![]() ![]() “Solid glass or crystal, whether shaped like an orb or a lens, produces magnified, inverted, and reversed images. He writes: “In one respect, it is rendered with beautiful scientific precision … But Leonardo failed to paint the distortion that would occur when looking through a solid clear orb at objects that are not touching the orb. The Salvator Mundi (Saviour of the World) portrays Jesus gesturing in blessing with his right hand while holding a crystal orb in his left hand.ĭeclared authentic just six years ago, it is to be sold on 15 November by Christie’s New York, which describes it as “one of fewer than 20 known paintings by Leonardo, and the only one in private hands”.īut in a forthcoming study, Leonardo da Vinci: the Biography, Walter Isaacson questions why an artistic genius, scientist, inventor, and engineer showed an “unusual lapse or unwillingness” to link art and science in depicting the orb. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I wanted to like this book and just couldn't. Her grandmother decides to take Iris on an Alaskan cruise to get her closer to the whale. ![]() Iris wants to be there when they tag him and can't understand why her parents won't fly her to Alaska and why the sanctuary won't let her help. She contacts the sanctuary in Alaska that is trying to tag him and they promise to use the song. Iris identifies with Blue 52 and makes a song for him. ![]() So he cannot understand others and they cannot understand him. Blue 52 is a hybrid whale who sings at a different frequency than other whales. Iris becomes obsessed with the whale Blue 52 after learning about him in science class. She does have one deaf friend who goes to another school. Iris feels isolated both in her family and at school where she is the only deaf person. Her grandparents were also deaf, but her parents and brother are hearing. Iris is a deaf girl in a family of mostly hearing people. ![]() ![]() ![]() Drawn into his violent world, Nora must find a way to adapt and survive-and find light within the darkness. Her enigmatic captor is as cruel as he is beautiful, yet it’s his tenderness that devastates her most. ![]() Stolen away to a private island, she finds herself at the mercy of a powerful, dangerous man whose touch makes her burn.Ī man whose obsession with her knows no bounds. On the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Nora Leston meets Julian Esguerra, and her life changes forever. “No, Nora,” he replies, and I can feel his smile in the darkness. This unique set contains the following books: Marie Claire, Women’s Day, and 1000s of 5-star reviewers are raving about these addictive reads! The “utterly brilliant” Twist Me trilogy, the “scorching hot” Capture Me trilogy, and the “dangerous and otherworldly” Mia & Korum trilogy comprise over 2200 pages of thrilling dark romance. For a limited time, get NINE FULL-LENGTH NOVELS from NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ANNA ZAIRES in one convenient bundle. ![]() ![]() ![]() What happens to Cal over the course of The Searcher challenges that belief. ![]() It’s for him to go out and find the person who hurt his loved one, and then hurt them back. That’s part of why he decided to retire to a plot of land in western Ireland to fix up a ramshackle house and live quietly: He saw police brutality, and he saw Black kids who were terrified of him, and he decided to opt out of the whole situation.īut Cal still fundamentally believes that if someone who he cares about is hurt, then the best and most loving thing for him to do is to be a cop. And the thing he has to fundamentally change in himself before the end of the book is his belief in the utility of the law enforcement system.Ĭal is nursing some doubts about the bad apples he worked with in the Chicago PD as The Searcher opens. Cal thinks of himself as the good guy who catches the bad guys. In French’s compelling but uneven latest novel, The Searcher, the detective is Cal Hooper, and the center of Cal’s character is his understanding of himself as a good cop. ![]() Each of her mysteries is designed to take apart the character of the detective who solves it, so that to finally crack the case, the detective must fundamentally change themselves. What that means, loosely, is that French’s novels are character-based rather than trope-based. The cocktail party summary of the career of Tana French, the American Irish novelist with a devoted cult following, is that she writes literary thrillers. ![]() ![]() ![]() I shouldn’t be falling in love with tiny toes and dimpled cheeks.Īnd I most definitely should not be kissing my client. One handywoman.One single dad.One set of twins. I shouldn’t be helping him out with the twins. Read 690 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. In theory, I’m spending eight hours a day with a guarded, sexy as hell guy, and I’m staying for dinner more often than I’m eating it alone, on my couch, with Friends re-runs. His son is confused why ‘the pretty lady has a drill,’ and his daughter has a new obsession-me. MISS FIX-IT is a brand-new, standalone romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author, Emma Hart, who brought you BEING BROOKE and CATCHING CARLY. ![]() I’ve proven over and over that I’m ready for anything the judgmental asses throw at me.Įxcept the hot, single dad of twins who just moved to town.