5/13/2023 0 Comments The Ragged Astronauts by Bob ShawCue SF element: the man who rescued Kate was indeed John, or rather, Jack Breton. Despite a flawless (and true) alibi, a witness swore to the police that the man who killed Kate’s attempted murderer was indeed John! Key scenes in John’s life, for example, the police interactions investigating the crime and his own disturbing thoughts about how his life would be better without Kate, come back to him in “flashes of absolute recall” (23). John, after a spousal squabble, had left her to walk alone to a party. A horrific trauma and mystery looms oppressive in the background–“nine years earlier, to the month, a police cruiser had found Kate wandering in the darkness of 50th Avenue, with flecks of human brain tissue spattered across her face” (14). John Breton’s relationship with his wife, Kate, is on the shoals. For the full glory of the image, I’ve included a his-res scan below. I tried, I must confess, but wasn’t in the mood and then something about The Two-Timers’ Diane and Leo Dillon cover-the doubling visages, contorted, anguished, and angular-pulled me in. Instead, I cast wary eyes toward my shelves and read The Two-Timers. Various Bob Shaw fans told me to read Nightwalk (1967) or find a copy of Other Days, Other Eyes (1972)-especially as I adored one of the short stories that appeared in the later fix-up novel - “Light of Other Days” (1966). (Diane and Leo Dillon’s cover for the 1968 1st edition)
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I’ll be back with more poetic adventures next week. I’m working on a poetry compilation right now, so this post will have to be short and sweet. You will walk away from it wiser, kaleidoscope to your eye seeing the world one person at a time.Ĭheck out Carolyn Breckinridge’s website here: Her prose speaks as if poetry, and moved my poet soul with each woman I met while teleporting through her brilliant stories. This is an extraordinary accomplishment of literary proportions. Strong female archetypes stretch beyond the normal renditions read in modern literature as Breckinridge delivers unexpected twists at every turn of the page. Her insight with each of these short stories delivers a complex collection of heart beat blending with tears, laughs, and an amusement park’s worth of highs and lows. Every component of the finely woven kaleidoscope jane explores the ins and outs, ups and downs, and true to life meanings of what it is to be human. Carolyn Breckinridge crafts her stories as if quilting a finely pieced patchwork blanket full of human spirit and emotion. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Big Duke Energy by Kerrigan ByrneSince she’d been forced to work at the Bare Kitten, Imogen’s instinct for peril had been honed as sharp as the sabers hanging from the soldier’s waists. They reminded Imogen of a roving pack of wolves, licking their chops and smiling their sharp-fanged smiles in anticipation of a macabre feast. After placing her armful of empty ale and gin glasses on the sideboard, she palmed a knife from the utensil bin, concealing it in the folds of her skirts as she turned to face the threat.Ī cadre of scarlet-clad soldiers filed through the door, their lean, young bodies taut with masculine restlessness. The usually oppressive atmosphere of the Bare Kitten Gin and Dance Hall turned electric with danger, charging every nerve in her body with the awareness of an advancing predator. Imogen Pritchard shuddered as the fine hairs on her body prickled with alarm. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Sarah macdonald booksFrom spiritual retreats and crumbling nirvanas to war zones and New Delhi nightclubs, it is a journey that only a woman on a mission to save her soul, her love life-and her sanity-can survive. Holy Cow is Macdonald's often hilarious chronicle of her adventures in a land of chaos and contradiction, of encounters with Hinduism, Islam and Jainism, Sufis, Sikhs, Parsis and Christians and a kaleidoscope of yogis, swamis and Bollywood stars. "Within." Thus begins her journey of discovery through India in search of the meaning of life and death. "I must find peace in the only place possible in India," she concludes. Just settled, she falls dangerously ill with double pneumonia, an experience that compels her to face some serious questions about her own fragile mortality and inner spiritual void. For Sarah this seems like the ultimate sacrifice for love, and it almost kills her, literally. When the love of Sarah's life is posted to India, she quits her dream job to move to the most polluted city on earth, New Delhi. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India-and for love-she screamed, "Never!" and gave the country, and him, the finger.īut eleven years later, the prophecy comes true. She is the author of Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure. She has worked all over the world, even hosting her on morning show. In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. Sarah MacDonald is a writer, journalist, and radio presenter. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Shatter me bookViolence includes gunfire, with one death and injuries, a brief sexual assault, and talk of children hurt or killed. The story begins in an asylum where Juliette is starved and isolated. The main character, Juliette, as well as two other characters grow up with abuse and neglect. Two common dystopian themes combine in this series: what the world could look like after humans wrecked the environment, and what could happen if a totalitarian government took over. Newer editions of Shatter Me come with the first novella, Destroy Me, which tells much of the story from the villain's perspective. There is also follow-up trilogy with the same characters as well as four novellas. It's part of a trilogy that includes Unravel Me and Ignite Me. Parents need to know that Shatter Me is the first book in a dystopian romance series by Iranian American author Tahereh Mafi. Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Orwell notes on nationalismnationalists also put themselves into a category or ‘unit’, but place this beyond values like good and bad.the habit of putting people into categories, and then labelling them good or bad.Surprisingly, it’s not about love for one’s country. He starts by defining what nationalism is. “the habit of mind I am talking about is widespread among the English intelligentsia, and more widespread there than among the mass of the people.” While Orwell gives many examples of nationalism, the frame for his argument is the failings of intellectualism in the 1940s: Reading Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London … by email?.As we lurch ever more to the Right, his essay is a timely reminder of the dangers and limitations of nationalistic thinking and self-deception. Much of Orwell’s writing is still (or even more) recognisable in the world right now. You’ll find many of the themes of that later novel present in this essay, too – sometimes in startling and interesting ways. George Orwell’s Notes on Nationalism was published a year before he started writing his best-known work, Nineteen Eighty-Four. What Orwell says in Notes on Nationalism (1945), and why it’s still relevant today. 5/11/2023 0 Comments The heroes of olympus 2
5/11/2023 0 Comments Alien General's Bride by Vi VoxleyIt is no easy feat, but he is, after all, undefeated. Thrust into intrigue, war and hunted by enemies hiding behind veils, Diego must prove himself not only to his new bride, but the galaxy at large. Not only is it unthinkable to want a human, but it might just be the push his enemies need to come for him. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Alien Generals Bride: Alien Invasion Science Fiction Romance by Voxley, VI at the best online. But even he finds himself on the brink of destruction when a human woman calls to him like nothing else. Body, mind, soul - there is no one stronger than the Brion general, one of the most feared men in the universe. And despite knowing better, she wanted him too. The most powerful man in the universe wanted her. But she didn't even get to step foot on her shuttle when everything was turned upside down. Curvy and confident, she set out on her first intergalactic mission as a scientist from Earth, studying alien species. It can and should be read as a standalone and has a guaranteed HEA ending! Grab it now for 99 Cents for a limited time! Isolde Fenner had big dreams, but surprisingly enough, the universe was even bigger. This is a 100 k full scifi romance novel featuring a BBW human heroine and a growly alpha male Brion warrior general. Nothing could have prepared her for the general. The way I approach most of my stories is by setting myself a challenge and then see what happens. No, I think I could carry on for a while, as she and her world are a fairly broad canvas. The whole Nextian world is so broad and expansive that it would be possible to take just a small part of it and expand it into a book, so it is entirely possible and even likely I could write Thursday books that have no Thursday in them - which I've sort of done here. So here we are again - another Thursday book. Hello Jasper, and thanks for agreeing to talk to me for the 2011 'Special Features' section for One of Our Thursdays is Missing, and answer questions that you get to write yourself. Of course, if you watch the features first on a DVD, this might well be for you. You may want to read the book first to avoid any potential spoilers, like you do on a DVD. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Dr seuss happy birthday bookKeep watching my blog for more kids books!! And if you have a birthday today, wish you a very happy birthday to you from all of us!! And if not, consider it as an advanced or a belated birthday wishes □ĭo check out reviews of more of Dr Seuss books here. However, for us adults, it is cool read it for yourself for the book will make you smile. But then perhaps, I got it before time, before my 3 year old could appreciate the different rhymes. It is not for the kids who have read too many Dr. Seuss! At least, that is what the book claims. The ultimate birthday gift for ages one to 101-from the one and only Dr. There is no one alive who is you-er than you!” “Today you are you! That is truer than true! Seuss in his first all-color picture book, Happy Birthday to You! Fly with the Great Birthday Bird in this fantastical commemoration of YOU! And make the most of your special day, which only comes once a year! Bigger than New Year’s, the Fourth of July, and Halloween all rolled into one, birthdays are for celebrating with Dr. |