![]() ![]() Still, a fun novella, and I suspect those who already enjoyed Finna will enjoy this at least as much. Sure, that one is quite different to him in many ways, but the potential romance between them was a bit of an odd note for me. During the shift, he meets four of his clones, and finds himself particularly drawn to one of them. Defekt by Nino CipriRamon De Ocampo Audiobook Listen to a sample Listen to a sample Description Creators Details Reviews Find out if five Dereks are better than one in Nino Cipri's Defekt, the sequel to Finna, the surrealist world-hopping adventure. I was a little bit put off by the “self-cest” thing, though: Derek is the main character, and after he takes an uncharacteristic sick day, he has to do a special inventory shift. Defekt is set in the same world, and briefly crosses over with Finna (we see Jules right before the events of that book), but for whatever reason it worked a bit better for me - it felt a little less preachy, and I loved the idea of all those sentient furnishings. ![]() ![]() I didn’t love Finna, though I liked it it felt it leaned a bit too much on being angry about soul-sucking capitalism (which, same, but the choir can get tired of being preached to). Received to review via Netgalley publication date 20th April 2021 ![]()
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![]() ![]() At a performance to con a family needing help healing their daughter, she accidentally summons a djinn, Dara, which in turn awakens a graveyard full of ifrit, and sends Nahri on the run. ![]() She knows nothing of her past, but is able to pick up any language after hearing a few words. To survive she relies on her healing abilities and her ability to steal, cheat, and con her way to food and shelter. She is completely alone and always has been. I’m only reviewing the first book, and I think 14 years and up can handle it, I know my 14 year old and I haven’t stopped talking about it, and it has been quite fun to fan girl with her over it. ![]() There is also Middle Eastern culture, Islam, and a fiery protagonist that make the 530 pages in the first book fly by. There is complex world building, implied physical interactions, one hinted at gay romance, alcohol, concubines, violence, djinn, ifrits, killing and one kiss/slight make out session. So why am I reviewing it? Because it is so good, and I’ve heard of a lot of people letting/encouraging their teens to read it, and honestly, I did as well. I’ve contacted the author to get her perspective on the matter, and will update this if I hear back. I think the series as a whole is definitely not YA, as the main characters would age out of the target demographic, but I think that book one could qualify. This series is adult fantasy written by a Muslim author for her ummah and contains Muslim characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() The world also has some other minor differences with the one (or more) known to Eddie, Jake and Susannah for instance, the Kansas City baseball team is the Monarchs (as opposed to the Royals), and Nozz-A-La is a popular soft drink. Louis 215, someone had slashed watch out for the walking dude", among others. Links between these books also include the following reference to The Walkin' Dude from The Stand on page 95, "Someone had spray-painted over both signs marking the ramp's ascending curve. The city is deserted, as this version of the world has been depopulated by the influenza of King's novel The Stand. ![]() The four gunslingers and Oy the billy-bumbler disembark at the Topeka railway station, which to their surprise is located in the Topeka, Kansas, of the 1980s. Blaine is unable to handle Eddie's "illogical" riddles and short-circuits. After Jake, Eddie, Susannah and Roland fruitlessly riddle Blaine the Mono for several hours, Eddie defeats the mad computer by telling childish jokes. ![]() The novel begins where The Waste Lands ended. Subtitled "Regard", it placed fourth in the annual Locus Poll for best fantasy novel. It is the fourth book in the Dark Tower series, published in 1997. Wizard and Glass is a fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although both lovers are in their 40s, and survivors of broken unions, Tess belongs to a world as foreign to Winnie's as Tibet: the Newport Harbor's ultra-rich yachting crowd. There Tess Binder, an alluring divorcee, seeks the notorious ex-cop she wines him, dines him and takes him to bed. On probation after his latest escapade, the anti-hero avoids the place where prudence might have led him, an AA meeting, and instead rushes to join drinking buddies at a favorite saloon. When an injury ends his police career in California's Orange County, Winnie works at odd jobs-and indulges in vodka-inspired pranks. In this comic and deeply moving story, Wambaugh holds the reader a willing hostage to events in the bibulous, rowdy, daring life of Winston (Winnie) Farlowe. ![]() ![]() ![]() From the arrival of New England missionaries in 1820, their goal to Christianize the local heathen, to the coup d'état of the missionaries' sons in 1893, which overthrew the Hawaiian queen, the events leading up to American annexation feature a cast of beguiling, and often appealing or tragic, characters: whalers who fired cannons at the Bible-thumpers denying them their God-given right to whores, an incestuous princess pulled between her new god and her brother-husband, sugar barons, lepers, con men, Theodore Roosevelt, and the last Hawaiian queen, a songwriter whose sentimental ode "Aloha 'Oe" serenaded the first Hawaiian president of the United States during his 2009 inaugural parade. Among the developments in these outposts of 1898, Vowell considers the Americanization of Hawaii the most intriguing. In Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell argues that 1898 might be a year just as defining, when, in an orgy of imperialism, the United States annexed Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and invaded first Cuba, then the Philippines, becoming an international superpower practically overnight. ![]() Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, when we became a nation devoted to the pursuit of happiness through self- government. ![]() From