When Claude glanced at the sky, he saw that the text of Les Miserables had been painted over by Salvador Dali. With the absence of the cloud cover that normally caused the sky over Seattle to resemble cottage cheese that had been dragged nine miles behind a cement truck, the city, for the first time in memory, would have an unobstructed view of one of nature’s most mystical spectacles. The sky was a velvety black paw pressing on the white landscape with a feline delicacy, stars flying like sparks from its fur. The sky, layered with thin altostratus clouds and smog, appeared to reflect human suffering and failed to awaken in Claude visions of paradise. And here’s the kind of prose you can look forward to: Here’s what seems to pass for humor in a Tom Robbins novel: beets (the very existence of), a woman getting stung in a delicate place by a bee, and lesbians (the very existence of). People have recommended him on the basis of comparisons to Douglas Adams, but Adams is, you know, funny. Well, I officially don’t get Tom Robbins.
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When he’s offered a spot alongside them to find the truth about the mutating virus Rot that’s plaguing the kingdom, Remy faces a choice.īut as the three face dangerous hardships during their journey, Remy develops fond and complicated feelings for the couple. But then he encounters the shockingly warmhearted vampire heiress Xiaodan Song and her infuriatingly arrogant fiancé, vampire lord Zidan Malekh, who may hold the key to defeating the creatures-though he knows associating with them won’t do his reputation any favors. When a terrifying new breed of vampire is sighted outside of the city, Remy prepares to investigate alone. Though the kingdom of Aluria barely tolerates him, Remy’s father has been shaping him into a weapon to fight for the kingdom at any cost. His mother was the subject of gossip even before she eloped with a vampire, giving rise to the rumors that Remy is half-vampire himself. Remy Pendergast is many things: the only son of the Duke of Valenbonne (though his father might wish otherwise), an elite bounty hunter of rogue vampires, and an outcast among his fellow Reapers. Full of court intrigue, queer romance, and terrifying monsters-this gothic epic fantasy will appeal to fans of Samantha Shannon’s The Priory of the Orange Tree and the adult animated series Castlevania. * “Twelve-year-old Minni and her older brother Sanjay might live in a poor neighborhood in India, but they have big dreams: to finish school, get good jobs, and maybe live in one of the tall buildings where water runs from the taps. The story is filled with hope and faith as Minni learns the importance of education, family, friendship, opportunities, and taking a stand for her community.”- School Library Connection, starred review This title gives readers a powerful look at the importance of free water and how the inequalities surrounding its distribution impacts communities in India. It just pours freely out of the faucets in the bathrooms and the kitchen-something she has never witnessed before. While working, Minni is confronted by the abundance of water everywhere. One night while out riding with her brother, Minni witnesses thieves stealing water. It’s both time-consuming and inequitable. Their only access to clean water occurs during a set time of day when the spout is turned on and members of the community wait in line for their turn to fill their containers. * “Minni lives with her family in Mumbai, India in an incredibly poor neighborhood. The color work is especially thrilling to see because not much of it had been seen before-and it is all wonderful and quirky and surprisingly fresh. The exhibition included one floor of black-and-white images, and another floor of all color. The first European retrospective of Saul Leiter’s street photography took place at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris. His sense of color and densely compressed urban life represents a truly unique vision of those times. It was only in the 1990s that he began to look back at that remarkable color work and start to make prints. He printed some of his black-and-white street photos, but kept most of his color slides tucked away in boxes. All the while, Leiter continued to stroll the streets wherever he was (mostly New York and Paris), making photographs for his own pleasure. He became better-known as a successful fashion photographer in the 1950s and 60s. MoMA’s 1957 conference “Experimental Photography in Color” featured 20 color photographs by Leiter.Īfter that, however, Leiter’s personal color photography was, for the most part, not shared with the public. He had no formal training in photography, but the genius of his early work was quickly acknowledged by Edward Steichen, who included Leiter in two important MoMA shows in the 1950s. Saul Leiter started shooting color and black-and-white street photography in New York in the 1940s. The book could almost be a time capsule, especially the way husbands and wives talk to one another. I realize that the book was written almost 60 years ago, the society was different. There are hints of affairs, racism, perversions and out-of-marriage pregnancies. The mystery itself is just an excuse to introduce the characters, as well as, some of the Jewish religious laws and culture. Imagining it would be interesting to read a murder/mystery with insight into Judaism. I recently bought Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman even though the book was originally published in 1964. My rating for Friday the Rabbi Slept Late - 3īuy Friday the Rabbi Slept Late * Publisher : Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller.Kemelman is a professor of English, as well as a mystery writer. Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman is the first book in The Rabbi Small Mysteries, a series featuring a Jewish clergyman. Susan is the winner of the 2020 International SCP Poetry Competition, and has been nominated for the 2022 Pushcart Prize. She also has poetry published in TRINACRIA, Beth Houston’s Extreme Formal Poems anthology, and in Openings (anthologies of poems by Open University Poets in the UK). Susan Jarvis Bryant has poetry published on Lighten Up Online, Snakeskin, Light, Sparks of Calliope, and Expansive Poetry Online. Rusty Nail – whisky and Drambuie cocktail (2:1) To all who have a heart and gut to nourish,Ĭome revel in some luscious Gaelic flourish! To steer some saucy stanzas through the dark. Of Auld Lang Syne as kilted kin link arms.