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Heartbreak Hotel
Anne Rivers Siddons
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Alabama, 1956: While Elvis Presley was singing about love, one young woman was learning about life.
Everyone loves Maggie Deloach, one of the most popular girls on campus with everything going for her. An impeccable lineage. Picture-perfect looks. The best sorority, and the best fraternity boy's pin. The ultimate Southern belle, Maggie knows what the rules are and is willing to play by them. No surprises are waiting in her future -- but neither are any disappointments.
Then, amid the stifling heat of an Alabama summer, everything changes. There is talk of a racial revolution brewing, one that surely should not touch her protected world... but somehow does. There is growing sexual awareness that she knows should shock her... yet does not. There is a single act of defiance and courage that will forever alter the way others think of her... and how Maggie thinks herself.
"An absolute gem... a rare and wonderful book."
--Richmond News Leader
Customer Reviews:
Fair First Effort, But Derivative and Cliched.......2007-09-29
Siddons is a talented and readable writer, but this 1976 novel is trite and predictable. It is one of a long line of Southern sorority girls experiencing liberal epiphany novels, set at Southern colleges in the decade from 1950 to 1960, and it offers no fresh insights, and no surprises. All the stock characters appear and act as if they are rigidly following expected plot lines. You have the unawakened but beautiful sorority queen, with the germ of liberal understanding slumbering in her outsider heart. You have the Northern sexually liberated female student, who opens mental doors for the main character. There is the primal blonde, luring hotblooded males into combat, meeting her fate in the alcohol fueled car crash. Of course there are the rich Delta boyfriend and the poor liberal journalist who are locked in their lifelong rivalry. Do I need to mention the Tenessee Williams parents or the drunken housemother, the vaguely reassuring dean of female students, or the good old boy cracker policeman? The book is a good introduction to Siddons talent, but it dragged on and on, and Maggie's "courageous stand" was ridiculously anticlimactic, and her subsequent actions telegraphed from practically page one. Read Peachtree Road instead.
one of my favorites by Siddons.......2007-09-18
I knew when I started this novel that it was a re-release of an earlier of Siddons' books, but I did not know until I read the author summary at the end that it was her first novel. Clearly, she has been a talent from the very beginning. I loved this book; I found myself crying along at the end. Highly recommended!
Heartbreak Hotel.......2007-03-12
I like all of Anne Rivers Siddons books. Having visited the outer banks and Atlanta area, I can relate to the geographics included in her stories.
Received in great condition.
Loved it!!!!!!.......2004-03-08
This is one of my favorites of Siddons! I really related to the main character Maggie, how she goes off to college, matures and slowly begins forming her own opinions on issues. My favorite novels are those of characters who strongly voice their opinions, especially when it's controversial. I loved Aiken and how she pushed Maggie to be a better person by taking off her rose colored glasses and forcing her to open her eyes and really see the world around her...everyone should have a best friend that guides you to grow and reach the potential they've seen in you all along. I highly recommend this book, run out and get it now!!!
I Loved this book when at Auburn 1980.......2002-03-14
I picked up this book at school not realizing it would be about Auburn. More than 20 years latter I still have it. It was the first time I read a book about the area I was in and it started a Love of that kind of story and of the author's writing. I think it is a great story for a girl at college to enjoy and really think about.
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- Strong characters, good story
- A Top Ten Romance - excellent read
- Great swan song for the Twilight Trilogy
- Hate To See the Trilogy End
- Multifaceted book - a great read!
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Heartbreak Hotel: A Novel (Twilight Cove Trilogy)
Jill Marie Landis
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Release Date: 2006-07-25 |
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During her acclaimed career, USA Today bestselling author Jill Marie Landis has consistently delivered stories of vibrant sensuality featuring heartfelt characters whose sweeping emotions make their lives unforgettable. Now, in Heartbreak Hotel, Landis has written her most spellbinding novel yet.
