![]() ![]() ![]() I wanted to scream and shout about it, but of course they already know. This is one of those books that you know most people in the book/YA community have read, and you’re late to the party BUT you read it and you still feel like you’ve discovered treasure. His books are everything you want from and author…and more? YES now that I’ve read the first of the Chaos Walking series, I can safely say that Patrick Ness is all the things listed and much more besides! His writing is clever, engaging, addictive, well-written, imaginative yet still easy to read. He fast became one of my favourite YA authors. This want got even stronger once I started reading other Patrick Ness books. They find that in a town where privacy is impossible, something terrible has been hidden - a secret so awful that Todd and Manchee must run for their lives.īut how do you escape when your pursuers can hear your every thought?Įver since I heard about the Chaos Walking series I have wanted to read it. Just a month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd and his dog, Manchee - whose thoughts Todd can hear too, whether he wants to or not - stumble upon an area of complete silence. ![]() Everyone can hear everyone else’s thoughts in an overwhelming, never-ending stream of Noise. “The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don’t got nothing much to say.” Genre: Young adult, Fantasy, Dystopia/Sci-fi ![]()
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![]() Throughout, Rhodes comes to realize how much America’s fingerprints are on a world we helped to shape: through the excesses of our post-Cold War embrace of unbridled capitalism, post-9/11 nationalism and militarism, mania for technology and social media, and the racism that shaped the backlash to the Obama presidency. Along the way, a Russian opposition leader he spends time with is poisoned, the Hong Kong protesters he comes to know see their movement snuffed out, and America itself reaches the precipice of losing democracy before giving itself a second chance.Įqual parts memoir and reporting, After the Fall is a hugely ambitious and essential work of discovery. Over the next three years, he traveled to dozens of countries, meeting with politicians, activists, and dissidents confronting the same nationalism and authoritarianism that was tearing America apart. To understand what was happening in America, Rhodes decided to look outward. In 2017, as Ben Rhodes was helping Barack Obama begin his next chapter, the legacy they worked to build for eight years was being taken apart. Why is democracy so threatened in America and around the world? And what can we do about it? A former White House aide and close confidante to President Barack Obama - and New York Times bestselling author of The World as It Is - travels the globe in a deeply personal, beautifully observed quest for answers. ![]() ![]() Their desperation is further complicated because an attraction between them simmers. Julia faces an undesirable marriage and Jasper needs Julia’s dowry. ![]() Julia and Jasper are desperate for different reasons. My Thoughts:ĭo you love an independent woman who takes a risk to determine her own life? While riding her horse, she “happens” to meet Captain Jasper Blunt, a notorious military hero. Julia dislikes the older gentleman her parents have selected as suitable. Julia is beautiful, socially awkward, loves reading and horses, and has a sizeable dowry, Her medically fragile parents desire to make a match for her but they are controlling and want her to live near them because she is their primary caregiver. ***As part of the Blog Tour, enter a fabulous giveaway on Mimi’s blog here.*** Welcome to my stop on the Blog Tour for The Belle of Belgrave Square by Thank you #NetGalley #AustenProsePR for a complimentary e ARC of #TheBelleOfBelgraveSquare upon my request. ![]() My Summary of The Belle of Belgrave Square: *This post contains Amazon affiliate links. ![]() Genre/Categories/Setting: Historical Romance Fiction, Victorian Romance, Women’s Fiction, Family Drama, England The Belle of Belgrave Square is a page-turning Victorian Romance with Beauty and the Beast vibes. The Belle of Belgrave Square by Mimi Matthews ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() No one who wanders there now, after the sun has set, ever comes back alive. Strange presences in Jerusalem's Lot, a town abandoned for generations-and with good reason. In the ominous, frightening world of Stephen King there are things unimagined, almost unspeakable, working the Night Shift. if the time of night is propitious and the forces of darkness are strong, and the victims are caught just slightly off guard. But in Stephen King's world and place can serve as devil's ground. The settings are familiar and unsuspected-a high school, a factory, a truck stop, a laundry, a field of Nebraska corn. where noises in the walls and shadows by the bed are always signs of something dreadful on the prowl. ![]() Stephen King, a modern master of the macabre, has brought together nineteen of his most unsettling short pieces-bizarre tales of dark doings and unthinkable acts from the twilight regions where horror and madness take on eerie, unearthly forms. Night Shift: The Deluxe Special Edition (Volume Four in the "Doubleday Years" Collection) by Stephen King Featuring two pieces of full-color artwork by Mark Stutzman and TWENTY black and white interior illustrations by Chris Odgers About the Book: This new book of stories from the author of Carrie, The Shining, and 'Salem's Lot is a chilling collection of strange imaginings, ghoulish twists, and diabolical terror. ![]() Glenn Chadbourne, Mark Stutzman, Chros Odgers (illustrator). ![]() ![]() Here are his fav 19: 1), The Adventure of the Speckled Band (1892), 2), The Red-Headed League (1891), 3.) The Adventure of the Dancing Men (1903), 4.) The Final Problem (1893), 5), A Scandal in Bohemia (1891), 6), The Adventure of the Empty House (1903), 7), The 