Wrapped by jennifer bradbury5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() But in one moment, their futures be entirely dependent on one anothers. ![]() As different as their Muslim, Sikh, and British names. And then, in one moment, their futures be irrevocably intertwined. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Before India was divided, three teens, each from wildly different backgrounds, cross paths. Book Synopsis Historical fiction that brings its history to bloody, poignant life: rare and notable. About the Book As the partition of India nears in 1947, bringing violence even to Jalandhar, Tariq, a Muslim, finds himself caught between his forbidden interest in Anupreet, a Sikh girl, and Margaret, a British girl whose affection for him might help with his dream of studying at Oxford. ![]()
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A World Out of Time by Larry Niven5/13/2023 ![]() Tamahome is a third, Ender’s Game, 1976, Rammer by Larry Niven (1971), a fix-up novel, Infinivox, Pat Bottino, “his most perfect short story”, the novel ruins the short story (sort of), the anticipation is more interesting than the resolution, chapters 2 and 3 nullify the power of chapter 1, Corbell, Peerssa, the Clouds of Magellan, “a fuck you ending”, interesting social systems, a sciencey vocab, cryonics, Bussard Ram Jets, ergosphere, Protector, Beowulf Shaeffer, The Soft Weapon, the Technovelgy website, biological package probes, the bubble car, the empty man, gravity assisted subway, poster TV, RNA shots “don’t read Cliff Notes, eat Cliff”, planaria (flatworms) experiments, humans are wired for language, birds are wired for flight, young forever, Star Trek, null field, consciousness transferal, continuation of consciousness, Robert J. ![]() The SFFaudio Podcast #196 – Scott, Jesse, and Tamahome discuss the Blackstone Audio audiobook of A World Out Of Time by Larry Niven. ![]() The five people you meet in heaven movie5/13/2023 ![]() The Next Person You Meet in Heaven, by Mitch Albom. Harper ![]() Eddie awakens in a colorful realm and discovers that each person who arrives is met by five people, each of whom was once met by five other people, ad infinitum, like a divine pyramid scheme: God’s Amway. We are truly people touched by an angel – or at least by its dust.įor Albom, the switch from nonfiction to celestial storytelling began in 2003, when he published “The Five People You Meet in Heaven.” It tells the tale of Eddie, an elderly maintenance man who dies trying to save a little girl at an amusement park. But America has always been thirsty for sugary elixirs of spirituality diluted in platitudes. That this former sportswriter should become our national correspondent on the afterlife is perhaps the best proof we have that God works in mysterious ways. Mitch Albom has sold so many books that three out of the five people you meet in heaven carry copies under their wings. ![]() Legendborn by tracy deonn5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another. Legendborn is a young adult urban fantasy novel by Tracy Deonn. Called a modern day twist on Arthurian legend, it follows a black teenage girl who. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape-until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus.Ī flying demon feeding on human energies.Ī secret society of so called “Legendborn” students that hunt the creatures down.Īnd a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a “Merlin” and who attempts-and fails-to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw. Legendborn is a 2020 debut young adult fantasy novel by Tracy Deonn. ![]() Winner of the Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe for New Talent Author Awardįilled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn’s YA contemporary fantasy Legendborn offers the dark allure of City of Bones with a modern-day twist on a classic legend and a lot of Southern Black Girl Magic.Īfter her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. ![]() Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders every time through. Riddley Walker is a brilliant, unique, completely realized work of fiction. "An imaginative intensity that is rare in contemporary fiction.' -Paul Gray, Time Hoban's soaring flight of imagination is that golden rarity, a dazzlingly realized work of genius." -Jane Clapperton, Cosmopolitan Ferociously inventive." -Walter Clemons, Newsweek ![]() "Stunning, delicious, designed to prevent the modern reader from becoming stupid." -John Leonard, The New York Times ![]() Suffused with melancholy and wonder, beautifully written, Riddley Walker is a novel that people will be reading for a long, long time." -Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World Funny, terrible, haunting and unsettling, this book is a masterpiece." -Anthony Thwaite, Observer The conviction and consistency are total. "Russell Hoban has brought off an extraordinary feat of imagination and style. ![]() "This is what literature is meant to be." -Anthony Burgess Riddley Walker is haunting and fiercely imagined and-this matters most-intensely ponderable." -Benjamin DeMott, The New York Times Book Review "A hero with Huck Finn's heart and charm, lighting by El Greco and jokes by Punch and Judy. ![]() Dragon's Bait by Vivian Vande Velde5/13/2023 ![]() There will be more to follow, but