![]() ![]() Lincoln, an awesome physical specimen at 6-feet-4, was widely known for his wrestling skills and had only one recorded defeat in a dozen years."Īccording to Sports Illustrated, that defeat came during the Black Hawk Indian uprising of 1832, when Hank Thompson bested the future President with two straight falls in a regimental championship match. ![]() "In the rough and ready style of the frontier, "catch as catch can" wrestling was more hand-to-hand combat than sport. He also, according to the NWHOF's page on their famous honoree, spent most of that time winning. Lincoln did quite a bit of wrestling during the years he lived in Indiana from ages 9 to 21." "His Uncle Mord reputably had a real talent for it. "Lincoln had wrestling in his background," White added. While his gangly and awkward amusing genetic copy preferred basketball on Clone High, the original Abe had grappling in his blood. ![]() (Side note: this interview is really worth reading both for the actual information it contains, and for the number of references to wrestlers like The Rock, Hulk Hogan, and Captain Lou Albano shamelessly shoehorned into the prose.) "Lincoln definitely wrestled." "It's not mythology," Lincoln expert and best-selling author of A. ![]()
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![]() Sprague de Camp said of him that "nobody since Poe has so loved a well-rotted corpse." Smith was a member of the Lovecraft circle and his literary friendship with Lovecraft lasted from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937. Lovecraft", but some readers objected to his morbidness and violation of pulp traditions. Smith was one of "the big three of Weird Tales, with Robert E. Lovecraft stated that "in sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Clark Ashton Smith is perhaps unexcelled", and Ray Bradbury said that Smith "filled my mind with incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures". Smith's work was praised by his contemporaries. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics alongside Joaquin Miller, Sterling, and Nora May French and remembered as "The Last of the Great Romantics" and "The Bard of Auburn". He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne. ![]() ![]() Clark Ashton Smith (Janu– August 14, 1961) was an American writer and artist. ![]() ![]() ![]() Headmistress, Miss de Vere, tasks Justice with taking Letitia under her wing but Justice soon discovers that the supremely confident Letitia does not really need support – she doesn’t seem to care about what people think about her or for Highbury’s traditions and rules. ![]() The third year brings a new student – Letitia Blackstock – who has never been to boarding school before. In truth, she never thought she’d make it to a new school year – not after her adventures in the last 12 months and especially not because of all her rule-breaking. Justice Jones is about to start the third form at Highbury House Boarding School For The Daughters of Gentlefolk. I earn commission on any purchases made through these links. You can order A GIRL CALLED JUSTICE: THE GHOST IN THE GARDEN by Elly Griffiths from Amazon UK, Waterstone’s or UK. ![]() But why are the ransom notes torn from the pages of a crime novel?Ĭan Justice find the kidnapper – before it’s too late? Then, after a midnight feast in the barn, and a terrifying ghost-sighting in the garden, one of Justice’s friends disappears. Mysteriously, the teachers don’t seem to mind! Letitia has never been to school before and doesn’t care for the rules. Super-smart by day, super-sleuth by night.Īn intriguing new girl catches Justice’s attention this year. ![]() ![]() ![]() That doesn’t stop Olivia from melting every time he looks at her, though. Very taken, by none other than Marissa, Liv’s rich, beautiful cousin. He’s successful, responsible and intensely passionate. Nash is everything she’s ever needed in a guy. He turns her insides to mush and, with just one kiss, makes her forget why he’s no good for her. He’s a dangerous, sexy bad boy who wants her in his bed at any cost. ![]() Cash is everything she’s always wanted in a guy. But clear becomes complicated when she meets Cash and Nash Davenport. She’s determined not to be the second woman in his life to abandon him, even if it means putting her own life on hold. She’s just a girl working her way through college so she can return home to help her father run his business. The scorching tale of one girl, two brothers and a love triangle…that’s not. You can read this before Down to You (The Bad Boys, #1) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Down to You (The Bad Boys, #1) written by Michelle Leighton which was published in. ![]() Brief Summary of Book: Down to You (The Bad Boys, #1) by Michelle Leighton ![]() ![]() ![]() Whats more like milk and honey than Rupi Kaurs second collection, the sun and her flowers? Just in case you missed its release in late 2017. Good Luck Igniting Your Ink! The Sun And Her Flowers By Rupi Kaur Thank you for Subscribing to Ignite Your Ink!Īccess your point of view comparison chart here or wait for your copy in your email. To compare the different points of view uses, pros, and cons in an easy to read chart and get weekly writing tips, subscribe to Ignite Your Ink. The intense emotions, choice in point of view, line drawings, and form of the poems in Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey work together to impact the text’s readers and Ignite Her Ink. Memoirists and fiction writers who wish to convey an emotional, internal journey can use this collection as an example of how they must fully immerse the reader in the emotions of the characters, so they can experience the pain, love, loss, anger, elation, and more of the piece. ![]() Kaur shares her emotional journey with her readers, from an abusive childhood to discovering her own self-worth, she describes the hurting, the loving, the breaking, and the healing