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Michael Sun msun109 — Weirdly rife with homoeroticism, even though the most explicit was edited out apparently, A Picture of Dorian Gray is mostly about Oscar Wilde’s musings on beauty, art and letting go of morals. I hated that most of the women in the story were vapid- even the outwardly ugly ones. (C'mon, surely they could've been thrown a bone?? I mean really, not a single woman of worth to be had??? Someone didnt like their Mama very much.) I didn’t like Harry much, seemed a predator to me, and tho I initially liked Dorian Gray- his lack of good judgment, backbone and eventual cruelty changed all that... however, when we saw the first alteration of the portrait, the story started clicking for me. It begins with a beautiful young Dorian Gray sitting for an artist. After seeing the painting, and listening to another older man extol the virtues of youth and hedonism, he unconsciously makes a sort of deal with the devil to stay young forever by acknowledging the older man’s advice to, and I paraphrase, “don’t resist and just go with it” when opportunities to debauch arise. Dorian’s face will never show the ravages of living by cruel means, and never grow old- because all of it will be thrust onto the image in the painting. But, as always, the easy way out is only a trap that leads to death. And it indeed ensnared Dorian. For me, with The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde does an excellent job of displaying the fact that freedom from, rather than of, moral stricture leads to destruction and true ugliness- which one can assume by the author’s lifestyle, is quite the opposite of what he was attempting to say. In the end the story became a cautionary tale on such a lifestyle and ultimately a prophetic symbol of Oscar Wilde’s own life, imo. Tragic. Lately, as I read the headlines, I just want to scream from my rooftops- Suck it up people, opposite of what the hedonistic lifestyle of the 60’s, 70’s & 80’s tried to tell us, and as much as nihilists would like it otherwise, we need law and a modicum of restraint or you will never experience the true joys in life. Sacrificing your wants, instead of sacrificing your children’s needs (and lives) on the altar of inconvenience, preferring someone else above yourself, and selfless kindness is the purest expression of beauty and one that this “civilized” society needs to revisit- pronto. You take that away and you have young men murdering each other on the streets, as well as defenseless mothers and daughters being slaughtered in their own homes without impunity. You have mothers abandoning their babies in dumpsters- or even worse hacking them up or drowning them! You have people eating other people’s faces off- literally-and sicko old men preying on children, with no justice for the victims. My soul is burdened by such things right now. Take it from Dorian Gray, when temptation comes to choose outward beauty over the milk of human kindness, its always best to choose the latter.

Mia López mialo — This is a book of the rites for catechumens, baptized but not Catholic children and adults. There is background info about the rite but is very minimal. It's more of a how-to book.

Cool Kid100 vaehgirl102fd7 — This review was originally posted on my blog and has bee edited slightly. This was the second book in the series, I hadn’t read the first when I started this, but while I’m sure it would’ve filled in more of the background of the story, Wild Desire was okay as a standalone read. That being said, I’m now going to go back and read the first one, (Wild Heart). This was a lot of fun, kind of what you might get if you crossed Indiana Jones with a romance novel. Lots of swashbuckling adventure and swoony romance. I liked both of the characters, they were well developed. Bea isn’t your typical shrinking violet, she’s innocent about much of what goes on in the world, but at the same time she wants to get out there and have adventures. I enjoyed her headstrong nature and her pluckiness. She was a fun character to get to know. Colin is rather lovely as well, a little bit anti-hero, in the beginning he’s more interested in finding the treasure he’s after. But as the story progresses and Bea and Colin grow closer his priorities change. He’s very much the ‘man’, cocky, stubborn and he quite likes to push Bea’s buttons. I love when the two of them first meet - he’s rolling drunk and she’s buck nekkid! The main characters have great chemistry together and I really enjoyed the way they bounced off one another, whether it was in teasing or flirting. Both characters have been hurt in the past, so it was great to see them deal with what held them back and move forward in their relationship. I started this on the plane heading to ARRC2011 and I spent the whole plane trip cackling like a crazy lady – all signs of a good book in my mind. There’s lots of lovely tension between the couple, one scene that springs to mind is when Colin and Bea get caught up in a street riot, and Colin has to cut Bea’s corset off – just mmm wow! Smoldering comes to mind and when their consummation scene finally comes around – hells bells, it was sexy, sweet and heartbreaking all at the same time. One thing I didn’t expect was the paranormal theme running through it and to be honest it doesn’t take over the whole story, it’s only hinted at in the beginning, if anything it added to the adventure and danger that Colin and Bea were in. It isn’t mentioned at all in the blurb and I only found out ahead of time because I’d read another bloggers review of the book. The paranormal element is explored through Colin’s back story as the novel progresses. I would assume if you were reading this after the first book, there would be more knowledge of the paranormal side of things, but as I said earlier, it doesn’t detract from the story as a standalone or if you’re reading them out of order. If you don’t usual read paranormal, this would be a great introduction to it. The story at its heart is a historical romance, but it has lots of adventure and the paranormal helps to complete the novel. The only thing I don’t think gelled was the use of some of the language, towards the end Colin swears – shit, I think – nothing too out there, but it didn’t seem to fit with the story and on occasion Bea used ‘British’ insults and it seemed that these were only used because the character was from England. Nobody else may think anything of this but I know as an Aussie, people think we talk like Alf from Home & Away – think gratuitous use of cobber, stone the flaming crows, maaate, or you could listen to any number of Kevin Rudd’s speeches – he used slang quite a bit. It kind of pulled me out of the story a bit, but it was the swearing more so. Overall, this was so much fun to read and I’m really looking forward to reading Wild Heart. It was a fun, easy read, perfect for my holiday and it really set the tone for my holiday – lots of fun and adventure. It’s a great historical romance and I really enjoyed the paranormal elements of the story.

魏 芊芊 alice1977 — One of my favorite poirots. I hate cruises because I can't stand the idea of being on a boat with a bunch of strangers for that long apparently here someone felt the same way and decided to start offing folks.