6/12/2023 0 Comments The Art of Fart by Dougie Brimson![]() The fact he still does so much for his adopted home town is all the proof you need. The word legend is thrown around a lot in football these days, mostly it’s attributed to players who are little more than self-serving mercenaries who’s only real loyalty is to their agents, but Luther is a true Watford legend. ![]() Tomorrow, we continue work on a project which will make a massive difference to a huge number of people using football as a platform.įor me, it’s a dream come true. Today I was both honoured and humbled to accompany him to Windsor Castle as he collected his well deserved OBE. He let rip a fart that emptied the elevator at the next floor. When she heard the news, she let rip a tirade heard throughout the office. I went on to follow Luther and Watford through the halcyon days of the 80’s, was at Wembley, and cried, when he became the first black footballer to score a hattrick for England and watched his career as a footballer through to his retirement. ( transitive, informal) To unleash, let loose, uncork to allow (something) to happen or proceed without restraint. ![]() A young Luther Blissett was in that team and we were all in awe of him. Many decades ago, as I was preparing to head out into the world of work, Watford FC sent a team to play at my school. ![]()
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![]() Charles Dickens had offered to cover the book’s printing costs himself to make up for the lukewarm reception his serialized novel, Martin Chuzzlewit, was receiving from readers and reviewers, but his expensive and exacting tastes meant that he initially only cleared a disappointing profit of £230 from 6000 copies sold. ![]() ![]() Dickens’s classic tale of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and his magical yuletide conversion proved an immediate success on its release about a week before Christmas 1843: The initial print run reportedly sold out in just five days, and the book continued to sell well even after Christmas and well into the following year.ĭespite that success, A Christmas Carol wasn’t quite the money-spinner its author might have hoped. ![]() Think of Charles Dickens and Christmastime and your mind will probably go instantly to A Christmas Carol. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Cleat cute a novel meryl wilsner![]() ![]() With every tackle the tension between them grows, and both players soon have to decide what's more important-being together or making the roster. But they’re on the same page on the field, realizing they can play together instead of vying for the same position. ![]() But when Grace ends up making the first move, they can’t keep their hands off of each other.Īs the World Cup approaches and Grace works her way back from injury, a miscommunication leaves the women with hilariously different perspectives on their relationship. Phoebe Matthews is too focused on her first season as a professional soccer player to think about seducing her longtime idol. The last thing Grace expects is to become teammates with benefits with this class clown she sees as her rival. ![]() 22-year-old Phoebe is everything Grace isn’t-a gregarious jokester who plays with a joy that Grace lost somewhere along the way. But when she’s sidelined with an injury, a bold new upstart, Phoebe Matthews, takes her spot. ![]() Grace Henderson has been a star of the US Women’s National Team for ten years, even though she’s only 26. A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two soccer teammates are at odds before falling in love as their team gears up for the World Cup. ![]() ![]() ![]() Liv Zander doesn't do heroes - because villains need love, too. This story contains dark themes and elements of horror some may find uncomfortable to read. King of Flesh and Bone is a full-length dark fantasy novel, and book one in The Pale Court duet, featuring a ruthless god and the woman who can't escape his love. A curse I cannot bear suffering alone any longer, so I lock Ada away behind doors guarded by corpses, forcing her to carry it with me forevermore. Because immortality is loneliness in disguise. The two-part story features a ruthless man, the woman who can't escape his love, and a HEA. Queen of Rot and Pain is a full-length dark fantasy novel, and book two in The Pale Court duet. She is mine, Death shall never do us part. Bone will shackle her to me for eternity. I am the King of Flesh and Bone, Every part of her I possess and own. ![]() I am its master, no matter her wish to flee my dark, cold kingdom. Buy King of Flesh and Bone: A Dark Fantasy Romance (The Pale Court) by Zander, Liv (ISBN: 9781955871013) from Amazons Book Store. ![]() No matter how she hisses defiance, her body was made to obey my every desire. In her reluctant embrace, Ada calls me the devil, so I show her pleasure like only the devil can. Except for her, the woman who stumbles into the shadowed depths of the Pale Court. ![]() Sequestered away from mortals, I long for warmth, but everything I touch is cold. Bone shapes the kingdom over which I rule, and the rotting flesh of man does my bidding. As old as time, born from Nothing, I command the forsaken remnants of all that once lived. A captive bride who can’t escape his love. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Sophie jordan firelight saga![]() ![]() She desperately wants freedom, so that she can decide what to do with her life. Jacinda was designated as special from a young age, and knows that every move she makes is watched. “Firelight” is the first novel in the “Firelight” series and was released in the year 2010. She has a hard time choosing between the two men, partly because of how she feels for each one, but also because of other circumstances as well. Both Will (who is actually human) and another draki, who is named Cassian. ![]() This allows her to keep on surviving, as she lives with humans that protect her. Dragons who can turn into humans, which she is, are called draki. It stars a girl who is named Jacinda, a human that has dragon origins, who is able to shift into human form. The series is a trilogy, one that ended in the year 2012, with the release of “Hidden” book two (called “Vanish”) was released in the year 2011. The “Firelight” series by Sophie Jordan is from the young adult genre and started in the year 2010 with the release of “Firelight”, book one in the series. