5/30/2023 0 Comments The city that we became![]() ![]() Forgetting his previous identity, he calls himself Manny. In time, he understands that the city is calling him to anoint him the avatar of Manhattan. Almost immediately, he is rocked by vertigo and strange visions of an extra-dimensional Manhattan, abandoned and in ruins. Some time later, a young grad student, new to the city, gets off a train at Penn Station. As the primary avatar, the young man battles the creatures, but in temporarily defeating them, he is severely wounded, and the Williamsburg Bridge collapses. ![]() ![]() One day, the young man is chased through the streets by shape-shifting creatures from another universe that seek to establish a foothold in the city. ![]() The man is the embodiment, or avatar, of New York City which is being born at this moment, and Paulo, the avatar of Sao Paulo, Brazil, is its midwife. He is befriended by Paulo, a stranger who understands these sounds and takes the young man under his wing. He hears bizarre sounds from under the streets, interpreting those sounds through his paintings of strange, gaping orifices. Like the first book in Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy, The City We Became opens with a nameless character-in this case, a homeless, young Black man who inhabits the rooftops of New York City. ![]()
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![]() I told a friend a day or so ago that I was behind on life, and it feels like the truth. I have little tricks to kind of get through this, but it doesn’t always work. And when life gets overwhelming for me, I tend to shut down and do nothing. ![]() But one thing I’ve learned is that when she settles in, even the simplest things are overwhelming. Therefore, I work around her and try to ignore her pain in the ass presence in my world. I’ve learned over time that if I try to force her out, she just gets stronger. Right now, she’s going on about a month long vacation in my head space. Sometimes she only stays for a couple hours. I think of depression has an acquaintance who likes to show up, make everything gray and red for awhile, and then leaves whenever she feels like it. I’m currently dealing with a bout of depression. I don’t interact with a lot of my readers directly (though I do answer comments if you leave them and I see them and they’re not spam), but I know I have a lot of friends and family who read this, so I wanted to give an update on the current state of myself and this blog (especially since I’ve missed a couple weeks). ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The golden notebook![]() ![]() It is the story of Anna Wulf, a writer and single woman, who lives with her young daughter in a flat, occasionally renting out a room, less for the income than out of a reflex of social obligation. So begins Doris Lessing’s most famous novel, published in 1962, and now considered one of the major works of twentieth-century literature. “The two women were alone in the London flat.” Yet, these moments have been so powerful, like the rapid illuminations of a dream that remain with one waking, that what I have learned will be part of how I experience life until I die.” -Anna Wulf in The Golden Notebook ![]() “Knowing was an ‘illumination.’ During the last weeks of craziness and timelessness I’ve had these moments of ‘knowing’ one after the other, yet there is no way of putting this sort of knowledge into words. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The unyielding shelly laurenston![]() ![]() If only he can keep himself from suddenly acting like one…. By Shelly Laurenston Read by Johanna Parker The Call of Crows Series: Book 3. Because nothing bugs Stieg more than when idiots win. I love Shelly Laurenston she is one author I can’t get enough of, as her humor has you laughing so often, even if it’s totally. ![]() This is a different type of series then Laurenston’s other two series that I read, but this one is equally as fun and wild crazy. What? He didn’t mean that-did he? No! They have one goal: To conquer the idiots. The Unyielding by Shelly Laurenston is the 3 rd book in her Call of Crows series. With the future of the world riding on them, Stieg knows he’ll have to put aside his desperate need to kiss the smirk right off Erin’s face. Then again, he’s so easy to torment-and also kind of cute. Most people annoy Stieg, but this is the one woman he really can’t stand… Erin Amsel loves being a Crow! Why wouldn’t she when the other Viking Clans are so hilariously arrogant and humorless? She’s not about to let all that come to an end! She just didn’t expect to be shoulder to shoulder in battle with Stieg. The human Viking Clans of earth are in danger of being obliterated-along with the rest of the world-and the only one who may be able to save them is a super pain-in-the-ass Crow. Shelly Laurenston - AVAILABLE NOW: THE UNYIELDING Call of Crows #3 Stieg Engstrom, Angriest Viking Ever, has got big problems. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The struggle lj smith![]() ![]() Publication Order of The Vampire Diaries: Stefan’s Diaries Books By: L.J. Publication Order of The Vampire Diaries Books Book Title Let’s have a look at the Vampire Diaries books in the publication order. Among them, two of her novel series, The Vampire Diaries and Night World, had been listed on the New York Times bestselling novel list. ![]() She wrote more than five novel series and some standalone novels. She has expertise in writing young adult fiction. ![]() Smith ( Lisa Jane Smith) is an American author widely known for her best-selling “The Vampire Diaries” series. Conclusion – Vampire Diaries books in order.Some top books from the Vampire Diaries books in order.Publication Order of The Vampire Diaries: The Salvation Books.Publication Order of The Vampire Diaries: The Return Books.Publication Order of The Vampire Diaries: The Hunters Books.Publication Order of The Vampire Diaries: Stefan’s Diaries Books By: L.J.Publication Order of The Vampire Diaries Books. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments La sed by Paula Bonet![]() ![]() ![]() The choice for the title of the eel, the elusive animal that mutates throughout its life, is loaded with symbolism, as it has been throughout history. What to do when THE END appears on the screen. "Report the attacks we suffer in a hot and throbbing story that slips away when you want to tie it up," explained the author of The project revolves around the pain over the death of a loved one, pregnancy, sexual abuse, patriarchy and the violence that men exert on women.īonet defined it as "a love letter to all women and a spear in favor of those who come after them." "Men can try to put themselves in our place, but they do not know what it is to carry a child or give birth to a dead one" (in the Anagrama publishing house, in Spanish Univers, in Catalan) and, on the other, this Tuesday he presented 158 works that make up the exhibition of the same title at the Nau de la Universitat de València with the apostrophe of On the one hand, he has just published the novel Now he has captured these two drives in a unique creative project with two aspects: the literary and the pictorial. Long before becoming a popular phenomenon for her illustrations, Paula Bonet painted and read a lot of literature. Paula Bonet, this Tuesday, at the La Nau Cultural Center of the Universitat de València, with her paintings from the exhibition 'La Anguila'. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments The silver pigs book![]() (In the Author’s Introduction, Davis explains that she provided Falco with “a rampaging Italian family headed by a forthright mother. Our narrator, a P.I., introduces himself by declaring, “Some men are born lucky others are called Didius Falco.” Falco, 29 when the story starts, acquaints us with his office on the sixth floor of a dank tenement and tells us about his family members, who play large roles in his life. It begins in Rome in AD 70, a year after Vespasian seized the throne of the Roman Empire. ![]() ![]() which makes it very amusing on a meta level, since the author adds a great deal of humor to the story by overlaying the ancient setting with noir crime fiction tropes. ![]() The first installment of this historical fiction detective series is as stereotypically a “hard boiled” crime fiction book as you can get with a setting in Ancient Rome. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments The soulmate equation release date![]() ![]() As the pair are dragged from one event to the next as the “Diamond” pairing that could make GeneticAlly a mint in stock prices, Jess begins to realize that there might be more to the scientist – and the science behind a soul mate – than she thought. Jess – who is barely making ends meet – is in no position to turn it down, despite her skepticism about the project and her dislike for River. But GeneticAlly has a proposition: Get to know him and we’ll pay you. The stuck-up, stubborn man is without a doubt not her soul mate. This is one number she can’t wrap her head around, because she already knows Dr. Finding a soul mate through DNA? The reliability of numbers: This Jess understands.Īt least she thought she did, until her test shows an unheard-of 98 percent compatibility with another subject in the database: GeneticAlly’s founder, Dr. ![]() Jess holds her loved ones close, but working constantly to stay afloat is hard…and lonely.īut then Jess hears about GeneticAlly, a buzzy new DNA-based matchmaking company that’s predicted to change dating forever. After all, her father’s never been around, her hard-partying mother disappeared when she was six, and her ex decided he wasn’t “father material” before Juno was even born. Raised by her grandparents – who now help raise her seven-year-old daughter, Juno – Jess has been left behind too often to feel comfortable letting anyone in. Single mom Jess Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convince her to step back into the dating world. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Christmas Wishes by Danica Winters![]() “One Lucky Night” by Aria Kane, Grace Teague, Ana Blaze, Constance Phillips, and Melinda Dozier –.“Love Is…” Sidney Bristol, SM Butler, and Kat Cantrell, plus others –.“Love and Other Games” by Melinda Dozier, Kara Leigh Miller, Aria Kane, and Ana Blaze –. ![]() “Kick-Ass” by Maggie Shayne, Mary Janice Davidson, Angela Knight, and Jacey Ford –.“Hot Blooded” by Christine Feehan, Maggie Shayne, Emma Holly, and Angela Knight –.“Hero, Come Back” by Stephanie Laurens, Christina Dodd, and Elizabeth Boyle –.“Heart of Darkness” by Gena Showalter, Maggie Shayne, and Susan Krinard –.“Edge of Darkness” by Christine Feehan, Maggie Shayne, and Lori Herter –.“Dark Dreamers” by Christine Feehan and Marjorie M.“Christmas Kisses: Zodiac Shifters” by several authors –.“Captive Dreams” by Angela Knight and Diane Whiteside –.“Big Guns Out of Uniform” by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Liz Carlyle, and Nicole Camden –.“Best Erotic Romance 2014” by several authors –.“All She Wants” by Jaid Black, Dominique Adair, and Shiloh Walker –. ![]() It’s hard to please everyone, so I do my best to not post reviews below three stars.įYI – I’ve been reviewing for years, so some of the review links below lead to my old Blogger account. ![]() My reviews are about the individual book or series, not about the author or publisher. They are not bought or manipulated in any form. ~~~ĭisclaimer – All my reviews are my personal opinions. ~~~ I am NOT accepting review requests at this time. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments The penderwicks book 2![]() "n old-fashioned (in a good way) read with well-drawn characters, warmth, and humor. Review, San Francisco Chronicle, April 27, 2008: “It's sheer pleasure to spend time with these exquisitely drawn characters, girls so real that readers will feel the wind through their hair as they power down the soccer field.” Starred Review, Publishers Weekly, April 28, 2008: "Just the sort of cozy fare that's missing in today's mean-girl world." ![]() ![]() ![]() "This is a book to cherish and to hold close like a warm, cuddly blanket that you draw around yourself to keep out the cold." Starred Review, School Library Journal, March 2008: ![]() |