5/30/2023 0 Comments Grimspace by Ann AguirreThat’s the setup, but there’s waaay more going on than that, because this is Grimspace. A group of rogue fighters frees her…for a price: her help in overthrowing the established order. Then a crash landing kills everyone on board, leaving Jax in a jail cell with no memory of the crash. Let’s start with a short descriptive blurb I swiped from Amazon to set the stage:Īs the carrier of a rare gene, Sirantha Jax has the ability to jump ships through grimspace-a talent which makes her a highly prized navigator for the Corp. That she’s put herself on my must-buy-author list? Absolutely in indelible ink.īecause I want you to have a true feel for Aguirre’s unique sci-fi novel, we’re including a few outtakes from Grimspace this week and next. That Aguirre turns conventions upsidedowninsideout, making it impossible to predict what’s coming next? Uh, yeah. That it’s got nonstop kick-glute action? Because it does. What can I say about Ann Aguirre’s Grimspace? That I loved it? Because I did.
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5/30/2023 0 Comments The bridge kingdom series orderAround her, she sees a kingdom fighting for survival, and in Aren, a man fiercely protective of his people. So when she is sent as a bride under the guise of fulfilling a treaty of peace, Lara is prepared to do whatever it takes to fracture the defenses of the impenetrable Bridge Kingdom.īut as she infiltrates her new home – a lush paradise surrounded by tempest seas – and comes to know her new husband, Aren, Lara begins to question where the true evil resides. The only route through a storm-ravaged world, the Bridge Kingdom controls all trade and travel between lands, allowing its ruler to enrich himself and deprive his enemies, including Lara’s homeland. A princess trained from childhood to be a lethal spy, Lara knows that the Bridge Kingdom represents both legendary evil – and legendary promise. Lara has only one thought for her husband on their wedding day: I will bring your kingdom to its knees. What if you fell in love with the one person you’d sworn to destroy? Categories: Fantasy, Adult Fiction, Romance, Enemies to Lovers 5/30/2023 0 Comments Darlah 172 hours on the moonYou'll be with people you know and love, and you'all appreciate how beautiful everything is. You'll stand by the ocean and feel the salty sea spray tingling in your nose. In four days you'll be the happiest person Earth has ever seen. Creepy and bleak, Harstad's story is both psychologically and atmospherically disturbing. Johan Harstad, 172 Hours on the Moon 1 likes Like But I promise you, you guys can do it. Harstad effectively builds tension by moving among the perspectives of adults and teens on the Moon and on Earth readers don't get to know the characters terribly well, which only adds to the book's icy remove. Unfortu nately, their hopes and dreams mean little when inexplicable, terrifying things start happening shortly after their arrival at the long-disused DARLAH 2 base, and the trip turns into a desperate struggle for survival. French Antoine, Japanese Midori, and Norwegian Mia are the three winners of a globe-spanning lottery, each with his or her own reasons for wanting to travel to the Moon. A mysterious signal on the Moon prompts humanity to return there in 2019 to address unfinished business, though the true goal of the mission is obscured by a massive publicity stunt: taking three teenagers along with the regular crew. Norwegian author Harstad makes his YA debut with this chilling combination of science fiction and horror, which won that country's Brage Award when it was first released there in 2008. Darlah - 172 timer på månen/172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad. 5/30/2023 0 Comments Alone Time by Stephanie RosenbloomAlone Time is an extremely heart-warming and intimate account of how important it is to savour solitude from time to time, and it will make you want to start your own solitary journey. Rosenbloom includes scientific insights on the relationship between hapiness and solitude from experts such as psychologists and sociologists and discusses topics like the joys of going to a restaurant alone, learning to delight in the mundanest of activities, (re)discovering places and interests, and finding silent spaces in busy metropoles. The locations - Paris, Istanbul, Florence, New York - are all "walkable", turning the solitary traveller into a flaneur. The reader follows Rosenbloom through four cities, the last of which being the author's home, and experiences the sounds, smells and sights of these places through the lens of the solitary traveller.Īlone Time consists of four sections, each set in a different city, a different season. In her travelogue journalist Rosenbloom considers how being alone as a traveller helps us become genuinely aware of the beautiful details of the world. However, there is scientific evidence that solitude can be both rewarding and soul centreing, especially when we are travelling. Review: Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities and the Pleasures of Solitude by Stephanie Rosenbloom (Viking Books)Īs our daily lives are growing increasingly hectic, a lot of people are deeply afraid of being alone. 5/30/2023 0 Comments Lagoon nnedi okorafor analysisThe hashtag focuses on celebrating the beauty, influence, and strength of Black women and girls. Using world-ecological and energy humanities theories, I will then demonstrate that numerous other contemporary depictions of life and labour at the fish and oil frontiers, across the Global North and South, articulate how systemic contradiction materializes as environmental violence, focusing on works by Irish author Mike McCormack, Canadian author Lisa Moore, and Nigerian author Nnedi Okorafor.