![]() During the 60s Dean also worked for a government-funded program that sought to help violent and troubled youth. After graduation in the 1960s, Dean went to work as a teacher at Mechanicsburg High School. He attended Shippensburg State College in Pennsylvania where he won an Atlantic Monthly competition for his writing, which further encouraged him to continue. His mother’s courage in standing up to her husband also served as an inspiration in Dean’s writing. ![]() ![]() Dean’s father, Raymond Koontz, was extremely abusive to him and his mother. His childhood had a strong influence on his writing as he grew older. Dean Koontz was born in July of 1945, a month before World War II ended in the Pacific. Many who have never even read his works, and have simply seen his books on the shelves recognize his name. He is considered one of the most successful authors alive today. ![]() His novels have sold over 450 million copies worldwide and have been translated in to 38 different languages. The Servants of Twilight (As: Leigh Nichols)ĭean Koontz is a popular author of novels, short stories, and poetry in the United States, and has had fourteen of his novels reach the number one position on the New York Times Bestseller List, with several others reaching other positions. The Fall of the Dream Machine / The Star Venturesĭark of the Woods / Soft Come the Dragons ![]()
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![]() This quote, which Abronoma says to Esi, seems to foreshadow the rest of the book, but eventually becomes ironic. They are like a woman and her reflection, doomed to stay on opposite sides of the pond." Abronoma, p.45 And in my village we have a saying about separated sisters. "You are not your mother’s first daughter. Maame teaches her daughter that slaveholders are the weak ones, which is part of what gives Esi strength when she is taken to the Cape Coast Castle by slavers and eventually must work on plantations in the United States. ![]() ![]() When Esi, Maame's daughter says that the village would think her father was weak if they didn't beat their slave girl Abronoma, Maame counters with this view about slavery, even though she has not yet admitted to Esi that she herself had been a slave earlier in life. Slavery is a motif that runs throughout the story, from Maame's experience both owning and being a slave to her descendants' experiences on the Gold Coast and in the United States. ![]() Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves." Maame, p.44 "Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Like the earlier book this novel is loosely based on the relationship between a Victorian writer and a young woman in this case a very much younger woman because the writer fictionalised as John Jameson is clearly Charles Dodgson, better known to most as Lewis Carroll. I read The Girl in the Blue Dress when it first came out and so, knowing a little of the way Arnold worked in that novel, I decided that I would read her more recent book, After Such Kindness, in order to be able to make comparisons between the two. One of the books scheduled as a group read next month is Gaynor Arnold’s fictionalised depiction of the life led by Catherine Dickens after her husband fell in love with the young actress Nellie Ternan. ![]() ![]() ![]() I enjoyed most of this book, bookshops and dogs (Tavish seems such a great dog) are a wonderful combination in my books. Her parents would love to see them back together and blame her for their break-up but she has her reasons to keep very far away from him. And Michelle tries to keep everyone at arm’s length and is still suffering the ongoing attention of her (almost ex-)husband. Anna for example wants to have a baby of her own after caring for her husband’s three children for a while now. They both have their own (not so little) problems. The story is told in alternating POV’s of Michelle and Anna. Michelle doesn’t know anything about books but of course Anna does. After some time Michelle sees an opportunity to expand her business even further by taking over an existing bookshop, located next door to her shop. ![]() Her life collides with Anna’s when she’s drinking a cup of tea in town and meets Anna’s dog, Pongo. The book opens with Michelle who just moved to Longhampton and will open a shop called Home Sweet Home. ![]() ![]() Indie/small publisher is a bonus for getting on the list, because I don’t think authors like Terry Pratchett or J.K. Speculative fiction (fantasy or science fiction generally) ![]() In order to be eligible to make the list, they must be: The following list is my top 15 favorite fantasy reads of 2022. Now, sadly, I cannot talk about all 83 books here, though I’m definitely gonna try. So, responsible and reasonable goals are clearly not for me. ![]() I am finishing the year up with 84 books devoured (a handful of those were short stories, but for the most part they were novel-length reads). ![]() Knowing I had a lot of editing and writing and other things on my plate (like starting our first year of homeschool high school, tons of traveling, and other various life things), back in January I made the responsible decision to set my Goodreads goal at a very low and reasonable 25 books.