![]() ![]() 5 STARS all the way.īut I did not like the end. So the road to recovery is on both sides~ Dione to learn to trust in Blake and Blake to walk and show Dione how to love~ One of the best early Linda Howard stories~ does not drag. Dione slowly allows Blake to learn she has been abused~ as a child by her alcoholic mother and her husband. is finding the 'benefits' of therapy include the pretty "Therapist".he is more than attracted too. she can 'beat' him at arm wrestling ~ if he wins ~ she leaves~ if she wins.He has to complete therapy.even if it is against his will~ guess who wins.? LOL.Blake has hired and fired several therapists~ enter lovely Dione who does not give an inch in the battle of wills~ she puts him on a course of recovery and drives him hard. ![]() ![]() Complete with surly attitude she makes him a bet. Dione is known as the BEST Physical Therapist who takes on the "most hopeless cases".she is hired to help wealthy Blake Remington who was disabled in a mountain climbing fall~ She finds a man who has given up all hope of recovery and is full of self pity. PLOT: Physical Therapist Dione takes on grumpy/ HUNK Blake Remington complete with nasty attitude and self pity. Physical Therapist Dione takes on Blake~ 5 STARS~ ![]()
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![]() ![]() Judiciously parceling out strands of Indian history, Dalrymple shows that the unique Delhi ways have always been able to withstand the worst of wars and other calamities. At first, Dalrymple finds that much of the old life, including the belief in djinns, seems to have faded but after some digging, he learns that these old customs are simply hidden and very much alive. The title refers to the spirits that according to legend have, throughout the ages, watched over the inhabitants of Delhi. ![]() With his wife, Olivia Fraser (whose pen-and-ink illustrations help the book along), Dalrymple finds a Delhi that is still trying to overcome the traumas of British colonialism and the partition of 1947, in which most Muslims migrated from India to the newly created Pakistan and many Hindus, expelled from the Punjab, fled to Delhi, creating a new, less sophisticated class of resident. Dalrymple, whose debut book of travel writing, In Xanadu (not reviewed), received much praise, spent a year wandering around the dilapidated city of Delhi uncovering the layers of history found in its architectural and human ruins. ![]() ![]() A charming portrait of the ancient Indian capital of Delhi by a talented young British travel writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ignore the 3.5 stars on Amazon as this is underrated, in my opinion, and should have been at least 4.5 stars! ![]() It is a huge book so I read it on Kindle Paperwhite, a good example of when Kindle comes into its own as this book is far too large to have in your handbag and would therefore have taken me months to read. slightly flawed and therefore very believable. All the characters are typically CJS i.e. It is a spy thriller that keeps you engaged and wanting to know what happens next. ![]() Sansom so I was wary of this new genre but I was not disappointed – a ‘what if’ novel that gets you thinking. ![]() Part adventure, part espionage, all encompassed by terrific atmosphere and a well-argued “it might have been”’ Marcel Berlins, The Times Churchill, in hiding, is leader of a resistance movement, to which the hero of Dominion, David Fitzgerald, a civil servant hiding his Jewishness, belongs. What if, in 1940, Lord Halifax became prime minister instead of Churchill? Britain would have made peace with Hitler, Sansom answers, and by 1952 become a totalitarian state, with Germany, acting as puppet-master rather than invader, setting the scene. Sansom has attempted a difficult format - the “what if?” novel. Not, however, the year as it is usually remembered. Sansom takes a break from his Shardlake series to offer Dominion, an absorbing, thoughtful, spy-politico thriller set in the fog-ridden London of 1952. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was perfectly content in this world of women. "We lived where he had left us a relic of his provincial youth a sprawling cumbersome, countrified brood too incongruous to carry with him and I, for one, scarcely missed him. As his father was absent, the large family - five children from his father's first marriage and three from his second one - was brought up by his capable mother. ![]() One of eight children, Laurie Lee was born in 1914, in Slad, Gloucestershire, then a remote corner of England. Laurie Lee's matchless memories of his childhood, told in glittering prose and with a wonderfully wicked sense of comedy, have made Cider with Rosie one of the most famous of all autobiographies. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie Lee depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belongs to a now-distant past. Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity and cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. ![]() ![]() ![]() Upstairs, through a concealed passage connecting to a room above the garage, was a room set up as an old school room. We also read to her since she loved books but because she could no longer see, requested that she be read to. So my family helped her out with taking care of the house, the shopping, and some basic work for the house. ![]() She had a fine garden, a library stuffed with books floor to ceiling, a large kitchen you could cook anything you wanted in for as many people as you knew (and all the people they knew, too), but she was blind and couldn't much take care of herself anymore since her husband had died many years before. Marsh lived in Duxbery Massachusetts all alone in a very beautiful English style home that looked out over the harbor. When I was 10 or 11 my family became acquainted with a very old, and very wealthy lady named Mrs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We’re well used to the formbook not being worth its own paper across many sports these days but this one had layers of improbability. Mage was a 15/1 shot and was close to the rear for most of the two-minute race. ![]() Decked out in trendy jacket / trouser combos, Nike high tops and “Mage” emblazoned baseball caps, the tech bro-looking lads dancing joyously on tabletops seemed very keen to announce themselves as the owners while the NBC producers and commentators scrambled to contextualise exactly who they were.