Verlag: BookRix
A materialistic biologist is confronted with one of his worst nightmares, which he did not believe to be true, until he comes face to face with a dogman so feirce, that it shakes not only his world view but his whole psyche. Please review this book, if you liked it!
Charlotte Mary Mew was born on 15th November, 1869 in London to professional parents – her father was responsible for the design of Hampstead Town Hall. Charlotte, one of seven children; three of whom died in early childhood, was educated at Lucy Harrison's School for Girls and attended lectures at University College, London. In 1898 her father died but failed to make provision for the family. Her mother, anxious about the family's social standing, did not want that known even though there was heavy ongoing expense for two other siblings who were in mental institutions. However for Charlotte helping to support this overhead and her mother and sister, Anne, meant that her ambition to be a paid writer must now become a reality. Initially this meant prose - her poetry was to gestate until later in life. During this time Charlotte and Anne made a pact never to marry for fear of passing on insanity to their children. As a writer Charlotte was a modernist, resisting the shackles of Victorian society's suffocating demands on behaviour especially for women. Despite her diminutive figure and dainty feet, she wore trousers, kept her hair short, smoked roll ups, was a Lesbian and tried to appear masculine. Her difficult family life, although her close relationship with Anne was a constant source of comfort and companionship until her death in 1927, was coupled with rejection in her personal life but also provided inspiration for her wonderfully insightful and original poetry that you can read here. Despite her fans including Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf and Siegfried Sassoon, Charlotte's works have been shamefully neglected. Charlotte Mew died on 24th March in 1928 and was buried at Hampstead Cemetery.Zum Buch
There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. From their pens to your your ears.Zum Buch
An ex-con with a secret can't resist his former cellmate's daughter. I never claimed to be a saint. But it wasn't until I found myself in cuffs that I learned the damage I was capable of. The only sunshine on those gray prison days came in the form of letters from a hopeful teenager with a quick wit. But the letters weren't addressed to me. They were meant for my bastard cellmate, who'd sooner toss them on the floor with the rest of his trash. So, I picked them up, read them, and wrote back, signing each letter, Love, Dad. For four years, I kept up the lie, telling myself this girl deserved better than a deadbeat who won't even open her letters. But the truth is, she deserves better than both of us. My first task as a free man is to walk into the salon where she works and admit that I'm a liar. But the pink-haired, tattooed bombshell who greets me is a far cry from the awkward teen I envisioned. Gone are the braces, the pigtails, and picture-day smiles. Tatum Fitzroy is a grown woman with a body like a winding backroad and a dirty-girl lip bite that makes me wonder if coming clean is really worth the destruction. Contains mature themes.Zum Buch
Joe Hurtz was the Gay Old Dog that lived in Chicago and frequented all of the best places in "the Loop", or downtown as it was called. He lived well and tipped well but was still a single bachelor at the age of 50. A death bed promise to his mother to not marry until his three sisters were married, kept him from any sort of commitment as all three settled into a spinsters life.Zum Buch
Silence a racing mind and drift into deep sleep with low-stakes narratives crafted for ultimate relaxation. When the stress of the day refuses to fade, the brain needs a soft place to land without the pressure of a complex plot. This audio experience utilizes the power of monotony to replace bedtime anxiety with soothing, rhythmic tranquility. Instead of keeping you on the edge of your seat, these stories are engineered to make wakefulness uninteresting, guiding you gently toward a state of heavy, peaceful rest. Immerse yourself in the gentle hum of ordinary life. From the hypnotic cycle of a dryer to the methodical inventory of a quiet storage room, every scene focuses on texture and repetition. There is no conflict here, only the comfort of predictable patterns and safe environments. What you will discover within this sleep aid: Deliberately uneventful journeys through calm settings like empty trains and quiet neighborhoods. Methodical descriptions of texture and rhythm designed to halt intrusive thoughts. A cohesive progression from mild alertness to a hazy, dreamlike focus. Harmless imagery that encourages mental drift and rapid stress relief. Let go of the need for excitement and embrace the luxury of boredom. Whether heard in sequence or dipped into at random, these chapters ensure that nothing important ever happens, inviting sleep to arrive naturally.Zum Buch
"I binge-read this book, savoring the gothic creepiness at the heart of each tale. Packed with compelling, nuanced lives and the deaths that haunt them, each story is a séance—an invitation for unsettled spirits to let their presence be known, 'desperate for someone to supply the narrative.' Murray supplies it with great style and an uncanny knowingness, leaving room for our imagination to fill in the suggestive spaces with our own dark dread." —MONA AWAD, author of All's Well Sabina Murray has long been celebrated for her mastery of the gothic. Now in Muckross Abbey and Other Stories, she returns to the genre, bringing listeners to haunted sites from a West Australian convent school to the moors of England to the shores of Cape Cod in ten strange tales that are layered, meta, and unforgettable. From a twisted recasting of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, to an actor who dies for his art only to haunt his mother's house, to the titular "Muckross Abbey," an Irish chieftain burial site cursed by the specter of a flesh-eating groom—in this collection Murray gives us painters, writers, historians, and nuns all confronting the otherworldly in fantastically creepy ways. With notes of Wharton and James, Stoker and Shelley, now drawn into the present, these macabre stories are sure to captivate and chill.Zum Buch
