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7/4/2023 0 Comments Gravity by raven st pierre![]() ![]() In the first installment of the “Free Falling” series, the stage is set for one of the most riveting interracial love stories to grace the literary scene in quite some time. Thank you for respecting the author’s work. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should purchase your own copy. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. This e-book is licensed for personal enjoyment only. ![]() No part of this e-book may be reproduced or shared by any electronic or mechanical means, including but not limited to printing, file sharing, and email, without prior written permission from Raven St. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental. ![]() All names, characters, locations, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, or have been used fictitiously. This book contains strong sexual themes and content not suitable for persons under the age of 18. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments The high window![]() ![]() I’m partial to Chandler, and under his spell, so perhaps I’m overselling him. Chandler mastered all of them, with a clear compelling flow that he made look easy. The broadest foundations of writing are Plotting, Character, and Style. ![]() I’m an Angeleno today, and I’m beguiled by the half-familiar, half-jarring journey, back into Chandler’s expressionist LA of seventy years ago. At least, the ambience of his stories is haunted by that dangerous twilight even when he paints fine details in color, and brings each instant vividly to life. His mysteries take place in an exaggerated Los Angeles of the 1940s, which in the reader’s mind is black and white, more black than white, just like the film noirs that Chandler’s mysteries inspired. ![]() ![]() Raymond Chandler is my new favorite writer. He’ll startle you with instants of beauty, and occasionally his poetic soul shines through “ like the justice we dream of but don't find.” But he’s a craftsman with no time for showing off - he’s too busy tightening his plot, sharpening his characters, and building his tangled world of looming shadows and glaring Californian sun. It’s easy to barrel through the whole mystery, barely remarking that Chandler is a great writer. When you read a Raymond Chandler thriller, you hang on tight while your knuckles turn white on his rollercoaster ride. ![]() ![]() ![]() Summers were spent at her grandparents' country estate. Paul's, a private day school, where she not only won a Foundation Scholarship but also excelled in sports and sewing. Rosalind Franklin was born in 1920, the second of six children, two of them girls. ![]() Married to an intelligent and lively woman, he raised his family in London, with summer trips around England and Wales. He was well off, though not rich, and was involved with numerous charitable organizations. Her father was a banker who late in life became Viscount Samuel and the leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords. Her great-uncle was the first High Commissioner of Palestine an earlier forebear was the first Jewish Lord Mayor of London. ![]() Rosalind Franklin came from an old and distinguished Anglo-Jewish family of observant but relaxed Jews. The text is annotated in an appendix, the bibliography contains about 150 references, the index is extensive, and the book is easy to read. Maddox has done a great deal of research, having had access to information and material from many of the scientists with whom Franklin was in contact, as well as her family and friends, and her personal letters. ![]() Lawrence, has written a superb biography of a remarkable woman scientist, Rosalind Franklin. ‘ROSALIND FRANKLIN, THE DARK LADY OF DNA’īy Brenda Maddox, New York City, Harper Collins, Hardcover, 2002, 380 pages, $29.95īrenda Maddox, an award-winning British biographer of Nora Joyce and D.H. ![]() ![]() ![]() Geraldine McEwan is quite good as Marple, as is Greta Scacchi as a middle-aged Tuppence. Anthony Edwards plays Tommy, but he appears very little. However, this is an entertaining alternate version that is reasonably satisfying as a mystery. ![]() ![]() The story has been pushed back to war time, making it a period piece, which the novel definitely wasn't. From then on the story only bears a passing resemblance to the far superior one in Christie's clever novel, although screenwriter Stewart Harcourt retains some elements and has added some depth to the characterizations. When this woman disappears, Tuppence becomes concerned about her and asks Miss Marple for her help in tracking her down. The pair visit a grouchy aunt in a nursing home when another woman asks Tuppence about a "child" and intimates that one was murdered long ago. ![]() Pricking was actually a mystery in which the protagonists, included in the telefilm along with the old gal, were Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, who had previously appeared in other Christie works. Presented as part of the "Miss Marple" series, this is actually based on Agatha Christie's novel of the same name - in which Miss Marple does not appear. BY THE PRICKING OF MY THUMBS (2006 telefilm). ![]() 7/2/2023 0 Comments Breaking Free by S.M. Koz![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This feeling of frustration was not helped by the irritating actions and thoughts of the protagonist, Aveyana (Veya for short). For example, I wondered what was going on with people on Earth, why were people living on a space station, who were the good and bad alien races involved, and why was Veya’s mom and her people kidnapped? I felt like I was walking into the movie theatre in the middle of a film, and trying to play catch up on the details. When I started reading this book, I felt confused because there was not much of a back story offered. By the middle of the book, I was on the edge of my seat, and veering towards “booksomnia” territory, with the need to find out what would happen next. Pangalax is a place for love that is out of this world…literally!įirst, let me say that Pangalax is not one of those books that will immediately suck you in…but it is one of those books that you should give a chance to. ![]() |