6/29/2023 0 Comments Scavenger hunt by christopher pike![]() Molly Kinney, North Dade Regional Library, Miami, FLĬopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. ![]() This quick read will appeal to teens seeking some distractions from the ordinary, and to those who are interested in the creepy, gory, gruesome, bizarre, and macabre genre. A skillfully woven ending clears up any questions about the characters. Scant characterization at the beginning is so well done that readers will be compelled to keep reading to find out more. Parts of the book are very suspenseful, while others give readers a chance to catch their breath. The plot and mood move along consistently, drawing readers in and sustaining an uneasy feeling throughout. As the hunt progresses, it takes a freakish turn with an horrific ending that leaves readers shaken but hopeful. His team includes an old friend, his best friend's girl, her handicapped brother, and three newcomers to the town. Trying to achieve some normalcy in his life, he is drawn into the school scavenger hunt. ![]() Carl Timmons, a high-school senior in a small California town, is troubled by the accidental death of his best friend. ![]() Once again Pike gives readers a roller-coaster ride. ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Illegal by José Ángel N.![]() ![]() After two years of study, he passed the high school equivalency exam on his third attempt. A switch to evening work as a restaurant dishwasher enabled him to attend General Education Development (GED) classes during the day. But to qualify for a better job, he decided that he must learn English. After stealthily crossing the border and finding his way to relatives in Chicago, he was soon able to land a factory job. José left Mexico as a teenager for one simple reason: he anticipated earning five to ten times more money in the U.S. ![]() The author of this eventful memoir recounts his triumphs and setbacks during nearly two decades of living “amid the shadows” as an undocumented Mexican immigrant in Chicago. Reviewer: Richard Allinson | January 2015 ![]() Publisher: Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2014. Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The female persuasion novel![]() ![]() Zee stands by Greer's side and suggests that they make a public stance, which they do by making t-shirts. ![]() Greer gets a glimpse of what her purpose should be after being sexually harassed at a frat party one night and later finds out that other women on campus have been too by the same guy. ![]() Instead of finding her own, she piggybacks off the life calling of her token friend, Zee. Somehow though, she will manage to drag out the emotional damage these two obstacles caused her until the end.ĭuring her time at University, Greer is trying to find her calling. ![]() Between not being able to go to the college of her choice and her parents being stoners, these are the only obstacles in life, and in this entire novel, she will have to overcome. In the beginning, we find Greer reeling with resentment towards her parents because she had to go to a state school she was offered a full-ride to versus going to Yale, which her parents could not afford, partly since they filled out her financial aid papers wrong. The biggest issue I found with the story is the main character Greer, who is hugely unlikable. The Female Persuasionby Meg Wolitzer is one of these books that have been a New York Times bestseller, and so fittingly is the first book that I am reviewing that I did not enjoy reading. More often than not, I find books that are 'hyped' by mainstream media to be disappointing. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Doors of stone book![]() I’m a pretty big fan of both Martin and Rothfuss, but I’m not sure ramping up the pressure will help either author finish a book quicker. In posts on Facebook that have since been deleted, she wrote that she had had enough, because “when authors don’t produce, it basically fucks their publishers”, and speculated that Rothfuss hadn’t “written anything for six years”. This time round, the impatience appears to have spread to Rothfuss’s editor Betsy Wollheim. Calls to lock him up have already (jokingly, I think) begun. If he didn’t, he told fans they had permission to imprison him “in a small cabin on White Island, overlooking that lake of sulfuric acid”. ![]() Today, 29 July 2020, also happens to be the deadline that Martin gave himself last year to finish the sixth book, The Winds of Winter. In 2009, Neil Gaiman informed a fan that “writers and artists aren’t machines” and George RR Martin was “not your bitch” for having spent years writing the fifth Game of Thrones book, A Dance with Dragons (which wouldn’t be published for another two). ![]() ![]() Fan entitlement, particularly around fantasy authors, is nothing new. ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s living at her father’s sprawling estate, complete with bodyguards and the best security that money can buy.Ģ. ![]() ![]() It’s a no-brainer.Īfter this, three things become clear for Bailey:ġ. He’s an associate of her father’s, and he gives Bailey two choices-go with him and meet her father or survive on her own because those kidnappers are going to try again. She learns all this when she meets dark, mysterious, and electrifying Kashton Colello. She finds out her father is actually billionaire tech genius Peter Francis, the same guy she’s idolized all her life. Then, things happen-a guy breaks into her house in the middle of the night to take her hostage. The Insiders is the first in a brand new, page-turning romance trilogy from New York Times bestseller, Tijan!