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![]() Still looking Ask a question See more questions Actual travel distances may vary. Never before have I seen the decay of binaries, and biological presets engendered in language with such might. If you book a 2-bedroom suite or volendam house, you can stay as 3 men. The result is daring, witty, funny, and absolutely splendid. Shop amongst our popular books, including 2, Fire Hides Everywhere, And We Came to Find It Beautiful and more from. She takes the Middle English and our regular English for the binary, binds them together, and then creates something completely different and previously undiscovered. Jos Charles, a transgender poet, makes the language trans. Meanwhile, queer writers do the job of reinventing language to suit their needs every day. In Chinese the word “queer” means the same as “comrade”, and in Bengali there is only one, very technical word that means “homosexual”, It’s a messy, diverse journey, which, hopefully, someone will one day document in a work of non-fiction. In English battles are waged for the neutral third person pronoun, in French endings are gotten rid of, and in my native Russian endings are added. A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2018 Selected by Fady Joudah as a winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, Jos Charles’s revolutionary second collection of poetry, feeld, is a lyrical unraveling of the circuitry of gender and speech, defiantly making space for bodies that have been historically denied their own vocabulary. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her ability to find and dig at a characters weaknesses is superb and is the only thing that saves this novel from being mere fluff.Īs all her books to come will be, this is a must read for those of us who have grown up with her novels by our bedsides and in our dreams though I can only hope that in the future, should the wizarding world be locked away for good, she finds more magic in reality than she has conjured here. That being said, Rowling has an uncommon ability to tap into the minds and lives of her characters to such a degree that come as fully formed humans leaping off of the page. It is onvios that her creative talents have been squashed by the Muggle world and the restrictions it imposes on her imagination. Her scenes, the one that comes to mind most frequently being that of a dinner party, are over drawn and not entertaining. ![]() It is also hard to ignore Rowling's bias as it's being shoved down your throat page after page. The Casual Vacancy immerses the reader in a richly peopled, densely imagined world.intelligent, workmanlike, and often funny., The Casual Vacancy, JK Rowlings first adult novel, is sometimes funny, often startlingly well observed. Though her prose has remained as enchanting as its expected to, her subject matter, though dark and certainly adult themed, is reduced to near fluff by gossip and overly staged conclusion. Rowling's first book since finishing her Harry Potter series will more than sell a decent amount of copies but it is my belief that most of her pervious readers will be by and large disappointed with her first foray into reality. ![]() ![]() ![]() From the get go Angels’ Blood grabbed my attention and I was completely engrossed by the story and captivated by the protagonist, Elena. I was, of course, a bit concerned about this new venture and I wondered if she would be able to write two series at the same time and make them different but equally good? The answer is a resounding YES. For when archangels play, mortals break…Īna: In the interest of full disclosure: it is not a secret that I am a Nalini Singh fangirl, more like a nalinisingh-aholic -I think she is a truly gifted writer and I love her Psy/Changeling series. Even if the hunt doesn’t destroy her, succumbing to Raphael’s seductive touch just may. The job will put Elena in the midst of a killing spree like no other…and pull her to the razor’s edge of passion. Hired by the dangerously beautiful Archangel Raphael, a being so lethal that no mortal wants his attention, only one thing is clear-failure is not an option…even if the task is impossible.īecause this time, it’s not a wayward vamp she has to track. Summary: Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux knows she’s the best-but she doesn’t know if she’s good enough for this job. ![]() She then got Thea to read because it was REALLY good. Why did we read the book: Ana is a fan of Nalini Singh’s Psy/Changeling series and when she got an ARC of Angels’ Blood she nearly had a heart attack. ![]() Stand Alone or series: Book one in the brand new Guild Hunter series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wait For It was the first one I read and is about Diana, a young auntie who is left raising her two nephews. So instead I will talk about these in the order I read them. I can’t tell you which was my favourite because I found that after almost every one I read I decided that one was my favourite. ![]() I gave all but two five out of five stars, and I can confidently say I will read anything and everything written by this author. I read all eleven of her books in the space of fifteen days, which I’m pretty proud of considering they’re all around 500 pages. Luckily all but two of Zapata’s books are on Kindle Unlimited, so if you want to read her books I highly recommend subscribing for the month and bingeing them on there, it’ll save you so much money. Adult romance isn’t something I read a lot of, but after picking up Good Girl by Piper Lawson (which was free I believe on kindle) I got the urge to carry on with the genre. Recently I went on a bit of a romance binge- looking at my Goodreads 2020 reads I can kind of pinpoint where the urge came from. I hope everyone has had a safe and enjoyable Christmas! I gotta admit it was a strange one, and its felt more like Christmas over the past 3 days when its started to snow than it did on the actual day- but hey ho maybe next year! