![]() This story is told from the perspective of Jayne Baek, a fashion student in New York who is surrounded by friends and a bum of a “boyfriend” who really doesn’t connect with her in any meaningful way. It was perhaps my most anticipated book of 2021, and it means a whole lot to me as someone who sees herself in both Jayne and June. Choi can do no wrong in my opinion, and after reading her second novel I was even more eager to read Yolk. At the time, I can vividly remember being on Goodreads and reading a very vague synopsis about Jayne and June’s sisterhood, and I was hooked. It’s wild to think back to when I originally fell in love with Choi’s writing after reading Emergency Contact. Choi and have been anticipating this novel’s release for two years. ![]() ![]() It’s no secret that I am a huge fan of Mary H.K. “I have wasted my entire life focusing on the wrong things and the wrong people. ![]()
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![]() ![]() interact with a community of readers, lavish gratitude on you for being so awesome, give you secret information, and maybe come up with group projects like prompt writing exercises etc. ![]() posts about writing, particularly writing difficulty (including rebuttals to jerks who claim "writer's block doesn't exist," how dare they?) Plot Daughter of Smoke and Bone A seventeen-year-old Prague art student named Karou leads an interesting life: she has blue hair that grows from her head, speaks a variety of languages, has three bullet scars in her stomach, and has been raised by creatures with human and animal features called chimaera. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.There are a number of things I'd like to do more of: Well, I'd like to create something like it again, but I'm thinking that place might be a Patreon account.** It was wonderful, but something slowly happened over the years, new stresses kicked it off my to-do list, social media took over, and here we are with this stagnant place. ![]() I miss this space, or what it was once when I maintained it and was part of a community, and connected here with readers, and posted about writing and life. Laini Taylor is an American young adult fantasy author best known for the Daughter of Smoke and Bone Series. Scholastic/Levine, 17.99 (265pp) ISBN 978-5-7 Taylor offers a powerful trio of tales, each founded upon the consequences of a kiss. Yikes! What happened? Well, here's the thing. Hi! Welllllll, hahahaha I haven't been on here in so long I wasn't sure I'd remember my password. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Keeda Haynes was a Girl Scout and a churchgoer, but after college graduation, she was. Her boyfriend had asked her to sign for some packages-packages she did not know were filled with marijuana. As a young Black woman falsely accused, prosecuted, and ultimately imprisoned, Haynes suffered the abuses of our racist and sexist justice system. But rather than give in to despair, she decided to fight for change. After her release, she attended law school at night, became a public defender, and ultimately staged a highly publicized campaign for Congress. At every turn of her unlikely story, she gives unique insights into the inequities built into our institutions. In the end, despite the injustice she endured, she emerges convinced that ours can become a true second-chance culture. Bending the Arc ebook &mid My Journey from Prison to Politics By Keeda J. Keeda Haynes was a Girl Scout and a churchgoer, but after college graduation, she was imprisoned for a crime she didn’t commit. ![]() Haynes(Author) 5.0 out of 5 stars32 ratings See all formats and editions Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. A searing exposé of the profound failures in our justice system, told by a woman who has journeyed from wrongfully accused prisoner to acclaimed public defender Bending the Arc: My Journey from Prison to Politics Audio CD Unabridged, Novemby Keeda J. Bending the Arc - by Keeda J Haynes (Hardcover) 16.79When purchased online In Stock Add to cart About this item Specifications Dimensions (Overall):9.3 Inches (H) x 6.3 Inches (W) x 1.1 Inches (D) Weight:1. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His duty to Kabaria is more important than the love of a man. Battling the enemies intent on stopping the peace deal from going ahead, and his own heart, Jecks steels himself for what the future holds- a life of loneliness and regrets.įorced to confront feelings he can’t afford to explore, and fighting to bring peace to both lands, Jecks will stand together with his men and fight for what is right, even if it’s sacrificing his own feelings. Along the way, he meets a man he never expected to find- one he could fall in love with. ![]() Yet, he could do nothing other than go along with the plans for the sake of peace and the thousands of lives at risk in both empires.Ĭalling on the support of his friends, he makes the journey to meet his fiancé. Everything was different.