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![]() Also, fun fact: a lot of these rereleased Point Horror books have little mini biographies about the authors in the back with pictures, so that's neat. Cooney, one of my other favorite Point Horror authors, she has way more hits than misses, which can't be said for other authors. She seems to have a really good formula going and, like Caroline B. Will 100% be checking out more of her stuff, though. ![]() There were some great lines in here about grief and getting over trauma and also some good zingers (check my Goodreads status updates), but apart from that, it was pretty bland. Three, I don't know, I was just really bored. Two, it's way more dated (party lines? LOL), whereas, THE DRIFTER felt kind of timeless. One, it just didn't have the same level of suspense and drama and atmosphere. I don't think this one works quite as well as THE DRIFTER did for a couple reasons. ![]() Hot dangerous guys, strong but kind of dreamy heroines, and sort of a modern gothy vibe. Richie Tankersley Cusick writes a lot of my favorite tropes. There's townies and tourists and all the hot young things are lifeguards, and it should basically be 90s teen paradise. The heroine, Kelsey, goes to this beachy island with her mom to meet her mom's boyfriend and his kids. ![]() So far this is my least Cusick book I've read as part of my experiment. ![]() Is there anything more 90s than a horror novel set at the beach? I don't think so. ![]()
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The savage detectives by roberto bolaño5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Kurnick explores The Savage Detectives as an epic of social structure and its decomposition, a novel that restlessly moves between the big configurations-of states, continents, and generations-and the everyday stuff-parties, jobs, moods, sex, conversation-of which they’re made. David Kurnick argues that the controversies surrounding Bolaño’s life and work have obscured his achievements-and that The Savage Detectives is still underappreciated for the subtlety and vitality of its portrait of collective life. An instant classic in the Spanish-speaking world upon its 1998 publication, a critical and commercial smash on its 2007 translation into English, Roberto Bolaño’s novel has also been called an exercise in 1970s nostalgia, an escapist fantasy of a romanticized Latin America, and a publicity event propped up by the myth of the bad-boy artist. The Savage Detectives elicits mixed feelings. ![]()
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Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her current preoccupations include an addiction to a “Bachelor”-like reality show called “Eligible,” which does double duty as the novel’s title. Bennet retains the original’s misplaced snobbery and self-pity, she is in this version also a lover of trash television. How can the author take a classic script - basically, a silly woman plots to marry off her five unwed daughters, couples fall in and out of love, and situations are dissected by a narrator of uncommon wit and perspicacity - and make it her own? As in the police lineup scene in “The Usual Suspects,” in which the characters recite the same phrase in wildly different ways, the fun lies in the variations on the theme. Now comes Curtis Sittenfeld’s “Eligible,” which moves the story to that roiling hotbed of societal intrigue, the Cincinnati suburbs. ![]() It’s been a Bollywood extravaganza (“Bride & Prejudice”), an undead-themed novelty novel (“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”), a frothy homage (“Bridget Jones’s Diary”) and, best of all, a BBC mini-series that established the universal truth that a billowy poet’s blouse is one hot garment on a man, if the blouse is wet and the man is Colin Firth. “Pride and Prejudice,” in particular, has enjoyed a full and occasionally wacko afterlife. Jane Austen hasn’t written a new book in 200 years, but that hasn’t stopped anyone from trying to resurrect, recast and reimagine her old ones. ![]()
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The unhoneymooners sequel5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() They are enthusiastic at the idea of their fans experiencing the novel on the big screen, and feel that “Olive and Ethan couldn’t be in better hands. ![]() Library Journal, Kirkus, and Publisher’s Weekly have all given the book starred reviews, while the novel was declared as a “Must-Read” from BuzzFeed, Bustle, US Weekly, Entertainment Weekly, and Today.Ĭhristina Lauren is “thrilled” to collaborate with BCDF Pictures on the adaptation, claiming they are “obsessed” with the film’s “completely hilarious” script. The two decide to instill a “temporary truce” and fly off to Maui to fill the shoes of a newlywed coupe.ĭeadline reports that The Unhoneymooners has sold over one million copies worldwide and has over 175K ratings on Goodreads. Since the newlyweds are unable to attend their honeymoon, Olive joins Ethan on the trip instead. In The Unhoneymooners, Olive Torres and her “nemesis” Ethan Thomas are the only ones who do not acquire food poisoning out of Olive’s sister’s entire wedding party. authors of the Beautiful and Wild Seasons series, Dating You / Hating You. ![]() Their seventeen New York Times bestselling novels have been published in over thirty languages. Surprise We’ve been keeping this one under wraps but TODAY we get to shout about it Last summer we wrote THE HONEYMOON CRASHERS, an audio original full-cast sequel to The Unhoneymooners starring the incredible Harry Shum Jr. Christina Lauren is actually the pen name of two authors: Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. Claude Dal Farra and Brian Keady from BCDF Pictures will produce with Kelsey Law, according to Deadline. ![]()
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Finding Gobi by Dion Leonard5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He searched the streets of Urumqi every day, with the help of a team of locals, by posting flyers, interviewing residents, and spreading the word online. ![]() ![]() But Leonard was so affected by the dog, he launched a crowdfunding campaign and travelled to China to find her. Shortly after the race, Gobi went missing. Leonard has chronicled the experience, and the ensuing whirlwind adventure to adopt Gobi, in Finding Gobi¸ released Tuesday. The dog, who would later be named Gobi, tailed Leonard for nearly 128 km and captured the world’s attention online. Stray pup races alongside man throughout seven-day ultra-marathon “It was then that I started to realize I had a real deep feeling for her and the bond was really forming.” “I went to these races trying to win them but I stopped as I went halfway through a river crossing because she was yelping and whining and barking,” said Leonard, 41, of Edinburgh, who completed the race in 2016. He knew, as he turned back to carry the dog across, he’d reached a “turning point.” On Day 3, halfway through a river crossing, he heard yelps and saw the dog standing on the riverbank, unable to follow. Dion Leonard had just begun the second stage of the Gobi March, a 250-kilometre race through the Gobi Desert in China, when he noticed a stray dog was following him. ![]()
