![]() ![]() This gives her motivation to do whatever she can to take the story Off the Rails and secure a better ending, often demonstrating that she is highly kind, intelligent, and/or skilled in the process. ![]() Usually, the protagonist takes the role of a Ojou "villainess" (called "Akuyaku Reijou" - 悪役令嬢 lit.: "Antagonistic Noble Young Lady" in Japanese): a stock Disposable Fiancée of one of the Love Interests who terrorizes or harms the more innocent heroine for being a threat, and who, of course, is fated for a bad ending if the story continues as-is. It's unnecessary for the setting to be from a video game either many have her transmigrate into other forms of media such as books or comics. Most often, an Ordinary High-School Student or Office Lady from Japan (or whatever country the story originates from) will die and reincarnate in the game world with Past-Life Memories, although some stories have the protagonist gain a new set of memories or personality some other way. A subgenre of works which adds new twists to Otome Game tropes, with a protagonist who inscrutably understands their fictional world's plot, mechanics or setting. ![]()
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There are stories within stories, mystery, mayhem, and a dark history that threatens to consume the city itself as the gray caps, the mysterious and deadly mushroom people who once ruled Ambergris and have since been driven underground, now threaten to rise again. Ambergris bristles with intellectual fervor and religious rivalries it thrives on cultural upheaval, and its politics are never short on intrigue, conspiracy, and even terror. More than twenty years ago, Jeff VanderMeer first introduced the world to the fictional city of Ambergris, a beautiful and sinister sprawling metropolis populated by artists and thieves, composers and murderers, geniuses and madmen. From the author of Borne and Annihilation comes the one-volume hardcover reissue of his cult classic Ambergris Trilogy. ![]() ![]() Though she endured sexual harassment and serious illness in Yugoslavia, West returned twice to collect material for Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), her account of Yugoslav culture under threat of eradication by Germany" (ODNB). Her opportunity came via the newly formed British Council, which sent her as a lecturer, first to the Baltic states, and then to Yugoslavia. "After five years of marriage West was again ready for independent travel. Inscribed copies are far from common, this set offering a pleasing association with a recognised woman writer.įfrench was the author of well-received biographies of Sarah Siddons, Mrs Gaskell, Ouida, and Florence Nightingale, together with a number of works of Victorian history including a study of the Great Exhibition, but was certainly better known in her day as a connoisseur of, and dealer in Old Master prints. 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There are no non-human characters/romantic interests/sexual partners here. ![]() This is different from the abundance of weird erotica on TikTok, though there is a slight overlap. BookTok enlightened me - I’ve started sprinting to my Goodreads to save the books that get hyped up the most - but since the feed moves so quickly, I’ve dug in deep and done some research to come up with this list of the best new erotic romance books from the last three years. ![]() Absolutely NO cheating and NO love triangle. ![]() This is a funny, steamy MM story guaranteed to make you laugh and swoon. : Caulky (Four Bears Construction Book 1) eBook : Neuhold, K.M.: Tienda Kindle. I’m relatively new to the game of erotic books and other spicy romance, and I am absolutely hooked. Caulky is book 1 in the Four Bears Construction Series and can be read as a stand-alone. ![]() ![]() On leaving the Church of St Thomas Aquinas, the mourners set off eastwards towards Père Lachaise Cemetery. His funeral was held four days later–two days after the armistice was signed. Having survived a shrapnel wound to the head and the drilling of a hole into his skull, he died of Spanish flu at the age of thirty-eight, and was declared 'mort pour la France'. A leading light of the French avant-garde movement, the man who invented the term 'surrealist' and inspired such figures as Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, he had signed up to fight in 1914. ![]() ' À bas Guillaume!' Death to Wilhelm! Down with Wilhelm! Meanwhile, high above the city's seventh arrondissement, the poet Guillaume Apollinaire lay on his deathbed. Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany abdicated on 9 November 1918 and in the streets of Paris there was jubilation. Terence Ranger, The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19 (2003) 1 The brevity of the influenza pandemic of 1918 posed great problems to doctors at the time… It has posed great problems to historians ever since. ![]() ![]() The second and third stories, "The Lost Special" and "The Man with the Watches", were both published in The Strand Magazine in 1898 and both feature mysteries involving trains. Doyle wrote this very brief story to support a fundraising event at the university, his alma mater, but most scholars consider the story to be a parody and therefore not part of the canon. The first story, "The Field Bazaar", was first published in 1896 in a special issue of a University of Edinburgh student newspaper called The Student. This LibriVox album consists of these four noncanonical stories. Most of these noncanonical stories were written by authors other than Doyle, but there are four short stories about Holmes written by Doyle that are nonetheless excluded from the canon, for various reasons. ![]() ![]() Although the Sherlock Holmes canon traditionally consists of four novels and 56 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, there are many Sherlock Holmes stories outside the canon. ![]() ![]() ![]() The actually creepy aspect was more slow and suspenseful than I expected and the ghost story was so much more complex than I imagined it would be. I expected this to be a really creepy ghost story, but it was something completely different. The plot was probably what surprised me most about this. At first I found the flashbacks and complicated stories distracting, but after about two chapters I really got into the flow of the book. Freya was a likeable (although not overly memorable) character and I quite enjoyed the way the book was narrated from her point of view. ![]() Overall this book was a good read and one which took me by surprise to some extent. It’s hard to review this without giving things away so my review is going to be pretty vague. I really had no idea what it was about when I started, although judging by the cover I thought it was going to have something to do with a haunted house. Love Notes From Vinegar House was a strange little book to read. ![]() ![]() She rededicates herself to writing her stories, and when his duties as taoiseach permit, she is together with Keegan, who has trained her as a warrior and whom she has grown to love. It's also a time for celebrations-of her first Christmas in both Talamh and Ireland, of solstice and weddings and births-and daring to find joy again in the wake of sorrow. ![]() Breen spreads her wings and realizes a power she's never experienced before. With the enemy cast out and the portal sealed, this is a time to rest and to prepare. Her grandfather, the dark god Odran, has been defeated in his attempt to rule over Talamh, and over Breen-for now. Now she is in Talamh, trying to heal after a terrible battle and heartbreaking losses. But portals allow for passage in and out-and ultimately, each must choose their place, and choose between good and evil, war and peace, life and death.īreen Siobhan Kelly grew up in the world of Man and was once unaware of her true nature. Talamh is a land of green hills, high mountains, deep forests, and seas, where magicks thrive. ![]() ![]() Leo Tolstoy was the first translator and publisher of Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching in Russian. Philosopher and writer Leo Tolstoy had understanding the evolution of concepts of Tao and wu wei 無為. In the Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu says about the special spontaneous activity ‘make non- action.’ Dialectics wei 為 and wu wei 無為 is the foundation of the political doctrine of the Far Eastern civilization, Chinese civilization. Aspects of wu wei 無為 found in most of the chapters of the treatise ‘Tao Te Ching’. This article discusses various aspects of dialectics wei 為 and wu wei 無為, contained in the treatise of Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching. In Russia, the "Tao Te Ching" is analyzed about 200 years. The current importance "Tao Te Ching" is that the text contains the basic concepts of traditional Chinese culture. There are different national traditions of studying of this treatise. "Tao Te Ching" by Lao Tzu has a worldwide cultural significance. ![]() |