![]() ![]() 365 days of reflection to discover who I am and what I want out of life… see how you compare! Each month, I will post a summary of a trip I’ve taken somewhere in the world. You’ll find book reviews, published and in-progress fiction, TV/Film reviews, favorite vacation spots and my own version of the “365 Daily Challenge.” Since March 13, 2017, I’ve posted a characteristic either I currently embody or one I’d like to embody in the future. Once you hit my site “ThisIsMyTruthNow” at, you can join the fun and see my blog and various site content. The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas. ![]() The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden.A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J.Quinsey Wolfe’s Glass Vault by Candace Robinson.I’ve prepared a new one to get started again… Prior Winners & Additions September 2018 Note: The Book Bucket List was on hold from September 2018 until January 2020 due to my publishing schedule. ![]()
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![]() She possesses a powerful secret-one that threatens her very life. ![]() The lovely, still innocent widow Farah Leigh Mackenzie is no exception-and soon Dorian whisks the beautiful lass away to his sanctuary in the wild Highlands.īut Farah is no one's puppet. Scarred and hard-hearted, Dorian is one of Victorian London's wealthiest, most influential men who will stop at nothing to wreak vengeance on those who've wronged him.and will fight to the death to seize what he wants. But for the women who love them, a hint of danger only makes the heart beat faster, in the stunning debut historical romance The Highwayman by Kerrigan Byrne.ĭorian Blackwell, the Blackheart of Ben More, is a ruthless villain. ![]() ![]() They're rebels, scoundrels, and blackguards-dark, dashing men on the wrong side of the law. ![]() ![]() Visiting professor at University of California at Los Angeles, 1963, University of Hawaii, 1973, University of Singapore, and University of Malaya. ![]() Politics: Democrat.ĪDDRESSES: Home-840 Outer Dr., State College, PA 16801.ĬAREER: Pennsylvania State University, University Park, instructor, 1956–62, associate professor, 1962–65, professor of English, 1965–70, research professor, 1970–86, Evan Hugh Professor, 1986–2000, professor emeritus, 2000–, director of Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, 1970–90. Education: West Chester State College, B.S., 1949 Temple University, M.A., 1951 Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D., 1956. ![]() PERSONAL: Born April 17, 1929, in Philadelphia, PA son of Benjamin and Ray (Segal) Weintraub married Rodelle Horwitz, 1954 children: Mark Bennett, David Andrew, Erica Beth. ![]() ![]() When she was eleven she applied to a school in Italy, though we had no intention of moving. She would lie on the crossbar of park swing sets like a cat and was so full of energy that even hours of intense sports couldn’t tire her out. I found her sitting in one of the hoops, twelve feet in the air. She’d once disappeared, at the age of six, in the middle of a basketball court. This was a child who’d spent years perfecting how to climb doorframes and stair rails. Despite having just finished two hours of soccer practice, she was bursting with energy. ![]() It was a lovely evening, one of the first of spring. Only minutes earlier, I’d been standing less than ten feet away in my kitchen, calmly andĬheerfully making dinner and talking to my daughter, who had recently turned thirteen. One day in 2010, I found myself standing, panic stricken and shaking, in a small bathroom in my house. The first time I did, it was in the most socially palatable form: as a mother. The anger I felt was so deplorably mismanaged that I didn’t recognize it. What now? What to do with all the rage? This was not a question I could have even asked myself ten years ago. ![]() This excerpt is taken from Chemaly's upcoming book, out on 20 September on Simon & Schuster. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on the remote Entry Island, 850 miles from the Canadian mainland, he leaves behind him a life of sleeplessness and regret.īut what had initially seemed an open-and-shut case takes on a disturbing dimension when he meets the prime suspect, the victim's wife, and is convinced that he knows her - even though they have never met.Īnd when his insomnia becomes punctuated by dreams of a distant Scottish past in another century, this murder in the Gulf of St. **PETER MAY: OVER 4.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE*Ī collection of Peter May's bestselling standalone titles, this omnibus edition includes Entry Island, Coffin Road and I'll Keep You Safe.Ī detective is haunted by the feeling he knows his murder suspect - despite the fact they have never met. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meany, after hitting "that fated baseball," no longer believes in accidents: his parents, in the granite business, convince him that he's the product of a virgin birth (we learn late in the book). Sweetly moralistic, Wheelwright, who became "a Christian because of Owen Meany," sometimes launches into tirades about Reagan and the Iran/contra fiasco, but mostly he tells Owen's story: Meany, who always writes and speaks in the uppercase, is the real mouthpiece here, though Wheelwright is his Nick Carraway. His best friend, Johnny Wheelwright, is the book's narrator: from Toronto, where he has lived for some 20 odd years, he tells the story of Owen Meany, who has a voice that "comes from God," of his own "Father Hunt"-Wheelwright is the product of his mother's "little fling"-and of growing up in the Sixties, when some people believed in destiny, others in coincidence. In 1953, Owen Meany-a physically tiny man with a big voice who believes he's God's instrument-kills his best friend's mother with a foul ball. This one-set in New Hampshire in the 50's and 60's-is a little of both, but not enough of either: its tone is finally too self-righteous to be fully convincing as fiction. ![]() ![]() Irving's novels, which often begin in autobiographical commonplace, get transformed along the way: sometimes into fairy tale (The Hotel New Hampshire), sometimes into modern-day ironic fable (The World According to Garp). ![]() ![]() ![]() But the Droids : Tail of the Roon Comets episode introduced Mungo Baobob and got that whole story arc rolling. ![]() Reaves wrote, as those never got a hard media rerelease at least that I’ve found (I believe some of those were released in the PAL format only, rather than the American VHS.) Nor do I plan to hit Disney + for a temporary ‘fix’ to see them. ![]() I can’t say I remember those two Ewok cartoons Mr. I was also pretty surprised to see how many TV shows I’d loved as a child, both cartoons and family types that he was involved with. Somehow, he explored aspects of the prequel era and even into the Original Trilogy era from unique points of view. Naturally I didn’t love every detail or everything in every book, but his whole slant on the galaxy was unique. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My heart can only be tempted by what I desire. He showed me that temptation always comes. The Lord began to show me something very cool. Jealousy has been showing up in my life in two areas: Money and Ministry. I expected only one area, but God always supplies above and beyond all I could ask are think….hmmmmm yes, quite uncomfortable in this area of conviction, but oh so needed. I really prayed as I read this chapter for the Lord to show me where jealousy was showing up. Only now, my giving is much less and often feels less joyful. I come from a family of generous and joyful givers. Jealousy, envy, and mentally comparing ourselves and our circumstances with others is a wilderness mentality.”Ĭurrently, in my life I am still adjusting to this season of having less. “Minding (having our mind set on) other people’s business, will keep us in the wilderness. At least I thought that before I read this week’s chapter. Previously, I regarded jealousy as one of the things that was lower on my list of things that trouble my life. Recently, I had jealousy show up in my life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kennedy (both idols of mine although I grew up in the ’80s, not the ’60s!), and I gave impromptu speeches to classmates about how racism and prejudice were wrong. ![]() My walls were plastered with posters of Martin Luther King Jr. But as I got older, I realized I also wanted to do something important with my life. I loved making up stories of my own, too, and when I wasn’t busy fantasizing about having a career as a pop singer, I was thinking about how, one day, maybe I’d be lucky enough to write books. I consumed the whole Bobbsey Twins series, followed by Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, the Three Investigators, the Baby-sitters Club, and more. Her work has been featured in People, Woman’s Day, Men’s Health, Runner’s World, and Ladies’ Home Journal, among many other media outlets. Kristin has also written four previous women’s fiction novels, as well as two young adult novels. Kristin Harmel is the internationally bestselling author of The Sweetness of Forgetting and the recently published novel The Life Intended. ![]() ![]() The movie explores how precious such contact can be when people are separated by an almost immeasurable distance. ![]() ![]() Their only contact is a mobile phone that becomes increasingly unreliable as a form of communication the further the teenage girl goes into outer space, the longer it takes for her text messages to reach Earth. His next work, the science-fiction short Voices of a Distant Star, employed the same theme to depict the enduring adolescent love between two youths, one of whom is traveling through the depths of space. It introduces the theme of distance between souls. The film features a cat that narrates different periods of his life with his owner. Shinkai’s first project was a black-and-white five-minute short, She and Her Cat. His newest movie, Weathering with You, addresses many of these same themes while simultaneously exploring how we influence our environment. His movies are well known due to his animation style and continuous adherence to particular themes and subjects, including distance between souls, adolescent love, and Japanese myths. Despite this recent worldwide renown, Shinkai has been making films for the better part of two decades. The movie broke records and put Shinkai on the map as the heir apparent to Japanese animation legend and Studio Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki. Makoto Shinkai achieved international prominence following the release of 2016’s Your Name. Still from Weathering with You, directed by Makoto Shinkai (all images courtesy of GKids) ![]() |