Įat haggis, snaking steam, piped in with glee.Ī tim’rous beastie blest, compar’d wi’ me!įrom wanton witches. Of Nessie, lochs, and bagpipes in the throes Its likely owing to this poem by Burns that. His crowlin ferlie calls me to the charms The haggis needs to be addressed first with Burns Address to a Haggis before it can be served with whisky. Tonight, I’m lured by Rabbie’s red, red rose. It occurs on January 25, Burns’ birthday. Note: Burns Night is when Scotland’s most important bard, Robert Burns (1759-1796), is celebrated, usually with the recitation of Burns’ poems, the eating of haggis, and the drinking of whisky. BKR, the criminal wanted across the galaxy, is guilty of cruelty. The crew of the Ferkel is a diverse group of aliens, illustrating that diversity is welcome in all parts of the universe Grakker, the Ferkel’s captain, is a borderline hostile military man, but the crew and Rod all learn how to work with him – and vice versa. As the first book in a four-book series, Coville sets up the story line and introduces the reader to a full cast of characters: Rod, Thing One and Thing Two, the toddler twins, their mother, the crew of the Ferkel, and BKR, the intergalactic villian. Told from Rod’s point of view, Aliens Ate My Homework is a fun read for kids ages 9-12. Can Rod, who is incapable of lying, keep his alien visitors a secret and help them succeed in their mission while getting his science project done on time? One day, while working on a science project for school, a miniature alien spaceship crashes into his window, and Rod is commandeered into helping the alien crew in their search for BKR, an intergalactic criminal infamous for his cruelty – and who just happens to be hiding out in Rod’s neighborhood. Sixth-grader Rod Albright, better known as Rod the Clod among his classmates, is a target for the two bullies at school and the go-to babysitter for his toddler twin brother and sister at home. An amoral tale of a heady summer set on the French Riviera, this fast-paced novella scandalised French society and soon brought fame to its young author. Translated as ‘Hello Sadness’, Bonjour Tristesse was written by seventeen-year old Françoise Sagan published in 1954 when the author was just seventeen, it immediately became an overnight sensation. The book is certainly more handbag-friendly than my copy of Middlemarch – which has been wrongly mistaken for the Bible on more than one occasion. Originally bought from Atlantis Books while on holiday in Santorini a few weeks previously, the shop itself is a haven for book lovers tucked away in a white-washed cave-like building on a side street in Santorini, I could have spent my entire holiday perusing the well-stocked shelves, but instead settled for an hour in the early evening sun, leaving with just one of the bookseller’s recommendations. Thankfully, I had packed Bonjour Tristesse. On the second leg of my journey to Sydney, having finished Middlemarch at Beijing Aiport, I was in dire need of a quick, compelling read that would entertain me for the final couple of hours of my flight. The police dismiss the child’s story as fabrication. Amy, an intelligent, yet feral child, lives with her single mother Tina in filth and squalor, and is often left alone without food for days at a time. She befriends an eight-year-old girl named Amy who lives near the Donnellys and who claims to have vital information about the baby’s death. Local reporter Claire Jackson, reeling from a personal tragedy and passed over for a promotion, throws herself into the case. With the family already the target of harassment, Donnelly’s mother is certain that the murder of the baby has been committed by some striking miners, but Robert argues that the miners are his “ mates” and that they’d never hurt a child. The baby belonged to “ one of the Sweetmeadows’ rare two-parent families, the Donnellys.” Four months into the strike, Robert Donnelly, a miner, has returned to the mines as a scab. On Sweetmeadows, a cheap, “ mould-ridden” slum housing estate earmarked for destruction the body of a baby boy is found dumped near the rubbish bins. Bea Davenport’s novel This Little Piggy, set in the north of England during the ’84 miner’s strike, begins with the discovery of a horrible crime. So, if you paid for our freebie, you can at least take comfort in the fact that your money went to a worthy cause. We wanted to show you that we donated the money as promised. Make the Yuletide Gay has been free on Amazon for quite some time now and this month we got the final payments, making it a total of $56.62. A gay student who is 'out' at college but not to his family receives an unexpected visit from his boyfriend while at home during the holidays. With Keith Jordan, Wyatt Fenner, Steve Callahan, Adamo Ruggiero. So, we talked about it and decided that all the earnings from Make the Yuletide Gay would be donated to a charity, and we were all in agreement that we wanted it to be The Trevor Project. Make the Yuletide Gay: Directed by Rob Williams. It was supposed to be free and we didn’t feel like we could keep it. And while we were very happy that our readers wanted to read our stories, we felt bad for the money. While we waited for Amazon to get with the program, several people bought the anthology and paid for it, even though it was available for free at all the other retailers. All of us and some of our friends tried reporting a lower price, and we emailed several times to try them to get them to make it free. Unfortunately, Amazon didn’t get the message and sold it for 0.99 for several weeks. When we (me, Addison Albright, Amy Tasukada, Nicky Spencer, and Stephen Hoppa) released our holiday anthology Make the Yuletide Gay back in November 2017, our intention was that it was going to be a freebie. |