![]() ![]() ![]() Its quite short, about 150 pages and very quick paced. The book leaves you with warm, happy and satisfied feeling. I got time to prove that’s not going to happen.” “ …you’re just waiting for things to turn bad, honey. I loved how tender and patient Van was with Eve, never pushing her into anything she wasn’t absolutely ready for, and how he just quietly showed her that a world beyond the one she grew up in, where she could make her own decisions and be her own person was possible if she wanted it. The beginning was a little slow, with a too much inner monologue from the heroine, Eve, but about 25% of the way in, I started to really like it once she and her hot, tattooed, sweet and adorable badboy started to get serious. Big, tall, tattooed badboy, Van, meets Evie, a 19 year old virgin from an abusive, strict, religious home and the sparks fly in this pretty freaking hot, very sweet and tender read about breaking free and following your heart. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The problem, says Craig, is that Hume has not considered all of the relevant probabilities. So something is clearly wrong with this principle. If we applied Hume’s principle to such a case, it would be irrational for us to believe that such a highly improbable event had actually occurred. This was the Age of Enlightenment, a time in which skepticism about miracles was becoming increasingly widespread among the educated elite. The title of the essay, “Of Miracles,” originally appeared in Hume’s larger work, An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1748. One of the most influential critiques of miracles ever written came from the pen of the skeptical Scottish philosopher David Hume. As a Christian examining these arguments, we find little of value to convince us to reject a biblical worldview saying that God can and has intervened in natural history to perform miracles. Hume’s first premise assumes that there could not be miracles and his second premise is based on his distaste for the societies that report miracles. Michael Gleghorn examines Hume’s influential critique of miracles and points out the major shortfalls in his argument. ![]() ![]() ![]() Note: This book was previously published with another publisher and has been extensively revised and expanded. And Dean has no remorse whatsoever about killing anyone that stands between him and the man he's falling for. But when danger arrives on their doorstep, Dean's training as an assassin comes in handy, especially when Poppy is kidnapped by the same men that held him in the first place. And Dean doesn't have the heart to deny the man, even when taking care of Poppy turns into a full-time job. ![]() He is also scared out of his mind and clinging to Dean like a second skin. Poppy is sweet and innocent and about as sexy as he could possibly be. What's crazier than that? When Dean goes to the place where he's supposed to pick Marcus up, he finds something else altogether. His other friends are missing and the agency he works for is a complete mess. His friend, Gage, has mated with the cat king of a pride. He's also pretty damn sure that he has stepped into a crazy world. He just had to find Marcus's friends and let them know that they are being led into a trap.and then go back to hell. If he can save Marcus, Poppy knows that he will have done at least one good thing in his life. ![]() The only bright spot he has seen in years is another prisoner being held in the cell next to him. Poppy lives in hell and has for as long as he could remember. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And the need to fetch milk at the corner shop results in a wacky, wild adventure for the father to tell his kids, neither of whom really believe him. In true Gaiman style, a bottle (or rather, two bottles) of milk manage to save the world fortunately, the father has the milk still in his pocket after a whole series of improbable adventures involving aliens who want to remodel the world, a dinosaur with a time machine, and more. That said, it’s a great little story, and it has wonderfully wacky illustrations, which could use a little more time if you’ve got it. I’m just going to write a short review, since it took me a short time to read Fortunately, the Milk (actually probably like ten minutes in a bookstore). This is one of the weirdest books I’ve read in a while. ‘ Find out just how odd things get in this hilarious story of time travel and breakfast cereal, expertly told by Newbery Medalist and bestselling author Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Skottie Young.” I looked up and saw a huge silver disc hovering in the air above Marshall Road.’ ‘ Hullo, I said to myself. ‘I walked out of the corner shop, and heard a noise like this: T h u m m t h u m m. Nothing else that you could put on cereal, unless you think that ketchup or mayonnaise or pickle juice would be nice on your Toastios, which I do not, and neither did my little sister, although she has eaten some pretty weird things in her day, like mushrooms in chocolate. ![]() There was only orange juice in the fridge. ![]() ![]() Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c2022), by Zachary Price (PDF with commentary at Ohio State).Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. ![]() A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2018), by Kathryn Yusoff (HTML with commentary at umn.edu).Filed under: Black people - Race identity ![]() Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
