![]() ![]() However, he is happy to leave her behind and only gives her a thought when he hears that she has been kidnapped when, ludicrously, he is prepared to lay down his life to save her. Originally published in 1927, The Big Four is the fifth outing for Hercule Poirot and sees him reunited with his faithful Watson-like Hawkins, who narrates the madcap adventure, having returned, temporarily, from his sojourn in the Argentine, where he has picked up a wife. ![]() Because of her reputation, I persevered, expecting that it would get better, but the only moment of relief came when I reached the end and moved on to another book. ![]() OK, I understand that she is the best selling novelist of all time and regarded as the doyenne of crime fiction and that if popularity is any judge she is the bee’s knees, but if I had known that this book had been written by anyone other than her, I would have given into my desire to delete it from my Kindle after the opening couple of questions. ![]() Sometimes I wonder if I am missing something with Agatha Christie. A review of The Big Four by Agatha Christie – 230404 ![]()
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Mike Mignola has deservedly become one of the biggest names in comics for his creation of Hellboy. Emperor Zombie is trying to take over the world once again The Amazing Screw-On Head has been enlisted by President. ![]() ![]() AMAZING SCREW ON HEAD & OTHER CURIOUS OBJECTS HC (C: 0-1-2) ![]() ![]() Some people have ups and downs Dean Koontz has his peaks and trenches. While I really liked some of his books I utterly loathed some of the others. I have a love/hate relationship with Dean Koontz. But hell, I'm not a bestselling American novelist so what do I know. Dogs are adorable creatures as most of us know but I've yet have to met a dog owner who finds solace in holding a warm bag full of his pup's poop. The weird incident remained troubling, intriguing, but it no longer frightened her."Ī gift ? And yes guys, it's a page long description of collecting fresh, steaming dog waste. 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Imagine how easy it would be for the doll to make us hurt. ![]() What if when we looked away, its eyes narrowed and its smile faded. We ask it to be a vessel for our joys and fears, and it complies–always smiling, always staring. When our coos and gibberish have yet to turn to words, the doll is the only being in the world that understands us. We talk to it, and, in our mind at least, it talks back. As we get older, we start to play with the doll. As we cry and thrash our soft, marshmallow limbs, the doll lays unmoving, its half-smile never fading, glassy eyes staring lazily and unwavering into the sky. When we’re born, our parents place us, alone and defenseless, into a crib. By curator of HOWLS book club nominees for July’s “Just Punt the Little Bastards: Evil Dolls and Creepy Toys” category ![]() ![]() ![]() She attended a meeting and was introduced to writers of all experience levels. Amy didn’t even admit to her husband at this time that she was a writer.Īmy’s life would change when she found a local fiction writing group in her area known as the Chesapeake Romance Writers. She never shared her stories with anyone except for a few close friends. She continued to write at this time as a hobby and to de-stress after work. She originally thought that it might be a summer job, but it ended up turning into an eleven-year career. ![]() She earned her degree in communications there and also met her husband at school.Īfter college, Amy went to work with the U.S. ![]() After graduating high school in Virginia, Amy went on to attend Virginia Wesleyan University in Norfolk. She always considered writing to be a hobby and never really considered it to be a potential career. Her first stories were written when she and a friend would write silly stories in elementary school. Clipston has sold more than one million books in her career thus far.Ĭlipston grew up in New Jersey and started writing at a very young age. She is the author of the Kauffman Amish Bakery series, the Roadside Assistance series, the Hearts of Lancaster Grand Hotel series, the Amish Marketplace, and many more. Amy Clipston is an award-winning American author who writes book series. ![]() ![]() A delicious mix of silly and steamy, this is an irresistible tale of exasperation at first sight. Because with walls this thin, the tension’s gonna be thick. Their late-night hallway encounter has…well…mixed results. When the wallbanging threatens to literally bounce her out of bed, Caroline, clad in sexual frustration and a pink baby-doll nightie, confronts her heard-but-never-seen neighbor. ![]() Every moan, spank, and-was that a meow?-punctuates the fact that not only is she losing sleep, she still has-yep, you guessed it-no O. Adding insult to O-less, she also has an oversexed neighbor with the loudest late-night wallbanging she’s ever heard. Alice Clayton (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating 202,239 ratings. She has Clive (the best cat ever), great friends, a great rack, and no O. The Cocktail book series by Alice Clayton includes books Wallbanger, Rusty Nailed, Screwdrivered, and several more. Their late-night hallway encounter has, well, mixed results. She has a flourishing design career, an office overlooking the bay, a killer zucchini bread recipe, and no O. Alloways Hot Rod Shop, Louisville, Tennessee. When the wallbanging threatens to literally bounce her out of bed, Caroline, clad in sexual frustration and a pink baby-doll nightie, confronts her heard-but-never-seen neighbor. ![]() Caroline Reynolds has a fantastic new apartment in San Francisco, a Kitchen Aid mixer to die for, and no O (and we’re not talking Oprah here, folks). ![]() ![]() “An instant classic…highly recommended!” ( New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Jennifer Probst). A bestselling hot, hilarious eBook by USA TODAY indie author Alice Clayton, the freshest voice to hit publishing in years. ![]() ![]() The author ensures that Rachel's lack of choices and her sensitive nature make her complicity wholly believable. What sets this familiar tale apart is Rachel's love of the African land, animals and Masai people, and the details that make Whelan's narrative come alive. ![]() I think I believed that because Father was a doctor, he would let no illness come to our family." When 13 year-old Rachel Sheridan loses her British missionary parents, unscrupulous neighbors exploit her resemblance to their deceased daughter, Valerie, and send her to England to try to collect the inheritance from Valerie's ailing grandfather. "It didn't occur to me at that moment that I, too, might become an orphan. ![]() Whelan (Homeless Bird) places her courageous and thoughtful narrator in Africa in 1919, just after the Great War and manages to place a new twist on familiar themes. ![]() |