![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Definitely give Blind Faith a listen! I received a complimentary copy and voluntarily left a review. Follow main characters, Drew and Sharee as they share their day-to-day activities with each other, and with us readers. I kept waffling between cheering for him or jeering for him right up until a nice, unexpected plot twist. If there’s ever a time when we need an uplifting and beautiful story, then no better time than when we’re all on lockdown order. There isn't alot of drama between Gemma and Jason, but he is definitely a tough nut to crack. But it isn't exactly the sexytime that she anticipates Why is Jason acting so strangely? What is he hiding? This story is definitely entertaining, and Bridget Bordeaux did a great job narrating this book. Across the hall, Jason takes pity on her and lets her into his room. Seriously, what is his deal? I couldn't decide if I liked him or not for most of this book! When all of Las Vegas is thrown into complete darkness, Gemma finds herself locked out of her hotel robe in little more than a bathrobe. He runs very hot and cold, though, and every time she thinks they are connecting and growing closer, he mysteriously runs off. She keeps running into the mysterious Jason in her hotel, in bars, in restaurants. Gemma is on a girls' trip to celebrate her sister's divorce. What happens when all of Vegas goes dark? Lauren Runow puts an interesting twist on the vacation fling trope in Blind Faith. What Happens When All Of Vegas Goes Dark? ![]()
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![]() ![]() As the novelist, actor Richard Crawford veers into comic-opera territory as he chortles to the audience over his sins. The larger problem for the play, though, is that the tangled question of Céline’s motives resists dramatization almost completely. Above all, the play suggests, they represent Céline’s most extreme attempt to secede from humanity. Jason Lindner’s adaptation offers various explanations for the anti-Semitic pamphlets. The Flying Machine tackles the ticklish Céline question head-on in its new one-man adaptation of Journey, interspersing scenes from the novel with glimpses of the elderly author reminiscing over the trouble he has caused himself and others. The latter activities left an enduring stain on his reputation, an asterisk sure to pop up whenever his remarkable early novels are mentioned. He was, less happily, the author of equally exuberant and equally nasty anti-Semitic diatribes in the years before World War II, and a Vichy collaborator during the war. ![]() Louis-Ferdinand Céline broke new literary ground with Journey to the End of the Night, his exuberantly nasty bill of particulars against existence masquerading as a picaresque adventure. ![]() ![]() ![]() Josephine Robison (Alice Coulthard) works on her family farm, while her husband John (Mitch Eakins) is off fighting in the 3rd Tennessee Regiment. Feek inter-spliced their personal story with the film, topping it out at 81 minutes. The film was originally supposed to be released in 2016, but the death of his wife postponed it. Finding Josephine is framed by the director's personal story about how love letters he allegedly found in a farmhouse in Tennessee led him to write a song that sparked the love between him and his future wife, who tragically died of cancer. In many ways it's a typical love story, but the film tackles issues of gender and sexuality during the war, topics usually avoided in this genre. Written and directed by country musician Rory Feek (cowritten by Aaron Carnahan), Finding Josephine (2019) purportedly follows the true story of Josephine Robison, who disguised herself as a man and enlisted in the Confederate Army to find her husband. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2015, she taught writing in New York City and served as a judge for School Library Journal. Magoon has a master of fine arts degree in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, which she was able to study via a low-residency program for children's writers. ![]() She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University, where she majored in History, with a concentration on Africa and the Middle East. Prior to becoming a writer, she worked for non-profit organizations in New York City. As a child, she spent a few years living in Cameroon. She is the biracial daughter of a white American mother with Dutch and Scottish ancestry and a black Cameroonian father. Magoon was born in Michigan and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Her works also include middle grade novels, short stories, and historical, socio-political, and economy-related non-fiction. In 2021, she received the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association for her body of work. Kekla Magoon is an American author, best known for her NAACP Image Award-nominated young adult novel The Rock and the River, How It Went Down, The Season of Styx Malone, and X. ![]() ![]() How It Went Down, X, The Rock and the River, The Season of Styx Malone Young adult fiction, middle grade fiction, short stories, non-fiction Vermont College of Fine Arts, Northwestern University ![]() ![]() ![]() Life seems goodexcept Bob longs to find his big sister Boss. What dog in his right mind would say no to that?"īob lives near the zoo and Julia is happy to take him to visit Ivan and Ruby. Who was I to argue? Two square meals, my own bed, all the belly rubs I could beg for. My girl, Julia, whose dad had worked at the mall, decided her family needed a dog. Bob goes to live with their friend Julia. ![]() The zoo is a place of safety and companionship. You gotta have the moves."