![]() ![]() This at least, can’t you? but we both know how it goes. Roll over and let me fuck you till you puke, Henry, you owe me this much, you can indulge me Where I get to say Please, for just one night, will you lay down next to me, we can leave our We’ve made a graveyard out of the bone white afternoon.Īnd we keep doing it, Henry, keep saying until we get it right…īut we always win and we never quit, see, we’ve won again, here we are at the place There’s smashed glass glittering everywhere like stars. There’s only one thing I want, don’t make me say it, just get me bandages, I’m bleeding, You never mean it anyway, not really, and it only makes me that much more ashamed. ![]() Not because I don’t believe it, not because I want it any different, but I’m always savingĪnd you’re always owing and I’m tired of asking to settle the debt. Let’s not talk about it, let’s just not talk. You keep saying I owe you, I owe…but you say the same thing every time. I took the bullet for all the wrong reasons, I’d just as soon kill you myself, I say. You must want something, just tell me, and it’s yours.īut I can’t look at him, can hardly speak, ![]() Keeps saying I owe you, says Your shoes are filling with your own damn blood, You don’t, I say, you don’t owe me squat, let’s just get going, let’s just get gone, but he’s ![]() You saved my life he says I owe you everything. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They've taken that to Ukraine but it's throughout the country.Īnd this man - a survivor of a machete attack in Rwanda. James Nachtwey: The part that was inhabited by the Chechens was pounded into rubble from artillery, and rocket fire, and air strikes for weeks and weeks on end, with the civilian population trapped inside. Nachtwey was in Chechnya's capital Grozny for weeks in 1995 and '96, as Russian forces relentlessly bombarded the city… James Nachtwey looking at a photo on his computer James Nachtwey: Somehow the Russians have stood apart, and not only in Ukraine, but in Chechnya. It was really, like, kind of butchery.Īnderson Cooper: In terms of brutality, of all the militaries you have seen does the Russian military stand apart in Ukraine for their behavior? These are images he took in Bucha shortly after Russian troops pulled out, leaving behind the bodies of civilians they'd executed. In Ukraine at the start of the war Nachtwey worked in and around Kyiv and Kharkiv for the New Yorker magazine. Because in a way you're, you might be fighting for peace or fighting against an injustice and the way you do it is by informing people about it, with the faith that people will want something done about it. James Nachtwey: I think it's a way of looking at it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers should not worry if they have not read the previous two books, as there is enough recapping to understand the various motivations of the characters. Rather, it acts as a way of understanding the characters and the way they see, and interact with, the world. ![]() Whilst it is central to life in Beartown, detailed depictions of the games or the statistics are not present here. Readers should not expect a novel which focuses primarily on ice hockey. Through all this, the novel comments upon masculinity in sports, the ways in which sports can exclude and include, and parenthood and mental health. ![]() There is violence (physical and verbal) both inside and outside the rink, corruption at the club, a devious politician, ambitious journalists, a young boy seeking revenge, and dreams of ice hockey stardom. ![]() Fredrik Backman’s The Winners is the third novel in a three-book series about the fictional Swedish town, Beartown, in which life revolves around the ice hockey team and its rivalry with that of the nearby town, Hed. ![]() ![]() “We were very much aligned, and they were wonderful partners,” he said.Īisha Tyler commented on the experience of working with a female-centric crew, including an all-female directing team comprised of Lila Neugebauer ( Causeway), Olivia Newman (Where the Crawdads Sing), and Deniz Gamze Ergüven ( The Handmaid’s Tale). “When the role became available I did just go on a little bit of a letter writing campaign and I just talked basically about why I connected the way I did and I didn’t know if I could survive if somebody else played the role.”Ĭo-creator and EP Singer ( Spotlight, The Post) who is married to Dave, said the process of adapting the novel was a great collaboration, not only between them as a duo, but also with Neustadter and Hello Sunshine. Real Simple Page-turning, exhilarating, and unforgettable. BookPage The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave is a fast-moving, heartfelt thriller about the sacrifices we make for the people we love most. So much so, that she wrote to Dave, who authored the original novel, which had been optioned early on by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine. Dave has given readers what many people crave right nowa thoroughly engrossing yet comforting distraction. ![]() Garner said she had originally read Dave’s book aloud to her teenage child and they had both loved it so much she knew she needed to play the role of Hannah. ![]() ![]() But all is very much not what it seems-Owen has been keeping some very big secrets. In the series, Hannah tries to shield Owen’s 16-year-old daughter Bailey, played by Angourie Rice ( Mare of Easttown), from an FBI investigation surrounding her father. Those trying to predict the ending of the Apple TV+ limited series The Last Thing He Told Me may have fallen into the trap author Laura Dave. ![]() ![]() For all the scientists involved, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to test their hypotheses and secure their names in history. Imagine needs a financial success, but some aboard the ship are there to atone for what happened seven years ago. Imagine is assembling a new crew on a state-of-the-art ship equipped with everything that will keep the scientists and crew safe form anything or everything lurking in the ocean’s depths. Film was recovered showing the gruesome last moments as the crew and cast were viciously ripped apart and eaten by creatures beyond comprehension. The ship was lost at sea with no survivors. Imagine Entertainment was filming a