![]() ![]() Someone helped her sit up, hands brisk, strong. She covered her mouth with her shaking hand, tried to filter out some of the smoke and dust in the air as she breathed. Her throat and lungs burned with thirst, with the smoke, and she coughed until she almost retched. Light was in her eyes, and it took her a moment to realize that she was on a dirt floor, that there was fire all around her, fire in a circle perhaps twenty feet across, a ring of coals and tinder that smoldered and smoked. Her skin had soaked with sweat, and her clothes clung to her, likewise damp. Wake up," and slapped her at measured intervals until Isana curled away from the blows, rolling to get her hands and knees beneath her, and to lift her head. ![]() That same voice continued, just as before, "Wake up. Isana let out a surprised sound and lifted her arms in an effort to protect her face. ![]() Wake up." Someone slapped her face, sudden and sharp. Isana heard a woman's voice say, "Wake up. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Serena Jane’s beauty proves to be her greatest blessing and her biggest curse, for it makes her the obsession of classmate Bob Bob Morgan, the youngest in a line of Robert Morgans who have been doctors in Aberdeen for generations. When he, too, relinquished his increasingly tenuous grip on life, Truly and Serena Jane are separated–Serena Jane to live a life of privilege as the future May Queen and Truly to live on the outskirts of town on the farm of the town sadsack, the subject of constant abuse and humiliation at the hands of her peers. The girl who proved to be Truly paid the price of her enormity her father blamed her for her mother’s death in childbirth, and was totally ill equipped to raise either this giant child or her polar opposite sister Serena Jane, the epitome of femine perfection. When Truly Plaice’s mother was pregnant, the town of Aberdeen joined together in betting how recordbreakingly huge the baby boy would ultimately be. ![]() ![]() Henry Winkler at First Parish Church (11/2).Andrew Leland at Harvard Book Store (7/27). ![]() Shastri Akella at Harvard Book Store (7/24).Colson Whitehead at Memorial Church (7/19).Ann Beattie at Harvard Book Store (7/18).Nicole Flattery at Harvard Book Store (7/14).Adrienne Brodeur at the Brattle Theatre (7/12).Kate Storey at Harvard Book Store (7/7).Leah Elson at Harvard Book Store (6/29).Artem Mozgovoy at Harvard Book Store (6/28). ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() As Robert Irwin says in the introduction to the Dedalus edition of The Golem: We have the Castle which is not Kafka's Castle, the Trial which is not Kafka's Trial, and a Prague which is not Kafka's Prague HP Lovecraft was more succinct, calling The Golem 'the most magnificent weird thing I've come across in aeons'. Meyrink was, of course, a contemporary of Kafka, and his novels have a lot in common with Prague's better-known fantasist. ![]() All have been published in English by Dedalus Books since the mid-1980s, and Mike Mitchell's excellent 1995 translations are definitely worth seeking out. Meyrink went on to write several more books, including The Green Face, Walpurgisnacht, the White Dominican and The Angel of the West Window. 'The Golem had a magnificent reception, and the collected volume published in 1915 sold 200,000 copies. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is not a review of the Hollow City novel, rather a book-talk about the graphic novel as I had read Hollow City as a novel almost two years ago. This is the graphic novel of the second book in Ransom Riggs’ Miss Peregrine’s series, illustrated by the amazingly talented Cassandra Jean. Cassandra Jean's evocative visuals once again work seamlessly with Hollow City's vintage photographs and Ransom Rigg's twisting fantasy narrative to make for a wholly immersive reading experience for fans of the original novels, fans graphic novels, and fans of reading great stories alike! ![]() ![]() But no matter where they go, trouble lurks after them. I’m not truly sure what it is about her art – could be it was the fact that she was the first art of the Shadowhunters I saw and thus the first to bring my favourite characters to life – but I am absolutely in love with it! Blub:Īfter fleeing an army of terrible monsters, Jacob Portman and his peculiar friends find themselves lost at sea, but the only person who might be able to get them ashore safely, their illustrious headmistress Miss Peregrine, is stuck in the form of a bird! Hoping to find a way to get Miss Peregrine back to normal-or as normal as a peculiar can get-the children journey to London. Both series have been illustrated by the wonderfully talented Cassandra Jean. ![]() Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and anything Shadowhunters (as you may know), are two of my favourite series. ![]() ![]() Dark Archives exhumes their origins and brings to life the doctors, murderers, and