A supportive wife and mother, Tracy Potter always played by the rules and maintained a perfect home. But after her husband’s sudden death, she learns the devastating truth: all she believed in–from their wealth to their marriage vows-–was a perfect lie. Forced to start over, Tracy puts everything into resurrecting the Heartbreak Hotel, a long-abandoned turn-of-the-century inn overlooking the Pacific Ocean. She’s determined to never again believe in anyone but herself–until the night mysterious loner Wade MacAllister checks in. Intrigued by the secret disillusionment in his eyes–one that mirrors her own–Tracy finds that a growing desire challenges her at every turn.
The Heartbreak Hotel is a perfect place for Wade to hide not only from his notoriety as an author, but the shocking events in his past. Drawn to Tracy and her struggle to succeed, he is quickly compelled to risk the anonymity on which his survival depends. By the time Tracy discovers the handsome stranger’s true identity, there’s more than ever at stake. She is not only forced to risk another broken heart and learn to trust again, but she must fight to make Wade believe in their love.
Along California’s sparkling blue coastline and amid its mist-shrouded nights, Heartbreak Hotel unfolds a suspenseful and yet tender story of second chances against all odds, of families lost and regained . . . and of the ways unexpected love can make even the most disillusioned hearts believe.
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Praise for Heat Wave
“Riveting–a gripping novel that will pull at your heartstrings.”
–JOAN JOHNSTON, author of Colter’s Wife
“Jill Marie Landis is a master. Her Heat Wave caught me on a swell, gripped me from the very first page, and sent me hurtling into adventure. I highly recommend it!”
–LINDA LAEL MILLER, author of The Last Chance Café
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Customer Reviews:
Strong characters, good story.......2006-10-13
Widowed six months ago, Tracy Potter discovers her late husband had a secret life. Not only did he leave her with little money, he had a child with his mistress.
Tracy's world is completely altered but she doesn't have the time to pitch a fit or even be angry - she has to provide for her ten year old son and 18 year old step-daughter. She decides to invest all her resources in the Heartbreak Hotel, a run-down investment her husband never got around to fixing up.
The hotel isn't officially open for business when Wade MacAllister checks in. Wade has every intention of killing himself there. He's a best-selling author, traveling incognito because of the notoriety from a serial killer using the plot from one of Wade's books to murder 12 young women. Not only does Wade feel guilt for their deaths, some of the families sued him over the murders of their loved ones.
Wade has been traveling the country and trying to work up the nerve to commit suicide. But Tracy's courage and generosity move him and he gradually falls in love with her. Tracy is slow to trust again and is faced with a difficult decision involving her husband's mistress.
A good emotional story, strong characters. I cared about Tracy and Wade. At 438 pages it was a little too long and at times very slow. The action near the end was just ordinary and predictable mayhem.
A Top Ten Romance - excellent read.......2005-11-03
I read almost all of this year's top ten romances recommended by the American Library Association - and this one is wonderful. This is a continuation of the author's Twilight Cove saga and it really tugged my heart-strings. I highly recommend this one as well as MJ Putney's Stolen Magic, Lynn Kerstan's Dangerous Passions, and Lord Will & Her Grace by Sophia Nash. All of them were almost impossible to put down.
Great swan song for the Twilight Trilogy.......2005-09-07
Young widow Tracy Potter is dumbstruck when she finds out that the opulent lifestyle that her late husband Glenn insisted they live has left them broke. The only thing left of his estate is a modest turn of the century hotel atop a mountain outside of the fictional town of Twilight Cove (near San Luis Obispo).
With her modest family inheritance, she fixes the hotel up with the intention of making it more marketable. While in the midst of renovation, she receives her first guest. He is a mysterious man on a Harley, and his intention is to end his life, but something about the Heartbreak Hotel keeps him from doing the deed. Tracy is fearful of ad-man Wade Johnson, unaware that he is a novelist with a past he would rather forget. But cash is cash, and she lets him stay.
