The imager portfolio7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The magical theme of "Imager" draws on the "natural ability to create magic" like his other worlds but this one manifests through images - the creation of and skill in portraying such images. Indeed it was, but somehow the lead character of Rhennthyl just doesn't match the likeability of Recluce's Lerris or Cerryl nor is he as strong as Corus' Alucius. ![]() I expected more of the same picking up this new series (albeit nearly a decade after this first book was penned). They are heavy on characters with a strong sense of morality each book is ponderous with action, onerous on observation, careful on justification. The Recluce Saga, The Spellsong Saga, and The Corean Chronicles have always stood out as unique in their style of fantasy writing compared to contemporary authors like Feist, Eddings, Wurts, Donaldson etc.… The reason for this is that each book has been strongly imbued with social and political philosophy. ![]()
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Book review notes danya7/8/2023 ![]() We meet his mother, Lavender, a seventeen-year-old girl pushed to desperation Hazel, twin sister to Ansel's wife, inseparable since birth, forced to watch helplessly as her sister's relationship threatens to devour them all and finally, Saffy, the detective hot on his trail, who has devoted herself to bringing bad men to justice but struggles to see her own life clearly. Through a kaleidoscope of women-a mother, a sister, a homicide detective-we learn the story of Ansel's life. But Ansel doesn't want to die he wants to be celebrated, understood. He knows what he's done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. In the tradition of Long Bright River and The Mars Room, a gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life - from the bestselling author of Girl in Snow.Īnsel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. ![]() Oscar wilde de profundis full text7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() When Wilde arrived, Reading Gaol was one great Victorian machine of Christian penance, forcing prisoners to meditate on their crimes in silence, while performing physical labor amid the reek of their own waste. The only sanitation was a bucket he had to empty - or "slop out" - himself: "You were unlocked, let down for breakfast, locked back up again to eat it, unlocked again to slop out, to empty the bucket, then locked up again," Davis recalls.Ī miserable existence for sure, but Davis says Wilde had it worse - in Wilde's day, prisoners weren't even allowed to talk. Like Wilde, Davis spent 23 hours a day in his cell. In 1895, Wilde was convicted of homosexual activity and sentenced to serve two years. ![]() A painting of Wilde hangs inside a cell at the former Reading Prison. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His job was to bear witness to uncertainties in the earth. A senior seismologist wasn’t paid to daydream about a lost lady three thousand miles away. Inside at the front window, in his seat between computers and the bird’s nest of monitors and cables that he called home, he was not seeing the undulating water or his screens. The Caltech satellite lab on Orcas Island overlooked the rolling metal sheen of Haro Strait. Tzaro Janssen shook his head as though shaking would clear it. People are strange when you’re a stranger All characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.Ī hemisphere of light and another of darkness No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. Published by Inverness Press at SmashwordsĪll rights reserved. ![]() Sloane crosley essays7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() “You look ’ungry,” he said as he set the plate in front of Nick. ![]() He returned bearing a huge plate of those airy fried potatoes and a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice. The waiter studied him for a moment and disappeared. “It might be OK,” he admitted, looking around the small, crowded room with coats piled on racks above the tables. Nick edged in, sniffed the oak-scented air and watched a golden heap of French fries make its way across the dining room. Since 1924, the restaurant has steadfastly resisted change even the waiters looked as if they’d been there since the beginning. L’Ami Louis is a famous paean to the past. In the end, they grudgingly agreed to come along. “Another overpriced French meal,” he grumbled, making it clear that this was his idea of hell. Michael, my husband, was only moderately more enthusiastic. He frowned as he watched me dance around our hotel room, thrilled that I had managed to snag an impossible last-minute reservation at L’Ami Louis - a restaurant I’d been vainly trying to get into for years. He missed his friends, he missed his room and he missed familiar food. By the time we got to Paris - our last stop - all he wanted to do was go home. My 8-year-old son, Nick, was tired of traveling. ![]() Isaac asimov's i robot to preserve7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() She now believes the accident was orchestrated by government officials who wanted her parents dead. ![]() When she was young, Susan lost her mother in a terrible car wreck that also badly injured her father. Susan Calvin is about to enter her second year as a psych resident at the Manhattan Hasbro teaching hospital when a violent crime strikes