indigents whose lives are sewn together in this disquieting collection. ![]() Dozens of such books live on in the world's most famous libraries and museums. In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy-the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering. ![]() Would you know one if you held it in your hand? On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It isn't long before they all realize that Kelsey's the real prize. When she lets them in they feel like they've hit the apocalypse jackpot with all the food, shelter and security they could want. Linc, Oliver, Grayson and Devin have been on the run from the dead and are at the end of their rope when a horde chases them straight into Kelsey's fences. Until three sweet, sexy men and one hot a**hole climbs her fence looking for sanctuary. Alone for over a year and mentally broken with high anxiety, she pushes through every day trying to find the will to keep going. Kelsey survived the start of the apocalypse and thrived in the new world with help from her friends but now they're gone. ![]() Her first RH series is Time After Time - a time travel paranormal romance with vampires and wolf shifters.Ĥ13 - Days since I've spoken to another living humanĤ - Men who have climbed my fence looking for safety Her first RH novel - Dying to Love is a post apocalypse standalone full of humor, sexy steam and the occasional zombie. She would live there full time if not for the Canadian deepfreeze that is winter. Her happiest place on earth is at her camper in the forest where like Snow White, she attracts all the critters - mosquitoes instead of birds and skunks instead of bunnies. She is addicted to coffee, inappropriate memes, dark humor and happy ever afters. Overview: Reese Rivers is a RH romance author who lives in Alberta, Canada. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ben genuinely believes that the past is behind them – that they deserve to enjoy the life they have created. It takes a certain kind of courage to live as if favoured by the Gods, ignoring the ever-present ghosts of your past – or perhaps not bravery, but arrogance. Yeah? Well, Nikolas doesn’t do early mornings. “Learn to love death’s ink-black shadow as much as you love the light of dawn.” As if Nikolas would stay at home in disgrace while Ben Rider-Mikkelsen becomes the target of a crazed stalker…. It’s fortunate for Ben, therefore, that dissonance is a state of unrest, a longing for completion. But on receiving a death threat, Ben suspects the truth of actor Oliver Whitestone’s suicide. Eleven thousand miles from Nikolas, in New Zealand, it’s bitter winter as Ben films the tragic story of a post-apocalyptic gladiator, a victim of his own personal darkness. A deep rift, a terrible lie, separates them. It’s either a brave or a stupid person who threatens anything Nikolas Mikkelsen loves.īen usually overlooks Nikolas’ occasionally jarring dissonance. ![]() The Bruise-Black Sky and Death’s Ink-Black Shadow may be downloaded from Audible via Amazon ![]() ![]() THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SIGNORA GIULIA is a fascinating book - immersed as it is in the place from which it comes, it gives the reader a feeling of being in somewhere completely different, despite it being translated for accessibility. ![]() Coming from a small village as they all do, there is however, much gossip about her taciturn, older lawyer husband about her marriage and the possibility that she had a much younger lover. No body is found, nor are there sightings of her that lead to more than new questions. For much of this time it seems that the Signora has simply vanished into thin air. When Signora Giulia goes missing, police detective Sciancalepre follows the investigation with dogged determination over a number of years. ![]() Wonderfully evocative, THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SIGNORA GIULIA imparts much information about the society in which it is set in a short, but beautifully balanced novel. ![]() ![]() As millions of America’s youth are radicalizing and looking to understand the country’s real history, A People’s History remains popular. Published in 1980, A People’s History has sold over two million copies and still plays a role in exposing new generations to the atrocious crimes of the American ruling class over the last three centuries. Above all, he took it upon himself to fight against the idea that only “great men” make history and instead explained history from the “bottom-up”-that is, from the perspective of the exploited and oppressed. ![]() The son of two Jewish immigrant factory workers, Zinn dedicated himself to popularizing the many episodes in American history that have been distorted or ignored by mainstream bourgeois intellectuals. ![]() Few books have received as much attention on the American left as Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. ![]() |