![]() ![]() I love that it starts with karaoke in her Uncles bar, their first scenes together were soo cute □.I love the forbidden nature of their relationship because he’s not allowed to date because his life is so public.I also really love and adore the way he would take care of his family □.The love interest is a K-pop star named Jaewoo, and he’s so SOFT and adorable.I love that this main character Jenny gets a chance to explore South Korea and visit family she hasn’t met before.My only critique is that the ending conflict felt a little cliche and unnecessary, but otherwise I loved this so much.One if my favorite YA books I’ve read in a long time. ![]() Here are some quick thoughts I jotted down after finishing it: ![]() It just put a smile on my face the whole time I read it. I wasn’t expecting to adore this YA book as hard as I did, but omg it’s adorable and I can definitely see myself rereading this one in the future. ![]()
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![]() 'Pung is one of the best young writers in Australia. 'A tender, sophisticated sequel to Unpolished Gem, told with humour, compassion, finesse and powerful imagery.' - Wet Ink 'Pung has an extraordinary story to tell and the finesse to bring it, most movingly to the page.' -the Monthly Shortlisted, 2012 Queensland Literary Awards Shortlisted, 2012 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Shortlisted, 2012 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards ![]() Set in Melbourne, China and Cambodia, Her Father's Daughter captures a father–daughter relationship in a moving and astonishingly powerful way. Her father fears for her safety to an extraordinary degree – but why?Īs she digs further into her father's story, Alice embarks on a journey of painful discovery: of memories lost and found, of her own fears for the future, of history and how it echoes down the years. ![]() But with each step she takes she feels the sharp tug of invisible threads: the love and worry of her parents, who want more than anything to keep her from harm. Winner, 2011 Western Australian Book AwardsĪt twenty-something, Alice is eager for the milestones of adulthood: leaving home, choosing a career, finding friendship and love on her own terms. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She was a self-proclaimed “glutton for art” and she would be responsible for the creation of the Hermitage, one of the largest museums in the world, second only to the Louvre. She believed that the best way to do this was through a ravenous acquisition of art, which Catherine often used as a form of diplomacy with other powers throughout Europe. 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Brief Summary of Book: The Empress of Art: Catherine the Great and the Transformation of Russia by Susan Jaques ![]() ![]() YouTube/ Rumble/Apple/ Anchor FM/ Spotify/ Radio Public/WordPress: Dweller of the Dark Walk our fiery path and find us on here, our websites, podcasts and FIVERR to raise seven kinds of Hell!Ĭheck out our new books on Amazon, podcasts, and websites. UNKNOWN HORROR MASTERS! Send us ghoulish delights for “The Skull and Bones Collection”! Your pound of writer’s flesh will feed our ghouls…for now. SUBSCRIBE/ COMMENT/ LIKE/ DONATE or I’ll send “The Devil of Black Bayou” to rip your head off as we did the LIKE button. More tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten are climbing out of the tombs. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writers today. We are a channel honoring the yellowed and blackened bones of many prominent authors. I saw through the folds of animated jelly a great reddish sucker, or disk, lined with silver teeth. ![]() ![]() This episode is also available as a blog post: ![]() ![]() ![]() Among her many projects are over a dozen Star Trek novels, a similar number for gaming giant Blizzard’s World of Warcraft and StarCraft novels, three books in the nine-book Star Wars series, Fate of the Jedi, which she co-wrote with Troy Denning and the late and greatly missed Aaron Allston, and the novelization of Star Wars: The Clone Wars unaired episodes, Dark Disciple, which many reviews and lists have cited as the best of the new canon novels.Ģ014 saw the publication of no fewer than four novels. ![]() Award-winning and eight-time New York Times bestselling author Christie Golden has written nearly fifty novels and several short stories in the fields of science fiction, fantasy and horror. ![]() ![]() ![]() Man, a good writing group definitely sharpens its members, so I’m glad they served you well. ![]() I finished the trilogy in 2021 – the same year that book one made its debut. ![]() I pitched ONE DAY AS A LION to Aethon Books in 2019 during #SFFpit and things moved quickly after that, with some delays along the way because of things like Covid. I needed a trilogy to tell the entire story and give the universe the stage it deserves. The trilogy and book one grew out of a need to address questions that my peers had regarding the story, and short fiction has always been one of my weaknesses. I’m glad that they did it needed a lot of work. It was an ambitious but flawed story that got torn apart by my writing group (the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers). The first book of the trilogy, ONE DAY AS A LION, grew out of a short story called “The Duel” that I wrote in 2012. I present it to you now as a short transcript…įirst question for you, John: How long had you been writing your GORDIAN KNOT trilogy before Aethon said, “Can we publish that?” (Aethon being the publishing house, of course). We caught up recently for a quick conversation. 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The highly anticipated new novel from the worldwide bestselling author of The Clockmaker’s Daughter, a spellbinding story that begins with a shocking crime, the effects of which echo across continents and generations.Īt the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then again, who among us hasn’t felt like time is a flat circle over the past year or so? (Wright employs a couple of cool, split-diopter shots with the television in the background and an extreme close-up of Anna’s face in the foreground for an unsettling, DePalmaesque touch.) But the mixture of substances and isolation makes her perspective unreliable from the start, which means the title cards indicating days of the week are useful only to the audience. ![]() These exchanges let us know that Adams’ Anna Fox has managed to maintain her sense of humor, despite her depression and agoraphobia.Ī psychologist who has suffered a breakdown, Anna has cocooned herself with food delivery, classic films, and a steady diet of prescription drugs and red wine. Finn’s 2018 best-selling novel, establishes a snappy tone with rat-a-tat dialogue off the top. And the always brilliant screenwriter and co-star Tracy Letts, in adapting A.J. Gifted cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel (“ Inside Llewyn Davis,” “ A Very Long Engagement”) lights the rooms of her home in garish pinks and chilly blues, reflecting both her mania and her loneliness. 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This inspector gives him the nickname “the White Tiger,” after a rare creature in India.īalram’s mother and father recognize his potential, but his grandmother takes him out of school to work in a teashop. The author’s family lives at the mercy of these landlords, who are referred to as “The Animals.” Despite his difficult childhood, the author excels in school and gets noticed by an inspector from another town. The story begins in a village that is controlled by four cruel landlords. He writes to the Premier of China in order to educate him on how entrepreneurs are made in India. ![]() The White Tiger is a story about Balram Halwai, who starts out as the son of a rickshaw driver and becomes an entrepreneur. 1-Page Summary of The White Tiger Overall Summary ![]() ![]() ![]() Near-death experiencers and followers of the phenomenon are now very familiar with the “main events” that occur during an NDE - from the initial out-of-body experience - to the NDEr being told “It is not your time.” This realm is uniformly described as “heaven” or “heaven-like.” And since heaven is not likely to change over time, it is reasonable to conclude that all of the main components that occur during a near-death experience have already been revealed. Since this time, millions of NDEs have been reported worldwide. While the first written recording of a near-death experience dates back to the writings of famed Greek philosopher Plato, the phenomenon of the NDE burst onto the scene in the 1970s with the widespread introduction of resuscitation techniques that, for the first time in human history, could bring clinically dead people back to life. What if the existence of life after death could now be answered with certainty? ![]() |