![]() Only the great rose of the façade, whose thousand colours were engulfed by a horizontal sunbeam, shone in the shadows like a jumble of diamonds and echoed their dazzling spectre at the other end of the nave. The counter-naves were full of darkness, and the lamps of the chapels were beginning to twinkle, the vaults becoming black. “The cathedral was already dark and deserted. ![]() ![]() Its rays, more and more horizontal, are slowly withdrawing from the pavement of the square, and rise along the steep façade, with the thousand round bumps protruding from their shadows, while the great central rose blazes like the eye of a cyclops inflamed by the reverberations of the forge.” A light in the heart of darkness It is the moment when the sun, already heading for the horizon, looks almost directly opposite the cathedral. ![]() Especially on those days of clarity, warmth and serenity, there comes a time when we must admire the portal of Notre-Dame. “It was one of those spring days of such sweetness and beauty that all of Paris, spread across squares and promenades, celebrated like a Sunday. More commonly known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugos Romantic novel of dark passions and unrequited love, Notre-Dame de Paris, is translated. Popularly known as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, this is the haunting story of Quasimodo, the hunchback Esmeralda, the gypsy dancer and Claude Frollo. ![]()
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![]() The book is full of familiar romance tropes: the widowed Hayden has a cherubic and precocious daughter, meddling friends and family members, and a hidden heart of gold as well as the aforementioned crazy ex-girlfriend. Unfortunately, the battle is cut short by misunderstandings galore, and sexual assault and the re-emergence of the earl's former girlfriend change the tone of the novel. As neither can back down from a challenge, the battle of wits and wills begins. To make it more interesting, he accepts her dare and turns it into a bet: if she doesn't resign, he'll give her a bonus, but if she does, he'll want.something from her. When Hayden tries to fire Sophia, she offers him a dare: that she can last 10 days as his nurse. What neither expects is the attraction that blossoms between them almost immediately. ![]() The earl, shot in the leg by an estranged lover, is not an easy patient, but Sophia plans to do the work she was hired to do. Sophia Camden is the third attendant hired for Hayden Milton, Earl of Westfield, in a matter of days. An injured nobleman and his nurse clash in this Victorian melodrama. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Face the headboard.”(.)īut is Dave only into the kink or does he really care for Shawn? When he straightened and faced him, his heart pounding, Dave gave a slow nod. His hands shaking, Shawn put it on, aware of Dave’s eyes on him the whole time. He reached into the bag and removed the tissue-wrapped teddy. Lace and satin panties,suspenders,stockings,teddies.and it turns out Dave really enjoys watching Shawn get his kink on, The most important thing is their friendship but when Dave finds his collection of women's underwear,all bets are off. When Dave announces he's broken up with his girlfriend and thinks he might be bi,Shawn can only dare to hope that the object of his fantasy might become a reality. This is a quickie but quite delicious.ĭave and Shawn have been friends for years and Shawn has always been a bit in love with Dave.But Dave's straight.or is he? 4 Stars.Men wearing women's underwear *happy sigh* ![]() ![]() ![]() Whitley, Scott Wiggerman, Cristan Williams, and L. Peterson, Kenneth Pobo, Brad Richard, Hannah Riddle, Laurence Ross, Liana Roux, Kevin Sessums, Del Shores, Erin Elizabeth Smith, Will Stockton, Dan Stone, Christine Stroud, Billie Tadros, TC Tolbert, Dan Vera, Annie Virginia, Valerie Wetlaufer, C.T. Mills, Cameron Mitchell, Foster Noone, Joseph Osmundson, Eddie Outlaw, Seth Pennington, Evan J. Buy The Queer South: Lgbtq Writers on the American South by Douglas Ray (Editor) (ISBN: 9781937420802) online at Alibris. Mack, Ed Madden, Jeff Mann, Randall Mann, Mary Meriam, Stephen S. Gilson, Ellen Goldstein, Mirian Bird Greenberg, Elizabeth Gross, Johnathan Harper, Scott Hightower, Matthew Hittinger, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Rex Leonowicz, Sassafras Lowrey, Tyler Lynn, Bo McGuire, Rangi McNeil, Kelly McQuain, M. Daniels, Nick Dephtereos, David Eye, Jason K. ![]() Contributors are Dorothy Allison, Shane Allison, John Andrews, Derrick Austin, Jeffery Berg, Richard Blanco, Perry Brass, Dustin Brookshire, Jericho Brown, Joey Connelly, William Cordeiro, C. ![]() ![]() From hilarious to heartbreaking, anxious to angry, religious to reluctant, contemplative to celebratory, this anthology expands our ideas of what it means to be queer and what it means to represent the land south of the Mason-Dixon. Amazon.in - Buy The Queer South: Lgbtq Writers on the American South book online at best prices in India on Amazon.in. In THE QUEER SOUTH, Douglas Ray has assembled over 60 queer-identified voices exploring their experiences of the American South in nonfiction and poetry. