![]() ![]() The characters are developed well and Diana and Emily both have good, satisfying arcs. Can their relationship stand the test when Diana’s past comes calling? The Characters As they spend more time together, both in and out of work, neither woman can fight the attraction that builds between them. Despite some misgivings, she agrees to keep Diana’s secret, since they both know it’s best for the hospital. ![]() But every time she pushes Diana, Emily is pleasantly surprised to see her rise to the occasion and quickly learns that Diana isn’t as intimidated by her icy demeanor as everyone else at the hospital.Īfter an encounter at a bar, Emily learns about Diana’s past as Dee. What none of her colleagues in Seattle General Hospital’s emergency department know is that, for the last decade, she’s been living her life as Dee Dragon, drummer for a popular band.Įmily Barnes isn’t keen on mentoring another resident, especially not one with a mysterious gap on her resume. If that sounds like a lot all in one book, trust me-it’s great!Īfter walking away from a residency ten years prior, Diana Petrell is starting all over again. ![]() ![]() Irregular Heartbeat by Chris Zett is a workplace medical romance with an ice queen and a professional drummer who’s left the rock and roll life behind. ![]()
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![]() All of London, including her father, believe that due to a few kisses with a prince and a dress that made her look enceinte, she’s probably pregnant and definitely disgraced. Our heroine, the beauteous Linnet Berry Thrynne, needs a hasty marriage. In fact, all who know him believe his childhood accident left him impotent. ![]() (He is not a surgeon - the cutting is done by his handsome French cousin Sebastien with whom Piers works.) Piers avoids anything resembling affection from others and has absolutely no plans to ever marry and produce an heir. He practices brilliant medicine on the locals - he is superb at diagnosing and treating their maladies. He was severely injured when young and suffers from chronic pain in his leg. The caustic Piers lives a life of self-imposed exile in his castle turned hospital in Wales. ![]() He’s Piers Yelverton, the Earl of Marchant, and he practices his snarky, deductive medicine in a huge castle in Wales, but he’s essentially House complete with cane, problematic familial relationships, debilitating pain, and a very nasty tongue. OK, so our hero isn’t actually Gregory House. Gregory House, the TV doctor with the crotchety brilliant medical mind. ![]() In When Beauty Tamed the Beast, Eloisa James’ second fairy tale based novel, our hero is Dr. ![]() ![]() More constraining still was the ubiquitous belief that advanced mathematics required a “very great tension of the mind…beyond the strength of a woman’s physical power.” She achieved this feat despite her well-meaning but overbearing mother, Anne Milbanke, and the shadow of fame and infamy cast by her father, Lord Byron, foremost of England’s Romantic poets. These inventions and discoveries, combined with her own prodigious intellect, provided the fodder for her own “Great Work,” a mathematical algorithm for the Analytical Engine, one of the world’s earliest conceptualized computers. But Ada’s travails and accomplishments as told in Enchantress of Numbers are both fascinating and enduringly relevant.Īda was born in England in 1815 at the tail end of the Industrial Revolution, and witnessed in her short lifetime (only 36 years) numerous scientific and technological advancements. I confess, I had not heard of Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace, who is viewed by many scholars as the first computer programmer, before picking up Jennifer Chiaverini’s latest book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Aelin’s snarky personality grabbed me from the very first chapter in Throne of Glass, but it took me a while (probably towards the end of ACOTAR) to warm up to Feyre. I’m going to have to go with Aelin for this one! She is my favorite female character EVER and, I’m sorry, buy Feyre doesn’t even hold a candle to her. Maas is my favorite author of all time and I just couldn’t resist! I am SO excited! People always ask me which of her series is my favorite and I’m like I CAN’T CHOOSE!! Maybe this will help me decide… Credit: Cailin Rose Petal Pages : I just had to show off her beautiful header □ Hello Lovelies! Recently, I came across this tag when I was scrolling through Octavia Mythical Reads’s blog. ![]() ![]() ![]() This association lasted 17 years, gained him national exposure, and coined the catchphrase "Quick, Henry, the Flit!" These references gained notice, and led to a contract to draw comic ads for Flit. In some of his works, he'd made reference to an insecticide called Flit. Additionally, he was submitting cartoons to Life, Vanity Fair and Liberty. ![]() He returned from Europe in 1927, and began working for a magazine called Judge, the leading humor magazine in America at the time, submitting both cartoons and humorous articles for them. At Oxford he met Helen Palmer, who he wed in 1927. He graduated Dartmouth College in 1925, and proceeded on to Oxford University with the intent of acquiring a doctorate in literature. Theodor Seuss Geisel was born 2 March 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() ![]() These decorations are embellished with butterfly wings, buffalo horns, boar's teeth, colorful feathers, and the like, and are further enhanced by body painting with pigments made from powdered stone, plants, berries, and river