very close to home. But even as humanity contends with the consequences of its most brilliant creation, there are those who have their own designs for the robots: enslavement.or annihilation. Robotic technology has evolved into the realm of self-aware, sentient mechanical entities. These books have been officially authorised by the Asimov estate. The follow up to I, Robot: To Protect, inspired by Isaac Asimov's legendary science fiction collection, I, Robot. Isaac Asimov's I, Robot : to obey / Mickey Zucker Reichert Book Bib IDīook, Online - Google Books ![]() ![]() ![]() They can work with her faction of the Bondsmagi in order to rig elections in exchange for money and Locke's life. Patience, of the Bondsmagi appears and offers the pair a deal. Sabetha and Locke meet when they are still part of the child thief gang and she is charged with guiding him.Īfter this flashback, the scene shifts to the fallout from Red Seas Under Red Skies where Locke is dying and Jean is charged with helping him. The book begins with the first meeting of Locke and Sabetha, the woman that he has been in love with throughout the series but has not been introduced until this book. It is published by Random House and Orion. The book was released on October 8, 2013, in the US and Octoin the UK & Commonwealth. ![]() ![]() It details the continuing adventures of Locke Lamora and Jean Tannen, as well as Sabetha, Locke's previously absent love interest. The Republic of Thieves is a fantasy novel by American writer Scott Lynch, the third book in the Gentleman Bastard Sequence series. ![]() The art of mouse guard7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() His response was that if I wanted to be a comic book artist, I needed to get over it and draw the thing that was important to show, no matter how hard it was to draw." ![]() Nervous about drawing an army of mice storming a citadel's gates, I told Jeremy I didn't know if I wanted to draw something so complex. Jeremy, however, was flabbergasted as to why I wouldn't show the reader the gates of Lockhaven coming down or follow the army in their conquest as they were moments the series was building towards. ![]() Showing the aftermath rather than the act was supposed to be suspenseful. Once the trio makes their way into Lockhaven, they find Midnight's army has already burst through the gates and are threatening the Guard's matriarch Gwendolyn. My original draft had the reader following Saxon, Kenzie, and Celanawe through secret tunnels to build the suspense of what's happening with Midnight's army. He told me to walk him through the story of the issue: Saxon, Kenzie, and Celanawe arrive at Lockhaven's gates to find Midnight's army already there. The solution came out of a lunch with Jeremy Bastian. Feared I'd backed myself into a corner and was going to let down my publisher and readers. "I'd drawn two pages of issue 6 and was banging my head against the wall because the story wasn't working for me. In the "Art of Mouse Guard" David Petersen explains the genesis of this part of the story. ![]() Notorious minerva spencer7/6/2023 ![]() But that doesn't stop the rush of desire she feels each time her best friend's brother, notorious rake Gabriel Marlington, crosses her path. ![]() “Sparkling…impossible not to love.” -PopsugarĪ PopSugar Best New Romance of November | A She Reads Fall Historical Romance Pick | A Bookclubz Recommended Readĭrusilla Clare is full of opinions about why a woman shouldn't marry. “Brilliantly crafted…an irresistible cocktail of smart characterization, sophisticated sensuality, and sharp wit.” - Booklist STARRED REVIEW Spencer gives you all the feels!” -Sabrina Jeffries “Unique characters and emotional depth.a winner. Join the Rebels of the Ton as they subvert Regency norms and expectations…and manage to find true love along the way. Fans of Evie Dunmore, Sarah MacLean, and Eloisa James will delight in this innovative, empowering, and sexy story from acclaimed author Minerva Spencer. ![]() Pitch fever book7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() There were several moments where I sat open-mouthed at something he did as an Arsenal fan, to only realize after a few moments that yeah - I could see myself doing something similar. We experience the highs and lows of his life along with the highs and lows Arsenal, and he shows us how the two are connected. How does that kind of attachment occur? How does one get so tied up with a team that the fortunes of that team actually affect the quality of one's day? Hornby has a lot to say about that as he tells the story of his life through his infatuation with Arsenal, a football (soccer) team from London with one of the greatest names ever given a team. I still can't imagine being a fan of any other NFL team. Since that day, the NFL became the Cowboys and a bunch of teams the Cowboys play. I recall two things about that day: the Steelers won the game, but I left there a Cowboys fan. My whole family joined their whole family and while we kids messed around all over the house, the adults watched the game. The first NFL game I remember watching was a Super Bowl over at the Waters' place. And second, I need to suffer a lot more before I'm allowed to complain about Liverpool. First, I'm a lightweight when it comes to sports fanaticism. ![]() I learned a couple of important things from Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch. ![]() |