5/11/2023 0 Comments Summerlong by Peter S. Beagle![]() We quickly migrate from character bantering to plot forwarding exchanges of dialogue, which are apparently two entirely different things to Beagle. The first half of the book offers some peculiarities that offer nice curious moments and for a time it seems like it might be trying to flip the coin on A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings. This is not to say that the fantasy advertised on the back of the book shows up immediately, it doesn’t. They take this stranger in and find in time that there is, in fact, something special about this impossibly beautiful woman. Summerlong shows the author’s age in its characters and follows the two late middle-aged protagonists (unmarried but married) living their semi-connected lives before promptly running into a stranger. This book is nothing like The Last Unicorn. ![]() I read the plot, looked at the page count and said, “Ah, what the hell.” ![]() And then I forgot it, which I’m sure is fine for all parties involved.įlash forward a couple years and now I see that man who wrote a book in 1968 has written a new book, the first in nearly a decade. Not my fare, but after tearing apart most of what the colleague who recommended it to me, I felt like at least giving one of them a shot. ![]() It told a happy story where nothing much comes in the way of generally harming anything else. ![]() Summerlong by Peter S Beagle – Available Here ![]()
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Cormoran strike lethal white![]() ![]() But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. *** The latest book in the thrilling Strike series, TROUBLED BLOOD, is out now! *** ![]() 'Blistering piece of crime writing' SUNDAY TIMES ![]() 'Come for the twists and turns and stay for the beautifully drawn central relationship'INDEPENDENT 'Outrageously entertaining' FINANCIAL TIMES Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. ![]() LETHAL WHITE is both a gripping mystery and the page-turning next instalment in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott, written by J.K. ![]() ![]() Muhammad: His Life Based to the Earliest Sources was given an award by the government of Pakistan, and selected as the best biography of the Prophet in English at the National Seerat Conference in Islamabad in 1983. The result is a book which will be read with equal enjoyment by those already familiar with Muhammad’s life and those coming to it for the first time. He has adopted a style which is at once extremely readable and reflects both the simplicity and grandeur of the story. Martin Lings has an unusual gift for narrative. ![]() ![]() ![]() Based on Arabic sources of the eighth and ninth centuries, of which some important passages are translated here for the first time, it owes the freshness and directness of its approach to the words of men and women who heard Muhammad speak and witnessed the events of his life. Acclaimed worldwide as the definitive biography of the Prophet Muhammad in the English language, Martin Lings’ Muhammad: His Life Based to the Earliest Sources is unlike any other. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Crank book![]() ![]() ![]() Her decision to keep the baby slows her drug use, but doesn't stop it, and the author leaves the reader with the distinct impression that Kristina/Bree may never be free from her addiction. Kristina hits her lowest point when she is raped by one of her drug dealers and becomes pregnant as a result. Soon, her grades plummet, her relationships with family and friends deteriorate, and she needs more and more of the monster just to get through the day. There is only Bree." Bree will do all the things good girl Kristina won't, including attracting the attention of dangerous boys who can provide her with a steady flow of crank. ![]() While under the influence of the monster, Kristina discovers her sexy alter-ego, Bree: "there is no perfect daughter, / no gifted high school junior, / no Kristina Georgia Snow. In it, she chronicles the turbulent and often disturbing relationship between Kristina, a character based on her own daughter, and the "monster," the highly addictive drug crystal meth, or "crank." Kristina is introduced to the drug while visiting her largely absent and ne'er-do-well father. Ellen Hopkins's semi-autobiographical verse novel, Crank, reads like a Go Ask Alice for the 21st century. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In As We Have Always Done, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson locates Indigenous political resurgence as a practice rooted in uniquely Indigenous theorizing, writing, organizing, and thinking. Conclusion: toward radical resurgent struggle.Īcross North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the removal of federal protections for forests and waterways in Indigenous lands, halted the expansion of tar sands extraction and the pipeline construction at Standing Rock, and demanded justice for murdered and missing Indigenous women.Embodied resurgent practice and coded disruption."I see your light": reciprocal recognition and generative refusal. