![]() ![]() Grossinger moved East when her mother, the widow of a family member, became sort of the social director at the Catskills' hotel resort in 1945, when the author was eight. ![]() Non fiction is Growing Up at Grossinger's by Tania Grossinger (a book I was unaware of until getting an offer for a cheap ebook copy, whereupon I discovered it was available from the library). Rawson was also managing editor of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine for many years. If you like magicians, locked room mysteries, and impossible crimes, you should check out Clayton Rawson's The Great Merlini, the complete collection of his short stories (he wrote four Merlini novels as well, starting with Death From a Top Hat). I've enjoyed most of Harris's books and this is no exception, so far. After the assassination of President Elect Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 (the actual attempt was, of course, unsuccessful), the country falls apart and is divided into several parts, including the Texhoma where Lizbeth (Gunnie Rose) lives. Current reading: the first in Charlaine Harris's Gunnie Rose series, An Easy Death. ![]()
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![]() Because of that every chapter was really important – to compare it to an album, it was all killer and no filler! It was written either from Laurie or Jack’s point of view and jumped weeks / months at a time. I LOVED this book right from the start! I expected it to be a bit like ‘One Day’ by David Nicholls, and be about the same single day in December spanning the decade – but it wasn’t. Who is, of course, the boy from the bus.ĭetermined to let him go, Laurie gets on with her life.įollowing Laurie, Sarah and Jack through ten years of love, heartbreak and friendship, One Day in December is a joyous, heart-warming and immensely moving love story that you’ll want to escape into forever, for fans of Jojo Moyes, Lucy Diamond and Nicholas Sparks.” ![]() ![]() But at their Christmas party a year later, her best friend Sarah introduces her to the new love of her life. Laurie thinks she’ll never see the boy from the bus again. Their eyes meet, there’s a moment of pure magic…and then her bus drives away. After all, life isn’t a scene from the movies, is it?īut then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. “Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn’t exist. ![]() I saw this book reviewed and it sounded great, so I popped onto NetGalley and saw I could get an advance review copy – which was very exciting. ![]() ![]() ![]() “We’re not having patients wait up here any more.” ![]() ![]() I squeeze hand sanitizer into my palms while the administrator takes my name. Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, around the corner, has orange triage tents set up outside. We’re in the third week of New York’s stay-at-home order to try to flatten the curve of the coronavirus pandemic businesses are shuttered, roads are bare, people stand six feet away from each other in the lines in front of grocery stores. “Hi, sweetheart,” says the administrator at the front desk. This morning, I enter the obstetrics practice wearing maternity leggings, an oversized T-shirt, and a mint-green kerchief knotted over my nose and mouth. The results-heartfelt and harrowing-are presented here as a grateful salute to those who kept the world spinning in the year’s darkest moments. During the uncertain first months of quarantine, asked several novelists to chronicle their new normal with a tribute to the person helping them get by. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not being able to shop for clothes or hang out with my friends sucks. ![]() So now you can find me and either block or follow me with the handle I have loooots of book pictures and quotes because, that is what I like! So go, laugh at my picture taking skills! (I will eventually figure out how to put the insta button on my blog side bar, eventually…)Īlso, I hate quarantine. I have Instagram!! Why am I acting so excited about it?! Basically, a bit ago I was decided with a loud sigh that I should be more active on social media, and ya know, create an author platform. Well, before we get to our regularly scheduled book review, I have a couple announcements. ![]() I can’t remember what the heck I am supposed to be writing about today. So, I had an unforeseen problem in taking a month off of blogging. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From the time she was brought to this country by her hardworking parents as a child, Arce-the scholarship winner, the honors college graduate, the young woman who climbed the ladder to become a vice president at Goldman Sachs-had secretly lived as an undocumented immigrant. But in this brave new memoir, Arce digs deep to reveal the physical, financial, and emotional costs of the stunning secret that she, like many other high-achieving, successful individuals in the United States, had been forced to keep not only from her bosses, but even from her closest friends. The level of professional and financial success that she achieved was the very definition of the American dream. ![]() On the surface, Arce's story reads like a how-to manual for achieving the American dream: growing up in an apartment on the outskirts of San Antonio, she worked tirelessly, achieved academic excellence, and landed a coveted job on Wall Street, complete with a six-figure salary. ![]() A National Bestseller What does an undocumented immigrant look like? What kind of family must she come from? How could she get into this country? What is the true price she must pay to remain in the United States? JULISSA ARCE knows firsthand that the most common, preconceived answers to those questions are sometimes far too simple-and often just plain wrong. ![]() ![]() ![]() These have the potential to do to the planet and their civilization what science fiction stories do for Earth: introduce radical change. This is a fantasy story, but because of the level of development at which the author’s world resides there are opportunities for technological discovery and innovation. With form and sparseness Shaw again