5/21/2023 0 Comments The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the G... by Piero Karasu![]() ![]() ![]() Most say the manga is better, and I agree it's much better paced and has some nice expressions that sell the comedy, but the manga also makes the protagonist come off as more stereotypically pervy by adding extra scenes for the sake of fanservice (An example Euphie demanding Anis not watch her while she's undressing and then we get a closeup implying Anis didn't listen. I did get the manga along with this by accident. ![]() So I'm hoping the writing smooths out in the second book. I also liked how she was like 'nope, won't do it, I'm a lesbian' despite being in a medieval fantasy world where she's expected to get married to a guy for clout (though her receiving comical anime head punches from her dad for this that were played for laughs was awkward, especially in written form), and the concept for the romance is a sweet one. ![]() I enjoyed the spirit of the protagonist and the idea of inventing magic tech when reincarnated into a magical world where you can't do magic is a cool one. This was a bit rough, especially with regards to the clumsy and long exposition dumps, but there's definitely a lot of potential. ![]()
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You can read my 4 wine glass toast review HERE ! - Crystal L. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Gideon the ninth audio book![]() ![]() ![]() I have to say that I am extremely glad that I decided to do so as Harrow the Ninth turned out to be a truly outstanding book and I had an incredible time reading it. As a result, I was rather intrigued when I heard about its sequel, Harrow the Ninth (which, as you can see above, featured another intense and beautiful cover by the talented Tommy Arnold) and I eagerly grabbed an audiobook copy of it when it came out. ![]() I absolutely loved Gideon the Ninth and it was easily one of my favourite debuts of 2019. The protagonist of this first novel was the titular Gideon, a smart assed, foul mouthed lesbian swordswoman who was reluctantly serving the necromantic lady of the Ninth House, Harrowhark Nonagesimus. What they instead found was a haunted manor filled with secrets, weird experiments and mysterious hints at the past. Gideon the Ninth was an extremely clever and compelling novel that followed a group of spacefaring necromancers who were summoned to the house of their Emperor and god, and given an opportunity to learn from him and become Lyctors, immortal beings with immense necromantic power who are considered to be living saints. Tamsyn Muir burst onto the writing scene with a real vengeance last year with her debut novel, Gideon the Ninth, the first book in The Locked Tomb series. Sensational author Tamsyn Muir follows up her incredible 2019 debut with another epic, complex and infinitely entertaining hybrid novel, Harrow the Ninth. Publisher: Recorded Books (Audiobook – 4 August 2020) ![]() ![]() ![]() And when the vacation takes a VERY unexpected turn I'll need toįind a way to escape a LIVING NIGHTMARE and get us all home View more Talent-spotted while walking down streets paved with sausage meat don't quiteĬome true. ![]() I'M GOING TO HOLLYWOOD! 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Must have something to do with the NIGHT OF THE HOWLY WIENER which is onlyĭays awa圜an I find the evil mastermind who is TERRIER-izing our townįestive adventure Join me Junior on the most PAWSOME most BARKTASTIC journey Trash bags have been SHREDDED and all the best pee-spots have been RE-SCENTED It ![]() Has been heard in the middle of the night favourite toys have been STOLEN Your tail with TERROR (if you have one of course).A spine-jangling HOWLING Terrible is going on my person-pal!Something so DREADFUL its enough to curl ![]() (Curse of the Mystery Mutt Happy Howlidays Mission Impawsible)Ī perfect story to tickle the funny bone of any young reader MEGAN RIXAAAAAAAAAAAGH Something ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On the West Coast in his twenties, Fitzgerald transforms from barroom punk to office worker, gaining and losing friends along the way. He goes from outcast to insider, invited on trips with rich friends’ families to Nantucket, Miami, and New York City. After a difficult early adolescence in an old mill town, Fitzgerald lands a full ride to a swanky boarding school, where he arrives-without so much as bedsheets-to fend for himself among the children of the New England elite. This eventful personal history follows Fitzgerald from his birth as the surprise child of an affair, to his tumultuous Catholic upbringing in blue-collar Boston and rural Massachusetts, to his young adulthood of service-industry work in a legendary San Francisco bar and beyond. This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Isaac Fitzgerald, whose memoir-in-essays, Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional, is out today from Bloomsbury. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Bell hooks love![]() ![]() In thirteen concise chapters, hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society's failure to provide a model for learning to love. ![]() ![]() As bell hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explore the question "What is love?" her answers strike at both the mind and heart. