![]() ![]() Having left behind her family and her career, Hel, like so many others, is having a difficult time adjusting to her new world, where many Universally Displaced Persons (UDPs) are seen as unwelcome immigrants who are required to attend Reintegration Education classes. Upon his arrival in his new world, Vikram came to discover that the novel was never written where he now made his home, and Sleight had died as a child in a boating accident when a child.Įvents really start with Helen Nash (Hel) a surgeon from the other timeline who is now living with Vikram. ![]() Chess Tin House Books 978-1-94779-324-8 324pp/$24.95/March 2019Įzra Sleight was the author of several successful novels, perhaps most notably The Pyronauts, a book with intense meaning to Vikram Bhatnagar, who included a copy of the book among the few possessions he took with him when he fled his world as a refugee through a transdimensional gate in K. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He isn't ready to trust Theron with his heart again - but remembering why is getting harder and harder.Ī god's scheming places a fellow exile in their path, Theron's shield-brother Coridan. Forgiving Theron grows easier for Andreas with every step they take. Once slated for execution at Theron's hand, Andreas finds it hard to trust the man who betrayed him. Nor are the cities safe for strangers wearing the red cloaks of the Spartan military. ![]() ![]() The road to Delphi runs through treacherous wilderness, filled with vengeful warriors, greedy bandits, and savage creatures. They've sworn oaths to Apollo now their future lies in the god's sacred city. Spartan fighter Theron has done the unthinkable - he's disobeyed orders and fled Sparta. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Bad Feminist, her highly anticipated collection of more than three-dozen essays (some appeared in The Rumpus, Salon and Jezebel, among other publications), Gay casts a critical eye on entertainment and culture, particularly the consumption of television, news, movies, sports, literature and comedy. And on Tumblr, woven within step-by-step instructions for recipes of her favorite dishes, she ruminates on self-worth. She founded and co-edits PANK, a literary journal. To her 18,000 followers on Twitter, she tweets about episodes of The Barefoot Contessa, poker games with men, or her latest bout with insomnia. Flavorwire recently named Gay one of the Internet’s most influential writers. Roxane Gay’s writings capture the zeitgeist.Īn Untamed State, her chilling debut novel of a woman kidnapped and held 13 days for ransom, garnered praise from coast to coast after its release last May. ![]() ![]() ![]() Steadfastly devout in her faith, and retaining the deep belief that her soul is innately tarnished as a branded "Cursed woman of Eve", Delilah is determined to find her way home to her people in The Order and away from the corrupt and damned outlaw motorcycle club - The Hades Hangmen - who hold her at their secluded compound for her protection - a 'protection' she strongly resents.ĭelilah yearns to return home, convinced that only amongst her own people, and under the holy guidance of the Lord's revealed prophet, can her Satan-spawned soul be truly saved. Only love can set you free.Ī few long weeks after being reluctantly ripped from the comforting embrace of her sacred prophet's religious commune - the only life she has ever known - a terrified Delilah is thrust into a world enveloped by evil and swimming in sin. Even salvation can be delivered through the love of the damned. ![]() ![]() ![]() From a nineteenth-century cemetery in Liverpool to the pine forests of Gothenburg, Hewitt plumbs the darkness in search of solace and hope.Īll Down Darkness Wide is an unflinching meditation on the burden of living in a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds, and a tender portrayal of what it's like to be caught in the undertow of a loved one's suffering. Wrestling with this, Seán Hewitt delves deep into his own history, enlisting the ghosts of queer figures and poets before him. But as Elias struggles with severe depression, the couple comes face-to-face with crisis. ![]() When Seán meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a fearless exploration of queer identity and trauma. ![]() ![]() They literally were a modern day Mr and Mrs Smith. This book is a lot darker than the first one in my opinion so definitely check the trigger warnings before reading, but I definitely recommend this book and this series Kally Ash has done a fantastic job and I honestly can’t wait for the next book in the series to come out!! I honestly loved their chemistry from the beginning their chemistry had me hooked, it’s instant attraction and lust but slow burn for the spicy action to take place.īut oh my god the spicy scenes in this book □□□ Hotter, sexier and a lot more kinks! This book had me blushing, the degradation kink got me good □□□□□□ The first one was great but this one HOLY FUCKING SHIT it just got so much better!! I loved this book!įorbidden Irish mafia clan members younger sister and jealous over the top anti-hero whose dark and is very over protective □□□įallon and Orin both have dark pasta that have shaped them into who they are now. ![]() ![]() I received an ARC of this book but this is my honest review and opinion. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning. It is only when we appreciate such fundamental realities that we can hope to create cities that are safe, interesting and economically viable, as well as places that people want to live in. The real vitality of cities, argues Jacobs, lies in their diversity, architectural variety, teeming street life and human scale. ![]() Yet they seldom stop to look at what actually works on the ground. The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs - Google Books The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Social. Inspired by the ideals of the Garden City or Le Corbusier's Radiant City, they have dreamt up ambitious projects based on self-contained neighbourhoods, super-blocks, rigid 'scientific' plans and endless acres of grass. Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsympathetic to cities have been let loose on our urban environment. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written. In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Our beliefs aren't constructed solely on logic. But when I try to explain what Haidt proves in the book, I'm left repeating bland platitudes: You must find common ground in order to bridge political gaps. With remarkable clarity, he explains why we believe what we believe. Haidt digs deep into theories of division and supposition and morality. Just about everyone loved the book.īut the thing is, The Righteous Mind is an incredibly difficult book to discuss. One book club member even said that she felt if she had read The Righteous Mind before the election, she'd probably have been able to predict that Trump would win. ![]() It's strange: Most everyone at the Reading Through It Book Club last night agreed that Jonathan Haidt's book The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics and Religion was the most useful book we've read so far in our quest to understand the presidency of Donald Trump. ![]() ![]() The creation of those worlds requires a whole lot of scientific knowledge: how light is changed when traveling through stained glass, how certain fabrics react to a tight grip, how a cloud of dust particles or a column of fire behaves on a sunny day or in a rainstorm, the trajectory of an arrow that is shot from a bow and the way it splinters when it hits a rock. ![]() ![]() There’s a very high level of graphic realism: although the characters usually still look and behave somewhat cartoonish, their clothes, their hair, the objects they handle and their surroundings are often indistinguishable from the real thing. Keeping in mind the technical and stylistic development of animated features in the last few decades, the level of sophistication presented in the last year is incredible. ![]() It could be argued that 2010 was the first year in which family-oriented CG animation surpassed real-life movies. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With his brother in jail, it is up to Matt to go to Mexico to have the bodies of his family released and then plan the funeral. ![]() Matt Pine just pulled at my heart strings. The Mexican authorities have closed the case as accidental, but the FBI are not convinced it was an accident. And now 21 year old Matt Pine has been told that the rest of his family (his mother, father, 17 year old sister and 6 year old brother) have died from an apparent gas leak in their rental cottage while on vacation in Tulum, Mexico. He has recently been denied an appeal, even though a true crime documentary called “A Violent Nature” has shed doubt on his confession and guilt. Seven years ago, 18 year old Danny Pine was convicted of killing his girlfriend Charlotte and is currently serving a life sentence. I was intrigued by the synopsis of both of these books, and I am happy to say they did not disappoint.Īlex Finlay’s Every Last Fear is a suspenseful and heartbreaking story that follows the fate of the Pine Family. This week brings Alex Finlay’s Every Last Fear and Peter Swanson’s Every Vow You Break. Hello, it’s Sharon and I am back with Thriller Thursday. ![]() |