![]() ![]() Come back once you’ve graduated from therapy, balanced with help of medication. ![]() I can save you, angry man with a violent past!Īlas. I pursue the troubled ones, the mentally unstable. Heathcliff is my ideal romantic hero, which explains the irresistible attraction I have to a certain type of man. You wouldn’t wake to find me looming over you. Makes you wish you could spend a night in my spare bedroom, doesn’t it? Don’t be silly. I love creepy gothic books as much as darkly psychological portraits of murderous psychopaths. In that case, why didn’t I just buy it there? Was it not out yet? Did I not have time to beg a freebie?ĭoes it matter? Why am I asking so many questions? Where did I hear about this book? I don’t know.
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![]() ![]() When Hearn admitted he was a vegetarian, the unworldly Gardner went out and got his guest a pizza, but returned with the pizza box under his arm. One visit led to an invitation from Gardner’s wife, Charlotte, to stay for dinner. ![]() Hearn’s extended essay provides an unforgettable glimpse of Gardner’s home life in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., where he lived with his family during the period he was writing the “Mathematical Games” column for Scientific American. Matrix in Oz” by Michael Patrick Hearn, the compiler of The Annotated Wizard of Oz. The most substantive pieces in A Bouquet for the Gardener are “Editing Martin” by Robert Weil, Gardner’s editor at W.W. ![]() After all, the Queen of Hearts is practically defined by her shouts of “Off with his head!” No doubt there’s a rich history of this form of execution, particularly during Tudor times, but the reader must look elsewhere for such information. It then suddenly struck me that there’s no annotation for death by beheading. ![]() Somewhere in this tribute volume someone comments that Gardner avoided annotating anything unpleasant, such as Carroll’s social snobbery. On rereading Gardner’s notes, I was struck by how scrupulous he is in crediting the contributions of others, many of them members of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America, as I learned from concurrently reading A Bouquet for the Gardener: Martin Gardner Remembered, a collection of mostly brief appreciations published by the LCSNA in 2011. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, it lists books like “On Juneteenth,” which according to BookScan sold only 4,774 copies that week, or just over a quarter as many as Knowles’ book. The Times’ prestigious “bestseller list” does not include “Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds” at all in its list of the top 15 books for the same week. That’s according to Publisher’s Weekly, which gets its data from NPD BookScan, the industry’s most comprehensive count of book sales.īut you wouldn’t know it from reading The New York Times. The Times did not include Knowles’ book anywhere on its list despite the book posting huge sales numbers on other bestseller lists.ĭaily Wire host Michael Knowles’ new book, “Speechless,” sold nearly 18,000 copies in the week ending June 26, making it the top-selling nonfiction work in the country - far ahead of the second- and third-place books by Bill O’Reilly and Malcolm Gladwell, at nearly 13,000 and just over 9,000, respectively. ![]() Despite his book’s success on Amazon and other bestseller lists, “Speechless” did not appear on the prestigious bestseller list for The New York Times. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was done in a cute way without being too barf-worthy. I really enjoyed the love story in this one. ![]() Their love happens fast, but along the way their different home situations turn out to be more difficult to converge than imagined. After years of looking in from the outside, Samantha meets one of the boys, Jase. ![]() They have more kids than anyone count, have a messy house that annoys Samantha's mother to no end, and most of all they always look extremely happy. However, she lives next door to the Garretts, who are everything she is not. Samantha Reed has a very proper family with a politician mother and a rebel sister who leaves her no room to do anything wrong. The story is contemporary and fluffy romantic, exactly what you would expect from the cover. One of my first reads of the year was My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick a novel that already seems to be very popular in America, but was only released in the UK last week. It's a week later than expected, due to a really bad cold, but I am finally back and will continue posting reviews on my regular schedule (twice a week)! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Year and that you all got wonderful books that you can read! This in no way influenced my opinion of the book. I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for a honest review. ![]() ![]() ![]() Isolated people, both victims and victimizers, are ghosts in a waking world, blind to their encounters with living nightmares. Gregory’s beautiful imagery and metaphors bring bittersweet intimacy and tenderness to the primal wonder of star-lit legends. After paranoid Martin sees slithery spirits lingering around volatile Greta, a powerful young woman decorated with mystically charged scars, ancient evils usher the rag-tag survivors to a battle with the Hidden Ones, exiled deities trapped in prisons of flesh. Cantankerous Stan is the lone survivor of a cannibal feast. Suicidal Barbara burns to read the secret messages inscribed on her bones. Harrison, a cynical monster-hunter, wallows in lethargy. ![]() ![]() Jan Sayer gathers survivors of supernatural violence for therapy, she unwittingly unlocks evil from the prison of consciousness. This complex novel-scathingly funny, horrific yet oddly inspiring-constructs a seductive puzzle from torn identities, focusing on both the value and peril of fear. ![]() |