Readers are given poetry about poetry, about empowerment, and about self realization. It would not have felt quite as impactful if someone else had narrated the poetry. I liked that she was able to narrate her own poetry because this was her story to tell. Amanda Lovelace, the author, narrates her book for a little over an hour. The speaker then explains how she was able to find herself and grow. The speaker (assumed to be the author) explains how her mother was abusive and some of the tragedies that occurred within her family. Readers then follow the speaker’s journey from childhood up until the age of 19. The topics are difficult, but teens should have the right to decide for themselves if they would like to continue reading. I believe that including this message is helpful. The poetry book starts with warnings about the content-self abuse, sexual assault, child abuse, and so on.
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Any trip out is not only long, cramped and squalid but could see its crew come back empty handed - if they make it back at all. Broadhead learns that the vessels are easy to pilot, but impossible to control. The starships, though, are as inscrutable as they are powerful. Success could mean fame, fortune, and a life of luxury. Broadhead hopes to strike it lucky, to crew a Heechee ship that might discover alien relics. Gateway is the centre of a “star rush”, humanity’s chance to explore and exploit the galaxy. Once used by the mysterious, vanished alien Heechee, this rocky enigma contains a thousand of their highly advanced starships. With his prize, Broadhead buys himself a trip to “Gateway”, a hollowed-out asteroid found concealed within our solar system. Working in the grim “food mines” of Wyoming, he longs for a break and finally gets one - a lottery win. Robinette Broadhead lives on a bleak, desperately overpopulated future Earth. Originally serialised in Galaxy magazine, Gateway was a major success which won both the Locus and Nebula Awards for best novel, and the John W. Gateway is a key work in the second wave of his writing career, which began in 1969 after a long spell helping others to get their stories published. He wrote, edited and worked as an agent for over 70 years, from the early 1940s right through to the end of his long life. Frederik Pohl (1919 - 2013) had an incredibly long career in science fiction. Which means that this 560-page book is only ten chapters long. Much like its predecessor, Darker breaks up the story with one chapter for each day of the story. It began a long time ago…” Stephanie Meyer says.Īs much as I was hoping to get through this quickly, we’re probably splitting up every chapter into two or more posts. E L James has her own line of Fifty Shades-branded sex toys.” “Actually, she has that now,” 2017-Matthew says. “It’s 2022 and E L James just rewrote these fucking books again from the roommate’s perspective. “I like it! Our friends keep telling us this Fifty Shades thing is bad, we could read that!” “We’re in a pub in England and everything seems like a good idea that won’t have lasting consequences!” “We definitely won’t be rereading this story for the rest of our lives!” “Stop complaining, 2017-Matthew,” Future-Matthew says. “What if we read bad books?” Past-Matthew said. “We should do a blog together!” Past-Ariel said. If you had told me back in 2012 that Ariel and I would still be reading Fifty Shades five years from now, I would probably have been thrilled about that? Thanks a lot, past Matthew, you idiot. This is for fun and to celebrate the genre, not a deadly serious thing. And readers, especially if you loved someone’s first effort, either LL or another freebie or a debut novel, go nominate it! There are categories for all of those. There’s a category for Best Love’s Landscapes Story so if you’re an author who wrote for LL, you might be up there. It’s so hard to pick just one per category. I’m waiting to see what still gets posted, before filling in with my own additions to the lists. Dawn, Regina, K, ttg, Zoe ~ Is incognito, Pmj12, 315, Anna, Julia Duncan, Jessa, Jeanne, Jess…)Īnd a big thanks also to people who nominated lots of the stories by other authors that I loved so much this year. Enny’s done great work for me.Ī big thank you to everyone who enjoyed stories of mine enough to nominate them (including PJ. They’re handing out nomination ribbons in every category – I’ll let this one stand for all of mine.īut I also want to thank Jessa for nominating Enny Kraft’s cover for Laser Visions for Best Cover Art – so well deserved. And I’m even up for Favorite All-Time M/M Author. I’ve been delighted to see my work from this year nominated more than a dozen times so far. Right now, in the nomination phase, members are naming the Oct 2013-2014 releases they feel deserve recognition in 42 categories of M/M, from “Best Hurt/Comfort” to “Best Historical”, from “Best Story That Should Have A Sequel” to “Best Paranormal”, plus a couple of All-Time Favorite awards. The M/M Romance group on Goodreads has begun their annual 2014 Member Choice Awards. Eleven years later, in Africa, she spotted a young boy wearing that very sweater, with her name still on the tag inside. It all started in Virginia, with the blue sweater, a gift that quickly became her prized possession - until the day she outgrew it and gave it away to Goodwill. 