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Golem gustav meyrink5/23/2023 More real, more human, more purposeful in many ways than the lives held within it, who become the phantoms: I quote at length, because this is one of the most awesome passages where the city becomes what is real and sentient. But many of the themes explored in the Kafka museum about the relationship between author and city, words and experience, are here connected. Meyrink writes in 1914, already the streets he described are mostly gone, lost in the 1895 sweep of renewal that cleaned and tamed it. If I turned my head a little I could see my window on the fourth floor across the street with the rain trickling down, the panes looked like isinglass, opaque and lumpy, as if the glass were soggy. The Prague once visible through such windows in the Jewish ghetto: Meyrink’s The Golem is brilliant, taking you backwards to a Prague that I think perhaps is now only very rarely visible in shadows and courtyards. There are no hard and fast boundaries between them, geographical or otherwise, they are rather layered (even if found more in one place than another). Today though, it feels to me a triply divided city - the older sections jammed full of tourists and shops and mummified and tidied and meant for display, the newer suburbs that everyday vibrant life and imaginings have now been pushed into, and the awe and wonder of what Prague once was as experienced through the words of its authors. Prague is a city that lingers long in the mind and heart.
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Squad maggie5/23/2023 When the new girl is invited to join her high school’s most popular clique, she can’t believe her luck-and she can’t believe their secret, either. When Becca transfers to a high school in an elite San Francisco suburb, she’s worried she’s not going to fit in. SQUAD is a fast-paced and feminist horror story for every girl who’s ever felt like prey, and asks how far a girl should go to hunt the hunters.”-Laura Ruby, author of National Book Award Finalist Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All But Becca’s new friends are more than a clique, they’re a pack, and this pack is hungry. And that’s who we hunt. Becca wants what every high-schooler does: to have a group of friends, a squad. “ People call them all kinds of names-creeps, jerks. Join Porter Square Books for a virtual event with Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle for Squad! This sharply funny, patriarchy-smashing graphic novel is Pretty Little Liars meets Teen Wolf. The virtual event is free and open to all, hosted on Crowdcast.
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Her students at Jackson Elementary School in Salt Lake City, Utah, initiated the cleanup of hazardous waste, improved sidewalks, planted thousands of trees, and fought crime. Lewis is a national award-winning author and educator who teaches kids how to think and solve real problems. Barbara has been featured in/on many national newspapers, magazines, and news programs, including Newsweek, the Wall S Barbara A. They have also been recognized in the Congressional Record three times. They instigated and pushed through several state laws and an amendment to a national law, garnering 10 national awards, including two President's Environmental Youth Awards, the Arbor Day Award, the Renew America Award, and Pledge and a Promise Environmental Award.
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In this “dark and compelling…unputdownable” ( Booklist, starred review) literary thriller, debut novelist Iain Reid explores the depths of the human psyche, questioning consciousness, free will, the value of relationships, fear, and the limitations of solitude. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can’t fake a thought.”Īnd here’s what I’m thinking: I don’t want to be here. Jake once said, “Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. Iain Reid has crafted a tight, ferocious little book, with a persistent tenor of suspense that tightens and mounts toward its visionary, harrowing final pages” (Scott Heim, award-winning author of Mysterious Skin and We Disappear ). “ I’m Thinking of Ending Things is one of the best debut novels I’ve ever read. NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM DIRECTED BY CHARLIE KAUFMAN
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Lioness rampant by tamora pierce5/22/2023 So she and her twin brother, Thom, switch places: Thom heads for the convent to become a sorcerer, and Alanna-pretending to be a boy-is off to the castle of King Roald to begin her journey to knighthood.įilled with swords and sorcery, exploits and intrigue, good and evil, Alanna’s quest for knighthood launches the epic adventures of Tortall’s heroes. Young Alanna of Trebond is all of these things, and more than anything else, she has always craved the adventure and daring allowed only to boys. Experience the magic and adventure of the complete Song of the Lioness quartet, now available in a collectible boxed set with new cover art and afterwords from acclaimed author of this beloved fantasy series, Tamora Pierce.įearless, bold, athletic, magical.
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Beasts of prey book review5/22/2023 But the night those she loves are gravely threatened by the Zoo’s cruel master, Koffi unleashes a power she doesn’t fully understand, upending her life completely.Īs the second son of a decorated hero, Ekon is all but destined to become a Son of the Six-an elite warrior-and uphold a family legacy. There’s no such thing as magic in the broken city of Lkossa, especially for sixteen-year-old Koffi, who indentured to the notorious Night Zoo, knows the fearsome creatures in her care and paying off her family's debts to secure their eventual freedom can be her only focus. “Rich in magic and mythos, Beasts of Prey is a feast for all the senses.” -Renée Ahdieh, New York Times bestselling author of The BeautifulĪn Instant New York Times and Indie Bestseller In this blockbuster fantasy series, perfect for fans of Firekeeper’s Daughter and Iron Widow, fate binds two Black teenagers together as they journey into a magical jungle to hunt down a vicious monster.
