I was thrilled when Dreamspinner Press agreed to publish them as e-books. Again Jonathan, the leading character, is so much like me: ingenuous, romantic, and wanting to please. I repeated the process with A Shooting Star, loosely based on my years as a theatre major in college. He wears his heart on his sleeve, and uses his intelligence and sense of humor to mask hidden pain. Harold, the leading character, is a great deal like me. The story is loosely based on my high school years and ten-year high school reunion. How did these two stories come about? After having been an actor (playing opposite stars like Nathan Lane, Rosie O’Donnell, and Bruce Willis), playwright, director, and college theatre professor, I decided to adapt my hit one-act play, An Infatuation, into a novella. As I wrote, I laughed out loud, felt romantic, and wept. The reviews for my An Infatuation and A Shooting Star really hit home for me, since when writing the novellas, I placed my heart (figuratively) on each page. If you can only afford to buy one book this year, buy this one!” Three Books Over the Rainbow “Grabs you and tugs at your emotions.” Nautical Star Books “Thanks Joe for putting your heart on the page for us to savor!” Bike Book Reviews
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Americans and Soviets enjoy peace, but without fully accepting each other's ways, and with each always struggling for technological superiority and the prestige that accompanies it. The story takes place in the mid to late 21st century: the Cold War has ended, yet the Soviet regime remains strong and proud. Therefore, he wrote Fantastic Voyage II as a new, separate story that shares only the central concept of miniaturized scientists entering a human body. Asimov was never quite happy with the original novel because although he was able to change some of the scientific details, it was not entirely his own work. Despite the title, Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain is not a sequel to Fantastic Voyage, which is a novelization that Asimov wrote from the 1966 film of the same name. Publication date Topics 2004, ( UK) ( USA) Miss Marple, Agatha Christie, Crime, Drama, Murder, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Based on Nove, l England, Wheelchair, Man in wheelchair, Seashore, Screen test, Restort hotel, Dead girl, Dance hall hostess, Pillow, Gun, Girl guide, Schoolgirl, Lesbian interest, Lesbian kiss, Widow, Widower, Father in law, Son in law, Daughter in law, Bomb, Fire, Burned out car, Swimwear, Fall, Adolescent, Boy, Fingernail polish, Fingernails bitten, Dead body, Library, Books, Detective, Amateur detective, Inspector, Police inspector, Dancing, 1940s, Foxtrot, Secret marriage, Last will and testament, AKA Marple, Locations: Eastbourne East Sussex and Dorney Court Dorney Buckinghamshire England UK, (Gossington Hall), plus in Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, USA, ( UK) ( USA) Publisher Production: Granada, WGBH, Agatha Christie (in association with. I don’t know if some people will think Nishat is being petty, but if so, I guess I am exactly that kind of petty because I was 100% on her side. Nishat is very stubborn and alienates a lot of people, but I couldn’t help but think she was… right. This is one of those books where I can see people saying they dislike the protagonist. What follows is an impossible-to-look-away-from competition that gets nastier and nastier before it ever resolves, raising questions of cultural appropriation and racism along the way. Her feelings become confused, however, when their teacher announces a business competition with a cash prize and Flávia decides to go with the same idea as Nishat: henna tattoos. Enter Flávia.įlávia is the beautiful biracial (black Brazilian and white Irish) girl that Nishat can't seem to get out of her mind. It feels like her sister, Priti, is the only one on her side. This tension at home is in addition to already feeling like a pariah at school, after the most popular girl in her year decided to spread racist rumours about her. Nishat is Bangladeshi, Muslim and gay she just came out to her parents and was met with an uncomfortable silence, so she is understandably heartbroken at their reaction. Jaigirdar sets her story in a Catholic Girls' High School in Dublin. I requested an arc of The Henna Wars on a whim, but soon found myself completely engrossed in this story about prejudice, culture, appropriation and romance. This was such a perfect blend of serious and sweet. When matters of the heart are involved, it's difficult to be careful. Published by Self-Published on July 28, 2022 This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received a complimentary copy of the book from the blog tour host in exchange for an honest review. But taking his hand may be my only escape from this hell. His stare made me itch while his eyes locked me under his spell. He preyed on my soul baring a closed iron fist. There once was a sicko who lurked in the mist. Only their obsession runs deeper than Ridge’s and I fear if I fall under their thumbs, I won’t make it out of here alive. His best friends-Maddox and Lev- have their eyes on me, too. Standing at the foot of my bed in awe of my existence. At night, he haunts my dreams and transforms them into nightmares. His eyes burn into my soul like a branding iron. But how can I safeguard