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Beverly’s 2019 Year in Books
Take a look at Beverly’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
Beverly Diehl
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June 09
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Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll, and a Tiara
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2017
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Five Minute Love Stories
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2013
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Holiday Ever After
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2016
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3 editions
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Summer Sizzle
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2016
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Rejoice and Resist
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Jezebel: Great Sluts of History
Jezebel and Ahab Meeting Elijah in Naboth’s Vineyard Giclee. Print by Sir Frank Dicksee. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Her name has come to represent the symbol of an uppity, slutty woman. It’s the name of a movie, a butterfly, and of a popular website. But who was...
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This short (less than 60 pages) romance, set in Miami, has two delicious Jamaican leads: Anif, a best-selling author, and Nyoka, a sometime model, sometime make-up artist. Nyoka has been betrayed before. She has no intention of letting the arrangement ...more |
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This is a short read, page-wise, but it is so thick with great, and extremely relevant content, it's not a fast read. I found that I kept highlighting and highlighting all the insights. Yes, Abrams is a politically ambitious Black woman. The horror! " ...more |
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4.5 stars. I have never been so creeped out by a book AND kept reading. Immanuelle, our orphaned protagonist being raised by her grandparents, is a biracial young woman growing up in a community run by patriarchal prophets and their apostles. It is al ...more |
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I tried. I kept trying. I loved the IDEA of this book, and the setting, mining town in New Zealand at the turn of the twentieth century (I think) - how many times have I been there? But I could not get into it. I am sure the structure and plot and int ...more |
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I feel it should be known that I have not read a lot of witch related stories. If you’re looking for a witch reading expert to tell you how this compares, I am definitely not that person. I can only tell you that for me, this was a very uni" Read more of this review » |
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"The Year of the Witching has been described as a mix of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Vvitch/Salem, but I could honestly see many religious cults being used as a comparison here. Despite the easy comparisons (I would say loose comparisons), this book f"
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"I mean...I think it's pretty good. :) "
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Beverly Diehl
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| 4.5 stars. I still don't know how to pronounce Euryale, but I loved her as a character anyway, even if she did need moisturizer in her newly human again form. Asher, of course, is the deliciously sexy male love interest who is both protective, but al ...more | |
“If feeling yourself up had been an Olympic event, I'd have taken home the gold medal”
― Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll, and a Tiara
― Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll, and a Tiara
“I've since learned that when you lose your same sex parent as a child, it's very common to believe that you, too, will die at the same age as your parent, or when your child is the same age you were. It's a kind of 'instinctive' knowledge, like knowing if you jump into your bed from far enough away, the monsters aren't allowed to grab your ankles.”
― Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll, and a Tiara
― Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll, and a Tiara
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.
And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.
And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”
― Kafka on the Shore
And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.
And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”
― Kafka on the Shore
“I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
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“Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
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thank you for accepting my request to friend!!
Paganalexandria wrote: "Hi,thanks for friending me."Thank you. :-) Looks like we have more than a few books in common.
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