![]() ![]() more period was a first for me, but it was very exciting! I am very happy that I decided to give this book a chance. Also, the supernatural element added to the time. It was nice to see a woman portrayed as strong and independent without her being turned into a man-hater or a shrew. I loved Christine and thought she was a delight. There was action, mystery, adventure, and very interesting characters. The romance was almost secondary, but it was refreshing.This book was well thought out, well written and kept me interested the entire way through. However, there was not only a lot of plot, but I very good one. ![]() ![]() I expected it to be purely a romance novel with very little plot. Sometimes you read a book and it wasn't what you expected and you think, "I can't believe I wasted my time reading this crap!" But this was a pleasant surprise. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Hamlet is one of my favorite plays - I saw the movie version starring Laurence Olivier many times in college, and I was also briefly a theater major, so that’s how my interest in it began. Was that a deliberate decision on your part? ![]() Edgar’s mother is named Trudy (Gertrude), his uncle is Claude (for Claudius), and even Almondine, a dog, bears some resemblance to Ophelia. The parallels between Edgar Sawtelle and Hamlet are very striking. Wroblewski spoke to Vulture from his Colorado home about his literary influences, reader preconceptions, and why authors feel compelled to write about their dogs. But David Wroblewski’s sweet, suspenseful (nearly 600-page) story, about a mute teenager and his faithful companion, his dog Almondine, begs for more than just buzz. When a debut novel arrives with a rapturous blurb from Stephen King, as The Story of Edgar Sawtelle does, it’s hard not to, at least, well, give it a look - and that was before the book scored a glowing review in the Times. ![]() ![]() These arranged marriages are the norm in her generation, and she knows that getting out of the situation is almost impossible. Abby is set to be married as soon as she turns eighteen. This is because of the uncertain future that awaits her. Abby is feisty, but she is waiting for her birthday in trepidation. The book features Abby, a young girl who has every reason not to look forward to her eighteenth birthday. Before she started writing full-time, Davis had a successful career in human resource management.Ĭruel Intentions is the first book in the Rydeville Elite series. ![]() Her stories are designed for young adults and come with characters that many people in this category can identify with. ![]() ![]() She crafts emotionally intense new adult and young you adult fiction with complex characters, worth romance, and lots of unexpected twists and turns. Siobhan Davis is an Irish USA Today bestselling author of romance, young adult, fantasy, and science fiction books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cleeves did a great job incorporating multiple storylines without it being overwhelming to the reader. Not until I read the second to last chapter! That’s how good Ann Cleeves did in writing this novel! It will not disappoint you. I had no idea who the killer was the entire time. In other words, I have to say this book was one I couldn’t put down. Will it be a conflict of interest if Matthew continues spearheading the investigation? Will Jonathan be considered a suspect? The questions continue to swirl until the very last page of this novel! The community center for people with disabilities Jonathan, Matthew’s husband runs. However, things in the novel get even more complicated when the investigation into Simon and the kidnappings are all linked to Woodyard. We then gain a glimpse into Ross who may or may not like having to answer to the head of the department. We learn why Matthew got shunned from his family, and why Jen found the need to get back to work sacrificing a relationship with her two kids. But we also get an intimate look at the detectives. What was interesting in this novel is it centers around a murder and the characters involved. However, none of that causes Matthew, Jen, or Ross to backdown. This exposes and unfolds Simon’s secret life, which triggers kidnapping and attempted murder on the detectives. ![]() After learning the man, Simon Walden had many haunting secrets of his own, D etectiveVenn’s investigation into finding the killer begins. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yes, it was an interesting foray into a past quite different from the one recorded in the history books. Would you listen to The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack again? Why? ![]() Their investigations lead them to one of the defining events of the age, and the terrifying possibility that the world they inhabit shouldn’t exist at all. The two men are sucked into the perilous depths of this moral and ethical vacuum, when Lord Palmerston commissions Burton to investigate assaults on young women committed by a weird apparition known as Spring Heeled Jack, and to find out why werewolves are terrorizing London's East End. ![]() They stand at a crossroads in their lives, and are caught in the epicentre of an empire torn by conflicting forces: Engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier, and dirtier technological wonders Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labour and Libertines oppose repressive laws and demand a society based on beauty and creativity, while the Rakes push the boundaries of human behaviour to the limits with magic, drugs, and anarchy. Algernon Charles Swinburne is an unsuccessful poet and follower of de Sade, for whom pain is pleasure and brandy is ruin. His reputation has been tarnished, his career is in tatters, and his former partner is missing and probably dead. Sir Richard Francis Burton is an explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman. ![]() ![]() ![]() They also mentioned having recorded Majel Barrett’s voice (reading various phonemes) some years back for the express purpose of being able to use her voice as the computer voice for years and years into the future. It’s wild to think about, but they already created a live action Arex for the Archive, so… One of the people from the archive mentioned going back and converting the Animated Series to live action using OTOY’s technology. I don’t think we’re far from that at all. Maybe I’m just weird but I think in ten to twenty years you will be able to upload a novel and buy the actors and just have AI present a movie to you.I don’t think you’re weird. I am looking forward to AI movies featuring the original cast based on the best of the Trek novels over the years. ![]() ![]() ![]() This proved to be a point of contention on the African trip, and it wasn't until past the halfway point that they could finally relax and chill out a bit.