![]() ![]() ![]() Then, Nora searches for books that will guide them, whether it’s a children’s book, a collection of novels. ![]() Hester gets a feeling from each person, reading the scent and flavor that will work for them. First, though, she sends them to Hester Winthrop at The Gingerbread House for a scone. As owner of the bookstore, she recommends titles that will help people with their problems. Nora Pennington helps to heal their soul. Miracle Springs, North Carolina draws people who need to heal. She’s succeeded on all those levels with this book, and created four strong, but damaged, women that readers will care about. I’m recommending Ellery Adams’ new series, beginning with The Secret, Book & Scone Society, to everyone who loves Adams’ Books by the Bay mysteries, readers who love Sarah Addison Allen, and all of us who love books about books. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, I haven’t been idle either - I’ve been watching HBO’s Rome, as I may have mentioned a million or so times, and getting fascinated with Roman history. I gave up.įlash forward to the present day, when McCullough’s magnum opus has finally finished with the publication of Antony and Cleopatra in 2007 (she originally intended the previous book, The October Horse, to be the last in the series, but apparently succumbed to fan pressure to write one more book about the great tragedy that Shakespeare couldn’t resist, closing the saga with Antony’s and Cleopatra’s deaths and Octavian/Augustus’s rise to undisputed power). I didn’t know a whole lot about ancient Roman history then, and it was off-putting in the same way Russian novels are off-putting - so many characters, each with three long names, yet only a handful of first names to distribute among the lot of them, so you get your Gaius Cornelius Rufus and your Gaius Lucius Ahenobarbus and so on and so on. I started this series years ago, when The First Man in Rome (1990) originally came out in paperback, and I just could not get into it. ![]() The seven gigantic books (average length seems to be about 700 pages) sweep through over a hundred years of Roman history, from Julius Caesar’s forerunners Marius and Sulla, up to Caesar Augustus. This is a series of books so epic, the word “epic” doesn’t really do it justice. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the cultural sphere, too, BJP-led State governments have tried to introduce measures that are clearly Hindu majoritarian in nature. ![]() ![]() Many scholars claim that in the process the government is high-handedly promoting unethical and unscientific research practices in various disciplines. Prominent scholars have come forward and said that the government is pushing autonomous institutions, such as the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR), the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) and the Lalit Kala Akademi, to carry out research only on topics that are in line with the Sangh Parivar’s doctrines. IN the last few months, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Union government has stepped up its efforts to steer the Sangh Parivar’s Hindutva agenda by changing the nature of public institutions. ![]() ![]() ![]() With a good mix of duty and curiosity, Susan begins her own investigation into the matter, and all signs point to the operating theatre. At some point during her tenure, she begins to notice something a little suspicious taking place: a few too many patients seem to be falling into comas, never to wake up again. After a brief introduction, the story presents us with Susan Wheeler, a third-year medical student who works as a trainee at the Boston Memorial Hospital. In a genre ever-evolving alongside our technological progress, I think it would be interesting to take a step back and see where it all began. This privilege is generally reserved for modern genres, and today I would like to take a look at the novel which kicked off the idea of medical thrillers: Coma by Robin Cook, which by the way was adapted to film by Michael Crichton. ![]() ![]() Robin Cook Births the Medical Thriller GenreĮxamining the majority of literary genres, it can be fairly difficult to determine their actual point of origin, to pin-point a specific book by a known author which kicked off the whole affair. ![]() ![]() Kudos for this delectable take on familial devotion and dementia."- NPR "One of those rare books that is both devastating and light-hearted, heartful and joyful. told in prose that is so startling in its spare beauty that I found myself thinking about Khong's turns of phrase for days after I finished reading."- Doree Shafrir, The New York Times Book Review Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for First Fiction Winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Huffington Post, Nylon, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Booklist, and The Independent ![]() ![]() The pair eventually develop a scheme by which they intend to kill Nick, making it appear to be an accident. Frank is not usually one to stick around and work a paycheck but he feels an intense attraction to the man’s much younger wife, Cora, and after deciding to stay a while, the two initiate an affair. It begins when a drifter named Frank Chambers visits a diner and is offered a job by the proprietor, Nick Papadakis. ![]() It has been adapted a number of times, including the celebrated 1946 movie adaptation, and proved hugely influential in its ideas and imagery, inspiring other works like Dard’s The Gravedigger’s Bread and Camus’ The Stranger. It is a fixture on many best novel lists including the CWA, MWA and Modern Library top hundred lists. The Postman Always Rings Twice is an important and widely celebrated novel within the mystery and crime fiction genre. ![]() ![]() Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America’s bleak underside, and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger. A problem that has only one grisly solution–a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.įirst published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. ![]() ![]() ![]() Coraline abounds with various odors, dark, dank spaces, rats, mice and gelatinous, maggoty, pod like things that must be poked and prodded by the heroine. Spooky, creepy, compelling, grotesque, ghostly, malevolent and maybe even fantasmagoric are adjectives that can be ascribed to his work. If you do not already know this about Gaiman, his preferred genre is, to be completely simplistic, scary stories. And, like Alice, a talking animal, in this case, a black cat who proves to be her secret weapon in the end, guides her through a magic portal between words into Wonderland, or Horrorland, in Gaiman's case. ![]() ![]() Like Alice, Coraline is bored when her adventure begins. Coraline has been compared to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, much as similarities to The Graveyard Book and Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book have been noted, and this is accurate to a degree. ![]() ![]() ![]() It wasn't how I expected.? I expected the other one to do the eating but whatever, it was still yum. This will have quotes and mild spoilers lol.įirst off, pussies were ate (finally), thank the lord. They're cute of course, but this was mildly disappointing for me, but I'd rather start off with what I liked. Stop, I missed them so fucking much in the span of like, two hours that I finished Those Who Wait. "Hi back, darling." Charlotte leaned up, brushing her lips softly against the side of Sutton's in the way that she had that was so close to being a kiss but wasn't. She could feel Charlotte's slow grin without opening her eyes. Only inches away her hand resting on the curve of Charlotte's hip as she whispered, "Hi." It was light and brief, just enough to feel her, before they pulled back. She luxuriated for a few moments in the softness of her lips on her own. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, as soon as she faces a threat, years of training under her ex-army mother and her own natural aptitude for combat kicks in. As a detective and business owner with a mortgage to pay off, she’s cautious by nature. But bigger than the distant worry of how to bring in a crazy powerful pyrokinetic murderer is the immediate danger of Mad Rogan, a Prime with off-the-charts telekinetic powers who’s chasing her quarry for reasons of his own. So, with wit and a talent for detecting lies she treads into the murky waters of House politics. But the alternative is losing her business and her family’s home. Nevada Baylor is a small time private investigator forced to take on a case far above her pay grade. Burn for Me is an urban fantasy, hero’s journey through and through. ![]() I wish the publishers didn’t push it as a paranormal romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() She weaves Mao Zedong’s reign, the Land reform campaign, the Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen Square demonstrations into her narrative. First, the writer skillfully tracks back and forth across more than seven decades of history, assembling the story of the lives of both Marie’s and Ai-Ming’s families. Thien’s quest to unveil the interlocking fates of the novel's characters using historical events, themes, and literary devices impresses in many ways. Meanwhile, the story’s unique structure following the tale of Ai-ming’s fractured family earns the novel a certain universality. Her characters’ essence is skillfully captured and portrayed throughout the novel. Thien’s masterful writing, her weaving of history into fiction, her use of themes and literary devices truly stamp the mind with an after-image. ![]() Madeleine Thien’s novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing is a story crafted to be vivid and magisterial- intimate and grandly political. ![]() |