![]() ![]() My mother (a regular donor) got in touch with her, and asked if she could send a card to me instead. She was a small woman, and the Red Cross wouldn’t let her donate, so this was her way of supporting them. One of the things she did was to offer a personalized, hand-made card to anyone who would donate blood. Here’s an excerpt from the post I wrote when I learned she was gone: The map includes the Kagan Sea, and in chapter one, the ships Saint Tocohl and Lord Lynn Margaret are both named after characters from Hellspark. ![]() She offered advice and shared her own experiences, and even provided a wonderful blurb for Goblin Quest.Ĭlose readers will notice several references to Janet in Mermaid’s Madness. I’m not sure how I got the courage to contact her, but we ended up swapping a number of e-mails over the years. Janet was the first professional writer I talked to when I began trying to break in. She also wrote the original SF novel Hellspark as well as a collection called Mirabile and a Hugo-winning story “The Nutcracker Coup.” There’s a warmth to her writing that I absolutely love. Janet Kagan was the author of, in my humble opinion, one of the best Star Trek novels out there: Uhura’s Song. ![]()
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![]() ![]() None of my well-read professors nor any of my bookish graduate school friends had ever heard of this book written in German, though resonating with memories of other languages: Persian, Azeri, Russian, and Turkish. By then, I had lost or misplaced the first one. Kurban Said was obviously a pseudonym, but whose? A few years later, this time as a graduate student at the University of Washington in Seattle, I found another copy of Ali and Nino in a used bookstore. ![]() ![]() Thus, I was surprised to find out that the book was translated from the original German. The name was undeniably one of someone from the Middle East. MANY YEARS AGO in a different age and place, in a bookstore that carried English-language books in an upscale neighborhood of Ankara, I found a novel, titled Ali and Nino, by a certain Kurban Said, an author I had never heard of. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tiffany can't avoid being funny-it's just who she is, whether she's plotting shocking, jaw-dropping revenge on an ex-boyfriend or learning how to handle her newfound fame despite still having a broke person's mind-set. None of that worked (and she's still single), but it allowed Tiffany to imagine a place for herself where she could do something she loved for a living: comedy. ![]() Or at least she could make enough money-as the paid school mascot and in-demand Bar Mitzvah hype woman-to get her hair and nails done, so then she might get a boyfriend. If she could do that, then her classmates would let her copy their homework, the other foster kids she lived with wouldn't beat her up, and she might even get a boyfriend. Growing up in one of the poorest neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles, Tiffany learned to survive by making people laugh. "An inspiring story that manages to be painful, honest, shocking, bawdy and hilarious." -The New York Times Book Reviewįrom stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn, a sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of ( extremely) personal essays, as fearless as the author herself. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Maude, who was shipped off at the age of nine to marry a German emperor and who was later forced to marry Geoffrey of Anjou, is a woman with grievances. Upon the king's death, however, Stephen, also a grandchild of William I, snatches the crown. Of the 23 children sired by Henry I, son of William the Conqueror, only two were born in wedlock: William, whose drowning opens the novel, and Maude, who's declared the legitimate heir. Here begins the story of England's terrible 18 years from 1135-1153, during which a dead king's daughter, Maude, and her cousin Stephen fight for the crown. ![]() Happily, though, the author continues to base her narrative on the firm ground of fact-or at least on what is available after scholars have parted the medieval clouds of chroniclers' bias. ![]() In her fifth ambitious historical novel (The Reckoning, 1991, etc.)-and the first of a trilogy-Penman once again tells a tale of kings and queens, singular destinies and double-crosses, at an unhurried pace. ![]() ![]() ![]() In previous episodes, Black Bird explores Hall’s early years, highlighting the unusual childhood job he had of digging graves with his father - to steal from the dead. ![]() Keene describes how he was able to get Hall to admit to burying Reitler’s body “way out in the country.” In the series, we see how Hall eerily describes how Reitler’s grave was the “best grave” he ever dug. While we may tend to focus on the psychology and mind of the killer himself, it is important to remember victims like Jessica Roach as full and complete people who had their whole lives ahead of them, which Black Bird expresses in a poetic, dream-like sequence that effectively reinforces the sheer brutality of Hall’s crimes.Īccording to his memoir, Keene was additionally tasked with finding out about the murder of another missing young woman, Tricia Reitler. Something else that the series manages to capture in a particularly poignant way is Jessica Roach’s life before becoming just another of Hall’s victims. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Octavo, original brown cloth, folding map. Signed by Author(s).