![]() ![]() Imagine having that much love in your heart. Think of it like this: Laia is more scared of losing her brother than of becoming a slave to the most deadly woman in the Empire. She tries to reap her mistake from the first chapter throughout the rest of the book in order to save her only family. I’ve already read this book twice, solely because Laia of Serra is the bravest female character that I have read about. ![]() This is a four-book series, and the first two are already out and the third is expected to join us June 12. When Laia goes undercover as the Commandant’s slave - the merciless military leader and Elias’ mother - to try and save her brother, who was arrested for treason, Elias and Laia can’t help their crossing paths. Only, Elias hates the Empire even more than his own mother hates him. Tahir’s other main character is Elias, who is a Mask-in-training and is the best soldier the Empire has ever seen. ![]() Their lowest citizens are called Scholars, and Tahir’s main character, Laia, is a Scholar. An Ember in the Ashes takes place in a land called Serra, and their government is set up as an Empire, with their brutal, ruthless army soldiers called Masks. ![]()
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7/6/2023 0 Comments Spin the dawn elizabeth lim![]() ![]() It’s split into parts, focusing on the competition and an epic journey. I tried and failed (and lost a couple of hours of sleep because of it). ![]() Spin the Dawn is a fast-paced book. There is constant action to the point where I literally could not put it down. I have never had a talent for spinning tales.” Plot Yet ask me to tell a lie, and I will stumble and falter to think of one. “Ask me to spin the finest yarn or thread, and I can do it faster than any man–even with my eyes closed. It’s the perfect mix of grounded to reality yet completely magical and fascinating. The world itself is well built with a fascinating mythology and plenty of history interwoven into the fantasy aspects. She describes the setting well and builds the characters and their relationships beautifully. ![]() Elizabeth Lim has a gorgeous writing style that adds to the fairytale feeling of this book. Her prose is beautiful, but not too flowery. I absolutely adore the writing in this book. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Coffee Boy by Austin Chant![]() ![]() ![]() He picked up where he left off, scoring Boston’s first basket and 11 points in the first quarter, 14 more in the second and outscoring the Sixers on his own, 17-10, in the third. Tatum started 0 for 6 in a Game 5 loss and missed 14 of his first 15 shots overall from the floor in Game 6 before making four 3-pointers in the final 4:14 to force the decisive seventh game. And then tonight I think we took a step backward. I thought we took another step this season. “We played great all year and this loss absolutely diminishes what we did this year in some way. I really did,” said Sixers coach Doc Rivers, who was on the Boston bench when the Celtics won it all in 2008. ![]() The Sixers lost in the conference semifinals for the third straight year, and the fifth time in six seasons they have not gotten any farther since reaching the NBA Finals in 2001 despite “The Process” - tanking their way to four top-three draft picks in a row, including Embiid. Newly crowned NBA MVP Joel Embiid scored 15 points on 5-for-18 shooting, and Tobias Harris scored 19 for Philadelphia. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Gambled Away by Joanna Bourne![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The two head off the Paris together, both aware the other isn’t who they say they are (a British governess and a Parisian peddler). It is at the ruins of the de Fleurignac chateau that she is found by William Doyle, a British spy in search of her father. When the book opens, though, her network across Normandy is being revealed to the authorities she barely escapes arrest herself, and her home burned to the ground. Margeurite de Fleurignac is both the daughter of a marquis in France at the height of the Reign of Terror and the head of La Flèche, a group of counter-revolutionaries helping future victims of the guillotine escape. Joanna Bourne’s latest novel has everything I love about romance: A strong relationship, complex characters, and effortless writing. Plodding through forgettable spy novels (and historicals in general) sometimes makes me forget what a truly great book looks like – and then I read one like The Forbidden Rose. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Spirit World by Jack Kirby![]() ![]() When Constantine shows up saying Xanthe scammed him into buying something, he finds them and Batgirl Cass Cain fighting an abnormal influx of jiangshi (Chinese hopping vampires) and joins in to help. Xanthe is a maste r of the dark arts who's here to give Constantine a run for his money.literally. Their name is Xanthe, and their superpower is being able to burn items folded from joss paper and immediately turn them into real objects, based on the East Asian practice of burning joss paper at graveyards in order to send resources to ancestors in the Spirit World.except Xanthe can retrieve those items in the world of the living! Their weapon of choice is a large broadsword (because who doesn't love a big sword when you can choose to use a big sword?!). ![]() Spirit World:. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. From the pages of Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate, a new Chinese hero emerges who's able to travel to and from the Spirit World, the realm of the dead, and that of the living. After leaving Marvel Comics at the end of the 1960s, Jack Kirby came to DC, where he soon created the series of super-hero comics known collectively as The. Buy Spirit World by Jack Kirby (ISBN: 9781781160763) from Amazons Book Store. ![]() ![]() Darcy,” however, represents something of a tour de force. ![]() In such now-classic novels as “Family Linen,” “Oral History” and “Fair and Tender Ladies,” Smith demonstrated one of the finest ears for dialogue and diction of any writer now in the biz. What does distinguish them? Well, the ear, of course. Most are fairly straightforward, in traditional forms Smith generally eschews post-modern flourishes, although the point of view in “Intensive Care” shifts from character to character nearly as often, and nearly as abruptly, as in Hemingway's “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.” Some are narrated in first-person, others aren't. Thematically, the stories are all over the place, with settings ranging from Richmond to Fernandina Beach, Fla., from coal-mine villages to university towns to megalapolitan suburbs. Newhouse, originally appeared in her 1981 collection “Cakewalk.” Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger” gathers some of Smith's more recent stories as well as a few golden oldies “Between the Lines,” starring the rural newspaper columnist Mrs. ![]() ![]() ![]() With her first book since her 2006 novel “On Agate Hill,” and her first short-story collection since 1997's “News of the Spirit,” Lee Smith reinforces her position as a master of Southern literature and of the short form. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Peloponnesian war book![]() The war was really three conflicts with one uncertain peace after the first and Thucydides had not unified them into one account when death came sometime before 396. He had been composing his famous history, with its hopes and horrors, triumphs and disasters, in full detail from first-hand knowledge of his own and others. ![]() He then lived probably on his property in Thrace, but was able to observe both sides in certain campaigns of the war, and returned to Athens after her defeat in 404. He tells about this, not in volumes of self-justification, but in one sentence of his history of the war-that it befell him to be an exile for twenty years. Later, as general in 423 he failed to save Amphipolis from the enemy and was disgraced. In 430, the second year of the Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague which he described so graphically. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. Thucydides of Athens, one of the greatest of historians, was born about 471 BCE. ![]() The digital Loeb Classical Library extends the founding mission of James Loeb with an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her silly, online crush is totally under control-but Lucas's time in New York has an expiration date, and six weeks may not be enough, for either her or her deadline. And then he proposes an outrageous experiment to bring back her literary muse and meet her deadline: He'll take her on a series of experimental dates meant to jump-start her romantic inspiration. Lucas offers to let Rosie stay with him, at least until she can find some affordable temporary housing. Only this one strolls around the place in a towel, has a distracting grin, and an irresistible accent. A Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Cosmopolitan, Goodreads, PopSugar, and more From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín, who are forced to share a New York apartment. Lucas seems intent on coming to her rescue like a Spanish knight in shining armor. But Rosie doesn't know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking-for lack of a better word-on Instagram for the last few months. The American Roommate Experiment: A Novel Show full title By Elena Armas 3. Luckily she has her best friend Lina's spare key while she's out of town. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. She hasn't told her family and now has terrible writer's block. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. ![]() ![]() A Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Cosmopolitan, Goodreads, PopSugar, and more!įrom the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín, who are forced to share a New York apartment. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Finch jeff vandermeer![]() ![]() One example common to most fiction now is the cut-away from scene to scene, wherein you don’t get, for example, our hero or heroine driving from point A to point B. ![]() A lot of this material, reading like scripts or in other ways underwhelming, appears on editor slushpiles every day.īut there are also specific ways in which other media enhance and influence fiction. In a general way, TV and movies have often had a terrible influence on fiction, in that some writers substitute received experience and received ideas from mass media for their own personal vision–some even think the structure of most TV shows is perfectly suitable, untranslated, for novels and stories. (What does a scene in the movie Black Hawk Down have to do with fiction? Read on below…) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That's well over two thousand pages of comics, in all main eras of current Star Wars (including the High Republic!), working with some of the very best artists in all of comics. ![]() With a little shifting around of things, I figured I could make my 100th be STAR WARS #25, and that's how it worked out. I wonder how many" – and then I ran the numbers and realized I was almost at 100 scripts under my belt in the galaxy far, far away. When I was working on the arc for Star Wars that precedes #25, I remember thinking "Huh, I've done a lot of these. From the start, with the Lando miniseries I did with Alex Maleev and Paul Mounts back in 2015, my goal has always been to swing for the fences, and tell the best Star Wars stories I could – the kind of stories I'd want to experience as a Star Wars fan. : How does it feel to have charted a majority of Marvel's Star Wars comics ranging from the Prequel to the Sequel eras?Ĭharles Soule: In a word. ![]() |