documentary/reality show about the search for mermaids. ![]() ![]() Seven years ago, the Atargatis set off on a voyage with a crew of scientists to the Mariana Trench – the deepest spot in the ocean. ![]() Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant is a horror story that upends the notion mermaids are cute, singing princesses who just want to be a part of our world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each postcard is printed single-sided with a leaf-outlined stamp space and space for an address (left blank with no lines) on the back so that you can send them to family, friends and loved ones. This set of postcards contains 36 scaled down images from Johanna Basford’s hugely successful Magical Jungle adult colouring book ( reviewed by me here). I had high hopes for them after detailing my criticisms of the Lost Ocean Postcards and raising these issues with the publisher and hoped things would be changed, but when they arrived I’m afraid to say I was very disappointed. It is with a heavy heart that I have to write a less than positive review of these postcards. ![]() ![]() Magical Jungle: 36 Postcards to Colour and Send is published and was kindly sent to me to review by Virgin Books. Disclaimer – Please read this disclosure about my use of affiliate links which are contained within this post. ![]() ![]() ![]() And it reveals the shockwaves that went through the climbing community when Boskoff, then thirty-nine, and her climbing partner and boyfriend, Charlie Fowler, “one of the most iconic rock climbers of all time,” went missing. Garton honors Boskoff as an astute businesswoman, too she sustained her need to climb by taking over Seattle’s Mountain Madness guide service after its founder, Scott Fischer, died on Everest. She is seen “always laughing, radiant, and down-to-earth ” but also in deep grief after her husband’s suicide and the death of her father. Boskoff quit her work at Lockheed-Martin to give climbing her all. Everest.īased on hundreds of hours of interviews and research, Garton’s book reveals a gifted, multifaceted, and much-loved young woman. Known for her humility, courage, strength, and uncanny ability to breathe at high altitudes, Boskoff was the first woman to summit six of the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter-plus peaks, and the only woman expedition leader among all the elite guide services operating on Mt. Johanna Garton’s engrossing Edge of the Map traces the rise of Wisconsin native Christine Boskoff to the top of the list of elite mountain climbers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since childhood she has been enormously gifted and highly intelligent, attending one of the best universities in Russia to study French and Linguistics, and also won the gold medal for pistol shooting in the Russian University Games when she was only a freshman. ![]() Academic Athlete: Strangely enough, Villanelle.Codename Villanelle (2017): Compilation of four novellas:įor another pan-European seductress called Villanelle, see The Passion.Formerly of MI6 special ops she's now been hired by NSS with this singular purpose, Villanelle wanted dead or alive. Eve Polastri is a sharp-witted spy who is going to catch her. She is pulled out of holding prison by a crime organisation who see potential in her and give her freedom in return for her compliance and loyalty, training her as an assassin to add to their books like a human gun. ![]() Oxana Borisovna Vorontsova, codename "Villanelle", is a psychopathic Russian criminal as dangerous as she is beautiful. ![]() "His words confirmed what she had always known, even at her lowest ebb: that she was different, that she was special, that she was born to soar."Ī 2015 British novel by Luke Jennings, and the basis for the 2018 TV show Killing Eve. ![]() ![]() But what Maggie uncovers about the monster is much more terrifying than anything she could imagine. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last best hope. Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters-and it is up to one young woman to unravel the mysteries of the past before they destroy the future. While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. “A powerful and fiercely personal journey through a compelling postapocalyptic landscape.” -Kate Elliott, New York Times bestselling author of Court of Fives and Black Wolves ![]() ![]() “Fun, terrifying, hilarious, and brilliant.” -Daniel José Older, New York Times bestselling author of Shadowshaper and Star Wars: Last Shot “An excitingly novel tale.” -Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse and Midnight Crossroads series ![]() “Someone please cancel Supernatural already and give us at least five seasons of this badass Indigenous monster-hunter and her silver-tongued sidekick.” - The New York Times ![]() One of Bustle’s Top 20 “landmark sci-fi and fantasy novels” of the decade One of the Time 100 Best Fantasy Books Of All TimeĢ019 LOCUS AWARD WINNER, BEST FIRST NOVEL ![]() ![]() ![]() Not even her uncles who are skilled mercenaries or ex military and are best in business. She was scared too but her love for Apollo made her fearless. The good men were tough and alpha and strong and made me feel equally nervous and protected. She goes in deep with the action sequences, the car chases, the explosions, the fight scenes, the weapons and the military grade was an experience for sure. It was so detailed and described in depth that I could feel like I am in the scene. From USA to multiple countries in Europe. The author took me all over the world for this dangerous operation. With help of her family and friends who run the elite A1S, she will rescue her King. And Corinna won't sit idly while his man is in hands of the enemies. His enemies abduct his four year old long distance niece Yelena and they want him as trade. ![]() But it's not time for happily ever after yet. Corinna Roth, the fierce CEO of Valkyrie is his whole world now. ![]() And of course a delicious alpha hero and the best part, a beautiful alpha heroine.Īpollo Dimitriou thought he has left behind the heartless and evil empire of his grandfather and mother. I felt like a great action movie is playing in my mind. While reading Gamma by Jasinda Wilder, I felt my heart was in my throat till the last chapter. ![]() |