īeing forced into a marriage he didn’t want, with a prince he had nothing in common with, Jecks watched his life crumble around him. In one moment, because of one small letter, his entire world tilted. Jecks knew things didn’t tend to change when you were at the top of your career. Jecks Cordant, High General of the Kabarian army was used to life being a certain way. ![]() ![]() ![]() Taken from her by the priestesses, Ged divines it and utters it almost casually at a parting, and in so doing he returns to Arha her true identity as Tenar, setting her off on the path to liberation. Locked in the dark tombs with little light and precious little food or water, he does something that might seem meaningless to most of us, but to Arha, it is the most potent act possible: he gives her back her name. ![]() Yet Ged's arrival is the event that changes everything. I'm sure that if the entire book were from Ged's perspective the story of how he sneaked into the Labyrinth to steal something would sound a lot better as it is, he comes off as a bit of a mysterious jerk. This wizard is, of course, Ged, the protagonist of the previous book. Then one day, a wizard from the Archipelago shows up in the Labyrinth beneath the tombs, a place where only Arha is allowed to go. She goes through the motions of learning the ways of the High Priestess, sacrificing prisoners to the Nameless Ones, etc., but her heart isn't in it. She grows up among other priestesses and eunuchs. Her soul ceremonially consumed by the Nameless Ones, Tenar becomes Arha, "the Eaten One," and paradoxically nameless herself. Tenar, identified as the reincarnation of the First Priestess of the Nameless Ones, is taken from her parents at a young age. Like A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan follows a single protagonist over a long span of her life. Le Guin, for writing books that are so good, sometimes they hurt. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, unable to disobey a direct order, he is forced to participate in the PR campaign to improve the agency's image. Upon first meeting, he makes this overwhelming clear to Ms. Or.does she?Ĭommander Deke Stockard, astronaut, assisting in the preparation of the shuttle for its upcoming launch, as well as readying to command his own launch, does not have the time or inclination to be the new 'face' of NASA. The last thing she truly has any real interest in is NASA, and especially not some arrogant, overbearing astronaut who has no desire to cooperate. At the same time, she is focused on furthering her career, and waging her own battle against internal power struggles at her PR firm. ![]() Her master plan involves singling out one of the only unattached, childless, and extremely handsome astronauts at NASA, and pitching him to America as the 'face' of the agency and space flight in general. Jessica Marlowe, PR whiz, is brought in to remake NASA's image, to make space exploration matter to the average American again. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He makes you want to believe he's the real thing. Few actors have ever exuded as much physical charisma on screen as Lee. When Bruce Lee died at 32, on the eve of his first international hit, "Enter the Dragon," whatever he might have become lapsed into what might have been, into the realm of rumor and wish fulfillment and conjecture.Īnd perhaps no question about Lee is as trivial yet ardently pursued as this: Could Bruce Lee win a real fight? It's in some ways predictable that fans hungrily debate the skills of the man who refined and mainstreamed the martial arts film as we know it. SOME CAREERS HAVE the good fortune of ending too soon - they petrify into myth. Watch "Be Water," an ESPN 30 for 30 film chronicling Bruce Lee's life, on ESPN+. You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser ![]() ![]() ![]() but the individual who seems to know the most about it also seems ambivalent about it, and the main character finds her life taking a strange trajectory as, identifying with the tenacious plant, she finds herself transforming come the spring. The one weak story here is "Vegetable Love," where a bored (or unfulfilled?) mother/housewife attends a community meeting and discovers that there is a much-hated invasive plant (Japanese Knotweed) in her town. So, as usual, here we go - weakest to strongest. Anyone looking for an enjoyable read in the horror/weird/supernatural genre could do a lot worse. ![]() This Tuttle collection spans 1980-2017 and is quite a solid read - with only one weak story, and a small handful of undeveloped ones. Then, once the project had passed, I dragged my feet on finishing them, not because there was a flaw in either, but simply due to the sheer amount of reading I needed to do for the Podcast.īut now, finally they are done. ![]() I started this and a Gemma Files collection ( In That Endlessness, Our End) as an emergency read for an upcoming (at the time) Pseudopod podcast project. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lucan cannot risk binding himself to a mortal woman, but when Gabrielle is targeted by his enemies, he has no choice but to bring her into the dark underworld he commands. ![]() A vampire himself, Lucan is a Breed warrior, sworn to protect his kind and the unwitting humans existing alongside them from the mounting threat of the Rogues. Lucan Thorne despises the violence carried out by his lawless brethren. In that shattering instant she is thrust into a realm she never knew existed a realm where vampires stalk the shadows and a blood war is set to ignite. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly. ![]() But nothing about this night or this man is what it seems. He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwell s deepest fantasies. ![]() ![]() Blunt, currently in jail, is lending it to the crown for the next six months so the British government can apprehend a dangerous spy. ![]() He has an exciting and probably dangerous proposition for them- to take over the International Detective Agency as the proprietor Mr. With Tuppence’s melodramatic pronouncements growing barbed, they are jolted out of their stupor by the arrival of their old handler, Mr. Tuppence laments their previous adventure of chasing German spies and getting into scrapes. Utterly and damnably bored of housework and hat collecting, Tommy has grown comfortable in British intelligence work- even if it’s primarily office stuff now. In this short story collection, readers reunite with Tommy and Tuppence Beresford soon after their marriage, and Tuppence is bored. Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie (1929) ![]() |