![]() ![]() The young man, whose story is to be told, also emerges from his obsessions. His questioning and indecision force the reader into another radical sense of the novel. He tallies his accounts and checks his provisions. All of his choices for the story are made and remade. The narrator obsesses over making his narrative to the point of not making it. The first deals with the narrator and his effort to make the book itself the second, the story the narrator intends to tell, presents a young man's arrival in America. These stories are simultaneous and not chronological. ![]() Within these startling and playful structures Federman develops two characters and two narratives. The words move, cluster, jostle, and collide in a tour de force full of puns, parodies, and imitations. Federman gives each of these pages a shape or structure, most often a diagram or picture. Double or Nothing is a concrete novel in which the words become physical materials on the page. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Lockhart’s stark, evocative prose captures the emotions of a grieving teenage girl paralyzed by the weight of her parents’ expectations and plagued by a perpetual sense of inadequacy. The boys’ presence, a deviation from the Sinclair family’s usual routine, sets into motion an unforeseen chain of events that ultimately entangles the three oldest Sinclair sisters. Even more unexpected are the arrivals on Beechwood Island of George, Major, and Pfeff, friends of Carrie’s cousin Yardley. When Rosemary’s ghost appears to her, she is bewildered by the specter but accepts her intermittent appearances and comfortably mundane requests. ![]() Carrie’s parents and remaining sisters, 16-year-old Penny and 14-year-old Bess, endure the loss with characteristic Sinclair stoicism, but Carrie finds it difficult to repress her sorrow, even with the aid of codeine pills to numb her pain. Ten-year-old Rosemary drowned the previous summer while swimming alone. This prequel to We Were Liars (2014) takes place in 1987 as 17-year-old Carrie Sinclair faces her first summer at the family’s Massachusetts vacation property without her youngest sister, Rosemary. ![]() ![]() The Stones of Kaldaar by Tameri Etherton I loved Tolkein's LoTR trilogy and I love the echoes of it in this author's new fantasy series-starter. The order of the list is the order in which I read them this year, not in any order of achievement. ![]() Why Amazon? Because it's the easiest way to do it-and because, well, the world isn't necessarily fair. ![]() I'm linking to the books' Amazon pages because it gives you all a super simple link to find out more about these books and to maybe even purchase one of them. I want to share with you the excellent, important, or just plain entertaining reads you might not hear about otherwise-because, well, the world isn't necessarily fair. ![]() Once again, I am not putting on my list of favorites the recent books that have been bestsellers-a couple of which I admired greatly, like Sue Monk Kidd's The Invention of Wings, Five Came Back by Mark Harris and Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult, since they have gotten, and will get, plenty of "ink" elsewhere. A short list of the new books I enjoyed reading this year (all were published in 2014). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a quick summery about the plot of the author’s sixth installment of the Harry Potter series. Harry Potter is a book series written by a British author who writes under the name J.K. Listen Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince Audiobook Harry will need powerful magic and true friends as he explores Voldemort’s darkest secrets, and Dumbledore prepares him to face his destiny…. Harry is convinced that Malfoy bears the Dark Mark: there is a Death Eater amongst them. Secrets and suspicion are spreading through the wizarding world, and Hogwarts itself is not safe. Publisher’s Summary: When Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive one summer night to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is blackened and shrivelled, but he does not reveal why. Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince Audiobook Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince Audiobook – Jim Dale ![]() ![]() ![]() I also liked the focus this book took when wading through the abundance of source material: “This book disentangles Anne’s intimacy with Ann Walker and her strategy for exploiting Shibden’s economic potential it measures how effectively friends, neighbours and relatives in Halifax were able to signal their displeasure at this unorthodox relationship and its inheritance implications.” Not just Anne Lister but the glimpses her diaries provide of the world around her and how people reacted to her and her unusual lifestyle. ![]() In Helena Whitbread’s book, set in an earlier part of Anne’s life, she felt stuck a lot of the time, worried about money and longing for both love and independence, which could get a little tedious. ![]() She has found the woman she wants to spend her life with, she has received her inheritance, so she is able to be active and pursue goals for herself and her property. ![]() Having read Helena Whitbread’s book first, though, I didn’t worry too much about what I was missing.