The chocolate war book5/22/2023 ![]() According to his “Guardian” obituary, Cormier was surprised when his agent told him The Chocolate War was a book for teenagers, but the agent had a point – adults are probably too impressionable to be allowed access to this sort of thing.įirst published in the year Nixon resigned – although a few hippie street people are the only explicitly topical reference - The Chocolate War is about the competitive pressure to meet sales targets, with corruption extending all the way to the top. I think it disturbed me more deeply than William Golding's Lord of the Flies, which I must have first read around the same time. ![]() Nor does the book slow down much after that. How often do three words do that much work? The first sentence, “They murdered him,” is meant figuratively in the context of the opening scene, an American football try-out, but is simultaneously a close-to-literal plot synopsis. I still don't know if Catholic schools on the East Coast are actually like this. I was a pre-teen then, and I'd never been to America, so the whole American context of the book was strange to me. ![]() This book blew me away when I first read it in the late 1970s. ![]()
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Bid the Gods Arise by Robert Mullin5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() This is a really good book, a Christian fantasy novel with no preaching. Separated and sent to very different fates, they meet again at last and join with a company of others on a quest which involves both Aric’s true destiny and his greatest temptation. ![]() The story involves two young men, Aric and Maurin, who are kidnapped from their home planet by interstellar slave merchants. A genuinely original work, it combines fantasy with interstellar travel far more successfully than you imagine it could. It’s not uncommon for me to receive manuscripts from people who’d like me to read and comment on them. Once read, it lingers in the mind like a dream. ![]() It’s a big story, spanning planets, but with a specific human heart. My friend Robert Mullin sent me a manuscript of his novel Bid the Gods Arise a while back, and I read it and provided the following blurb:īid the Gods Arise possesses the music of epic and the color of myth. ![]() The believers novel5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico’s little sister. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico’s funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. 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Imagine what life would be like if lived, in May Sarton’s lovely phrase, with “joy instead of will.” That is what Beethoven imagined, and invited humanity to imagine, two centuries ago in the choral finale of his ninth and final symphony, known as “Ode to Joy” - an epochal hymn of the possible, half a lifetime in the making. ![]() Moon Called by Patricia Briggs5/21/2023 ![]() Wolfsbane (2010) also in Shifter's Wolfįor the complete Timeline for the "Mercyverse" Mercy Thompson series.The third book, Iron Kissed, was a number one New York Times bestseller and subsequent novels have continued to perform similarly in sales. The second book in the series, Blood Bound, hit The New York Times Best Seller list. Briggs wrote Moon Called, which was published in 2006 and made it to the USA Today bestseller lists. She wrote primarily in the fantasy genre until her editor asked her to write an urban fantasy, since the genre was showing promising growth. She now resides in Benton City, WA īriggs began writing in 1990 and published her first novel Masques in 1993. Patricia Briggs was born in 1965 in Butte, Montana, United States. ![]() Patricia Briggs (born 1965) is an American writer of fantasy since 1993, and author of the Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series. ![]() Lawless tm frazier5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() His name was Bear and for 7 years she kept that ring on a chain around her neck never believing she would ever use it. Sweet, innocent 17 year old Thia held a promise ring given to her by a handsome Biker when she was just 10 years old and the promise was that if ever she needed a favor in the future then she should come and find him. At the start of this book he was drowning himself in blow, booze and willing babes because he was a broken, tortured and violated man now just waiting for death to knock on the door but instead his phone rang. Bear was fully aware that he'd just become a dead man walking because that's the only way you left the BB MC. This book follows on from King and Tyrant which is where I first met and fell for Bear who is a sexy badass Alpha Biker belonging to his Father's Beach Bastards MC but decisions were made and he chose to walk away from his Father, the Brotherhood and the Club. ![]() Fires by Raymond Carver5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ‘At that moment I felt – I knew – that the life I was in was vastly different from the lives of the writers I most admired. ![]() Just as he is about to do so a woman comes to the dryer, feels the clothes – and inserts two more coins. By the ‘law of the laundromat’ he can dump the clothes within thirty seconds if no one shows up. Carver’s wife is working as a waitress and, with five or six loads of family wash to do before collecting his kids from a party, Carver plants himself in front of a dryer just coming to a halt. ‘Fires’, the title essay, has a marvellous description of fear and loathing in a laundromat in Iowa City. ![]() It is the professorship that goes on the dust-jackets and not the many jobs, which are mentioned dismissively, in passing, in one of the essays in Fires. One can tell Carver is genuine because he makes nothing of it. Most writers would give a right arm for such authentic redneck credentials and one can be sure that most funky jobs listed on blurbs were only held for a couple of weeks during summer vacations. Raymond Carver is a typically American hero, a kind of literary Rocky – janitor, delivery man, sawmill operator, servicestation attendant, an uneducated alcoholic no-hoper who rises to Major Writer status and the Professorship of English at Syracuse University. ![]() The night circus5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() „Nighty Night Circus" is brought to you by Oscar-Nominee Heidi Wittlinger (2002, best animated short film) who puts a lot of passion and effort in constructing little sets made of paper and props and combining them with 2D illustration and animation. “Nighty Night Circus“ is the perfect App for a daily go-to-sleep ritual with cute animals, sweet lullaby music and great narration. "Nighty Night Circus" has a magical setting and a very special bedtime-atmosphere full of animations and color.Ĭhildren find themselves in a circus setting with 8 circus animals, which they can bring to bed by switching off the lights or blowing out candles.Įach circus animal performs several tricks and wants to show them off to the child before going to sleep. ![]() “Nighty Night Circus“ is the sequel to the most popular bedtime app of all time, Apple App of the Year 2012, “Nighty Night!“ More than 3 million parents bring their children to bed with “Nighty Night“. ![]() Branded as Trouble by Lorelei James5/20/2023 ![]() Or are they risking their friendship for a fling that could burn them both? Warning: this romp features nekkidness the cowboy way-sex with boots on and with boots off, dirty sex against a dirty pickup truck, bare-assed sex on a bear skin rug, graphic language, unfortunate aim with a nail gun, and improvisational use of whips and whipped cream. After an unexpected, steamy interlude, all India can think about is riding the sexy cowboy instead of her motorcycle, even when Colt is determined to show her a slower ride is worth the wait. Too bad she hasn't a clue that Colt's been head-over-bootheels in love with her from day one. Curbing his craving for booze and random sexual encounters is nothing compared to the ever-increasing craving for his hot-tempered, hot-bodied best friend, India. Reformed bad boy Colt never expected three years of sobriety to lead to three years of abstinence. ![]() ![]() She's clean and sober, dotes on her sister's kids and, best of all, spends most of her free time with her best buddy, cowboy Colt McKay. ![]() Despite the odd looks and off-color comments about her off-color hair, life is good. Rough Riders, Book 6 As a walking advertisement for the tattoo shop she's set up in a small Wyoming town, India Ellison is well acquainted with preconceived notions. It's hard to trust the future when you've been branded by the past. ![]() |