Īnd then I proceeded to blast through that like a rocket leaving the atmosphere and heading off to the moon. ![]() ![]() ![]() In “Perfect Places,” a woman grapples with undesirability as she navigates fetish play with a man. In “Hazel and Christopher,” two childhood friends reconnect as adults after one of them has transitioned. Centering transgender women seeking stable, adult lives, A Dream of a Woman finds quiet truths in prairie high-rises and New York warehouses, in freezing Canadian winters and drizzly Oregon days. ![]() Her latest work, A Dream of a Woman, is her first book of short stories since her seminal 2014 collection A Safe Girl to Love. ![]() Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller PrizeĪward-winning novelist Casey Plett ( Little Fish ) returns with a poignant suite of stories that center transgender women.Ĭasey Plett’s 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Amazon First Novel Award. ![]() ![]() ![]() “ Understanding Comics is quite simply the best analysis of the medium that I have ever encountered. You might still feel you've wasted your life, but you'll know why, and you'll be proud." "If you've ever felt bad about wasting your life reading comics, then check out Scott McCloud's classic book immediately. Neil Gaiman, Coraline, The Graveyard Book If you read, write, teach or draw comics if you want to or if you simply want to watch a master explainer at work, you must read this book.” “With Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics the dialogue on and about what comics are and, more importantly, what comics can be has begun. ![]() Winner of the Harvey and Eisner Award, the Alph'art Award at Angoulême, and a New York Times Notable Book for 1994 (mass market edition).Ĭlosure, reader participation between the panels. ![]() Understanding Comics has been translated into 16 languages, excerpted in textbooks, and its ideas applied in other fields such as game design, animation, web development, and interface design. Black and White with 8-page color section.Ī 215-page comic book about comics that explains the inner workings of the medium and examines many aspects of visual communication. ![]() ![]() ![]() Guess I can't blame Gottlieb or whoever was involved with writing text for the photos in 1975 people weren't quite as savvy about great white sharks as they are today, what with Air Jaws and Shark Week and now Expedition Great White. Incredible.Īlso scattered throughout are misleading photos of Bruce the mechanical shark identified as a real great white - purportedly to confuse moviegoers. ![]() ![]() It was sitting on a kitchen counter and I was afraid to pick it up because of the gory shark's maw on the cover. In fact, that's exactly what I thought when I spotted this book at neighborhood friend's house when I was about seven or eight. "The brilliant director who refused to compromise with authenticity!" "The jaws of danger and horror became all too real!" "The writer who saw his fiction turning into fact!" This sounds like Spielberg was ready to serve up his cast a smorgasbord. Written by co-screenwriter and actor Carl Gottlieb (he's the reporter Meadows in the film), it's a great little book about the horrors and scattered joys of film-making, but it also is a bit of not-so-subtle hucksterism designed to sell the movie by using some carefully chosen words. The Jaws Log, a paperback-original making-of detailing the famously tortured production of Jawsin 1974, came out just after the film hit theaters. This post is part of Radiation-Scarred Review's 2010 SHARKATHALON, which celebrates this milestone with blog posts around the web. June 20th, 2010 marks the 35th anniversary of the release of the movie JAWS. ![]() ![]() During this time, Orwell became an anti-imperialist.Īfter resigning from the Imperial Police, Orwell returned to England to become a writer. ![]() ![]() After completing school, he worked for five years with the Imperial Police in Burma (now Myanmar). Orwell was born in colonial India, where his English father worked for the British Civil Service, and was raised in England as part of the middle class. George Orwell, author of “Animal Farm” and “1984.” 1. This essay discusses some of his philosophical views in political philosophy, epistemology, and philosophy of language. His philosophical insights are relevant to both pressing social issues and recent developments in philosophy. While not trained as a philosopher, Orwell’s writings include many philosophical claims. He also wrote essays, novels, and non-fiction books. ![]() George Orwell (1903-1950) was an early twentieth-century writer best known as the author of Animal Farm and 1984. Categories: Social and Political Philosophy, Epistemology, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind and Language ![]() ![]() I loved to wallow in my favorite mint-scented bathwater until my fingers and toes pruned, but I couldn’t ignore the siren song of that dress. I stared at it from my vantage point in the tub and couldn’t help but smile. Short, but not indecent, filmy but not see-through. ![]() The red dress on the back of the bathroom door called to me. Thank you, Antonia Tiranth, for your editing expertise and to all my Lyrical Press family for their continued support. Kim Murphy, Portia Scott Palko, Chris Wilbanks and Nerine Dorman–you all keep Stanzie’s adventures on track. I never know until my beta readers tell me whether the next Stanzie novel is going to fly or if I have to go back and start again. Now we’re both living in Houston and the good times roll on! ![]() ![]() We met in New Orleans and had so many magical times there. ![]() |