![]() ![]() This is a must read series that will not disappoint ! You learn crucial details in the first two books that are the main events in book 3. In book 2 you meet Kat and with meeting Kat means feeling like you’re right there with her going through everything Kingmaker’s has to throw at you. ![]() You first meet Dean in book 1 where you really start to learn the reason for why he is the way he is. I highly recommend reading these books in order even though they are all standalone. I have my suspicions on who but only time will tell. Plus the added 3rd POV of The Spy is so intriguing that I wanted to keep collecting all the facts and clues. ![]() Don’t let the shadow fool you, she is a mafia queen in the making ! Dean + Kat are so explosive with chemistry that I listened to this book in one sitting because I had to know what was going to happen next. Decisions she has made have put her in the devil hands of Dean. Forced to abandon her dreams and come to Kingmaker’s, Kat ends up in the worst situation of anyone on the island. Kat is the 5’0, scared and quiet younger sister of Zoe. He is at Kingmaker’s to prove a point to everyone but especially his father. He seems desperate, alone, whiny and dare I say afraid ? He is a bully just to be one and he doesn’t care if anyone likes him or not. When we first meet him in The Heir there is an instant dislike for Dean. 5/5 DELICIOUSLY SEXY ⭐️’s ! DEAN YENIN IS A GOD. ![]()
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![]() Sprinkle 35 grams coarsely chopped pistachos over the top.Ī very straight forward cake batter preparation. ![]() ![]() Put the batter into the springform pan and smooth. Whisk 223 grams flour, 7 grams baking powder, one teaspoon freshly ground cardamom (hard to see, but it's there on the left side in with the flour) and 1/2 teaspoon salt in a medium bowl.Ĭream 113 grams/1 stick room temperature, unsalted butter with 75 grams granulated sugar with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy.Īdd two eggs, one at a time, then blend in 198 grams pistachio paste.Īdd the flour mixture alternately with 120 ml milk in three additions, beginning and ending with the flour.įold in 85 grams chopped dark chocolate (I used a mixture of 56% and 72%). ![]() The butter, eggs and milk should be at room temperature.īutter a 9" springform pan and heat the oven to 350º. ![]() ![]() It’s a job Deputy Director James Greer can only trust to one man-Jack Ryan. With the East German secret police closing in, someone will have to go to behind the Berlin Wall to investigate the potential defector. It’s an offer they can’t pass up…if it’s genuine, but the risks are too great to blindly stumble into a deal. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with an incredible offer-invaluable details of his government’s espionage plans in return for asylum. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. ![]() 1985Ī top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. In this previously untold adventure, a young Jack Ryan goes behind the Iron Curtain to seek the truth about a potential Soviet defector in the most shocking entry in Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times bestselling series. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Rooted in intrigue, humor and potential romance, though never far from heartache, Our Gen may be as close as revered and award-winning Philadelphia author Diane McKinney-Whetstone ever comes to the Beach Read section. ![]() “ Our Gen is warm and smart, accessible yet meaningful, a beach read with strong writing and emotional heft.” - BookPage Shifting the narrative between the characters’ pasts and the present day, Diane McKinney-Whetstone deftly builds suspense as she captures with insight, poignancy, and humor, the scars, tenderness, and swagger of those not yet old, but no longer young, coming to the mean acceptance that life is finite after all, who knew. With its walls of windows gushing light and air, the Gen becomes the catalyst for secrets to be exposed. Their camaraderie is exhilarating.īut beneath the fun and froth, storms gather. ![]() They regularly convene to smoke weed, line dance, and debate politics and philosophy as the wine goes down like silk. Main character Cynthia befriends the Gen’s two other Black residents, Bloc and Tish, as well as Lavia, who everyone assumes is from India. The Gen-short for Sexagenarian-is an upscale fifty-five-plus community located in the bucolic suburbs of Philadelphia. Residents of an active-living retirement community revert to lives of youthful indulgence, even as time-bomb secrets of their pasts tick toward explosion. “ Our Gen is warm and smart, accessible yet meaningful, a beach read with strong writing and emotional heft.”- BookPage ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Secondly, I’ve discovered I really love a good second chance romance, and this story is a perfect example. ![]() ![]() Its very title – a quotation from Gray’s “Elegy written in a Country Churchyard” – is an ironic literary joke. ![]() The comparison was meant to be unflattering, as the sensation school – despite its sophistication in the hands of writers such as Braddon and Wilkie Collins – was felt by the Victorian literary establishment to lack both moral and aesthetic legitimacy.ĭespite its happy ending, Far From the Madding Crowd is an unsettling, unstable book. Yet the Westminster Review concluded that, on the contrary, it had more affinity with the “sensation” school of fiction as practised by Mary Braddon, the bestselling author of Aurora Floyd and Lady Audley’s Secret, who specialised in convention-busting female characters, in melodramatic twists and in subverting bourgeois complacency. When it originally came out, anonymously in serial form in the Cornhill Magazine in 1874, one critic thought he could detect the hand of George Eliot, who was already known for her realist treatments of rural life in works such as Silas Marner and Adam Bede. ![]() Although Far from the Madding Crowd was Hardy’s first resounding literary success, reviewers could not agree on how to read it. ![]() How to square the novel’s contradictory impulses was a puzzle to its first readers, and remains so, newly thrown into relief by the release of Thomas Vinterberg’s film version, starring Carey Mulligan. ![]() |