![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Obviously, I've read a lot of books in 54 years! It's a very evil way to use up time when I should be doing other things. When I get bored, I go through the different lists and rediscover books I've read in the past. I'm not snooty-I'm just up to my eyeballs in work and appearances!Īlso, don't be alarmed by the number of books I've read. I just don't have the time to take part, so please don't be offended if I don't join your group or accept an invitation. Though I would love to join groups, I'm going to turn them all down. I return to my regularly scheduled profile: So before you go getting all hacked off at me for trashing your favorites, know that I've written GoodReads to find out what's going on. How do I know I haven't? Because I haven't read those books at all. Hey, folks! I just discovered that apparently I have given some very popular books single-star ratings-except I haven't. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Stidham and her brothers Arlie Boggs, Curt Boggs and Doug (Vanover) Boggs her husband Percy Sturgill a sister, Laura She had a beautiful smile and a personality to match.Īllie was preceded in death by her parents Walton and Lina ![]() Rook and watching Judge Judy and Everybody Loves Raymond. Allie enjoyed picture puzzles, playing (and winning) She loved Christmas, especiallyĭecorating. She loved to cook for everybody and feeding Allie loved her flowers, gardening and feeding and getting Priority, she loved her kids, grandkids and great-grandkids with Life, Percy Sturgill and through 47 years of marriage they raisedĮach other and their family. She was born Jin Pound, VAĪnd attended the Gilley School. Hall-Clintwood, VA Her loving family was at her bedside.Īllie was a Christian and a member the Independent BaptistĬhurch of Pound, VA. With her Lord and Savior Sunday from Heritage POUND, VA-Allie (Boggs) Sturgill, 87, went home to be ![]() ![]() During World War II (1939-1945) Thomas wrote scripts for documentary motion pictures.Īfter the war Thomas was a literary commentator for BBC radio. ![]() A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (1940) is a group of autobiographical sketches, and Adventures in the Skin Trade (published posthumously, 1954) contains an unfinished novel and other prose pieces. Thomas's other works include Twenty-five Poems (1936) and The Map of Love (1939), containing both poetry and prose. This introspective tendency is less apparent in Deaths and Entrances (1946) and In Country Sleep (1951), which are generally regarded as containing his finest writing. But the freshness and vitality of Thomas's language draw the reader into the poems and reveal the universality of the experiences with which they are concerned. Thematically, these poems and virtually all that followed seem obscure because they contain elements of surrealism and personal fantasy. ![]() ![]() At this early age, he revealed unusual power in the use of poetic diction and imagery the volume won him immediate critical acclaim. After grammar school he moved to London where, in 1934, his first book of poetry, Eighteen Poems, was published. Dylan Thomas wrote 'I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression'.Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales, on October 27, 1914. ![]() ![]() ![]() The malignant, crab-like cullular malfunction, which began to multiply at bewildering speed in their body tissue, will for those countless millions, tragically bring the realisation that their cancer could not be cured, controlled, or even contained, by the usual methods of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. That one statistic explains why I felt the need to write this book, for in spite of the billions spent on research on the refinements of surgical techniques on the development of more sophisticated radiation machines on the search for a drug to eradicate every cancer cell in the body which does not produce side-effects so unpleasant as to limit severely the amounts prescribed on the hunt for a steroid able to totally combat the hormone-related cancers on perfecting a biological strategy to the point where it is always able to marshal the body’s own natural defences into fighting malignant cells in spite of all this, one out of every six persons alive today will contract, and die from, cancer. Every second of every day, a man, woman, or child dies of cancer. ![]() ![]() ![]() We knew Mara was an unreliable narrator but wowzers. Threads left unexplored in the first trilogy are addressed, but new questions arise, and we see flashbacks of events from the first trilogy. Creepy characters, threats, and danger for them all kept me listening. The Becoming of Noah Shaw addresses many questions, delves into Noah’s Dad, gives us Noah’s perspective and shares some rather enlightening and freakish details about Mara. I was like, who are these people? I understand why the publishers went with a male narrator, but for the listener’s sake, I wish they had kept Romano. ![]() While I appreciated his accent for Noah, I loathed his voice for Mara, and it was jarring to hear these characters with a different voice after becoming used to Romano’s interpretation. The Becoming of Noah Shaw is narrated by new to me narrator, Joe Jameson. The Dyer trilogy was told from Mara’s perspective and brief perspectives of Noah. I listened to the first series on audio, narrated by Christy Romano, so I didn’t even hesitate to go that root this time. For me, there were a few threads, and questions like that ominous prophecy regarding Mara and Noah left unanswered so, I had to dive in. I’ve come to learn that when it comes to Mara Dyer, nothing is ever at it seems. If you