5/13/2023 0 Comments Riverrun danton remoto![]() ![]() ![]() Remoto teaches at AdMU where he manages the Office of Research and Publishing. He was at Hawthornden Castle, 1993, and later, at the Cambridge Seminar. He was a Local fellow for poetry at the UP Creative Writing Center, 1994. With his Robert Southwell scholarship, Remoto obtained his MA English Lit., 1989 then, on a British Council fellowship, another MA in publishing studies, 1990, at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He was an ASEAN scholar at the AdMU where he obtained his AB Interdisciplinary Studies in 1983. He has won variou Danton Remoto was born on 25 March 1963 in Basa Air Base, Pampanga. He was an associate of PLAC and a member of the Manila Critics Circle since 1989. Danton Remoto was born on 25 March 1963 in Basa Air Base, Pampanga. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Being Mortal by Atul Gawande![]() ![]() He follows a hospice nurse on her rounds, a geriatrician in his clinic, and reformers turning nursing homes upside down. ![]() Now he examines its ultimate limitations and failures – in his own practices as well as others’ – as life draws to a close. In his bestselling books, Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon, has fearlessly revealed the struggles of his profession. Doctors, uncomfortable discussing patients’ anxieties about death, fall back on false hopes and treatments that are actually shortening lives instead of improving them. Nursing homes, devoted above all to safety, battle with residents over the food they are allowed to eat and the choices they are allowed to make. Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family, Gawande reveals the suffering this dynamic has produced. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should. Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. From Atul Gawande, a book that has the potential to change medicine – and lives. ![]() ![]() Additionally it is much more sexually graphic as opposed to movie and novel versions, and can also be noted for the extreme violence. The manga follows the storyline of the novel fairly carefully, but additionally enlarges on the back story of all the pupils. At October 2007, a fresh special version of the manga will probably be published. There's a manga sequel called Battle Royale II: Blitz Royale. ![]() Tokyopop consists of 15 volumes and distributes in English the manga. ![]() ![]() Battle Royale Manga has been accommodated into a manga that was serialized, composed by Koushun Takami and Masayuki Taguchi, was released in Japan by Akita Publishing. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments His bloody project review![]() ![]() The book is concerned with the nature of truth and justice, of insanity, and in particular the role of class in society and criminal proceedings. It’s an effective narrative technique that lets the author explore a number of themes. It also helps that the content is top notch.Ī historical crime novel set in 19th Century Scotland, the book is told via a series of medical records, memoir, eye witness accounts and court proceedings. A short read, not too expensive ($19.99 in Australia) and with an evocative, you-know-what-you’re-getting cover. I would think it is making its publishers a pretty penny or two. The film rights have been already been optioned. ![]() More than any of the other books on the shortlist its sales have skyrocketed, across ebook and print. So it has been for the Man Booker 2016 shortlisted His Bloody Project. A moment is created, a buzz grows to a roar, and the snowball effect takes over. It’s quite thrilling when a literary book takes off in terms of sales. His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Frost blood book series![]() ![]() ![]() While Fireblood was an exhilarating book – full of action and never a boring time in the plot – the excessive amount of familiar tropes that this series uses keeps me from lauding it as amazing, or a book to recommend for everyone. Note: This is the sequel to Frostblood, which you can find my review for here. The fates of two kingdoms are now in her hands. But as sparks fly in her moments alone with Kai, Ruby no longer knows whom to trust. Only then can she hope to access the knowledge that could defeat the rampaging Minax-which grows closer every moment. The answers to its demise may lie to the south in Sudesia, the land of the Firebloods, and a country that holds the secrets to Ruby’s powers and past…ĭespite warnings from her beloved Arcus, Ruby accompanies a roguish Fireblood named Kai to Sudesia, where she must master her control of fire in a series of trials to gain the trust of the suspicious Fire Queen. But the bloodthirsty Minax that was trapped inside is now haunting her kingdom and everyone she loves. ![]() Against all odds, Ruby has defeated the villainous Frost King and melted his throne of ice. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Abandon meg cabot![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She knows he's no guardian angel, and his dark world isn't exactly heaven, yet she can't stay away. That's how desperately he wants her back. Maybe at her new school, she can start fresh. Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back.īut now she's moved to a new town. Though she tries returning to the life she knew before the accident, Pierce can't help but feel at once a part of this world, and apart from it. Meg lives in Key West, Florida with her husband and two cats.ĪBOUT THE BOOK: New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot, a dark, fantastical story about this world. Meg also wrote The New York Times Bestselling Mediator, Airhead, and Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls Series, Insatiable, and the award-winning novels All-American Girl and Avalon High. Her Princess Diaries Series has been published in more than thirty-eight countries and was made into two hit films by Disney. This Event now starts at 12:00 PM, Noon.