6/10/2023 0 Comments Marion meade eleanor of aquitaine“Thank you for your beautiful work, beloved colleague,” wrote author Honor Moore on Twitter.Īnd journalist Chris McCormack tweeted, “sad to hear. Her other biographies included Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase, The Unruly Life of Woody Allen, and Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney, which a reviewer for Kirkus called “a funny, informed, daringly constructed literary biography.”Īdmirers of Meade paid tribute to her on social media. In 1988, she published Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?, which rekindled interest in the poet and humorist. She followed that up four years later with Eleanor of Aquitaine, a biography of the 12th-century queen of France and England. She worked as a journalist for years before making her literary debut in 1973 with Bitching, which examined how women really felt about male sexism. Meade, a Pittsburgh native, was educated at Northwestern University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Marion Meade, the author known for her biographies of Buster Keaton, Dorothy Parker, and Woody Allen, died last month at 88, the New York Times reports.
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Scott kylie stage diveI barely got to like Jill before the whole thing was over, nevermind rooting for Adam. Adam and Jill are completely new characters with their own history that isn’t shown in the four-chapter snapshot. In the other novellas, we were introduced to the characters in the main series, but not in this one. I am in the latter group, having read the Stage Dive series and many of Scott’s other novels. The point of 1001 novellas is for new readers to get a taste and return readers to get some extras from a favorite author. Give me a chance to catch my breath and I’d be… “ It had to be this situation - the concert, the limousine, the security. “As beautiful and talented as he might be, it was hard to be unsettled by someone who constantly forgot to put the toilet seat down. The story is about a friend of the band, Adam Dillon, and his ex-girlfriend Jill Schwartz who tracks him down a year after the breakup pissed off about an unwanted check received in the mail. Love Song is a 1001 Dark Nights novella from Kylie Scott and ties into her Stage Dive series which focused on the band’s rock and rollin’ members. 6/9/2023 0 Comments Outlander authorYou have a lot of Sassenachs and Fans in TN!" Your Outlander was the topic of many long nights in ICU. I wanted to come this year to NYC but couldn’t. Rhonda responded: "Thank you for your kind thoughts and wishes. Gabaldon was clearly affected by the statement and she responded: "I'm so sorry all this happened to you both! Glad if Outlander could provide a little respite for you-and I hope you're both feeling Much Better!" READ MORE: Diana Gabaldon confirms 'real inspiration' behind Outlander series Thank you for the company and a happy place to relax in your books". I found many nurses outlander fans as well. Your Outlander books kept me company as I watched over him at night in ICU. The fan, called Rhonda Potter, told the writer: "Diana my husband just had a massive heart attack and open heart surgery and we both had Covid. The fan contacted Gabaldon on Twitter to tell her about her husband who had suffered a heart attack. The American author passed on her best wishes to the pair who had endured a health scare. Diana Gabaldon has been touched by the story of a fan who said her Outlander books helped her when she and her husband were going through some tough times. If you are still pining for Ajax Penumbra, the lovable curmudgeon of a bookstore owner introduced in Mr. ― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A. I am repulsed by ghostwritten novels by reality television stars, celebrity picture books, sports memoirs, movie tie-in editions, novelty items, and - I imagine this goes without saying - vampires. I do not like anything over four hundred pages or under one hundred fifty pages. I do not like children’s books, especially ones with orphans, and I prefer not to clutter my shelves with young adult. Literary should be literary, and genre should be genre, and crossbreeding rarely results in anything satisfying. I do not like genre mash-ups a la the literary detective novel or the literary fantasy. I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts, pictures where they shouldn’t be-basically gimmicks of any kind. I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. 6/9/2023 0 Comments Borne by jeff vandermeerDead Astronauts has already received wide-spread critical acclaim, including making Esquire’s list of the best books of the year. Clarke Award, and has been named an NEA Big Read. A national bestseller, Borne was praised as one of the “Best Books of 2017,” was a finalist for the Arthur C. The Borne books are published by MCD at Farrar Straus and Giroux. “The Borne Universe is a totally unique piece of IP and Jeff has created a vivid postapocalyptic world with enormous opportunity for a visual medium like television,” said Ben Davis, executive vice president of programming for AMC Studios. “I’ve had such productive, energizing, and creative conversations with the wonderful folks involved and look forward to the road ahead.” “I’m so excited about this partnership and working with AMC on the Borne universe,” VanderMeer said. 'Diligence' Drama From Sheldon Turner & Jennifer Klein In Works At AMC Jeff VanderMeer Courtesy of Jeff Vandermeer Details beyond just a trope, like a specific occupation or uncommon type of scene.An acceptable book request includes at least one of the following: Low-effort book requests will be removed. 