![]() ![]() He died from a massive heart attack on Febru(Valentine's Day).Īlso published under the name Richard Kelly. ![]() He also published more than sixty short stories in magazines such as Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock, and Cavalier, and in anthologies including Modern Masters of Horror. He worked as a schoolteacher, a librarian, and a report writer for a law firm, and was the author of more than thirty acclaimed novels. He earned a BA in English Literature from Willamette University, Oregon and an MA from Loyola University, Los Angeles. ![]() Also published under the name Richard Kelly Richard Laymon was born in Chicago and grew up in California. He died from a massive heart attack on Febru(Valentine's Day). Heartbroken and restless, Ed strikes out late one night for a walk through town. ![]() Clark Shortly after returning to college for the start of the Fall semester, Ed Logan learns that the girl he loves has found herself a new boyfriend and won't be coming back to school. The leaves they were withering and sere / It was night in the lonesome October / Of my most immemorial year. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Richard Laymon was born in Chicago and grew up in California. Night In The Lonesome October Richard Laymon Add to Cart Details Artist: Alan M. Click to read more about Night In The Lonesome October by Richard Laymon. ![]()
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6/22/2023 0 Comments The duchess amanda foreman![]() ![]() From start to finish, in my mind’s eye Georgiana was always the 27-year-old heroine fighting to be the agent of her own destiny. Yet at the time, I was too young and inexperienced to notice. I maintained those beliefs while writing the book, even as Georgiana’s changed. We had shared a set of assumptions - a framework of beliefs - that are the essence of youth. ![]() How do you solve a problem like Georgiana? I climbed out of the car feeling very small and unimportant. No one was standing still except for the extras who clustered together in awkward little groups, gingerly wearing in their freshly pressed costumes. Massive lights and cables colonized the forecourt. Great hulking lorries obscured Kedleston’s famous portico. As I drove up to the drive to the house, past the peacefully grazing sheep, a scene of mad activity suddenly came into view. My contract stipulated that I had to be on the set for ten days, to provide background information or advice as needed. ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments One enchanted evening lynn kurland![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That said, the heroine does learn to live and grow in such a positive way, that you like her in spite of this. It simply doesn't make any sense to idealize weakness. I do not like that so many romance novels equate being a doormat to being a good person. She excels at making the characters so likable and vivid that you buy into the rest of her world, whether it be a world with time travel or the middle ages.This is an interesting take on the evil sister tales - but the heroine being "too nice" to stand up for herself is a bit tiresome. I am not a big fan of the time travel trope or of the middle ages, but while Lynn Kurland is writing on both of these topics, I will be an avid reader. Lynn Kurland excels at writing romance novels and time travel romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() An ardent partisan would have been too credulous, and would have taken everything upon trust. Being neither an advocate of this belief, nor the opposite, we are, on that account, better able to write its history. ![]() We are not called upon to decide, either for or against, the belief in spirits, either mediating or inspiring, which was held by all who had been initiated in the temples of antiquity, which is to-day the keystone of the philosophical and religious instruc- tion of the Brahmins, and to which many of our Western thinkers and scientists seem inclined to assent. ![]() This is neither a doctrinal book nor a work of criticism. We will lay aside, for the present, our inquiries into the general subject of the primitive civilizations of the far East, and the people who have sprung from the Brahminic stock in the old world, in order to publish the result of such researches as we have been able to make, during our long residence in India, into the subject of occult science, and the practices of those who have been initiated into the sect of the Pitris, which is Sanscrit for spirits or ancestral shades. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ” To be very clear, I don’t think the popularity of Catholic aesthetics is necessarily a bad thing. Kourtney Kardashian married Travis Barker a few months ago, and their wedding theme was basically “ Italian Catholic. ![]() You can buy saint medals at Catholic Supply, but now you can buy them at Ritual Cravt too. But it is a thing! The vaguely goth aesthetics of Catholicism are popular right now! I was in a New Age store in Marfa, Texas earlier in the summer, and they were selling crucifixes and statues of Mary along with their tarot cards and Buddha heads. The conversation was helpful for me, because I had sort of noticed the phenomenon but hadn’t really named it yet. The other day I was having a conversation with a friend about the current popularity of Catholic aesthetics, and how we feel about it. “How many open doors to serve Our