![]() ![]() ![]() The last fifty pages left my heart pounding – no spoilers here, but because I’d grown to care for the characters over the course of the book, I was worried for them and had to know how Madelyn and Carter resolved their situation. ![]() Henderson knows how to ramp up the tension. As they travel across the country promoting Carter’s spy thriller, the stakes escalate making Madelyn wonder if her interest in protecting her client’s body is more professional or personal. Someone is out to kill the former CIA operative who is now her client. But in Alison Henderson’s Unwritten Rules, Madelyn gets more than she bargained for. When private security agent Madelyn Li accepts the task of protecting her sexy neighbor, Carter Devlin on his book tour, she expects the biggest challenge to be babysitting his ego. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() This sparkling musical adaptation of Potter’s wonderful story is filled with delightful tunes that will make everyone smile. ![]() McGregor, the angry, befuddled farmer, who is willing to go to great lengths to protect his garden. And who can forget the easy-going Cat, just waiting around the garden for her own meal. From the beginning, you and your audiences will meet other fun characters such as Caw and Kem, the two silly crows who know that a picket fence could never stop a bird. But Peter and Benjamin still venture into a world filled with excitement, adventure, and scrumptious vegetables! The thrills are just beginning when the angry farmer spots the silly bunnies. Everyone (and we mean everyone!) knows that you stay out of Mr. Peter Rabbit, unlike sisters Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail, is following the advice of his tummy (and his cousin Benjamin) versus the advice of his mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ferguson, choir members, Constable Warren, and the undertaker. ![]() In similar fashion, Wilder seems unwilling to tackle the larger question of Simon Stimson's alcoholism and resulting suicide, which receives pointed but benign acknowledgment from Dr. Like the three families with Cotahatchee blood, the non-WASP residents of the town seem to blend harmlessly into the landscape - out of sight and out of mind. He seems to gloss over the segregation of Polish and Canuck citizens, who appear to reside in a lesser section of town across the tracks, where the Catholic Church is located. Most stringent are comments about his refusal to deal with controversial elements of Grover's Corners - particularly bigotry, alcohol abuse, and sex discrimination. Thornton Wilder's Our Town comes in for its share of negative criticism. ![]() ![]() ![]() Okay, so now you want the good stuff, right? But I would say that it feels more like an interesting set up for what will no doubt be a far more intriguing sequel, which will give us more insight into the K-POP world after you debut-a world with a million times more pressure and backstabbing. It’s a very fast read-took me a little over 3 hours to finish. The language and pop cultural references are current, the prose is as simple as possible, and the first person present POV makes the reader feel like they are right in the character experiencing everything she is at that moment. The story is basically about the plucky and relatable 17-year old Rachel Kim’s trainee life as she readies herself to debut. And who better to give that insight than a legendary K-POP idol from one of the most legendary K-POP groups of all time. ![]() Shine is essentially a very fun, zippy contemporary YA read that gives some insight into the K-POP world. My own trilogy, The Effigies Series (Sailor Moon meets Pacific Rim) is inspired a lot by the K-POP world, so this was a must read. As a K-POP fan, and as a YA author published under the same publisher and imprint, I just had to pick up this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() His latest book is “a work of genius”, she says, followed by: “God, you’re exhausting”. ![]() Mr Ramsay (Declan Conlon) constantly seeks her reassurance that his scholarly brilliance has not faded. At the centre of the torrent of words is the gracious, much-admired Mrs Ramsay (Derbhle Crotty) spending summer in the Hebrides with her husband, children and friends. ![]() The result is often comic, sometimes ferocious. In director Annabelle Comyn’s beautifully orchestrated production, dialogue is interwoven with private thoughts and reactions, all spoken aloud. In this group portrayal of an Edwardian marriage and the rupture of the first world war, Carr finds a theatrical style to match Woolf’s technique of depicting the internal flow of thoughts and emotions, plunging beneath the surface of things. S hadow and light alternate in Marina Carr’s rich new adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel, filmed in Cork’s Everyman theatre in a co-production with Hatch Theatre Company. ![]() ![]() If you’re enjoying the podcast, be sure to subscribe and rate and review on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. ![]() You can also listen to an earlier episode of this podcast: Ep 3: Author Liz Rosenberg On “House of Dreams: The Life of L.M. Plan A Bookish Vacation: Visit the World of Anne of Green Gables on Prince Edward Island. ** BOOK GIVEAWAY: Win a copy of Marilla of Green Gables! To enter, head over to on Twitter or Instagram to follow me and share the giveaway by Friday 11/23.