6/28/2023 0 Comments Expedition by Wayne Barlowe![]() ![]() ![]() His seminal work Expedition repeatedly caught my teenage self off guard with its evocative and breathtaking speculative paintings of the fauna of an alien world, and it's anyone's guess how many times I read this book in those comfy chairs at that B&N.Įxpedition does tell a story, but it is secondary to the exozoological art. ![]() I particularly enjoyed the big art books and "technical manuals" for things such as Star Wars, Star Trek, the Colonial Marines from the Alien film franchise, and, of course, the works of Wayne Barlowe. In high school, I used to grab my discman and walk to the big Barnes & Noble at the mall sometimes after classes and spend hours browsing through the science fiction section, reading whatever caught my attention. ![]()
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6/28/2023 0 Comments Rachel hartman tess of the road![]() ![]() ![]() At first I felt like she was self-focused and self-pitying. At the beginning of the story, she’s bitter at the world and desperately trying to drown her sorrows and her self-pity in wine or spirits. It took me a while to get into Tess’s character. I still enjoyed the complex and intricate setting with its cultural and spiritual elements. Since I enjoyed the books about Seraphina, Tess’s half-sister, I looked forward to revisiting the story world in Tess of the Road. Her tumultuous past is a heavy burden to carry, and the memories she’s tried to forget threaten to expose her to the world in more ways than one. This friend is a quigutl–a subspecies of dragon–who gives her both a purpose and protection on the road. So when she runs into an old friend, it’s a stroke of luck. Where Tess is headed is a mystery, even to her. As her family plans to send her to a nunnery, Tess yanks on her boots and sets out on a journey across the Southlands, alone and pretending to be a boy. You can’t make a scene at your sister’s wedding and break a relative’s nose with one punch (no matter how pompous he is) and not suffer the consequences. In the medieval kingdom of Goredd, women are expected to be ladies, men are their protectors, and dragons get to be whomever they want. Published on FebruAmazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads ![]() ![]() ![]() The crime scene is eerily similar to the creepy legend, convincing Holly that the death wasn’t just accidental. The TV series in development, Apparition Apprehenders, has descended on Wagtail’s annual Halloween festivities to investigate supernatural local legends, and Holly has her hands full showing the ghost hunters a scary-fun time.īut the frights turn real when Holly’s Jack Russell, Trixie, and kitten, Twinkletoes, find a young woman drowned in the Wagtail Springs Hotel’s bathhouse - the spot of the town’s most infamous haunting. Holly Miller doesn’t believe in spirits, but the Sugar Maple Inn is filled with guests who do. ![]() Wagtail, Virginia, the top pet-friendly getaway in the United States, is gearing up for a howling good Halloween - until a spooky murder shakes the town to its core. Holly Miller doesnt believe in spirits, but the Sugar Maple Inn is filled with guests who do. The second spirited mystery in the New York Times bestselling Paws & Claws series. Mewer by Krista Davis, Jeanie Kanaley for free on hoopla. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Burpo todd![]() ![]() Liesl Bradner had a chance to speak with Todd Burpo from his home in Nebraska during a break in his hectic schedule about his family’s harrowing, ultimately miraculous experience that included small bits of good news such as, according to Colton: ‘No one is old in heaven and no one wears glasses.’ With 3 million copies in print, ‘Heaven Is for Real’ has become a bit of a publishing sensation as the family has made the rounds of media appearances including ‘The Today Show,’ ‘Fox and Friends’ and ‘ CNN.’ Todd Burpo recounts his family’s journey and Colton’s revelations in ‘Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back.’ The paperback, written by the Burpos with Lynn Vincent, who co-authored ‘ Going Rogue: An American Life,’ and ‘Unsinkable: A Young Woman’s Courageous Battle on the High Seas’ ( about Abby Sunderland’s ordeal), has remained on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list for eight weeks and the New York Times bestseller list for 20 weeks. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Love Match by Janet Quin-Harkin![]() ![]() Mystery Writers of America (regional president, Northern California chapter, 2001), Sisters in Crime, American Association of University Women, Society of Children's Bookwriters. ![]() Writing teacher at Dominican College, San Rafael, 1988-95. Founder and former director of San Raphael's Children's Little Theater. Worked for Australian Broadcasting, Sydney, Australia. (BBC), London, England, studio manager in drama department, 1963-66 teacher of dance and drama, 1971-76. Agent-Fran Lebowitz, Writers House, Inc., 21 W. Hobbies and other interests: Tennis, travel, drama, music, sketching, and hiking. (with honors), 1963 graduate study at University of Kiel and University of Freiburg. (Rhys Bowen, Janetta Johns, Janet Elizabeth Quin-Harkin) PERSONAL:īorn September 24, 1941, in Bath, England immigrated to the United States in 1966 daughter of Frank Newcombe (an engineer) and Margery (a teacher) Lee married John Quin-Harkin (a retired sales manager), Novemchildren: Clare, Anne, Jane, Dominic. