AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |
Back to Blog
Pretties uglies series5/26/2023 ![]() Now she has to choose between fighting to forget what she knows and fighting for her life-because the authorities dont intend to let anyone with this information survive. Reading it, Tally remembers whats wrong with pretty life, and the fun stops cold. Then a message from Tallys ugly past arrives. ![]() But beneath all the fun-the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom-is a nagging sense that somethings wrong. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and shes completely popular. Book Synopsis The second installment of Scott Westerfelds New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies series-a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend. ![]() ![]() About the Book Includes an excerpt from the third book in the Uglies series, Specials, and also from the authors new series Leviathan. ![]()
0 Comments
Read More
Back to Blog
Am i normal yet book5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() I don't know how the author will write about characters struggling with anxiety and OCD when she is making fun of other diseases. The author's views about feminism and addiction are also a little difficult to digest. I still read more than 400 more pages without discarding this book, hoping to find something to love this book and the author. ![]() I was filled with anger when I read that part. Sadly, the author failed terribly in this part by making fun of epilepsy through one of her main characters. Some readers can tolerate that to a certain extent if it is done by the villain (As a human being, I won't tolerate that too). In my opinion, the golden rule that every author should follow while writing is to never ever make the main characters mock a clinical condition of other characters. She is slowly getting back on track after treatment for her OCD and anxiety. ![]() Holly Bourne tells us the story of Evie, who just wants to be normal. ![]()
Back to Blog
Salvage the bones review5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() One of the reasons why I loved Salvage the Bones so much was because of Jesmyn Ward’s ability to evoke such intense emotions. While some of the male characters in the book underestimate her strength, both physical and emotional, she proves that like the hurricane, she is a force to be reckoned with. Esch was a strong female character, navigating life among men, and acting as a strong force in her family. The novel was beautifully written, and one aspect that I appreciated was the ubiquitous theme of femininity. This story captures the importance of family, love, loyalty, and survival. Although Esch has no women in her life to look up to, she finds her female role models in unlikely places. Esch narrates the twelve-day journey that leads her to the discovery of her own feminine power and the acceptance of her newly-discovered pregnancy, while she also struggles along with her family to prepare for the impending hurricane. ![]() The story is told through the eyes of Esch, a fifteen-year-old motherless young woman who is living among her three brothers and father. Salvage the Bones is set in Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and takes place right before, during, and immediately after Hurricane Katrina. ![]() ![]() Apparently, one of my friends cried when she finished the book. Things like passionate hatred, deep concern, and that profound, penetrating warmth that bubbles up when something a bit too sweet happens. ![]()
Back to Blog
Court of the Hawk by Debbie Peterson5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() *** I love many of Grace Burrowes books and I am looking forward to this release. though every garden has at least one nasty, sly, determined serpent. When Providence intervenes, and Daniel and Kirsten can become engaged, their happiness seems complete…. ![]() Banks and his genuine compassion for others, despite his own troubles. Daniel’s interest is piqued by Kirsten’s unsentimental attitude toward her misfortunes, and by the kind-heartedness the lady keeps well hidden. There Daniel meets Lady Kirsten Haddonfield, to whom life has also dealt multiple unkind blows. In an attempt to start his life over, Daniel accepts the post of vicar in Haddondale, a position supported by the Earl of Haddonfield. Daniel Banks is a man of the cloth whose vocation is the last comfort he has left–and even his churchman’s collar is beginning to feel like a noose. ![]()
Back to Blog
The White Gryphon by Mercedes Lackey5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Then a ship arrives from the powerful Haighlei Empire, bearing ambassadors who accuse the new city of trespassing on Haighlei territory. A false ``healer'' is discovered to be torturing his patients and is expelled-only to return in secret and take revenge. ![]() Skandranon, the hero of the migration to the new city, at first finds himself restless with the role of peacetime leader, but new challenges soon arise. Ten years after the action of The Black Gryphon (1994), the gryphons and their human companions, despite their inability to use magic with full effect, have established a cliffside city called White Gryphon near the Western Ocean. ![]() The second in a prequel trilogy set roughly a thousand years before the main action in Lackey's Heralds of Valdemar series (Storm Warning, 1994, etc.). ![]()
Back to Blog
