![]() ![]() ![]() So, without further ado, here are the five winners (in no particular order): “What’s the best OR worst thing about being immortal?” I definitely feel content with my final decision, and if you didn’t win this time, never fear! If I look into my crystal ball I see more giveaways in the future…Īnyhoo, the readers were asked to write in 25 words or less: As a result I spent the weekend judging and agonising over ‘the longlist’, then ‘the shortlist’, and finally, I whittled the list down (with much more agonising and second-guessing my choices) to the five winners who are each going to receive a copy of Hourglass. I was totally overwhelmed by the quantity and quality of the entries received for the Claudia Gray Hourglass giveaway. ![]() Review: The Vanishing Throne by Elizabeth May January 17, 2019.Flames by Robbie Arnott January 21, 2019.A Little Taste of Australiana – Picture Books to Whet Your Aussie Appetite January 23, 2019.Hadamar: The House of Shudders – Inspirational Beginnings by Jason K Foster August 21, 2019.Guest Review: Wilam: A Birrarung Story August 25, 2019. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He has deliberately written neither the default gay novel (polemical and operatic) nor the required Irish one (superstition, bigotry, whimsy.) ![]() Toibin's main business in the novel seems to be the denial of expectation. Two gay friends of Declan's are also in attendance. They are forced together in a crumbling old house (Chekhov, again) in Wexford in order to nurse Helen's brother, Declan, brought to his final days by Aids. In The Blackwater Lightship (shortlisted for the Booker Prize this week), three generations of women from the same family - Helen, a young married woman, her mother Lily and granny Dora - have come to a bruised truce after decades of dissent. In Ireland at the century's end - as in Russia at the century's beginning - tight rural communities try to ignore the shifts in the cities, and the past is haunted by the future. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jack ultimately sends Myers his poem, which is titled “Love That Dog. ![]() In addition to describing Myers’s voice and laugh as warm, friendly, and the best he’s ever heard, Jack is also thrilled when Myers reveals that he’d be honored if a student borrowed some of his words. Myers does, and the experience is extremely meaningful for Jack. ![]() However, with Miss Stretchberry’s encouragement (and her insistence that Myers is kind), Jack eventually works up the courage to write to the poet and invite him to visit Miss Stretchberry’s classroom. Miss Stretchberry reads his poem “Love That Boy” to her class, and Jack adores the poem because the father in the poem calls to his son the exact same way that Jack’s dad calls Jack: “ Hey there, son!” Jack likes the poem so much that he writes his own poem that borrows the language and form of “Love That Boy,” though when Jack discovers that Myers is still alive, he’s distraught-he fears Myers might be mad at him for copying. Walter Dean Myers (1937-2014) is a famous American author and Jack’s favorite poet. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Susan Calvin is a coldly logical, somewhat aloof “robot psychologist” in the employ of U.S. Unlike in most science fiction tales-especially at the time the book was published-the dominant human personality with whom readers are invited to identity is a woman. ![]() His primary source is Susan Calvin, whose “interviews” provide background information to further assist the reader in creating a linear progression through the stories. To further facilitate the linking together of the stories, Asimov creates a framing device in which an unnamed narrator creates the history of robotics. I, Robot is not a novel, but a series of loosely connected short stories predominantly unified by theme. Written by Timothy Sexton, Tajtajun Shaik, Harshini Joy We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() Aelin Galathynius has vowed to save her people but at a tremendous cost. There are explanations that occur in the Flesh and Fire series that can spoil the mystery of some aspects of Blood and Ash if read out of order, as well as explain moments when read in order. Maas 4.64 320,593 ratings31,560 reviews Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2018) An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. What is the reading order of the two series?īecause the Flesh and Fire series is a companion prequel and not a fully separate prequel from Blood and Ash the two series are meant to be read together in release order for the reader’s maximum enjoyment. ![]() This information will be updated as books are revealed.* *Note not all books have been released, however, we have titles for some and know the release order, so those have been included. ![]() The Blood and Ash World Books are as follows: Kingdom of Olives and Ash includes contributions from several of today’s most esteemed storytellers including: Colum McCann, Jacqueline Woodson, Colm Toibin, Geraldine Brooks, Dave Eggers, Hari Kunzru, Raja Shehadeh, Mario Vargas Llosa and Assaf Gavron, as well as from editors Chabon and Waldman. ![]() ![]() I don’t think you need to like poetry to fall in love with this book. ![]() ![]() Reading about women overcoming obstacles is always fantastic, but reading this, a book about a real woman who truly had to fight her demons to become herself, was inspiring beyond belief. This is the story of a woman coming to realize her power and abilities, despite what has happened. It is a heavy book for one so brief and filled with poems, but it’s incredible. This is a book of poetry that follows our author through multiple hurdles in quite early stages of her life, dealing with boys, relationships, and death. I picked up The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace not knowing what exactly was in store, but I’m glad I checked it out. ![]() But sometimes, I need a little dose of nonfiction a moment to live in someone else’s story. It’s my favorite genre, and is usually easiest for me to read, because escaping into books can be truly wonderful. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Omar is inspired by Said’s 1831 autobiography – one of his fourteen Arabic manuscripts, and the only known surviving account of American slavery written in Arabic. This collaboration between Rhiannon Giddens – a Grammy Award-winning musician and recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant – and Michael Abels – the acclaimed composer of the Oscar-nominated film Get Out – infuses the conventional Western orchestra with the sounds and melodies of Americana, Arabic, and West African folk music to create this radiant narrative of strength, resilience and conviction. Through the shifting darkness of memories and imagination, Omar invites us to bear witness to one man’s journey in remaining true to himself, his people, and his faith – against all odds. Making its New England premiere with Boston Lyric Opera, this record of Said’s remarkable life and Muslim faith reveals a refusal to be defined or erased by his captors. In 1807, 37-year-old Fula Islamic scholar Omar Ibn Said was captured and forced to leave his home in West Africa on a ship bound for Charleston, South Carolina, where he was sold into slavery. ![]() ![]() ![]() Vern wanted us to be reminded that our sin hurt our pastor in the same way it had hurt Jesus and God-likely more. Next to it was a portrait of Vern in imitation of Jesus, his own face woeful, smeared with what I assumed was fake blood and makeup, but it looked so real I didn’t know for sure. The light filtered orange through the stained glass and below it, on the wall, hung a portrait of Jesus with a bloody and beaten face, a reminder of the horrors He’d gone through. The ceiling was high with rafters surrounding it, and a single stained-glass window loomed behind the pulpit, featuring a pack of fearful flying cherubs. The pews were built by the hands of men when Vern’s father was a young pastor. There was a fine layer of God glitter permanently on it like a varnish for there was no need to sweep away a physical wonder of the spirit. In the center of the groaning floor the tired wood drooped and made the church a shallow bowl. By some impossible magic the whole Body fit here every Sunday. ![]() In the emptiness, the space seemed smaller. If God brought the heat we were meant to be hot. There had never been air-conditioning, never even a swamp cooler. The pad in my briefs felt heavy and I wanted it off. Photo: Uwa Scholz / EyeEm/Getty Images/EyeEmīy the time I arrived at Gifts of the Spirit, my mother’s dress was wet against my back. ![]() ![]() ![]() "This was a great, quick read with engaging stories. With so many different stories, the Trucker Ghost Stories collection moves beyond the usual haunted house to offer stories to entice any ghost story listener.and anyone who's ever wondered. ![]() and Las Vegas ghost trains and soldiers UFOs the prom girl ghost of Alabama a demon in Texas, and other accounts of the creepy, scary things that truckers and other drivers and passengers told to editor Annie Wilder. Here is a chupacabra attack on the desert highway between L.A. These first-hand accounts are as varied as the storytellers themselves-some are detailed and filled with the terror and suspense that made people feel they had to share what happened to them with others others are brief and straightforward retellings of truly chilling events. These are true stories from the highways and byways of America. ![]() Something suddenly appears: a flash of movement, a shadow.what was it? It could be, as the true stories in this book attest, a ghost. It may have happened to you it's happened to almost everyone who's ever driven down a highway at night, or in the fog, or snow. In Annie Wilder's uniquely entertaining book, there are uncanny true tales of haunted highways, weird encounters, and legends of the road. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the limited threads factually known of Henry’s third Queen Consort, Alison weaves an intriguing and plausible life story, rich with historical detail, strong character development, and exquisitely crafted scenes that at times are nothing short of gut-wrenching. ![]() A delightful literary weaving of the known, suspected, and can’t be known, Alison spins a fascinating, face-paced and entertaining story of the tragically short life of Henry’s most beloved wife and Queen.Īlison’s crafting of Jane Seymour is brilliant. In Alison’s third novel in her ‘Six Tudor Queens’ series, the brilliantly crafted ‘Haunted Queen’, Jane Seymour, comes to life as a surprisingly complex yet morally grounded woman, one adept at negotiating the serpent’s nest that defined Henry VIII’s court. ![]() She is passionately driven to bring the life stories of the wives of Henry VIII, as well as all those close to them, into the 21st century through both fact and fiction. ![]() |