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![]() ![]() ![]() My best friend had started a job as a professor and was lonely and wished there was a romance novel about her. "I wrote my first romance novel as a joke for a friend," they revealed. I was doing my PhD and excited to have escapist fun reading." They fell into writing romance novels by accident, after a trip to visit a close friend. "I didn't read romance until grad school. Parrish got into writing Queer romances while pursuing their PhD. I wanted to write a Hallmark Christmas movie in book form, but Gay, very Gay," they laughed. It's just magical and snowy and cheerful. "I'm Jewish and people were like, why are you writing a Christmas book? Growing up not celebrating Christmas, I have no negative association with it. "I love holiday stories, and this is a Christmas book," they said. I sat down with Parrish this week to discuss the book and what inspired them to create such a jolly tale. This book takes a page from the Hallmark Channel, with all your favorite holiday tropes-it has a small-town Christmas, a sunshine and grumpy pairing, and a precocious child teaching their single parent a thing or two about love. ![]() ![]() Our SGN winter book club is getting more festive thanks to Roan Parrish and their new holiday book The Lights on Knockbridge Lane. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Representative Traficant was convicted in 2002, the House voted to expel him three months later. ![]() If convicted, he could legally continue to serve from prison.The moment presents a test for the narrow House GOP majority. He has also already declared for a second term. Santos has long withstood calls to resign – including from many Republicans – and faced countless jokes. Santos’ constituents, and for Congress itself, it’s a sad moment. Now he’s in legal jeopardy, and the stakes are much higher.For Mr. He has pleaded not guilty to 13 criminal counts of wire fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds, and making false statements to the House of Representatives.Ī summary of the federal charges can be read here. The most serious charge, wire fraud, carries a maximum sentence of 20 years.Representative Santos admitted months ago to “embellishing” his résumé and told British TV host Piers Morgan that he’s a “terrible liar.” But owning up to lies is one thing. The first-term member of Congress – already infamous as a serial fabulist about, apparently, pretty much every facet of his life – was indicted Tuesday and turned himself in Wednesday. James Traficant of Ohio was expelled from Congress after a 10-count felony conviction on charges including racketeering and the filing of false tax returns.Today, it’s Republicans grappling with the alleged criminal behavior of one of their own, Rep. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was in this year that John Milton completed Paradise Lost, Frances Stewart posed for the now-iconic image of Britannia, and a young architect named Christopher Wren proposed a plan for a new London - a stone phoenix to rise from the charred ashes of the old city. While the central events of this significant year were ones of devastation and defeat, 1666 also offers a glimpse of the incredible scientific and artistic progress being made at that time, from Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity to Robert Hooke's microscopic wonders. Shedding light on these dramatic events, historian Rebecca Rideal reveals an unprecedented period of terror and triumph.īased on original archival research and drawing on little-known sources, 1666: Plague, War and Hellfire takes readers on a thrilling journey through a crucial turning point in English history, as seen through the eyes of an extraordinary cast of historical characters. The outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and with devastating repercussions. ![]() ![]() This is definitely a must read for fans of MM romance and enemies to lovers stories.įirst Son Alex Claremont-Diaz isn’t one to hide his disdain for Prince Henry, but when photos of an altercation at a wedding are leaked to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations, he agrees to a fake friendship with the Prince as damage control. It made their connection oh so hot and their resulting love even sweeter. They were complete opposites with Keaton having the world spoon-fed to him while Luke was from the opposite side of the tracks, just scraping by.Įven though they didn’t seem to like each other, I loved Keaton’s openness to explore the feelings Luke ignited in him. ![]() ![]() Keaton and Luke definitely brought some good, heated animosity to this story since they were two frat brothers who did not get along. The fact that it was also an enemies to lovers book as well? Priceless. I totally fell for their Him series so I knew that this was going to be another fantastic MM romance. Gah! Is there anything better than an MM romance by Bowen and Kennedy?! Only he didn’t expect to get turned on by the back and forth messaging with the other guyĪnd he definitely didn’t expect the other guy to be his annoying frat brother who’s running against him for house President. ![]() To make this happen, he turns to a dating app to find a willing participant. Keaton’s about to fulfill his girlfriend’s fantasy for her birthday – by inviting another dude to join them for the night. ![]() ![]() ![]() Byatt provides full explanatory notes and an introduction relating Mill on the Floss to George Eliot's own life and times.