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She was quiet in middle school, but tried to change herself in high school to impress Fujioka, whom she has had a crush on since an encounter in middle school. To make things worse, when she gets upset, he calls her a " cactus alien" for being so prickly whenever he's around.Ĭharacters Miku Yamada ( 山田 未来, Yamada Miku) Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi (drama CD) Average high school student. Miku Yamada has liked Kyohei Fujioka since middle school, but once she gets the courage to confess, he thinks it's all a joke. The series has been licensed by Viz Media for an English-language North American release as part of their Shojo Beat imprint. The individual chapters were collected into four tankōbon volumes by Shueisha the first on August 11, 2004, and the final on October 14, 2005. The series began serialization in Ribon magazine on December 29, 2003, and ended its run on April 30, 2005. Cactus's Secret ( サボテンの秘密, Saboten no Himitsu) is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Nana Haruta. Yes, my personal organisation skills are pretty shocking, especially since I’m an interior designer, who spends all day coordinating and organising. I make my way downstairs, finding Kate in her workshop spooning cake mixture into various tins. ‘Hiding again,’ I mutter to myself, grabbing my tan belt, heels and laptop. I dart across the landing in a complete fluster and find my car keys under a pile of weekly glossies. ‘They’re on the coffee table where you left them last night.’ She rolls her eyes, taking herself and her cake mixture back to her workshop. ‘Keys! Have you seen my car keys?’ I puff at her. It’s an expression I’ve become use to recently. She looks up at me with a tired expression. I hear the familiar sound of a wooden spoon bashing the edges of a ceramic bowl as Kate appears at the bottom of the stairs. Where the hell are they? I run out onto the landing and throw myself over the banister. On a Friday, after being on time all week, I’m going to be late. I rifle through the piles and piles of paraphernalia that’s sprawled all over my bedroom floor. A Christmas Carol is the best-known and best-loved of Dickens Christmas Books, and the story. (For our complete collection of enriching podcasts, see our Podcast Library. M4b - compatible with most audio book players and iTunes. I’ve also added Doctorow’s reading to our AudioBook Podcast Collection, where you can find an alternative reading of Carroll’s work, plus 100 other classic works on free audio. You can download it in mp3 or other formats. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - FULL Audio Book - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1812-1870) A classic Christmas tale by Charles Dickens. (Or you can listen to Welles’ 1938 version here.)Īlso, over at BoingBoing today, Cory Doctorow has posted a recording he made of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland ( etext here). But you may want to spend your time with this 1939 radio presentation staged by Orson Welles, which notably features Lionel Barrymore. You can listen to a fairly straightforward reading of the text on iTunes. And it invented the notion of “christmas spirit.” It gave us the indelible characters of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. Written in 1843, Dicken’s tale remains one of the most popular Christmas stories of all time. Let’s start with a free podcast of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Let me serve up a quick few bits of audio for the holiday. And now that she’s within reach, Liam’s determined to never let her go. Personally, I was not a huge fan of Taking Chances, but I LOVED the Forgiving Lies series. First off, I loved that it was the son and daughter from previous couples in Molly McAdams’ other books. But what he thinks sounds more like a babysitting job ends up leading him to the only girl who ever slipped away before morning-a girl he thought he’d never find again. Suffice to say, Liam was an excellent love interest in the storyTrusting Liam is a fun and emotional story that I really enjoyed. Liam Taylor has been asked to help socialize his boss’s nieces. But every time she sees Liam, she feels her resolve weakening. Accustomed to disastrous experiences with men, Kennedy shields herself before he can break down more of the carefully built control she’s clung to for the last four years. A man who led her to breaking every one of her rules for a single night of passion that ended up meaning more than it was ever supposed to. When Kennedy Ryan moves to California, she never expects to come face-to-face with Liam Taylor-the intriguing man who has haunted her thoughts for a year. From the New York Times bestselling author of Taking Chances, From Ashes, and Stealing Harper, comes the new unforgettable adult romance Molly McAdams’ fans have been waiting for-the sizzling story of a young woman who must place her trust in the one man who can break through her defenses.Ī night they will always remember…a connection neither can deny…a secret that could destroy it all… Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty examines the full breadth of the designer’s career, from the start of his fledgling label to the triumphs of his own world-renowned London house. “McQueen’s brilliance is celebrated in this sumptuous tome.”- Harper’s BazaarĪrguably the most influential, imaginative, and provocative designer of his generation, Alexander McQueen both challenged and expanded fashion conventions to express ideas about race, class, sexuality, religion, and the environment. “An authoritative and moving insight into the legacy of the British designer.”