![]() I think 4 days should be enough to get my frame of mind back on the writing/revising track. ![]() I also need to start scheduling a few guest blog spots for the upcoming release of RECAST, Volume 1 and Sierra Fox #5. I'll catch up on some reading, update some online stuff, write a synopsis, and maybe even take some notes for future projects. This week I want to take it easy and get back into the swing of things. Now that everything has gone back to normal and winter seems to be in full swing-it's so cold right now-I guess I should start making some goals. I think he got used to having hubby home and didn't want him to go back to work. Actually, even Loki showed some signs of confusion. ![]() And even now, it feels weird to be alone with Loki. ![]() It was SO much fun that I didn't want it to end. They both had a 2-week break, and it was AWESOME! We hung out together and went to a few places, enjoyed many walks, and they were home to celebrate my birthday on the 7th. Hubby went back to work yesterday, and my daughter went back to school today. ![]() But I know I won't be leaving this world entirely just yet, because I've got a few spin-off novels I'd like to write and even a secret story that I've been working on but will not talk about. ![]()
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![]() A former book editor, she wrote The Age of Miracles in the mornings before work. The real catastrophies are always different - unimagined, unprepared for, unknown. Karen Thompson Walker is a graduate of UCLA and the Columbia MFA program. 'It is never what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. ![]() Julia, facing the loneliness and despair of an awkward adolescence, witnesses the impact of this phenomenon on the world, on the community, on her family and on herself. And yet, even if the world is, in fact, coming to an end, as some assert, day-to-day life must go on. The enormity of this is almost beyond comprehension. One morning, Julia and her parents wake up in their suburban home in California to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth is noticeably slowing. The novel The Age of Miracles, by Karen Thompson Walker tells the story of an adolescent girl struggling with coming of age at the same time that the. ![]() What effect would this slowing have on the world? On the birds in the sky, the whales in the sea, the astronauts in space, and on an eleven-year-old girl, grappling with emotional changes in her own life.? WHAT IF our 24-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours until day becomes night and night becomes day? ![]() I loved this novel ' Justin Cronin, author of The Passage 'A stunner from the first page - an end-of-the-world, coming-of-age tale of quiet majesty. ![]() ![]() They are both also captured and sent to a detention camp for over a year, before being released by the Commissar and the Commandant and sent out of Vietnam. ![]() Under the General’s orders, he murders the crapulent major, calling it and all other politically-motivated murders “assassinations.” Later, they are both sent back to Vietnam to fight the General’s guerrilla war against the Communists. Bon and the narrator became friends at lycée, where Bon jumped into a fight to protect the narrator from bullies who called him “unnatural.” Bon is a dedicated and obedient soldier. As a former airman, he has the ability to jump out of airplanes, walk thirty miles with eighty pounds on his back, and hit a bull’s-eye with a pistol and rifle. He has the appearance of a handsome man who has been “beaten to a pulp.” He has large, “parachute-like ears” and a chin that looks as though it is “perpetually tucked into the folds of his neck.” His flat nose is “bent hard right.” Politically, he is conservative and “a genuine patriot” who has hated Communists since a local group of them forced his father, a village chief, to kneel in the village square and make a confession before shooting him behind the ear. ![]() ![]() The spy receives an offer from a Hollywood studio to consult on a film about the Vietnam War. Meanwhile, the spy exchanges intel about a possible uprising on American soil. He bemoans American culture and its humiliating effects on him. He is the husband of Linh and the father of Duc, who is also the narrator’s godson. Bon's family was killed in a military attack, spurring him to move to America where he opens a liquor store. One of the narrator’s three “blood brothers,” along with Man. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (If you're wondering, I read this because I managed a children's book section and liked to know what to recommend to customers. Characters like Sabrina are frequently very passive as well-things just happen to them and then they have to deal-and everything that's played for laughs isn't actually funny at all. I've never liked stories in which a person creates havoc with magic and then can't do anything about it except cringe, and that's basically what happened here throughout the story, but what's worse is the cutesy portrayal of the witches' society and the frustratingly simplistic happily ever after wrap-ups (though that may be just because it was designed to fit into a half-hour show). ![]() I never watched this show so I guess I'm probably not the audience for it, but I found the entire thing embarrassing. At least a boy at her new school likes her. But new witches don't necessarily control their powers very well, and Sabrina gets in trouble bringing dead creatures back to life, turning people into pineapples, levitating in her sleep, and so on. Sabrina, newly living with her weird aunts Hilda and Zelda after the split-up of her parents, discovers she's a witch on her sixteenth birthday. ![]() ![]() Not a book I can recommend in all good conscience now.