ĬaShawn Thompson's hashtag, #BlackGirlMagic, has transformed into a movement over the past five years. In this article, I will demonstrate how O'Domhnaill naturalizes this mobilization and ‘cheapening’ through a vocabulary of rightful ownership and human-centric dominance. In his next major production, Atlantic (2016), a comparative documentary of fishing and fossil-fuel industries in Ireland, Newfoundland, and Norway, O'Domhnaill retreats from the possible anti-systematicity of the Rossport struggle, taking a reformist, nationalist attitude to the question of oil and fish extraction. Irish director Risteard O'Domhnaill's 2010 film, The Pipe, documents the battle of a small Mayo community against the Corrib gas pipeline project, following a number of local residents in their eight-year struggle against state-sponsored and corporate violence. 5/30/2023 0 Comments A world of curiosities pennyBut the head of homicide soon realizes there's more in that room than meets the eye. As the bricks are removed, Gamache, Beauvoir and the villagers discover a world of curiosities. When the room is found, the villagers decide to open it up. Every word of the 160-year-old letter is filled with dread. In it the man describes his terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. Did their mother's murder hurt them beyond repair? Have those terrible wounds, buried for decades, festered and are now about to erupt? As Chief Inspector Gamache works to uncover answers, his alarm grows when a letter written by a long dead stone mason is discovered. But to what end? Gamache and Beauvoir's memories of that tragic case, the one that first brought them together, come rushing back. Now they've arrived in the village of Three Pines. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators' lives after many years. As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But not everything buried should come alive again. It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. 5/30/2023 0 Comments Malibu rising and seven husbandsTaylor Jenkins Reid Books in Order of Release Date Her novel Daisy Jones & The Six was a Goodreads Choice Awards winner for Historical Fiction in 2019. She’s also a screenwriter, and has been involved in adapting some of her books into movies and TV shows. She published her first book in 2013, and has gone on to write breakout hits such as The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a New York Times bestselling fiction author. See my full disclosure policy here. Thanks for your support! Who is Taylor Jenkins Reid? If a purchase is made through an affiliate link, I may receive a commission at no cost to you. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. **Please note, some links on this page are affiliate links. 5/30/2023 0 Comments Sherry turkle's alone togetherThe kids she asks about having a robot babysitter agree that a robot would generally be more efficient and make fewer mistakes. Turkle goes on to explore the advancing technology of robotics with My Real Baby, a doll able to perform many of the same actions of a human baby. Turkle interviews many children who bond with these toys as they would with another person. The Tamagotchi (digital pets a user must care for as if they are real pets), Furby (small robotic toys programmed to speak their own language at first and more and more English over time, giving the appearance of learning), and AIBO (a robotic dog) of the 1990s are a step beyond ELIZA because they make demands of the user, presenting themselves as ready for a relationship. It acts mostly as a Rorschach that people use to express themselves. In the 1970s, Turkle meets ELIZA, a computer program that “engaged in dialogue in the style of a psychotherapist” (22). The Pacers (should) loom after extending Myles Turner, the perfect front-line partner for Collins. They apparently don't even need a first-round pick to strike a deal just a quality player.īoth the Clippers and Jazz can rather effortlessly meet those demands. Sources told The Athletic's Sam Amick the Hawks have dropped their asking price for Collins as a result. The balance on his contract (three years, $78.5 million) must also factor into the calculus for a team that just extended De'Andre Hunter, already paid Trae Young and needs to start thinking about new deals for Bogdan Bogdanović (player option), Dejounte Murray (2024 free agent who won't sign an extension) and Onyeka Okongwu (extension-eligible this summer). The Atlanta Hawks are playing better since their four-game losing streak- top-seven offense over their last 15 tilts-but he remains an awkward, currently marginalized fit who needs to hit more of his threes. This isn't necessarily one of those times.Ĭollins has been on the trade block for, in my estimation, six to 12 eternities. Clippers, Utah Jazz or not at all.įorcecasting a non-move is almost always the safest bet. Prediction: John Collins gets dealt to the Indiana Pacers, L.A. 5/30/2023 0 Comments The bridge kingdomI did start writing the novel that way, but very quickly I realized that I couldn’t create a redemption arc that would allow readers to forgive Lara for the selfish/unprovoked murder of eleven of her sisters. Concept Lara was a level up on the ruthlessness scale from Published Lara. I had this chapter sitting in my head for YEARS before I sat down to write this novel and the version you’ve all read is identical to that vision with one rather large exception: in my vision, Lara actually killed her sisters. Not only is it exciting and shocking, it clearly establishes the conflict and the stakes, as well as gives readers a great taste of Lara’s character. The Bridge Kingdom has my favorite first chapter of all my novels.
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