![]() ![]() Read moreīlackout by Marc Elsberg is a recommended novel about the power grid going out across Europe. I think if a book keeps you entertained for that long, definitely a good buy!Thanks to Sourcebooks Landmark for approving my request and to Net Galley for providing me with a free e-galley in exchange for an honest, unbiased review. It was definitely worth my 8 or 9 hours it took to read it. He's shot, put in prison, chased and never given a moments rest.This book was so full of action and I was certainly entertained and very glad that I believed the hype and requested this book. This poor man is running, he's not safe anywhere. And, the terrorists are not happy that he is figuring things out. Of course, the governments think he is part of the scheme and are after him. Truly, eye opening.Then you have the action, and I do mean action - a lot of it, of the governments and one ex-hacker who thinks like the terrorists and starts to figure things out. Food supplies, toilet backups due to sewers drying out, meat supplies short for years because of all the deaths of the livestock, and nuclear plants overheating causing widespread damage that will be a factor for decades. The shortage of things that you wouldn't even think about happens. The author provides you a first hand look at what that actually means. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Thirty Agatha books followed, as did television and radio adaptations. As she said in 2017: “I wanted someone you didn’t like but you might want to win out in the end.” Agatha, intolerant, gin-swilling and gloriously non-PC, is a former public relations executive turned amateur detective, solving crimes in a picturesque Cotswold village, and makes her debut in the wonderfully titled Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death. She saw her 1992 creation Agatha Raisin as an antihero in the Becky Sharp mould. Her attitude to the television series was ambivalent, and at a crime-writing festival in Reading in 2010 Chesney Gibbons told a shocked but amused audience in no uncertain terms that Carlyle had been miscast – as he was a Lowland Scot whereas Macbeth was a Highlander. ![]() ![]() While this idea will immediately make most feminists (like myself) gag, quite a bit of what Vilar presents meshes with most feminism, and Vilar has identified herself as a feminist. The basic gist of her thesis is that women are parasites, manipulating men into doing the work for them, so they can live free of worry in domestic wastefulness. To her credit, Vilar is a clear, articulate writer, good at conveying her points and only a chore to read when she hammers at them too much. In the intro written 35 years after its first publication, Vilar calls the book “a pamphlet,” which I find an accurate description for a thin polemic that often verges on extended rant. ![]() But the book seems to have developed a small following within the men’s movement and the darker recesses of what is often called the “manosphere.” Over time, like so many books popular in their own age, the notoriety has dwindled. Vilar appeared on TV programs like the Tonight Show and drew the ire of feminists like Alice Schwarzer. ![]() Originally published in 1971, during the height of the Women’s Movement, this book was actually quite popular and controversial in its day. ![]() ![]() ![]() The revolutionary invention of the wheel.OOPArts Found in Coal and Stone: Is There an Explanation for These Anomalous Bells, Chains, Walls and More?.Without being able to further explore the site and inspect the imprint at close hand, we are left with only the photographs as evidence of their existence (there was more than one imprint) and the word of a group of Ukrainian miners. Kasatkin, who brought news of the find to light. ![]() Kruzhilin and shared with the mine foreman S. Thankfully, photographs of the unusual imprint were taken by the Deputy Chief V.V. Whilst drilling the coal coking stratum named J3 ‘Sukhodolsky’ at a depth of 900 meters (2952.76 feet) from the surface, workers were surprised to find what appears to be the imprint of a wheel above them in the sandstone roof of the tunnel that they had just excavated. The following article is extracted from The Myth Of Man by J.P. As it could not be safely or successfully cut out due to the nature of the sandstone in which it was embedded, the mysterious artifact looking much like an ancient wheel remains in situ down the mine. In 2008, a curious find was discovered down a coal mine in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. ![]() ![]() I’m a very visual person and I had a huge bulletin board full of pictures of various places and architecture. Where did you draw the inspirations from? The Kiss of Deception is set mainly in the summer festivities in a small village, and everything feels very fascinating, from the log wrestling to the Festival of Deliverance. They main point of it, really, was so the reader would give them both careful consideration, and not sum them up by their titles or outward appearance. I made slips along the way, but revision took care of that. Likewise, in the “Assassin” and “Prince” chapters, I made sure they didn’t talk about recent interactions with Lia that might exclude the other from being present. It was tricky! I had to be careful in the “Rafe” and “Kaden” chapters, that they only spoke of their immediate interactions in Terravin, and not their other lives. How do you balance between dropping enough hints such that the reveals would make sense, and making it suspenseful? ![]() And that meant my voice was always last to be heard, which perhaps made me more of an observer and listener? Priming for a life as a writer? In the Kiss of Deception, we don’t know who Rafe and Kaden are supposed to be until much later. Nope! Second daughter and last of the brood. ![]() ![]() A post shared by Mary E Pearson jump into the books. ![]() ![]() The message may seem obvious to some, but that will not deter young horse lovers and beginning readers of fantasy, who will be absorbed by the details of equistrian care, the magic of the animal's transformation, and the excitement of the late-night rides. In so doing, she frees