It’s almost time for her to graduate high school but her world is filled with uncertainty and questions – not what she’s hoping for. Elle Kennedy The Score Main CharactersĪllie Hayes is the heroine of this particular story, and we find her in crisis mode. This is the third book in Elle Kennedy’s great “Off Campus” series. And it’s filled with the banter & random situations that young adults find themselves in during this time period of life. This is a new adult book centered around young adults as seniors in high school and college. Oh, and some of the links here are affiliate links and if you purchase anything through them I may earn a very small commission through Amazon. This is a book filled with all sorts of double meanings due to the convenient hockey theme that runs through it. Yes, “The Score” by Elle Kennedy means just what you think it does □ The Score by Elle Kennedy Review – UPDATED 2019 Posted by VAuthor on in Book Reviews
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His life changes one evening while delivering coal when he finds in a chapel a roomful of young women and girls on their hands and knees polishing the floor. What would life be like he wondered, if they were given time to think and to reflect over things? Might their lives be different or much the same or would they just lose the run of themselves? He courted Eileen in a ‘high school sweetheart’ way, taking her to “the cinema and for long walks along the town path in the evenings.” Told from his narrative point-of-view, Furlong is quietly facing the edge of midlife and risked mundanity.Īlways it was the same, Furlong thought always they carried on mechanically on, without pause, to the next job at hand. Furlong is a wholesome family man he lives with his wife Eileen and their five daughters. Set around the days approaching Christmas, protagonist Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, stumbles into the misery and mistreatment of women in the laundry at his local convent. Keegan’s third work offers a concise and humble reckoning of the atrocities committed against these women and children. The last laundry closed in 1996, and the staggering reality is that nine thousand children died “in just eighteen of the institutions investigated.” No apology had been issued by the Irish government or the Catholic Church, not until Taoiseach Enda Kenny did in 2013. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan is a story dedicated to the victims of Ireland’s Magdalen laundries. King, would you care to comment upon the articulate former Black Muslim, Malcolm X?ĭR. I think either way, it's journalistic malpractice." For drastic changes like the ones he found, Eig said, "I can't believe that Haley would have signed off on that without having seen it. "We don't know for sure that Haley typed that draft, but we do know that his byline was on the story," Eig said. While journalists sometimes edit quotes to clarify an interview subject's remarks, it's a delicate task - and it does not entail adding language out of whole cloth. "I feel pretty strongly that it's Haley who made this change, because it happens early in the process," after an audio tape recording of the interview was transcribed but before Haley submitted a draft to Playboy. And it sounded like he was much more open to exploring that relationship than the Playboy interview made it out to be."Įig was asked whether he feels Haley or his editors were responsible for the inconsistencies. "There's more to it," Eig said, "but what King actually said was that he disagreed with some of Malcolm's views, maybe with many of them - but that he was aware that his way wasn't the only way. It's "journalistic malpractice," Eig said, to misrepresent what King thought about Malcolm X in this way. Eig's discovery was recently reported by The Washington Post. 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He doesn’t contort facts or offer an entirely different version to real events. But, not in the way you expect him to be. The narrator, Richard Papen, is definitely unreliable. It doesn’t use unreliable narrator trick to put up a final, thrilling twist. “The Secret History” is a very straightforward novel, considering the fact that it starts with a murder, committed by college students, who are otherwise perceived harmless, innocent souls. The ‘heart of darkness’ and ‘murderer’s guilt’ aspects of the novel are wonderfully incorporated to depict the life of young Americans, fascinated by nihilism and chaos. Through the murder element, Tartt elegantly explores the isolation of a young man, oppressed by a very mundane life, who gets a distant possibility of leading a romanticized version of life. 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By 1814 Hervey, a twenty-three-year-old parson's son, has been on campaign with the 6th Light Dragoons for over five years-only to find his military career endangered by an impetuous act of gallantry. And Englishmen such as Matthew Hervey, led by the "Iron Duke" of Wellington, have left the green pastures of home to follow the drum in His Majesty's cavalry. Bringing alive the Napoleonic era and the armies whose blood stained the soil of turbulent nations, here is the story of one man whose valor and vision bring him honor, betrayal, and a challenge beyond his imagining.įor two decades, since the French Revolution, Britain and her allies have fought a seemingly endless war to loosen Bonaparte's stranglehold on Europe. In the tradition of Patrick O'Brian's beloved historical military adventures comes the first in a dashing new series featuring Cornet Matthew Hervey, a young cavalry officer in Wellington's army of 1815. 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