![]() Robinson has a certain rhythm with Shade’s dialogue and it wasn’t until the sex scene (or maybe the dismemberment scene) that I was fully up to speed and in sync. He also kills if the situation demands it which is why he’s tagged with that tired label, “antihero”. This Shade’s powers are organic and here, he’s a much more nuanced character – urbane, erudite, witty, ruthless when he needs to be and loyal to his friends. The Shade that I’m familiar with is the villain from the DC animated universe who’s a member of Lex Luthor’s Injustice Gang and wields a stick/cane that is the source of his shadow-like powers. ![]() ![]() Sometimes I’ll go into the library and just pick out titles I’ve never heard of or a book featuring a character that I know very little about, so it was this hit and run strategy that led me to end up with this volume. ![]()
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![]() That provides the underlying theme for the book. Nowhere in the world is there a landscape that has been more intensively utilized – more mined, farmed, quarried, covered with cities and clanging factories, threaded with motorways and railway lines – and yet remains so comprehensively and reliably lovely over most of its extent.’ Countryside – ‘Comprehensively and reliably lovely’ ‘Nothing – and I mean, really, absolutely nothing – is more extraordinary in Britain than the beauty of the countryside. ![]() He has chosen to live here, far from his native Iowa, and gives several reasons why, the most important being the countryside: However, to be clear, Bill Bryson is a massive fan of Great Britain. Mostly negatively in his eyes, but of course that is part of the ‘grumpy old man’ syndrome. ![]() Twenty years after the publication of his very popular Notes from a Small Island, Bill has taken another tour around Great Britain to see how it has changed in the intervening period. The book is sub-titled More Notes from a Small Island, and that explains it well. ![]() After reading The Road to Little Dribbling, I realise that Bill Bryson is not just a renowned senior traveller (he is 65 this year), but also a ‘grumpy old man’, albeit a very amusing, grumpy old man. ![]() ![]() Now, Dr Bargh presents an engaging and enlightening tour of the influential psychological forces that are at work as we go about our daily lives - checking a dating app, holding a cup of hot coffee, or getting a flu shot.Dr Bargh takes you into his labs at New York University and Yale where his ingenious experiments have shown how the unconscious guides our behaviour, goals and motivations in areas like race relations, parenting, business, consumer behaviour and addiction. ![]() A brilliant and convincing book.' - Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and David and GoliathThe world's leading expert on the unconscious mind reveals the hidden mental processes that secretly govern every aspect of our behaviour.For more than three decades, Dr John Bargh has been conducting revolutionary research into the unconscious mind - not Freud's dark, malevolent unconscious but the new unconscious, a helpful and powerful part of the mind that we can access and understand through experimental science. ![]() ![]() 'John Bargh's Before You Know It moves our understanding of the mysteries of human behaviour one giant step forward. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘ But in a few weeks she won’t just be Eve Dallas, lieutenant, homicide. She had taken control, had made herself into the person some anonymous social worker had named Eve Dallas… Her miserable and abusive childhood, with all its blank spaces and dark corners, couldn’t be changed. ‘She’d come to New York to be a cop, because she believed in order. The air crackles with electrifying suspense as she faces the most terrifying challenges of her life: a brutal murderer and a relentless suitor. ![]() Let narrator Cristine McMurdo Wallis put you in Eves shoes as she walks the thin line between seduction and danger. And much to her dismay, she finds herself powerless to resist his charm. But the prime suspect is a suave, sophisticated Irish billionaire with a mysterious past. After 10 years on the New York City police force, she knows better than to become emotionally involved with her work. Three young women have been brutally murdered, and Lieutenant Eve Dallas has been assigned to investigate. Experience a gamut of emotions as secret pasts, vicious murders, and the steamy details of a tempestuous romance are revealed in this action packed audiobook. Robb, stimulates the senses with her irresistible combinations of romance and suspense. Often appearing at the top of the New York Times best seller list, author Nora Roberts, aka J.D. Short Stories/Novellas In Publication OrderĨ cassttes. In Death Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order ![]() ![]() ![]() This trilogy had everything I was looking for – urban fantasy, witchcraft, lots of risky situations, drama, flawed characters, no romantising of issues like bullying, drugs, eating disorders, no love triangles or instant love, a little bit of a gay love story. It is really hard to sum up everything in a few sentences without telling too much or spoiling later events. Despite their differences and conflicts they have to come together as a circle to fight the evil that is threatening to destroy the world. They have nothing in common, except the school they go to – and now, apparently, their magic powers. Witches and magic don’t exist, right? That is what Minoo, Rebekka, Ida, Vanessa, Linnea and Anna-Karin think until one fateful fullmoon, where they are let in on a secret that will change their lives. When the bookshop had a hardcover sale about 1.5 years ago, i got the whole trilogy for 10€ and had no reason anymore to procrastinate reading it. The only things I remembered were a group of diverse teenage girls, witchcraft and lots of mystery and danger. That’s why i never finished this series until now, because after seeing that the library didn’t have the second book, i just kinda forgot about the whole story. ![]() ![]() ![]() I read the first part in 2012, before the second part was translated or the third one even published. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite being from different worlds, friendship grows between them, turning quickly to attraction. 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