ĪUTHOR: Meg Cabot's many series and books for both adults and tweens/teens have included multiple #1 New York Times Bestsellers and have sold over fifteen million copies worldwide. ![]() EVENT: Meg Cabot, The New York Times Bestselling author, discusses her powerful new novel, Abandon. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Rafe by Rebekah Weatherspoon![]() ![]() ![]() The family he has been working for has just moved overseas, and he feels it’s time to try something different. Rafe Whitcomb thinks it’s time to end his career as a nanny. Sloan has never considered a male nanny, but there is no time to broaden the search, and most of her friends think that the male will deliver to if not beyond her expectations. ![]() One nanny comes highly recommended, the only glitch is that he is male. While she thought she had childcare figured out, her live-in nanny bails on her, and now she has to find a competent person to take care of her daughter. Sloan has just moved to Los Angeles after a nasty divorce, and all she wants is to be a good mother and an even better doctor. The book stars Dr Sloan Copeland, a young woman trying to balance between work and being the only parent to her 6-year-old twins. Rafe is the first book in the Loose Ends series. The Southern New Hampshire raised author currently resides in Southern California. Weatherspoon has also received several awards for her writing, starting with the Golden Crown Literary Award for the At Her Feet novella and the Romantic Times Book Reviews Best Erotic Novella for the Sated novella. To date, the author has published more than 20 books, and more are in the works, ready for publishing anytime soon. Weatherspoon started writing when she decided it was a better fix than meddling in her friends’ life. Rebekah Weatherspoon is an American author of humor, romance and contemporary books known for extremely erotic stories. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Futures and Frosting by Tara Sivec![]() Do not read if you have no sense of humor. WARNING: CONTAINS SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK N ROLL. ![]() ![]() Will their friends make a mess of things with their inappropriate comments and need to know everything, or will they convince the couple that happily-ever-after sometimes really can start with beer pong? Unfortunately, these ties have nothing to do with fuzzy handcuffs and everything to do with the mounting differences between them. Your Palm PDA is no match for myVtech Cordless, I stammer. Or are they? From bachelorette party hell, porn addictions, dinner roll baseball and botched wedding proposals to finding out everyone's extended family is chock full of crazy, Carter and Claire begin to question the strength of the ties that bind them. Futures and Frosting Don’t be jealous because the phone gets more time with me during the week than you do, I console him with a pat on his hand. Tara Sivec is a USA Today best-selling author, wife, mother, chauffeur, maid, short-order cook, baby-sitter, and sarcasm expert. ![]() Their friends are getting married and everyone is growing up, maturing and ready to face the future. Futures and Frostings by Tara Sivec on Audible:Ĭarter, Claire and Gavin have formed the perfect little family. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was provided a copy of this book by the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.Įvery year, countless new Christmas and holiday themed romance novels are released, and a good portion of them are anthologies. The Last Chance Christmas Ball is a 2015 Kensington Publication. The Last Chance Christmas Ball by Mary Jo Putney My True Love Hath My Heart by Joanna Bourne ![]() And many other dazzling, romantic tales in this star-studded collection that will fill your heart and spice up your holidays. a charming rake who finds far more than he bargained for. a widow yearning to glimpse her long-lost love for even one sweet, fleeting interlude. There's the headstrong heiress who must win back her beloved by midnight-or be wed to another.the spinster whose fateful choice to relinquish love may hold one more surprise for her. For at the top of each guest’s wish list is a last chance to find true love before the New Year…Ī chance meeting beneath the mistletoe, a stolen glance across the dance floor-amid the sumptuous delicacies, glittering decorations, and swell of the orchestra, every duchess and debutante, lord and lackey has a hopeful heart. ![]() Upstairs and downstairs, Holbourne Abbey is abuzz with preparations for a grand ball to celebrate the year’s most festive-and romantic-holiday. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Corrag's descriptions combine the oblique originality of a child with the precision and control of a poet.the novel is crowded with images stunning in their freshness and simplicity.there are moments when the sheer beauty of the prose takes one's breath is a novel of extraordinary beauty and quiet power that is impossible, having read it, not to look at the world anew' Guardian 'Corrag is a beguiling and sensitive heroine and Fletcher's powers of description are as strong as ever in her third novel' Financial Times 'Fletcher gives Corrag a lyrical narrative voice.a fascinating aspect of history' Daily Mail 'Susan Fletcher's lyrical, poetic style is burnished to a rare shine in her third book.her descriptions of the Scottish landscape are breathtaking, as is her depiction of the lonesome girl who is enraptured by the beauty of the Highlands.Incredibly moving' Marie Claire 'As compelling as it is heartbreaking.Fletcher's powerful prose will stay with you long after you finish the last page. The Highland Witch Susan Fletcher 366 pages first pub 2010 ( editions) fiction historical adventurous dark emotional slow-paced Description In 1692, brilliant, captivating Corrag-accused witch, orphaned herbalist, and unforgettable heroine-is imprisoned for her supposed involvement in a massacre in the Scottish highlands. ![]() |