6/30/2023 0 Comments Dark visions trilogy![]() But for much of their career, particularly during an intensely productive period in the mid-1980s, Sonic Youth’s songs displayed a particular doomed fascination with the ideas of America that reached dubiously mythical status in the Reagan years. Sound was their medium, but every artist likewise has a subject, and for Sonic Youth that often shifted, from abstract variations on songs of love and lust to actual pop cultural critique. ![]() ![]() Which might not have been half as effective had they not also written great songs, they just weren’t great songs that sounded like anyone else’s. ![]() From their early no wave recordings on deeper into the ’80s, Sonic Youth found inspiration not just in songwriting but in manipulating their instruments to warp and bend in ways not intended by manufacturer specifications, whether through homemade modifications, unusual tunings or playing them with implements other than a pick. Sonic Youth carved their path to becoming the quintessential band of the American underground on the very thing their name projects: Sound. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments The hex hall series![]() ![]() When people offer her advice, she trusts them because she is in need of basic information. Growing up in a human home, she is unaware of many things in the world of magic. She is extremely sarcastic and her sense of humor makes the book light-hearted. Like many protagonists, she is curious and brave when she needs to be. But before she can settle into Hex Hall, witches start getting attacked and her new best friend is the prime suspect. At this enchanted boarding school, Sophie soon meets a new best friend, makes three new enemies, and falls for the hottest boy on campus. Hex Hall), a reform school for shapeshifters, witches, warlocks, and faeries. As punishment, she gets sent to Hecate Hall (aka. After wielding her powers for years, a love spell gone wrong attracts too much unwanted attention. She first discovered her powers when she was thirteen and they got her into plenty of trouble. Sophie Mercer is a witch who lives with her human mother. Rachel Hawkins’s Hex Hall is the first book in the Hex Hall series. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Daring and the duke sarah maclean![]() Unable to forgive the past, she vows to take her revenge. ![]() Reconciliation is the last thing Grace desires. A long-ago gamble may have lost her forever, but Ewan will go to any lengths to win Grace back…and make her his duchess. ![]() Single-minded and ruthless, Ewan, Duke of Marwick, has spent a decade searching for the woman he never stopped loving. Grace has a sharp mind and a powerful right hook and has never met an enemy she could not best.until the man she once loved returns. Betrayed as a child by her only love and raised on the streets, she now hides in plain sight as queen of London’s darkest corners. ![]() Grace Condry has spent a lifetime running from her past. New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean returns with the much-anticipated final book in her Bareknuckle Bastards series, featuring a scoundrel duke and the powerful woman who brings him to his knees. ![]() |