![]() ![]() And Josie Silver has a way with words too, an intimate style of telling her story that had me veering between laughter and tears – One Day in December really does have all the feels. It’s all in the humour, I find myself able to click better with British humour. ![]() I’m kind of like that with my rom-com movies too. While romance/chick-lit is not my usual choice of genre, I do like it a lot when it’s British. This was such a delightful novel! Utterly perfect for a mid-week wind down. But what if fate has other plans?įollowing Laurie and Jack through twelve years of love, heartbreak and friendship, One Day in December is a life-affirming love story to escape into this winter. Who is, of course, the boy from the bus.ĭetermined to let him go, Laurie gets on with her life. ![]() But at their Christmas party a year later, her best friend Sarah introduces her to the new love of her life. Laurie thinks she’ll never see the boy from the bus again. ![]() There’s one glorious moment when their eyes meet…and then her bus drives away. Life isn’t a scene from Love Actually, after all.īut then, through a bus window one snowy December day, she sees him. Laurie doesn’t believe in love at first sight. ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments Stephen king the shining hotel![]() ![]() Loved the book and the TV miniseries which imo was closer to the source material. ![]() (11:32:10 AM) ME: Ok, I actually LOLed and spit onto my computer screen after reading that. Its not a work of art like The Shining but its still a great read. (11:31:49 AM) DH: You are SOOO hacked to pieces with an axe (11:31:26 AM) ME: Tomorrow is FRIDAY the 13th and guess where I am going? If you’ve seen The Shining, you’ll understand the context. Yesterday, I IM’ed my husband, who already knew I was planning to go soon, but not exactly when. For now, let me share with you this uber supportive IM conversation from yesterday about my tour with DH (dear husband). ![]() Woooo…wooooo (Those are my ghost noises.) I’ll come back later today and update you about my spooky experience. □ Are you familiar with the Stanley? It’s the hotel that Stephen King used as his inspiration for the book (and later movie), The Shining. Hey Everybody! I cannot believe I am going to do this, but today I’m in Colorado and am going to take a ghost tour of the Stanley Hotel BY MYSELF AND it’s Friday the 13th! Well, there will probably be other people on the tour, but I won’t know any of them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To add to her feelings of sticky unease, Lila's little town of Shady Palms has resurrected the Miss Teen Shady Palms Beauty Pageant, which she won many years ago-a fact that serves as a wedge between Lila and her cousin slash rival, Bernadette. No, things are heating up quite literally, since summer, her least favorite season, has just started. Or her professional life, since she can't bring herself to open her new café after the unpleasantness that occurred a few months ago at her aunt's Filipino restaurant, Tita Rosie's Kitchen. Not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention of two very eligible bachelors. ![]() Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal. Death at a beauty pageant turns Tita Rosie's Kitchen upside down in the latest entry of this witty and humorous cozy mystery series by Mia P. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Lin manuel mirandas![]() Miranda and his sister grew up in a music-oriented family - both siblings took piano lessons and were encouraged by parents who loved the music of Broadway (Luis particularly adores the show The Unsinkable Molly Brown). Miranda, Jr., settled in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan. His clinical psychologist mother, Luz Towns-Miranda, and his political consultant father, Luis A. Miranda was born on January 16, 1980, in New York City, the son of Puerto Rican parents. Miranda also scored a Grammy Award and an Oscar nomination for composing the song "How Far I'll Go" from the 2016 animated film Moana and starred in 2018's Mary Poppins Returns. ![]() With Miranda in the titular role, the production was a phenomenal success commercially and critically, winning the Pulitzer Prize and 11 Tony Awards in 2016. Founding Father with hip-hop/R&B musical forms and a Black and Latino cast. ![]() ![]() Inspired by reading Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton, Miranda eventually developed the musical Hamilton, a groundbreaking work that tells the story of the U.S. He wrote and starred in the Tony-winning 2008 musical In the Heights before working on additional Broadway productions and making screen appearances. Lin-Manuel Miranda developed a devotion to musical theater and hip-hop before attending Wesleyan University. ![]() ![]() When the choice that you make becomes an experience that you never forget, you are biologically changing your brain and body out of the past familiar reality into a new future reality.įor further information regarding the purpose and benefits of these meditations, please refer to Chapter 12 in You Are the Placebo. In order to change a belief or a perception about yourself, you must be instructed to make a decision with such firm intention that the amplitude of energy of that choice causes your body to respond to a new mind. ![]() Since feelings and emotions are the end products of past experiences, the boundaries of our beliefs are your familiar feelings. A belief is just a thought you keep thinking over and over again until it’s hardwired in your brain. ![]() You Are the Placebo Meditations 1 & 2 - Updated VersionsĪll beliefs and perceptions are created from past experiences. