Horrorscape by Nenia Campbell7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Though she tries to convince her friends, they don't share her doubts.until they arrive anyway. Val knows from the moment she gets her invite that something isn't right. Not just any party, one hosted by her psychotic stalker, Gavin, also known as GM. In book two of the Horrorscape series, Val is faced with a new challenge-a party. The stakes? Their lives.Let the games begin. Loves them so much that he's decided to make a little wager. And the festivities start to take a turn for the sinister as the evening progresses. Doors lock and unlock, seemingly at will. ![]() ![]() The other guests are secretive, and strangely hostile. She is understandably reluctant when her friends receive mysterious invitations to a theme party being held in one of the old manor homes on the edge of town.Right away, something about the party seems off. She managed to escape him, but at a terrible cost.This time it's personal.Now a high school senior, Val is a pale shadow of the girl she once was and still recovering from the terrible trauma she suffered at his hands. ![]() It's a game without rules, logic, or consequence, and he'll stop at nothing to claim her as his-even if it means destroying them both.Three years ago, Valerian Kimble got herself entangled with a burgeoning sociopath intent on adding her to his own columns of wins and losses. Val receives a calling card from a very dangerous boy who wants to play with her. ![]()
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The Last Pilgrims by Michael Bunker7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Marty Stacy of KCRO in Omaha, Nebraska parrots the Dave Hunt mistranslation of this verse (a verse which they MUST attempt to destroy, because in it the Gospel of Grace is plainly declared). The Bible declares that God is the worker, and we are His workmanship (Ephesians 2:10), but Dave Hunt would call God a liar, declaring that we are both the worker AND the workmanship – and that fallen man, totally dead in sins and trespasses, must “dispose” himself to eternal life in order to be saved.ĭave Hunt’s scriptural gymnastics are parroted by those in the “Christian” media. The DHV (Dave Hunt Version) would have Acts 13:48 say this: “As many as ‘disposed themselves’ to eternal life believed.” Dave Hunt inverts the worker and the workmanship. He would take this verse even farther into the pit. But it seems that even the NIV isn’t liberal enough for Dave Hunt. ![]() ![]() The NIV renders the word “ordained” as “appointed”, which still delineates clear ly who is the actor and who is the one acted upon in the sentence. “And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed” Įven one of the most bastardized and adulterated versions, the NIV, does better than Hunt in translating this verse. ![]() ![]() All she managed to elicit from either of them was an aggressive vagueness even their deaths were acts of absent-minded rejection. Her mother – “a bedroom drunk” – used Valium to keep her placid as a baby. Why would anyone do this to herself? Because she’s already been made abject and partially erased by everyone she knows. This self-induced coma, powered by prescription psychopharmaceuticals, will be broken only by short intervals of waking, during which she will eat ordered-in pizza and visit the lavatory. Matter of fact, full of bravado yet always wryly observational, these stack up steadily to construct the brisk interior landscape of her third novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation.Ī young New York woman – unnamed, moneyed, a spoiled Wasp by her own account, not long out of higher education and now a receptionist at a gallery where art thinks of itself as subversive but is in fact “just canned counterculture crap” – prepares herself for a year-long sleep. ![]() Instead, the sense of immediacy, the sense of being inside a character, the sense of things happening and having psychic value, both to the writer and her reader, is provided by the structure and content of her sentences. O ne of the pleasures of reading Ottessa Moshfegh is that – unusually, these days – she rarely writes in the present tense. ![]() The Arsonists' City by Hala Alyan7/4/2023 ![]() The decision brings the family to Beirut, where everyone unites against Idris in a fight to save the house. But following his father's recent death, Idris, the family's new patriarch, has decided to sell. Still, they’ve always had their ancestral home in Beirut-a constant touchstone-and the complicated, messy family love that binds them. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of migration. The Nasr family is spread across the globe-Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. It’s the kind of book we are lucky to have.”