![]() ![]() ![]() From the moment I returned to campus six weeks ago, I’ve hit the ground running. “You need to go out.” Cam keeps his eye on the road, his lips curving into a barely-there smile. “You need to use that pressure to your advantage.” “The pressure is getting to me,” I mutter as I slump in the seat. Where did our happy, go-lucky Knox go? I miss him.” Cam throws the gear into reverse and glances over his shoulder before backing out of the parking space, the engine rumbling. “With that kind of attitude, hell yeah, you will.” “You’re worried about that English class, huh?” Cam fires up the engine, giving it gas, making it roar. “But I need every spare minute I can get to do homework.” “I’m sure it will,” I agree as we both climb into his Dodge Challenger. He’s quiet for a moment, absorbing what I said. “You look ready to chew through steel.”Ī ragged exhale leaves me. While we do live near campus, said campus is fucking huge, which means we drive over to the field every afternoon for practice. “Something’s bothering you,” Cam says as we head for the parking lot. Physical therapy on top of that is going to really eat into my study time, something I can’t afford to lose. ![]() Or the fact that I have to take that damn English class this semester. I don’t like the twinge I’m currently feeling in my knee. To hide away for a few hours and nurse my wounds. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife and two sons. Rick Riordan is an award-winning mystery writer. Rick Riordan Is The Mythmaster - The Greek Gods are alive and kicking - "A cracking read". ![]() She couldn't shake the feeling that something was about to go terribly wrong. Part of her wanted to kidnap Percy right now, get on board and get out of here while they still could. Its massive bronze hull glittered in the sunlight. She heard that whispering laughter again, as if the presence had followed her from the ship. Annabeth felt as if someone had draped a cold washcloth across her neck. One fatal prophecy seven brave demigods a quest to find - and close - the doors of death. ![]() The Mark of Athena is the explosive third part in Rick Riordan's number one series - Heroes of Olympus. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Homebodies by tembe denton hurst![]() ![]() ![]() Full of contradictions, Mickey makes for an interesting protagonist-but very few of the other characters seem fully formed. For a break, Mickey takes off for her Maryland hometown, where she reconnects with old friends and tries to decide what to do with herself next. ![]() “Instead of reporting on the goings on of Black life,” Denton-Hurst writes in her engaging debut, Mickey “was making listicles about the best lipsticks for every skin tone.” But when she’s abruptly fired from her position, Mickey is devastated and thrown into a depression that forces her to reconsider every aspect of her life-including her relationship with her girlfriend, Lex. Mickey Hayward’s shiny writing job is not as great as she’d hoped it would be. A young Black woman contends with New York media culture. ![]() ![]() In a fascinating read for Catholics and non-Catholics alike, Christopher Lascelles examines the history of the popes through the ages, laying bare the extent to which many of them fell so very short of the Christian ideals they supposedly represented. ![]() Many have been the enemies of freedom and progress – divisive rather than unifying figures. While many have been admired, others have been hated to such a degree that their funeral processions have been disrupted and statues of them torn down after their deaths. They have been captured, assaulted and murdered. Popes have led papal armies, fled in disguise, fathered children (including future popes), and authorised torture. ![]() On the contrary, it is occasionally so bizarre as to stretch credulity. But the history of the popes is far from bland. ![]() For many people, the popes are an irrelevance: if they consider them at all, it may be as harmless old men who preach obscure sermons in Latin. ![]() |