![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In alternating voices, sunny optimist Prudence, who inherited the money-losing spread from her uncle boozy blogger Seth tween Sara, who raises poultry to console a life otherwise torn apart by two warring parents and old-coot Earl, who has a mysterious and illustrious past, put their shaky lives and a dilapidated house together by discovering the best and forgiving the worst of each other. The result is a sweetly cockamamie tale of the emotional, physical, and spiritual recovery of lost souls sharing a neglected farm, a seriously depressed sheep, a coop of fancy chickens, and a last shred of hope. Juby, author of the Alice MacLeod books for young adults and a memoir of alcohol addiction (Nice Recovery), borrows from both genres for her first foray into adult fiction. ![]()
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![]() It span through the air, making its home in the vampire’s side. ![]() She twisted out of the way and quickly pulled a small wooden dagger from her pocket. ![]() “Now are you going to come quietly, or do I have to kill you?” the winged woman asked. The vampire looked up as a woman with white feathery wings dropped in front of him and pointed a sword in his direction. He dropped the woman and carefully pulled out the dagger. The vampire yelled out in pain as his shoulder and right arm began to burn. If the vampire had been paying attention, however, he would have seen the garlic juice-covered wooden dagger before it had stabbed him in the shoulder. The vampire’s fangs were nestled deep into the woman’s neck, her ruby red blood filling his newly found hunger. ![]() On the roof of a seven-storey building, in the middle of London, at exactly midnight, a woman was getting all the blood in her body sucked out of her by a very hungry vampire. And to Mum for supporting me every step of the way. To my big sister Megan for being with me since this idea first began. ![]() ![]() ![]() The only real local bit of deep literary relevance in “Cannery Row” is found in the opening sentence. No one has yet been able to identify a plot in “Cannery Row,” but plots are beside the point. Readers seemed to get a kick out of the slap-happy cast of rascals, bums, inebriates, prostitutes and a beloved marine biologist named “Doc.” Among other things, “Cannery Row” describes the lost entrails of a dead humorist, an artist who used chicken feathers as his medium, and local ne’er-do-wells who sloshed through tide pools in search of sea life they could sell for wine money. ![]() ![]() But that didn’t stop Monterey from parlaying John Steinbeck’s “Cannery Row” into a template for its billion-dollar tourism industry.ĭespite the critics, Steinbeck’s 1945 novel was an instant best seller. So did most of the other East Coast elites. Previously published on Substack’s Monterey Neighbors & Friends ![]() ![]() Her mission as a God is to clean the place and things like that, but mostly attend to the wishes of the people who go pray there. Don't over-analyse the fact that she talked to a stranger And she accepts, obviously, since she has no other place to go. Wandering around, she starts talking to this man in a park and he makes her a proposal: she would be the god of his temple (it was his job until that moment), and she gets food and a place to sleep in return. ![]() What to say about the story? Nanami was thrown out of her house by her dad. Some shoujos throw the couple at your face in the very beginning, while this one leaves everything at your imagination and takes its time. ![]() ![]() While this manga here doesn't show the 'love' thing from the very beginning, it most definitely shows you that there is a girl, Nanami, and her familiar, Tomoe, and you can imagine for yourself it they are going to be a couple or not. Mangas are adorable! I discovered my passion of reading because of mangas, most precisely shoujos (shoujo=romance). ![]() ![]() ![]() The level of humor, the shero who will literally fight for her man. The Devil in Disguise really took me back to Ms. As well as Leo, Luke's goodness-to-Luke's-darkness brother. Luke, who is the King of things that go bump in the night, isn't nearly the hard case he would like everyone to believe, as evidenced by his fiercely loyal guards, men who he has saved and protected. He is willing to sacrifice everything so she can have her heart's desire. Especially when she tries to protect him. She's simply a woman who will do whatever she needs to do in order to see her plan through - and to keep Luke safe while she is doing so. Mina is the perfect shero - she doesn't love the mess she's gotten herself into, she isn't brazen or full of false bravado. These two charmed me from their first interaction to the last page of the book. Unfortunately for Mina, Luke doesn't like to share his toys. Mina is a girl on a mission to make herself unbad, and an artifact in Luke's possession is the key to her plan. He controls all the creatures of the dark. So this was awesome.Very little I love better than the bad boy with a heart of gold. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Happy ending? Sort of-but only if you think the movie A L I E N ended on a pleasant note. First Contact Science Fiction? It has all the essential elements. Character study? Certainly true of the protagonist. Vampire story? Of a fashion, but not in any way the typical fashion. Hard Science Fiction Space Opera? Certainly. I found this novel to be excellent but difficult to categorize. I really enjoyed the advancing narrative interspersed with flashbacks exploring the main character’s psyche. The protagonist never seems to be comfortable in his own skin, and since Watts manages to build a certain empathy for him, you the listener are kept off balance as well. Peter Watts has crafted a novel that is quite unsettling. ![]() ![]() ![]() On top of that, intriguing, exasperating letters from a secret admirer begin to arrive. Then Grandmère arranges a national primetime interview for the brand-new crown princess of Genovia. Just when Mia thinks she has the whole princess thing under control, things get out of hand, fast.įirst there's an unexpected announcement from her mother. The one and only Mia Thermopolis is back and ready to reign! Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Meg Cabot's blockbuster series in royal style-with all-new middle grade editions of the first three books! ![]() About the Book Having recently discovered she is the sole heir to the throne of a tiny European principality, fourteen-year-old Manhattan resident Mia writes in her journal about her attempts to cope with this news, as well as with more typical teenage concerns. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Uh, I’m going to go answer that,” said Stacey, and then she mouthed, awkward. Finally, he turned sideways and leaned in so that when he spoke, his breath danced along my temple. He eyeballed Zayne as if he wanted to finger paint with his entrails. Reaching forward, I wrapped my hand around his arm. ![]() He started toward Zayne, and I knew that even though he was aware that Zayne hadn’t been responsible for anything, he wanted to shed blood over it-any Warden blood. “They wouldn’t knock, but I’m telling you, I wasn’t followed. Zayne didn’t take his brilliant teal eyes off me. “That wouldn’t be a Warden, would it?” Stacey asked. He shook his head, and my chest tightened.Ī knock on the front door raised the hairs along the nape of my neck. All he did was nod in return, and then Zayne’s gaze returned to mine. Ever.”Įven Roth looked a little knocked off his game by that. “Whatever you did, however you helped her, thank you. “I know what they did to you.” He finally looked at Roth. ![]() Taken aback, I placed my hand against my chest. “They don’t have any reason to follow me,” he said, and then he blinked. “I feel like I need to get out of the way.” All he did was stare at me, his face pale and his chest rising in deep breaths.Ī low growl emanated from Roth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Working from home in the close quarters of their Florida house, she lives with one wary eye peeled on Samson, a sullen, unknowable boy who resists her every attempt to bond with him. If she’s being honest, Sammie Lucas is scared of her son. I truly loved it’ Jennifer Weiner, bestselling author of Mrs Everything and That Summer ![]() ![]() With Teeth digs in deep and doesn’t let go. ‘A darkly funny, brutally honest story about a woman undone by motherhood. ‘Sublimely weird, fluently paced, brazenly funny and gayer still’ Naoise Dolan, New York Times Kristen Arnett lets her characters have the run of the place, and it’s delicious fun to watch them do, say, and think things they’ll regret’ Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here ‘With Teeth is a wonderfully sticky novel about motherhood, partnership, sex and love. LONGLISTED FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE 2022 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But with each discovery he must confront disturbing truths about himself and the agency he's pledged to serve. Working with a distrustful but desperate team, a series of frustrating interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, Control begins to penetrate the secrets of Area X. John Rodríguez (aka "Control") is the Southern Reach's newly appointed head. Following the tumultuous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the agency is in complete disarray. ![]() "After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X-a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization-has been a series of expeditions overseen by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten: the Southern Reach. Plot Summary Main article: Timeline of Authority While the first book takes place inside of Area X, Authority portrays how it was inside of the organization that sent the expeditions to that area. ![]() Authority is the second book in the Southern Reach Trilogy, written by Jeff VanderMeer. The book was published on by Ferrar, Straus and Giroux. ![]() |