![]() ![]() ![]() I actually listened to the audiobook for Warrior of the Wild since Marisa Calin was narrating it (as she does with a couple of Levenseller’s previous books: Daughter of the Pirate King, and Daughter of the Siren Queen.) But when her coming-of-age trial is sabotaged and she fails the test, her father banishes her to the monster-filled wilderness with an impossible quest: to win back her honour, she must kill the oppressive god who claims tribute from the villages each year or die trying.Īs I said before, Tricia Levenseller is one of the authors that I will buy their books from, no matter what. But because this is me we’re on about, I didn’t get around to reading it until about a year later, because the TBR was crushing me.Īs her father’s chosen heir, eighteen-year-old Rasmira has trained her whole life to become a warrior and lead her village. ![]() So, when I heard about Warrior of the Wild, I did just that. I loved every single one of books such as Daughter of the Pirate King, and The Shadows Between Us. As soon as I hear about a book that she’s got coming out, I will pre-order it immediately. Tricia Levenseller is one of my auto-buy authors. ![]()
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Agent zig zag![]() ![]() ![]() Then the new German agent signed a formal espionage contract (under which his expected rewards were to be subjected to income tax). Volunteering his services to the occupying Fatherland, he was taken to France and schooled in the dark arts of espionage and the wicked devices of spies by the likes of convivial headmaster Herr von Gröning and spymaster Oberleutnant Praetorius. Just launching his criminal career when World War II began, the dashing adventurer was jailed in the Channel Island Jersey. London Times newsman and popular historian Macintyre ( The Man Who Would be King: The First American in Afghanistan, 2004, etc) reports on the life and crimes of the late Eddie Chapman using interviews, newly released secret files and, cautiously, the English spy’s less-reliable memoirs. A preternaturally talented liar and pretty good safecracker becomes a “spy prodigy” working concurrently for Britain’s MI5 and the Nazi’s Abwehr. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments The devils you know mc atwood![]() A reason to approach you, the ONLY reason i had. It is true the mark is what you make of it and I made it a reason. ![]() ![]() we made words from sounds and that became language, we gave sound to symbols that’s how we have an alphabet That’s how we can talk without speaking. Nothing has meaning to it at first, until we give it meaning everything is meaningless. The only thing we have in common is that stupid mark. I don’t have it in me to be the bad guy, and if you have it then i’ll know there is some good in youĪryana reached up and touched the back of her neck for a moment, before she merely shook her head. We’re nothing like. ![]() It’s just a rumor but i heard you had this too. The Devils You Know : Atwood, M.C. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Lunch walks among us![]() ![]() Franny realizes the fiend was created earlier from dumping her lunch of crab ravioli with pumpkin sauce into the trash and other kids dumping old gym shoes, chewing gum and unstable industrial waste into the same trash can.įranny doesn't want to risk losing her new friends, so she tries to calmly instruct the other kids on how they can stop the Pumpkin Crab Monster, but is unable to get through to the hoards of screaming and panicking children. After taking notes, Franny concludes that she must change herself into a normal girl and does so by drinking a potion made of cutesy ingredients.Īll goes well at first, but chaos ensues when a Pumpkin Crab Monster appears and causes trouble by kidnapping Miss Shelly and climbing up the flagpole. ![]() Stein, a little girl mad scientist who lives in the pink house with lovely purple shutters down at the end of Daffodil Street.įranny goes to a new school, where she has trouble getting along with the other children, but is encouraged to keep trying by her teacher Miss Shelly. We are introduced to the main character Franny K. ![]() Lunch Walks Among Us is the first book in the Franny K. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Katherine chen joan![]() ![]() When we first meet Joan, she’s a child observing other children fight in her tiny village of Donrémy. The novel follows Joan’s trajectory from lowly peasant to confidant of Charles VII (the Dauphin and dispossessed heir to the French throne) to leader of the French army and sudden folk hero. ![]() What drives Joan isn’t the voice of God but the destruction of her village by brutal English soldiers, along with an intensely personal loss. Chen’s reimagined Joan is hungry, earthy and scrappy-a natural fighter. Chen’s second novel, Joan, leaves behind the pious maiden and her visions and voices. And yet the martyr’s name calls up an array of familiar mythic images: a pious, perhaps delusional 15th-century French maiden visited by visions and voices, a young woman with a sword in her hand, in a time of endless war between France and England. To the 21st-century reader, Joan of Arc may feel faraway and quaint, like a figure in an ancient stained-glass window. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments The seeds of america trilogy![]() Two of her books, Speak and Chains, were National Book Award finalists, and Chains was short-listed for the prestigious Carnegie medal. Laurie has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award four times. Her new book, SHOUT, a memoir-in-verse about surviving sexual assault at the age of thirteen and a manifesta for the #MeToo era, has received widespread critical acclaim and appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for seven consecutive weeks. Combined, her books have sold more than 8 million copies. ![]() UPDATE! SHOUT, my memoir in verse, is out, has received 9 starred reviews, and was longlisted for the National Book Award!