6/12/2023 0 Comments The stranger diaries review![]() She has successfully delivered a stand-alone story that had me reading deep into the night just to find out the killer’s identity. Not many authors take a chance on writing new characters when they have an established series, so I admire Griffiths for taking a break from beloved characters and trying new ones on for size. ![]() The juxtaposition of the present day action with the story of The Stranger is smooth and flowed in a way that the stories complemented each other, and delivered hints of Wilkie Collins. In The Stranger Diaries, Griffiths appears to be flexing her writing muscles and experimenting with different forms. ![]() In truth, I’ve found the last couple Ruth Galloway books stale and prosaic, with the focus shifted from Ruth’s work as a forensic anthropologist and Nelson’s work as a detective taking a backseat to what has become a boring love triangle. This is truly Griffiths at her best, with well-developed and engaging characters, some of whom beg to become part of a new series (I’m looking at you, Harbinder Kaur!) ![]() In The Stranger Diaries, Elly Griffiths moves beyond her series characters and delivers a clever, well-plotted, and gripping murder mystery with a hint of ghost story. ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Lorna doone novel![]() ![]() Expect highly improbable plot contrivances, with unrealistic events thrown in to help the romantic protagonists. It was slow getting into, but one must make allowances for Blackmore's (to us) antiquated style: archaic vocabulary, country dialect to slog through, plus a great deal of religious and political warfare-obscure historical references for most Americans. ![]() In my opinion, LORNA is much more readable and almost enjoyable. This book is quite different from Blackmore's AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND no intertwined Fact and Fantasy here, but a curious blend of Romance and Adventure, as if the author were not entirely certain which genre he was brewing up in the wild countryside. Novels written in the 19th century are not everyone's cup of English tea, so taste therefrom with literary trepidation. ![]() "Forbidden Romance in the Ruthless Highlands" ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments To kill a kingdom reviews![]() ![]() Loyalty is mockery and devotion is kinship in place of fear. However, I wanted to see more of her supposed viciousness before that happened.Įverything is a game to him. I like seeing her humanity “breaking” her down. ![]() She was a villain with a ruthless reputation. Lira wasn’t a Disney princess, that’s for sure. When I chose to read this book, I didn’t realize it’s based on The Little Mermaid which happens to be my favorite fairytale. Little did he know his latest adventure might cost him his heart. Choosing to live on the open sea, he made it his mission to hunt the deadly sirens. However, as the heir to the throne, he was more pirate than prince. But her ambition landed her in hot waters and she must find a way to redeem herself.Įlian Midas hailed from a powerful kingdom. Poised to take over her mother’s reign as sea queen, she wanted to cement her own legacy. ![]() Lira was a notorious keeper of prince’s hearts. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The story of david copperfield![]() ![]() Mrs Jane Seymour Hill, Dickens' wife Catherine's chiropodist, recognized herself as the original for this character and threatened a lawsuit. Oops.Charles Dickens originally introduced the character of the dwarf, Miss Mowcher, as an aid to Steerforth's plan to elope with Emily. ![]() This was the first the public knew of Dickens' difficult childhood that had so heavily shaped his early work ( Forster, 1899, v. Forster's biography included the autobiographical fragment Dickens had given him. On Dickens' death Forster wrote The Life of Charles Dickens, which is still the definitive biography of Dickens, although many of the more negative aspects of Dickens life are glossed over or missing altogether. When David is asked by Mrs Micawber to take some of their treasured possessions to the pawn shop to help meet their obligations, Dickens is recalling painful memories of having to pawn off the very books he read and treasured as a child to ease his family's financial woes. The financial troubles of the Micawbers, with whom David was boarding at the time, mirror Dickens' parents, John and Elizabeth Dickens, financial difficulties. In the novel Dickens' painful memories of being taken from school to work at Warren's Blacking Factory while his father is in prison for debt are told through David's account of Murdstone and Grinby's warehouse. ![]() He opted instead to work his story into the fictional account of David Copperfield. Dickens by Maclise 1839Dickens found the writing too painful and burned what he had written. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments I ll love u forever book![]() ![]() The story of a woman rocking her baby, no matter how old he gets, and ending it with the man rocking his own frail mother will leave me in tears every time. As a mom, it has a whole new meaning for me. When I was a kid, this was one of my favorite Munsch books and I read it over and over again. ![]() I'm sure you've read this half a dozen times, but there is one thing you never knew about Love You Forever that will change the way you see the entire book. I'm sure you remember the name, but if you're a parent, you'll instantly recognize his classic Love You Forever. ![]() If, like me, you were also a child of the '90s, you probably had some of the same authors in your own bedroom, but one of my favorites was Robert Munsch. Growing up, I was an avid reader and definitely had my favorites lining my bookshelf. ![]() ![]() ![]() All from 1.45 New Books from 7.98 Used Books from 1.45 Rare Books from 16.82 eBook from 1. Islamic rule, though fragmented, extended over the bulk of Iberia for centuries, even as Christian warlords, pushing south, chipped away at Muslim territory. Tales of the Alhambra is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories. ![]() His A History of New York, published in 1809 under the name. ![]() Urn:lcp:talesofalhambra0000irvi_c6y7:lcpdf:cb24470e-473d-4a77-bc16-cd51ab05e13e In 1851 Irving wrote the 'Authors Revised Edition', also titled Tales of the Alhambra. Washington Irving, one of the first Americans to achieve international recognition as an author, was born in New York City in 1783. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:10:35 Boxid IA40201022 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Lobizona by romina garber![]() A world straight out of Argentine folklore, where the seventh consecutive daughter is born a bruja and the seventh consecutive son is a lobizón, a werewolf. A world connected to her dead father and his criminal past. Without a home, without answers, and finally without shackles, Manu investigates the only clue she has about her past-a mysterious "Z" emblem-which leads her to a secret world buried within our own. ![]() Her surrogate grandmother is attacked, lifelong lies are exposed, and her mother is arrested by ICE. Until Manu's protective bubble is shattered. As an undocumented immigrant who's on the run from her father's Argentine crime-family, Manu is confined to a small apartment and a small life in Miami, Florida. ![]() Manuela Azul has been crammed into an existence that feels too small for her. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Two Lives by Janet Malcolm![]() ![]() “ The Purloined Clinic” (1992) is a collection of essays and criticism from The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. “ The Journalist and the Murderer” (1990), about a lawsuit brought by a convicted murderer against the author of a book on his crime, examines the relationship between writer and subject it was first published in 1989 as a two-part article in the magazine. “ Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession” (1981) is an expanded version of her Profile of the psychoanalyst Aaron Green, and “ In the Freud Archives” (1984) is based on her two-part article on Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. ![]() ![]() Malcolm’s books include “ Diana and Nikon” (1980), her first, a collection of essays on photography. Throughout her career, Malcolm contributed a variety of pieces, including Profiles, Reporter at Large articles, and book reviews. From 1975 until 1981, she wrote a photography column. She began writing for The New Yorker in 1963, when the magazine published her poem “Thoughts on Living in a Shaker House.”įor nearly ten years, Malcolm wrote About the House, a column on interiors and design. Janet Malcolm was a staff writer for The New Yorker until her death, in 2021. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Exit Ghost by Philip Roth![]() ![]() Zuckerman, who narrates this novel, does indeed reek of the grave. Zuckerman, who has only the slightest personal stake in the matter - he spent a single evening back in 1956 with Lonoff, his soon-to-be-ex-wife, and a worshipful student - tells the biographer, “I’m going to do everything I can to sabotage you,” upon which the frustrated biographer excoriates Zuckerman: “You’re dying, old man, you’ll soon be dead! You smell of decay! You smell like death!” This is a not-unreasonable charge, given that the biography’s big revelation is going to be a sexual relationship the teenaged Lonoff supposedly had with his half-sister that is only marginally supported by the evidence. ![]() Lonoff that “the dirt-seeking snooping calling itself research is just about the lowest of literary rackets.” In Exit Ghost, Philip Roth’s ninth “Zuckerman” novel, Nathan Zuckerman tells a would-be biographer of the great, though purely fictional, American short-story writer E.I. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments The book 438 days![]() ![]() But Alvarenga never failed to invent an alternative reality. He considered suicide on multiple occasions-including offering himself up to a pack of sharks. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together his own clothes. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. ![]() When he washed ashore on January 29, 2014, he had arrived in the Marshall Islands, 9,000 miles away-equivalent to traveling from New York to Moscow round trip.įor fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. The storm picked up and blasted him west. A vicious storm killed his engine and the current dragged his boat out to sea. On November 17, 2012, Salvador Alvarenga left the coast of Mexico for a two-day fishing trip. 438 Days is the miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history-as told to journalist Jonathan Franklin in dozens of exclusive interviews. ![]() |