-Rumaan AlamĪ rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places we call home ![]() “ The Arsonists’ City delivers all the pleasures of a good old-fashioned saga, but in Alyan’s hands, one family’s tale becomes the story of a nation-Lebanon and Syria, yes, but also the United States. "Feels revolutionary in its freshness." - Entertainment Weekly ![]() Concerning cats helen m winslow7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Siberian cat was one of the three longhair breeds represented at the very first cat exhibitions held in England during XVIII century. Today, great number of Siberian cats live all over the vast Siberian wilderness, keeping their tradition and myth of being unwavering creatures. Thanks to its devotion, strong temper and natural instincts, farmers kept this cat for protection of their crops from a variety of pests and rodents. It is assumed that breed was developed by crossing the Ukrainian wild cat and domestic cats in Siberia, which led to creation of a natural breed, developing its own characteristics in time, fitting given life conditions. Siberian cat was often mentioned in Russian folk stories and fairytales as a protector of the children and guardian of the inconspicuous world of magic. ![]() This cat, the one that nature gave all necessary features to survive harsh natural conditions, thousands of years ago took prominent position within households of Russian farmers and traders. Wild Siberian forest, extreme climate, harsh winters, vast and unexplored Siberian wilderness created conditions for development of the one of contemporary Russian symbols, Siberian cat, also known as Russian national cat. ![]() Emma donoghue music7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() They weren’t happy when Jenny goaded Blanche into retrieving her 1-year-old son, P’tit, from the ghastly holding pen for unwanted children where Arthur dumped him while Blanche was ill. Who fired the shotgun blasts that blew away Jenny Bonnet while her friend Blanche bent down to take off her boots? Blanche believes it was her lover Arthur or his sidekick, Ernest, who have been living on her earnings as a high-priced erotic dancer/whore. ![]() In the sweltering fall of 1876, a San Francisco prostitute tracks a killer and searches for her stolen baby.ĭonoghue returns here to the historical fiction genre in which she first made her international mark ( Slammerkin, 2000, etc.), but she’s blended in the suspense craft she acquired writing her contemporary mega-seller Room (2010). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Novel Tenggelamnya Kapal Van der Wijck merupakan sarana komunikasi Hamka selaku agen yang dimotivasi oleh keinginan akan perbaikan dan perubahan terhadap struktur budaya Minangkabau. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa gejala etnosentrisme melalui tindakan para tokoh dalam novel merupakan manifestasi struktur penulis. Dalam konteks sastra, agen merujuk pada penulis dan tokoh-tokoh yang ada di dalam karya sastra. Selanjutnya, aktivitas sosial para agen tersebut memengaruhi struktur itu kembali. Setiap agen bertindak berdasarkan skemata atau struktur dalam ruang dan waktu tertentu. Strukturasi menolak pandangan dualisme dengan menekankan dualitas agen dan struktur. ![]() Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis etnosentrisme dalam novel Tenggelamnya Kapal Van der Wijck karya Hamka dengan perspektif Strukturasi Giddens. Sebagai makhluk sosial, manusia saling berinteraksi dengan gugus pengetahuan dan pengalaman berbeda satu sama lain. ![]() ![]() While Hinako is dragged from place to place by others, Asahi spends most of her time by herself, bringing lunch from home and taking walks after work while munching on a doughnut at the end of a tough day. But Asahi is far less concerned with other people’s expectations of her than Hinako, who wonders if Asahi is as afraid of being alone as she is. In complete contrast to her is Asahi Satou, an employee of the same company who is known for her strong work ethic and level head. But no matter how good the man seems, no matter how hard Hinako tries to make herself like them, she feels gross just being touched by them. Her coworkers do everything in their power to set Hinako up with the right man, from getting her into dating mixers to matching her with single men they know. Advertised by publisher Seven Seas as, “a yuri romance for the modern career woman,” the series follows Hinako Uno, a young office worker who dedicates herself to makeup and fashion while desperately trying to fall in love. ![]() Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon is the most recent manga series by Shio Usui, a creator who has a history with publishing yuri and shoujo-ai series, and the first of their works to be published in English. ![]() The fell by robert jenkins7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() With a lot of speculation surrounding the two films, the Twitter account for the After series has been slowly releasing new information, including a fresh look at Carter Jenkins as a new character named Robert. 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