Flowers From Cupid S Garden Life Is A Story Story One

Enter Cupid's garden, where you're the mastermind behind people's love affairs. Meet Cupid, who's head over heels for Psyche but can't leave his job as the matchmaker. That's where you come in. As a reader, you get to make decisions that shape the characters' love lives. You'll read their letters and choose whether they find love or move on. Will you help them mend their hearts or set them on a new path? With each choice you make, you will see how the characters' life unfolds. It's a reminder that the choices we make impact others. Through the various letters, you'll experience unique love stories, and you'll see that everyone's story matters. This interactive novel shows how our choices connect us and shape the lives we lead. "Flowers from Cupid's Garden" lets you take control of the characters' destinies, and as you do, you'll see how one decision can change everything.

FROM EXCITING AUTHOR OF LGBTQ+ ROMANCE, ELIZABETH HOLLOWS A Love's Bloom story Will doesn't want a relationship. Blain isn't looking for a boyfriend. But with an old lady playing Cupid, how can they ignore a chance at love? Will Brewer is a shy artist living with only his cat for company. He's not good with people and even worse with relationships. He isn't looking for a boyfriend. He just wants to paint. In fact, he would happily be living the life of a hermit if his eighty-year-old neighbor, Mrs. O'Grady, wasn't constantly roping him into tasks around her house. And he isn't the only one she's preying on. The new and gorgeous mechanic Blain Stewart has just moved in next door. Where Will feels like an awkward fool around Blain, the mechanic finds him adorable. Blain has just ended a bad long-term relationship with a high-maintenance man who didn't understand him. He feels like he's starting all over again and he's hesitant for his fresh start to include the talented and charming Will. But when Mrs. O'Grady asks them to plant some flowers in her garden, the tension between them skyrockets. They both think friendship would be safer than a new romance. But when attraction, connection and an enthusiastic old lady are pushing them together, can they resist?

The mania for tulip bulbs that caused a Holland stock market crash, traditions spells and rituals for finding true love, the symbolism of royal wedding bouquets and much more are all described in this exploration into the strange history of many familiar plants.

Apuleius’ tale of Cupid and Psyche has been popular since it was first written in the second century CE as part of his Latin novel Metamorphoses. Often treated as a standalone text, Cupid and Psyche has given rise to treatments in the last 400 years as diverse as plays, masques, operas, poems, paintings and novels, with a range of diverse approaches to the text. Apuleius’ story of the love between the mortal princess Psyche (or “Soul”) and the god of Love has fascinated recipients as varied as Romantic poets, psychoanalysts, children’s books authors, neo-Platonist philosophers and Disney film producers. These readers themselves produced their own responses to and versions of the story. This volume is the first broad consideration of the reception of C&P in Europe since 1600 and an adventurous interdisciplinary undertaking. It is the first study to focus primarily on material in English, though it also ranges widely across literary genres in Italian, French and German, encompassing poetry, drama and opera as well as prose fiction and art history, studied by an international team of established and young scholars. Detailed studies of single works and of whole genres make this book relevant for students of Classics, English, Art History, opera and modern film.

Shakespeare lived when knowledge of plants and their uses was a given, but also at a time of unique interest in plants and gardens.His lifetime saw the beginning of scientific interest in plants, the first large-scale plant introductions from outside the country since Roman times, and the beginning of gardening as a leisure activity. Shakespeare's works show that he engaged with this new world to illuminate so many facets of his plays and poems. This dictionary offers a complete companion to Shakespeare's references to landscape, plants and gardens, including both formal and rural settings.It covers plants and flowers, gardening terms, and the activities that Shakespeare included within both cultivated and uncultivated landscapes as well as encompassing garden imagery in relation to politics, the state and personal lives. Each alphabetical entry offers an definition and overview of the term discussed in its historical context, followed by a guided tour of its use in Shakespeare's works and finally an extensive bibliography, including primary and secondary sources, books and articles.

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