![]() ![]() Ellis understands Felicity more than anyone else at Dalloway School-but she might also draw Felicity back into the darkness she’s been trying to escape. How far will she go in writing a book about murder? Despite herself, Felicity finds herself connecting with Ellis. Other students gravitate to Ellis, but Felicity is suspicious of the prodigy.Įllis calls herself a “method writer,” and she wants to live the events she writes about. Ellis Haley, a 17-year-old Pulitzer-prize-winning novelist, has come to Dalloway to write her second book about the Dalloway Five. At school, she discovers a new student shares her fascination. Still, determined to put the past behind her and graduate, Felicity throws herself into research for her thesis.įelicity has always had a fascination with the Dalloway Five-a group of five girls who died on the school grounds hundreds of years earlier under mysterious circumstances. ![]() Back at the boarding house where she lived with Alex, Felicity is convinced that her dead ex is haunting her. By what? A few things, but mostly her ex-girlfriend Alex, who died in a tragic accident that Felicity witnessed, causing her to leave for a stint in a psychiatric hospital. Protagonist Felicity Morrow, returning to Dalloway after a year away, is haunted. The Fever King author dives into the world of dark academia in A Lesson in Vengeance, set at Dalloway School, an isolated girls’ boarding school in the Catskills. ![]()
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![]() Instead, Postcards is more like a series of vignettes in the life of actress Susan Vale as she struggles toward sobriety. ![]() It’s a great shock, then, to read Postcards from the Edge in this modern context. It’s her most famous work as an author and it just so happens to be a thinly fictionalized version of Fisher’s own relationship with her mother. Author Carrie Fisher’s unexpected death (followed closely by her mother, Debbie Reynolds’ own passing) last December also gave the book a sort of notoriety. First of all, the movie adaptation is extremely well regarded and features sterling performances from Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine as a complicated mother and daughter in Hollywood. It’s difficult to come into Postcards from the Edge without a certain expectation. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Fear of flying novel![]() ![]() Who was this chick that was lucky enough to hang out with my favorite writer and have him sing her praises? I needed to know, which is how I discovered Fear of Flying. While working my way through the Henry Miller archive, I came upon The Devil At Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller. Miller’s lover Anaïs Nin became my literary BFF. Miller waxed poetic about the novels of his buddy Lawrence Durrell, so I tried - and failed - to love his writing too. I devoured every word he wrote, enraptured by his poetic blood-and-guts call to grab hold of life, drink cheap wine, and be “always merry and bright.” At the time, I was working at a dive serving $2 egg-and-bacon breakfasts to wild-eyed customers who’d just wandered in from all-night raves “merry and bright” sounded like a pretty worthwhile pursuit. I got to know Miller’s writing during my post-college existential crisis, that glorious time riddled with career-related panic attacks and angsty ennui. ![]() I didn’t know the man personally, since he passed away when I was still at the age where The Very Hungry Caterpillar was considered advanced literature. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Aleron kong the land series![]() ![]() While many eyes have turned towards the mists, wanting to take the treasures within, the Mist Village stares back with a simple message. New skills have been learned, stronger enchantments have been wrought and the hundreds of villagers have answered the call to adventure. ![]() Richter and Sion need to be stronger than ever before. Richter's people are horribly outnumbered by foes whose own power has been entrenched for thousands of years. The MistVillage has been noticed.Įvil nobles from the Kingdom of Law, bloodthirsty goblins from the Serrated Mountains, an undead lord with a penchant for human sacrifice and fanatical kobolds from the Depths, all plot the village's destruction. The path to power has not been without risk, however. Core buildings, Professional fighters and now, their own Dungeon, the settlement is primed to grow into a kingdom of true power and magic. In The Land:Predators, the Mist Village has harnessed its power. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Shadow rider book series![]() ![]() With little left to her name, Francesca Cappello has come to Chicago in hopes of a new life. ![]() The Ferraros are a family of shadow riders capable of manipulating light and dark, an ability Stefano thought ran in his family alone-until now… While their criminal activity is simply a rumor yet to be proven, no one knows the real truth. ![]() When he’s not fodder for the paparazzi, he commands Ferraro family businesses-both legitimate and illegitimate. Whether it’s fast cars or fast women, Stefano Ferraro gets what he wants. The #1 New York Times bestselling “queen of paranormal romance”* is back with a sexy new series starring a Chicago crime family that hides a dark, mystical secret. Genres: Paranormal Romance, Psychic Abilities Also in this series: Shadow Reaper, Shadow Keeper, Shadow Warrior, Shadow Flight ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Chess by stefan zweig![]() ![]() Visitors from shore pressed past one another to take leave of their friends, telegraph boys in skew-whiff caps shot names through the lounges, cases and flowers were brought and inquisitive children ran up and down flights of stairs while the orchestra