įor By Any Means the goal was to reinstate this sense of spontaneity. Aware of the mishaps and problems they'd had on the first journey, Long Way Down had been timetabled and planned to such an extent that a lot of the fun spontaneity of the earlier mission was lost, and the strict timetable meant that Ewan and Charley had to skip interesting areas they were passing in order to hit certain locations at certain times. Having enjoyed Long Way Round when the book and TV series appeared in 2004, I was disappointed with Long Way Down when it appeared. The result is a 20,000-mile odyssey through twenty-five countries. ![]() This time the motorbikes (and previous wingman Ewan McGregor, who was busy filming) have been left behind as Boorman sets out from his childhood home in County Wicklow, Ireland, aiming to get to Sydney, Australia, travelling by any means of transport he can find. Having previously travelled on motorbike from London to New York via Europe, Central Asia, Siberia, Alaska and Canada on Long Way Round, and from John O'Groats to Cape Town on Long Way Down, Charley Boorman sets out on another adventure. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gang leaders, dueling fops, the secret service, and wizards are all murkily involved. The Warden is hard and jaded and doesn't care, until he does-a bit. ![]() The children of Low Town, a part of the city of Rigus with (presumably) very low property values, are disappearing (and then reappearing, deader). In an urban, faux-London setting appropriated from Dickens via Pratchett, with extra grit from The Wire sprinkled on top, the Warden, a former street-kid, the semi-ward of a powerful sorcerer, a grunt soldier turned army lieutenant turned police inspector turned special forces agent turned renegade drug dealer and respected criminal force (and publican), uses his lackluster sarcastic quips, street fighting ability, ballistics training, convenient connections with mages, nobles, government employees, and law enforcement personnel, drug dealing skillz, knowledge of many languages, amaaaaazing detecting abilities, cultural awareness and superior tolerance of those different from him, and anachronistic modern worldview to consistently bungle solving a crime. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fifteen-year-old Zoe has a secret - a dark and terrible secret that she can't confess to anyone she knows. Annabel explores the themes of first love, guilt, and grief, introducing a character with a witty voice and true emotional resonance. Winner of the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize 2013, KETCHUP CLOUDS tells the story of one teenage girl with a very big secret. Rising literary star Annabel Pitcher pens a captivating second novel, rich with her distinctive balance between humor and heart. But the bottom line is that she should not have been writing to the prisoner in the first place. Harris receives her letters without having any way of contacting her. Only through her unusual confession can Zoe hope to atone for her mistakes that have torn lives apart, and work to put her own life back together again. In Ketchup Clouds, Zoe uses a pseudonym and gives a fictional return address, and Mr. Harris may never respond to Zoe's letters, but at least somebody will know her story-somebody who knows what it's like to kill a person you love. Hidden away in her backyard shed in the middle of the night with a jam sandwich in one hand and a pen in the other, Zoe gives a voice to her heart and her fears after months of silence. A story about how she fell for two boys, betrayed one of them, and killed the other. But then again, Zoe has an unconventional story to tell. Stuart Harris, a Texas Death Row inmate and convicted murderer. It wasn't your wife's jam the police found on your shoe. It's jam, not blood, though I don't think I need to tell you the difference. Ignore the blob of red in the top left corner. ![]() ![]() ![]() Using them both as different personas for her work, she happily alternates between the two with ease. ![]() ![]() It was only in 2009 that her true name was disclosed during a Locus magazine article and the truth finally came out, much to her relief as she didn’t have to hide it anymore. With her pen name being Kim Harrison, she led two separate lives both as Dawn and as her writing alter-ego. Writing down stories constantly, she became focused on her craft constantly honing and refining her skills day-by-day. Whilst she didn’t go in for the traditional English writing courses during further education, apart from learning the basic skills necessary, she devoted her time to her passion regardless. It was then at the age of fifteen she was to discover her love of writing that was to propel her career as an author during adulthood. This led to her regarding herself as somewhat of a tomboy whilst growing up. Raised in the Midwest of America near to Ann Arbor, Michigan, Kim Harrison aka Dawn Cook was born in 1966 into a large family of boys, her being the only girl. ![]() Whilst she still spends time in her former home of South Carolina as well, she enjoys success as an author of highly regarded and popular fiction. Living in Michigan currently, she is a renowned writer of young adult fiction who’s tried and become adept at a number of various different genres. Going under the pseudonym of Kim Harrison is author Dawn Cook who is well known for writing her unique brand of urban fantasy and graphic novels for which she has successfully gained recognition. ![]() |