Wednesday 19 June 2019

27 June: Catherine Cookson Quotes

On this date in 1906, the novelist Catherine Cookson was born. Here are 10 quotes from her.


  1. Life was good except for―oh, yes, there was always an except.
  2. Fear is the enemy, fear is the foe, if you run before it down you’ll go. But if you stand and look it in the face, God will pour into you the bravery of grace.
  3. Fancy feathers make peacocks, but you pluck them and see what's left.
  4. It's no good saying one thing and doing another.
  5. To get over the guilt of drinking, take your brandy in milk. This way, it becomes medicinal.
  6. Those who say they would write a book if only they had time will never become authors.
  7. Such love is bound to suffer, because it will wake up one day.
  8. Anyway, as they say, where there's life, there's hope. So let us eat.
  9. Platitudes or otherwise, there were no words to ease the agony of living.
  10. Constancy in a man is rare.

The Raiders Trilogy


Book One
Book Three
Book Two
   

Power Blaster is a superhero who lives in a dimension not unlike our own, in the mega-nation of Innovia. No-one knows who he is or where his powers come from. 
After saving the life of the President several times, Power Blaster learns that a test of a nuclear warhead to defend the planet against asteroid strikes will have devastating consequences for his world and sets out to prevent it.

Power Blaster's actions lead to an unexpected result - a wormhole opens between his dimension and our own. Anyone in the vicinity is pulled through. People from diverse backgrounds and cultures must co-operate to survive and learn to live with the powers travel through the wormhole has bestowed on some of them.

A stable wormhole is established between the two dimensions. Power Blaster is determined to bring Desi Troyes, the person responsible for the bomb, to justice. Help comes from some rather unexpected sources. Meanwhile, Shanna Douglas sets out on a mission of her own, to find out if there is a cure for the life altering condition the wormhole gave her friend, Benedict Cole. Little does she know that she will stumble upon the secret of Power Blaster's mysterious origins.

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