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. THE ACCLAIMED FIRST VOLUME IN HER "LOVE SONG TO THE NATION" "The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet. Feminism | Popular Psychology | Couples | Philosophy ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Monster by christopher pike![]() It gives Monster a grit and heart one might not expect, and makes what happens quite moving, even memorable. ![]() The young adults in this one - and all of Pike’s books - have a worldliness to them they have sex or want to, and relate to each other in a very real manner emotionally. This one is from 1992 and it is both involving and somewhat gruesome without becoming too graphic. This is the norm for Pike when he writes stories for those in their late teenage years. Don’t let the cover fool you this is in many ways very adult, and riveting. Rarely can you use the terms powerful and poignant about a thriller with science fiction and horror elements aimed at teenagers, but it’s a testament to how good Christopher Pike is that you can with Monster. ![]() ![]() But the human part of her couldn’t bear it. “She had driven herself within an inch of death, and perhaps the alien organism that flowed in her veins had even helped her so far. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Story thieves series books![]() ![]() It was the fantasy version of ‘books about books’, story inside another story, & it was brilliant!Īfter all, Who didn't want to dive into their favourite books, eh? & as an author I kept yelling at Owen that don’t mess with that story! I was thrilled as a reader, as if the book was simultaneously be written as I read it. So here in this story, this idea was the closest thing I got to that interesting conversion. (& the authors were the main characters in there.) ![]() Once my friend & I discussed that maybe in another life, we were the characters in our favourite books & that’s why in this life we love them. ![]() It was another Great middle Grade to be added to my list of favourites. & I saw how WrOnG I was, what I would loss if I hadn't read it, this was brilliant & NOT at all the story I'd expected! not even close! Unexpected & Unpredictable & Surprising & Fun! middle grades are the best! (indeed they are, for my taste) & I immediately found the ebook & started reading it & I couldn't put it down. I didn't want to read this book, wrong quick implication by seeing the word, "thieves" in the title & because it was middle grade, but then, one day earlier, it hit me like "you should read this!" beeb, beeb, beeb. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Gabrielle bluestone hype![]() ![]() McFarland and his sister grew up secure in the knowledge that they would be able to attend private colleges without having to take out loans, though McFarland wouldn’t end up making it past his freshman year at Bucknell.īut despite his comfortable upbringing, McFarland had a laser focus on making money-and he didn’t seem to care whether any of it was aboveboard. They had the requisite shore house, annual vacations to resorts in places like Aruba, and nice cars to drive around town. ![]() ![]() McFarland’s parents, Irene and Steve, made their money in the loosely defined arena of real-estate development. Like most of the families who sent their kids to the then-$30,000-a-year private school, the McFarland family lived in suburban comfort. ![]() With his squinting, pinched smile, athletic build, and preppy style, he certainly blended in physically with the other primarily white, affluent kids at the Pingry School, the coed prep school in Short Hills, New Jersey, from which he was flung into the unsuspecting world in 2010. He was tall, stocky, and, one might say, sort of handsome-adjacent. In the beginning, Billy McFarland seemed average in every way. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Wallace stegner's angle of repose![]() Susan Burling Ward is refined, educated, and strong-willed. Based on the correspondence of the little-known 19th century writer, Mary Hallock Foote, the novel's heroes represent opposing but equally strong strains of the American ideal. Wallace Stegner has said of his epic novel, "It's perfectly clear that if every writer is born to write one story, that's my story." It is a testament to the power of Stegner's prose and vision that Angle of Repose, winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, can be appreciated as America's story as well. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like other great quests in literature, Lyman Ward's investigation leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life. Wheelchair-bound with a crippling bone disease and dependent on others for his every need, Ward is nonetheless embarking on a search of monumental proportions-to rediscover his grandmother, now long dead, who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a hundred years earlier. ![]() Angle of Repose tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, in the Sierra Nevada. ![]() |