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments My cousin rachel book ending![]() ![]() She is 10-15 years older than him, and again, we have a story of one person, immature, who tries to understand the complexities of an elder they’re drawn to. My Cousin Rachel is narrated by a naïve young man named Philip who admits to his house and falls in love with his cousin’s widow. The younger woman, quite earnest, tells the story, and she spends the novel trying to figure out the enigmatic personalities of the people she lives with, her husband’s included. ![]() He is remote and difficult to connect with. She does not know him well when they marry, and it turns out he has a good bit of mystery and baggage in his past. Rebecca charts the relationship between a young, inexperienced woman with the older man she marries. Du Maurier again works in the mystery-romance mode, and to a large degree, My Cousin Rachel inverts her most famous novel’s premise. Published in 1951, it takes place-not unlike her earlier Rebecca (1938)-on a sprawling estate in the author’s beloved Cornwall. ![]() Daphne du Maurier’s novel My Cousin Rachel is a study in character ambiguity. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Jeffrey archer time will tell![]() ![]() As he enters into adulthood, Harry finally learns how his father really died, but the awful truth only leads him to question who was his father? Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who spent his whole life on the docks, or the first-born son of a scion of West Country society, whose family owns a shipping line? This introductory novel in The Clifton Chronicles includes a cast of colorful characters and takes us from the ravages of the Great War to the outbreak of the Second World War, when Harry must decide whether to take up a place at Oxford or join the navy and go to war with Hitler's Germany. ![]() But then his unexpected gift wins him a scholarship to an exclusive boys' school, and his life will never be the same again. The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1920, with the words, "I was told that my father was killed in the war." A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle who expects Harry to join him at the shipyard once he's left school. "From the popular author of Kane and Abel and A Prisoner of Birth comes the story of one family across generations, across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments The midday demon![]() ![]() ![]() Often this is accomplished through metaphors. One of the book's many strengths is that Solomon is adept - in ways that many physicians find themselves hamstrung - in explaining difficult concepts simply and evocatively. Solomon, a layman novelist and nonfiction writer, manages to synthesize painstaking research and personal narrative into a compelling book. On the continuum, Solomon's entry falls somewhere between Styron's - that of a layman writing only about his own experience - and Jamison's, based on her own experience but drawing on her training in psychology. Into the genre comes Andrew Solomon's The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. Despite the crowded field, many of these are uniquely powerful and instructive, opening a window into a world of suffering. There's William Styron's Darkness Visible, Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind, and, most recently, Nell Casey's collection Unholy Ghost, among countless others. Literary personal narratives about mental illness, particularly depression, have become a sort of genre unto themselves. Perhaps because the unexamined life is not worth living, according to Socrates, writers with depression have examined their lives quite often. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Get a hint dani brown![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lying to help children? Who on earth would refuse?ĭani’s plan is simple: fake a relationship in public, seduce Zaf behind the scenes. Turns out his sports charity for kids could really use the publicity. Suddenly, half the internet is shipping #DrRugbae-and Zaf is begging Dani to play along. But before she can explain that fact to him, a video of the heroic rescue goes viral. When big, brooding security guard Zafir Ansari rescues Dani from a workplace fire drill gone wrong, it’s an obvious sign: PhD student Dani and former rugby player Zaf are destined to sleep together. So Dani asks the universe for the perfect friend-with-benefits-someone who knows the score and knows their way around the bedroom. Romantic partners, whatever their gender, are a distraction at best and a drain at worst. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. ![]() USA Today bestselling author Talia Hibbert returns with another charming romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake date her friend after a video of him “rescuing” her from their office building goes viral.ĭanika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. One of Oprah Magazine's 21 Romance Novels That Are Set to Be the Best of 2020 ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Little white lies book![]() ![]() ![]() Time jumps between chapters and blog post interstitials may create confusion at the story’s start, but after the structure smooths out, the momentum picks up, as do the secrets. ![]() Lily has plenty of secrets of her own-secrets that help unspool the mystery at this novel’s center, having to do with a missing girl and a scandalous blogger. Sawyer accepts in the hope of discovering her father’s identity within her grandmother’s social strata, and she is soon wooing attractive young men at society events and befriending her cousin, Lily. Eighteen-year-old Sawyer-a car mechanic and daughter of a single mom in the South-is offered a deal she cannot refuse: her estranged maternal grandmother, Lillian, a wealthy socialite, will give Sawyer half a million dollars if she agrees to live with her for one year and become a debutante. ![]() |