Soon, a day turns into two, then a week, then a month, then the entire summer, and he eventually assists with the renovations. Her son Matthew seems to blossom with a man around the place, but her college-aged step-daughter is fearful that Wade will replace her father in Tracy's heart. As Tracy starts to gain financial ground and ready for an open house, a family friend offers to take a look at her husband's books, and makes a startling discovery of a secret that Glenn kept from his wife.
Wade has wanted to keep his identity a secret, and when he sees a chance to help Tracy make a go of her business, he grabs at it, not knowing what it will cost either of them.
"Heartbreak Hotel" was a welcome gem to end the Twilight Cove series, managing to capture the magic of and proving that the first book in the series, "Lover's Lane" was no fluke.
Hate To See the Trilogy End.......2005-05-24
JML just keeps getting better in my opinion. I've kept up with the current trilogy & was, in a word, thrilled to read this latest book. Although pairing a sad widow & a tormented novelist isn't a real stretch, JML makes it work in a BIG way. Tracy & Wade are, by fate it seems, thrown together & manage to find peace with themselves & fall in love. The good part is watching them get to that place. The "Heartbreak Hotel" itself is intriguing, you get to meet Carly & Jake from "Lovers Lane" again, and Tracy's son and stepdaughter make a wonderful addition to the story. You won't be disappointed. JML is on my watch list for any new novels & her books are all keepers!
Multifaceted book - a great read!.......2005-05-23
Suffice it to say, Ms. Landis is a wonderful author. You can read the storyline from a review here or elsewhere so I won't repeat. You must read this book. There is a lot going on in it - I could not put it down. And oh, yes have some tissues on hand. Hope she returns to this town again soon with another wonderful tale.
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Excellent.......1998-01-20
Stephen Bishop has certainly captured the essence of his subject. The myriad of songs and artists he presents in an articulate and sometime amusing manner are interesting and informative.
I recommend that all lovers of music will enjoy this wonderfully constructed and edited book.
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Readers Digest Select Editions (Volume 5, 2005) (Heartbreak Hotel, The Closers, The Ladies of Garrison Gardens, Julie & Romeo Get Lucky, Volume 5)
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High adventure in the Savage Land! The X-Men discover a wondrous and advanced new civilization when they return to the isolated, Antarctic jungle - but it's none-too-friendly toward humans... or mutants! And could the X-Men have unintentionally helped them take their first steps toward world domination? Plus: The team gains a highly unexpected new member! Collects Uncanny X-Men #455-461.
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Claremont goes back to the well.......2007-04-27
On Ice, the third collected volume in Chris Claremont's return to Uncanny X-Men, finds the legendary X-Men scribe going back to the well. On Ice finds Wolverine taking a trip to the Savage Land to lend a hand, and soon enough he's in over his head against mutated beasties. Storm and the rest of the X-Men soon follow to help out, leading to their capture and Marvel Girl being brainwashed. Oh yeah, X-23 is here too, and Psylocke comes back from the dead only after a few years since Claremont killed her off in the now defunct X-Treme X-Men. While the overall story of On Ice is fun, Claremont's story is so cliche ridden and loaded with plot holes that you'll wonder if Claremont still thinks this is the 80's, and his dialogue alone is proof of that. Alan Davis' artwork though is what makes On Ice worth checking out, as he provides some wonderfully realized pencils throughout this TPB, and there is just something about his rendition of Marvel Girl that is simply luscious. All in all, On Ice is worth a look from X-fans, and yes, you can do far better, but you can also do far, far worse (Chuck Austen anybody?).
Ok, this is bad..........2006-10-14
The X-Men fighting dinosaur men in the Savage Land. A good story with this plot is impossible. To be fair, Claremont's run on this series seems to be a throwback to the style of the eighties, and plots like this did occur in the X-Men of the eighties. However, this kind of story represents the extremely bad and cheezy side of eighties comics that people make fun of. This easily ranks as one of the worst X-Men stories I've read.