-Carola Long, Financial Times Celebrating the astounding creativity and originality of designer Alexander McQueen, who relentlessly questioned and confronted the requisites of fashion ⇾ Sex, a harbinger of loss of control, is fraught with uncertainty and vulnerability. ⇾ Eroticism resides in unpredictability, spontaneity, and risk. ⇾ It takes two people to create a pattern, but only one to change it. ⇾ Desire is an enigma it’s insubordinate, and it chafes at impositions. ⇾ Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. ⇾ We all have an equally strong need for security and adventure. As soon as we acknowledge that our partners are never granted, sustained desire becomes a real possibility. The mistake is believing the fantasy of permanence and security. How to introduce uncertainty and gentle imbalance in a relationship to keep it alive? In truth, it is already there, given the transient nature of things. Not just that, the erotic imagination is fueled by a host of feelings that are far from proper: aggression, raw lust, infantile neediness, power, revenge, selfishness, and jealousy. Sex is about loss of control: it is fraught with uncertainty and vulnerability. Eroticism resides in unpredictability, spontaneity, and risk. What makes you feel cozy and loved is not the same that makes you feel turned on and desired. Love and desire are not fueled by the same things. They make a ridiculous bet, mayhem and an equally ridiculous love triangle ensues and true love wins out in the end, but not without its share of secrets and drama. The film is an adaptation of the book of the same name by Jamie McGuire. He's a manipulative womaniser, sorry, cough cough, hot alpha, and she's got a chequered past that she's trying to hide. Beautiful Disaster is also about a college freshman trying to stay away from a bad boy she feels an instant connection to. Fortunately, Travis is taken with Abby too, but nothing about their relationship is normal. So of course she goes to an illegal fight with her best friend that is being held in a basement (as I am sure is a staple of college life,) where she falls for one of the men in the ring, Travis Maddox, who famously doesn't do relationships but every girl on campus is desperate to be with him. This time around she is a cashmere cardigan wearing good girl who doesn't drink. Abby Abernathy has just started college and is keen to start over. Abusive relationships, slut shaming and secrets that border on the ridiculous are the core themes of Beautiful Disaster, a romance novel that would have been best left back in the era of Fifty Shades of Grey and Slammed, had Tik Tok not come along and resurrected the 'he's mean because he loves you' genre from the rubbish where it belonged. My conscript’s uniform only had three badges on it: my platoon, my rank – Private – and my name badge, which was just my surname, ‘Park’. My tent bunked eleven other soldiers, all infected, all of us in the prime of our lives. My joints felt like angry dwarves had been pounding them with hammers while I slept… and it was only my second day of being sick. The smell made my throat burn raw, and I shook with unfamiliar weakness. Still wheezing, I fumbled across for the box of bleach wipes next to my Army cot and used them to clean up my face and hands. Everyone here was already sicker than me, moaning and rattling in their sleep. There were no nurses in our quarantine tent. I was now at Stage Two of the HEX virus – in three days’ time, I’d be dead. Not just terror of the present: terror of the future that awaited me. My lungs were burning by the time I pitched back onto my pillows, exhausted and shaking with lingering terror. Strangling, eyes throbbing from the pressure in my head, I coughed and heaved and flailed around, unable to see anything but dancing black and white spots. The coughing fit kicked me upright before I was even awake. Pre-order Dragon Seed here: Amazon (All Stores) Dragon Seed is being released on the 28th February – that means it’s preview time! He’s also the son of a brilliant scientist who accidentally caused a mass-casualty famine when she tried to eradicate a leaf disease in China’s rice paddies using experimental gene technology. The book, which now has a film adaptation in the works, follows Logan Ramsay, who works for the Gene Protection Agency to root out criminals using gene editing illegally. At the same time, the world’s population is hanging on to the brink of normalcy, with worldwide food shortages and major coastal cities partially underwater, as it faces imminent extinction from climate change.īlake Crouch gives his protagonist the ultimate genetic upgrade. That’s the premise of sci-fi author Blake Crouch’s new novel, “Upgrade,” set in a not-too-distant future where science has blown past the capabilities of the groundbreaking real-life gene-editing tool CRISPR (celebrating its 10th anniversary this year) and entered an era where it’s possible to make humans superhuman, both physically and cognitively. The ability to enhance your body is everywhere today: wearable tech to help you sleep better or exercise more efficiently, “ smart drugs” to sharpen your focus and memory recall, injectable fillers to tweak the features of your face, genetic testing to identify and mitigate potential health risks.īut what if humans fully unlocked the most powerful and invasive optimization technology – the ability to edit the entire human genome – and unleashed it on the world? |