īrantley Cooper gets the shock of his life when I show up on his doorstep to fix up his kids’ new rooms. ![]() The questions, the stares-the assumption I’m the proud owner of a cock and balls. I learned the hard way that being a handywoman isn’t easy. Table of Contents Title Page COPYRIGHT DEDICATION CHAPTER ONE HALLEY CHAPTER TWO HALLEY CHAPTER THREE HALLEY CHAPTER FOUR PRESTON CHAPTER FIVE. ![]() And the wall isn’t the only thing being drilled… ![]() ![]() ![]() He deserved to stay in prison that long for what he did. “That should be 50 years and that is just what he deserved. One of my grandchildren heard it on the radio and she was very upset – and she never even met Karl. It doesn’t just affect me and my husband Colin either – the whole family are in shock about it. Speaking at the time, Karl's mother Audrey Fletcher said: "Of course, I always knew it would happen one day but I had presumed that we would be told about it and I could have been prepared for it. He would then be allowed to apply for parole in 2005. The pain for Karl Fletcher's family would not end there as Blastland would again enter their lives during multiple bids for freedom, first appealing against his conviction. Blastland was sentenced to two life sentences for murder and sexual assault with a minimum of 22 years which was later increased to 25. However, he denied killing the boy who was tragically found face down the next morning on wasteland off Thorndike Way.Ī post-mortem of Karl's body would find that the young boy had been brutally sexually assaulted before he was strangled to death with his own Nottingham Forest football scarf. During court proceedings, Blastland admitted meeting Karl not far from where he would later be found dead and alleged to have paid him for sexual acts. ![]() ![]() ![]() I wasn’t sure how people were going to take it and what the consequences were. There are things that I was really nervous about writing-a lot of the cultural stuff. I would say one of the biggest changes was that with each of the novels I felt more comfortable with my voice and with what I was writing. ![]() ![]() With each book, each narrative, I get to know the characters better and better. This idea of building on a story like this is different for me. I’m not really a series person, so it’s rare for me to write one. When I look at Akata Witch in comparison to Akata Warrior, there’s a world of difference! Each of the books is definitely a progression. ![]() They get deeper into the world and reflect the deeper understanding that I have about the world and the culture. Each book gets progressively better and more complex. I couldn’t even quantify it-my skills as a writer. I’ve gone through so much and I’ve learned so much. I’m always writing and I’m always learning, and the last 10 years for me have been really epic. How have you as an author changed in this time and how has that been reflected in the growth of the trilogy? Akata Witch, the first book in the series, came out in 2011. ![]() ![]() However, there are several layers to it, which make it complex and relatable to a large number of readers. A farmer, his family, and a few labourers try to harvest a crop, while weather conditions turn hostile and destroy a big portion of the crop. The novel is set in the early 1950s, and the underlying story is quite simple. Eli Chandler, Luke’s grandfather, hires a bunch of Mexicans and a family of hill people, the Spruill’s, to help the Chandlers pick their cotton. A journey, in fact, from planting the seed to the harvesting of the cotton crop, and everything in between. At the heart of it, it is quite a simple story. The Painted House is a story of Luke Chandler, a seven-year-old boy, his family, and their grand old farm. ![]() The Painted House is not perfect, but it is good enough to keep you emotionally on the edge at all times. ![]() ![]() It’s that good! After reading Calico Joe a few years ago, this was the second Grisham novel, and I totally understand why he is counted among the best of this era. John Grisham may have written The Painted House in 2000, but the book will make people cry or at least choke even a hundred years from today. ![]() ![]() ![]() The hunger clears his mind, keeps him sharp-and he needs to be as sharp as possible if he's going to find out just how Tariq and his band of high school bullies drove his sister, Maya, away. ![]() His stomach stabs and twists inside, pleading for a meal, but Matt won't give in. "Funny, haunting, beautiful, relentless, and powerful, The Art of Starving is a classic in the making."-Book Riot Winner of the 2017 Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book! ![]() About the Book Winner of the 2017 Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book, this gritty, contemporary debut tells the story of a bullied gay teen with an eating disorder who believes he's developed superpowers via starvation. ![]() ![]() The first episode will be out October 15, and will be about book one, PS I Love You by Barbara Conklin – a book many, many readers remember.ĭid you read that one? Did you read Sweet Dreams romances? Any in particular you remember most vividly? In each episode, I’m going to look at the cover photography, the plot, and the writers – many of whom are still writing! Sometimes it’ll be me, and sometimes I’ll have a co-host, but we’re going to take a slow gondola ride down the Nostalgia Canal. And wow, were they a gateway to romance fiction for many, many people. ![]() They were available in the 80s and 90s, and were sold reliably where teen books were sold. I have some vivid memories of scenes inside these novels, and some equally vivid memories of where I was reading them. Big heaping thanks to local used bookstores for helping me with this project! Remember them? They’re vintage YA Romances, and to my knowledge they aren’t available digitally. ![]() Starting 15 October 2021, I’ll be recapping the first twenty Sweet Dreams Romances on the podcast. I’m doing a new project on the podcast and I’m very excited about it. ![]() |