6/12/2023 0 Comments Five on kirrin island again![]() ![]() 'Uncle Quentin -leads-rather an exciting life, really, doesn't he? I wouldn't mind being a scientist myself. The people here were most curious about it, but they don't know any more than I do! No -local man helped in the building, but one or two fishermen were hired to take the material to the island, and to land the men and soon.' 'It's all very mysterious,' said Julian. ![]() 'Oh, he made out the plans himself, and some men were sent down from the Ministry of Research to put the tower up for him,' said Aunt Fanny 'It was all rather hush-hush really. The look forward to having a chapter every night. My boys are iPad and screen obsessed, but the they love these stories, of these kids lives so different from ours. I was afraid he would never be able to get it in and out of all those dangerous rocks round the island, but he got one of the fishermen to take him, and had his own boat towed behind, with all its stuff in/' 'Who built the tower?' asked Julian. The famous five once again return to Kirrin but this time unkle Quenten is borrowing Kirrin island. ![]() 'Mother hasn't taken my boat, has he?' 'No, dear,' said - her mother. 'We'll take our own food, because I'm sure Uncle Quentin will have forgotten we're coming.' 'Has he a boat there:' asked George. 'We can go across to the island this morning,' said Aunt Fanny. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Miriam had always been seen by men, particularly men with whom she was sexually involved. I thought about Miriam, and a story occurred to me. Then, just before the excellent Readercon panel on the anthology, Athena suggested that she would like to see a story about Miriam Kostal, a character in both Carve the Sky (as an older woman) and River of Dust (as a younger woman).Īnd that did it. I was vaguely dissatisfied, pissy, uninspired, and whiny. family, aimed at adult readers, no "big ideas" or used-up cyber-or-steampunk tropes.Īthena clearly didn't know that I never get asked to contribute to anthologies. The theme was space opera, a female protagonist who doesn't feel guilty about juggling work vs. A few months ago, my friend and neighbor, Athena Andreadis asked me to contribute a story to an anthology she was putting together. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Scarred Love by M.S. Brannon![]() ![]() The growing love for the man who saved her life three years ago, the same man who’s nine years older. Three years later, Darcie is healing and always protected by the man who saved her, but now she’s fighting with something she isn’t prepared to face. ![]() ![]() One fateful night, Reggie jogs by an old, run down house and discovers a young girl clinging to life as she screams for help. Reggie Evans has been forced to grow up before he’s ready when his mother dies of an overdose, leaving him responsible to raise his younger brothers. Sweeping her up in his arms, Darcie’s knight in shining armor rescues her from the hell she’s been living from the stepfather she’s feared for all those years. It’s her final attempt to live to survive the villain of her reality. Clasping onto her last ounce of hope, Darcie releases a scream. This brings me to my review of Scarred Love.ĭarcie Claiborne spent several years of her young life living with a monster, always fearing what he would do next. I enjoy stories that impart an aspect of psychological angst and shows that love can come to even the most difficult people, or from the most difficult situations. My reason is that I tend to like a little nitty gritty thrown in with my romance. First of all… I have to say that I grew up reading traditional romances, but I have fallen in love with the New Adult genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, Hanley's characters are heroic and vulnerable, smart and hot-blooded. This is a lengthy novel, and the narrative's vacillation between different locations and points of view becomes disorienting the pacing also suffers from fits and starts. They separate, travel far and wide, and eventually find themselves major players in a complicated political plot with Vesputo at its center. Vesputo turns vicious, and both she and Landen are forced to leave the country. Years later the two become estranged when Landen informs Torina that her lover, Vesputo, is deceiving her and has only ambitions to the throne. ![]() ![]() What begins as an uneasy friendship between Landen and Torina grows into a bond of trust when the girl saves his life due to her ability to see the future in the magic crystal. After the king defeats the peaceful monarch of Bellandra, he brings home the country's famous sword and gives to his daughter a magic crystal and Landen, the prince of Bellandra, to be Torina's slave. Princess Torina, ""eyes sparkling, hair wild,"" is the only child of hard-hearted warrior King Kareed. British author Hanley pens a romantic royal tale of intrigue in the tradition of King Arthur. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Campusland by scott johnston![]() ![]() Having failed to make the cover of an NYC society rag and indignant after Eph rejects her advances, Lulu decides to put on a performance art project that involves her lying about Eph sexually assaulting her. Red thinks of himself as the top progressive in the school, but he soon finds himself usurped by social-climbing freshman Lulu Harris. ![]() While teaching Mark Twain, earnest English professor Eph Russell gets unfairly branded a racist by a disingenuous group of self-righteous students led by trust-fund baby Red Wheeler. ![]() Johnston’s standout debut successfully skewers the politically correct culture of liberal arts colleges by chronicling how opportunists use it to their advantage at exclusive Devon University in New England. