![]() ![]() I had no feelings after reading (skimming) the last page. This book did not make me angry or even slighted. II was like any horror flick sequel–a cheap, recognizable vehicle, ordered by the film studio to make a quick buck in the fall when high schoolers take their frightened dates to the movies, made from the dying carcass of the original and lacking any of the charm. The jumps were like a 90s slasher without the wit or humor. The Merciless II was a cardboard story with cardboard characters and cardboard scenery. ![]() I had a special, small place in my heart for The Merciless which I read last year, but that slight admiration was not enough to save the sequel. It’s Fifty Shades of Grey meets Catholic suppression. Oops, take that bone back girl because this boy is crazy and wants to whip the devil out of you. There she meets two girls and an altar boy who she totally wants to bone. Then she is sent to a Catholic school for troubled teens (not so much of the “troubled” but definitely some “teens”). Then her mom dies (it’s not a happens within the first 10 pages). She convinces herself, with the help of a therapist, that the demonic events she witnessed were not real (yeah.okay). Just a quick summary: Sofia Flores survived the exorcism and death of her fellow classmates and friends(?). It’s hard to review a book that has already left your memory. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Sara Gran is the author of the novels Dope, Come Closer, Saturn's Return to New York, and the Claire DeWitt detective series (2011). ![]() Where-Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.Littered with memories of Claire’s years as a girl detective in 1980s Brooklyn, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead is a knockout start to a bracingly original new series. ![]() ![]() Has an angry criminal enacted revenge on Vic? Or did he use the storm as a means to disappear? Claire follows the clues, finding old friends and making new enemies-foremost among them Andray Fairview, a young gang member who just might hold the key to the mystery. Claire is investigating the disappearance of Vic Willing, a prosecutor known for winning convictions in a homicide- plagued city. The tattooed, pot-smoking Claire has just arrived in post-Katrina New Orleans, the city she’s avoided since her mentor, Silette’s student Constance Darling, was murdered there. But Claire also uses her dreams, omens, and mind-expanding herbs to help her solve mysteries, and relies on Détection - the only book published by the late, great, and mysterious French detective Jacques Silette. She has brilliant deductive skills and is an ace at discovering evidence. Claire DeWitt is not your average private investigator. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is mentioned multiple times that most young men were stopped by. ![]() In one scene where Michael and Aisha leave the library, they see three cop cars in a row. Indeed there was a massive increase in police presence around Scarborough after the shooting. After the shooting, the newspapers ran "updates, columns, letters to the editor" (72), some of which "called for a crackdown on crime, others for much more" (73). News coverage of dangerous black criminals is a recurring theme in the novel, from when Michael and Francis were young and scared by the "black murderers" (155) on the news, to the reactionary hysteria that followed Anton's shooting. ![]() He earned both a BA and MA from Carleton University and. David Chariandy's novel shows how negative racial stereotypes that are portrayed in the media manifest in increased policing of black communities, which then sets in motion a feedback loop increasing the perception that black men are criminals. Toward the end of Brother, Francis, the title character, reflects on the circumstances of his community in a housing complex outside of Toronto and. David Chariandy was raised in Toronto by his Black and South Asian immigrant parents from Trinidad. ![]() ![]() First word always goes to my newsletter subscribers! Wanna be in on that? Sign up at bit.ly/MKEnews. I can't wait to tell you more about this book as details become available. Queer (primarily sapphic) MC, non-binary love interest, bi secondary character, widowed lesbian bakery owner, elderly science husbands. Diz and feelings are broken up tbh.Ī: Nope! It's a futuristic world with magic, so it's fantasy with some hi-tech.Ī: Nope! Standalone. To show you how much the editor of this book just totally gets it, here's her quote: "This book is a kick-ass page-turner of a genre mashup that was a thrill to work on and, I hope, even more of a thrill to read! Diz IS a cactus secretly filled with marshmallow and she's GOT JOKES and I love her, even though she would not know wtf to do with that or any feeling □" I love the magic system, setting, and found family dynamics in this book, and I hope you do, too! ✨ ![]() Diz is joined by her NB childhood friend Remi (who she is definitely not dating), her fierce bestie Ania, and her dad-friend Jaesin. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm so thrilled to announce my second stand-alone book with HarperTeen, SPELLHACKER! It's the story of a heist gone wrong in a futuristic world with magic, starring a girl named Diz who is basically a cactus secretly filled with marshmallow. ![]() ![]() To this day it's one of his favorite books. It was Georgette Heyer's These Old Shades. Being an obedient husband (his wife's expletive deleted!), he read the book. One day, after what he's certain was a typically rude remark (you have to understand he'd never read a romance, just looked at the covers and made a snap judgment), she threw a book at him and told him to read it or shut up. He said it so often his daughter started calling them Mommy's "celeste" passion books. ![]() After all, he was reading Dickens, Hemingway, Austen, the classics! He started calling them her "sin, lust, and passion" books. ![]() He admits he was a little supercilious about her choice of reading material. When his wife wasn't cooking or taking care of the children, she was reading a romance. They were everywhere he looked-in the den, on the kitchen table, in the living room, stacked along one whole wall in the bedroom, even in the bathroom. He wouldn't have known what romance was if, after he got married in 1972, romances hadn't started collecting all over the house. If you're still mad, you can blame it on his wife. Leigh is a man! He knows men aren't supposed to write romance, but he does and he doesn't intend to quit. Okay, let's get the hard stuff out of the way right up front. ![]() ![]() ![]() This graceful novel risks stretching beyond easy, reductive constructions of black male coming-of-age stories and delivers a sincere, authentic story of resilience and finding one's voice." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review This compassionate, courageous, and hopeful novel explores the constraints placed on black male identity and the corresponding pains and struggles that follow when a young black boy must confront these realities both at home and in school. ![]() ★ "Grimes' newest follows a young black boy searching for his own unique voice, lost among his father's wishes and society's mischaracterizations. A short, sweet, satisfying novel in verse that educators and readers alike will love." - School Library Journal, starred review Grimes writes about adolescent friendships in a way that feels deeply human. (readers) will fall hard for Garvey, a tender, sincere boy who dislikes athletics. ★ "(A) sensitively written middle grade novel in verse. (w)ritten from Garvey's point of view, the succinct verses convey the narrative as well as his emotions with brevity, clarity, and finesse.' - Booklist, starred review ★ 'Grimes returns to the novel-in-verse format, creating voice, characters, and plot in a series of pithy tanka poems, a traditional Japanese form similar to haiku, but using five lines. ![]() School Library Journal Best Book of the Year ![]() ![]() ![]() His efforts to remain reclusive are hampered by the friendliness of the town's other inhabitants. This first chapter follows Quasar, a member of a millenarianist doomsday cult, attempting to evade capture in Okinawa after releasing nerve agents into a Tokyo subway train. ![]() The main characters, though strangers to one another, become connected through their actions and relationships. The novel is written in a series of changing first-person perspectives. There are also hints and references to other works, most prominently from Isaac Asimov and the Three Laws of Robotics towards the end of the book, as well as Wild Swans by Jung Chang and The Music of Chance by Paul Auster. the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway). Ghostwritten is the product of a number of influences, particularly from East Asian culture and superstition, as well as real events remodelled for plot purposes (e.g. Many of the themes from Ghostwritten continue in Mitchell’s subsequent novels, number9dream and Cloud Atlas, and a character later appears in The Bone Clocks. It is written episodically each chapter details a different story and central character, although they are all interlinked through seemingly coincidental events. The story takes place mainly around East Asia, but also moves through Russia, Britain, the USA and Ireland. Published in 1999, it won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was widely acclaimed. ![]() Ghostwritten is the first novel published by English author David Mitchell. ![]() ![]() Within these discourses, the issue of Sufism, and of Reconstituting gender paradigms, to make sense of contemporary religiousĬontexts. Religious texts, deconstructing gender aspects within religion and Subsequently, efforts are being made, including reinterpretation of ![]() Post-secularists' insistence on appropriating religiousįrameworks to further women rights throughout the Muslim world, andĮspecially in Pakistan, brought new debates and discussions.
![]() ![]() She tells autobiographical, seemingly magical tales about her life. She’s confident and always the center of attention. She starts the book by transferring into a new second-grade class. Gooney Bird Greene is the first in a series of children’s novels following a second-grade girl, Gooney Bird Greene. After Jonas is selected to be the new “Receiver of Memory,” he learns more about his community’s darker sides. There, the elderly and infirm are “released” or killed, and no one experiences any real emotion, negative or positive. It follows the character of Jonas, a young boy whose part of an unnamed dystopian community that’s locked itself off from the rest of the world. The Giver is Lowry’s best-known novel and one of her most creative. Her books often touch on difficult subjects like the Holocaust, racism, and illness.Lois Lowry’s son, Grey, was killed in a fighter plane crash in 1995.She published her first book when she was forty years old. ![]() Lowry’s parents originally wanted to name her “Cena” to honor her Norwegian grandmother and heritage. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, though Winsor wrote seven more novels, including The Lovers (1952), Calais (1979), and Robert and Arabella (1986), she was unable to repeat the success of her first book. Although it was censored in fourteen states for being too risqué, Forever Amber easily became the most popular work of fiction of its day. The finished book earned her a $50,000 advance from Macmillan. Becoming thoroughly acquainted with England’s Restoration period, Winsor penned an epic tale of romance featuring spunky, individualistic, passionate heroine Amber St. In 1938 Winsor was fired due to staff downsizing.īelieving from a young age that she would write a bestselling novel, she researched her first book while her husband was serving in the military during World War II. She worked at the Tribune for a year, then went on to fill the position as a receptionist at the newspaper. ![]() Kathleen Winsor began her writing career in 1937 at the Oakland Tribune where she wrote a sports column from a woman's point of view, which was published three times a week. (age 83) Olivia, Minnesota, United States ![]() |