Lord! Ask Him to send workers into His vineyard.” - Saint Vincent de Paul ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments Book review our missing hearts![]() ![]() …this unshakable belief that the world was a knowable place. And the second is almost at the end of the book and brought tears to my eyes. The first is Bird’s father’s reflections about his wife, Bird’s mother. I don’t want to say more, except READ THIS BOOK, but instead I share two of my favorite passages. The book also lifts the power of words and of story. Bird, after finding some clues, attempts to find her. Her poem “Our Missing Hearts” becomes a slogan, an icon for protesters, and she leaves her family and becomes a fugitive. ![]() The main character is Bird, a 12 year-old Chinese American boy, whose mother is a poet. The references to books taken off library shelves, to the crimes against Chinese Americans, to children separated from parents at our southern borders, and to the fear and systems created to “protect” American culture are all too relevant. So often dystopian novels are far-fetched, and truly stretch our imaginations, but as I read this book, I had to often remind myself that the book is fiction and not nonfiction. The book, a dystopian novel, is also chilling and upsetting. Not an overblown or unnecessary sentence. Smart, huh? The word she used when she passed it on to me is “exquisite,” and it is. I gave my daughter this book, Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng for Christmas, knowing eventually I would get it back from her and then I could read it. ![]() 6/21/2023 0 Comments Darren shan vampire prince![]() But after a daring attempt to steal a spider from Mr.Crepsly the uncanny Cirque Du Freak director goes wrong Darren finds himself having to make a bargain with beings of the night. 2 Personality 3 Powers & Abilities 4 Cirque du Freak: The Vampires Assistant (Movie) 5 Biography 6 Appearances 6.1 Books The Saga of Darren Shan Cirque Du Freak (book) Before the Cirque, Darren would hang out with his three friends: Steve Leonard Tommy Jones Alan Morris The four were soccer fans, and had a lot of fun together. In the first instalment in the series, Darren goes to an outlawed freak show with his closest friend, Steve. More recently he has written the Zom-B series which has added more great teen horror to his growing repertoire. The Saga of Darren Shan has been particularly successful warranting the creation of a film adaptation of the first novel in the series. ![]() Without a doubt, The Saga of Darren Shan is, funny, terrifying, moving, and most definitely realistic.ĭarren Shan has made a name for himself through his entertaining fiction for young adults. ![]() The series contains all the scares, blood and gore you could possibly wish for, whilst also keeping the reader riveted through its entertaining storyline. In the chilling Saga of Darren Shan, an ordinary boy is thrown into the world of vampires and unassailable evil. ![]() 6/21/2023 0 Comments Wang qian julie![]() We do this to help ensure that your claim is resolved at minimal expense, with minimal confusion. Internally, we employ cutting edge case-management technologies to reduce operating expenses while increasing productivity. 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Yet here you are, reading as we describe ourselves in three words: compassionate, incisive, and dedicated. ![]() Just navigating the education system is stressful enough without bringing lawyers into it. ![]() 6/21/2023 0 Comments A field guide of getting lost![]() Solnit explores the way some men attempted to erase her, to shut her up, keep her out and challenge her credibility, as well as contemplating other kinds of nonexistence of groups for gender, ethnicity, and orientation. Then in her early twenties, Solnit tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city, which became her great teacher of the small apartment she found, which became a home in which to metamorphosize of how punk rock gave form and voice to her own fury and explosive energy. ![]() ![]() "In this memoir, celebrated author, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit relates how she found her voice as a writer and as a feminist during the 1980s in San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. ![]() 6/21/2023 0 Comments Strange bird vandermeer![]() ![]() And the farther she flies, the deeper she finds herself in the orbit of the Company, a collapsed biotech firm that has populated the world with experiments both failed and successful that have outlived the corporation itself: a pack of networked foxes, a giant predatory bear. The sky itself is full of wildlife that rejects her as one of their own, and also full of technology-satellites and drones and other detritus of the human civilization below that has all but destroyed itself. Flying through tunnels, dodging bullets, and changing her colors and patterning to avoid capture, the Strange Bird manages to escape.īut she cannot just soar in peace above the earth. ![]() But now the lab in which she was created is under siege and the scientists have turned on their animal creations. The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory-she is part bird, part human, part many other things. The Strange Bird-from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer-is a digital original that expands and weaves deeply into the world of his “thorough marvel”* of a novel, Borne. ![]() |