![]() The apparently endless stream of domestic suspense thrillers has been forcing readers to evaluate how well we really know those closest to us for the past few years. My Beautiful Wife JPG of Samantha Downing Ours is the only one who gets away with murder. We’re your neighbors, the parents of your child’s buddy, and the people you’ve been meaning to meet for dinner.Įvery one of us has our own secrets for keeping a marriage alive. We shared our wildest fantasies as well as our deepest secrets. As for me, it’d been a long time since I’d read a book that was so much pleasure to read, and I’m already looking forward to seeing what Downing comes up with next. MY LOVELY WIFE is a lot of fun to read readers who want a suspense novel with a lot of entertainment value that doesn’t take itself too seriously will love Downing’s razor-sharp debut. Downing, on the other hand, gets it exactly right. Let’s be clear: this book has a wild, larger-than-life idea that, in less capable hands, might go horribly wrong. Downing pushes the domestic suspense thriller to its boundaries in MY LOVELY WIFE, and the result is a wonderfully enjoyable and dark suspense read. ![]() Do you think it’s a little much? It is, but in the most positive way possible. Yes, this book is about a couple of average suburban spouses whose date nights include death. Smith meets Dexter.” It follows a married couple with a unique way of keeping the spark in their love alive… serial murder. ![]() MY LOVELY WIFE, Samantha Downing’s deliciously dark debut mystery book, is appropriately labeled as “Mr. ![]()
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![]() March and April pick for the PBS Newshour- New York Times "Now Read This" Book Club The inspiration for Chloé Zhao's celebrated film starring Frances McDormand, winner of the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress ![]() Both disturbing and uplifting-these "workampers" are resourceful in a country that has given them less than they are owed. Still, you can only imagine what the people who wouldn't talk to the author might have to say. They share their skills for cutting hair, small space cooking, and solar power collection. She even takes a job with migrant farm workers processing sugar beets: it's just as bad as you expect it to be. Author Bruder gets to know and travel with people who do seasonal work in Amazon warehouses (branded "CamperForce"), and the privatized and poorly paid campground jobs at state parks. Often the consequence of bad investments and foreclosures, or ill-considered loans to family members, there is nothing romantic about this life on the road. ![]() Untold numbers of poor Americans, many of them seniors, are now living in run-down vans and campers, bunking at one week and out public campgrounds, Walmart parking lots, and even suburban streets. ![]() ![]() ![]() Violet Mackerel #1: Violet Mackerel’s Brilliant Plot, Anna Branford $5.That, however, doesnt mean its not up to her usual standards. ![]()
![]() ![]() Kafka first studied chemistry at the Charles-Ferdinand University of Prague but after two weeks switched to law. Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of the French language and culture from Flaubert, one of his favorite authors. His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony" (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).ĭespite first language, Kafka also spoke fluent Czech. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature. Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis" (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world. ![]() ![]() All London is at Julia Wentworth' s feet-and anything she desires is hers for the asking. A classic tale of sensuous secrets and unanticipated passion, from the extraordinary New York Times bestselling author The toast of the town. ![]() and her proud, passionate, and independent heart. And he is astonished to discover his 'bride' is none other than the exquisite lady he' d hoped to make his mistress But though his wife by law, Julia will never truly be Damon' s-until he conquers her fears, his formidable rivals. For years Damon Savage has been searching for the stranger his parents wed him to without his consent, hoping to legally free himself from matrimony' s invisible chains. But the glamorous leading lady guards a shocking secret: a mystery husband whom she does not know, dares not mention. ![]() ![]() This spring, as if to bait the bear further, he has published a new book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, part of the Canongate Myths series, and a rumination on the life of Jesus, casting him not as one man, but two brothers, the prophet Jesus and his manipulative twin, Christ. The series, described as an inversion of Milton's Paradise Lost, explored the effects of institutionalised religion and prompted criticism from many Christian groups. ![]() Pullman, 63, is the former teacher who found fame as the bestselling author of His Dark Materials, a trilogy of fantasy novels that was marketed at young adults, but found equal popularity among older readers. In the flesh, you rather suspect that he has developed a subtle way of not being seen. ![]() In fact, he has precisely the type of face that bears being photographed in pictures, it is somehow easier to focus on him, better to inspect the kindly set of his features and the grey-green of his eyes. "I have that sort of face that doesn't come out well in photographs," Pullman tells him as the camera snaps away. The photographer is already in the living room. Behind him stands a dog on wheels and, further back, two real pugs, bleating, just a little, at this morning's commotion. ![]() ![]() Pale skin and white shirt, he looks like a puff of smoke in the dark of the hallway. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They talk in turn about those early years and how they came to join the band that would make them known around the world as John, Paul, George and Ringo. Snapshots from their family collections take us back to the days when John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Richard Starkey were just boys growing up in Liverpool. What a book The Beatles Anthology is! Each page is brimming with personal stories and rare vintage images. ![]() Furthermore, The Beatles have opened their personal and management archives specifically for this project, allowing the unprecedented release of photographs which they took along their ride to fame, as well as fascinating documents and memorabilia from their homes and offices. ![]() Through painstaking compilation of sources worldwide, John Lennon's words are equally represented in this remarkable volume. Together with Yoko Ono Lennon, they have also made available the full transcripts (including all the outtakes) of the television and video series The Beatles Anthology. This extraordinary project has been made possible because Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr have agreed to tell their combined story especially for this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The continuing fame of these poems was owed partly to his authorship of a much greater work, the Metamorphoses, by far the most important source for Greco-Roman mythology for later Europeans. He makes it clear repeatedly that for him love (read “sex”) is a game much like poker, demanding great powers of strategy and deception, but not the very foundation of life itself. His beloved was typically a pretty but ordinary courtesan, not a noble lady in a tower. Unfortunately much of his humor was lost on Medieval interpreters, and they often discussed his ideas over-seriously in the context which came to be known as “courtly love”–a concept which would have been alien–and ridiculous–to Ovid. It was not only Chaucer who read Ovid’s love poetry every educated person with the slightest interest in the subject did so. What Humphries does not make clear is that these originally rather frivolous poems had a momentous influence on later European civilization. Some of the references to modern culture have dated since 1957, but it is still interesting and useful. Read the introduction to this translation. Publius Ovidus Naso (Ovid): The Loves (25-16 BCE?) Notes for the translation by Rolfe Humphries of selections from the Amores and the Ars Amatoria. ![]() ![]() With few exceptions, the novel in verse doesn’t much appeal to today’s mainstream publishers, and this is not only because verse novels are often awful, but also because even the good ones rarely find a large audience. As things darken there are fewer laughs, and the final pages are almost unbearably tense. The first half in particular is marvellously fresh and underwrought. ![]() Poguemahone is, in content and execution, frequently astonishing, and galloping through a very long novel at the rate of three pages per minute is an exhilarating sensory experience. But compare the same extract presented as straight tting it out as prose makes it clear how artfully the material has been handled. ![]() My initial reaction was equivocal because, on a first reading, this lacks the punch and depth of poetry. These memories, as recounted by Dan, are by turns hilarious and quite terrifying, moving fluently between the comic grotesqueries of Withnail and I and the ontological horror of The Exorcist. a bleakly comic, wildly original 600-page epic about loss, exile and mental illness, written almost entirely in lightly punctuated free verse. ![]() ![]() ![]() But ultimately, the process of learning to love David means that Catherine is better at appreciating people than most people are, and so she learns to give back. Austism within the family usually means ostracism from normal society, and just having to go to David's OT with him means that Catherine has less time for things like friends and basketball. Life with an autistic family member is a unique challenge, but a meaningful oneĪutism is a difficult aspect of life. ![]() ![]() That's not to say that living in community with the differently abled is necessarily easy-for instance, David has screaming fits that embarrass Catherine-but it's still an important part of learning to love people well. But that is prejudiced behavior, akin to racism. The natural assumption is that if you can be friends with a mentally handicapped person or a "cool," "normal" person, most people would prefer the second person. Treating people equally is seriously difficult Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. ![]() These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() |