we will get the ball rolling with a few of my very favorite! Some of the books I enjoy reading most include dragons, so it is not surprising that many will appear here in my personal collection. Readers, almost universally, have fallen in love with dragons and I am no exception. ![]() Dragon myths are common, with ancient civilizations and tribes from all over the world talking, singing, and writing about these intelligent creatures. They are powerful creatures, often full of wit and magic, and can pose as a significant threat when angered. One of the earliest literary dragons is seen in Beowulf, an epic poem that may have been composed as early as 700AC. ![]() Photo Credit: fractalznet via Compfight ccįor this installment, and in honor of one of the most fascinating creatures in fantasy literature, I will be adding a few books that all have one major thing in common – dragons! These brilliant beasts have been used as popular devices in stories for hundreds of years. ![]() Utopia avenue review5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Utopia Avenue, Mitchell’s latest, is definitely part of the Mitchell-verse, but also tells a fairly self-contained story set in around the music scene of late 1960s London. Characters drift in and out of the different narratives and there is grand, overarching meta-tale that involves a kind of battle between good and evil, sometimes going on in the background and sometimes in the foreground. ![]() What regular readers of Mitchell’s works will know is that all of these, and his other novels, are connected. But his works are more diverse than this and include the memoire-like Black Swan Green and the historical (but no less metaphysical) The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet. David Mitchell is best known for his time-spanning and globetrotting novels with a metaphysical and speculative edge Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. ![]() Everyman's library don quixote5/13/2023 ![]() That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. ![]() " Lionel Trilling " the first and best of all novels, which nevertheless is more than a novel." Harold Bloom "When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. ![]() "A more profound and powerful work than this is not to be met with… the final and greatest utterance of the human mind." Fyodor Dostoevsky "It can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote. ![]() Ireland to sydney by any means5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Another bloody actor goes on a self-indulgent holiday with a film crew. Ireland to Sydney, what's that about? What's any of it about?Īnd look, here's another, straight afterwards, Joanna Lumley: In the Land of the Northern Lights (BBC1, Sunday). Eh? Oh, so they can come back to England for more goodbyes and hugs, before setting off again, for Sydney. Ewan drops by - for a really big hug.Īnd then, finally, Charley and his new non-movie-star pals set off. ![]() There are dozens of people to thank, hug, and say "I love you" to, and then hug again. He gets a handsome leather suitcase, from his friend Richard. He learns how to ride a horse, and sail a boat, and drive a steam train - presumably so that if he's travelling somewhere remote on a steam train, possibly Tibet, and the driver drops dead or kind of has his steam train taken away from him, then Charley can step in. "It's kind of a country that's been taken away from them, really." "I feel sorry for the Tibetans really," he says, humanely. Occasionally he will get involved, especially if it's on a matter of international politics. Charley skateboards round his office, while his team of people try to sort out visas and stuff. Actually, because this is the first one (of six!), it's mostly about the preparations. Heavens knows why - I think it's simply about boys trying out as many toys as possible. Which means a scallop trawler, a Routemaster, an old Land-Rover, a lifeboat. ![]() Marissa meyer gilded5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Quick lightning round! Tell us the first book you ever remember reading, the one that made you want to become an author, and one that you can’t stop thinking about! ![]() Finally I had the thought – if it doesn’t already exist, maybe I need to write it! That is one of my earliest memories for knowing that I wanted to be a writer. I remember once being at the library and searching the online catalog for some really specific thing – like, “a book about a princess who travels through an enchanted forest and finds a haunted castle and meets a mermaid and a fairy and defeats a dragon” or something, and I was so frustrated when the search engine kept coming back with zero results. I would tell stories to my mom and ask her to write them down for me so I could illustrate them. I was always telling stories, even when I was really little. When did you first discover your love for writing? Thanks for having me back! I am a writer of young adult novels, the host of The Happy Writer Podcast, and a homeschooling mom to my 8-year-old twin daughters. Hi, Marissa! Welcome back to The Nerd Daily! Can you tell our readers a bit about yourself? In Cursed, #1 New York Times bestselling author Marissa Meyer brings the haunting fairytale-inspired Gilded duology to a thrilling conclusion that will have fans―old and new―spinning. ![]() |