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Juniper hill de devney perry5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But now that she’s discovered her true passion for writing romance, she has no plans to ever stop. Writing one book, let alone many, was not something she ever expected to do. After working in the technology industry for nearly a decade, she abandoned conference calls and project schedules to enjoy a slower pace at home with her family. Born and raised in Montana, she loves writing books set in her treasured home state. ![]() Devney is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author who lives in Washington with her husband and two sons. Visit Devney's website to sign up for her newsletters and learn more about upcoming books. ![]() ![]()
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O Homem Duplo by Philip K. Dick5/13/2023 ![]() Wired: Trouble in ToontownĪ Scanner Darkly Producer Tommy Pallotta launches a blog on IGN. Science Fiction Weekly: Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Richard Linklater Interviews.USA Today: Through a 'Scanner' dazzlingly: Sci-fi brought to graphic life.Premiere: Catching Up With Richard Linklater.Interview with Director Rick Linklater from the Austin Chronicle (January, 2005)ĪugA bevy of features on A Scanner Darkly from the last month: ![]() Recording of Phil Dick reading an excerpt from A Scanner Darkly (Real Audio, 3:37)Įxclusive Report from the set of A Scanner Darkly from Phil Dick's daughters, Isa and Laura (June 2004) The technology, first employed in Richard Linklater's 2001 film "Waking Life," has evolved to produce even more emotional impact and detail.ĭecember 2006 - A Scanner Darkly DVD Available Now! Like a graphic novel come to life, "A Scanner Darkly" will use live action photography overlaid with an advanced animation process (interpolated rotoscoping) to create a haunting, highly stylized vision of the future. It is a cautionary tale of drug use based on the novel by Philip K. ![]() ![]() When one reluctant undercover cop is ordered to start spying on his friends, he is launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode. "A Scanner Darkly" is set in suburban Orange County, California in a future where America has lost the war on drugs. ![]()
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Louise penny book a better man5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() But with a daughter of his own, he finds himself developing a profound, and perhaps unwise, empathy for her distraught father. In the middle of the turmoil, a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter.Īs crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache tries to hold off the encroaching chaos, and realizes the search for Vivienne Godin should be abandoned. Floodwaters are rising across the province. It's Gamache's first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet Chief Inspector Armand Gamache as he returns to the Sûreté du Québec in the latest novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny. ![]()
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Beauty Dates the Beast by Jessica Sims5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She is a lovely and voluptuous virgin who is quite familiar with the things that go bump in the night time. She will join a charming and single were-cougar with lots of money for a full night of romantic fun. A tall and sensuous leader of his clan is looking for a human female that is single. “Beauty Dates the Beast” is the first novel in the “Midnight Liaisons” series and was released in the year 2011. She writes a lot, reads a lot (including comic books), and plays video games. ![]() She is a New York Times and USA Today best selling author. The series has both novellas and novels to the series. Under the Sims name, she writes the “Midnight Liaisons” series, which she started in the year 2011, when “Beauty Dates the Beast” was released. Then under this name, Jessica Sims, she writes fun shape shifter paranormal novels that are quite sexy. There is her own name (that she writes erotic contemporary romance) and Jill Myles (that she writes just a bit of everything under which includes zombie fairy tales and sexy and humorous urban fantasy). Jessica Sims is one of the three names that author Jessica Clare uses when publishing she figures, why write under only two names, when you can write under three of them. ![]()
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Private novelist by nell zink5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() This seems to be in part everyday fear of self-exposure, for which, in interviews, she tends to blame a hypercritical mother, and in part ambivalence about seeking a mass audience. ![]() Zink’s graphomaniacal fluency is accompanied, however, by a strong sense of the impossibility, or at least the extreme difficulty, of writing a novel worth reading. ![]() (Her point was that she could write a novel if she chose to, though she had the ancillary aim, she has said, of ‘educating him about anal sex from a female perspective’.) A lot of her writing has similarly grown out of correspondence, and an arrestingly chatty mode of address carries over into her fiction, along with a desire to tease and startle. The first of them, The Wallcreeper (2014), was written in three weeks in order to make a point to Jonathan Franzen, who’d become a pen pal after being impressed by a letter she’d sent him out of the blue about the birds of the western Balkans. ![]() She’s the woman who came out of nowhere – or, on closer inspection, out of a busy background of Virginia boarding schools, bricklaying, postpunk fanzine production and hand-to-mouth endeavours in Israel and Germany – to publish, in her early fifties, a pair of novels that made her the talk of Brooklyn. ![]()