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To combat monotheism, Onfray writes, we must employ “sound use of our understanding, rational ordering of our minds, implementation of a true critical will.” But it quickly becomes clear that reason is not what motivates this philosopher. ![]() A glance at history is enough to confirm the misery and the rivers of blood shed in the name of the one God.” ![]() it foments contempt, wickedness, the forms of intolerance that produce racism, xenophobia, colonialism, wars, social injustice. Monotheism, Onfray argues, “seeks to promote self-hatred to the detriment of the body, to discredit the intelligence, to despise the flesh. Atheist Manifesto takes aim at the three great Western religions, making a case for atheism strictly on the basis of the alternatives’ demerits. The founder of a free university in Caen and a household name in France, the 48-year-old Onfray has written some 30 books, of which this is the first to be translated into English. That may seem an unlikely epithet to apply to the leftist French philosopher whose Atheist Manifesto, a Number One best seller in his native country, calls for “more and more Enlightenment!” in order to debunk religion. Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, by Michel Onfray (Arcade Publishing, 240 pp., $25.00) ![]() ![]() ![]() I loved Vee, Layla, and Ammo since they were first introduced. Because I read the other two books in the series, Cole and Sadie are more developed, and you can see their growth later on. Although Cole and Sadie weren’t my favorite couple so far in the series, at least in Catching Cole, I like how they set up the rest of the series. A fair warning, though, it ends in a cliffhanger that sets up the second book, Vindictively Vicious.Įven though I enjoyed the story and world, I loved the side characters more for some reason. I was hooked from the beginning and read it in one day. Sadie’s new life and past collide.Īfter reading back-to-back books in series that were long, rereading Catching Cole was a nice palette cleanser. He is everything that she was running from. ![]() She runs away from it to make a new life for herself. “Sadie, we all have demons and shit we try to escape from, but at some point, you have to make a choice to not let those things define you and affect every decision you make.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Some might say this info-dumpy stuff is perfectly fine in Sci-Fi-I don’t. Plus, pages and pages were devoted to explaining the alternative history when it could’ve been more integrated into the plot-details only appearing when relevant-or at least summarized with far fewer words. My main gripe with Machines is the long digression on the P versus NP problem, which could’ve been boiled down to a paragraph for the sake of moving the story along. ![]() If he were tasked with writing instruction manuals, they’d be page-turners. ![]() As one member of my book club put it, “I’d read anything he wrote.” Yes. I can’t say it was my favorite of his, but he set the bar pretty high with Atonement and On Chesil Beach. Ian McEwan’s first “sci-fi” novel, Machines Like Me, published earlier this year, has not been getting the best reviews, but I found it enjoyable to read. ![]() ![]() They retained, however, their primary composers Barry Melton and Country Joe MacDonald, keeping the sound and style of the original band. ![]() ![]() The first Fish album he appeared on was CJ Fish, which they recorded in January 1970 at the Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles.Īccording to Brandon Budenz’s AllMusic review of CJ Fish: Country Joe and the Fish went through a personnel change for their fifth album, CJ Fish, adding Greg Dewey, Doug Metzner, and Mark Kapner in place of David Cohen and “Chicken” Hirsh. ![]() This came close to falling apart when bassist Doug Metzner got completely turned around on the beat, forcing the group to fumble around for a few moments before righting the ship and bringing the main set to a powerful close. As far as his part at Woodstock, Wade Lawrence and Scott Parker write in their WoodTALK article on the band’s performance that drizzly Sunday evening: The group followed this with a short jam based around a Barry Melton guitar solo before moving gracefully back into “Rock and Soul Music,” this time taking the jam out to some length. He has has a minuscule internet footprint. Doug played bass with Country Joe and the Fish at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. ![]() ![]() The Big Rip is a possibility where dark energy goes wrong.ĭark energy is some mysterious stuff that seems to be present throughout the universe, that's making the universe expand faster. But there's another apocalyptic possible fate of the universe that you write about called The Big Rip. You talk about the Big Crunch, Heat Death and Vacuum Decay - they all sound so apocalyptic. Here is a short excerpt of their conversation: Mack spoke with IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed about the the theories of the universes eventual demise. ![]() In her book, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking), she explores the mind-bending science behind different end-of-universe scenarios, and also ponders the meaning of existence when nothing - not even the universe, will last forever. She studies the possible fates of the universe. Katie Mack is a theoretical astrophysicist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario. In about five billion years, the sun will scorch the earth to a crisp - unless humans finish off the job before the sun has a chance to. Since it had a beginning, it will have an ending. ![]() ![]() Ideas 53:59 The End of Everything: Katie MackĬosmologists aren't sure how the universe will end, but they're pretty confident that it will. ![]() |