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So when my husband read it he vouched that I should read it and I would find similarity between them & us. Well I was very excited to read it cos my marriage has the same elements if not the story - I am a Punjabi girl married to a Tamil Brahmin Boy, we also faced oppositions, threats, long distances, break ups, emotional blackmails and cultural gaps, etc. Now the 4th Book - 2 States is actually so typical, there have been 100s of movies made already, the situations and characters are most predictable and shallow. Then came 'One Night at the Call Centre' - It was ok ok, not so real especially the GOD part.But then came 3 mistakes of my life and it was a complete disappointment - with shallow characters having no purpose in life except cricket - I understand the craze of cricket but I still dont treat it as a life & death matter and that is what Chetan was trying to capitalise on. Long back when I read Chetan's 5 pt Someone, I liked it, as in it was a fresh perspective touching the educated youth of today - it wasn't movie stuff but definitely a piece of my life or those around me. At time you think it is a script written for a movie & by chance printed as a book. well 2 States is definitely not the former 2. There is Fiction, then there is Drama and then there is Bollywood. Since his grandmother is dead and he does not even know his father, Nathan has to find Mercury, a black witch who is the only other witch that can give him his gifts apart from a relative. On their seventeenth birthday, witches receive their three gifts and their magical ability with a special ceremony called the Giving, performed by an older witch they are blood related. In the first book Nathan escapes from the cage he is kept in to find Mercury, a black witch, before his seventeenth birthday. Nathan is a half white and half black witch whose father, Marcus, is the most powerful, cruelest and most feared black witch. We find Nathan wake up not remembering what happened or what he exactly did after he started running away from the Hunters who go after black witches and kill them. Half Wild by Sally Green starts from where the first book in the series, Half Bad left. As he waits, Axl thinks about their lives in the warren and wonders if they have always lived as societal outcasts, relegated to the back corners and treated with little to no respect. Axl is awake and excited about a decision he has just made, but decides to keep it to himself until Beatrice wakes up. They live alone in one of the back rooms, far away from the communal fire, and are not allowed to have candles. On the edge of one of the bogs found in the rural countryside, Axl and Beatrice, an elderly Briton couple, live together in a communal warren dug into a hillside. The narrator describes the landscape of England at the time of the story, with ogres haunting the forests and very few castles to be found. Each of the six books was written as an individual episode but also included intertwining elements and mysteries that develop over time. Intrigued by the idea of writing a series with an overarching story line, he created the Riyria Revelations. The itch returned when he decided to create a series of books for his then thirteen-year-old daughter, who was struggling in school due to dyslexia. Michael discovered that never is a very long time, and he ended his writing hiatus after a decade. During that time, he wrote twelve novels, and after finding no traction in publishing, he gave up and vowed never to write creatively again. For ten years Michael developed his craft by studying authors such as Stephen King, Ayn Rand, and John Steinbeck. But the desire to fill the blank page and see what doors the typewriter keys would unlock wouldn’t let him go. Well, he was just eight years old at the time, so we’ll forgive him that trespass. After finding a manual typewriter in the basement of a friend’s house, Michael inserted a blank piece of paper and typed: It was a dark and stormy night and a shot rang out. That said, Debbie does what I do when someone steals or "borrows" an idea. My personal Goddess has always been Debbie Harry who truly was/is original and has never, in my opinion, been given enough props from Madonna. That in itself is an art per se so if that's how we measure "talent" or "success", then she's been hugely successful. She's always been good at taking an idea, a concept that someone else did first and taking it, making it mainstream. And boy oh boy, did everyone talk about that performance. Not so much because she was "great" or the "best" but because she was not afraid to roll around and make everyone talk. I was in the audience that night in '84 and it was clear she was going to be a superstar. She's been doing this since the inception of her career~ as far back as 1984 appearing on the MTV video awards dressed as a bride- Debbie Harry, Marianne Faithfull, etc., did it first and with more originality and flair. This should not come as a surprise to anyone. "I've gotten so many DMs, PMs and Emails asking me how I feel about Madonna so blatantly using the title of my memoir REBEL HEART from 2001 as the title of her new album. But now Erika’s been assigned to lead the search for the killer of bail bondswoman Shelly Hansen, who was stabbed to death in her bedroom. Erika is fresh off the successful prosecution of Blake Steers, “a highly successful and adored celebrity chef,” for beating and garroting Natalie Hemingsworth after she broke up with him. Her hopes to maintain a low profile are threatened after she’s assigned to assist Erika Lorman, a legendary homicide prosecutor, on a new case. Months later, she resurfaces in Santa Cruz, Calif., as Charlotte “Charlie” Blair, having falsified her résumé as well as her name, which enables her to be hired as an assistant district attorney. In the opening pages of this nail-biter from Clark ( Final Judgment), Chicago public defender Lauren Claybourne burns all her possessions, including her identification, without explanation. Nancy Milford was given exclusive access to Millay's papers, and what she found was an extraordinary treasure. As a family, they were like real-life Little Women, with a touch of Mommie Dearest. Milford calls her book "a family romance"-for the love between the three Millay sisters and their mother was so deep as to be dangerous. Yet beneath her studied act, all was not well. Her voice was likened to an instrument of seduction and her impact on crowds, and on men, was legendary. The first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize, Millay was dazzling in the performance of herself. Vincent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Savage Beauty is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed American ever as she tormented herself. Thirty years after the smashing success of Zelda, Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act. Various factions within ANA, the cyberspace composed of billions of uploaded minds that now runs Earth, are fighting openly. But the alien Raiel are blockading the Void with huge warships worse, the alien Ocisen have sent a battle fleet to threaten Earth. Billions of humans, followers of the Living Dream cult, hope to join him in the Void, where everybody has psychic powers. Readers-at least, those with prodigious memories-will recall that the black-hole-like Void now threatens to engulf the galaxy, its dramatically accelerated expansion caused by the heightened psychic activities of Edeard, the Waterwalker, as he battles gangsters and private armies inside the Void. Second entry in Hamilton’s latest doorstopper far-future science-fiction trilogy, following The Dreaming Void (2008). Will crumble as soon as it grows too largeĪnd tries to get out. The things that we live with-and what is replacing them Will wear down the sill of their door a little-Īnd those who will come after. Should share in their shudder of ecstasy? When it urges two lovers on, that all of creation Themselves never hoped to exist so intensely. To say them in such a way that even the things Pillar, tower? But to say them, you understand. Perhaps, merely to say: house, bridge, fountain, To anyone, but rather some acquired word, pure,Ī blue and yellow gentian. Only the completely indescribable things.īut later, under the stars-what good would it doĪ handful of earth, which would explain nothing Which we learn here so slowly, and not anything What can be taken across? Not the ability to see, To give it to? True, we'd rather keep it all Our already crowded eyes, our dumbfounded hearts. And yetĪnd so we keep going, trying to achieve it, Seem to need us, to put themselves in our care The things of this world, these passing things, The laurel tree could have done all that.īut because just being here matters, because Not to experience wonder or to exercise the heart. With tiny curves at the edge of every leafĭenying our destiny, we still long for it?Ĭertainly not because happiness really exists, Why-when we might have been laurel trees,Ī little darker than all the other greens, |