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Lorali by laura dockrill![]() Lorali is an interesting character and her amazement at everything we humans take for granted was amazing to read. I'm a girl who grew up on The Little Mermaid and the idea of a mermaid story with a twist made my heart beat a little bit faster.Īnd on the surface (yes, I used an ocean pun), the story works really well. The Goodreads plot summary of Lorali had me super excited about the book. What are they really up to? Can Rory protect Lorali? And who from? And where does she really belong, anyway? Review With beautifully coiffed hair, sharp-collared shirts and a pirate ship shaped like a Tudor house, the Abelgare boys are a mystery all of their own. Lorali has rejected life as a mermaid, and become human.īut along with Lorali's arrival, and the freak weather suddenly battering the coast, more strange visitors begin appearing in Rory's bemused Sussex town. Lorali is running not just from the sea, not just from her position as princess, but her entire destiny. ![]() But more surprising than finding her in the first place is discovering where she has come from. ![]() Looking after a naked girl he found washed up under Hastings pier isn't exactly how Rory had imagined spending his sixteenth birthday. For me, that book is Lorali, a read that has left me very conflicted. After my high of books that I've loved ( Tonight The Streets Are Ours, A Little Life, Carry On.) I was bound to hit a book that I might enjoy, but I can't just only rave about. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Sarah j maas catwoman![]() This marks my return to reading Catwoman and I couldn’t be more thrilled with the story. Unfortunately that didn’t happen and I fell off the comic once more. I wanted more of what Valentine had to offer with the character before a new creative team took over. The last great Catwoman comic (in my opinion) was Genevieve Valentine’s run from 2015 but it was so short lived. I felt giddy that Catwoman was getting a treatment by someone who knows how to write women as well as Maas. When the DC Icons YA Books were announced and I saw Maas’ name alongside Catwoman, I actually cheered on the spot. Her writing is so compelling and Maas’ ability to give life to the characters in her mind is nothing short of wonderful. I recently dove into her other big series Throne of Glass series and I can’t get enough of that either. ![]() I discovered her work a few years back with her A Court of Thorns and Roses series which I completely devoured. In fact, I can only think of one that I’ve read countless works of in the last few years and that is Sarah J. In my adult years, there are very few authors that I’ve followed almost religiously. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments El filibusterismo ni dr jose rizal![]() José Rizal was visited by his mother, Teodora Alonzo sisters Lucia, Josefa, Trinidád, Maria and Narcisa and two nephews. 29, 1896, a day before his execution, Dr. Also, the "coconut oil lamp" containing the poem was not delivered to the Rizal's family until after the execution as it was required to light the cell. ![]() Mariano Ponce, his friend and fellow reformist, titled it "Mi último pensamiento" ("My Last Thought") in the copies he distributed, but this did not catch on. Rizal did not ascribe a title to his poem. Another that he had written was found in his shoe, but because the text was illegible, its contents remain a mystery. ![]() The piece was one of the last notes he wrote before his death. José Rizal before his execution by firing squad on December 30, 1896. " Mi último adiós" (English: "My Last Farewell") is a poem written by Filipino propagandist and writer Dr. ![]() The autographed first stanza of "Mi último adiós" ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The giver book buy![]() ![]() I really enjoyed how the setting was in a dystopian future. The Giver by Lois Lowry is a science fiction novel that I find really interesting. Read more about Jonas’ journey in The Giver. In order to do that, he has to cross the “border.” It will be a very dangerous journey, but he is willing to do whatever it takes. Jonas believes that everybody should be able to see and experience all of the beauty and pain of the world. He is also taught about war and pain and hatred. ![]() He learns about how people used to feel love and happiness and about how there are such things as elephants or giraffes. When Jonas is chosen to be the Receiver of Memory, he is taught about the past. Jonas is my favorite character from The Giver because he is very courageous. They also don’t know what the past of the world is or what animals are. For example, they cannot see any colors or feel emotions. In this dystopia, many things have been taken away from the people. It is a science fiction book about a boy named Jonas who lives in a dystopia. After reading The Giver, I rate it a 5 out of 5 stars. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Troubadour mary hoffman![]() ![]() ![]() So there we four were, recognising many of our fellow travellers at the departure gate, mainly literary agents, like Catherine Clarke, Marilyn Malin, Caroline Sheldon, Jo Unwin and Sophie Hicks (Lucy's agent). Then there's me - on something like my 15th visit (I really have lost count). Rhiannon has come to the Fair with me about half a dozen times, but for the last three years my companion has been fellow-writer and journalist Lucy Coats ( left), who covers the Fair for Publishing Talk. ![]() Last Sunday, I met up at Terminal 5 with three other writers of varying degrees of Bologna experience: it was a first for Frances Hardinge, the author of such highly individual novels for younger readers as Fly-by-Night and Face of Glass.įrances is a close friend of writer Rhiannon Lassiter (the Hex trilogy Ghost of a Chance), who also happens to be my daughter. The annual children's rights fair begins not at Bologna but at Heathrow Airport the day before. Mary Hoffman reports from the children's Fair. ![]() |