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments The black incal![]() ![]() But others do know and John must stay one step ahead from the various forces arrayed against him! Set in a futuristic universe full of the usual talking aliens and flying cars, a lowly private investigator called John Difool stumbles across a mysterious glowing object - The Incal - not realising its immense power. And I was wrong - or at least half wrong - when it came to the first Incal book! ![]() ![]() I put off reading this one after seeing a clip a while back from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s movie The Holy Mountain where a screaming naked old geezer wearing cheetah breasts squirts milk into the face of a kneeling man ( for your trauma/amusement, here’s that scene), thinking that his comics were gonna be equally inaccessible, utterly incomprehensible and way too fartschool-y. ![]() ![]() ![]() The teenager Melinda Sordino (Kristen Stewart) joins the high-school with a great feeling of rejection and becomes practically mute. blew me off because you're a self-centered social climber! And you know what? I know what I wanna do to my room and it doesn't involve eggplant. Melinda Sordino: Because I was nice to you in the beginning of school when I didn't even like you and you blew me. Melinda Sordino: No, I mean, I won't help you. Heather: You are so great! I owe you big time! What if I help you redecorate your room? I know, a nice seafoam green! ![]() And now Meg and Siobhan can't do it and I'm totally screwed! Mel, you have to help me! They have some sales meeting in there until like 3:00, but then they'll let us start and I know we can do it! Okay, it was supposed to be me and Meg and Siobhan decorating the Holiday Inn for prom. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Hex hall books in order![]() ![]() ![]() The teachers also seem to have it in for her, especially the PE teacher, whom students have nicknamed the Vandy. She develops a crush on the handsome, charming Archer Cross, but he has already been claimed by Elodie, and her roommate is Jenna, the school's only vampire and an unwelcome presence at Hecate. ![]() Elodie, Anna and Chaston, a trio of black witches, are unhappy when she refuses to join their coven so they become set on making her life miserable. When she arrives at Hecate, which students have nicknamed Hex Hall, she immediately runs into trouble. This is not the first time her powers - and her lack of control over them - have gotten her into trouble, so the Council, the body that governs Prodigium like herself, sentences her to Hecate Hall, a reform school for wayward supernatural beings, until she turns 18. Sophie does her best to cast a spell that will cause a desirable boy to fall for her friend, but things go awry and Sophie is exposed as a witch. The book opens with Sophie, a 16-year-old witch, trying to help a girl who is crying because she has no date to the prom. In addition to the usual teen issues of boys, classes and petty jealousies, Sophie must also deal with a series of mysterious attacks on fellow students and a great-grandmother who has returned from the dead. ![]() It follows 16-year-old Sophie Mercer, who is struggling to gain control of her powers as a witch, as she navigates a new school where she finds herself among others with supernatural powers. Hex Hall is the first in a series of novels by author Rachel Hawkins. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Yesternight by Cat Winters![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But what is disturbing are the stories she tells: that her name was once Violet, she grew up in Kansas decades earlier, and she drowned at age 19. Seven-year-old Janie O'Daire is a mathematical genius, which is surprising. A trained psychologist, Alice believes mysteries of the mind can be unlocked scientifically, but now her views are about to be challenged by one curious child. There she expects to do nothing more difficult than administer IQ tests to a group of rural schoolchildren. In 1925 Alice Lind steps off a train in the rain-soaked coastal hamlet of Gordon Bay, Oregon. There she begins a journey causing her to question everything she believes about life, death, memories, and reincarnation. From the author of The Uninvited comes a haunting historical novel with a compelling mystery at its core.Ī young child psychologist steps off a train, her destination a foggy seaside town. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() More about this story: Whilst living in London during the Second World War, Agatha Christie stored away two special books in the vault of a bank for safekeeping, and these were to remain there until Agatha Christie’s death. Things she couldn’t possibly know about the house feel oddly familiar: a sealed room, a hidden connecting door, an irrational sense of terror every time she climbs the stairs…ĭoes the secret lie in a crime committed there many years before? Strange things have started to happen in Gwenda’s new house. The story is set in the 1930s, though written during the Second World War. Released posthumously, it was the last published Christie novel, although not the last Miss Marple novel in order of writing. First published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1976 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. HarperCollins Masterpiece Ed edition, 2010. ![]() Desplazarse hacia abajo para ver la versión en español ![]() |