6/30/2023 0 Comments Dear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis![]() ![]() Sharing a couple of quotes that I highlighted from the book, as per usual:Īnd even though the story is predictable, I still felt that it was a cute story with a happy (and well-deserved) ending. I have said yes to being his best woman because I love him. ![]() The boy who found my balloon fourteen years ago, and against all odds, through rain and storms and across miles and miles of ocean, found me.Īnd tomorrow, on our fourteenth birthday together, we will be thirty. The age I’ve kept my eye on over the years, like a prize in the distance, like a safe haven, a warm light in the dark on the horizon. Because everyone is settled at thirty, aren’t they? You’re an adult at thirty-fully fledged-and everyone knows who they are. Or at least, everyone knows exactly where they are going, even if they haven’t quite made it there yet. I’m thirty years old, and it’s safe to say that at this precise moment, I definitely do not know where I am going. I close my eyes, pull my knees to my tummy. ![]()
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![]() He is afraid and almost sure that he will suffer the same fate as his sick father and that pushes him to enclose his heart behind cages. So gorgeous, so charming, so alpha yet hiding an ocean of pain and vulnerabilities. My heart just broke over and over again for Finn. How can she deal with a man who is in love with her but terrified of future and just wants to self sabotage. But Eva has just found out that she is pregnant. Billionaire Finn Hughes ended their fake engagement and broke her heart because he is scared of his family's curse. Eva Morelli, the level headed and most balance of his dysfunctional family is a mess right now. This is book two of Eva and Finn's trilogy. ![]() The intricate web of lies, danger and deception. This billionaire romance is epic in every sense. You can always trust Skye Warren to make the story equally spicy, heartbreaking and edgy with her words. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fortunately, this schematic political framework is enlivened by the full-blooded characters who negotiate between the two cultures. In the inevitable confrontation, Shora uses Gandhian techniques of passive resistance to thwart Valedon's troops. It gets by without any government, shuns the mechanical and, knowing its limits, lives in harmony with nature. On the other is Valedon's watery moon Shora, an all-female society based on life sciences and the principle of sharing. A Door Into Ocean (Elysium Cycle) by Joan Slonczewski, May 1987, The Womens Press edition, Trade Paperback in English A Door into Ocean (May 1987 edition) Open Library It looks like youre offline. ![]() On one side is the planet Valedon, a patriarchal, capitalist, mechanistic and militaristic society. Conflict erupts when a militaristic neighboring civilization sends an army to develop their ocean world. (Particularly ingenious are the clickfliesinsects that collectively serve as both a living computer and a communications network.) But the book has problems with its rigid ideological structure. In her ambitious second SF novel (after Still Forms on Foxfield biology professor Slonczewski has created an intriguing ocean world with its own culture and biological adaptions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shellenberger’s writing style is to begin by citing common misconceptions or faulty data and then correct those things. He attempts to prove this with a plethora of data, interviews, history, policies and philosophy. The answer is suggested by the subtitle: progressive policies exacerbate rather than alleviate the problems of homelessness, drug abuse and crime. His latest book San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities attempts to answer these questions. ![]() What were we getting for our high taxes? And why after 20 years of voting for ballot initiatives promising to address drug addiction, mental illness and homelessness had all three gotten worse? And why had progressive Democratic elected officials stop enforcing many laws against certain groups of people …? ![]() During that time he advocated for “the decriminalization of drugs, affordable housing and alternatives to jail and prison.” But those problems kept getting worse so he asked: He has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 30 years. Michael Shellenberger is the best selling author of Apocalypse Never ( read my review here ) and currently writes for Substack. ![]() |