And to top it off, you guessed it! He’s a psychopath! American Psycho is a satirical work set in the 90’s but with plenty of relevance in today’s world. Patrick Bateman is a young, handsome, rich yuppie working on Wall Street and described by his colleagues and acquaintances as “the boy next door”. I am a horror fan so blood and gore don’t bother me but let me just tell you right now, the book is worse (in that it is much more descriptive and your imagination will work against you here.) It’s definitely one of my favourite movies. They’ve probably seen the movie anyway!Īnd speaking of the movie: I assume a lot of people have seen it. This book wouldn’t be picked up quite so regularly by people below that age if it was not banned. Nothing mentally scarring happens for at least the first 100-150 pages, which is probably long after anyone under the age of 18 has lost interest anyway. To be honest, I think this just adds to the allure of the book. Even in the other states it has to be shrink-wrapped and often there are signs telling you to go to the counter to collect it I kid you not. To celebrate Banned Books week I thought I’d post my review of American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis which is heavily regulated for a book in Australia! In fact, it is still banned in Queensland (besides Brisbane because they’re special).
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Unfortunately Jackson’s ex-wife and a jealous acquaintance from his past try to hurt both of them physically and psychologically. While getting to know each other, both these wounded souls cannot ignore the instant attraction or the pulling of their hearts, but in the background lurk several individuals who yearn to teach them both lessons in pain and revenge. After being married to a selfish and superficial woman, he decides that women are simply for his pleasure and to ranch alongside him and his family, never expecting the bundle of sensual energy that punches him in the gut after meeting his new neighbor. Stony Creek Series 2 primary works 2 total works Book 1 Stony Creek Cowboy by Taylor Berke 3.84135Ratings15Reviewspublished 20133 editions Siren Classic: Erotic Cowboy Romance, HEADr. Jackson Powell, a huge, handsome cowboy, literally saves her life soon after she arrives in town. She is yearning for the passionate life she wanted to live after a safe marriage to her best friend. 69 Published: 2013 Stony Creek Cowboy Stony Creek (Siren Publishing Classic) Taylor Berke Taylor Berke. Billie Rothman, a beautiful, widowed MD, leaves all that she knows behind, attempting to follow her dreams to Stony Creek, Wyoming. Filled with daring exploits among disgruntled hunters, arduous labor on the African plains, and vivid depictions of various wildlife, this remarkable tale is at once an adventure story, a travelogue, a preservationist call to action, and a fascinating examination of both human and animal nature. The Eye of the Elephant recounts the Owens' struggle to save these innocent animals from decimation, a journey not only to supply the natives with ways of supporting their villages, but also to cultivate support around the globe for the protection of elephants. When biologists Mark and Delia Owens, residing in Africa to study lions, found themselves in the middle of a poaching fray, they took the only side they morally could: that of the elephants. She was unpaid, untrained, self-funded, and arrived with the starry-eyed idealism of most foreigners. She started a new one with the Presidential Elephants of Zimbabwe. Yet in the 1970s and 1980s, about 1,000 of these captivating creatures were slaughtered in Zambia each year, killed for their valuable ivory tusks. Elephant Dawn In 2001, Sharon Pincott traded in her privileged life as a high-flying corporate executive. Intelligent, majestic, and loyal, with lifespans matching our own, elephants are among the greatest of the wonders gracing the African wilds. The authors of Secrets of the Sahara battle the elephant poachers of Zambia in this "exciting.part adventure story, part wildlife tale" ( The Boston Globe). Alone, they haven’t had the strength or spirit to face what life has hurled at them. For Laurie, partnering with Ed has erased some of his fear of performing and brought back joy to a sport he wasn’t sure he could ever truly love again.As Laurie and Ed lose themselves in dance, their lives continue to spin around them: Ed’s injury makes it clear he’s nowhere near recovery, Laurie feels the pressure by friends and family to perform once more, and the community center that has become such an important part of both their worlds threatens to close. For Ed, dancing with Laurie becomes a way to reconnect with his body after losing football. Both Ed and Laurie have heartbreak in their pasts, but somehow dancing together eases their individual pain. But when a bargain Ed strikes at the center lands him as an assistant in Laurie’s ballroom dancing class, their perceptions of each other turn upside down. It’s just that every time he turns around, that damn professional dancer is in his way, hating Ed right back. He’s bounced back, more or less, from the neck injury that permanently benched his semi-pro football career, and he volunteers now at a local community center. Ed Maurer’s life would be fine if he could just get Laurie Parker off his back. It’s easy to sympathize with her, and it’s heartbreaking to see all she has to do just to stay afloat and stay safe while all of these new things are happening around her. She basically has to start life from scratch after aging out of foster care and going to community college while homeless. The length ends up hurting it-it’s a fairly long book, but so much of it could have been edited out or paced better.Ĭrystal Blue is a good character to start a story with because she’s so fiercely independent. Though I got invested in Crystal as a main character and was rooting for her until the end, I don’t think there’s much that is special or noteworthy about this story that we haven’t already read in hundreds of other books. I haven’t read a longer urban fantasy story in a while, so I was excited to dig into this one. Neither was her unusual appetite for meat. She also learns that the beast her mother died protecting her from wasn’t just a part of her imagination. After recovering from an almost fatal car accident she soon learns that there are definitely more than just animals and humans in the world. Sure, there were some instances where she wondered if she were something more, but what more could she be other than a foster kid from Nevada? There’s no such things as vampires and witches…right?