mud. ![]() As one would knot a tie or scarf, they ornament themselves with banana leaves or a stem laden with flowers. As in the West one might don a hat, people create caps from tufts of grass. Within hand's reach, a multitude of plants inspire fanciful and ephemeral self-decoration, and the Omo react spontaneously: a leaf, root, seed pod, or flower is quickly transformed into an accessory. In this region of East Africa, the rivers that run through the dry savannas are home to abundant flowers, papyrus, and wild fruit trees, and this luxuriance becomes an invitation to creativity and spectacle. The nomadic peoples who inhabit this valley share a gift for body painting and elaborate adornments borrowed from nature, and Hans Silvester has captured the results in a series of photographs made over the course of numerous trips. ![]() ![]() The scene of tribal conflicts and guerrilla incursions, Ethiopia's Omo Valley is also home to fascinating rites and traditions that have survived for thousands of years. An unprecedented series of images showing the Omo people's imaginative body decoration and embellishments. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the Forgotten still watched Epria, still exerted power when they wished it, and they favored this girl’s bravery and intelligence. ![]() It had happened during Epria’s dark days, when all was war and pain, and the Forgotten had left this world to its corruption. ![]() She had dressed up as him to protect him, and had been sent into the army as punishment in his place. He told a story as the images shifted and changed, about a poor maiden whose younger brother had been caught stealing bread. The performer was a storyteller, with a light box from across the sea. I couldn’t quite catch my breath, and the sounds around me were a little too loud, buzzing in my ears. I sank onto it, grateful for the support. And it had no sides, no arms, which meant I might actually fit in it, skirts and all. A few chairs had been placed there, too-mostly for elderly nobles, but one, nearest the stage, for me. A stage had been built at one side of the hall, and the crowd flowed toward it. After what felt like days, we settled down for the evening’s first entertainment. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jodi Meadows introduces a vivid new fantasy full of intrigue, romance, dangerous magic, and one girl’s battle to reclaim her place in the world. Wilhelmina’s magic might be the key to stopping the wraith, but if the vigilante Black Knife discovers Wil’s magic, she will vanish like all the others. Still the wraith pours across the continent, reshaping the land and animals into fresh horrors. Wraith is the toxic by-product of magic, and for a century using magic has been forbidden. With Osprey missions becoming increasingly dangerous and their leader more unstable, Wil can’t trust anyone. They assume the identities of nobles from a wraith-fallen kingdom, but enemies fill the palace, and Melanie’s behavior grows suspicious. ![]() Wil and her best friend, Melanie, infiltrate Skyvale Palace to study their foes. With them, Wilhelmina means to take back her throne. Ten years later, they are the Ospreys, experts at stealth and theft. ![]() When the Indigo Kingdom conquered her homeland, Wilhelmina and other orphaned children of nobility were taken to Skyvale, the Indigo Kingdom’s capital. ![]() ![]() ![]() He disappeared and is believed to have died while on a reconnaissance mission from Corsica over the Mediterranean on 31 July 1944. Saint-Exupéry spent 28 months in America, during which he wrote three of his most important works, then joined the Free French Air Force in North Africa, even though he was far past the maximum age for such pilots and in declining health. After being demobilised by the French Air Force, he travelled to the United States to help persuade its government to enter the war against Nazi Germany. He joined the French Air Force at the start of the war, flying reconnaissance missions until France's armistice with Germany in 1940. Saint-Exupéry was a successful commercial pilot before World War II, working airmail routes in Europe, Africa, and South America. ![]() They were translated into many languages. He received several prestigious literary awards for his novella The Little Prince ( Le Petit Prince) and for his lyrical aviation writings, including Wind, Sand and Stars and Night Flight. Croix de Guerre avec palme (1944, posthumous)Īntoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry, simply known as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ( UK: / ˌ s æ̃ t ɪ ɡ ˈ z uː p ɛr i/, US: /- ɡ z uː p eɪ ˈ r iː/, French: 29 June 1900 – 31 July 1944), was a French writer, poet, journalist and pioneering aviator. ![]() ![]() Now, why would a book make me physically cringe even before I have read any of it?īecause this book goes pretty much against everything I have learned about marketing, branding and career development.Īnd my immediate answer was no to the question am posing. When I saw the book amongst the others, I cringed big time: I cringed, even more, when I made the decision to buy it and cringed again after I paid for it. With Cal Newports’ “Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World” I have to confess it was the opposite. It’s that excitement where you know that someone has spent years of devoted time to amass the wisdom and insights on a topic that I am about to benefit from. Usually, when I pick a book from the shelf at the bookstore, I feel excited. ![]() |
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