The last kingdom by bernard cornwell6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I have also just discovered a website where you can get the cricket live so I watch the Ashes series and get no work done at all! I live in the US now so we just tend to watch the news and 60 Minutes. I did work in television for 11 years and that mostly cured me. I watch it thinking, ‘Why didn’t I trim down the story like that?’ It would have been a shorter bloody book! I loved it.Ī: We don’t watch a great deal. Q: Is it difficult to watch the series, with the screenplay speeding up the story and omitting certain characters?Ī: They have constraints I don’t have and I knew that. Now he must choose a side and play his part in the birth of a nation, alongside the man who would become known as King Alfred the Great. He is adopted by a Viking warlord and raised to manhood as a Dane. Uhtred is a Saxon boy, born into the 9th Century English aristocracy, but orphaned at ten. ![]() The BBC’s The Last Kingdom series, also known as The Warrior Chronicles, is based on Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling medieval epic. The bestselling author Bernard Cornwell discusses how he mixed history with fiction to create his novels. ![]()
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Blind Shadows by James A. Moore6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon Griffin and Price find that there are secrets both dark and ancient lurking in the back woods of Crawford's Hollow. Teamed with another childhood friend, Sheriff Carl Price, Griffin begins an investigation that will lead down darker paths than he could ever have imagined. But when an old friend is found brutally murdered and mutilated, nothing can keep Griffin from going home. Too many memories and too many bridges burned. When private investigator Wade Griffin moved away from his hometown of Wellman, Georgia he didn't think he would be back. ![]() Along came a spider james patterson book6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Cross wonders how Soneji knows who he is. Soneji contacts the authorities to specify that Cross be given the responsibility for delivering the money. Meanwhile, the kidnapper, Gary Soneji, buries his victims alive at an abandoned farmhouse.Īs they work together to track the kidnapper, Cross and Flannagan begin an affair. He clashes with Jezzie Flannagan, the beautiful, motorcycle-riding Secret Service agent who had been in charge of the kidnapped children’s security detail. Cross is angry, feeling that the authorities-and the news media-care more about rich white victims than poor black ones. When a math teacher at the expensive private school, Washington Day, kidnaps two students, Maggie Rose Dunne and Michael Goldberg, Cross is pulled off the murder case to investigate the kidnapping. As the novel opens, Cross is investigating the brutal murders of two black prostitutes and a child in Washington, D.C. In 2001, the novel was adapted into a movie of the same name starring Morgan Freeman. Along Came a Spider is the first novel to feature Cross, who is the protagonist of a further eighteen Patterson novels. It follows African-American homicide detective and forensic psychologist Alex Cross as he chases down a murderer with a split personality. Along Came a Spider is a 1993 psychological crime thriller by American author James Patterson. ![]() Brideshead book6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() When each secured divorce, she refused to marry him because of the shadow of papal disapproval. This is also the story of Julia, his sister, Julia who defied the Church and married vulgar, bombastic, monted, divorced Rex Mottram, and then ten years later met Ryder again and fell in love with him. Sebastian was never to lose the need for alcoholic excess, but his Catholic conscience, implanted in the nursery, reappeared at intervals during his last, lost years in Morocco. ![]() Here was his first introduction to the Marchmains, when at Oxford with Sebastian, the second son, Sebastian who was eccentric, exquisite, appealing, who drank to escape bondage to his mother, the pious, ascetic Lady Marchmain, who drove her husband from her in much the same way. This is the story of the rich, the beautiful and the damned Marchmains, as told by Charles Ryder who revisited their home, Brides-head, in the war years. Here, if unobtrusively, is the corrective of faith - Waugh, as did Huxley, has turned from nihilism to belief - in this case that of the Catholic Church. There is none of the intense if sterile brilliance of his earlier books - their world of sybaritic pleasures and empty lives. Contradictory as it may sound, this may well be the most popular book Waugh has written and at the same time the most serious. Here's perhaps the first chance we have had to make Waugh an item for big sales. ![]() The Norse Myths by Carolyne Larrington6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() This book is for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of Norse mythology and its cultural resonances through the centuries. Larrington guides us on an enchanting journey through centuries of heroism, cruelty, and magic, while also exploring how these stories speak to the enduring human condition. Carolyne Larrington (Oxford University) answers questions about the Poetic Edda and her new book, 'The Norse Myths That Shape the Way. All speak to our contemporary hopes and fears, bridging the gap between a vanished medieval past and a vibrant, living present. Rather, these compelling characters are contemporary reimaginings of mythic figures from Old Norse mythology. Yet they haven't stepped straight off the vellum of ancient manuscripts. These strange supernatural figures might sound familiar-and also like creatures of myth and legend. ![]() Gaunt- faced figures with icicle crowns and frost-rimmed cheekbones march from the north through an endless winter. Her previous books include The Norse Myths: A Guide to the Gods. Carolyne Larrington's elegantly written retellings capture the beauty of the original myths, while also delving deeper into the history of their meanings, offering the reader an intelligent and up-to-date take on these powerful stories.