6/29/2023 0 Comments Legends and lattes![]() ![]() Viv is not battling monsters but battling how to set up a café and get customers to pay for drinks. ![]() Fighting a dragon with a magic sword – less likely. Reading about an entrepreneur opening a new business is something I could do. That is not to say that the stakes do not exist, but they are more relatable. Lattes is sold as high fantasy, low stakes and that is the perfect description. How will a violent looking Orc with no experience succeed in selling a drink no one has ever heard of? A splash of magic and a little help from her friends may just do the job. Viv has had enough and after one last job has settled in Thune to open the city’s very first coffee shop. ![]() Along with her band of rogues they killed menacing creatures, assassinated annoying leaders, and murdered and pillaged the land. Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree is perfect for just that.įor over 20 years Viv the Orc made a living doing the grisly jobs no one else wanted to do. Sometimes you just want to sit down with a nice hot coffee and read something a little more joyous. The heroes on the run from a darkness they cannot fathom, or a fellowship were hardly anyone can be trusted. As a genre fantasy can often feel epic, but also stressful. What is Comfy Fantasy? It is a new name for the type of fantasy that does not have you on edge all the time. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I can't wait for the next."-Harlan Coben, bestselling author of Promise Me, "Excellent. His novels are gripping, authentic, haunting, and lyrical. ![]() Arnaldur Indridson is already an international literary phenom-and it's easy to see why. Inspector Erlendur is one of the most compassionate detectives to come this way in a long time."- The New York Times "The best new series I've read this year comes from Iceland. I can't wait for the next."-Harlan Coben, bestselling author of Promise Me, " his austere style to a crime of such emotional breadth and sociological complexity that it acquires the sweep and consequence of epic storytelling. " his austere style to a crime of such emotional breadth and sociological complexity that it acquires the sweep and consequence of epic storytelling. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The shield ring rosemary sutcliff![]() Authors originally could not be awarded the medal a second time. She was commended in 1954 for The Eagle of the Ninth, 1956 for The Shield Ring, and 1957 for The Silver Branch. She was no stranger to the Carnegie Medal. She was promoted in the 1950s to adults as for children and juveniles (sic). ![]() Rosemary Sutcliff wrote for children of all ages, about people of all ages. Her notion of whether a book is for children or for young adults is based on a combination of the readership aimed at, and the age of the protagonists. The “short version” of her thesis is that “the Carnegie has definitely seen a massive swing in favour of YA (Young Adults) in the last decade”. She questions whether the award is moving away from children’s books. ![]() Rosemary Sutcliff was the proud recepient of the Carnegie Medal for 1959 for her Roman historical novel ( “I write for children aged 8 to 88”) The Lantern Bearers.Īn intriguing question is posed this year (2018) by Children’s Literature Lecturer Lucy Pearson about the focus of books awarded the Carnegie Medal. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Lothaire book![]() She spends any free time traveling and enjoys all things related to boats and water. She lives in Florida with her family and too many pets. In 2013, Kresley won a third RITA for Shadow's Claim and was inducted as only the 14th member of the RWA Hall of Fame. 2011 brought Cole her second #1 NYT bestseller with Dreams of a Dark Warrior. In 2010, Kiss of a Demon King earned Kresley her second RITA award. Lothaire Cambridge University Press, Computers - 610 pages 1 Review Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified A series of. In 2007, Kresley won the prestigious Romance Writers of America RITA award for best paranormal for her novel A Hunger Like No Other, and in January 2009, she became a #1 New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller with her sixth IAD installment, Kiss of a Demon King. ![]() Though they secretly live among humans, they constantly war among themselves, which gives her a lot of material. Two of her favorite places to visit include the rain forests of Central America and the Queensland area of Australia.Ĭole’s trademark action, sensuality, and humor are exemplified in her popular Immortals After Dark Series, which revolves around the Lore, a secret stratum of hundreds of immortal creatures–ranging from Vampires to Lykae, Furies to Shifters, and Fey to Valkyrie–that each have their strengths, weaknesses, and age old prejudices against the others. She has traveled over much of the world and draws from those experiences to create her memorable characters and settings. ![]() Since her first novel was released in 2003, Kresley Cole has published twenty-one books with Simon & Schuster and has seen her releases translated into seventeen foreign languages. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Normal by amy bloom![]() “Nature is more like Aretha Franklin: vast, magnificent, capricious, occasionally hilarious, and infinitely varied.”īloom takes us on a provocative, intimate journey into the lives of “people who reveal, or announce, that their gender is variegated rather than monochromatic” – female-to-male transsexuals, heterosexual crossdressers, and the intersexed. “A great many people, sick of news from the margins, worn out by the sand shifting beneath their assumptions, like to imagine Nature as a sweet, simple voice: tulips in spring, Vermont’s leaves falling in autumn,” Bloom writes. ![]() ![]() In Normal, the National Book Award finalist explores sex and gender through portraits of people who are widely considered not normal. Amy Bloom has won a devoted readership and wide critical acclaim for fiction of rare humor, insight, grace, and eloquence, and the same qualities distinguish Normal, her first full-length work of nonfiction. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Every last word![]() ![]() ![]() But on the inside, every day is a struggle. She’s beautiful, popular, and by all definitions “normal” from an outsider’s perspective. This book had me on a roller coaster of emotions. It’s always so refreshing to return to YA lit and this is my first experience with a story that deals with the topic of mental illness. until she finds a new reason to question her sanity and all she holds dear. Slowly, she begins to feel more “normal” than she ever has as part of the popular crowd. Sam is drawn to them immediately, especially a guitar-playing guy with a talent for verse, and starts to discover a whole new side of herself. So when Sam meets Caroline, she has to keep her new friend with a refreshing sense of humor and no style a secret, right up there with Sam’s weekly visits to her psychiatrist.Ĭaroline introduces Sam to Poet’s Corner, a hidden room and a tight-knit group of misfits who have been ignored by the school at large. ![]() Yet Sam knows she’d be truly crazy to leave the protection of the most popular girls in school. Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn’t help that her lifelong friends will turn toxic at the first sign of a wrong outfit, wrong lunch, or wrong crush. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can’t turn off. ![]() Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Wildcard marie![]() Marie Lu should teach a master’s class on writing the accidental villain. ![]() There are assassins, The Dark World, gangsters, corrupt corporations and, of course, the most misunderstood antagonists. It’s like Ready Player One with a dash of Inception and a hint of The Professional. Wildcard takes off right where Warcross ended. Wildcard will definitely make my top five for 2018. There’s a lot of pressure on a second book, especially when the first book throws the blue shell on all the competition. Warcross made my top five fave YA novels from 2017 along with A Torch Against the Night, Flame in the Mist, One Dark Throne and Nyxia. Seriously, put your hands all the way up! ![]() Buckle up, Wildcard is a ripping YA rollercoaster. ![]() You need to take a shower (because there will be no showers once you open this book), surround yourself with assorted snacks for stamina (my fave are Blue Diamond Coconut Almonds-they’re like a guiltless Almond Joy), and find a safe environment for epic binge reading because the sequel to Marie Lu’s Warcross is out now. I know you may think you have commitments to keep but you don’t. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Imaginary friend novel![]() ![]() ![]() I was so afraid of my contact lens numbers were going to be bigger than my irises after I finished this book (Give me a biggest Chardonnay break, my dear friends, this month I read “Institution”, “Gold Finch” and still working on “Priory of Orange Tree” which has also 800 pages. Now, Chbosky has returned with an epic work of literary horror, years in the making, whose grand scale and rich emotion redefine the genre. Twenty years ago, Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower made readers everywhere feel infinite. He returns with a voice in his head only he can hear, with a mission only he can complete: Build a treehouse in the woods by Christmas, or his mother and everyone in the town will never be the same again. ![]() Until Christopher emerges from the woods at the edge of town, unharmed but not unchanged. Just one highway in, one highway out.Īt first, it seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. It's as far off the beaten track as they can get. Together, they find themselves drawn to the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania. Determined to improve life for her and her son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night with her child. We can swallow our fear or let our fear swallow us. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The dwarves heitz![]() ![]() Poor old Tungdil is called on again to save his people but five years have passed, and Tungdil is now a drunken wreck. Orcs have been spotted in the caves bordering Girdlegard, whom should have been destroyed. The third book follows the peoples of Girdlegard as they face an invasion of magical creature-machine hybrids. Tungdil, helped by familiar faces Furgas, Rodario and Narmora are forced to pull up trumps again. Oh, not forgetting the treacherous thirdlings, who are out to take the Dwarven Kingdoms back for themselves. find themselves pitted against a horde of evil Orcs, as well as the mysterious Eoíl. Thing is, this guy can only be killed by a special axe: Keenfire. He is sent to find his people, and guided by dwarf twins Boíndil and Boendál, he finds himself thrust into a war against a corrupt sorcerer – Nod’onn (formerly Nudin). The series follows Tungdil Goldhand, a dwarf smith raised amongst humans. If you know what goes on in the books, you don’t need to read these synopsis – there’s one for each book so it’s pretty long. Come on, a black book with an exceedingly grumpy looking Dwarf chap on the front, combined with a blurb telling of a lost Dwarf whom has the burden of his people thrust onto him? How could I not? In this review I’ll be reviewing the series as a whole rather than single books, but I’ll reference them all. ![]() Markus Heitz wasn’t an author I’d ever heard of before, but hey, that doesn’t mean anything. The Dwarves is a series I only found last year, whilst browsing around in Waterstones. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Taproot graphic novel![]() ![]() ![]() "This is a gorgeous and quiet story about love, hauntings, and things that grow. "Taproot approaches death with an honesty, respect, and resilience that you rarely see." " Taproot is a beautiful tale of how love can power us in all the best ways, make us selfless, even seek to right the wrongs and heal what’s been wrecked." The Advocate's Best LGBTQ Graphic Novel of 2017 Rainbow Book List Best Graphic Novel of 2017 But something eerie is happening in town, leaving the local afterlife unsettled, and when Blue realizes Hamal’s strange ability may be putting him in danger, Blue has to find a way to protect him, even if it means. Their stories are cute, eerie, and often dark, but almost always hopeful at their core. ![]() ![]() Luckily, Hamal can see ghosts, leaving Blue free to haunt him to his heart’s content. Today, Keezy writes, draws, and designs their own young adult comics. O'Neil, author of The Tea Dragon Societyīlue is having a hard time moving on. 'Taproot is a beautiful tale of how love can power us in all the best ways, make us selfless. Keezy Young is a queer comic artist and illustrator from the Pacific Northwest, currently in Seattle, WA. "It's a pleasure to lose yourself in the beautiful artwork, and one of the loveliest queer romances I've ever read." - K. The Advocates Best LGBTQ Graphic Novel of 2017. ![]() |