![]() ![]() Maverick looks like a damn supermodel with his wavy dark hair and ridiculously chiseled features. And by “hang out,” I mean, bones as often as possible. Based on what I’ve learned from the girls who like to stop by our house-there are many-he hangs out with the same girl for exactly four weeks. A monogamous one, but a manwhore nonetheless. Much to my parents’ dismay, Maverick is a certified manwhore. “And looking at your face makes me lose my appetite.” “Screw you, fuckboy.” I try to close the door on him, but it’s useless, since he’s a damn giant and standing in the middle of the doorway. Don’t say things like that if you don’t want me to hurl.” ![]() “Goddammit! That was my favorite freaking mug. ![]() “Ow! What the hell, Mav!” I cover my burning eye with my palm and drop my mug in the sink. I jab myself in the eye with my mascara wand, and coffee sloshes down the front of my white tank. “HEY, LAV!” MY brother’s fist slams against the bathroom door, and half a second later it flies open, scaring the living shit out of me as it bashes into the wall. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The result is a thrilling literary detective story and a deeply compassionate work that encompasses all those women who were exiled from the warm, well-lighted parlors of Victorian England. In this remarkable work of biography and scholarly reconstruction, the acclaimed biographer of Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys and Jane Austen rescues Nelly from the shadows of history, not only returning the neglected actress to her rightful place, but also providing a compelling portrait of the great Victorian novelist himself. Out of their meeting came a love affair that lasted thirteen years and destroyed Dickens's marriage while effacing Nelly Ternan from the public record. 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In the 2005 film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, he is portrayed (as an adult) by Jim Broadbent.īiography The Magician's Nephew He appears in three of the seven books: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Magician's Nephew, and The Last Battle. Lewis' fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. Professor Digory Kirke is a fictional character from C. Digory Kirke on his way to Narnia ( Ross Wilson, 1998), CS Lewis Square, Belfast. ![]() ![]() ![]() It seems like every talking sword I read/see is snarky in some way. I shouldn’t neglect my education, now should I?” ❧ Remember that talking sword I mentioned? Yeah, well, his name is Nightblood, and I totally want one. “And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. Oops? But it made her so much more relatable, and I loved her for it. In fact, the only thing she’s got going for her is that she’s smart and outspoken … which is actually seen as a detriment in her society. 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However, those of my friends who are writers saw immediately how the building of the church would be the spine of the story and the focus for the lives of all the characters. They said, “you know, you’ve had a lot of success with these thrillers, are you sure you want to write about building a church?”. ![]() When I started talking about the idea, some of my friends were quite shocked. Before too long, it occurred to me to channel this enthusiasm into a novel. I would go to a town, like Lincoln or Winchester, check into a hotel and spend a couple of days looking around the cathedral and learning about it. ![]() I became a bit of a 'train spotter' on the subject. I read a couple of books on architecture and developed an interest in cathedrals. ![]() When I started writing, back in the early Seventies, I found I had no vocabulary for describing buildings. It’s overwhelmingly the book that readers talk to me about when I meet them in bookshops. It still sells about 100 000 copies a year in paperback in the US, it was number one in the UK and Italy and it was on the German best seller list for six years. ![]() |