5/13/2023 0 Comments The reckoning penman![]() ![]() But Penman makes them live forever in our minds and hearts with fantastic, unforgettable characters and wonderful history. From my 15 year old niece to my 70 year old mother and many ages in between, all readers are enchanted and transported to a land and an age gone forever. ![]() Her trilogy of the decline of the Welsh kings ( DRAGON, FALLS THE SHADOW and THE RECKONING)is a holiday gift I give year after year, and I'm happy to say they have always been embraced and loved. ![]() I started with HERE BE DRAGONS and I have never looked back. It's funny, you can sell something for years before you notice that the author has been quietly making a powerful impact on people everywhere. It is in these Staff Recommend sections that I kept on seeing our Penman's titles, HERE BE DRAGONS, FALLS THE SHADOW, THE RECKONING and also SUNNE IN SPLENDOUR and WHEN CHRIST AND HIS SAINTS SLEPT. It is here that you can find treasured, beloved books quite dear to someone who works in the stores, someone waiting quite eagerly for the chance to hand sell their recommended titles. What interests me first about these stores is what titles are being displayed in the 'Staff Recommends' section of the store. As a publisher I have been lucky to be able to visit bookstores all over the country, independent and chain alike. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Downbelow station![]() ![]() Weird but entertaining SF: Jack Chalker's Quintara Marathon is a pretty oddball series (though positively pedestrian, compared to some of his other stuff: it ranks real low on the psychic bondage body modification sex slave scale), but very enjoyable. Cherryh's Alliance-Union novels are a great future history, if you're into that sort of thing. Dragon's Egg is better than his other work (IMHO) in terms of being a novel. Dense, and more surveys of exotic physics than novels, but still entertaining. I very much enjoyed it, though others are less impressed. Hard (ish) SF: Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space series. Some seriously good moral crises and character desperation. It is very much an homage to Forester's Hornblower books, but it handles the material well. Military SF: David Feintuch's Seafort Saga is fantastic pseudo-hard, military SF. And I'm pretty sure at least the first book ( a Hymn Before Battle) is available free in the Baen library. Military SF: John Ringo's Legacy of the Aldenata series is good, if fairly light (in terms of prose it's a fairly dark series in terms of tone), reading. Well, we all know this is going to immediately go off track, and wander rapidly into "SF the poster liked" rather than "SF that's similar to Old Man's War," so I see no reason not to be first. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence."Įlizabeth Yates wrote of Sir Gibbie, "It moved me the way books did when, as a child, the great gates of literature began to open and first encounters with noble thoughts and utterances were unspeakably thrilling."Įven Mark Twain, who initially disliked MacDonald, became friends with him, and there is some evidence that Twain was influenced by MacDonald. A few hours later," said Lewis, "I knew that I had crossed a great frontier." G. Its scriptures speak of its God variously as a mother hen, a cuckolded husband, and a wormin addition to the mighty images and titles that comfort us. Lewis wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his "master": "Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read. Nothing is stranger than the holy Catholic Faith. Known particularly for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels, MacDonald inspired many authors, such as G.K. He was educated at Aberdeen University and after a short and stormy career as a minister at Arundel, where his unorthodox views led to his dismissal, he turned to fiction as a means of earning a living. George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has had a difficult history with men with a bad breakup that ended up making headlines, and makes mistakes like getting drunk and making out with a stranger. I really liked Jasmine and she is easy to relate to. The two explore Seoul and begin to fall in love, but can their romance last once Jasmine returns home to New York? Far from judging her, however, Wen is captivated by Jasmine and is determined to win her over. To her mortification, the stranger is the nephew of her father’s friend who she is staying with. Willĭistance, ambitions and family-ties keep them apart or will they findĪfter a bad break up, Jasmine travels to Seoul where she gets drunk at a nightclub and kisses a stranger. That nothing will quell her yearning to be with the man she loves. The encounter leads to an unforgettable, passionįilled weekend, but upon returning to New York Jasmine soon realizes With her father, United States Senator John Avery Sinclair.īy the night life in Seoul, Jasmine dares to approach a mysterious and Scandal and relentlessly pursued by the press, she flees the country After she finds herself in the middle of a major ![]() ![]() ![]() Let’s first hear what the author has to say. y’all have to understand that the shit gets real real in this book. This review is going to be messy because the story is messy. This is my first Kate Stewart and I can’t wait to get my hands on more of her books. But…seriously… I fell in love with this story.ĭrive by Kate Stewart is easily one of my favorites reads of 2017. What the fuck did I just read?! Was Kate Stewart trying to give me a heart attack? I had so much anxiety that I skipped to the epilogue at one point – credit to me in the fact that I only read two sentences before I stopped myself. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Goliath book tochi![]() ![]() Attorney and author Natashia Deón delves into LA’s troubled history with ‘The Perishing’.How Neal Stephenson’s climate change epic ‘Termination Shock’ got its start at Burbank airport. ![]() How novelist Jessamine Chan created the dystopian ‘School for Good Mothers’. ![]()