that led her to writing and the person she is today. Milk and Honey is an excellent example of the economy of words and of a book of poetry with a story arc. Poets are experts at making a handful of words convey an entire moment or more. Im not usually a big poetry fan, but if you want to create an intense emotion in as few words as possible, read poetry. ![]() Rupi Kaur reads poetry from her collection ‘Milk and Honey’ ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And the more Mara finds out about Liam, the harder it is to loathe him…and the easier it is to love him. The problem is, living with someone means getting to know them. ![]() Liam was already entrenched in his aunt’s house like some glowering grumpy giant when Mara moved in, with his big muscles and kissable mouth just sitting there on the couch tempting respectable scientists to the dark side…but Helena was her mentor and Mara’s not about to move out and give up her inheritance without a fight. Okay, sure, technically she’s the interloper. And other rules Liam, her detestable big-oil lawyer of a roommate, knows nothing about. Though their fields of study might take them to different corners of the world, they can all agree on this universal truth: When it comes to love and science, opposites attract and rivals make you burn….Īs an environmental engineer, Mara knows all about the delicate nature of ecosystems. Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first, scientists always. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new steamy, STEMinist novella.Ī scientist should never cohabitate with her annoyingly hot nemesis-it leads to combustion. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She seemed sometimes so sensitive that whole decades hurt her feelings, and the prose on the page suggested Valéry’s “shiverings of an effaced leaf,” as if her next trick might be evaporation. Then as the essays and novels and screenplays proliferated, she turned into a desert lioness of the style pages, part sybilline icon and part Stanford seismograph, alert on the faultlines of the culture to every tremor of tectonic fashion plate. “My only advantage as a reporter,” Joan Didion explained in Slouching Towards Bethlehem, “is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.” For awhile there back in the bliss of acid and guitars, she was practically counterrevolutionary, a poster girl for anomie, wearing a bikini but also a migraine to the bon- fires of the zeitgeist. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have had this trilogy on my TBR for the longest time, and even have books 2 and 3 on my kindle but realized when wanting to read this trilogy this year, that I didn’t have book 1 but my library had it so I just grabbed this up in Audio. ![]() Under Her Skin is the first book in her Black Canvas trilogy. And just as determined to heal Uma’s broken heart as he is to destroy the monster who left his mark scrawled across the delicate tapestry of her skin. But beneath his frightening exterior, Ivan is gentle. Beneath her drab clothing, she hides a terrible secret-proof of her abuse, tattooed onto her skin in a lurid reminder of everything she’s survived.Ĭaught between a brutal past and an uncertain future, Uma’s reluctant to bare herself to anyone…much less a rough ex-con whose rage drives him in ways she will never understand. Genres: Contemporary Romance, Romantic SuspenseĪ darkly possessive relationship has left Uma alone and on the run. Published by Sourcebooks Casablanca on February 7, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() This book Momo aka The Men in Gray was written in 1973. It was originally written in German as a children's book. ![]() The author Michael Ende also wrote the more famous book "The Neverending Story". I personally believe that some children's books are actually meant for adults. They seem like totally different books when you read again after 10, 20 years and they resonate with you more than they did when you were young. The full title in German of this book can be translated as "Momo, or the Strange Story of the Time-Thieves and the Child Who Brought the Stolen Time Back to the People" As explained in the German title, this book tells you about time in modern society, and how we should handle it in an enlightening and mind-touching way. But there's something special about her: she listens to you. She doesn't just sit beside you, nodding her head half-heartedly or grunting "Yeah, right" every now and then. ![]() ![]() ![]() But that is changing as God is training me in the way I should go. Reasoning and confusion go together.” I so agree with this statement because I have lived it. I once asked the Lord why so many people are confused and He said to me, “Tell them to stop trying to figure everything out, and they will stop being confused.” I have found it to be absolutely true. Joyce writes “Reasoning opens the door for deception and brings much confusion. ![]() So, the whole portion about reasoning is very vital to me to learn and implement. I love to problem solve and am very list oriented. As I have shared before, I am a person of reason. There is so much in this chapter that has ministered to my heart. This week is all about the confused mind. ![]() These lessons may seem simple because they are easy to read but I am finding them challenging to implement. Learning the strategies of the enemy to control my thoughts is allowing me to come out of the battle as more than a conqueror. It is really making a difference in my life. Hello my friends, who live their lives in the mind of Christ,Įach lesson, I am learning so much. Proverbs 3:5 -85 Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding.6 In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths.ħ Be not wise in your own eyes reverently fear and worship the Lord and turn away from evil.Ĩ It shall be health to your nerves and sinews, and marrow and moistening to your bones. ![]() |