played imperturbably on deck. ![]() The large steamship leaving New York for Buenos Aires at midnight was caught up in the usual bustle and commotion of the hour before sailing. Preferably the gorgeous Pushkin Press edition I have. It made the whole experience so much more surprising and revelatory – so part of me wants to tell you to stop reading this review and just get a copy. I didn’t know anything about A Chess Story when I started it, and I was very glad about that. Translated by Alexander Starritt, I should say – someone at my book group had a very different translation, based on our comparison of the first few lines, but it hurts my head to think too much about the variations that are possible with different translators at work. Stefan Zweig is rather brilliant, isn’t he? A Chess Story, from 1941, is the third Zweig novella I’ve read and the best so far – a really astonishing achievement in so few pages. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments The ghost and the stolen tears![]() ![]() "Engaging characters, historical backgrounds, and plenty of red herrings add up to a gem of a story. Now Jack is back on the job, and Pen is eternally grateful. From the look of things, history is about to repeat. Back in the 1940s, those same Valentino Teardrops starred in a bizarre case of betrayal and murder. Jack Shepard, PI, may have been gunned down decades ago, but his memory hasn't been ghosted. ![]() And when the spirited Norma vanishes before her arrest, Pen turns to another spirit. Pen doesnt believe Norma is guilty of the crime-though the evidence is distressingly strong. And when the spirited Norma vanishes before her arrest, Pen turns to another spirit. Norma is accused of stealing jewels from a guests room: the legendary Valentino Teardrops, an antique necklace and earring set, inherited by a young socialite. Pen doesn't believe Norma is guilty of the crime-though the evidence is distressingly strong. Norma is accused of stealing jewels from a guest's room: the legendary Valentino Teardrops, an antique necklace and earring set, inherited by a young socialite. ![]() But it's Norma's other job, working as a housekeeper at the Finch Inn, that gets her into terrible trouble. Jovial, wise, and scrupulously honest, she's become an uplifting presence in the little town of Quindicott, Rhode Island, where bookseller Pen is thankful to have her part-time help. Living out of her van and teardrop trailer, she revels in self-reliance, solitude, and reading in the glorious peace of nature. "A GEM OF A STORY" - Kirkus Reviews * With the help of her gumshoe ghost, bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure sets out to clear an innocent woman of a shocking crime in this all-new entry in the "utterly charming" ( Mystery Scene ) Haunted Bookshop Mysteries from New York Times bestselling author Cleo Coyle. ![]() ![]() That’s a danger for series authors–that readers will be so incensed that they will turn away. ECHO ended so precipitously that I wanted to throw the book across the room when I got to the final pages. The end held so much possibility! ECHO was different. For the former, there was just so much tension and heartbreak, watching Jamie and Claire’s love strengthen and develop and get stomped on time and again. And there were two books in the eight volume series that really upset me. I’ve read the entire Outlander novel series–years ago, before they made it a TV series. I’m afraid to pick up a latest book, unsure that I’ll love the sequel. In fact, most avid readers I know stick with similar authors and auto-buy, auto-read whatever is next in a series.īut, sometimes, I’m conflicted. I love bonding with a character, or set of characters, and following their struggles through adversity. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hi there! As followers of my posts know, I adore series reads. ![]() ![]() ![]() The dream possessed her, causing an uncontrollable shiver to run through her body. Marty stirred restlessly in an effort to shake off sleep. They make their home in Didsbury, Alberta. Edward and Janette have both been active in their local church, serving in various capacities as Sunday-school teachers and board members. The Okes have three sons and one daughter and are enjoying the addition to the family of grandchildren. They were married in May of 1957, and went on to pastor churches in Indiana as well as Calgary and Edmonton, Canada. She is a graduate of Mountain View Bible College in Didsbury, Alberta, where she met her husband, Edward. JANETTE OKE was born in Champion, Alberta, during the depression years, to a Canadian prairie farmer and his wife. Love's Enduring Promise (Love Comes Softly #2)Įdward Terry, Lavon, Lorne and Laurel -my wonderful family ![]() ![]() ![]() But the century in between remains a mystery: if emancipation sparked "a new birth of freedom" in Lincoln's America, why was it necessary to march in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s America? In this new book, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of our leading chroniclers of the African-American experience, seeks to answer that question in a history that moves from the Reconstruction Era to the "nadir" of the African-American experience under Jim Crow, through to World War I and the Harlem Renaissance. ![]() ![]() The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. Stony the Road lifts the rug." -Nell Irvin Painter, New York Times Book ReviewĪ profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, by the bestselling author of The Black Church. In our current politics we recognize African-American history-the spot under our country’s rug where the terrorism and injustices of white supremacy are habitually swept. “Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. ![]() |