Īt the end of The One and Only Ivan, Ivan and Ruby and the other shopping mall animal circus performers are taken to a zoo. You're probably thinking I'm some wimpy lap dog. Definitely some Chihuahua, with a smidgen of papillon on my father's side. ![]() Early in his life Bob was abandoned so he has huge trust issues and opinions about humans. Ivan, Stella and Ruby are held captive in this shopping mall and used for the 'entertainment' of visiting shoppers. Later another small elephant comes to join them - Ruby. Ivan, a shopping centre gorilla had two main friends in the first installment - Bob, a small dog, and Stella, an elephant. You may remember Bob from The One and Only Ivan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Over two decades later, all across the planet, "flash" technology allows individuals the ability to transfer their consciousness into other bodies for specified periods, paid, registered and legal. What begins as a botched experiment will change her life-and the world-forever. ![]() Inside a barn in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a scientist searching for an Alzheimer's cure throws a switch-and finds herself mysteriously transported into her husband's body. Soon to be adapted for television by Carnival, creators of Downton Abbey An Indie Next Pick * A Science Fiction Book Club Pick Bestselling author of The Oracle Year, Charles Soule brings his signature knowledge-and wariness-of technology to his new novel set in a realistic future about a brilliant female scientist who creates a technology that allows for the transfer of human consciousness between bodies, and the transformations this process wreaks upon the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Read the entire fan-favorite Montana Creeds series: Book 1: Montana Creeds: Logan Book 2: A Creed in Stone Creek Book 3: Creed's Honor Book 4: The Creed Legacy Book 5: Montana Creeds: Dylan Book 6: Montana Creeds: Tyler Book 7: A Creed Country Christmas Don’t miss a single fan-favorite story in this box set from 1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller A Stone Creek Christmas Stone Creek veterinarian Olivia O’Ballivan communicates easily with animals, but men are another story. ![]() It'll take one grieving little boy, a sweet, adopted dog and a woman who never expected to win any man's heart to make this Creed in Stone Creek know he's truly found home. In a small town filled with danger and secrets, only true love will survive. But when Steven takes on the pro bono defense of a local teen, he meets his match in the opposing counsel-beautiful, by-the-book county prosecutor Melissa O'Ballivan. Taking care of little Matt and fixing up his run-down ranch house with its old barn loosens something tightly wound inside him. Join big city lawyer turned reluctant rancher Steven Creed as he puts down roots and finds love in the process in this classic Montana Creeds novel from New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller! When attorney Steven Creed becomes guardian of an orphaned five-year-old boy, this bachelor trades his big-city law firm for a ranch near his McKettrick kin in the close-knit community of Stone Creek, Arizona. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book focuses on a group of boys in danzig schoolmates,The main narrator is Pilenz ,is freind with THE GREAT MAHIKE ,a boy with a huge adams apple also a bit of a clown and the leader of the gang in some ways ,the boys play by the sea ,learning to swim ,playing in and around a broken minesweeper from th polish navy ,they see the u boats and there crews visit the school and give a talk ,they meet girls get up to sexual adventures together.Mahike in the hitler youth attends miltary school. the first part being The tin drum a book dealing with the rise of nazis in Danzig ,a book I read in my teens ,the third part dog years I ve yet to read. Gunter Grass is a nobel prize winner ,a noted SDP part support ,he grew up in Danzig ,was in the ss during the war and in many respects along side Henrich boll is the best known of Germanys post war writers ,this book is the second in what is known as the Danzig trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Campfire had me on the edge of my seat and had my heart pounding. "A fast-paced, chilling read that will pull you in and keep you guessing until the last page. ![]() Now Maddie and her family are lost in the deep woods with no way out being stalked by their worst nightmares. near-constant action and peril, family drama, and plenty of gore, liberally spread around."- VOYA Caleb, the handsome young guide, shares the local legend of the ferocious Mountain Men who hunt unsuspecting campers and leave their mark by carving grisly antlers into their victims foreheads. This nostalgia will likely appeal to older teens with fond memories of their younger years spent enjoying series horror fiction such as R.L. He lives in Philadelphia with a French Bulldog and two chatty parrots. Born in western Kentucky, he went to college at Wake Forest University. "'s treatment of the traditional horror tropes gives it a nostalgic sense. Shawn Sarles Shawn Sarles is the Indie Bestselling Author of CAMPFIRE, MARY, WILL I DIE, A POCKET FULL OF POSIES, and DEAD MANS FLOAT (out 9/5/23). This slasher will work for teens raised on Goosebumps."- Booklist ![]() Sarles keeps up a fast pace with toxic family drama and graphic murders alike, with effective use of red herrings. ![]() "When fictional murders become the blueprints for actual killings, where is the line between imagination and reality? Slasher film fans will want to gather round the fire."- Kirkus Reviews ![]() ![]() And due to numerous threats, Bob replicates quickly to basically form a cadre of Bobs to solve these difficult issues. Bob of course is who the first AIs are based on. I loved how it turned into a very approachable AI story. Taylor’s hilarious novel sets the stage for the magnificent performance of Ray Porter, who revels in the brave new world of corpsicles, artificial intelligence, interstellar space probes, and space colonization in tantalizing detail.ĭiving into this series, I didn’t really know what to expect. Bob and his clones are on a mission to find new homes for humanity and boldly go where no Bob has gone before.ĭennis E. Waking up 117 years later, Bob discovers his mind has been uploaded into a sentient space probe with the ability to replicate itself. Then he gets himself killed crossing the street. On an urge to splurge, he signs up to have his head cryogenically preserved in case of death. ![]() The first item on his to-do list: spending his newfound windfall. Since I’ve read all 4 of the Bobiverse books for an on-line book club, I decided to short reviews for each all in one post.īob Johansson has just sold his software company for a small fortune and is looking forward to a life of leisure. ![]() |