How to Murder Your Life by Cat Marnell5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Her life had become a twisted merry-go-round of parties and pills at night, while she struggled to hold down her high-profile job during the day. ![]() Within 10 years she was living it up in New York as a beauty editor at Condé Nast, with a talent for 'doctor-shopping' that secured her a never-ending supply of prescriptions. But, you know, I had access to some really fantastic self-tanner.'īy the age of 15, Cat Marnell longed to work in the glamorous world of women's magazines - but was also addicted to the ADHD meds prescribed by her father. I was also an alcoholic-in-training who guzzled warm Veuve Clicquot after work alone in my boss's office with the door closed a conniving and manipulative uptown doctor-shopper a salami-and-provolone-puking bulimic who spent a hundred dollars a day on binge foods when things got bad (and they got bad often) a weepy, wobbly, wildly hallucination-prone insomniac a tweaky self-mutilator a slutty and self-loathing downtown party girl and – perhaps most of all – a lonely weirdo. But beneath the surface, I was full of secrets: I was a drug addict, for one. ![]() That's all that most people knew about me. 'I was twenty-six years old and an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America. Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of How to Murder Your Life, written and read by Cat Marnell. ![]()
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Sang young park love in the big city5/23/2023 ![]() While the stories are connected by the narrator and his experiences, they’re also stand-alone pieces in a way, focusing on a different aspect of Young’s love life. The stories tell of the adventures of his adult life so far, with each starting at a certain event before backtracking to a previous starting point, allowing the writer to tell us how he got there. ![]() Love in the Big City is a novel, of sorts, consisting of four stories told by a thirty-something gay Korean man, Young. – Tilted Axis Press, translated by Anton Hur ![]() I hope you’ve packed your dancing shoes because we’ll be going out on the town and returning with the rubbish trucks the next morning. That doesn’t mean, though, that this will be a relaxing outing – far from it. Well, our last International Booker Prize adventure proved to be an exhausting one, with trips to four different countries, so it’s probably for the best that today’s journey involves a lengthier stay. ![]() The dry by jane harper reviews5/22/2023 ![]() tswaineĭo you think that leaving town was the right way for Erik Falk to deal with the situation he and Aaron were facing? How did his father's doubts about him affect Aaron? But a death might bring back good or bad memories of the person. scottishroseĭo you think it is true that death rarely changes how we feel about someone? Yes, gossip and everyone knowing more about your business than you do yourself can be a problem. I prefer living in a small town and knowing my neighbors. Here are some of the comments posted about The Dry.ĭo you prefer small-town living or urban living? Have you ever lived in a small town? What do you think are the positives and negatives of a small town's tight-knit community? ![]() ![]() Please be aware that this discussion guide may contain spoilers! ![]() Teatro grottesco5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() If he spent more time developing his characters and making me care for them then I would probably find their meaningless lives more tragic. I'm also more frightened of the bogeyman in my closet than I am of the vapory supervisor in the corner office. I suppose some people would find this "horrifying" and I understand and appreciate what he is trying to do but it's just not part of my belief system so it doesn't work as well for me as say Lovecraft, or better yet, Ellison does. Ligotti is definitely unique in his fictional translation of the ultimate meaningless of life. The atmosphere is more absurdist than horror. The stories were weird and somewhat disturbing but never creepy or scary. ![]() I'm in the Harlan Ellison camp where the best stories have flesh and blood characters that we actually care about. ![]() I didn't like this book as much as I thought I would because, although I love Kafka, I've moved on in how I think fiction should address the nihilistic worldview. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Set against the backdrop of surging nationalism and reform in twentieth-century Bengal, this book recounts the lives of these two outstanding women and compares their work, their approaches and their ideologies. A fiery proponent of the independence of women, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain was denied formal education, but emerged as a leading write of her time and founded a school for girls. Womens rights were first advocated in India by men of. One of the few women graduates of her time and perhaps the first political leader from Bengal in the nationalist movement, Sarala Devi Chaudhurani founded the first all-India women's organization in 1910. When independence was granted in 1947, they achieved important rights. Set against the backdrop of surging nationalism and reform in twentieth-century Bengal, this book recounts the lives of these two outstanding women. One of the few women graduates of her time and perhaps the first political leader from Bengal in the nationalist movement, Sarala Devi Chaudhurani founded the first all-India women's organization in 1910. ![]() Truth and Measure by