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Murakami on the shore5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() What Is Magical Realism in Murakami’s Fiction I did use the term “magical realism” above, so let’s take a quick look at a definition. Haruki Murakami’s style is often non-realist. ![]() Review of Kafka on the Shore: Genre, Plot, Narrative In a nutshell, it takes quite some… skill to alienate your readers from the perspective of symbolism in a context of magical realism. Why that is will be interesting to analyze, as there are important lessons to learn about how to write symbolism, among other things. Alas, it’s probably the most disappointing Murakami story I’ve read. And so, Kafka on the Shore felt like a great fit. I’m also a great fan of Haruki Murakami as well as Kafka (one of Murakami’s inspirations). As you might have noticed from previous reviews, I’m a great fan of Japanese literature. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Jamie flees to France and spends some time as a mercenary. ![]() Brian Fraser suffers a stroke in Fort William and dies a short time later. March: Jamie meets Captain Jack Randall for the first time. Frank works for the British secret service. September 1: World War II begins with the German attack on Poland.Ĭlaire becomes a field nurse. They meet not only him but also Brian Fraser (Jamie‘s father), Dougal MacKenzie and Jack Randall. November: Looking for „Jeremiah“ MacKenzie, Roger and William Buccleigh MacKenzie end up in the time where Roger’s father Jerry MacKenzie is as well. Jamie spends a few months fostering with Dougal MacKenzie’s family as a fourteen-year-old. Jamie’s brother, Willie, dies of the smallpox.Ĭlaire spends her childhood and adolescence traveling with her uncle Lambert, an archaeologist.Įllen Fraser dies giving birth to her fourth child. ![]() May 1: James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser is born. October 20: Claire Elizabeth Beauchamp is born. November 11: World War I ends with the armistice of Compiègne. Timeline COPYRIGHT Diana Gabaldon and Barbara Schnell ![]()
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Heart of Fire by Senait G. Mehari5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() "I was not a child soldier," Mehari told the NDR on Thursday. But she also blamed the media for the way they have portrayed her life story. Responding to the accusations, Mehari - who has become an activist icon in the fight against children being forced to participate in armed conflicts - admitted she was never actively involved in fighting. Not a soldier There are around 250,000 child soldiers in the world Image: AP The TV station spoke to Mehari's friends and other eye-witnesses in Eritrea who said that Mehari's account of the war was false and who accused her of spreading "lies." Some even said that they would press charges. Now doubts have been raised about whether the 33 year-old - who was publicly recognized and admired for surviving the civil war in Eritrea as a child soldier before becoming a successful singer in Germany - was telling the truth.Īccording to Germany's public broadcaster NDR, essential parts of Senait Mehari's memoir "Feuerherz" (Heart of Fire), which has been translated into several languages, are not true. Senait Mehari's memoir about growing up in Eritrea amid war and destruction was an instant bestseller when it came out in Germany in 2004. ![]()
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Blood royal by eric jager5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() His awards include a research fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Weiss/Brown Award from The Newberry Library. He has given invited talks at many universities, including Princeton, Duke, Chicago, Michigan, British Columbia, Caen, Orléans, and Lille, as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the American Library in Paris. His work has appeared in Speculum, Medium Aevum, and Studies in Philology, as well as in various edited collections, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post legal blog, and The Daily Beast. His other interests include classics, Saint Augustine, the history of the book, and literary theory. Professor Jager came to UCLA from Columbia University in 1996 and teaches medieval literature, including courses on Beowulf, Chaucer, the epic, and the romance. from Calvin College in 1979, and his Ph.D. He is a professor in the department of English at University of California, Los Angeles, received his B.A. Eric Jager is a literary critic and a specialist in medieval literature. ![]()
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Light a penny candle review5/12/2023 ![]() Looking back, I’m amused at how much I understood about the Blitz, London and evacuation when I first read this at the age of about 14. Only child Elizabeth travels to a small town a couple of hours from Dublin and encounters Aisling and her large rambling Irish family, a group of people who seem extraordinary to her, but quite normal to the rest of us and their lives continue to be intertwined long after the war is over and she returns to the UK. It has what Stephen King would call a 'what if' premise, what if a 10 year old from London is sent to live in a small town in Ireland to escape the Blitz during the Second World War. Before the awful phrase 'chicklit' was invented this type of book used to be known as a sweeping family saga, although that phrase doesn't do it justice either. ![]() ![]() The first book picked from my shelves for rereading was an absolute joy. My current copy is a second hand paperback, published in 1992 and much creased by previous owners. The book: The copy I first read was a hardback library book with, I think, a picture of a red head and a blonde woman facing each other beside the Irish Sea. The book is Light a Penny Candle, the author is Maeve Binchy and first time around it was borrowed from the Walkinstown Library in 1980something. ![]() |