įittingly, this extremely inexperienced horse was part of a complicated and somewhat inexperienced ownership network which seems to boast almost as many constituents as the TV viewership, thanks to a relatively innovative twist on the standard syndicate-style shareholding so familiar to the sport. ![]() ![]() They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole: how the reindeer got loose and scattered presents all over the place how the accident-prone North Polar Bear climbed the North Pole and fell through the roof of Father Christmas’s house into the dining room how he broke the Moon into four pieces and made the Man in it fall into the back garden how there were wars with the troublesome horde of goblins who lived in the caves beneath the house, and many more. Inside would be a letter in a strange, spidery handwriting and a beautiful colored drawing or painting. " Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. The 1939 letter has Father Christmas making reference to the Second World War, while some of the later letters feature Father Christmas' battles against Goblins, which were subsequently interpreted as being a reflection of Tolkien's views on the German foe in the War. ![]() The stories include descriptions of the massive fireworks that create the northern lights and how Polar Bear manages to get into trouble on more than one occasion. ![]() ![]() They document the adventures and misadventures of Father Christmas, described as the brother of Green Brother and son of Grandfather Yule, and his helpers, including the North Polar Bear and his two sidekick cubs, Paksu and Valkotukka. ![]() The stories are told in the format of a series of letters, told either from the point of view of Father Christmas or his elvish secretary Ilbereth. ![]() ![]() Did the Witch of the Waste become like that because she was twisted to begin with and let the fire demon's power corrupt her, or was the gradual destruction of her humanity a natural consequence of using the fire demon's power for decades?.So she pushes Martha towards greatness while she looks for stability for the older siblings. Fanny believes that as the youngest of three Martha is destined for greatness and the others are not. Was that pure coincidence or did she really want the best for her biological child? Another possibility. ![]() As a witch, she would not only be very well-off, but she would also meet numerous rich and powerful people. Although it is indisputable that Fanny loves all three girls and chose good professions for all of them (even taking their ages into account), Sophie notes that the most advantageous profession would be Martha's, Fanny's biological daughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() It doesn’t take long before Sophie is bored out of her mind with inside activities, and takes to exploring the ruins of the estate. Sophie is dumped without so much as a goodbye from her mother, into the care of her two aunts. ![]() Unless it’s to point out her faults and failings. To say that Sophie isn’t looking forward to the weeks she’s going to be spending with her family is an understatement, but her mother’s got a new job and her father’s run off to New York with another woman and it seems like no one’s got any time for Sophie anymore. ![]() The plantation is all in the past, now and most of the estate itself has gone to seed. ![]() They’re on their way to Sophie’s grandmother’s house, the ancestral home of the Fairchilds and once the site of a prosperous sugar plantation. The book opens with Sophie, the young, teenaged protagonist, in a car with her mother, driving through Louisiana one rainy day in May. Dealing with issues of both American slavery just before the Civil War and 1960’s expectations of womanhood, femininity, and growing pains in the American South, Sherman is unafraid to cast her protagonist into the fire, giving readers a deeply moving account of the struggles of marginalized peoples in two past eras. After The Magician’s Nephew and The Neverending Story it was refreshing to read a middle grade that had some teeth. It’s rare for me to find a youth novel that combines good writing, thought provoking and dark subject matter, and a genuinely interesting story as well as Delia Sherman’s The Freedom Maze does. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It took them a while to find their feet and separate the wheat from the chavs but, determined to stay the course, eventually they found diamonds in the rough and roses among the weeds. For Jack it was the last stand of the charmless Raj - 'Tenko' without the guards, the guns and the barbed wire. For Liam, it was the barren badlands of the lost and lonely. Expat life was village life where your business was everyone’s business. The white-washed ghettoes were populated by neo-colonial bar-room bores who hated the country they’d come from and hated the country they’d come to and were obsessed with property prices, pork products and street dogs. ![]() Bitching and pretension ruled the emigrey roost. They found themselves peering over the rim of a Byzantine bear pit. When the blindfolds were removed what they saw wasn’t pretty. They parachuted into paradise with eyes firmly shut and hoped for the best. In 2009, Jack Scott and his civil partner, Liam, sold off the family silver and jumped the good ship Blighty for Muslim Turkey. ![]() |