Roslyn Sinclair5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() But everything will work out.just so long as they don't do anything totally ridiculous. With their lives in chaos, every day brings a new challenge bigger than the last. This single, shocking moment throws boss and assistant together into an intimacy neither could have imagined. ![]() Her life is about power, success, and dominance-not a baby! When the unthinkable happens, Vivian's regimented world is turned upside-down. She might be smack in the middle of a messy divorce, but you have to make sacrifices to be the best. Vivian Carlisle helms the internationally revered fashion publication Du Jour. It's a tough job, but her ice queen boss won't settle for less than perfection. ![]() Jules Moretti is newly single, an aspiring writer, and the hyper-competent assistant to the most powerful woman in fashion. What happens when the world's fiercest fashion editor learns she's pregnant-and her distracting assistant is the only one she can turn to? This wildly popular age-gap lesbian romance mixes humor and chaos with self-discovery. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even within the pre¬ cincts of his own much-touted genealogy, Lovecraft was an outsi¬ der, and the delight which he took in linking his name with the first families of Providence was in some measure a fanciful com¬ pensation for his own very real obscurity and unimportance in the cosmic scheme of things. «I thank the powers of the cosmos that I am a Rhode Island Englishman of the old tradition ! » he often exclai¬ med in his letters to younger friends, even though the fact is that Lovecraft was rejected by his more prosperous and prominent Yankee relatives, who thought of him as «queer », «crazy as a bed-bug », and an inveterate ne’er-do-well. The popular conception of Lovecraft, and the image which HPL himself consciously projected in his later years, is that of the staunch New England gentleman, a gentleman of decidedly Puri¬ tan extraction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this case, partly because I hadn’t been able to do the research I usually put into my historical novels, I was stuck on Chain of Gold and I turned to writing Queen of Air and Darkness, partly to free up my writer’s block. And sometimes what that means is that in order to rediscover joy in the writing process I have to put aside something I’m stuck on and work on something else. Writing is both my job and what I love to do most. During the last year, I’ve had to deal with all three - several bouts of pneumonia, the death of my stepfather, and some pretty bad writer’s block. Writer’s block, illness, family tragedies - these are all things we can’t schedule for, and that delay or reschedule us. One of the things about being an artist, though, is that try as we might, life always gets in the way of our schedules. You can see a pretty accurate interpretation of the schedule here on tumblr. ![]() Fall 2018: Chain of Gold, the first book in The Last Hoursįolded into that were the last two books of Magisterium, and the first two books of The Eldest Curses, my co-written series about Alec and Magnus.It’s serious to me, at least. : )Īs a lot of you know, the publication schedule of my books went like this: So, time to tackle a serious topic - my schedule. Ok, deep breaths, Shadowhunters, because we know that this is going to upset some of you. Back in March Cassandra Clare shared a tentative schedule for her future books and today she sent another newletter to share yet another update. ![]() ![]() ![]() He interrogated her about what she did and didn't say and then declared, "I've been played before, I get it." He refused to look at her, focusing intently on cutting his food. ![]() He appeared to think Colleen told Cole that when they get back to the "real world" they could potentially explore a relationship. Cole appeared more interested in Colleen than she was in him, but it was an understandable conversation to have with someone you connected with in the pods on a TV show called "Love Is Blind."Ĭolleen later told Matt about the conversation off-camera, and he reacted strongly. ![]() Matt Bolton and Colleen Reed appeared to be falling head-over-heels in love in Malibu until a conversation between Colleen and Cole at the pool threatened to ruin everything.ĭuring a cast pool party on episode five, the former daters discussed how their respective engagements were going and told each other they'd potentially hit on each other in the real world if they weren't participating in the experiment. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]() Bloomability by sharon creech5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Her joys and struggles make up a rich tapestry of experiences she can find nowhere else. Home and her first life seem so far away.īut new friendships and the awesome beauty of Switzerland begin to unlock thoughts and dreams within her. Dinnie's accustomed to change, with her family constantly moving for "opportunity"-but when her aunt and uncle whisk her far away to an international school in Switzerland, she's not sure she's ready to face this "opportunity" alone.Īll at once she finds herself in a foreign country, surrounded by kids from different cultures speaking all sorts of languages and sharing various beliefs. That the kidnappers are actually Aunt Sandy and Uncle Max makes no difference to thirteen-year-old Domenica Santolina Doone, better known as Dinnie-she just doesn't want to go. My second life began when I was kidnapped by two complete strangers. ![]() |