023 0 Comments 11 22 63He enlists Jake on an insane – and insanely possible – mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk. He receives an essay from one of the students a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister and his brothers with a hammer. Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. The book was released by Scribner on 8 November 2011. 11/22/63 is the 61st book published by Stephen King it is his 48th novel, and the 41st under his own name. 6/10/2023 0 Comments Pratchett postalThere is no competition to communication by clacks, as the all but abandoned post office of Ankh-Morpork is in an even worse state than the dilapidated clacks towers. His preferred dispatcher is a banshee, a half-man half-bat creature who’s perpetually covered in ooze. Gilt isn’t averse to hiring assassins to remove anyone who gets in his way or threatens to thin his fully packed wallet. Control then passed to Reacher Gilt, an unscrupulous man who threatens employees into doing his bidding and who’s let the clacks system fall into disrepair and suspicion after an employee drops to his death in the opening scenes, while a large dark figure flies away. The system was the property of the Dearheart family until its inventor, Robert Dearheart, met with financial tragedy and an unexpected death. The clacks system is a mode of communication in Discworld, a sort of telegraph business that converts customers’ messages to ticker tape which are then relayed from one clacks tower to the next through the city and beyond by semaphore signals using opening and closing shutters at each tower’s top. There are 2 separated areas : Ellie's house and a cottage. But if this is the case you can be sure that she will love to teach you some Spanish lessons if you ask her for ) For me it is clear that I will return to that place whenever I am in Pucon! Like my predecessors I highly recommend this hostel!… As an English teacher it's fairly easy to communicate especially if someone struggles with its Spanish. The owner herself (Ellie) is a wonderful person. The sleeping-, living-, and bath rooms were always in great condition! I stayed in rooms in the main house as well as in the cottage. Especially during the holiday season I highly recommend using them as finding a parking lot inside of town can be quite demanding. These taxis a pretty cheap and pass by every couple of minutes. Best way to go to town is to take the 5min ride with a "colectivo". For daily shopping purposes a big supermarket is just about 2 min of walk away from the hostel. The hostel is situated at the outskirts of town which makes it way more quite and safer compared to the inner city of Pucon. I love this place with the nice view on the volcano, a garden to hang out and have BBQ. Over the last couple of years I stayed at Ellies four times.
Lexie discovers a kindred spirit in her ancestor, Bonnet, and lessons learned from the past soon drift into the present. Yet she has no choice but to allow him to help her decipher the letters.Īs the couple read each letter, we are transported into the past where we follow the adventures of Stede Bonnet from his start in Barbados, through each success and failure, and his eventual connection with Blackbeard himself. Born to wealth and privilege, Barret’s family are pillars of the community, successful, educated, Christians who never suffered a day in their lives. Professor Barret Johnson represents everything Lexie hates. to find the mythical treasure of Stede Bonnet. Determined to remove the curse of poverty and crime from her family’s past, Lexie sets off to Charleston, S.C. The only thing Lexie’s mother left her after her death was a folder full of ancient letters and an old coin. New from Award-winning author, MaryLu Tyndall, a Time-Slip Novel!Ī woman with a past searching for pirate treasureĪ pious professor seeking worldly recognitionĪnd an historic pirate who brings them together. 6/10/2023 0 Comments Ruined by paula morris seriesRebecca returns to New Orleans, where a ghost of a 19th century boy named Frank has begged her to help him complete the errand he was sent on when he died: the delivery of a locket. Unbroken picks up several months after the events of Ruined. Unfortunately, several things soon become clear about Rebecca's new friends: Lisette is a ghost, the fact that Rebecca can see her is not a good sign, and Anton knows more about them both than he's telling. Her social interaction is limited to two people: Anton Grey, a handsome, popular boy from one of the city's old-money families, and Lisette, a girl she meets in Lafayette Cemetery. Rebecca sticks out like a sore thumb, having little interest in New Orleans's celebratory rituals and stratified class system. Ruined is set in modern-day New Orleans, where fifteen-year-old Rebecca Brown is sent for a six-month-long stay with a family friend while her father is on a business trip. Dark Souls had some shaky characterization, but Morris's plot was creative, creepy, and rich in historical detail (all things I approve of in a ghost story), so my hopes were high. After reading Paula Morris's novel Dark Souls earlier this spring, I decided to hunt down the two books in her earlier series, Ruined and Unbroken. |