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Alex gino melissa5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() In 2018, Gino released another middle grade novel, You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P! It covers Deaf culture and the Black Lives Matter movement and received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and the School Library Journal. Gino has expressed some regrets about deadnaming their character with this title, and in 2021 announced that they were renaming the novel Melissa's Story. The working title of the novel was Girl George (a reference to Boy George), though when the book was bought by Scholastic, this was changed to the present title to broaden readership. ![]() Gino is best known for their 2015 debut novel George, a middle grade novel featuring a young transgender girl, which they first began work on in 2003. They have also spent time living in an RV and driving around the country. Gino was born and raised in Staten Island, New York, but over the years they have lived in such locations as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Brooklyn, New York Astoria, Queens Northampton, Massachusetts and Oakland, California. ![]() Gino is genderqueer and uses singular they pronouns and the honorific Mx. Gino's debut book, Melissa, was the winner of the 2016 Stonewall Book Award as well as the 2016 Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBT Children's/Young Adult. ![]() Melissa, You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P!Īlex Gino is an American children's book writer. ![]()
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The hunter by lj smith5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() In preparation for Tom’s birthday party, Jenny wanders into a mysterious store, where she meets a strange and beautiful boy who sells her a board game. Jenny always plays it safe, so of COURSE the one time she gets remotely reckless, INSANE SHIZZ HAPPENS. And, like most perfect people, she’s also hella boring, having dated the same guy, Tom, since second grade (WHAT) and allowing other people with more personality to take center stage in her life. With a disposition as sweet as her honey-colored hair, Jenny Thornton is one of those perfect girls you wanted to hate in high school but never could, cos she’s SO FREAKING NICE. ![]() ![]() After being thoroughly sucked in, I cursed the same weather that I previously celebrated, because I HAD TO GET TO BOOKSTOP TO GET THE OTHER TWO BOOKS AND I’M SURE I CAN DRIVE ON ICE I MEAN I HAVE MY LEARNER’S PERMIT OK MOM?!!! This trilogy was one of the few times I read YA as an actual young adult, and even though it’s not what you would call a masterpiece of literature, I still unabashedly love it, and I’m TOTES STOKED to review it, sixteen years later. passed Driver’s Ed and an ice storm struck Houston, forcing her to stay home in front of the fire and read The Hunter in one sitting. True Facts: These books were released in 1994, the same year little Sarah P. Relationship Status: Skater Boy Crush Rekindled At the High School Reunion Bonus Factors: Bad Boy, Nightmare Greatest Hits, The 90s ![]()
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Ernest hemingway a farewell to5/22/2023 ![]() Thirty-nine times to get the words right. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield-weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion-this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep.Įrnest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote the ending to ![]() Is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, ![]() The definitive edition of the classic novel of love during wartime, featuring all of the alternate endings: "rves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an author's process" ( ![]()
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Bulgakov heart of a dog5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His family belonged to the intellectual elite of Kyiv. Mikhaíl Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков) was the first of six children in the family of a theology professor. Fame, at home and abroad, was not to come until a quarter of a century after his death in Moscow in 1940. He also wrote a brilliant biography, highly original in form, of his literary hero, Molière, but The Master and Margarita, a fantasy novel about the devil and his henchmen set in modern Moscow, is generally considered his masterpiece. His later works treat the subject of the artist and the tyrant under the guise of historical characters, with plays such as Molière, staged in 1936, Don Quixote, staged in 1940, and Pushkin, staged in 1943. His sympathetic portrayal of White characters in his stories, in the plays The Days of the Turbins (The White Guard), which enjoyed great success at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1926, and Flight (1927), and his satirical treatment of the officials of the New Economic Plan, led to growing criticism, which became violent after the play The Purple Island. He studied and briefly practised medicine and, after indigent wanderings through revolutionary Russia and the Caucasus, he settled in Moscow in 1921. Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kyiv, Russian Empire (today pat of modern Ukraine) on 3/. ![]()
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How to Live by Sarah Bakewell5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() In this sweeping new history, Sarah Bakewell, herself a lifelong humanist, illuminates the very personal, individual, and, well, human matter of humanism and takes readers on a grand intellectual adventure. The humanistic worldview-as clear-eyed and enlightening as it is kaleidoscopic and richly ambiguous-has inspired people for centuries to make their choices by principles of freethinking, intellectual inquiry, fellow feeling, and optimism. ![]() ![]() Humanism is an expansive tradition of thought that places shared humanity, cultural vibrancy, and moral responsibility at the center of our lives. The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years of writers, thinkers, scientists, and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be truly human ![]() |