herself to grow up. This time she promises herself to let it go when it is grown. ![]() Too late she realizes she has not heeded the storekeeper's warning "Never say that any creature on this earth is yours." She withdraws into herself again-until Bella returns, bringing her injured foal for Irina to nurse. One cold winter night, the animal leaves the child to run through the hills with a herd of wild horses. ![]() She is happier than she has ever been, especially when her Bella takes her on thrilling midnight rides. As the wooden horse gradually comes to life, Irina blossoms. ![]() The proprietor, sensing her need for it, gives Bella to her, and tells her about a live Bella, a beautiful, once-wild horse that used to belong to a local farmer who mistreated her. Irina sees the old rocking horse in a junkstore window and decides she must have it. Grade 3-6-In this fast-paced fantasy, a neglected wooden horse is changed back into the beautiful mare it once was, through the loving care of a shy, lonely, preadolescent girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() I feel there were many themes throughout ‘The Humans’ which were also throughout ‘The Midnight Library’. Having fell utterly in love with ‘The Midnight Library’ which I focused on in my first post, I was super excited to see what ‘The Humans’ had in store and I was not disappointed. I liked the relationship between our protagonist and Newton which gave him a more human feel, it’s good to know even aliens adore dogs. The humour used was down to earth and relatable and any human would find themselves at least smiling at the pages.Īs I read on, I found the story had more depth than I originally expected I was not only reading a funny book about an alien coming to earth but a novel about fitting in, unconditional love, mental health, mortality and power of knowledge. ![]() ![]() At the beginning of the book I was happily reading away chuckling at the comical words of Matt Haig or in this case our unnamed Vonnadorian alien narrator, known to most now as professor Andrew Martin. This book! I mean this book was surprising, in a good way. ![]() ![]() Alex panics when he thinks he’s blown his chance with his special person. He knows he’s sending Dana mixed messages. What he craves is a family of his own until a life-altering surprise rocks his world. But when the after-hours smooching goes nowhere, she wonders why this grown man won’t make up his mind.Īlex Bethany’s new lifestyle gives him the confidence to try online dating. ![]() Time for the BFF advice squad, starting with Dana’s staunchest ally, Alex-hunky colleague, quipster, and cooking pal extraordinaire. When a tyrant in stilettos replaces her beloved boss, and her ex snags her coveted job, teacher Dana Narvana discovers there are worse things than getting dumped on Facebook. Thanks to Debbie Taylor for her cover and the team at The Wild Rose Press for all their hard work! Too soon for links, but I’m looking for ARC readers, so please keep in touch. Read the blurb and click this link to read an excerpt. ![]() I’m sharing more of Eat Your Heart Out’s details on my blog. Two foodies, Dana and Alex, banter, sauté and tiptoe around each other. ![]() I’m so thrilled to show off my new cover for Eat Your Heart Out, the second book in the series, Starting Over. ![]() I’m happy to reveal Shirley Goldberg’s new release… ![]() ![]() ![]() You can’t just walk away from it and expect it to linger until you’re ready for it.” ~ Colleen Hoover (Quote from November 9 book). You grab it with both hands and you do everything in your power not to let it go. They aren’t achieved when you hide out in a place where you’re nice and cozy.” ~ Colleen Hoover (Quote from November 9 book). “Goals are achieved through discomfort and hard work. “Eye roll” ~ Colleen Hoover (Quote from November 9 book). “Did you just say sigh? out loud? instead of actually sighing? ![]() All the things that matter.” ~ Colleen Hoover (Quote from November 9 book). ![]() “A body is simply a package for the true gifts inside. She’s the kind of girl you fight to the death for.” ~ Colleen Hoover (Quote from November 9 book). “She’s not the kind of girl you choose your battles for. “Because who wants an incredibly written book sitting on their bookshelf if they have to stare at a shitty cover?” ~ Colleen Hoover (Quote from November 9 book). Human decency doesn’t.” ~ Colleen Hoover (Quote from November 9 book). ![]() “I’ve never loved someone I hate so much, and I’ve never hated someone I love so much.” ~ Colleen Hoover (Quote from November 9 book). ![]() ![]() ![]() For the residents of one apartment building in Madison Square, however, New York in the year 2140 is. As the sea levels rose, every street became a canal. Instead, the novel might be situated alongside cross-disciplinary texts by Naomi Klein, David Harvey, and Bill Mc Kibben that Robinson calls “utopian nonfiction. New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson returns with a bold and brilliant vision of New York City in the next century. ![]() In doing so, however, it draws heavily on allegory, and this not only recalls the problems that allegory has posed to previous critical treatments of the historical novel but also suggests why New York 2140 is an outlier in near future fiction. Robinson’s text shows that this scalar challenge is of particular importance to the contemporary moment and reconfigures how some of its major coordinates - the economy, the environment, the body, and narrative itself - cross the gap between micro and macro. New York 2140 also proves innovative in its treatment of the relationship between individual and general, particular and universal, which has always been central to critical and creative treatments of the historical novel. By imbricating present and future, New York 2140 resembles not so much science fiction, the genre commonly associated with the future, as the historical novel, inheriting from its nineteenth-century exemplars and moving beyond its postmodern incarnations. This essay explores Kim Stanley Robinson’s fiction of the near future, New York 2140 (2017) and how its treatment of time and history relates to its generic identity. ![]() |