The reason I gave this two stars instead of one is for the last couple of issues, which are actually quite good. One is Psyclocke dealing with her return home, which spans the X-Men's return from the Savage Land through Wolverine: Enemy of the State and X-Men: Phoenix Endsong. The other is a fairly amusing issue featuring Mojo, although I'm not sure how he's alive, since last I saw he was killed in X-Men #11. His return could have been a story in a spin-off X-book or another Marvel title, however.
All in all, I would only recommend this book for completists (like myself)or if you'd rather not go to a comic shop and pick up the last two issues of this volume individually.
Alan Davis Reigns Supreme!!.......2006-06-03
I don't read as many comics as I used to back in the day, (60's and 70's), but when Alan Davis illustrates such exotic locales such as the lost savage land of Kazar - I must have and read it!
Alan Davis's reincarnation of Killraven was utterly fantastic, his writing skills and fabulous, beautiful artwork shining bigger and better than ever before.
And it shows in this blazing mix of savage jungle and mutant X-men graphic novel. Most excellent in all ways. A must have for any comic book fan who loves great artwork blended with beautiful colors and imagery.
Marvel Girl is the Most Valuable Player in this book........2005-11-29
The XSE goes back to the Savage Land in this TPB. Bizarre things always happen to this team in the Savage Land. This book is no exception.
The beginning of this arc was what threw me, and what made me only give it four out of five stars. Wolverine departs to the Savage Land to investigate some strange findings that an old ex-girlfriend of his (with red hair, go figure) alerted him to. He goes alone (or so he thinks), not realizing that X-23, his teenaged clone, has tagged along as a stowaway on the Blackbird. First, why does Logan insist on going alone? Why was Storm, the leader of the team, okay with it?
Second, why was there no exposition of who Logan's ex-girlfriend was? Granted, she gets killed in the first few pages, but it's nice to have that history.
The Savage Land Mutates make an appearance, as well as a new band of mutated dino-lizards called the Haukka. It's always nice to see some new antagonists for a change. Ka-Zar returns, too, but he didn't have much of a speaking role in this arc.
When the X-Men are taken hostage by the Haukka, they brainwash Marvel Girl into thinking she is one of them. She's so convinced that she begins mutating herself on a molecular level to even physically resemble one of them. THAT was cool. It was neat to see her lope along with the bent posture like the other lizards, further testament to Alan Davis's artwork.
We get to see some interesting interaction between Storm and Marvel Girl in this book, as well as see more of what Storm's powers can really do on a larger scale. Psylocke returns to the X-Men (and from the dead), still looking Japanese, and no longer telepathic, but she's pretty damned cool. If you are a fan of Bishop, you won't see much of him in this story. Logan also inexplicably disappears, by the second issue of this arc, and you never are offered an explanation as to why (even though we know he was kidnapped and brainwashed by HYDRA in his own series, but that doesn't excuse his absence from the Savage Land, hello?).
Marvel Girl's character begs further exploration, both in terms of her powers and how she will grow with the team. This book made me forget all of the previous "Days of Future Past" arcs, thankfully. All of her previous timeline jumps just gave me a headache. Like her mother, Rachel Grey has the greatest capacity for heroism or ultimate destruction.
This is one more story arc that made me very grateful that Chuck Austen is no longer writing this series.
So disappointing!.......2005-11-13
Wow was this bad. I was so hoping to like it as I love some of these characters so much (especially Rachel Summers!). Unfortunately, these characters act out of character throughtout and ignore past history and relationships. The X-Men run around like chickens with their heads cut off from battle to battle spouting the same Claremont cliches that they've spouted 100 times before. If you really want to read the legendary Chris Claremont, track down the reprints of X-Men #94 - 200; unfortunately, not even the gorgeous Alan Davis art makes this book readable.
