![]() ![]() ![]() 253, which is the last of twelve chapters. Chapter Six comprises two named characters. Proceed from there, filling in the chapter numbers beside the given name and page number. Begin with an introductory chapter (not listed in these “contents”), then go, first, to “Zariyah Zhadan,” p. In the front matter the author provides a kind of contents page-not labeled as such-listing names of characters as names of chapters, along with the pages where they start. There are chapters of sorts, but you have to figure them out yourself. Or, to put it in the fully neutered style in which the book is written, they are right. One blurber, Nicolette Polek, describes the novel as “a rare and brilliant pleasure, a coiling, searing fugue of a book that takes our deranged culture and pulls forth from it a box of stars.” She’s right. Reviewers have pointed to possible influences: Roberto Bolaño, Georges Perec, Thomas Bernhard, Italo Calvino. This wild gallimaufry of a novel, which runs a monologue through almost three hundred pages of text, without pauses for paragraphs or new chapters, is a tour de force of literary mania. ![]() Dead Souls (A Novel by Sam Riviere, NY: Catapult, 2021, 289 pp.) is a rare example of a book containing believable blurbs. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Joining Feldstein and Lynch, the series features Kimberly Brooks ("Baby Shark's Big Show!”) and Charlie Schlatter ("Big Nate," “For All Mankind”) as Janie and Sport, Harriet’s best friends, Lacey Chabert ("Mean Girls") as Marion Hawthorne, the ringleader of a group of popular girls at Harriet’s school, and additional voice cast Crispin Freeman ("Young Justice"), Grey Griffin ("The Loud House") and Bumper Robinson ("The Owl House"). ![]() ![]() Essun sets off to find the girl, undertaking a journey that will force her to face unfinished business from her own secret past. Soon after Essun’s secret is revealed, her husband kills their son, and her daughter goes missing. ![]() Those who escape servitude and seek safety in the comms face expulsion and execution at the hands of the fearful. Authorities keep a brutal hold on orogenes, controlling everything about their lives, including whom they breed with. They can quell or start earthquakes, open veins of magma, and generally cause or rein in geological chaos. Essun lived quietly in a comm with her husband and children until her secret got out: she-and her children-are orogenes, those who have the ability to control Earth forces. The Stillness is a quiet and bitter land, sparsely populated by subsistence communities called comms. ![]() Humans struggle to survive on a ruined world in this elegiac, complex, and intriguing story, the first in the Broken Earth series from acclaimed author Jemisin (the Inheritance Trilogy). ![]() ![]() Rounding up from 2.5 stars because there are a couple of things about this book which I rather liked, actually. ⤅ Fairly enjoyable, but only if you manage to disengage every brain cell you possess. □ Type: Fu*kboys in Flannel is part of the Ravens of Hollow Hill series, but can be read as a standalone. If you have any hesitation, check the warnings before diving in. □ Safety Squad: There are triggering elements. ⚠️ Warning: This book may cause blushing, squirming, combusting panties, and/or self-care. ✨ Tropes: Alphahole, Enemies-to-Lovers, MINE!, Touch-Her-and-□, I’ve been waiting for this story since I discovered Rory and the brothers’ prequel last year and it was worth the wait! Rory and Tate bring the heat and debauchery like no other duo can. Without bending to their will, she brings them both to their knees and what could be better than a Raven on his knees? Two! ![]() When given an ultimatum, Tessa refuses to back down and I’m here for it. ![]() Despite that edict, there is undeniable chemistry and affections. ![]() This time we get a front row seat as the Slade brothers, Mason and Bennett lose their shit over Tessa Clarke.Īs Rhett Clarke’s niece, Tessa has always been off limits to the brothers, and all of the Ravens of Hollow Hill. We find ourselves back up on Hollow Hill. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the auction however, things get a little dicey as the messenger has turned up presumably to buy back the comm case and deliver his message. We know he was involved in an accident before Kera joined Mackiel and that Kera is to blame for it in some way, but we don’t get much more than that. Keralie “Kera” is the best dipper employed by Mackiel, her childhood friend and when she steals a comm case from a messenger she knows she is going to get a good payday offsetting the guilt she feels after hearing her father is dying. As we are introduced to our protagonist, Keralie, a talented thief I became aware this book was told from multiple perspective which is a love/hate thing for me. ![]() ![]() There is Archia which value agriculture and is ruled by Iris, Eonia which values technology and is ruled by Corra, Toria values intelligence and is ruled by Marguerite and finally, Ludia value pleasure and is ruled by Stessa. We learn that the world, Quadara, is split into four segments, each rule by a different Queen and values different things. Review: I have read The Vanishing Deep by Astrid Scholte and it was one of my favourite books the year I read it, so I finally decided it was time to pick up her first book, Four Dead Queens but I didn’t know anything about it going into it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has been able to write a monthly blog post on writing for her blog, as well