![]() ![]() If you’re going to buy something expensive and well-made, the reasoning goes, why not plan to keep it forever? Lighting and furniture brand Porta Romana is a case in point, with their Upcycling Club, launched in 2020. ![]() As interior designer Brandon Schubert notes on the subject of upcycling, “it always helps if you start with something beautiful and high quality.” It’s interesting that the idea of upcycling, which has its basis in a need for frugality, is often being spearheaded by companies that specialise in high-end, luxury pieces. But when something is cheap to start with, there’s less incentive to maintain it, and it can be harder to renovate something made from low-quality materials repainting a veneered IKEA surface for example, is pretty difficult. ![]() Sometimes buying cheap, relatively disposable things is unavoidable if you’re on a budget, IKEA furniture is totally brilliant and most of us would be lost without it these days. ![]() ![]() ![]() I think everyone should read this book because it was so super interesting.Īsperger’s on the Insideis an acutely honest and often highly entertaining memoir by Michelle Vines about life with Asperger’s Syndrome. I could go on for days about this book so I will leave it here. She also did an excellent job of making me understand why some people who have Autism don’t react to things right away and why that may be. I am sure that it would bother some people that she jumps around but I love it because it made me understand a little bit more about how some individuals who have Autism may think. I also loved that instead of just talking about her life throughout the entire book she answered questions. I had to keep reading it because I wanted to know how it worked out for her and how her life turned out. I am so glad that I did because I loved everything about this book. When I saw one of the places I review books for was offering this book, I knew I had to get it and fit it into my schedule sooner than it would have taken me usually. All opinions expressed in this review are my own.Īsperger’s on the Inside by Michelle Vines was an interesting book to read. I received no other compensation for this review. Asperger’s on the Inside by Michelle Vines April 13, 2016įTC: I received a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments How music works review![]() ![]() ![]() See it in the wild, and tweet a picture or post it to Instagram with the hashtag #howmusicworkspb, and you will be automatically entered to win a copy of How Music Works. How do you enter? In the coming weeks we will be wheatpasting this poster in New York: That’s right: winners will get a copy of the brand spanking new paperback edition of How Music Works by David Byrne for free. All this for only $20! And if you win our contest that price will be $0. Not only is the paperback beautiful and easy to carry, it has been revised and updated with over thirty new pages, because paper covers, like second chances, are magical. If you must read more praise for this book (there is a lot-go nuts!) you can easily do so by clicking here. ![]() The very same How Music Works that was described as “fascinating” by Booklist, “extraordinary” by the Guardian, and “brilliantly original” by the New York Times Book Review. You see, today is the day that How Music Works by David Byrne becomes available in paperback. ![]() It’s a tableau that would make Norman Rockwell weep into his oatmeal. Changing leaves, hot chocolate, and Mom and Pop and the kids all busily tweeting and posting cool pics around the kitchen table. And you know what they say about Fall: it’s a time for contests-specifically, contests of the Twitter and Instagram variety. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The Good Girls by Teresa Mummert![]() ![]() I don’t get the sense that she has animosity toward him, she just wants to live her life. ![]() Ellie has just lost her mother and since she has no other family,she goes to live with her father ad his wife.She doesn’t know him at all,he took off when she was young. The Good Girls from alternating points of view, First there’s Cara in the Prologue and then Ellie in Chapter one. ![]() I hope you guys read this book and enjoy it ,like I did. I didn’t know what to expect going into this one,but damn I’m so happy that I read this book. I literally just finished devouring ‘The Good Girls’ by Teresa Mummert,and I have to say it is the best book she has written to date.I loved every second of it, the happy times and the sad times. Our parents were oblivious and soon lines became blurred, feelings began to grow, and someone’s heart was going to get broken. She was also dating Tristan Adams, one of the most gorgeous men I’d ever seen. She opened my eyes to a world of chaos and disorder. Starting over seemed impossible until I met Cara McCarthy, who lived every day like it was her last. ![]() Then a tragic event destroyed everything and I learned that while I was looking ahead, I forgot to live in the moment. While my peers were partying, I prepared for the future. My life was meticulously planned and I refused to deviate from that path. A beautifully crafted coming of age love story, that both broke me apart and blew me away. ![]() |