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Possessed by the demon Devina, Balthazar is once again on the hunt for the Book of Spells-and fighting an undeniable attraction to a woman. Ward's No.1 New York Times bestselling series. True love brings a deadly threat to the Black Dagger Brotherhood in this sizzling new novel in J.R. 'Hot, sexy, unique, intriguingly wicked' Christine Feehan 'Utterly absorbing and deliciously erotic' Angela Knight Many historians are interested in using account books to uncover the experiences of enslaved people I was coming to this with a business background. Why isn’t slavery already a part of the business history narrative? So, I decided I wanted to write the business history of slavery, which is this very different type of business. The Southern records were markedly more advanced than the average practices seen in the textile mills, and I found evidence of a lot of interesting business management techniques. One day I went to the archives, and started looking at business records from New England textile mills, as well as Southern plantation records and account books. So when I went to graduate school for history, I wanted to study the same ideas. And I got really interested in how businesses that employed tens of thousands of people came to dominate the economy, and how people thought about businesses of that scale. Historian Caitlin Rosenthal extensively researched the morally reprehensible business of slavery for her new book, “ Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management.” In the book, she lays out the case that slaveholding “planters” employed accounting and management techniques that are still in use by businesses today.īelow is an edited transcript of Rosenthal’s conversation with Marketplace senior reporter Kimberly Adams.Īfter college, I went to work as a management consultant. Though he relied on archetypes for some of the minor characters (e.g. I had absolutely no problem following the action, even though I listened to the entirety of the story while working. At least in Warship, Dalzelle's style was remarkably lucid. I haven't read anything from the Omega Rising series, and this was my first exposure to Joshua Dalzelle. I honestly was a bit hesitant to believe all of the reviews, as I had never seen so much glowing for the first book in a series. All of the other reviews have pretty much said all there was to be said, and I echo their words. Boyett has definitely become my favorite military scifi/space opera narrator, and with Warship, he once again gives a performance that is nothing less than stellar. Yet, somehow he still can make me believe that I'm in a completely different universe with a whole different set of characters, all of them with unique nuances. After listening to every Star Force, Undying Mercenaries, and Troy Rising audiobook with other standalone novels he performed, I feel like I've heard the full spectrum of Boyett's voices a dozen times over. I was initially drawn to this book because I was looking for other Mark Boyett performances. A compelling and satisfying underdog space opera Winnie decides to expand her social media offerings of STEM videos to gain more followers for a potential job. The Penny Reid Extended Universe deals well with characters on the autism spectrum, in my opinion – your feelings may vary – they feel true to my own experiences. If a character doesn’t like his behaviour or comments, they just logic it through with him. He’s clearly on the autism spectrum, but no attempt is made to “redeem” him, make him more “normal,” or suggest that he needs to change in any way. Winnie is a teacher, and Byron is an author of some renown. I really enjoyed Ten Trends (notes: “I didn’t want this to end”). My thumbnail says “oh, this is why we pay for good books.” When I read this, I’d been reading a lot of books that I picked up for free or for a dollar. Night falls, and in The Hard Goodbye, Sin City's Big Marv is out for revenge. Basin City is Ragnarok, Sodom and Gomorrah, and every violent, corrupt, urban nightmare rolled into one festering cesspool of vice, vigilantism, and death. There is no "caped crusader" here, no colorful costume criminals, no Commissioner Gordon. 69-70) Night falls in Miller's vision of a Gotham gone horribly wrong. And there's blood in my hands, in my arms, poundingīetween my ears and pushing me forward and telling me I'll never be tired again. The years fall away, just like so many chunks of dead flesh. My hands are shaking like a kid's at Christmas. The suits and briefcases scurry to their fortresses and bolt their doorsĪnd balance their checkbooks and ignore the screams and try not to think about who really owns Sin City. US$17.00.įrank Miller's Sin City Volume 4: That Yellow Bastard (2nd ed.). US$17.00.įrank Miller's Sin City Volume 3: The Big Fat Kill (2nd ed.). US$17.00.įrank Miller's Sin City Volume 2: A Dame to Kill for (2nd ed.). Frank Miller's Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye (2nd ed.). |