Īnother advantage Female Fortune has over the other books I have read so far is simply that it focuses on a more interesting section of Anne Lister’s life. Many of the entries were reduced to merely a handful of lines, and days or weeks were skipped entirely. And it also edits her diary extracts of much of the tedious detail she tended to include. It does a great job of putting both her and her diary extracts in context. This has been my favourite of the Anne Lister books I’ve read so far. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Amish family that was once so tightly knit is unraveling before John’s eyes. Minor disagreements turn into angry fights and old hurts surface amidst uncertainty and exhaustion. John’s parents and brothers try to help him, but as weeks turn into months with no real sign of improvement, the illness begins to take its toll on all of them. ![]() By the time he is finally diagnosed with Lyme disease, his body is failing and his spirits are nearly at rock bottom. After weeks of feeling exhausted, depressed, and achy, he has no idea what’s wrong with him and begins to wonder if he’ll be miserable for the rest of his life. But those struggles are nothing compared to the battle he is about to fight. As a teenager, he knows he’s overweight and is sure he’ll never be popular like his brothers are. ![]() ![]() ![]() The apostrophe can correctly be used in eight ways.Here are three of the most interesting lessons from the book: She will teach you how to use them and when, but most importantly, she’ll help you understand where they don’t belong. ![]() Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss talks about the importance of keeping grammar intact in our writing and ensuring that society keeps track of the right punctuation rules.įrom periods to commas, exclamation marks, and apostrophes, the author touches base with them all and provides an easy-to-follow guide about grammar rules and punctuation marks. However, there aren’t that many books addressing punctuation marks or the lack of them. There are many books out there that talk about a multitude of topics. Blinkist Discount Code May 2023 ġ-Sentence-Summary: Eats, Shoots & Leaves offers a humorous, yet instructive overview of how punctuation rules play a huge part in our writing language and how today’s society has become overly relaxed about using the right punctuations marks, leaving grammar-concerned people like her frustrated. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Second, the story was believable as part of the Buffy canon, especially taking place decades before the show's time line. Their dialog, actions and thoughts were spot on - and the cover is fantastic. While reading, I could easily envision the two actors carrying out the story. First, Golden perfectly captured the spirit of Spike and Dru as portrayed by James Marsters and Juliet Landau. I have read several books in the Buffyverse, but I think this is by far the best. So, when I saw this book I decided to delve into the Buffy novels. Like so many, I loved the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV show Spike was my favorite character. This was the first novel I read by Christopher Golden, and I enjoyed it so much that I was inspired to search out his original fiction (which is also excellent). ![]() ![]() Colonel-General Gagarin, on a years-long mission to go where New Soviet Man has not gone before, is going to find out. Gregor, in Washington DC, knows but isn't talking. Beyond the Boreal ocean, strange new continents loom above tropical seas, offering a new start to colonists like newly-weds Maddy and Bob, and the hope of further glory to explorers like ex-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin: but nobody knows why they exist, and outside the circle of exploration the universe is inexplicably warped. It's been flat ever since the eve of the Cuban war of 1962 and the constellations overhead are all wrong. Abba are on the charts, the Cold War is in full swing - and the Earth is flat. ![]() Subterranean Press is proud to announce a stunning novella by Charles Stross, with a cover and interior illustrations by J.K. Dust jacket and interior illustrations by J.K. ![]() ![]() ![]() Prone herself to bouts of severe depression, she married a preacher who suffered from severe mental illness, and troubles with her elder son haunted her last years. Her first novel, Anne of Green Gables, was published to instant success-but Maud, by then 34, had broken off an engagement and was the sole caretaker of her elderly, difficult, and ailing grandmother. Raised by her puritanical grandparents in Cavendish, a small village on Prince Edward Island, she early on retreated into her imagination, naming the trees in her grandparents’ yard. Maud (she was never called by her first name, Lucy) lost her mother to tuberculosis in 1876 before she was 2 and her father to wanderlust before she was 7. ![]() Montgomery in over 20 years.ĭrawing primarily on the author’s personal journals (published only in edited form until very recently but available to the author in their entirety), Rosenberg presents a balanced and sympathetic portrait of a lonely young girl who grew up to write cheerful novels despite her always-challenging life. The first middle-grade biography of Canadian author L.M. ![]() |