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Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with informative links about Book Clubs, AMAs, etc. Home of the magic search button and endless book recommendations as well as discussions about tropes and characters, Author AMAs, book clubs, and more. R/RomanceBooks is a discussion sub for readers of romance novels. I really felt like those chapters could have been fleshed out just a little bit more. Once I reached the end (or the beginning…) I had to re-read the first few chapters again. That story in itself is enough to draw the reader in. Asking the questions about how do you deal with friends as they change, they move, and they get a boyfriend or a girlfriend. You could in fact, just focus on the unraveling of the friendship. However the more that I reflect on the book the more I think about it not just as a story about the events, but a story of a friendship and how it changed. (A student who picked up the book off my desk last period did the same thing.) The nature of starting at the end of the story and wanting to find out what happens has quite a feverish effect. I read anxiously not putting the book down until the end. What was the event that started all of this. Being left desperately wanting to know what had happened. Initially what left me buzzing about this novel was the build up to the climax. It starts at the end of the story and then moves backwards to the event that starts it all. Karakaltsas on Book Review: Tomorrow, and Tom…īook Review: While t… on Book review: When the Sky…Ģ022 Wrap up –… on Book Review: Tomorrow, and Tom…Įverything is Changed Written by Nova Weetman 6/8/2023 0 Comments Lamentation by Joe CliffordNow, Jay has to try and find his brother before the wrong people do, while also trying to keep himself from ending up in the crosshairs in the process. Right before he went missing Chris was going on about having come across some very sensitive information, information that people are apparently willing to do anything, even commit murder, to keep from seeing the light of day. Things take an ominous turn, however, when Chris disappears shortly after Jay bails him out of jail, yet again. Jay knows his brother is an anchor on his life-his loyalty to Chris even cost Jay his relationship with his girlfriend and two-year-old son-but blood ties run deep and Jay can’t find it in his heart to cut Chris completely loose no matter how bad he screws up. Now, Jay spends his days working dead-end, manual labor jobs just trying to keep his head above water, all while chasing and cleaning up after Chris. Unfortunately, Chris also became a junkie, a thief and a liar. A decade older, Chris became Jay’s guardian after their parents were killed. Such is the state Jay Porter finds himself in.Įver since his parents were killed in a car accident one winter twenty years ago when their car’s brakes failed, sending them off a bridge into an icy lake, Jay has been stuck in a holding pattern, his life failing to flourish.Ī large reason Jay’s stuck in neutral is because of his brother, Chris. It’s hard for someday to come when you live life spinning your wheels stuck somewhere between the past and the present. Only someday never comes, does it? - Jay Porter 6/8/2023 0 Comments The trespasser bookAislinn Murray is blond, pretty, groomed to a shine, and dead in her catalogue-perfect living room, next to a table set for a romantic dinner. Antoinette is savagely tough, but she’s getting close to the breaking point.Their new case looks like yet another by-the-numbers lovers’ quarrel gone bad. The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment. Her partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems glad she’s there. “Atmospheric and unputdownable.” - PeopleĪn Amazon Best Book of the YearIn bestselling Tana French’s newest “tour de force” ( The New York Times), being on the Murder squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be. She “inspires cultic devotion in readers ” ( The New Yorker) and is “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” ( Washington Post). New York Times bestselling author Tana French is “required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting” ( The New York Times). 6/7/2023 0 Comments Code Talker by Ivon BlumThrough his morphine induced wanderings, Talking Boy recalls the sing-song words of the old stories of generations of his family who struggled against the U.S. In a letter in his mind, he asks his sweetheart, Penny Joe, "how come I change flags so easily." Their inspired correspondence as the story progresses grows them from friends into lovers. As a child in government schools, he and his Navajo friends were severely punished for speaking their native tongue now so desperately needed as an unbreakable code in the war against the Japanese. Pain drives his urgent need to discover why Vargas, his own bodyguard, wants to kill him amid the raging battle. Talking Boy lies wounded and alone as the marines fight to take Mt. His story is juxtaposed with the tragic struggle of the Navajo People and his own ancestors for survival at the hands of the U.S. marine and a Navajo Indian code talker-radioman at the battle of Iwo Jima during WWII. It is the story of Talking Boy Gorman, a U.S. Across between "The Sands of Iwo Jima" and "Cheyenne Autumn," Code Talker is a noble exploration into the human need to survive and belong. |