![]() ![]() From 1945 to 1959, while still contributing to science fiction magazines, Heinlein focused most of his energies on breaking into more lucrative markets, including a famous series of juvenile novels for Scribner’s, stories written for “slick” magazines like The Saturday Evening Post, and film and television projects. Campbell, Jr.’s Astounding Science-Fiction as his venue of choice (since it paid the highest rates). From 1939 to 1942, Heinlein wrote exclusively for the science fiction magazines, with John W. To convey the full extent of his pervasive effects on science fiction, one can consider the three, commonly accepted periods of Heinlein’s career, as first defined in Alexei Panshin’s Heinlein in Dimension (1968), a pioneering and seminal study despite its flaws. Heinlein are still occupying a considerable amount of shelf space, and the evidence of his broad impact on the genre is undeniable. Clarke, and there may be few signs of their influence on other writers. Wells, or even Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Still, there is at least one classic writer that every science fiction reader must come to terms with for when you visit a bookstore today, the science fiction section may have only a few books by Jules Verne and H. Readers of contemporary science fiction might understandably grow impatient with commentators who keep talking about older science fiction writers, since they have largely been supplanted by new favorites in today’s marketplace. ![]() ![]() This week-long Survival Round will determine the Top Dom, once and for all. The hero and heroine of the series, Lucian Bane and Tara Reese, have barely made it into the Sixth and Final Round of Dom Wars. The contestants all wear cameras to film every moment and angle of the competition, while they complete various challenges to determine who has ultimately Dominated various elements of themselves. The show, Dom Wars, is a competition to determine the Top Dom that will become the spokesperson for the company. When Gladiator Inc, an adult toy company expands their market to familiarize the ‘vanilla’ world with the elements of BDSM, the result is a pay-per-view reality show with video feeds streamed live to subscribers. ![]() RECOMMENDED FOR AGES EIGHTEEN AND UP DUE TO EXPLICIT SEXUAL SITUATIONS, AND STRONG LANGUAGE ◆◇◇◆◇◇◆◇◇◆◇◇◆ DOM Wars! Final Round! by Lucian Bane ![]() ![]() And it’s these enduring and relatable tales that make her one of the best-selling authors alive today. Steel is most famous for her romance novels, but almost all of her work centers around themes like relationship issues and the trials and tribulations of the human condition. Since then, she’s been a mainstay in the New York Times bestseller’s lists, and she continues to churn out multiple chart-topping novels year after year. But while it earned her a respectable sum of money at the time, it wasn’t until her 1977 release, ‘ Passion’s Promise,’ that this talented author started becoming a household name. By the time she was a teenager, she was regularly penning poetry, and it was clear she was a natural wordsmith.Īnd so, after returning to her homeland of New York, she went on to study French literature while simultaneously working on her first manuscript.įast forward to 1972, and Danielle Steel’s debut novel, ‘Going Home,’ was published. ![]() She spent much of her childhood living in France, where she first discovered her love of writing. Her German father and Portuguese mother were wealthy socialites living in New York, and so, from a young age, Danielle was surrounded by the rich and famous. ![]() Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel, better known as Danielle Steel, was born in 1947. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is a graduate of UCLA and the Columbia MFA program. Karen Thompson Walker was born and raised in San Diego, California. Education-B.A., University of California, Los Angeles M.F.A., Columbia University.Written in luminous prose, The Dreamers is a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human life-if only we are awakened to them. ![]() They are dreaming heightened dreams-but of what? Those affected by the illness, doctors discover, are displaying unusual levels of brain activity, higher than has ever been recorded before. Two sisters turn to each other for comfort as their survivalist father prepares for disaster. A young couple tries to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep-and doesn’t wake up. An ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of The Age of Miracles. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2006, Slocum donated his entire puzzle collection and library of over 5,000 puzzle books to the Lilly Library at Indiana University, marking the first time a major collection of mechanical puzzles was made available to the public in an academic setting. He is the author of 16 earlier books on puzzles and their history including Puzzles Old and New in 1986, The 15 Puzzle, The Cube (about Rubik's Cube), and The Tangram Book. ![]() It includes hundreds of puzzle padlocks including 34 Roman mask puzzle padlocks. His personal collection of over 40,000 mechanical puzzles is believed to be the world's largest. Jerry Slocum, a retired Aerospace executive, is an historian, collector and author specialising in the field of mechanical puzzles. ![]() |