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Scott is a highly decorated war hero who never misses a chance to denounce the new treaty. President Lyman’s most forceful opponent is Air Force General James Mattoon Scott (Burt Lancaster). ![]() there’d have come one day when they’d have blown us up, or we’d have blown them up.” could have maintained “a nice, cushy feeling that we’ve got a bomb for every one of theirs. He explains his reason for making the pact. In one of the opening scenes, the president talks with a sympathetic friend, Senator Raymond Clark (Edmond O’Brien). And the president’s approval rating has sunk to 29 percent. The military-industrial complex feels betrayed. Now, demonstrators for and against the treaty are coming to blows. President Jordan Lyman (Fredric March) has recently signed a nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union. ![]() Seven Days in Maybegins with a riot in front of the White House. Seven Arts Productions and Joel Productions Spoiler Alert! The first half of what follows is a full synopsis: Here's a review of one of my favorites so far. Anyway, one of those projects has to do with feature films of the Cold War era. I know, I really should focus on just one. I've been trying to work on a number of different historical projects lately. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Vi keeland dirty letters![]() He asked that I trust him and said it was for the best. So it only made sense that we would take our relationship to the next level and see each other in person.Only Griff didn’t want to meet. ![]() Our letters quickly went from fun to flirty to downright dirty, revealing our wildest fantasies. Only now we were adults, and that connection had grown to a spark. ![]() I had no choice but to finally come clean as to why I stopped writing.Griffin forgave me, and somehow we were able to rekindle our childhood connection. A scathing one-one with eight years of pent-up anger. ![]() Over the years, through hundreds of letters, we became best friends, sharing our deepest, darkest secrets and forming a connection I never thought could break.Until one day it did.Then, out of the blue, a new letter arrived. An Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller.From New York Times bestselling authors Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward comes an unexpected love story that started with a boy and girl and heats up when the man and woman reconnect.I’d never forgotten him-a man I’d yet to meet.Griffin Quinn was my childhood pen pal, the British boy who couldn’t have been more different from me. ![]() ![]() Is O’Loughlin trying to frame Bobby (as the cops suspect – and DI Ruiz played by the excellent Shaun Parkes, is getting increasingly exasperated)? Is Bobby trying to mess with O’Loughlin? Bobby carved a whale, O’Loughlin’s daughter drew a picture of a whale, can that really be a coincidence? (Obviously yes). O’Loughlin increasingly starts to think Bobby was involved in Catherine’s murder because of his obsession with the number 21, his violent tendancies, the fact that he uses the phrase “death by a thousand cuts” to describe how he’d like his mother to die (Ok, the guy does have issues) and a smell of chloroform O’Loughlin says Bobby has on him. ![]() In this episode more comes from the subplot involving O’Loughlin’s patient Bobby (Bobby Schofield), a strange lad with psychological problems who assaulted a woman at a taxi rank. So we find the good doctor spiraling further down the rabbit hole of paranoia, or possibly just guilt if it turns out he did the murder and is just really stupid. Is he going to tell the cops? What do you think…? ![]() We also discover later in the episode that O’Loughlin actually DOES have an alibi for the time Catherine was killed. New ‘oops, forgot to mention that’ moments include the fact that the victim, Catherine, was a bit obsessed with him, that she would wear make-up and perfume to appointments, that she tried to kiss him and tried to take her clothes off during a session. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The brass verdict netflix![]() ![]() In contrast, Menendez is grateful for Haller's continued commitment to his case in the Netflix adaptation. ![]() In addition, in the books, Menendez is unforgiving of Haller's errors, suing him for malpractice. In Connelly's books, Haller exonerates Menendez by identifying the real killer, while Dayton, originally blocked by cops in Netflix's adaptation, now provides evidence that clears Menendez. Haller believes Menendez's best option is to plead guilty, and he takes Haller's advice. The evidence against Menendez is overwhelming and the death penalty is on the table. ![]() In the book, Menendez is arrested for the murder of Martha Renteria. The case haunts Haller because he knows for a fact that Menendez is innocent, but after Dayton fails to appear as the key defense witness, Haller is unable to secure an acquittal for Menendez. Jesus Menendez is the side case with the most screentime in Netflix's The Lincoln Lawyer adaptation. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Off armageddon reef![]() It is destined to be a tremendous undertaking, unfolding a story of deception and ignorance, freedom and tyranny, and the liberating power of the truth. A rebirth that will provide the only remaining humans with their last chance to learn the truth and to rejoin the universe. Centuries have passed and now, in a hidden chamber on Safehold, an android initiates a rebirth set in motion centuries before. Earth and her colonies are now smoldering. ![]() After disagreement about the wisdom and justice of this course, the dissenters were ruthlessly eliminated. Humanity pushed its way to the stars and encountered the Gbaba, a ruthless alien race that nearly wiped us out. At the Sign of Triumph At the Publishers request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. With mind control and hidden high technology, they have built a religion in which every Safeholdian believes, one designed to keep Safehold society medieval and unnoticed forever. To avoid drawing the attention of the enemy through the busy signals of an industrial civilization, the human rulers of Safehold have taken an extraordinary measure. ![]() ![]() Armed with better sailing vessels, better guns and better devices of all sorts, Charis faced the combined navies of the rest of the world at Darcos. The mercantile kingdom of Charis has prevailed over the alliance designed to exterminate it. Here is the saga of humanity reduced, by an implacable alien enemy, to inhabiting a single colony on the distant world of Safehold. The sequel to the New York Times best seller Off Armageddon Reef. ![]() |