My lovely wife book7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() They’re your standard American family, living a little bit beyond their means. ![]() They have two kids, a 14-year-old named Rory and a 13-year-old named Jenna. The novel is told from the point of view of the unnamed husband, a country club tennis pro, who is married to the beautiful Millicent, a real estate agent. ![]() But now we have My Lovely Wife, which heralds the arrival of a writer who deserves to be a superstar, the previously unpublished but terrifically talented Samantha Downing. The last psychological thriller to have that effect on me was Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, which for the longest time seemed to be the standard bearer for truly probing, truly messed-up mysteries. But to finish a book and marvel at what I’ve just read? Surprised, definitely entertained, often. Because of my deep familiarity with the genre, it’s perishing rare for me to finish a mystery and actually be shocked by what has transpired. I read a lot of mystery novels, and I have done so since long before I started reviewing here for Criminal Element. My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing is a wildly compulsive debut thriller about a couple whose 15-year marriage has finally gotten too interesting. ![]()
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Terry pratchett money7/2/2023 ![]() When we meet up with him again in this one, he is bored out of his mind (not literally, although that could easily be the case in a Discworld novel). In Going Postal, he was given the task of saving the postal service and ended up re-inventing the whole system. In that book, von Lipwig was saved from the gallows by Lord Vetinari who saw some potential in him. von Lipwig has the worst (or best) name and we’ve only had one book about him before, Going Postal, which I really liked. This book is about Moist von Lipwig, a former conman whom we previously met in ‘Going Postal’.Īs a Discworld fan, you know that things can’t go wrong when a book involves Ankh-Morpork, Lord Vetinari and Moist von Lipwig. There are several story lines in this universe – the wizards, the witches, the watch, Death and more. While being set in this fantasy world, Pratchett’s books comment on this world, our world. ![]() ![]() He has written some 40+ books in the series, all taking place on a flat disc floating in space on the backs of 4 elephants standing on the back of a huge turtle who swims through space. Discworld is a funny and very creative fantasy series written by Terry Pratchett. ![]() ![]() “The Windham Southeast Supervisory Union launched a community read of OCTOPUS, and as part of that a group of students decided to march in the July 4th parade to help spread the word.” (Braden, 2020, March 22) Her 2018 young adult novel, The Benefits of Being an Octopus, inspired schools and libraries around Windham County to host book clubs and discussions about economic injustice in the area. (Nyaphaga, 2018, January 30)īraden’s writing has been a catalyst for communities to address childhood poverty. ![]() ![]() I believe in power of love, power to create, power to organize, power to transform…art has become a source of power to impact the world. Rooted in love, her activism is generative, creating spaces and opportunities where the community can come together to act, whether on gun reform or on messages of love to those who have been recipients of hate.īraden’s work recalls the words of Cameroonian artist and activist Issa Nyaphaga: Ann Braden is a Vermont author, activist, and teacher whose overarching work can be summed up simply: Being motivated by love, she dives in once in, she works to bridge the divide. ![]() Story robinson crusoe7/1/2023 ![]() Įpistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer) – a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad, roughly resembling Tobago, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. ![]() Robinson Crusoe ( / ˈ k r uː s oʊ/) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. ![]() The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Aven's about to discover she can do it all. About 200 years old Why does Aven think she is an entirely insignificant event in the life of the cactus It had been around for such a long time and lived through many great events including AZ becoming a state, etc. It's hard to solve a mystery, help a friend, and face your worst fears. Her new life takes an unexpected turn when she bonds with Connor, a classmate who also feels isolated because of his own disability, and they discover a room at Stagecoach Pass that holds bigger secrets than Aven ever could have imagined. 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Nicholas, more popularly known (after its first line) as The Night Before Christmas. ![]() (Octo– February 29, 1828) has been proposed as being the uncredited author of the poem A Visit from St. ![]() The Festering by Guy N. Smith7/1/2023 ![]() In some cases, suggested titles simply didn’t fit the criteria - Edith Wharton’s best-known novels (“The House of Mirth,” 1905 “The Age of Innocence,” 1920) just missed the temporal cutoff, for instance, and we decided that Gatsby was really more of a Long Island man. There wasn’t always a consensus about what was worthy and, though there were some undisputed favorites, we didn’t even attempt to rank the books - instead, they appear more or less in the order they did in conversation. ![]() ![]() These sorts of lists always come with caveats, the most obvious in this case being that this was a deeply subjective exercise shaped by reading histories and preferences. Then, on a Friday in February, they met up to debate which titles should be included in the final version. ![]() Each of them nominated 10 or so books he or she felt strongly about. To make the list, we assembled a panel of judges - the novelists Katie Kitamura and Michael Cunningham, the bookseller Miriam Chotiner-Gardner (who works at the quintessential New York bookstore Three Lives & Company in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village), the playwright and television writer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and the journalist Mark Harris. ![]() The revelation space series7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Moro Fandoms: Revelation Space Series - Alastair Reynolds Principal Damocles Bashing (Miraculous Ladybug).I promise no more tags about Lila Rossi - whoops too late.Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug Deserves Better.Le Gorille | Adrien Agreste's Bodyguard.Original Miraculous Ladybug Character(s).Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug/Damian Wayne.Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir & Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug.Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug.Emilie Agreste & Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth.Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings. ![]() No Archive Warnings Apply, Major Character Death, Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings.Not Rated, Teen And Up Audiences, General Audiences. ![]() Applegate, Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Mask of The Phantasm, Batman: The Animated Series, Century Rain, Cobra Kai (Web Series), Game of Thrones (TV), Halo (Video Games) & Related Fandoms, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy, Miraculous Ladybug, Revelation Space Series - Alastair Reynolds, The Karate Kid, Under the Red Hood, Witchblade (TV) Martin, Animorphs (TV), Animorphs - Katherine A. 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