Īn earlier version of Love of Seven Dolls first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in October 1950, called The Man Who Hated People. However, on a re-read, I am upset by some of the episodes, and I am a little shocked at my own unthinking acceptance of them only twenty years ago. I used to consider this as one of my favourite Gallico books. You find yourself thinking, as Mouche does, of the puppets as individuals, and completely forgetting that they are only puppets. The story is about her relationship with the seven puppets and their grim puppetmaster, Capitaine Coq, and what happens when she joins their travelling show. ![]() She then meets Reynard the fox, Gigi, Alifanfaron, Dr Duclos, Madame Muscat and Monsieur Nicholas. It turns out to be the voice of a glove puppet, called Carrot Top. A young girl called Mouche is about to throw herself into the Seine, when her attention is attracted by a voice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. 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Keller writes in, replying to the letter from Robert Madle about Keller’s “The Abyss,” which appeared in MOH 22. RAWL reviews And Flights of Angels, a biography of artist Hannes Bok by Emil Petaja and “divers hands.” In It Is Written, Mrs. “The Colossus of Ylourgne” has an illustration signed by Clark Ashton Smith. (When Dead Gods Wake” is illustrated but not credited. ![]() But back to MOH- RAWL writes in his Editor’s Page about discovering Clark Ashton Smith in that issue of Wonder Stories and becoming a fast fan of the author. My drug was Famous Monsters of Filmland and I can remember calling my local comic store constantly (the owner probably thought my calls about the next issue began the day after I was in to pick up the current number!). Notes: RAWL writes “Septemfell on a Wednesday that was the day the new issue of Wonder Stories was due to go on sale, but there was always the hope that I might see it a day or two before, so I started to haunt the local newsstands Monday.” The editor writes of a certain time and a certain pulp but substitute your time and particular obsession and it’s a universal story amongst collectors. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the sins of her father can become an obsession, and, as she's learned time and again, her past is never more than a nightmare away. Nora Roberts The Obsession Kindle Edition by Nora Roberts (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 50,369 ratings Goodreads Choice Award nominee See all formats and editions Kindle 8.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial The riveting novel from the 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Liar. Naomi can feel her defenses failing, and knows that the connection her new life offers is something she's always secretly craved. 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But it's not the focus of the story, which I also prefer in this setting (and in a series that is likely to have 5 books). I can't wait for more from him.Ī really nice slow building romance exists in Angelfall, which is exactly what I like. She meets her equal and match in Raffe, a warrior angel that she rescues and then forces to help her rescue her sister. She does not pout or moan or rely on anyone else (if she can help it). She's not above eating cat food to survive. In a post-apocalyptic California, Penryn will do anything to save her sister, including teaming up with the "enemy," an angel named Raffe. Together, they journey toward the angels’ stronghold in San Francisco where she’ll risk everything to rescue her sister and he’ll put himself at the mercy of his greatest enemies for the chance to be made whole again.Īngels have come to earth bent on destruction. Traveling through a dark and twisted Northern California, they have only each other to rely on for survival. After eons of fighting his own battles, he finds himself being rescued from a desperate situation by a half-starved teenage girl. Raffe is a warrior who lies broken and wingless on the street. ![]() When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back.Īnything, including making a deal with an enemy angel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. It’s been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. ![]() ![]() Army, including some of the most intense fighting of the Iraq War. Staff Sergeant David Bellavia spent six years in the U.S. Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. Buy a discounted Paperback of House to House online from Australia’s leading online bookstore. Populated by anīooktopia has House to House, An Epic Memoir of War by David Bellavia. ![]() Bringing to searing life the terrifying intimacy of hand-to-hand infantry combat, House to House is far more than just another war story. ![]() ![]() It is the stuff of legend and the chief reason he is one of the great heroes of the Iraq War. David, thank you for your service to our country.Įntering one house, alone, Bellavia faced the fight of his life against six insurgents, using every weapon at his disposal, including a knife. ![]() If you are looking for a first-hand account of what is really going on in Iraq then this is the book you should download. David Bellavia’s memoir “House to House” describes the intense fighting and the sacifices made by our forces in Iraq in raw detail. ![]() |