įirst edition of the author's first and most beloved work. The publisher's printed price of £3.50.net is present to the front flap. ![]() There is a small strip of archival tape to the verso of the dust wrapper where the corner of the bottom flap fold is present. The dust wrapper is in very good condition with two closed tears to the base of the spine with a smaller closed tear to the spine tip.There is a small area of faint red staining to the corner of the rear panel with a small patch of soiling to the spine tip.Lightly faded to the spine. Signed and inscribed by the author one year after publication, the inscription reads - TO RUFUS AND PANDORA / VAUGHAN / WITH BEST WISHES FROM / RICHARD ADAMS / AUGUST 1973. The book is free of any previous owner names or inscriptions. Internally, the pages are clean but there is some foxing to the page block, also with a couple of faint spots to the first two or three pages. The boards are clean, but there is a little spotting to the corner of the spine and front panel. ![]() HARDBACK - A very good book, bound in the publisher's brown cloth boards with bright gilt lettering present to the spine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Atkinson’s witty, functionally elegant style in Transcription isn’t terribly distinctive, but it isn’t trying to be the writing is always in service to the story. ![]() In the best-selling writer’s 10th novel, Transcription, an unlikely spy, Juliet Armstrong, receives an assignment that. Compared to a Cusk or a Smith (Ali or Zadie), Atkinson might appear to be a sort of literary matron, an aesthetic conservative unwilling or unable to adapt to the evolution of her art but hers is a profoundly feminist project. K ate Atkinson pays close attention to historyand how it repeats itself. ISBN-13: 9780316176637 Summary A thrilling new novel from the bestselling author of Life After Life In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Far from interfering with the plot of Transcription, this meditation on identity kindles it. Find a Recipe Transcription (Atkinson) Transcription Kate Atkinson, 2018 Little, Brown and Company 352 pp. before you know it Transcription has turned from a wartime spy yarn into a fuguelike meditation on the fungibility of female identity. ![]() In her best work-a category in which her latest, Transcription (Little, Brown), certainly belongs-she maneuvers the tropes of the murder-mystery genre, of historical fiction, and of privileged white Britishness into a kind of critical salvage of women’s work, women’s lives, that’s as heterodox, in its way, as Cusk’s. Atkinson has predicated her enormously successful career upon giving readers intelligent and artful iterations of what they already know they like. The futuristic surveillance equipment employed by M.I.5 is, by twenty-first-century standards, inexact and clunky, and. Within a deceptively familiar form, Transcription treats the lives and labor of women with fresh complexity. This is true of Transcription most immediately on the level of technology. ![]() ![]() I’ve got one week to do everything, say everything I’ve never dared. But as Christmas lays its mantle of magic over Kentbury, she drops a bomb-she’s following a dream to New York City. Cassie’s the best part of me, and Knightly’s been there every step of the way. ![]() For all eight years of Cassie’s life, Knightly’s been my anchor. Lost my MIT scholarship, came home to fix cars and romance Kentbury’s female tourists-until I wound up a single father. Maybe the best Christmas gift I can give him-and myself-is to turn in the keys to my B&B and put some distance between us. Why? If I tell him I love him, I’ll lose him and his adorable daughter. Since before I could walk, he’s been my champion. ![]() That I’m immune to that wide jaw, taut body, and the unique woodsy-aftershave-engine-oil scent that makes my ovaries explode. If practice makes perfect, I should excel at pretending that Heath Miller doesn’t affect me. ![]() ![]() His best known social novel was Myra Breckinridge his best known historical novels included Julian, Burr and Lincoln. Vidal's novels fell into two distinct camps: social and historical. Additionally he was known for his well publicized spats with such figures as Norman Mailer, William F. ![]() In addition to this, he characterised the United States as a decaying empire from the 1980s onwards. ![]() Through his essays and media appearances, Vidal was a long time critic of American foreign policy. As well known for his essays as his novels, Vidal wrote for The Nation, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Review of Books and Esquire. Vidal ran for political office twice and was a longtime political critic. Vidal came from a distinguished political lineage his grandfather was the senator Thomas Gore, and he later became a relation (through marriage) to Jacqueline Kennedy. He was also known for his patrician manner, Transatlantic accent, and witty aphorisms. ![]() Eugene Luther Gore Vidal was an American writer known for his essays, novels, screenplays, and Broadway plays. ![]() ![]() ![]() His titles include Tomie and Uzumaki, which have been adapted into live-action films Gyo, which was adapted into an animated film and his books Black Paradox, Deserter, Fragments of Horror, Frankenstein, Lovesickness, No Longer Human, Remina, Sensor, Shiver, Smashed, The Liminal Zone, Tombs, and Venus in the Blind Spot, all of which are available from VIZ Media. Junji Ito made his professional manga debut in 1987 and since then has gone on to be recognized as one of the greatest contemporary artists working in the horror genre. Ten tales that celebrate the sinister and hilarious world of Junji Ito’s favorite antihero, Soichi! What on earth-or hell-has the family seen there? But why does it have a series of four doors? And then there’s the strange phenomenon surrounding the handmade casket their grandfather left behind. What is the terrible secret of his origin? Meanwhile, tormented by his little brother’s never-ending pranks, older brother Koichi has a soundproof room built. Whether it’s summer holidays or a birthday party, Soichi can turn any occasion into a nightmare in a heartbeat. ![]() Soichi, the unhinged second son of the Tsujii family, chews nails and makes them clatter and clack as he spouts horrific curses to bring about the most bizarre happenings. ![]() “I’ll get you for this… I’ll show you true horror!” A collection of tales featuring Soichi, the uncanny and hilarious hero of the Junji Ito world! ![]() |