draws more with less. Differences from our own world, both small and large, are introduced early on, fostering an awareness of possibility. The story occurs on a different planet, perhaps even within a different universe. These small accentuations suggested a fullness to the characters that other books fail to achieve with more words and effort. ![]() ![]() The characters were drawn well enough to serve their roles in the tale, but then each was given a single, or perhaps a few, moments in which to vividly bring out their inner selves. Rarely embellished, mostly utilitarian, it also seldom provided anything unnecessarily, focusing rather on the basics: relating the emotion, encountering the unknown, instilling the excitement. There was something sparsely effective about the writing. “Clean” as in free from extraneous matter. Shaw’s tactic was to promise very little and overdeliver. The distance between one’s ambitions and one’s actual achievements with the story can very easily turn into a measure of success, so there is risk in aiming too high. Not every story needs grand ambitions in order to be enjoyable. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Morrigan Odelle Crow: a young girl who was cursed just for being born on Eventide in the city of Jackalfax.Main article: The Nevermoor series § Characters Residents in Nevermoor are either human, also known as unnimals, or wunimals, who are a mix of human and another animal, either a wunimal major or minor. According to the book, Nevermoorian children learn the names of the boroughs and quadrants like the ABCs in nursery school. Nevermoor is divided into 27 boroughs, most of which are divided into quadrants. A resident of Nevermoor is a Nevermoorian. The book is set mostly in two locations Jackalfax, Morrigan's hometown which she leaves in the beginning of the novel, and Nevermoor, the titular city filled with fantastical creatures. Included in the back of the book is a deleted scene entitled Holt, Holt & Davie. In English-speaking countries the audiobooks are narrated by Gemma Whelan. Since the release of the first book in The Nevermoor series, the stories have also been released as audiobooks, in both CD and online audio formats. The book is followed by two sequels so far. The plot follows the titular character Morrigan Crow, who is cursed to die because she was born on an unlucky day. ![]() It was released Octoin Australia and Octoin the United States. Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow is a novel by Jessica Townsend and published by Little, Brown and Company. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A performance of The King In Yellow staged during the COVID-19 pandemic holds up a mirror to mass insanity. A pregnant woman house hunting with her husband discovers a doorway to another dimension and a devil’s bargain waiting on the other side. Family secrets, government lies, ancient magic, and modern science collide in Douglas Wynne’s debut short fiction collection.Īn antique instruments appraiser finds an apocalyptic song slumbering in a haunted guitar. Ends May 1st!Ī New Lovecraftian collection by Douglas Wynne!įrom the author of the critically acclaimed SPECTRA Files trilogy come twelve mind-bending tales of cosmic horror. Turner calendar, or, Gallerie Fantastique: The Art of M. ![]() Buy any one hardcover on the Weird House Press site and receive a free Eldritch Creations: The Art of K. ![]() ![]() ![]() While he fancies himself cut off from a world he despises, Reilly's mother eventually gets into a car accident, which means he must venture out into the world for employment so that he can take care of his mom. Reilly, a thirty-year-old man with a pessimistic outlook on the broader world. Its struggles to make it to bookshelves provided an eerie harbinger of the enormous and downright tragic challenges that have plagued any prospective film adaptation of this material.īefore we get into the cinematic takes on this book, though, it’s important to understand what the actual story of A Confederacy of Dunces is. ![]() More than a decade later, Dunces was finally published and became a Pulitzer Prize-winning hit. The text wouldn’t have even seen the light of day if the mother of its author, John Kennedy Toole, hadn’t stumbled upon the manuscript after Toole’s suicide. The novel A Confederacy of Dunces has never had an easy existence. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perfect for the #ownvoices movement, Going Off Script is an excellent choice for teens looking to make their mark in society. Diverse characters and themes of sexuality and individuality make this an extremely timely story that readers will devour. ![]() Bex finds herself unexpectedly falling for Shrupty, a new actress on the show, and Wilde handles their romance with extreme heart and tenderness. Having just come out of the closet herself, Bex feels the burn, and she makes it her mission to set the record right-both for the LGBTQ+ community and the fandom.Īuthor Jen Wilde not only gives readers a peek into the television industry, but she also offers an in-depth look at Bex’s coming-out process. Malcom sneakily rewrites the script and passes it off as his own-right after writing her lesbian character off as straight in order to protect one of the show’s stars who made a homophobic statement. And later, when Malcom is stumped on how to write his assigned episode, Bex takes it upon herself to draft a script and give it to him. Bex is understandably furious, yet.maybe this is just how the industry works But when they rewrite her proudly lesbian character as straight, thats the last. ![]() When Jane, another writer, takes Bex under her wing, she learns the ins and outs of how a TV show is put together. Nonetheless, Bex is just excited to be part of the show, even if it means getting coffee for the writing crew and green juices for cast members. Bex just got her ticket out of her hometown of Westmill via an internship on the hit TV teen drama “Silver Falls.” (Think “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”) However, her boss and head writer, Malcom, is none too happy to have his own intern. ![]() |