Īfter abruptly leaving home to study Zoology in California, Crystal runs into Alveya Tera, a beautiful, and, yet, dangerous member of the mysterious Josbryn family. As far as Crystal Knew, she was just a normal girl. Shelton later continued post-graduate work at Peerless College of Chiropractic in Illinois and served an internship at Crandall Health School in Pennsylvania. He also attended Lindlahr College of Natural Therapeutics for post-graduate work and served at Lindlahr's and Sahler's Sanatoriums. Shelton attended Bernarr Macfadden's College of Physcultopathy in Chicago and interned at Crane's Sanatorium in Elmhurst, Illinois. He was especially intrigued by their fasting when the farm animals became sick. As a child, Shelton took an interest in animals, especially their habits when sick as compared to when well. Shelton was born on Octoin Wylie, Texas to Thomas Mitchell Shelton and Mary Frances Gutherie Shelton, who were devoted Christians. His ideas have been described as quackery by critics. He saw himself as the champion of original natural hygiene ideas from the 1830s. Shelton was nominated by the American Vegetarian Party to run as its candidate for President of the United States in 1956. Herbert McGolfin Shelton (October 6, 1895 – January 1, 1985) was an American naturopath, alternative medicine advocate, author, pacifist, vegan, and a supporter of rawism and fasting. Alternative medicine, vegetarianism, Raw foodism, pacifism Then, more than ninety years after Mazie began her diary, it's discovered by a documentarian in search of a good story. If Mazie won't help them, then who? When she opens the doors of The Venice to those in need, this ticket taking, fun-time girl becomes the beating heart of the Lower East Side, and in defining one neighborhood helps define the city. Addicts and bums roam the Bowery homelessness is rampant. When the Great Depression hits, Mazie's life is on the brink of transformation. But her high spirits mask a childhood rooted in poverty, and her diary, always close at hand, holds her dearest secrets. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty-even when Prohibition kicks in-and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. and blackmail.The fifth of Henry's queens.Her story.Acclaimed, bestselling historian Alison Weir draws on extensive research to recount the tale of a vivacious young woman used by powerful men for their own gain. For those who share her secrets are waiting in the shadows, whispering words of love. She captures the heart of the King.But Henry knows nothing of Katheryn's past - one that comes back increasingly to haunt her. It is a profoundly moving story that lingers long after the last page is turned' ELIZABETH FREEMANTLE'Alison's sensitively drawn novel will change everyone's preconceptions' SUSAN RONALD.A NAIVE YOUNG WOMAN AT THE MERCY OF HER AMBITIOUS FAMILY.At just nineteen, Katheryn Howard is quick to trust and fall in love.She comes to court. Utterly sublime' TRACY BORMAN'Conveys the heart-rending pathos of a young woman executed, whose only real crime was her naivete and her desire to be loved. 'With characteristic verve and stunning period detail, this novel will captivate you and break your heart. 'This six-book series looks likely to become a landmark in historical fiction' The TimesAlison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times-bestselling Six Tudor Queens series, relates one of the most tragic stories in English history: Katheryn Howard, Henry VIII's fifth queen. Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard, The Tainted Queen: Six Tudor Queens 5 Lotto and Mathilde seem like the perfect couple, in fact when they meet in their early twenties at a party everyone looks on as two of the most beautiful people first set eyes on each other and Lotto proposes on the spot. Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies is a novel that looks at this conundrum thorough both sets of eyes in a marriage. Be it your family, friends or your partner. One of the things that has always bothered me most, and left me with some sleepless nights, is the fact that you can never really know exactly what someone else is thinking ever. What unfolded was a book which I enjoyed very much indeed and has grown on me all the more since I read it. I knew nothing other than the fact that lots of people I trust love her writing and this book and so I went into it completely blind with no idea of what to expect from the plot or the prose which can sometimes be the best way in. The title, and indeed the author, that I have heard the most positive murmurs about both her in the UK and when I was in the US was Lauren Groff and Fates and Furies. I mentioned a week or so ago that I have decided to try and get involved, unofficially, with the Tournament of Books this year. A masterful depiction of the precarious nature of Black life during the war and of slavery’s unrelenting assault on human dignity. As he and Patrick continue their lifelong competition for Etheridge’s respect from opposite sides of a battle line, Richard eventually realizes just what freedom requires and what it will require giving up. was surely the only way that a slave father felt properly honored”), he nonetheless yearns for connection with his self-centred half sister, his cousin Patrick, and, most of all, his father. As he recalls the years of slights and mindless cruelties he endured as both his father’s child and property (“Strict obedience. Richard remains conflicted about the white half of his family. Yet despite the unifying call for abolition, the Union ranks remain mired in racism. It’s hard as a historian to write about the full scope of human experiences with the existing records and evidence, so novelists have the ability to imagine what that could have been and certainly. Richard Etheridge, son of plantation owner John Etheridge and an enslaved Black woman, is one such soldier, proud of his sergeant’s stripes and his company’s mission to free other enslaved people on Roanoke Island. Faladé’s tensely wrought first novel is set during a critical time in 1863, just after the Emancipation Proclamation, when those enslaved by unrepentant secessionists were liberated and fled to join freedmen’s colonies or enlist in the Union army. The role of Black soldiers in the Civil War remains underchronicled. |