![]() ![]() Put your hands on their neck or use your hands to caress their hair (without them feeling like they are being strangled), like their body is being pulled into the kiss, and they just might fall inside of your face. Do not swallow their tongue because you’ll need it to let them explore the parts of your mouth that most kisses miss. Give every part of your mouth to the kiss, but try not to eat their face because you want to have some of their face left to kiss later. When you kiss someone, don’t church kiss them, unless it’s the kind of kissing you do when you sneak into the confessional booth after hours. Kiss them like it’s going to be hung on someone’s wall someday, as a reminder of what love can be like. Pretend you are like people who are holding each other after a long war is over and peace has been declared and you are being photographed in black and white. ![]() Lean in for the kiss like you are both in a musical and the score is swirling around you - as if your dress or her dress or both of your dresses will be blown up by the wind at any moment. When you kiss someone, kiss them with both hands, kiss them like you are holding on tight and won’t let go. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Her first marriage to Edmund Tudor, the half-brother of King Henry VI, lasts a very short time, but she gives birth to a child, Henry Tudor. As a young girl, she frequently prays all through the night and hopes that everyone will notice the rough callouses of her “saints’ knees.” Her early ambition is to enter a convent and become an abbess, but since she is closely connected to the ruling Lancaster line, her mother forces her to marry to produce an heir that might one day be king. From the very beginning of the story, Margaret is portrayed as very religious and very proud of her religiosity. This somewhat unusual method of narration gives the author ample scope to present Margaret’s internal dialogue. ![]() The story is told in first person and in present tense. She is called the “Red” Queen since the House of Lancaster is typically symbolized by a red rose, while the rival House of York is symbolized by the white. In this historical novel by Philippa Gregory, the title refers to Margaret Beaufort, the mother of Henry Tudor who spends her life plotting to put her son on the throne of England. If you’ve ever read or seen Alice in Wonderland, you might be suspecting that The Red Queen is not such a promising nickname. ![]() ![]() The myth of the Vampire takes root in the old slawian belief. In 1912, on 20 April, he died in London and was later cremated at Golden Green Crematorium, where his ashes remained. In 1908, Bram Stoker made an interview with Winston Churchill, which was published in the Daily Chronicle. After that, he wrote other books like *The Jewel of the seven stars* or *The man*. ![]() His most important novel was published in June 1897. In this year, he spent summer holiday at Whitby, which would become an important place in *Dracula*. In 1890, after making some American tours, he made first notes for what would become *Dracula*. In 1875, Stoker published his first horror story, *The chain of destiny*, which appeared in the newspaper *Shamrock* in four serial parts. In 1870, following his fathers footsteps, he entered the Civil Service as a clerk in Dublin Castle. He graduated with Honours degree in Pure Mathematics. He was an active speaker at the Philosophical Society, which eventually made him President. There he became University athletics champion, an unbeatable road runner and a good footballer. ![]() After a long incapacitating childhood illness he attended a private day school in Dublin, before having a successful career at the Trinity College in Dublin. ![]() How does one have to protect against Dracula?īram Stoker was born on 8 November 1847 in Dublin. ![]() First text passage: Jonathan's description of the count ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bauer masterfully manages the various plotlines. Praise for Soar - 'Jeremiah's voice is perfect- plucky, vulnerable, pragmatic, smart, and immensely endearing. ![]() Full of humor, heart, and baseball lore, Soar is Joan Bauer at her best. It's up to Jeremiah and his can-do spirit to get the town - and the team - back in the game. But Jeremiah finds the town caught up in a scandal and about ready to give up on baseball. Hillcrest, where Jeremiah and his father Walt have just moved, is a town known for its championship baseball team. So when he's told he can't play baseball following an operation on his heart, Jeremiah decides he'll do the next best thing and become a coach. He really loves baseball and he knows just about everything there is to know about his favorite sport. Jeremiah is the world's biggest baseball fan. ![]() ![]() ![]() “ I was driving around Wellington between appointments a week ago, and my son was feeding CD after CD into the cars audio when one track just leaped out in its vocal and musical style and quality,” said Sprey. ‘When we announced ROCK2WGTN a couple of weeks ago our office email and PO Box was flooded with CD,s, Bio’s and letters from over 75 New Zealand and Australian bands who wanted to get onto the programme for Easter,’ says Phil Sprey of Capital C: Concerts, “with our partners Pacific Entertainment we treat all these enquiries very seriously regardless of whether they are well known or just starting out and look for the stand out presentation and production - the flare!” This year the company is presenting Strike Percussion to open for Elton in New Plymouth and in Christchurch the fast rising band ‘The Valves” who proved they can produce video, CD and stage performances well above many of their NZ contemporaries will