He is a martial artist, fencer, and fiddler. Gladstone studied Chinese literature at Yale, and lived and taught for two years in rural Anhui province. Gladstone created the Serial Box series Bookburners, and the interactive television series Wizard School Dropout His interactive projects include the XYZZY-nominated Choice of the Deathless and Deathless: The City’s Thirst, which take place in the world of the Craft Sequence. Hugo-, Nebula-, and Locus Award winning author Max Gladstone’s works include Empress of Forever, the Craft Sequence of fantasy novels and games, and, with Amal El-Mohtar, the internationally bestselling This is How You Lose the Time War. His dreams are much nicer than you’d expect. He is the author of many books, including Empress of Forever, the Craft Sequence of fantasy novels, and, with Amal El-Mohtar, the internationally bestselling This is How You Lose the Time War. Hugo-, Nebula-, and Locus Award winning author Max Gladstone has been thrown from a horse in Mongolia and once wrecked a bicycle in Angkor Wat.
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5/12/2023 0 Comments Necroscope the lost yearsRight now, Harry Keogh doesn’t even know he’s the Necroscope. So is Harry’s long-dead Ma, and the ancient philosopher and prophet Nostradamus, whose centuries-old quatrains make eerie sense in the modern world. E-Branch, the psychic spy organisation, is worried about Harry. His powers – his deadspeak and his ability to transport himself through the Mobius Continuum – are locked away in the recesses of his vampire-clouded mind.īut Harry is not without allies, living and dead. Thus, Radu’s enemies are now Harry’s – and Harry cannot properly defend himself. Entombed in amber, trapped in undeath, Radu plans for his resurrection and plots the destruction of other vampires who might challenge his supremacy. This obsession has left him open to subtle influence by an ancient vampire, Radu. Harry Keogh, the Necroscope, the man who can talk to the dead, the Earth’s greatest vampire hunter, has been searching for his wife and infant son, gone missing during Harry’s war against the vampires. How can you explain why you believe anything? So I just say what my mom says when people ask her. Rarely have I read such a powerful witness to the power of the gospel. Her conversion was a death sentence in Iran, so the family fled-without her baffled husband. But it’s Daniel’s mother who is the hero of this book, which released in 2020 and was named a book of the year by the New York Times, NPR, and the Wall Street Journal. I laugh every time I think about Daniel’s father visiting him in Oklahoma and insisting that he can speak English-while talking to Daniel in front of his class in Farsi. Like when I won the tetherball tournament at recess against Trevor and I wouldn’t have if I hadn’t been there at all.” He writes about his mother working with immigration officials: “It was like sticking a wrinkly dollar into a candy machine over and over and having it spit the dollar out over and over, for a year, with a gun to your head.” From the perspective of his childhood he observes that Americans “think we’re bad people who will come and take their stuff. Writing as his younger self lends tension and anguish to Nayeri’s already dramatic story of escape from Iran. Then call him Robert Frost, because Everything Sad Is Untrue will bring you to tears. Nayeri writes that sadness turns perfectly normal people into poets. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Candacy taylor green bookIt is the story of a lost civilization: one that deserves to be lost but never forgotten. This book is about the Green Book: one annual traveler’s guidebook but so much more. Reading this book made it clear that my ignorance was part of the plan it made me complicit. I was naïve: totally unaware of pervasive racial oppression and an ever-present threat of violence that lay just below the surface, waiting to burst forth against children who didn’t look like me. I grew up in green, suburban neighborhoods running with my friends and blissfully unaware of how my country treated so many who did not enjoy our privileges and freedoms. Things I took for granted were legally denied to Black citizens, but this was not in any way part of my experience. This stubborn fact kept coming back to me as I read this book. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Cinder meyer seriesShe just hoped Iko would be back soon with its replacement.Ĭinder was the only full-service mechanic at New Beijing's weekly market. Having loathed the too-small foot for four years, she swore to never put the piece of junk back on again. A sense of release hovered at the end of those wires-freedom. A spark singed her fingertips and she jerked away, leaving the foot to dangle from a tangle of red and yellow wires. Tossing the screwdriver onto the table, Cinder gripped her heel and yanked the foot from its socket. By the time it was extracted far enough for her to wrench free with her prosthetic steel hand, the hairline threads had been stripped clean. Her knuckles ached from forcing the screwdriver into the joint as she struggled to loosen the screw one gritting twist after another. THE SCREW THROUGH CINDER'S ANKLE HAD RUSTED, THE engraved cross marks worn to a mangled circle. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Bad kitty jaffeOne of the detectives who had been hanging around her house after her mother’s death had shown her how to dust for prints using eye-shadow and ever since then, Jas has been picking up books on murder and forensics, probably long before she understood much of what those books said:įor some reason my father saw no problem with us playing “Barbie and Ken go to Hawaii to save their marriage by picking up another couple for sexy good times”, but if Barbie and Ken had gone to Hawaii to “rescue another couple from a crazed kidnapper”, that would have been wrong. (6) Meep! But I guess it winds up okay since Kirkus Reviews says: “Inventive, witty, and laugh-out-loud funny, with an enjoyably twisty ending.” They wouldn’t say that if everyone died, right? Right? - Įver since Jas’ mother died in a car accident, Jas’ MacArthur Genius Grant winning father is wary of her interest in sleuthing and trouble-making. (5) And meet the cute guy at the Snack Hut. (4) If friend means “unsuspecting victim” and animals means “one very bad kitty.” One second she’s trying to enjoy her Vegas Vacation (5), the next she’s tangled up in an outrageous adventure and has to outwit a crazed killer before he ends ten lives, one of them her own (6). Meet Jasmine (1), forensic super sleuth (2), aspiring Model Daughter (3), and friend to animals (4). 5/11/2023 0 Comments Gilda joyce book series" Gilda Joyce is an appealing teenage sleuth! Dressed in her vinyl boots, trench coats and spy-girl flip, she has a hard time blending in when in DC for the summer to work as an intern at the spy museum. Loved the plot, loved the characters, loved the sarcasm. I enjoyed this one a lot more than the last two. Out of all the books before this one, none of them were as good as this one! Gilda Joyce fans, you should read this book! " - Budgie&DomoFan, That makes the book really interesting as Gilda is a spy in this book. " In this book Gilda Joyce is at the Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. " Particularly liked the internal dialogue of the protagonist, Gilda Joyce " - Jacqueline, " Amazing mystery book I have ever read! " - Ayano, I really liked that the author managed to combine ghosts and spying. " this was a really good book, but some parts made me think that it was the type of book that made you say "not bad." Overall, it was.interesting. Allison needs to find a new character to write about. " I am tired of Gilda and her "outfits" and her pretensions. Several elements come together in this book very nicely. " This is the best of the Gilda Joyce novels. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Meg mason sorrow and blissWhat plot there is hinges on Martha's fraught relationship with Patrick as they both question the basis of their marriage and on her even more fraught relationship with herself as a new diagnosis leaves her bottoming out and more angry than ever. Martha's world is almost entirely confined to Patrick, her parents, and her beloved sister, Ingrid, who is pregnant with her fourth child when the novel opens. Here she reflects on a life that began with a relatively normal, if unhappy, childhood and then took a sharp turn when she was 17 and “a little bomb went off in my brain,” leaving her subject to rage, depression, suicidal impulses, and decades of what she sees as one useless medication after another. She moves from Oxford back to the London home of her parents: famous alcoholic sculptor Celia and kindly Fergus, whose signal achievement has been the publication of a single poem. Mason's bleakly comic debut examines with pitiless clarity the impact of the narrator's mental illness on her closest relationships.īritish magazine columnist Martha Friel has just turned 40, and Patrick, her long-suffering husband of seven years, has left her. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Alecto the ninth coverIanthe appears to know the reason behind these letters, but has been hexed by this past Harrow to prevent her from any talk of it. In addition, large portions of Harrow’s memory are missing Ianthe Tridentarius gives her a series of letters written by Harrow herself, giving her detailed instructions for what to do or avoid doing in various scenarios. He apologizes that she does not have a real choice in returning to her House, because the Lyctors are perpetually being chased by Resurrection Beasts, the "ghosts" of the dead planets of the Nine Houses. Despite this, the Emperor fulfills his promise and renews the Ninth House by waking several hundred people from cryogenic sleep and delivering them as new citizens to the Ninth. It is the second in Muir's Locked Tomb series, preceded by Gideon the Ninth (2019) and followed by Nona the Ninth (2022) and forthcoming Alecto the Ninth (2023).Īfter ascending to Lyctorhood in Gideon the Ninth, Harrowhark "Harrow" Nonagesimus discovers that her process of ascension is somehow imperfect and she lacks many of a Lyctor's standard powers. Harrow the Ninth is a 2020 science fantasy novel by the New Zealand writer Tamsyn Muir. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Pegasus bridge stephen e ambroseAmbrose traces each step of the preparations over many months to the minute-by-minute excitement of the hand-to-hand confrontations on the bridge. Pegasus Bridge was the first engagement of D-Day, the turning point of World War II.This gripping account of it by acclaimed author Stephen Ambrose brings to life a daring mission so crucial that, had it been unsuccessful, the entire Normandy invasion might have failed. In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defense forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe. You can read this before Pegasus Bridge: JPDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Ambrose which was published in May 1, 1984. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Pegasus Bridge: Jwritten by Stephen E. Brief Summary of Book: Pegasus Bridge: Jby Stephen E. |