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Heroines by Kate Zambreno![]() ![]() Widely reposted, Zambreno's blog became an outlet for her highly informed and passionate rants about the fates of the modernist "wives and mistresses." In her blog entries, Zambreno reclaimed the traditionally pathologized biographies of Vivienne Eliot, Jane Bowles, Jean Rhys, and Zelda Fitzgerald: writers and artists themselves who served as male writers' muses only to end their lives silenced, erased, and institutionalized. On the last day of December, 2009 Kate Zambreno began a blog called Frances Farmer Is My Sister, arising from her obsession with the female modernists and her recent transplantation to Akron, Ohio, where her husband held a university job. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order-pretending an objectivity where there is nothing objective about the experience of confronting and engaging with and swooning over literature." ![]() I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. A manifesto for "toxic girls" that reclaims the wives and mistresses of modernism for literature and feminism. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Frenzy by robert lettrick![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To participate, students had to read at least three of the books from the list. ![]() There are two sets of books, one aimed at students in grades three through five and one for grades six through eight. “They research and read hundreds and hundreds of books every year to pick the very best ones to challenge our students to read a variety of genres at different levels and different interests.” “The Sunshine State reading program is provided to us through the Department of Education and FAME - the Florida Association for Media Educators,” said the school's media specialist, Melanie Tahan. The winners received gift cards, with the student in first place also winning a bicycle.Ī pizza party was held later for all participating students. Top readers in grades three through six competed to identify quotes from this year's slate of books in a quiz show format. Last week, Rymfire Elementary School marked the effort with a “Battle of the Books” contest. And that's reading for pleasure, not just for class. PALM COAST - Are you as well read as a fifth-grader?Ī recent Pew Research Center study found that the average American adult reads 12 books a year, and 28 percent read no books at all in 2015.īy contrast, elementary school students in Flagler County have read as many as 15 for the Sunshine State Young Readers Award Program. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Abraham verghese books![]() ![]() It was a wonderful education, because our professors had just retired from eminent positions in England and had come to complete a year of service. I began my medical training in Ethiopia, in one of four or five then-new schools established by the British Council throughout Africa. I still agree that it requires those two qualities, and I had both. That sentence made me feel that, while not everyone could be a math whiz or a brilliant artist, anyone with a curiosity about the human condition and a willingness to work hard could be a good physician. When he finally arrives on the wards, Maugham writes, "Philip saw humanity there in the rough, the artist's canvas, and he said to himself, ‘This is something I can be good at.'" He decides to return to London and study to become a physician. ![]() He's an orphan, but his parents left him money to pursue professional studies. The medical element in the book is minor, but there's a moment when the protagonist, Philip, finds that he can't make it as an artist in Paris. Ironically (because I am now an author as well), a book brought me to medicine: Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham. ![]() So, it was clear to my brothers and me where our career paths were headed. Middle-class Indian parents see three career options for their children: doctor, lawyer, or failure. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Winston groom author![]() ![]() ![]() In 1995, Groom published a sequel titled “Gump and Co.”Īlabama Governor Kay Ivey tweeted about Groom’s death on Thursday, calling him one of the state’s “most gifted writers.” The novel was turned into the 1994 film starring Tom Hanks and won six Academy Awards. After he returned stateside, Groom was a reporter for the Washington Star before he focused on writing novels, according to the university. Groom graduated from the University of Alabama in 1965 and then served four years in the US Army, including a tour in the Vietnam War. “I don’t have any details right now, but he did die (Wednesday) night,” Wilson said. Karin Wilson, mayor of his hometown of Fairhope, Alabama, told CNN that Groom’s family shared the news of the death with her office. Winston Groom, the American novelist and author of “Forrest Gump,” has died. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Bone white by ronald malfi![]() ![]() I loved the way Paul’s journey unfolded along with the the mass murder storyline. Talk about a town I don’t want to visit! Dread’s Hand is full of strange people and strange happenings, which just so happens to make for a fantastic reading experience. Malfi creates an overwhelming sense of dread and mystery that continues throughout the story as we try to understand alongside Paul what happened to his brother. The more Paul searches for answers, the more he finds himself becoming part of the mystery…įrom the first few chapters of BONE WHITE I knew I was going to give this book 5 stars. No one can explain what happened to Danny. What Paul finds are superstitious locals who talk of the devil stealing souls, and a line of wooden crosses to keep what’s in the woods from coming out. As the bodies are exhumed, Paul travels to Alaska to get closure and put his grief to rest. ![]() This is the last place Paul’s twin brother, Danny, was seen before he went missing a year ago. ![]() Paul Gallo saw the report on the news: a mass murderer leading police to the graves of his victims in remote Dread’s Hand, Alaska. ![]() |