![]() ![]() Herbert West comments at one point his own personal worldview and reasons for inventing: “Life is a chemical….the soul is a myth.” They practice on a drowning victim with little apparent success. ![]() Part 1: “From the Dark” – The narrator describes how he first met West who’s obsessed with inventing a serum that would help revive the dead. ![]() The following offers a terribly brief summary of each part. Read all together as a book, it’s repetitive. Each part re-introduces the story of Herbert West up to that point, as if readers needed a refresher. The story was originally a magazine serial, and you wouldn’t need research to figure that out. Still, I made it through this story because I was curious how a hundred-year-old tale would hold up. I’ve never been tempted by Frankenstein (or his Bride), and Edgar Allen Poe was a mere curiosity for me in high school. This definitely isn’t my genre, horror stories essentially about zombies. This was the first that became available. I don’t even know what book of Lovecraft’s he ended up reading! Knowing I shouldn’t make blind recommendations, tough, I figured I should try one on for size too. Lovecraft to see if that might be a good fit. ![]() When he asked me for old-school sci-fi books or similar, I sent him to H.P. I think we’ve got similar tastes, and we tend to be two of the more faithful readers in our Siblings’ Book Club. It’s not too often that my older brother asks me for tips on good books, though I’m not sure why. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Oblivious to the threat, Xander welcomes her into his inner circle, determined to rescue his mate. With rebellion in her heart, Cassi defies her king and befriends the prince she’s been ordered to kill. ![]() Loyalties are tested and an ancient war begins anew… When a surprising offer comes his way, he instantly accepts, sparing no time to consider the consequences. He’ll do anything to return to the sky and the people he left behind. An entire civilization exists within the fog, and its survival depends entirely on her.Īdrift at sea on a ship full of strangers, Rafe fights to cope with his new reality. But between her unruly new magic and an unyielding young king, the world below comes with more responsibility than she ever dreamed. When Lyana wakes in the Sea of Mist, adventure is the first thing on her mind. GENRE: Young- Adult, Fantasy, Magic, Romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() High-quality “heads” are hunted and eaten at luxury game reserves for the rich. Throughout the novel, the reader follows Marcos on his “meat runs.” Breeding centers, processing plants, and butcher shops exist for the slaughter and distribution of human meat. Marcos and his family members are reacting in their own ways to “the Transition”-the recent period of this dystopian world in which cannibalism became the norm. His distraught wife lives at her mother’s, his sister is a social-climbing burden, and his father is succumbing to dementia in a nursing home. Marcos lives his life on autopilot, doing what he needs to do to survive one day at a time. The story centers around Marcos Tejo, a respected processing plant worker who is emotionally broken after his baby’s death. ![]() Governments have legalized cannibalism (which has the added benefits of curbing overpopulation and reducing poverty), and factory farms have reopened for the breeding, slaughter, and processing of humans. ![]() Societies around the globe, rather than shifting to vegetarianism, continue to demand meat at alarming costs. A virus has decimated the world’s animal population. In Tender is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica expertly crafts a horrifying reality that feels too contemporary to be the future. ![]() ![]() This is what is called 'The mysterious Quality' (of the Tao). In loving the people and ruling the state, cannot he proceed without any (purpose of) action? In the opening and shutting of his gates of heaven, cannot he do so as a female bird? While his intelligence reaches in every direction, cannot he (appear to) be without knowledge? (The Tao) produces (all things) and nourishes them it produces them and does not claim them as its own it does all, and yet does not boast of it it presides over all, and yet does not control them. While its authorship is debated, the text. When he has cleansed away the most mysterious sights (of his imagination), he can become without a flaw. The Tao Te Ching is a classic Chinese text written around the 6th century BC by Laozi, a Zhou-dynasty courtier. When one gives undivided attention to the (vital) breath, and brings it to the utmost degree of pliancy, he can become as a (tender) babe. ![]() When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rage burned redly in his bloodshot eyes as he turned once more and hurried along the path, which, as it left the glade, ran along the edge of a dense thicket that rose in a solid clump of greenery among the trees and bushes. He was a Cimmerian and understood the voices of the wilderness as a city-bred man understands the voices of his friends. To another man it would have seemed merely the howl of a wolf. Halfway across the glade he stopped short and whirled, catlike, facing back the way he had come, as a long-drawn call quavered out across the forest. He limped slightly as he followed the dim path that led across the open space. ![]() Under his matted black mane his face was drawn and gaunt, and his eyes burned like the eyes of a wounded panther. A brown- crusted bandage was knotted about his thickly-muscled left arm. He was naked except for a rag twisted about his loins, and his limbs were criss-crossed with scratches from briars, and caked with dried mud. For all his massive, muscular build he moved with the supple certitude of a panther. Then he stalked across the glade, placing his feet with care. ![]() The man scowled and glanced quickly back the way he had come, as if fearing their flight had betrayed his position to some one unseen. But the gay-hued birds that flitted about in the sunshine of the open space took fright at his sudden appearance and rose in a clamoring cloud. There had been no sound to warn the grey squirrels of his coming. ONE moment the glade lay empty the next, a man stood poised warily at the edge of the bushes. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the study Mattel, Inc.: Global Manufacturing Principles (GMP) - A life-cycle analysis of a company-based code of conduct in the toy industry (Sethi, Veral, Shapiro, Emelianova, 2011) the authors successfully provide insights into the moral and ethical dilemmas of operating a multinational corporation (MNC) that is highly dependent on Global Manufacturing Principles (GMP). ![]() The ethicacy of corporate behaviors are influenced by a myriad of factors yet most strongly reflect the internal culture, alignment of leadership to vision, and accumulated trade-offs made by management over years of ethical decisions, trade-offs and outcomes. ![]() Ethical Behaviors of Mattel in the Toy Industry ![]() ![]() Brooklyn-based creative collective MSCHF, which managed to purchase a limited print of Hirst’s $30,000 spot painting L-Isoleucine T-Butyl Ester, which Hirst created in 2018, decided to “indulge in a bit of creative destruction.” (The actual spot painting themselves usually sell for upwards of $1 million). A printed version of one of those colorful and dizzyingly grid-like works – which first appeared in the mid-1980s and have been produced almost every year since (as of 2012, Hirst said that he had been producing an average of 60 spot paintings a year) and which largely come with names “titles that are taken arbitrarily from the chemical company Sigma-Aldrich’s catalogue ‘Biochemicals for Research and Diagnostic Reagents,’ a book Hirst stumbled across in the early 1990’s” – is now the center of another largely controversial work.Īs it turns out, while 54-year old, British-born Hirst was busy creating a rainbow design to “pay tribute to the wonderful work staff are doing in hospitals around the country,” a group of American artists were crafting something of their own. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Among some of the “most widely recognized works” of Damien Hirst come from a series a spot-centric paintings. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's sinfully sexy and rough in all the right places. ![]() I really enjoyed this and would definitely recommend it. “I’m gonna make sure you know.” His palm glided up over my tee shirt and my breath caught as his fingers teased my nipple through the cotton. But now we were adults, and I was getting to know him, I feared for my heart. When I was a young teenager, he’d caused my palms to sweat and my head to spin. ![]() It's quite a slow burn but the sex scenes are HOT and their placement in the story was just right. I don't want to say too much but don't worry.for those who don't like love triangles,this really isn't one.The Author makes it work as events from the past become clear and I was totally routing for Jude,Walt,and Shea and the outcome was pretty damn perfect. ![]() Note to self: Read more books by this Author.I read Victim of Love years ago and really liked it so I don't know what took me so long.īook titles don't normally grab my attention but this one definitely did.I mean,I Saw You First? and then the blurb.two brothers wanting the same man,I honestly couldn't wait to get my hands on this.Īfter a traumatic incident in his childhood Jude is finally getting his life back on track but things are about to get a whole lot complicated when a person he never wanted to see again re enters his life.As if that wasn't problematic enough said person's brother is taking an interest in him. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Always drawing on firsthand documents, she illustrates the historical background to the witchhunt and shows how the trials have been represented, and sometimes distorted, by historians-and how they have fired the imaginations of poets, playwrights, and novelists. In The Salem Witch Trials Reader, Frances Hill provides and astutely comments upon the actual documents from the trial-examinations of suspected witches, eyewitness accounts of "Satanic influence," as well as the testimony of those who retained their reason and defied the madness. Within two years, twenty men and women are hanged or pressed to death and over a hundred others imprisoned and impoverished. ![]() Against the backdrop of a Puritan theocracy threatened by change, in a population terrified not only of eternal damnation but of the earthly dangers of Indian massacres and recurrent smallpox epidemics, a small group of girls denounces a black slave and others as worshipers of Satan. ![]() ![]() It wasn’t a human, but a very powerful goblin. And Decadent Kane brought it!Ĭlover made a huge mistake one night, caught out in the rain in the forest a friendly human guy offers her shelter and she steps into her very own prison. Something that would make me squirm in my seat. a very fun and a bit sexy read when you have a weekend that needs some fun!!įor weeks I have been craving for something that would just give me a major overload. Over all i would love to give this books 4.5 stars but since it has to been an even star (boo) im giving it 4 stars. the description of the fight seen was well written and i expected the very ending of the book but how it came about i was totally wrong about, so nice little plot twist :) ![]() not to give to much away, the fight seen toward the end was short but not long enough where it takes over the book it was the perfect length. the discriptions of the characters are very well written and i could picture them while i was reading even down to the green slimy skin. the main character clover and her curse are so different and believe me I felt had for her with that curse (evil evil). ![]() when i started this book i was instantly hooked, knowing it would be a fun weekend read. I normally don't read books about Faye and magic but the cover was so intriguing that I have to read it and bumped it up my tbr list. I received this book as a winning for a giveaway drawing, and was drawn by the cover of this book. ![]() |