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King immortal tithe5/22/2023 but if Hades fell in love with Persephone's brother instead. King of Immortal Tithe is a complete, M/M *stand-alone novel*, inspired by Hades x Persephone. And protection from the undead comes at a cost, one that Arlo is forced to pay when he is stolen by the Prince of Death.Īrlo finds himself tangled in a web of secrecy, family politics and unbridled magic when he comes face to face with the impending doom. It has been many years since the vampiric disease spread wildly across Darkmourn, making humans a rarity. Forced by the bitter Queen to partake in the Choosing, he discovers a single person who can resist the deadly grace of his touch. Faenir Evelina is scorned for the murder of his family. Especially if the dangers come in the form of elves from a realm beyond that of the human world.Įlf. To uphold the promise he made to his parents, ensuring the protection of his sister from the world and its dangers. /rebates/2fp2fKing-Immortal-Tithe2fBen-Alderson2f9781999963385&.com252fp252fKing-Immortal-Tithe252fBen-Alderson252f978199996338526afsrc3d126SID3d&idbooksamillion&nameBOOKSAMILLION. Arlo Grey will do anything to fend off the sickness that longs to destroy him.
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Cabin end of the world5/22/2023 Check out his website for more information. He has recently begun a series of neo-noir novels that will go on my summer reading list. He has also published a collection of short stories, Growing Things (2019), edited several anthologies, and collaborated with Stephen Graham Jones (reviewed earlier in this series). His major novels include A Head Full of Ghosts (2015), Disappearance at Devil’s Rock (2017), which won the British Fantasy Award for best horror novel, The Cabin at the End of the World (2018), which won the Bram Stoker Award, and Survivor Song (2020), published by HarperCollins. Paul Tremblay has been moving rapidly into best-seller territory for several years. James S Arroyo on Weird Fiction Review #9: The C… Matthiasregan on Weird Fiction Review #9: The C…Īlia storino on Weird Fiction Review #9: The C… Weird fiction… on Weird Fiction Review #9: The C… Weird Fiction Review #9: The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay.Weird Fiction Review #10: On the Apollonian and Dionysian in Weird Fiction Today–Piranesi and Unlanguage.
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Tidelands book series5/22/2023 But with 15 books in the series covering everything from The War of the Roses to the Elizabethan Era, it can be hard to know where to start. If you’re just diving into a Philippa Gregory series, or you’re already a fan and not sure which one to pick up next, the best place might be the Plantagenets and Tudor series. Tidelands by Philippa Gregory The 1 New York Times bestselling author and one of the great storytellers of our time (San Francisco Book Review) turns from the glamour of the royal courts to tell the story of an ordinary woman, Alinor, who cannot bear to conform to the life that lies before her. Philippa Gregory book I’d ever read, and my immediate reaction was to be inĬomplete awe of how spectacularly she builds the world in the story so you getĪ true sense of the time and the characters.įor someone like me who loves historical fiction, her books are a gold mine-and lucky for everyone, she’s written upwards of 30 other novels to dig into. Is the first installment in the new The Fairmile series. Which the story is focused, and her writing is so riveting: the stories are full Get a true look at what women had to go through during each period of time in Each novel is so thoroughly researched that you On royal women in the English court across centuries, and the passions and Queenly historical fiction, and we all love her for it.
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Mt anderson books5/22/2023 I was reminded strongly of Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’, Pohl’s ‘Space Merchants’ and Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451’ in particular, but there were shades of many others.Īnderson is clear in comments at the end of the book that it is his intention that ‘Feed’ is read as an allegorical tale, and it is certainly one which will be on my mind for quite some time. M T Anderson draws on a whole host of classic dystopian science fiction writing to pull off this engaging Young Adult novel. Very few people notice the world is dying, so driven to distraction are they. In September 1941, Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history. There are no more forests, meat is genetically engineered to grown in huge slabs, and people’s skin falling off due to disease is marketed as the latest thing in ‘fashion’. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony. Everyone with a feed is constantly assaulted with advertising banners and slogans based off detailed consumer profiles, profiles that people are constantly being forced to conform to. This embedded machine grows with them and takes over much of their basic function, to the point that being able to read, write and even speak out loud is considered strange. It is the future: Where American children have an electronic ‘feed’ implanted into their brain. |