Įdited with an introduction and notes by A.S. ![]() With its poignant portrayal of sibling relationships, The Mill on the Floss is considered George Eliot's most autobiographical novel it is also one of her most powerful and moving. As she reaches adulthood, the clash between their expectations and her desires is painfully played out as she finds herself torn between her relationships with three very different men: her proud and stubborn brother, a close friend who is also the son of her family's worst enemy, and a charismatic but dangerous suitor. 'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?'īrought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family. ![]() ![]() ![]() Qiu Miaojin's writing is influenced by the non-narrative structures of avant-garde and experimental film as well as European and Japanese literary modernisms. Most accounts suggest that she stabbed herself with a kitchen knife. In 1994, she moved to Paris, where she pursued graduate studies in clinical psychology and feminism at University of Paris VIII, studying with philosopher Hélène Cixous. She worked as a counselor and later as a reporter at the weekly magazine The Journalist. ![]() ![]() Originally from Changhua County in western Taiwan, Qiu Miaojin attended the prestigious Taipei First Girls' High School and National Taiwan University, where she graduated with a major in psychology. Qiu's fictional works are "frequently cited as classics", and her unapologetically lesbian sensibility has had a profound and lasting influence on LGBT literature in Taiwan. Qiu Miaojin ( Chinese: 邱妙津 – 25 June 1995), also romanized as Chiu Miao-chin, was a Taiwanese queer novelist. Notes of a Crocodile, Last Words from MontmartreĬhina Times Literature Award, Central Daily News Short Story Prize, United Literature Association Award Taipei First Girls' High School, National Taiwan University, University of Paris VIII ![]() ![]() ![]() Murdo tempts and provokes David in equal measure, distracting him from his promise to find the agent provocateur responsible for the weavers' fate, and forcing him to acknowledge his physical desires.īut is Murdo more than a mere distraction? But as appalled as David is by Murdo's unrepentant self-interest, he cannot resist the man's sway. Whilst David refuses to entertain the prospect of entering into a loveless marriage for propriety's sake, Murdo is determined to wed one day - and has no intention of giving up the company of other men when he does so. ![]() Tormented by his forbidden desires for other men, and the painful memories of the childhood friend he once loved, David tries his hardest to live a celibate existence, castigating himself whenever his resolve slips.īut then into David's repressed and orderly world bursts Lord Murdo Balfour.Ĭynical, hedonistic, and utterly unapologetic, Murdo could not be less like David. The last thing he should be doing is agreeing to help the brother of one of the convicted weavers find the government agent who caused his brother's downfall.ĭavid's personal life is no more successful. His humble origins are enough of a hurdle, never mind his recent decision to defend a group of weavers accused of treason, prompting speculation that he may harbour radical sympathies. ![]() ![]() David Lauriston is struggling to build his reputation in Edinburgh's privileged legal world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Discovering a damsel in distress and the secret of Hurog both play a part in enabling Ward to figure out how to show himself as someone to be trusted. Undoing other people’s perception of himself turns out to be more difficult than Ward would like. Unfortunately for Ward, the damage done to him had enabled him to pretend to be quite dense. So when he dies at the beginning of the book, it would be fair to say that Ward did not feel like grieving. ![]() ![]() Until he had managed to damage Ward enough to affect his thinking, he saw Ward as his rival. Child-, spouse and animal-abuse were his main hobbies. What you need to know about Ward is that his dad was, to put it mildly, a monster. Its main character is Ward, heir to Hurog. Ward is a wonderful character, caught in his own trap, yet never quite giving up hope.ĭragon Bones is a stand-alone novel. ![]() And it fits with the dragon of the story. This is probably one of the better stories that Briggs has written. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an interpretation like that. Her books fall into the light entertainment category. The Hurog duology’s version of the Briggsian world-creation is placed in a world reeking of the middle-ages with all of its dragons, shape-changers, magicians and various other people. As you might have surmised from this blog she is quite a prolific writer. Patricia Briggs has written the Hurog duology. ![]() ![]() The majority of Dan Brown’s Inferno is told in the past tense third person from the many points of view of an ensemble cast of characters but mostly from that of Professor Robert Langdon. This study guide quotes and obscures the author’s use of a derogatory reference to a Romani person. This study guide refers to the 2013 Doubleday hardcover edition.Ĭontent Warning: Inferno depicts violence throughout and includes a scene of sexual assault. ![]() Textual and thematic references to Inferno abound in Brown’s novel. Written in the 14th-century Tuscan dialect, the Divine Comedy is credited with establishing the modern Italian language, and Dante Alighieri remains one of the most important writers in the history of Italian literature. ![]() The book’s title is a reference to Inferno, the first part of Dante Alighieri’s three-part epic poem Divina Commedia, or Divine Comedy in English, which was completed in the year 1320 and traced Dante’s fictional pilgrimage through the three realms of the afterlife: Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Heaven). ![]() |