įor bio stuff: Laurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times bestselling author whose writing spans young readers, teens, and adults. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A magazine that deserves a much larger readership."įor those who don't pick up Comics International already from their local comic store, the magazine proves its quality by publishing the Really Heavy Greatcoat by myself and artist Nick Miller, so we're inevitably a little biased about it. Their coverage of the obscure and forgotten is always entertaining too. Giving the magazine a 10/10 rating, the store's staff reckon "This title really is indispensable, and remains very readable for a wide audience of fans, pros and the curious. "The reinvented British comics industry monthly is going from strength to strength," they reveal to the uneducated who might not already know, and "This latest issue features some great stuff, including a great piece on the Dan Dare relaunch, features on Heroes, 30 Days of Night, Stardust, World of Warcraft comics and more." After many behind the scenes problems too tiresome to detail here, there's some good news for Cosmic Publications, the publishers of comics news magazine Comics International, with the Famous StarStore blog the latest to offer a positive review of the title, now hopefully back on production schedule. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Slammed by colleen hoover summary![]() ![]() ![]() Since her debut, Hoover has continued to both self-publish and traditionally publish her novels. ![]() Hoover self-published the sequel to Slammed as well, before the third and final installment of that series was picked up by Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. That novel was Slammed, which she published in 2012. Hoover wrote her first novel at 31 and self-published it almost by chance, all because she wanted her mother to read the story on her e-reader. Who is Colleen Hoover?Ĭolleen Hoover is a #1 New York Times bestselling author that has had a surprising path to becoming an author. Before we dive into the books though, let’s learn a little bit more about the author. It Ends with Us in particular has seen great success thanks to the like of online communities like BookTok or Bookstagram. Her books have become incredibly popular largely through word-of-mouth. That’s because Hoover is known for her beautiful, evocative writing surrounding love and heartbreak. However, before you start reading any of her novels, you’ll want to make sure that you have your tissues at the ready. Whether you’ve already read one of her books and need to know what’s next, or if you’re only just discovering the author, here are all of the Colleen Hoover books in order. Affectionately known as CoHo, Colleen Hoover has taken the online book world by storm with tremendous success. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Lunatic onley james![]() ![]() Until then, though, enjoy my grand total of two books I managed to finish in March. On a fun note, there was an online sale to get a lot of Kindle books for free, so I went crazy and downloaded SO many to redeem my digital library, so my April post should have much more content again. If anyone else’s account has randomly been Obliviated like Jeff Bezos is cosplaying as Gilderoy Lockhart, hit me up and we can commiserate together. The best guess I can make on why it happened is when my Audible free trial ended and I elected not to continue it (I don’t usually listen to audiobooks but I wanted to give it a shot), somehow my entire account was deleted by Amazon instead? I have no clue. I spent about a week and a half calling customer service to see if I could gain access to my purchases (movies and books) at the very least, but they said there’s no record of my history once the account is deleted so it’s all gone. So, any books I had bought and were in the process of reading were inaccessible. ![]() We’re talking Amazon Prime Video, Kindle, and my current orders/returns all gone. ![]() My books being all put away in boxes is never my preferred storage method, but at least I had my Kindle, right? All of my things spent three of the four weeks in March in boxes either waiting to be moved or waiting to be unpacked. Two things happened this month that greatly affected my reading speed: ![]() Well, everyone – it only took until March to reach my first month of slower reading. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Story of your life ted chiang![]() ![]() You've got pharmaceutical-grade beauty, the cocaine of good looks.īiologists call this "supernormal stimulus" Our beauty receptors receive more stimulation than they were evolved to handle we're seeing more beauty in one day than our ancestors did in a lifetime. But take a person with one-in-a-million skin and bone structure, add professional makeup and retouching, and you're no longer looking at beauty in its natural form. Evolution gave us a circuit that responds to good looks - call it the pleasure receptor for our visual cortex - and in our natural environment, it was useful to have. ![]() That's when it becomes addictive.īeauty has undergone a similar process, thanks to advertisers. But refine it, purify it, and you get a compound that hits your pleasure receptors with an unnatural intensity. ![]() In its natural form, as coca leaves, it's appealing, but not to an extent that it usually becomes a problem. ![]() |