loved the way, the Mara Dyer trilogy ended and are in a happy place this series may upset that peace. ![]() ![]() ![]() So I’ll leave out as much detail as I can, in courtesy for those people who would read this. I went through this book having no idea on what I’m going to get, I just read the synopsis and became curious about it. ![]() I honestly can’t put into words what I feel about Leonard Peacock, he’s one those characters that I honestly don’t like but I care deeply about. Reading this would drag you inside the head and into the life of Leonard Peacock. In fact, I found myself needing to read something light just to take some of the heaviness away. ![]() I found this book extremely hard and painful to read. I’m hoping he can save me, even though I realize he can’t.” “I’m trying to let him know what I’m about to do. Maybe one day he’ll believe that being different is okay, important even. It is also the day he will kill his former best friend, and then himself, with his grandfather’s P-38 pistol. To let them know I really cared about them and I’m sorry I couldn’t be more than I was–that I couldn’t stick around–and that what’s going to happen today isn’t their fault. I want to give them each something to remember me by. In addition to the P-38, there are four gifts, one for each of my friends. Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick ![]() ![]() So does the sheriff who comes to investigate the “abandonment”. But fate-in the form of a newborn left in the restroom-has other ideas. ![]() Now, as Little Bridge Island Public Library’s head of children’s services, Molly hopes the messiest thing in her life will be her sticky-note covered desk. Welcome to Little Bridge, one of the smallest, most beautiful islands in the Florida Keys, home to sandy white beaches, salt-rimmed margaritas, and stunning sunsets-a place where nothing goes under the radar and love has a way of sneaking up when least expected.Ī broken engagement only gave Molly Montgomery additional incentive to follow her dream job from the Colorado Rockies to the Florida Keys. ![]() New York Times -bestselling author Meg Cabot returns with a charming romance between a children's librarian and the town sheriff in the second book in the Little Bridge Island series. ![]() ![]() Or as we true Dresden-philes see it, whether any other concept could cram so much fun into so few pages. Many of Alera’s readers must be coming there wondering if it will have some of the Dresden magic (of the storytelling kind, of course). Or you can read on for my spoiler-free musings of what makes the books work, and what they show about what makes medieval-type fantasy so different from urban fantasy.) Yes, “so far”-if you’re standing in front of a bookshelf or a Click To Buy button right now, you can take those two words as my recommendation. ![]() (One caveat: Furies of Calderon and Academ’s Fury are the only Alera novels I’ve read so far. Can I write about the Codex Alera series and keep it out of the shadow of Jim Butcher’s signature Dresden Files books? It ought to be possible… but I’m not going to try. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Course of Irish History (Paperback) by Theodore William Moody, Francis X. Ireland, they write, has always been poor because of its ungiving soil always isolated because of its ring of imposing mountains and steep hills-but always open to invasion from. Martin's collection of essays by leading historians offers all those things, but it takes the land itself as its starting point. ![]() Martin, Theodore William Moody, Co-Francis Martin, Martin Moody Paperback, 504 Pages, Published 2000 by Roberts Rinehart ISBN-13: 978-1-56833-175-1, ISBN: 1-56833-175-4 "Much Irish history is written as a matter of heroes and leaders, of great personalities and sweeping events. ![]() The Course of Irish History (3rd Edition) by T. Paul ISBN-13: 978-0-7100-6040-2, ISBN: 0-7100-6040-8 "Lacks DJ, Previous owners name on ffep, some bleached spots on edge of Navy boards, Light foxing to fore edge.Text block clean." Moody, Theodore William Moody Hardcover, 182 Pages, Published 1968 by Routledge & K. Historical Studies (1st Edition) Papers Read Before the Irish Conference of Historians. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even now posters on the London Underground proclaim the virtues of McNab's latest novel, while Ryan has been busy fronting a BBC television series and promoting an exercise guide. Vetted and approved by Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD), the books have become an almost sacred part of British military and public myth. Ryan followed with his story, entitled The One That Got Away. Bravo Two Zero, McNab's lionised account of the mission, which was published in 1993, sold millions of copies and launched a slew of copycats. One managed to escape by foot across the desert into Syria.įor Andy McNab, the patrol's leader, and Chris Ryan, the soldier who escaped - both names are pseudonyms - the military blunders led, ultimately, to remarkable financial success. Three of the eight-man team were killed, and four captured and tortured, while trying to destroy Scud missile launchers in north-west Iraq. It was the call sign for a British Special Air Service (SAS) patrol during a mission in the 1991 Gulf War that was "compromised" behind enemy lines. ![]() For many people those three words conjure up the image of the soldier hero: the special-forces trooper - the kind of cool-minded killer who could go anywhere and seemingly do just about anything. His account of an SAS mission that went wrong is more about truth than heroics, reports Nick Ryan.īravo Two Zero. Britain's government has spent five years trying to gag Mike Coburn. ![]() |