the students when I can’t even protect myself?Someone has been watching me. Keep the members safe-that’s what I’m supposed to do. An escape from my parents who insist I follow in their footsteps as a Guardian of the Society. Genres: Dark Romance, New Adult and College RomanceĮnrolling at BCU was supposed to be my chance at freedom. Published by Self-Published on March 10, 2023 Treat the old spirits – and nature by proxy – with respect, the story intends to teach, or else. The stepmother is taken aback and sends her own daughter to the forest, expecting the same result, but is rewarded only with death. Her display of bravery impresses Frost, who sends her back home with gold and precious jewels. The forest is cold and silent, and yet the maiden doesn’t complain, even when the blue-eyed king appears and makes the weather even harsher. The people in Pyotr’s house – a Russian boyar – gather to hear old Dunya tell the tale of a maiden who is sent to the forest to marry the king of winter, Frost, because her jealous stepmother wants her to die. The book opens with a story being told at night. The novel, written by Katherine Arden, offers a touching tale packed with layered characters and discussions. It’s also a story about religion, depicting a battle over the imagination of the people, changing their beliefs and behavior. The Bear and the Nightingale is a fairy tale about a Russian girl that gets lost in the woods and meets an ancient, cruel bear. The narrator of the book, Joe Goldberg, is a handsome New Yorker bookworm, who appears to be the perfect man on the surface (Kepnes says she was writing her fantasy boyfriend who was also “a bit of a nightmare”). It’s a delightfully fast paced story of frustration, male ego and the disastrous lengths people go to in order to shield it. Kepnes wrote You in 2013, and the novel has since been praised by the likes of her writing heroes Stephen King and Lena Dunham. I was in a grocery store and heard three girls talking about the show – I dropped my pizza and ran out of there.” “There was a moment when I realised it had become A Thing. Based on her bestselling novel of the same name, the series was released on Boxing Day 2018 – a smart move by Netflix, says Kepnes, because then “it’s like a present” – and was gobbled up by millions of viewers worldwide. I can’t even picture 40 million people.” Caroline Kepnes is talking about the number of people who watched You on Netflix within the first month of its release. The beginning scenes seem so far away, now that I’ve read the whole book, but it all kicks off with a couple of dementors coming to attack Harry when Dudley is with him. I had no idea what this next book would bring, and it was a struggle to get into it at first, more to do with its size more than the story itself. We’ve just had the end of the Triwizard Tournament which led to Cedric being murdered, and the return of Voldemort. This is where everything gets serious in the Harry Potter series. But they are growing stronger by the day and Harry is running out of time… My review Harry must allow Professor Snape to teach him how to protect himself from Voldemort’s savage assaults on his mind. There are many who deny the Dark Lord’s return, but Harry is not alone: a secret order gathers at Grimmauld Place to fight against the Dark forces. After the Dementors’ attack on his cousin Dudley, Harry Potter knows that Voldemort will stop at nothing to find him. He wishes me to teach you how to close your mind to the Dark Lord.”ĭark times have come to Hogwarts. The Headmaster thinks it inadvisable for this to continue. “You are sharing the Dark Lord’s thoughts and emotions. Opening line: “The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive.” Published September 1st 2014 by Bloomsbury (first published June 21st 2003) The editor Gavin Jacobson has called the ’90s an “age without qualities,” which I think describes a pretty common feeling about the decade - that it’s just kind of floating there in our memory, a bit undefined. “The boilerplate portrait of the American nineties makes the whole era look like a low-risk grunge cartoon,” Klosterman writes in his introduction. But he also thinks the basic, hand-me-down cliché of the time is a pretty good shorthand. Throughout, Klosterman tries to resist reducing the time to neat narratives about globalization and neoliberalism, American empire and the rise of the culture wars, or to impose the perspective of the decades to come on the past. There is also a lot of other stuff - about the internet, Ross Perot, the Biosphere 2 project launched out of environmental anxiety. There is indeed a lot about Reality Bites, and Nirvana, and selling out in The Nineties. It was, he writes, “a remarkably easy time to be alive” - at least as it was experienced by someone like Klosterman, most known for his obsessive meditations on pop culture in books like Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and whose “experience across the nineties was comically in line with the media caricature of generation X.” In his new collection, The Nineties: A Book, the critic Chuck Klosterman works ground up from culture to build a sort of mood-board history of a decade that floats a little out of focus in the national memory: close enough to feel familiar, far away enough to feel weird. 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