Book local woman missing5/26/2023 ![]() There were so many breadcrumbs and red herrings, and I had no idea who I suspected! I thought the plot was extremely clever. The alternating timelines took a little bit of getting used to, but once I got the hang of it this thriller pulled me in and begged to be finished in one sitting. ![]() I’ve always loved Mary Kubica, and this read certainly did not disappoint. Delilah returns to her family, and they all try to move on. The Ending:īea is arrested, as well as Carly’s kidnappers. Bea kept her in her soundproofed backyard studio for 11 years. Unfortunately, Delilah witnessed Bea attacking her mother. ![]() Meredith couldn’t live with the guilt and was about to come clean, so Bea killed her too. She forced Meredith to help her hide the body, and staged it to look like a sexual assault had occurred. ![]() She and Meredith were driving home drunk one evening and Bea hit Shelby and killed her. Her kidnappers had convinced her that she was Delilah, but her real name was Carly.īea was the killer. She had been kidnapped by copycat killers who wanted the notoriety that Meredith’s killer had received. The girl from the beginning of the book, who came home to Josh and Leo, was not Delilah. Meredith was Shelby’s doula, and was helping Shelby sue her OB for medical malpractice. ![]()
Back to Blog
![]() ![]() If death and I were going to spend a lot of time together we needed to figure out a way to get along. So in college I began searching for a way to make death my friend and companion in life. Still, I have to admit that it is hard to live with death on a day to day basis. And why, you might ask, would I intentionally engage in this odd and existentially unsettling activity? Why not let faith eliminate or repress my death anxiety? Because this path of mine is the only way I know of which can assure me that my faith isn't, to use Sartre's term, bad faith, that my faith has nothing to do with repressing death anxiety or awareness. I try to hold both-faith and death-firmly in view. And if you've read a lot of my work on this blog, then you know how I continue to work through the dynamics of holding onto faith while simultaneously refusing to allow faith to repress death anxiety. I resolved to keep death in view-constantly, daily. So I resolved to do a very peculiar thing. It just seemed too easy, too neat, too quick, too clean. ![]() This easy little fix, one teeny weeny little belief, could dramatically eliminate the deepest existential terror in the human experience. ![]() So powerfully consoling that it seemed almost a trap. And in the face of this existential panic I became acutely aware of the fact that believing in life after death was a deeply consoling belief. ![]() You would think that all this death awareness would ruin me emotionally. And as an existentialist my main preoccupation is finding meaning in the face of death. ![]()
Back to Blog
Echo tree henry dumas5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “The Metagenesis of Sunra” is included in Echo Tree, Dumas’ collected short fiction, now reissued by Coffee House Press some 18 years after the first edition. The cop claimed that Dumas had tried to assault him.Īfrosurrealism and science fiction shape parts of Dumas’ work, which also includes poetry and a novel, Jonoah and the Green Stone. Later that day, the 34-year old Dumas was shot to death by a New York City transit officer inside the 125 th Street Station no witness accounts were recorded. On May 23, 1968, Dumas attended a rehearsal in Harlem by Sun Ra and his Arkestra. Dumas learned at his side, and composed lyrics and chants to accompany some of the music. Here was a model, initiated by artists of a preceding generation and embodied in Sun Ra, for reimagining the future through the culture and concerns of the African diaspora. ![]() 1914) had evolved out of the big band era to create “cosmic swing,” one of the signature sounds of the Black Arts Movement in the late 1950’s and 1960’s. “The metagenesis of Sunra is said to have come about through the intercourse of the sun with the comet X,” Henry Dumas wrote in his mythopoetic legend of the birth and mission of the composer, pianist and mythscientist in “The Metagenesis of Sunra (to Sun Ra and His Arkestra).” Sun Ra (b. ![]()
Back to Blog
![]() ![]() Want evidence? Try a couple of web searches. If the little girls of America had planned it (and who's to say they didn't?) they couldn't have come up with a better way to make their overworked, two-career parents lose their minds. Ever since 2006, when New York Times writer Peggy Orenstein described her preschooler's bewitchment with tulle skirts and tiaras, people with similarly inclined daughters have been having a bit of a rosy-hued meltdown. ![]() But then, you probably do know about Princess Syndrome. You don't have to know about Princess Syndrome to get a huge, howling kick out of I Hate Fairyland, Skottie Young's new comic. How?Įditor's note: This piece originally identified Jean-Francois Beaulieu as the illustrator in fact, he's the colorist and Skottie Young both wrote and penciled. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title I Hate Fairyland 1 Subtitle Madly Ever After Author Skottie Young ![]()
Back to Blog
![]() ![]() ![]() He remembered how insane it had all sounded at first-the hybrid offspring of the mating between a human woman and an angelic being. The angel Camael had become his companion and mentor since Aaron’s realization that he was born a Nephilim. ![]() Who’da thunk it?īut then again, who could have predicted this crazy turn his life had taken? he thought as he waited for his order to be filled. Angels addicted to French fries, Aaron thought with a wry shake of his head. Just a few days ago the angel had given him a song and dance about how creatures of Heaven didn’t need to eat-but that had been before he sampled some of the golden fried potatoes. “Give me a Whopper-with-cheese value meal, and four large fries to go.”Īaron hoped the four orders of fries would be enough to satisfy Camael’s strange new craving for the greasy fast food. His eyes were strained from hours of driving, and the writing on the menu blurred as he tried to read it. ![]() “Uh, yeah, thanks,” he said, attempting to generate interest in yet another fast-food order. “Can I take your order, sir?” asked the cute girl with the blond ponytail and a smile wide enough to split her face in two.Īaron Corbet shook himself from his reverie and tried to focus on the menu board behind her. ![]() |