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1600, Britain produced 1.8 per cent of the world's gross domestic product, compared with India's 23 per cent. In Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India, Shashi Tharoor, writer, politician and United Nations-based diplomat for 30 years, asks a similar question to the one posed by Cleese's beleaguered revolutionary.Īs they washed their hands and packed their carpet bags, the British departed an India in which 84 per cent of people could not read or write their own name in any language. "But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the freshwater system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?" "Orright," concedes the leader, Reg, played by John Cleese. Remember the scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian when a Judean rebel leader fumes as his gormless but practical comrades detail the benefits of oppression under their powerful and technologically advanced Roman oppressors? This is a reproduction of wonderful article written by Christopher Kremmer on " The Sydney Morning Herald " ![]() ![]() Before embarking on his career as a writer, Cooper served in the U.S. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 ![]() The stories take place on the rapidly advancing frontier of New York State and focus on the evolution of the wilderness into a civilized European-American community. His constant companion is his "brother" Chingachgook, Mohican chief, who happens to be the actual last of the Mohicans. Natty Bumppo is a resourceful Anglo-American woodsman raised in part by Native Americans, who later becomes a fearless warrior skilled in many weapons, chiefly the long rifle. The Leatherstocking Tales is a series of five novels featuring the main hero Natty Bumppo, known by European settlers as "Leatherstocking" and "The Pathfinder", and by the Native Americans as "Deerslayer" and "Hawkeye". ![]() This carefully crafted ebook: "LEATHERSTOCKING TALES – Complete Series: The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers & The Prairie (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. ![]() ![]() “Iran has seized or attacked 15 ships in the last two years. HMS Lancaster sails as Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessels follow behind it in the Strait of Hormuz (Jon Gambrell/AP) While the Guard kept its distance from both the Paul Hamilton and the passing British frigate HMS Lancaster, their presence showed just how tense passage for vessels can be in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of global oil supplies passes. Guardsmen stood by uncovered machine guns on their decks, while sailors aboard the Paul Hamilton similarly stood by loaded machine guns as others took photographs and video of the vessels.Īn Associated Press (AP) journalist also accompanied the allied naval commanders. The incredibly rare, joint trip by the three navy chiefs aboard the USS Paul Hamilton, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, saw three fast boats of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard approach the vessel at one point. ![]() ![]() Because first they must search the world for the three sections of the Book of Ra, then they have to learn how to chant its spells. And in order to battle the forces of chaos, they must revive the sun god Ra - a feat no magician has ever achieved. If Carter and Sadie don't destroy him, the world will end in five days' time. But now a terrifying enemy - Apophis, the giant snake of chaos - is rising. As descendants of the magical House of Life, they command certain powers. And so, unfortunately, are their gods.ĮVER since the gods of Ancient Egypt were unleashed on the modern world, Carter Kane and his sister, Sadie, have been in big trouble. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt are far from dead and buried. ![]() To save their dad, they embark on a terrifying quest from Cairo to Paris to the American South-west and discover the truth about their family's connection to the House of Life: an Egyptian temple of magic that has existed for thousands of years. Set imprisons Dr Kane in a golden coffin and Carter and Sadie must run for their lives. An explosion shatters the ancient Rosetta stone and unleashes Set, the evil god of chaos. ![]() ' CARTER AND SADIE KANE'S dad is a brilliant Egyptologist with a secret plan that goes horribly wrong. ![]() Now the Gods of Egypt are waking in the modern world.'I GUESS IT STARTED THE NIGHT OUR DAD BLEW UP THE BRITISH MUSEUM. ![]() ![]() ![]() Enclave Publishing is one imprint that publishes spec fiction exclusively and is a good place to go to get your fix or to get you started on a new adventure in reading. While the general market has lots of speculative fiction, there is not as much published in the Christian market, so you have to look for it. ![]() The speculative fiction genre includes allegory, sci-fi, horror, fantasy, time travel, alternate history, dystopian fiction, etc. So what is speculative fiction? Speculative fiction: a genre of fiction that encompasses works in which the setting is other than the real world, involving supernatural, futuristic, or other imagined elements. ![]() □ While my time is spent mostly in reading real life stuff, whether contemporary or historical, I do like a good speculative novel as well. I do have some exceptions, but since I read Christian fiction almost exclusively, I don’t have to worry about some of the more explicit scenes/language that can crop up. ![]() |