open for Bon Jovi. The band then went onto open for Eric Clapton at the Mission shortly thereafter. ![]() In 2006 Capital C: Concerts took Wellington band Pearl and had them open for Elton John at the Westpac Stadium in front of 35,000 people. ![]() ![]() ![]() The three discuss Mariana’s use of violence, especially when it involves children the various afterlives of the translations of Mariana’s award-winning fiction and the arborescence of the novel form. ![]() Indeed, Mariana’s interest in writing fiction in the horror genre was prompted by hearing her first horror stories, the terrors of torture and disappearances under the Argentine Junta government. Publishers Weekly called it “A masterpiece of literary horror.” In a wide-ranging conversation, Mariana reflects on being a horror writer in Argentina, a country that obsesses over its traumatic past. Our Share of Night follows a spiritual medium, Juan, who can commune with the dead and with the world of demons, and his son, Gaspar, as they go on a road trip to outrun a secretive occult society called The Order that hopes to use Juan and Gaspar in their unholy quest for immortality. Booker Prize shortlister Mariana Enriquez, author of Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, joins Penn State professor Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra and host Chris Holmes to talk about her most recent novel, Our Share of Night, her first to be translated into English. ![]() ![]() Their prey? Slimy boys who take advantage of unsuspecting girls. ![]() But at a party under a full moon, Becca learns that they also have a big secret. At first glance, Marley, Arianna, and Mandy are perfect. To her surprise, she’s immediately adopted by the most popular girls in school. When Becca transfers to a high school in an elite San Francisco suburb, she’s worried she’s not going to fit in. Arnold will devour the snappy dialogue, vivid artwork, and timely social commentary. When the new girl is invited to join her high school’s most popular clique, she can’t believe her luck-and she can’t believe their secret, either: they’re werewolves. ![]() Pretty Little Liars meets Teen Wolf in this fast-paced, sharply funny, and patriarchy-smashing graphic novel from author Maggie Tokuda-Hall and artist Lisa Sterle. Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Lisa Sterle (Illustrator) ![]() ![]() The compounds are cordoned off from an outer world called the “pleeblands,” where everyone who is not employed by a corporation must live. He grew up inside a “Compound”-a community built around a corporation where rich scientists and their families live. ![]() Through flashbacks we learn of Jimmy’s childhood. ![]() Snowman invents for them a mythology in which someone called Crake is their creator and god, and Oryx, a mysterious woman who appears to Snowman’s hallucinating mind in his loneliest moments, is their caregiver and creator of all animal life. He eats some of the food he’s scavenged and stored, hears voices from the past in his head, and interacts with the Crakers, who ask him to tell stories from the past. The novel opens with Snowman going through his daily routine. ![]() The second storyline follows Jimmy (this was Snowman’s name before the plague hit) and describes how the Crakers, the plague, and Snowman’s lonely existence came to be. ![]() The first follows Snowman’s endeavors after the human population of Earth has been wiped out by a massive deadly plague, when all that apparently remains are the Crakers (a genetically manipulated group of beings who are similar to but not the same as humans and survive easily in this environment) and Snowman himself, who watches over the Crakers and struggles himself to survive. ![]() ![]() ![]() After caring for the other girls, Delilah would like to move on with her boyfriend, Bennett, but she can’t bear his touch. With secrets come the lies each of the girls is forced to confront. Until the wind kicks up a terrible secret at their mothers’ much-delayed memorial. The case is closed and their daughters are left in their dusty shared house with the shattered pieces of their lives. So when three more women disappear one stormy night, no one in Bishop is surprised. The town of Bishop is known for exactly two things: recurring windstorms and an endless field of sunflowers that stretches farther than the eye can see. Content/Trigger Warnings: Sexual assault (implied, later revealed), stabbing, death, sex (implied), gaslighting, violence, blood, underage drinkingĪndrea Hannah’s Where Darkness Blooms is a supernatural thriller about an eerie town where the sunflowers whisper secrets and the land hungers for blood. ![]() ![]() ![]() On a normal day at school, a Tracker Marks Zoey Montgomery. Cast and Kristin Cast, talks about a sixteen-year-old girl who lives in a world full of vampyres. As my forehead exploded in pain Kayla opened her mouth and screamed. He lifted one long white finger and pointed at me. Your destiny awaits you at the House of Night.’ Night calls to thee hearken to Her sweet voice. ‘Zoey Montgomery! Night has chosen thee thy death will be thy birth. Then the vampyre spoke and his ceremonial words slicked across the space between us, dangerous and seductive, like blood mixed with melted chocolate. ![]() There was no mistaking what he was and even if I hadn’t felt the power and darkness that radiated from him, there was no frickin’ way I could miss his Mark, the sapphire-blue crescent moon on his forehead and the additional tattooing of entwining know work that framed his equally blue eyes. Scientists said one thing, people said another, but the end result was the same. Okay, I realized pretty quick that he wasn’t technically “dead.” He was undead. ![]() |