7/7/2023 0 Comments The divine comedy paradisoIn each of the first seven heavens is a different planet on which Dante and Beatrice stay in the eighth heaven they find the Gemini constellation, under whose sign Dante was born.ĭuring the trip, Dante and Beatrice see many blessed people who come to meet them this is a real privilege due to the important mission that God has entrusted to Dante: relate to the living persons what he saw in the Afterworld. however, describes this place only at the end of the The Divine Comedy in the previous nine songs he tells of his journey with Beatrice through the nine heavens. On these steps sit the blessed, absorbed in the contemplation of God.ĭante, who is author and main character of the poem. Paradise has the shape of an amphitheater, with an endless series of stairs that shrink into infinity. In this tenth heaven is Heaven itself, the seat of God, angels, and the blessed. There is then a tenth heaven, which overlooks the whole and is made of pure intellectual light. We must remember that Dante also follows the Ptolemaic theory that says that the Earth is immobile in the center of the universe and nine concentric heavens revolve around it. According to the image that Dante gave us, Hell and Purgatory are part of the terrestrial sphere, whereas Paradise is out of the Earth.ĭante obviously follows the Christian doctrine that places God in the Heaven.
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In one way, Bookshelves is the version of Goodreads, except with Bookshelves you are able to get a much more personalized experience. You can also use it to discover new books to read and learn more about books. has many other features too.īookshelves is a free tool to track books you have read and want to read. Bookshelves is only one of many features at. You are currently viewing the details page on Bookshelves for the book Ravished by Jalek: (Olodian Alien Warrior, #3) by Mychal Daniels.īookshelves is one feature of Bookshelves is found under the /shelves/ subfolder at. Then tragedy occurs and New Scotland Yard becomes involved. James with disquiet, however, for none of the players in the drama seem to react the way one would expect. So the editor turns to forensic scientist Simon St. Knowing that her political future hangs in the balance, Eve Bowen refuses to let Luxford damage her career by printing the story or calling the police. For she is Undersecretary of State for the Home Office, one of the most high-profile Junior Ministers and quite possibly the next Margaret Thatcher. Yet it's not only Luxford's reputation that's on the line: it's also the reputation-and career-of Charlotte Bowen's mother. Luxford knows that the story of Charlotte's paternity could make him a laughingstock and reveal to his beautiful wife and son the lie he's lived for a decade. But Charlotte's existence is Luxford's most fiercely guarded secret, and acknowledging her as his child will throw more than one life and career into chaos. Ten-year-old Charlotte Bowen has been abducted, and if Luxford does not admit publicly to having fathered her, she will die. But when he opens an innocuous-looking letter addressed to him at The Source, he discovers that someone else excels at ferreting out secrets as well. Hailed as the "king of sleaze," tabloid editor Dennis Luxford is used to ferreting out the sins and scandals of people in exposed positions. Hardcover with DJ in Very Good (VG) condition. After spending an amazing day and night with Allyson in Paris that ends in separation, Willem and Allyson are both searching for one another. The compelling companion title to the much-lauded Just One Day follows Willem's transformative journey toward self-discovery and true love, by the author of If I Stay.Picking up where Just One Day ended, Just One Year tells Willem's side of the story. 7/6/2023 0 Comments If i never met youI’m back again with another book review and thoughts post and today’s book is if I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane. But there’s a fine line between pretending to be in love and actually falling for your charming, handsome fake boyfriend… With the plan hatched, Laurie and Jamie begin to flaunt their new couple status, to the astonishment-and jealousy-of their friends and colleagues. It’s the perfect proposition: a fauxmance played out on social media, with strategically staged photographs and a specific end date in mind. Laurie wants a hot new man to give the rumor mill something else to talk about. Jamie Carter doesn’t believe in love, but he needs a respectable, steady girlfriend to impress their bosses. Then a chance encounter in a broken-down elevator with the office playboy opens up a new possibility. When news of her ex’s pregnant girlfriend hits the office grapevine, taking the humiliation lying down is not an option. Her once perfect life is in shambles and the thought of dating again in the age of Tinder is nothing short of horrifying. When her partner of over a decade suddenly ends things, Laurie is left reeling-not only because they work at the same law firm and she has to see him every day. If faking love is this easy… how do you know when it’s real? Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers/William Marrow Paperbacks Genre:Contemporary Romance, Friendship, Relationships, Law Drama 7/6/2023 0 Comments A cruel wind by glen cookWorse yet, his lifespan has been magically extended. With Ilkazar in ruins, Varthlokkur is left without a purpose in life. The prophecy is fulfilled Ilkazar is reduced to rubble and Varthlokkur’s mother is finally avenged. He returns with holes in his memory and a mastery of magic few in the west can match. Varthlokkur travels to the eastern Dread Empire of Shinsan to study magic. The bright young boy grew into a taciturn, grim, focused adult. The authorities took mercy on the boy, handing him over to doting foster parents. Problem solved … or so the city’s rulers thought. Every witch, real or supposed, who fell into Ilkazar’s hands was prudently burned alive. The great city of Ilkazar actually heeded the grim prophecy that the city and its grand empire would fall because of a witch. 1979’s A Shadow of All Night Falling is the first book in Glen Cook’s A Cruel Wind fantasy trilogy, set in his Dread Empire secondary-universe. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Double Bind by Seb KirbyThere’s not a wasted word in this book: no background, no world-building, no nonsense. Seb Kirby gets right into the story in Double Bind. “The guy with the bad attitude has been following me all week.” A highly recommended read and well deserved of the 5 star rating. Suffice to say this is an often bizarre story involving conspiracy theories with plenty of thought-provoking ideas thrown in.ĭouble Bind is an intriguing psychological thriller, with a good dose of science fiction mixed up with good old-fashioned mystery and murder. I won’t delve into more of the story as many reviewers have already done that. There are plenty of twists and turns to keep the reader on their toes. Seb Kirby has created a unique tale of identity theft and body snatching ‘earthlings’ whose own world has been destroyed.Īpart from the first couple of chapters where I was a bit confused before I settled into the story properly, I was soon zipping along and reading the chapters (which are fairly short) at a fast rate. I read Seb Kirby’s first novel, Take no more over a year ago and I was fairly certain his second book would be written along a similar vein. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Jeffrey konvitz the sentinelIt is a story of murder and revenge, set during the rise of organized crime in America from 1900 to 1912 when the Irish Mob ruled all major American cities, only to be taken down by its own hubris and the rise of the Jewish and Italian Mobs into labor racketeering and, then, bootlegging. This year, his newly-written historical novel, The Circus of Satan, will be published. He is now at work on the third book in The Sentinel Trilogy, currently untitled, while The Sentinel and The Guardian are being mounted for e-book sales. The Sentinel sequel, The Guardian, was also a bestseller along with his next book, Monster. His first published novel (Simon and Schuster and Ballantine) was The Sentinel, which rose to Number 2 on the New York Times Mass Market Best Seller List. Jeffrey Konvitz was born in New York City, but after graduating from Cornell University and Columbia Law School, he headed to Los Angeles, where he lives and works as an entertainment finance attorney, producer (The Sentinel and Spy Hard, among others) and novelist. When Lauren Everman was a seventeen-year-old foster kid, Bluebird Ranch was the safest place she knew. Now, recovering from an on-the-job injury, Brendan thinks the ranch is the perfect place to spend Christmas healing up. It's going to be an unexpectedly romantic Christmas at Bluebird Ranch.īrendan Waddell has always considered Bluebird Ranch a little piece of heaven: an idyllic ranch that pairs abused children with abused horses, run by one of his old Marine buddies. Now they can hardly wait for the day to arrive.īrendan Waddell needs a place to recuperate. This wedding has been a long time coming, with Bane's trust issues and Leia's worries about her childlike sister, Eva. Will they let it tear them apart forever?Ī Christmas wedding on the beach-what could be more perfect? Poinsettias and fragrant pikake blossoms, soft sand and mistletoe, the gentle sound of the surf and the wedding march played on a ukulele. One sinister phone call has derailed their wedding. Secretive and withdrawn, Lauri seems curiously intent on discovering what happened to a parachuter who disappeared in the North Woods along Lake Superior's icy shore. Her sister-in-law, Lauri, suddenly turns up on the doorstep of the lighthouse home Bree shares with her husband, Kade, in Rock Harbor. As Christmas day nears, Bree and her faithful search-and-rescue dog Samson follow the trail of a troubling mystery into the snowy forests of Rock Harbor.īree Matthews is preparing for Christmas guests, but her heart is reeling from the recent and tender loss of her unborn child. And so Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, Ellen Tebbits, and her other beloved characters were born. The idea appealed to her, and she decided that someday she would write the books she longed to read but was unable to find on the library shelves: funny stories about her neighborhood and the sort of children she knew. Before long her school librarian was suggesting that she should write for boys and girls when she grew up. However, when the family moved to Portland, Beverly soon found herself in the grammar school's low reading circle, an experience that has given her sympathy for the problems of struggling readers.īy the third grade she had conquered reading and spent much of her childhood surrounded by books-either at home or in her public library. There young Beverly learned to love books. Her mother arranged with the State Library to have books sent to Yamhill and acted as librarian in a lodge room upstairs over a bank. Beverly Cleary was born in McMinnville, Oregon, and, until she was old enough to attend school, lived on a farm in Yamhill, a town so small it had no library. |