īailey is as normal as could be, with a genius IQ and a photographic memory. ![]() ![]() Given all of this - which can be proven by any prolonged exposure to Facebook fantasy groups - when I come to read and subsequently review Brandon Sanderson books, I am faced with a challenge: Not a challenge of being truthful or not, but simply one of seeking to expose any bias I myself may bring to my reading so as to be able to provide as valuable a review as possible. ![]() Conversely, those who love his work are seemingly predisposed to ignore any and all flaws some may point out, vociferously defending Sanderson in the same way I may defend the authority of Holy Scripture. Those who dislike his work do not merely dislike it, they go out of their way to attack any who do like it and warn off all those yet to experience it. ![]() ![]() A societal misunderstanding considering the value of ones’ opinion underlies a fundamental inability to understand the difference between subjective opinion and objective criticism. In the 21st Century world of fantasy literature, no author has proven to be more polarising than Brandon Sanderson, for whom all objectivity seems to disappear for his fans and detractors. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Heart of Obsidian by Nalini Singh![]() ![]() That is exactly where the story here begins. Well, finally here is his story that not only takes us into his inner most self, but also answers quite a few unanswered questions that the readers had about Kaleb.Īt the end of Kiss of Snow, we see that Kaleb finally finds the person he had been searching for so long. And as I mentioned several times I was craving for his story. While Sahara had never surfaced again, Kaleb had been growing ever since. In the second book, Visions of Heat, Sahara Kyriakus was briefly mentioned, while we had met Kaleb Krychek for the first time. Nalini switches her focus on to the Psy and the war that is brewing with this plot. In continuing with the series that intrigued when I picked it's spin-off, Psy-Changeling Trinity Series, here is my take on the twelfth book in the parent series. The series shows the readers to the downfall of Psy, their drawbacks, why all three races are needed for survival of each other, and above all finding mates across races thus disintegrating the walls further. ![]() Psy-Changeling series focuses on three races living side-by-side on Earth - The icy Psy who rule the world but are facing the fall of Silence the Changelings of varied kind with natural mental barriers to fight the mind invasion by Psy and the Humans considered the weaker of the three but have decided to level the playing field. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Cold War by Keira Andrews![]() ![]() ![]() And Dev isn’t quite sure how his parents will react to the reality that he is not just gay in theory, but actually has a real partner. Misha also worries about how coming out would affect his family and his partner, Kisa, who still live in Russia where anti-gay sentiment is so rampant. Misha and Dev worry about how being gay would affect their professional skating careers, and both men are pairs skaters and have partners to think about as well. ![]() They are still not ready to come out, however. They somehow managed to keep their affair a secret while they were competing, but have spent the time since retiring living together in a quiet beach house. Misha Reznikov and Dev Avira have both retired from competitive figure skating after winning Olympic gold and a world title respectively. You can check out our review of the original first story, Cold War, here. The two books were then combined into one long story, originally called The Winning Edge, but now re-released as Cold War. Note: This book was originally published as a single story, as a follow up to Cold War. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle ![]() Unorthodox is harrowing, yet triumphant.” Remarkable and fascinating, this “sensitive and memorable coming-of-age story” ( Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) is one you won’t be able to put down. Trapped as a teenager in a sexually and emotionally dysfunctional marriage to a man she barely knew, the tension between Deborah’s desires and her responsibilities as a good Satmar girl grew more explosive until she gave birth at nineteen and realized that, regardless of the obstacles, she would have to forge a path-for herself and her son-to happiness and freedom. ![]() Yet in spite of her repressive upbringing, Deborah grew into an independent-minded young woman whose stolen moments reading about the empowered literary characters of Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott helped her to imagine an alternative way of life among the skyscrapers of Manhattan. Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel and Carolyn Jessop’s Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.Īs a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism, Deborah Feldman grew up under a code of relentlessly enforced customs governing everything from what she could wear and to whom she could speak to what she was allowed to read. ![]() ![]() Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Read The Brownings’ Fascinating Love Story ![]() Against her father’s strenuous wishes, they eloped to Italy and were married in Sept 1846. He began corresponding with Elizabeth Barrett in Jan 1845 after reading a book of her poems. ![]() His first published poem, ‘Pauline’ appeared anonymously in 1833 and attracted little attention and he developed his prose style mainly through writing for the stage. Robert Browning was the son of a clerk in the Bank of England, and was raised in Camberwell in South East London. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats,īrown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats,įrom street to street he piped advancing, “One? fifty thousand!”-was the exclamationĪnd ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered,Īnd the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling Īnd out of the houses the rats came tumbling. “Come in!”?the Mayor cried, looking bigger:Īnd, “Please your honours,” said he, “I’m able, “Bless us,” cried the Mayor, “what’s that?” Or, sure as fate, we’ll send you packing!” Rouse up, Sirs! Give your brains a racking “‘Tis clear,” cried they, “our Mayor’s a noddy They fought the dogs, and killed the cats,Īnd licked the soup from the cook’s own ladles, ![]() Reading by Kathleen Danson: English Lyric Poetry ![]() |