![]() Knowing the kind of reader I was, it’s strange to me that I thought two books would be enough for a week on the road. The front cover showed a surly blue girl with wings, and the back cover called it “a potent brew of magic and transformation.” I didn’t think I was craving transformation, but I must have been a little ready for it - because when I, an unusually fastidious child when it came to monitoring the appropriateness of my own reading material, came across the word sex on the second page, I didn’t close the book flushed with shame. ![]() ![]() I thought the title was funny: I Was A Teenage Fairy, a winking nod to cliche filled in with an implication of magic. A chance encounter in a bookstore, when I wasn’t looking for anything special I just wanted something light to accompany my assigned summer reading on a family vacation. Like all the best love stories - at least all the love stories I spun for myself during the long waiting years - it began with a dose of kismet. This time, we asked : What’s a book that made you fall in love? Novel Gazing is Electric Literature’s personal essay series about the way reading shapes our lives. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Gideon’s subsequent evasiveness and secrecy are even more damning and Eva begins to doubt Gideon’s true feelings.īut Gideon has reasons to be suspicious as well when a figure from Eva’s past re enters her life. Eva witnesses Gideon’s former fiancée exiting his building and becomes highly suspicious. Reflected in You picks up where Bared to You leaves off, with Gideon and Eva in a relationship filled with tension and mistrust. Gideon is immediately attracted to Eva and endeavors to see that she feels the same. She has taken a job at Waters Field & Leaman, an advertising agency, when she is spied by the owner of the building in which she works and owner/CEO of Cross Industries, billionaire Gideon Cross. We first met Eva Trammell in Bared to You after she moved across the country from California to New York City. This review may contain slight spoilers for the previous novel, and indeed the stories are very intertwined you won’t want to read the second book without reading the first beforehand. ![]() Reflected in You is a follow up to the author’s breakout hit Bared to You, which rose to the top of many bestseller lists in 2012. ![]() ![]() The NE addresses the student of politics and the politician throughout, and virtue and happiness loom large in the Politics. ![]() This is surprising, considering that Aristotle opens the Nicomachean Ethics by defining knowledge of the human good as politikê (political knowledge) and given that he closes the work by exhorting us to bring virtue and happiness to life in cities, after studying politics and constitutions. ![]() While Aristotle's ethical treatises have inspired massive profusions of fine philosophical work, philosophers have shown comparatively little interest in the Politics. As such it is rare and invaluable even among the classics of political philosophy. Aristotle's Politics holds up the highest ideals of human flourishing and excellence, while fearlessly diving into the nitty-gritty of everyday political circumstances, where neither flourishing nor excellence may seem possible. ![]() ![]() ![]() Other than having a five year old son who believes sleep is for quitters, it was the ending. I was halfway through it when I had a great upheaval in my personal life, and it took me right at two years to get back to it.ģ) What was the most challenging part about writing Kingdom of Heroes? Just under three years in actual time, but in writing time, it was somewhere around eight to twelve months. ![]() He didn’t deserve it.”Ģ) How long did it take you to write Kingdom of Heroes from start to finish? People would say: “He’s so quiet.” And I would just sit there, crying in my thoughts, thinking: “Why did Snake-Eyes have to die like that. I would play for around five hours on a Saturday then be completely spent emotionally for the rest of the week. Characters lived characters died there was tragedy and betrayal. Every play time was a Shakespearean event of epic proportions. I remember being a little kid and playing with my GI Joe action figures (for the record, they’re not dolls they’re action figures). I’m not sure there was ever a point in my life when I didn’t want to write. Thanks for answering my questions, Jay!ġ) When did you know you wanted to become an author? He’s touring his novel this week, and I’m glad to snatch an interview with him. Jay is the author of fantasy / mystery / superhero novel “Kingdom of Heroes”. I’m hosting an interview with author Jay Philips today. ![]() ![]() Army at age 14 and returned to Newark at 17. ![]() He lied about his age and enlisted in the U.S. His mother died when he was 10, and he began looting factories, got into fights with white gangs, and was arrested and sent to the Essex Youth House twice. The launch of his political career came after a life of early turbulence. He worked as a corrections officer and leader of the Newark branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People before becoming a state legislator.Ī leading force in the rise of Black political representation in the city of Newark, Richardson was 30-years-old when Essex County Democrats put him on their nine-member slate of Assembly candidates in 1961. Rodino (D-Newark) in the Democratic primary after congressional redistricting created a Black majority in New Jersey’s 10th district in 1972.Īs a freshman lawmaker, Richardson helped pass a bill to curb segregated housing that forced people of color to live in ghettos and sponsored legislation that created a commission to study segregation in public schools, fought racially-biased zoning laws. Richardson had sought to become the first Black to serve in the New Jersey Senate and challenged Rep. ![]() ![]() Richardson, a maverick civil rights leader who served four terms in the New Jersey State Assembly in the 1960s and 1970s, died on September 24. ![]() ![]() ![]() Warshawski is pitch perfect.’ AudioFile, Earphones Award Winner Praise for the audio edition of Hardball: narrator Susan Ericksen ramps up the excitement in the story with a memorable voice that is intense and breathless. Praise for the audio edition of Body Work: ‘Susan Ericksen s portrayal of Chicago private investigator V.I. ![]() figures out the answers, she is in a race to find the missing young woman before the murderers do. Her efforts to track down her client and learn his true identity take her deep into a labyrinth of fraud and violence. Finds young Peter s dead body instead, her client disappears. s assignment is to find Thayer s son Peter s missing girlfriend. Hired by a man who calls himself John Thayer, V.I. Warshawski mystery America’s top private eye is tossed into a dangerous adventure when a seemingly straightforward assignment becomes complicated and deadly. In this gripping adventure the first V.I. ![]() ![]() ![]() By contrast, most of Krueger’s female characters lack depth and act only out of love for-or lack of love from-men. Honorable and courageous yet full of self-doubt, Cork seeks not only Harris but also redemption for past failures. Meanwhile, Cork and Lindsay fight for their lives. ![]() When the pair fails to return, friends and family investigate. Winter is coming, and Cork’s daughter is getting married soon, but the siblings’ plea is compelling and Harris was a childhood friend, so Cork accompanies Lindsay into the wilderness to see what Tamarack County Search and Rescue might have missed. ![]() In Edgar-winner Krueger’s uneven 15th Cork O’Connor thriller (after 2014’s Windigo Island), Lindsay Harris and her brother, Trevor, hire the ex-sheriff turned PI to find their architect grandfather, John Harris, who recently vanished from Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. ![]() ![]() ![]() One among the seven men aboard “The Case In Point” is unwittingly marked by a woman beautiful and cursed, who not only desperately needs his help, but needs, desperately, to tear out his heart and consume his crew. The forgotten horror surrounding the 1835 loss of the Nantucket whaler “The Covenant” threatens to overwhelm the present. As the web spins from the depths, the past is not so distant the lines between history and myth begin to blur. As the herring war intensifies, each boat is an island, and being alone can cost you everything. There’s an old saying that goes: The difference between a fairy tale and a fisherman’s tale is this… a fairy tale begins, “Once Upon A Time,” and a fisherman’s tale begins, “This Ain’t No Bullshit.” Supernatural terror stalks the crew of the purse seiner the F/V “The Case In Point” during the March 2010 Sitka Herring Sac Roe Fishery in Southeast Alaska. In the end it's the difference between a fairy tale and a fisherman's tale. Read it if it sounds interesting after reading this review. Reason for reading: I won it through Librarything Early Reviewers. Topic of the book: (competitive) fishing in Alaska, horror at sea Year published: original 2012, my edition 2013 Title: The fishing widow (on Librarything) This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.(I took care to give no obvious spoilers about the story) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Guardian notes that "The Nac Mac Feegle embody the stereotypical Scotsman to great comic effect". In The Art of Discworld, Pratchett identifies The Little Grey Men and Down the Bright Stream, both by "BB", the nom-de-plume of Denys Watkins-Pitchford, as possible inspiration, featuring fairies that could talk to creatures, but "there was nothing tinkly about them they lived in a world of dangers". In the fictional world of the Feegles, the males are rowdy and spend their time drinking, fighting and stealing. ![]() According to Sir Pratchett, “They speak a mixture of Gaelic, Old Scots, Glaswegian, and gibberish.” They are strong and resilient. All Feegles have red hair and tattoos that identify their clan. The Nac Mac Feegles' skin is characterized as blue, heavily tattooed and covered with woad. At six inches tall, these fairy folks were are seen as occasionally helpful thieves and pests. The Nac Mac Feegle (also sometimes known as Pictsies, Wee Free Men, the Little Men and "Person or Persons Unknown, Believed to be Armed") are a fictional type of fairy folk that appear in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels Carpe Jugulum, The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight, Snuff, and The Shepherd's Crown. ![]() ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( February 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help rewrite it to explain the fiction more clearly and provide non-fictional perspective. This article describes a work or element of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book focuses on the experiences of Pippi Långstrump, a nine-year-old pigtailed redhead whose mother died when she was a baby and her father, a sea captain, has seemingly vanished at sea, so she moves into a big house known as Villa Villekulla, located in a little Swedish village, with her pet monkey Mr. Pippi won the contest that closed August 1, Rabén & Sjögren arranged for illustrations by Ingrid Vang Nyman (her debut in Sweden), and the first edition was published in November. After it was rejected by Bonniers, Lindgren developed the nonsensical aspects further and submitted the revised version to the 1945 children's book contest sponsored by Rabén & Sjögren, a rather new publisher. ![]() ![]() She wrote the first manuscript during her own injury three years later. Lindgren originally told Pippi stories to her daughter Karin in 1941, when the seven-year-old was home sick with pneumonia. The first English language translation was published late in 1950 by The Viking Press in the United States with illustrations by Louis S. Translations have been published in more than 40 languages, commonly with new illustrations. Pippi Longstocking ( Swedish: Pippi Långstrump) is a Swedish children's novel by writer Astrid Lindgren, published by Rabén & Sjögren with illustrations by Ingrid Vang Nyman in 1945. ![]() |
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