the author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn. ![]() ![]() Of course, Goodreads notes that there’s a sequel in the works, and that’s more than fine, too. Not because I don’t like them, but because they’ve closed this chapter in their lives - no spoilers, but that’s even with the epilogue. Perhaps the most important thing is, though, that the book ends on a note that would have left this reviewer content not to come back to Jihoon and Miyoung. ![]() Enter discussions of family, more than a little romance, and mythology, then set it in Seoul, and you have a recipe for a fun read that should have YA enthusiasts hooked. Miyoung is, and she’s caught between what she wants to be - something of a merciful gumiho who only feeds off the energy of bad men, killing them slowly - and what her mother wants her to be. In fact, he looks more tricky than Miyoung does, but he’s not the gumiho at the heart of this story. From the pink-and-purple palette to the details of Miyoung’s tails and her name in Hangul on her school uniform, you can tell that this is a story about her - but Jihoon, her love interest and main character in his own right, is right there with a playful smile on his face. We’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but gosh, Wicked Fox looks pretty from the outset. ![]() ![]() By Cheryl Wassenaar 3 years ago Kat Cho’s debut novel will lure you in without any trouble, but it’s impressive that Wicked Fox could be a complete story without an already-planned sequel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s continually included in countless lists…Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest albums of all time + 100 best albums of the 90s, Pitchfork’s Top 100 albums of the 90s, etc. Its legendary status has only grown over the years. Originally released in 1993, Exile In Guyville is a seminal album and a feminist landmark. It also contains a remastered double LP edition of Exile In Guyville and a 44 page book containing an extensive oral history, essays by Liz Phair and journalist Ann Powers, never before seen photographs, artwork and ephemera. The box set contains the first ever official release of the legendary Girly-Sound songs, which have been restored from their original three cassettes and mastered onto vinyl. On May 4th, Matador Records will release Girly-Sound To Guyville, an extensive limited edition box set to celebrate the anniversary. Outer Banks: Season 3 (Soundtrack From The Netflix Series) Ģ018 marks the 25th anniversary of Liz Phair’s landmark Exile in Guyville album. 2: Twiztid 25th Anniversary ġst Studio Album ‘UNFORGIVEN’ Īn Inbuilt Fault Unsolved - Cornetto īrazil Classics 4: Massive Hits - The Best Of Tom Most Known Unknown (Gate) (Slv)īlue Spirits (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) The Wretched The Ruinous Ī Good Person (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Ī Good Person (Music From The Original Motion Picture) Just The Two Of Us: The Duets Collection (Volume One) So Many Other Realities Exist Simultaneously Bob Marley - Tuff Gong Jamaica Pressings. ![]() ![]() She created an oasis for her friends to visit. ![]() She decided she was going to turn this series of unfortunate events into a triumph, and for a decade and a half she did just that. Most people would have, given the nature of these events, thrown in the towel and made their way back to Denmark, battered and bruised and hoped that people had short memories of them ever being gone, but Blixen was made of sterner stuff. She let him live, which was touch and go, booted him off the farm, and took over the management of the Kenyan farming enterprise. Her husband proved a poor manager of the farm, and his sexual indiscretions had left her with a parting gift of a case of syphilis. When Karen Blixen married her second cousin Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke in 1914 and followed along as a devoted wife should to help him run a coffee plantation in Kenya, I’m sure she had an idea of what her life was to be, but the story of our lives generally deviates from the perceptions our youthful fancies conceive. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.” ![]() ”Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eras of American drinking, in terms of practices and favorite potions, are superimposed on their corresponding time periods of the tenure of each chief justice in the Supreme Court’s history-with those chief justice eras looked at in terms of alcohol and the law. At Tulane, she teaches courses in constitutional law, judicial decision-making, and her latest special topics class “Booze, Drugs and the Courts.”ĭescribe your book in terms your bartender could understand.Ī cocktail-by-cocktail history of the Supreme Court and its decisions on alcohol and the Constitution. Supreme Court and Alcohol (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019). Today’s Points Interview features Nancy Maveety, Professor of Political Science at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and author of the new book Glass and Gavel: The U.S. ![]() ![]() Kylie Scott totally understands young people but more than that she understands relationships and angst and how people try to work through the crap in their lives. The main characters, Edie and John, are so real and you really want them to figure out how to get past their nightmare experience. This is a brilliantly told story of two older teens whose lives are changed forever by a horrific experience. It was so convincing that it pulled me in and by the end of chapter three I was dying to know how this was going to turn out. The first chapter was startling – not at all what I’d expected and totally visceral and traumatic. I’d heard that Trust was different from her other books, so I was keen to see what she’d written this time. Kylie’s got a great style and she knows how to grab your interest and hold it to the last page. ![]() ![]() Lick was the first book in the Stage Dive series and I totally recommend all four books: Lick, Play, Lead, Deep. One of those books that grabs you from the first page and doesn’t let go. I can still remember my first Kylie Scott book, it was Lick and it was brilliant. ![]() |