as enjoying a small following on Wattpad, YourQuote and Miriquill. In 2019, she had a poem called, “Constellation” published in Madness Muse Press’ Magazine, Environmental Issue. She was selected for the Wyopoets scholarship in 2021, had her six word story, “I wanted to be a novelist” published in Midway Journal’s July 2020 issue. She was given the Wyoming Arts Council Professional Development Grant/Career Advancement Grant so that she could host book signings at Wyoming libraries, and get people back in the doors after Covid-19, and did so in March of 2022. Most recently she has had work featured in The Deserted Zine. Pugsley currently brags three published books, but has more patiently waiting in a trunk she uses as a coffee table. ![]() She has been writing since she was a teenager, and has published three novels titled War and Chess, Tales from the Gishlan Wood, and The Tooth Fairy. When she’s not writing she wonders around aimlessly on the search for fruit. Pugsley comes from a small town of 20 in eastern Wyoming, but currently resides in Laramie. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sovereign is the third installment of a series Sansom began with Dissolution and continued with Dark Fire - two stark re-creations of Henry’s England that proclaimed the arrival of a first-rate historical novelist. ![]() And while Henry VIII, the aging and paranoid monster at the heart of Sansom’s novel, made the progress with every creature comfort, his lesser courtiers and minor officials expected only the misery of trailing along in an endless cavalcade in his muddy wake with the rest of the vast horde of servants, camp followers and knaves that followed the king. Here the monarch ventured to the farthest reaches of his realm at the head of a vast retinue to awe his subjects with displays of pomp that were hardly justified by the circumstances. ![]() Sansom’s richly textured historical thriller Sovereign, which is set in the 1540s and in the darkening twilight of Henry VIII’s grip on power, the description refers to what was loftily called a Royal Progress. Today, we would reflexively assume that this had to be a trip to the airport in the forlorn hope of reaching one’s destination within the next week or so.īut in C.J. For even the most seasoned traveler, it was a nightmare of vile food, unsanitary conditions, endless waiting, and testiness from those supposedly in charge of the journey. ![]() ![]() at the social chaos the Company fomented - the anarchy of the title - and exploited to gain control of immense areas of India and over millions upon millions of Indians,.at the wealth that was shipped off in bulk back home by the Company and individually by its greed-lusting employees,.The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple is a richly researched, engagingly told and brutally direct indictment of the British stock company that systematically raped the subcontinent of India over the course of two and a half centuries.Įmploying Indian, British, French and other sources, Dalrymple weaves together a story that, at every twist and turn, leaves the reader aghast: ![]() ![]() ![]() The Dakota Frost series combines Anthony's love of hard science, fantastic magic, alternative culture, and strong, feisty women.Įven though the siren call of computing eventually pulled him out to the San Francisco Bay Area, he still chose to set the Dakota Frost series in Atlanta, Georgia, where he spent nearly half his life and which he has learned to love like no other place on Earth. is a science fiction writer and computer scientist who started writing urban fantasy because he likes it. He also writes an occasionally updated webcomic, fiku. When not making computers smarter or writing science fiction and fantasy, Anthony blogs about his life, his writing and his research at The Library of Dresan. Even though the siren call of computing eventually pulled him out to the San Francisco Bay Area, he still chose to set the Dakota Frost series in Atlanta, Georgia, where he spent nearly half his life and which he has learned to love like no other place on Earth. The Dakota Frost series combines Anthony's love of hard science, fantastic magic, alternative culture, and strong, feisty women. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She aims to warn women that they may not be safe in their marriages and that they should protect themselves, “Let us fight back! Don’t let the busy-tongued gossip stop you from testing! Don’t let him stop you from getting the right medicine you need!”(Magona 85). Her novel, Beauty’s Gift, has an educational purpose for women and men. ![]() We need to be honest, and say that what is wrong is wrong.” ( “The Witness” Web). In an interview with Margaret von Klemperer, Magona says, “It’s a book about our national shame, and it will make me enemies, but I wrote it because I am very, very angry. Her intentions of being forward are purely educational. She makes the reader realise the seriousness and reality of the Aids pandemic in South Africa today. ![]() She does this through her characters and their actions. Margaret von Klemperer says on Sindiwe Magona’s approach to the Aids pandemic, “She obviously feels people must speak out on the Aids issue because only if the stigma is removed and the disease can be talked about openly, can it be controlled.” ( “The Witness” Web). She hides neither facts nor truth and has little embarrassment in confronting the problems concerning Aids. Sindiwe Magona uses an extremely blunt and forward approach to Aids in Beauty’s Gift. ![]() |