6/10/2023 0 Comments The twisted ones by t kingfisher![]() ![]() "By turns warm, witty, and frightening, with a charming protagonist, a diverse and vibrant supporting cast, and - best of all - a noble, dimwitted dog. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones is a gripping, terrifying tale bound to keep you up all night-from both fear and anticipation of what happens next. From Hugo Award–winning author Ursula Vernon, writing as T. And if she doesn’t face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale. Alone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrors-because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they’re looking for you. That would be horrific enough, but there’s more-Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather’s journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants…until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. After all, how bad could it be? Answer: pretty bad. ![]() When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. Winner of the RUSA Award for Best Horror When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods in this chilling novel that reads like The Blair Witch Project meets The Andy Griffith Show. ![]()
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6/9/2023 0 Comments Fairy ABC by John McLoughlin![]() ![]() Front board states in fine print: "Copyright 1905, McLoughlin Bros, New York" and simply the number "747". Only four copies located on OCLC/WorldCat. The book is housed in a custom collector's box. gloves or mitts! This title is one of the most coveted but most illusive baseball books ever published and the condition of this particular copy would make this the ultimate copy in any serious collection. Wonderful chromolithographs on every bright and fresh page show how baseball was played long ago before modern era innovations, e.g. 19th century baseball, literally from A to Z, as told by a children's ABC book. String-bound color pictorial paper wrappers with the slightest touches of wear along the spine, a short closed tear on the bottom edge of the front wrapper and some light spotting on the back wrapper for what is as close to a pristine copy of this book that one is ever likely to encounter. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Trust hernan diaz summary![]() His name is Andrew Bevel, a guy who becomes “a wealthy man by playing the part of a wealthy man”. ![]() In Trust, he has built a postmodern version of a historical novel around a character at the other end of the economic scale – a Gatsby-like tycoon in 1920s New York who dutifully hosts lavish parties at which he is rarely glimpsed. Diaz’s first novel, the Pulitzer prize finalist In the Distance, was about a penniless young Swedish immigrant meeting swindlers and fanatics in California. As with David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas or Richard Powers’s The Overstory, its structure relies on interconnected narratives which deepen and destabilise one another. Trust incorporates all three of these literary forms. Unless we trust that a banknote “represents concrete goods”, it is just a piece of printed paper, as open to distortion as a novel, or a memoir, or a diary. The value of any commodity comes from us buying into its wider narrative. ![]() His answer is “fiction” – specifically, the “fiction of money”. H ow is reality funded?” asks the wealthy tycoon at the centre of Hernan Diaz’s Booker-longlisted second novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Up until recently, the computer program’s safeguards prevented anyone jacked in from dying, but things have gone awry and now people are dropping like flies-both heroes and villains. ![]() But, Bergen manages to keep the stakes high throughout, whether characters are pursuing case leads, battling for their lives, or trying to find love.Īs the title implies, someone has been killing off the Capes living in Heropa. ![]() You’d think that, with the knowledge that none of this is real, even for the already-fictional characters, that it would be difficult to care about what actually happens to anybody in this story. Heropa, we soon find out, is actually a Matrix-style computer simulation in Melbourne, and all of the Capes we meet are actually ordinary people jacked into a mainframe. He arrives to fight crime and perform feats of heroism in the city of Heropa alongside a seven-foot living anime character named Pretty Amazonia and a rough-talking pile of human masonry named The Brick, as well as other heroes or Capes living in the city. The book centers mainly around Jack, whose alter ego is Southern Cross, a young and idealistic superhero who’s basically an Australian version of Captain America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This review has been edited since its original posting. But even as she's falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer. But now that a serial killer is terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he's claimed haunt her daily, she realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.ĭespite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet on her quest to find the murderer-and Violet is unnerved by her hope that Jay's intentions are much more than friendly. ![]() Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift it mostly just led her to find the dead birds her cat left for her. and the imprints that attach to their killers. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes that the dead leave behind in the world. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies-or at least those that have been murdered. Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments The stolen heir review![]() ![]() The spellbinding new fantasy from the Queen of Faerie Holly Black, author of the Folk of the Air series. But if she agrees, it will mean guarding her heart against the boy she once knew and a prince she cannot trust, as well as confronting all the horrors she thought she had left behind. He's on a mission that will lead him into the north, and he wants Suren's help. ![]() Now seventeen, Oak is charming, beautiful and manipulative. Suren is saved by none other than Prince Oak, heir to Elfhame, to whom she was once promised in marriage and who she has resented for years. ![]() She believes herself forgotten until the storm hag Bogdana chases her through the night streets. Lonely, and still haunted by the merciless torments she endured in the Court of Teeth, she bides her time by releasing mortals from foolish bargains. Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the one person with power over her mother, fled to the human world, where she lives feral in the woods. There she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge. 3.5 stars Like flag Sign into Goodreads to see if any of your friends have read Stolen Heir. The book was way too long but entertaining indeed. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth, has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. Stolen Heir (Brutal Birthright, 2) by Sophie Lark (Goodreads Author) Iulia s review liked it Loved the idea of Nessa being a ballerina. And a quest that may destroy them both.Įight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Secret by Aubrey Irons![]() ![]() It felt comfortable and believable because of the story development. It didn’t feel rushed, jumping from point A to point B. There were differences of course, but the biggest differences were how much more well-written Score is, how much more connected to the characters I felt and how with her writing I felt their love. QB standout meets Coaches daughter, forbidden love, etc. Thoughts: First of all, immediately before reading Score, I read another very similar book. College football’s biggest bad boy is looking to score, and I think I’m the goal… The University just hired my dad as the head football coach, and Dalton’s mother just said yes to marrying him. I am not into football or the neanderthals who play it, and I want nothing to do with that smug, cocky prick with the legendary record – or his infamous “package.” But it’s not up to me… I’m the studious one, the one headed to med school – the girl with a plan. Did I mention he’s also an underwear model? He’s slept his way through half the woman in Georgia, and he’s got his pick of any girl on campus. … I’m sure that last part is just a rumor. A notorious, cocky, foul-mouthed, impossibly arrogant jock. There’s a reason they call him “Ten,” and it’s not just the number of his jersey…ĭalton Cole is a jock. Genre: Sports Romance, New Adult & College Title: Score: A Stepbrother Sports Romance ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Rosamunde pilcher's september![]() Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections. And those familiar with The Shell Seekers will be pleased to find one of its minor characters playing a major role here. Though the tensions of the plot seem a bit contrived-the secrets of a glamorous woman returned to her childhood home too late to find peace, the circumstances of a bloody incident in Northern Ireland, the meddling of a mentally disturbed, malign woman-the novel will keep readers deeply involved. The Airds and the Balmerinos of Strathcroy and their friends and relatives in London, Majorca and the States are the focal point of the love affairs, domestic complications, estrangements, reconciliations and other gently momentous events. A lavish coming-out party for the daughter of one of the leading families of a town in the Scottish Highlands brings together characters whose lives change in various ways during the novel's four-month span. ![]() The story moves leisurely among large estates in the author's native Scotland, posh London digs and quaint village cottages. Inhoud 1 Leven en werk 2 Bibliografie (selectie) 2.1 Als Jane Fraser 2. Tot 1965 schreef ze ook vaak onder het pseudoniem Jane Fraser. Here again she limns appealing characters with civilized manners who live in beautiful settings she describes tastefully furnished rooms, magnificent gardens and elegant clothes in loving detail-but without the loud dropping of brand names. Rosamunde Pilcher OBE, geboren Scott ( Lelant ( Cornwall ), 22 september 1924 Dundee, 6 februari 2019) was een Brits schrijfster van zogenaamde vrouwenromans. ![]() ![]() Pilcher is one of the best current practitioners of literate commercial fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() But as they get closer to the truth of their search, and the deadly game the Ironwoods are playing, treacherous forces threaten to separate Etta not only from Nicholas but from her path home. Together, Etta and Nicholas embark on a perilous journey across centuries and continents, piecing together clues left behind by the traveler who will do anything to keep the object out of the Ironwoods’ grasp. In order to protect her, he must ensure she brings it back to them-whether she wants to or not. Now the Ironwoods are searching for a stolen object of untold value, one they believe only Etta, Nicholas’ passenger, can find. ![]() But with the arrival of an unusual passenger on his ship comes the insistent pull of the past that he can’t escape and the family that won’t let him go so easily. Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods-a powerful family in the colonies-and the servitude he’s known at their hands. And she’s inherited a legacy she knows nothing about from a family whose existence she’s never heard of. Thrust into an unfamiliar world by a stranger with a dangerous agenda, Etta is certain of only one thing: she has traveled not just miles but years from home. In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves. ![]() The transition from one place to another, across space and time. ![]() A brief section of music composed of a series of notes and flourishes. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Wallace wolcott amor towles![]() Are Dicky Vanderwhile, Wallace Wolcott, Bitsy, Peaches, Hank and Anne Grandyn as essential to Katey’s “story” as Tinker and Eve? If so, what role do you think each plays in fashioning the Katey of the future?Ģ.) Katey observes at one point that Agatha Christie “doles out her little surprises at the carefully calibrated pace of a nanny dispensing sweets to the children in her care.” Something similar could be said of how Katey doles out information about herself. You may submit your thoughts or questions to me at my Contact page on this site.ġ.) At the outset, Rules of Civility appears to be about the interrelationship between Katey, Tinker, and Eve but then events quickly lead Eve and Tinker off stage. What follows are some questions for discussion. So, if you’ve come this far, I owe you my heartfelt thanks. ![]() ![]() ![]() We started with Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past and have since worked through the works of Twain and Faulkner, Cervantes and Marquez, Tolstoy and Nabokov – meeting once a month for dinner, dwelling on our favorite passages, on themes and ambiguities, sharing our perspectives.Īs someone who has written quietly for twenty years, the notion that a group might gather to discuss a book of mine seems something so fantastic it must be a mirage. ![]() Five years ago, three friends and I set out to read some of the “great books” – or those works of literature which would merit re-reading several times over the course of our lives. ![]() |