6/9/2023 0 Comments Ancillary sword![]() ![]() ![]() Final thoughts While the first book was intended to be obviously the introduction to the world and developed the revenge sentiment in Breq, this book went deeper into her as character, and that was great. Leckie has a gift in building and sharing this new different cultural groups and the Radch universe can be very dark and very colorful at the same time. Once I was past this, the story was great. It was hard to though, because as it turns out, the changed the narrator (First book was read by Celeste Ciulla and this one is Adjoa Andoh) and so several of the pronunciations, names, etc changed and for the first quarter of the book it was hard to fully engage. Originally published at: A Girl that Likes Books First impression After really loving the first book on the Imperial Radch series, Ancillary Justice, and seeing that I was not the only one (is there any price Leckie didn’t win?) it was a no brainer to continue with the series. Nice second part, Waiting for the third book! ![]()
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6/9/2023 0 Comments Mariana by Monica Dickens![]() Kate and Emma, said BBC producer and director Douglas Allen, was written '.with such human warmth and understanding, relieved, quite often, with flashes of humour, that it is a masterpiece'.Ī 'masterly, intricate counterpoint of two Londoners' lives.’ Sunday Telegraph Within ten days of its publication in October 1964 the book went into a third printing, and was later dramatised for BBC Radio 4's Saturday Night Theatre. ![]() ![]() Kate and Emma has been called Monica's most accomplished work. What will happen to Sammy - and Kate and Emma's friendship? The novel moves towards the inevitable fate of Sammy, Kate's young son, whom she slowly starts to mistreat as she herself was mistreated as a child. The two young women form an unlikely yet believable friendship, but their paths diverge as Emma finds a career and a suitable marriage while for Kate there is only teenaged pregnancy, too many children and a slide into squalor and despair. ![]() Kate and Emma deals with the role of poverty in the ill-treatment of children, seen through the eyes of middle-class magistrate's daughter Emma but directly experienced by slum waif Kate. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Dark by Michelle Merz![]() ![]() Gregory, on the other hand, was dressed tamely in dark gray pants held up by suspenders and sporting an unkempt magenta polka-dotted bow tie. To add insult to injury, Danielle’s corset was adorned with silver rhinestone swirls and black polka dots, and the designer’s attempt to jazz up her colorblock dress with thick black sequins backfired immensely, making the costume look cheap. Together, the pair made a horrifying vision of magenta, electric blue, and light neon green. Australian pair skaters Danielle O’Brien and Gregory Merriman stepped out onto the ice, clothed head to toe in tacky highlighter tones. The Sochi 2014 Olympics were a rough time for figure skating fashion, when skaters graced the rink with colors so bright they could glow in the dark. However, this creative liberty has led to some atrocious fashion statements. Costumes may reflect the character of the music, allowing the skaters to go wild. Depending on the event (showcase, competition, etc.) there may or may not be a theme. ![]() ![]() Male-identifying skaters are banned from wearing tights (thank god). The rules of figure skating fashion are as follows: no excessively showing skin, and nothing that falls off your costume. While a botched lutz can tank a skater’s score, so too can a garish costume. ![]() Figure skating is a sport that values aesthetics as much as dexterity. ![]() ![]() ![]() Said codex had been saved from destruction by an orphan girl who managed to escape unseen during the fall of Constantinople.This amateur classicist, as a solitary exercise in his years of retirement, made his own translation of a recently rediscovered Greek codex.Her research leads her to the writings of an amateur classicist who was at the right place to stop a mass shooting by an ecoterrorist at a small town library. ![]() In a locked vault in a generation spaceship, not so many years from now, a girl hunts down scanned documents and news videos to try and figure out why her father signed up for a lifelong mission away from Earth.Imagine the most splendid city you can imagine, where people tell legends of the most splendid city you can imagine. Imagine a creation so vast that its intertextual references point at itself. Imagine a timeless masterpiece about the discovery of a timeless masterpiece. Imagine an obsessed reader researching an obsessed reader. Imagine an infinite library containing gateways to every library. Imagine a cryptic riddle about a hero deciphering a cryptic riddle. Imagine a story about the saving power of stories. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Tell me no lies av geiger pdf![]() ![]() ![]() Tessa had issues of her own, including the fact that she suffered from Agoraphobia. But Eric found an unlikely ally in superfan, Tessa Hart. His PR people made every decision for Eric, and it didn’t seem like it was about the music anymore. Those feelings had increased after another popular rock star was killed by an obsessed fan. In book one, Eric had been feeling frustrated and anxious. *** If you haven’t yet read book one in this series then I wouldn’t read any further as there may be spoilers***Īt the end of book one, we are left not knowing what happened to rock star Eric Thorn and Twitter Queen, Tessa Hart. ![]() I felt better once I realized there was going to be another book in the series. However, I hadn’t realized it was going to be part of a series so I was a bit miffed at the ending cliffhanger. I read Follow Me Back last year and enjoyed it. Tell me No Lies is book two in the Follow Me Back Series by A.V. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments The Last Patriot by Brad Thor![]() ![]() ![]() What Jason Bourne was to the Cold War, Scot Harvath is to the War on Terror. ![]() Saving the intended victim of the attack, Harvath becomes party to an amazing and perilous race to uncover a secret so powerful that militant Islam could be defeated once and for all without firing another shot, dropping another bomb, or launching another covert action.īut as desperate as the American government is to have the information brought to light, there are powerful forces aligned against it - men who are just as determined that Mohammed's mysterious final revelation continue to remain hidden forever. Present day: When a car bomb explodes outside a Parisian café, Scot Harvath is thrust back into the life he has tried so desperately to leave behind. Minister to France Thomas Jefferson, who is charged with forging a truce with the violent Muslim pirates of the Barbary Coast, makes a shocking discovery - one that could forever impact the world's relationship with Islam. June 632 A.D.: Deep within the Uranah Valley of Mount Arafat in Mecca, the Prophet Mohammed shares with his closest companions a final and startling revelation. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Melissa by alex gino![]() ![]() To Gino’s surprise, they eventually acquired an agent for the project and ultimately sold it to Scholastic, in 2014. “It was a little pet project,” Gino told PW. Gino’s original intent was to print a few copies for distribution to trans youth via their local PFLAG organizations. ![]() In 2003, nonbinary author Gino, whose pronouns are they and them, began writing a story about a trans girl, the eponymous main character pre-transition, navigating gender identity and presentation when she is denied the chance to audition for the role of Charlotte in her school’s production of Charlotte's Web due to erroneously being labeled a boy. ![]() Alex Gino’s acclaimed trans middle grade novel George (Scholastic Press, 2015) is receiving an update in the form of a new name and a brand-new cover. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book begins with a preface that contains a mental health warning due to the content challenging personal beliefs of readers, with Hossenfelder describing herself as an "agnostic heathen". The chapters are interspersed with four interviews with scientists in various physics fields, who offer their own perspective and "stereotypes of eccentricity" to the subject matter. These questions are split into individual chapters and interviews with various scientists are included throughout the book.Įach chapter of the book tackles a different scientific or "ascientific" topic, moving between philosophical scientific subjects including predictability, the meaning of life, and the existence of free will to those Hossenfelder considers impossible to be answered by science, such as the existence of god, the multiverse, and the "belief that subatomic particles are conscious". It focuses on discussing various existential and ethical questions related to scientific topics and explaining their connection to current scientific research or debunking their relevance or possibility to ever be explained by science in the first place. ![]() ![]() Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions is a nonfiction popular science book by theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder that was published by Viking Press on August 9, 2022. ![]() ![]() ![]() And that we did it here at Chavaniac, just like those who came before us. A thousand years from now someone will need to know that we stood up against the darkest forces of humanity. ![]() And that our voices would not be silenced forever, but echo through the ages for those who are willing to listen.Ĩ. I hid the blades deep in volcanic soil that served to remind me that the precious things we bury, like fire in the heart of the world, must one day rise up again. The world always snuffs out fire, and every generation must bring light from darkness again.ħ. Nothing lasts but your name and your legacy.Ħ. When going to war, one should begin with a new hat.ĥ. To ask why not assumed endless possibility…Ĥ. ![]() To ask why was only to demand justification. Most castles are defended by powerful men. The Château de Chavaniac is such a place.Ģ. There are places in this world where the past still echoes in the stones. TOP TEN QUOTES FROM THE WOMEN OF CHATEAU LAFAYETTEġ. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Gates of fire novel![]() ![]() Xeo eventually becomes the squire to the Spartan officer Dienekes, who Heredotus credits with responding the the claim that the Persian arrows will blot out the sun replying "Then we shall have our battle in the shade."Being historical fiction, we know how the story ends. The narrative repeatedly jumps around in time, as new points in the tale are related to other events from Xeo's past. ![]() Treated by the royal surgeons, Xeones says in order to truly understand the Spartans, he must start at the beginning. ![]() Gates tells its tale from the viewpoint of the lone Greek survivor of the battle, a squire named Xeones.Xeones is rescued from the rubble of the battlefield and taken before the Persian King Xerxes, who wishes to learn more of these Spartans, who numbering only 300 had managed to hold off his army of hundreds of thousands. ![]() Gates of Fire is much less fantastical than "300" and hits much closer to the truth of the battle. I left craving more Spartan bad-assery, and seeing how Steven Pressfield's epic novel had been sitting in my to be read pile for awhile, I thought it was the perfect time to read Gates of Fire.Both "300" and Gates of Fire are based on the Battle of Thermopylae, the now legendary battle where a force of 300 Spartans and their Greek allies are said to have held off the entire Persian army. I went to see the movie "300" on opening weekend. ![]() |