Ī ruggedly handsome blond man swings his huge hammer. Carolyne Larrington is professor of medieval European literature at the University of Oxford. This brilliantly original and accessible guide explores how Valhalla and its Valkyries have inspired our cultural landscape, from Wagner to the Marvel Universe. Print The Norse Myths that Shape the Way We Think ![]() Croak by Gina Damico6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It was cunningly punny (truly, punny), the story was fascinating, and I adored the characters. Notwithstanding the way that I was citing Harry Potter all through the entire thing, this book was delightful in its own manner. ![]() Gracious, and there’s this splendiferous beverage that takes everybody’s breath away, yet us muggles will never taste any semblance of it. Primary character is pushed into this supernatural world that couldn’t in any way, shape or form exist (yet it does) and needs to get familiar with the ropes before long in this incredible new grand slam (by this insane yet-wise-elderly person), making idiosyncratic companions and two or three ridiculous adversaries, ends up being a genuine character in this new condition, and afterward should vanquish a malevolent virtuoso. To me, Croak by Gina Damic felt like a reconsidered release of Harry Potter, yet rather than wizards, it was the universe of messengers of death. Speaking of the title combined with the book cover, it sounds very gory, but the content profoundly layered and is more like a fight between the inner good and the inner bad. Beginning with the cover of the book, I would like to rate 3.5/5, mysterious, creepy and full of Halloween vibes. ![]() Reveal me novella6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() MaasĬhildren of Blood and Bone by Tomi AdeyemiĪ Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. ![]() Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass #7) by Sarah J. The Wicked King (Folk of the Air #2) by Holly Black King of Scars (Nikolai Duology #1) by Leigh Bardugo The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQusiton You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah JohnsonĪurora Rising by Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman Need help remembering the events in a book? The folks at Recaptains and Book Series Recaps can help!Īny post with a spoiler in the title will be removed.Īny comment with a spoiler that doesn't use the spoiler code will be removed.Īny user with an extensive history of spoiling books will be banned. Book suggestions, discussions, and questions are definitely encouraged! January Book Club Discussion: A Sky Beyond the Storm (An Ember in the Ashes #4) by Sabaa Tahir Young Adult literature isn't exclusive to only young adults, so here's a place for both the young and the young at heart to discuss books, news, movies based on books, and everything else related to YA. ![]() Meagan good book the wait6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() About The AuthorsĭeVon Franklin is an award-winning film & TV producer, bestselling author, renowned preacher, and spiritual success coach. Whether you’re waiting for the right person to come along or you’re searching for the strength to put intimacy on hold, The Wait Devotional can help you slow down and trust in God’s perfect timing, day by day. You’ll discover how waiting for everything-from sex to getting engaged-can transform your entire life by giving you greater patience, joy, peace, healing, faith, and love. Filled with scripture, prayers, and DeVon and Meagan’s trademark conversational style, this 90-day devotional is packed with real-time advice for men and women trying to successfully navigate the ins and outs of dating, love, and relationships. Now, their powerful message is reflected again in The Wait Devotional. In The Wait, DeVon Franklin and Meagan Good, a Hollywood power couple who famously saved sex for marriage, shared the life-changing message that waiting-rather than rushing-can be the key for finding the person you’re meant to be with. ![]() A daily devotional based on the New York Times bestselling The Wait, filled with inspiring readings about how having the patience to wait for God’s best-instead of grasping for what you want right now-can transform your life. ![]() Candy Cane Murder by Joanne Fluke6/10/2023 ![]() Lucy Stone must learn the mystery of a glass candy cane that was found smashed to bits by a corpse's body to unlock the doors of Christmas past-and find a killer who got away with murder. Now it's up to Jaine Austen to sift through a long list of scheming neighbors with dirty secrets in their stockings to expose a murderer.Ĭandy Canes of Christmas Past by Leslie Meier The Dangers of Candy Canes by Laura LevineĪ wealthy suburbanite takes a lethal tumble off his roof while installing a giant candy cane. When a trail of candy canes leads to a corpse outfitted in a Santa suit on a snowy bank, Hannah Swensen sets out to discover who killed Kris Kringle. ![]() But in this festive collection of holiday whodunits, murder is also paying a visit. 'Tis the season for trimming the tree, caroling, baking cookies, and curling up by the Yuletide waiting for Santa to drop down the chimney. ![]() Mountain Man CEO by Khloe Summers6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Then again, maybe a contract will be the best thing that ever happened to us both. If only this contract didn’t complicate things, if only there wasn’t a marriage clause attached, if only this rugged mountain man wasn’t about to be my boss. The type of man that doesn’t exist in the city. ![]() He’s tall, muscular, sexy, rugged, a little broken, and unbelievably protective. But Johnathan is nothing like the hermit I was expecting. I tell myself I’ll drop the package and leave, speed off the mountain as fast as I sped up, get back to the city where I belong. It’s the least I can do after all he did for me. But I promised my boss, I’d deliver his last will and testament to his estranged son. Eliza I’d rather be anywhere but the mountains. But she’s come with a purpose, a contract of sorts, and life is about to get complicated. She’s curvy, beautiful, and smart as hell. Will this loner mountain man give up a life in the wild for a chance at love? Johnathan I’m content living life free from the hustle of Toronto In fact, I can’t imagine things any other way. 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