** For more things Green Gables, check out an earlier post: ![]() You can also listen to this episode on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. It’s a must read for Anne fans! Sarah McCoy is also the New York Times bestselling author of The Mapmaker’s Children, The Baker’s Daughter, and The Time it Snowed in Puerto Rico. ![]() ![]() If you’ve ever wondered about Marilla’s story before Anne arrives (and that time she called John Blythe her old beau) you’ll love Marilla of Green Gables. Sarah McCoy comes at this novel with a true love and deep knowledge of Montgomery’s characters and the Prince Edward Island setting. Sarah McCoy is here to discuss her new book, Marilla of Green Gables. This prequel to Anne of Green Gables brings the world and characters of L.M. This week, I’m thrilled to welcome a kindred spirit to the podcast. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This will stay with me for a very long time, somewhere in the recess of my mind. Which I assume was the writer’s intention, so I think it’s fair to say mission accomplished. Lets Go Play At The Adams by Mendal W Johnson By Godzilla713 Published: Favourites 742 Views Character Barbara (Lets Go Play At The Adams) Location Maryland, USA Way back in the 80s, I saw this book in our local drug store and I was fascinated by the premise. Item 170874 ISBN: 0690001932 Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. The story itself is well told, fast paced and in a weird way hard to put down (or in this case pause) because although it’s subject matter is so unfathomable, it’s narrative is utterly believable and the need to know how it’s going to end out weighs the disgust and bitterness it leaves in you mind. That’s what Barbara keeps telling herself. Because what it boils down in the end is do we ever really know what anyone is capable of, and that’s a terrifying thought. Johnson Janu2 mins to read Originally released in 1974, Let’s Go Play at the Adams’ has gained a massive reputation as one of the most terrifying horror novels ever published. I can’t imagine anyone reading or listening to this story and not walking away at the end with it sitting uncomfortably in the back of their minds. While I found it difficult to listen to (on audio book) I was compelled by the complex emotions that are casually strewn throughout the whole book. ![]() This is truly a disturbing story of the lost innocence of youth and the cruel nature of human kind. ![]() ![]() ![]() Juvie for Monsters,” and has reluctantly begun to come to terms with her paranormal nature. She has just survived her first year at Hecate Hall, “a.k.a. If Buffy and Spike had had a love child, she might be Sophie she’s pretty, snarky, kick-butt, and…demonic. Some of these questions are answered in an explosive, world-inverting finale-which, along with the questions that remain, will have readers counting down the days to the next Hex Hall installment.Hawkins keeps upping the intrigue: How is it that ghosts can’t see or hear the living, but Elodie’s ghost keeps trying to talk to Sophie? Why does Sophie’s upcoming summer destination, Thorne Abbey, sound so familiar? And how-and, more importantly, why-did Daisy and Nick, two teenagers suffering from retrograde amnesia, get turned into demons?.(When a vampire orders Earl Grey at high tea, Sophie cracks, he’ll actually get Earl Grey.) Sophie Mercer continues to win over readers-and warlocks-with her arch sense of humor.and multi-limbed ghouls, creepy demons, and necromancy. Rachel Hawkins’s sequel to Hex Hall combines everything fans could ask for: a sprawling and splendorous castle (thirty-one kitchens! ninety-eight bathrooms!), a hot love triangle, an enchanted ball. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ramzipoor's dazzling debut novel illuminates the extraordinary acts of courage by ordinary people forgotten by time. The ventriloquists have agreed to die for a joke, and they have only eighteen days to tell it.įeaturing an unforgettable cast of characters and stunning historical detail, E.R. While pretending to do the Nazis' bidding, they will instead publish a fake edition of Le Soir that pokes fun at Hitler and Stalin-daring to laugh in the face of their oppressors. ![]() ![]() Faced with no decision at all, Aubrion has a brilliant idea. The Nazis track down Aubrion's team and give them an impossible choice: turn the resistance newspapers into a Nazi propaganda bomb that will sway public opinion against the Allies, or be killed. Helene's world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers. ![]() Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country's most popular newspaper, Le Soir, now turned into Nazi propaganda. But they would not be silenced.īrussels, 1943. In this triumphant debut inspired by true events, a ragtag gang of journalists and resistance fighters risk everything for an elaborate scheme to undermine the Reich. ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters behind this new fight to dominate the skies are just as interesting as the ones Wolfe wrote about decades ago. ![]() ![]() In “When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach,” Ashlee Vance writes about a new kind of space race marked by private companies launching rockets and putting a massive number of satellites into orbit. “When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach,” by Ashlee Vance (Ecco)ĭuring the space race of the 1960s that was chronicled by Tom Wolfe in “The Right Stuff,” the era was personified by larger-than-life heroes like John Glenn, Gus Grissom and Alan Shepard. This cover image released by Ecco shows "When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach" by Ashlee Vance. ![]() |