5 Orange Pips m(1891), 8,)The Adventure of the Second Stain (1904), 9), The Adventure of The Devil's Foot (1910), 10), The Adventure of the Priory School (1904), 11), Tjhe Musgrave Ritual (1893), 12), The Reigate Squires (1893), 13) Silver Blaze (1892), 14), The Adventure of the Bruce Partington Plans (1908), 15), The Crooked Man (1893)16), The Man With The Twisted Lip (1891), 17) The Greek Interpreter (1893), 18), The Resident Patient (1893), 19) The Naval Treaty (1893. ![]() Sometimes I'll add a little backstory when I can find one. I'll bring a new ACD favorite every other week starting this week. I decided to offer these to save you the trouble of going back to the archives. I went back in my archives and saw that a few needed some touching up or total do-overs. Afterwards, when asked which were his favorites- he listed 12, then later listed another 7. Arthur Conan Doyle (ACD) write 56 Sherlock Ho0lmes adventures. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Previously published in the respective language / territory rights available again: Basque rights (Elkarlanean), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Estonia (Tänapäev) ![]() ![]() USA & Canada (Henry Holt audiobook rights: Blackstone Audio Illustrated hardcover edition: Folio Society), UK & Commonwealth (Penguin Books), Spain (Hardcover: Edhasa), Spanish world rights (Paperback: Alianza), Latin America (Trade edition: Sudamericana), Catalan rights (Trade edition: Sureda pocketbook edition: Edicions 62), Russia (AST), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Editora Record), Portuguese rights (Dom Quixote), France (Calmann-Levy Facsimile edition: Saints Peres), Italy (Mondadori), Denmark (Gyldendal), Sweden (Bonniers), Finland (Söderström), Vietnam (Nha Nam), Poland (Media Rodzina), Czech Republic (Argo), Slovak Republic (Petrus), Hungary (Helikon), Bulgaria (Storyside), Romania (RAO), Latvia (Sia Jumava), Lithuania (Alma Littera digital audiobook rights: Audioteka), Croatia (Zagrebacka Naklada), Serbia (Narodna Knjiga), Bosnia (Hercegovina Izdavaštvo), Turkey (Yapi Kredi), Greece (Minoas), North Macedonia (Tri), Albania / Kosovo (Dukagjini), Montenegro (Narodna Knjiga), Ukraine (Folio), Georgia (Sulakauri), Armenia (Antares), India (Malayalam: Megha Books), Israel (Schocken), Esperanto (Eldonejo Tata) ![]() ![]() ![]() The mission jumped off its tracks from virtually the moment it began when one unexpected event after another unfolded across Stuart's path. ![]() Richard Ewell's marching infantry corps and report on enemy activity. Lee's discretionary orders to advance into Maryland and Pennsylvania, where he was to screen Lt. Instead of finding glory and victory, Stuart reaped stinging criticism and substantial blame for one of the Confederacy's most stunning and unexpected battlefield defeats. Harnesses jingled and hooves pounded as Confederate cavalryman James Ewell Brown Stuart leads his three brigades of troopers on a ride that triggers one of the Civil War's most bitter controversies. ![]() June 1863, and the Gettysburg Campaign is in its opening hours. ![]() SummaryĪ short, irresistible, and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of “Stranger Things” and “Stand by Me” about a group of misfit kids who spend an unforgettable summer investigating local ghost stories and urban legends. Finally I relented and picked it up and was hooked from the first chapter. The days went on and I kept looking at it on my shelf and couldn’t stop thinking that this might be a quick read and that it was simply calling my name. ![]() When the book arrived on my desk for review I looked at it and it was pretty short with fairly direct writing style and I thought about it a little bit but then casually set it aside. I was eager to do a feature and giveaway for it because I know that a lot of my readers are into the show Stranger Things and this book was recommended for fans of the show.īut I wasn’t sure that this was going to be a book that I could fit into my summer reading. ![]() This was a book that I almost passed on for my review calendar. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Like, holy shit this is relentless in its bleakness bleak. But I had forgotten how bleak the first volume is. I remembered how much I enjoyed the series overall. Since I’ve had a good time re-reading graphic series that I’ve loved, I thought that I would make my next re-read “Locke and Key”. I eventually tore through the whole series, with my husband giving me the complete set as my graduation present in 2015. I didn’t know that much about it outside of the fact that I loved Joe Hill, and I checked out Volume 1, “Welcome to Lovecraft” from the library with very little to go off of. Review: Back when I was still in graduate school, I decided to look into Joe Hill’s comic series “Locke and Key”. Home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all… 1): Welcome to Lovecraft” by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez (Ill.).īook Description: Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them. ![]() ![]() ![]() We are Twitter friends, that modern phenomenon, a connection spurred by our shared feminism. I have never met Eltahawy, although we overlapped as foreign correspondents in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. This book, she says, is born of concern that even as political space opens in the Arab countries experiencing revolutions and upheaval, the freedoms of women are not only not expanding but in fact may shrink.Īs I read along into Headscarves and Hymens, I realized I wanted it to be a good book. ![]() ![]() You may remember her as the woman who suddenly seemed to be everywhere at the start of the Egyptian revolution, explaining the country to Western media. She grew up in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and London, and carries the mark of all three. Eltahawy is an Egyptian writer and journalist who now divides her time between Cairo and New York. ![]() |