![]() ![]() I was hooked the moment i began reading, there were lots of twists and turns my brain kept on trying to jump or read ahead to figure out what was happening next. And if she can't find a way out of Harrow Lake, they might just be the death of her. ![]() The more Lola discovers about the town, the more terrifying it becomes. The locals are weirdly obsessed with the film that put their town on the map-and there are strange disappearances, which the police seem determined to explain away.Īnd there's someone-or some thing-stalking her every move. Lola Nox is the daughter of a celebrated horror filmmaker-she thinks nothing can scare her.īut when her father is brutally attacked in their New York apartment, she's quickly packed off to live with a grandmother she's never met in Harrow Lake, the eerie town where her father's most iconic horror movie was shot. Thank you to Net Galley and Penguin NZ for sending me an ARC of this book. ![]()
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Rebecca "Becky" Bloomwood is a shopping addict who lives in New York City with her best friend Suze. Hogan, the film stars Isla Fisher as the shopaholic journalist and Hugh Dancy as her boss. Confessions of a Shopaholic is a 2009 American romantic comedy film based on the first two entries in the Shopaholic series of novels by Sophie Kinsella. ![]() ![]() What he lacks in brains he has always made up for with brawn. Was Belbo’s sight beginning to fail?īelbo is not the cleverest of slaves. But the daylight was still strong enough to see clearly, certainly clearly enough to tell if someone at the door was male or female. Days in Januarius are all too short, especially for a man of fifty-four like myself, old enough to feel the cold in his bones. 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She also enjoys eating fresh popcorn, watching foreign films and reading a good suspenseful mystery. Sydney loves to hike, bike and play badminton when she isn’t writing. In my perspective, there are no limitations in love and relationships.” The author states, “the world I live in is diverse and inclusive and I would like that reflected in my writing. Her latest full-length romance novel "Summer & Joon" will be released on September 25, 2021. It was a 1st runner-up for a Swirl award in 2016. Her romantic- suspense novel “Brooklyn’s Song” was released in the fall of 2015. ![]() Sydney’s follow-up to “My Heart In Seoul,” “Meet Me Under The Lavender Sky” was released in the fall of 2014. She was a reporter for the independent press. While a freshman in college, her English professor encouraged her to pursue writing as a career. Sydney Arrison is an award-winning, multi-genre bestselling author. ![]() ![]() If the government would not improve itself, he argued, it was a just man's duty to refuse to support it. Thoreau was not an anarchist he did not believe that there should be no government, only a more just one than currently existed. The following year his essay on the topic, "Civil Disobedience," was published. He spent a night in jail for this offense in 1848, and was released the next morning when a friend (against his wishes) paid the tax for him. In protest, Thoreau refused to pay his poll taxes. He was an outspoken opponent of slavery and bitterly opposed the Mexican-American War, which he viewed as an act of American aggression. Thoreau had some serious problems with the way the United States was run. ![]() Henry David Thoreau: "Civil Disobedience" ![]() ![]() Vox has caught my attention since I heard of its release: a dystopia situated in the near future in the USA that besides talking about the oppression of women still occurs in a single volume would certainly leave me intrigued. Before, each person spoke an average of 16,000 words a day, but now women only have 100 words to make themselves heard.įighting for herself, her daughter, and all the silenced women, Jean will claim her voice.” This is just the beginning …īefore long, women are also prevented from working and teachers no longer teach girls to read and write. She doesn’t really believe this is happening. “The government decrees that women can only speak 100 words a day. ![]() Since this is week one, I wanted to start with one of the most recent books I read that have a deeper meaning while being entertaining to read. With these weekly posts, I hope to recommend and discuss a variety of books that I have read in the past and that I think are worth reading! Hello everyone! Like last semester, I am more than excited to exercise through blogging one of my passions: reading. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long story as never before. Today they remain one of our planet's great mysteries. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome creatures vanished. 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