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Gail Sher's The Intuitive Writer is a series of meditations on listening. Not just any listening, but listening with the "imagining ear." The imagining ear is more described than defined here, but it involves listening attentively and hearing more than there is to hear. The imagining ear can hear the silence in Stravinsky's Violin Concerto. It can hear, as Willa Cather wrote, "the corn growing in the night." One might think, mistakenly, that this involves active, aggressive, "yang" listening. But Sher, a Zen monk, refers instead to the listening that comes from freeing oneself of preconceptions, judgments, and opinions. This is a slender book, with short chapters that refer to everything from Robert Frost and Camille Pissarro to child's pose in yoga and Ayurveda, from Philip Glass and Balanchine to Krishnamurti and Chinese pictograms. Either you find this kind of swirl of cultural and spiritual references appealing or you don't. But what writer wouldn't appreciate the encouragement to open themselves to a deeper understanding of experience, where it becomes clear that "one falling leaf is not just one leaf; it means the whole autumn." --Jane Steinberg
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Gail Sher's first guidebook, One Continuous Mistake, showed writers how to develop awareness and deal with distraction through the Four Noble Truths (for writers). Drawing from Sher's thirty years of experience as a Zen Buddhist, psychotherapist, poet, and teacher, The Intuitive Writer is her second enlightening guide for the writer (now seated at her desk) that explains how to shape and sharpen her perceptions, both of her own voice and that of the world around her.
An invaluable tool for writers of every level, The Intuitive Writer explores the wisdom, spirituality, and ultimate uniqueness embedded in the language of one's daily life.
Customer Reviews:
A Guide For Hearing.......2005-08-24
This book is a treasure. I read it once in a trance, and I am on a second reading, which I feel sure will birth a third and more readings, hopefully until I read it and wake up! under the shelter of Sher's words, my current Bodhi tree. This book is so achingly beautiful that is almost isn't there; I have to reassure myself that I own it (Does anyone ever truly own beauty?). The sharp read-aloud-able passages are anything you want them to be--- poetry, aesthetic theory, a guide to writing and life--- and everything you want them to be. This isn't a book for those who like clear guidelines, and yet the book is full of clear guidlines. It's pretty deep. I recommend it highly for serious (happy) artists and human beings.
Save your money and just write........2002-09-17
I like readable prose. This is more like poetry with meaning that must be disciphered or intuited. I am disappointed and am sending the book back. I bought it on the basis of the first reviewer but it didn't impress me as much. I think it would be better to write rather than read more esoteric writing about writing. I would pass on this one.
Like "One Continuous Mistake", only deeper.......2002-08-06
This is one of those books that I would buy for every writer friend of mine, if I had the money. It's hard to convey the power that Gail Sher is able to impart with her very simple, straightforward style. I am a produced playwright who has been working on fiction for a number of years, and I believed myself to be "above" books that purport to tell one about writing. Gail Sher speaks (I think) to those who are past the beginner stage, who have begun the hard task of finding their voice and know a little about the painful, joyous process of translating that into a finished work of fiction. This book, like her first one, is a book you can literally open to any page and find something that will help you on your journey or answer a question you weren't even sure you were formulating in your head.
Unlike "One Continuous Mistake", though, this book assumes an intelligence in the reader, a desire to delve deeper into the simple bead-to-bead-to-bead experience that the complex task of writing ultimately breaks down to. The observations and conclusions by Ms. Sher in this book are denser in nature than they were in "One Continuous Mistake". I took this to mean that, as she did with the first book, she had written this new book for me and the special place that I found myself in (in relation to my fiction). I have to believe that others have this same feeling about the wise words of Ms. Sher and that they will find their way to this new book as well.
If you are serious about being a writer, and if you spend a good deal of your brain-time pondering exactly what that means, then this book is essential. If you know that you have talent as a writer but, for whatever reason, you feel you have lost touch with that spring you drew from, you need this book. It is unique. It will speak to you.
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