![]() Lisa Ks Book Reviews blog is proud to bring t.Īs I said Thursday, a few of my FB friends ha. Hostile Takeover.okay not really just Karen fro.This time of year everyone is looking for the. ![]() I've been doing cozy mystery reviews, and run. In High Strung by Janice Peacock, Jax OConnell has moved to Seattle after inheriting her great-aunts home and sets to work making amazing and intricate. S he has a studio full of beads.lots and lots of beads. Janice lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, two cats, and twelve chickens. ![]() An award-winning artist, her work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of the Corning Museum of Glass, the Glass Museum of Tacoma, WA, and in private collections worldwide. When Janice isn't writing about glass artists-turned-amateur-detectives, she makes glass beads using a torch, designs one-of-a-kind jewelry, and makes sculptures using hot glass. Inspired by that experience, she combined her two passions and wrote High Strung: A Glass Bead Mystery, launching a new cozy mystery series featuring glass beadmaker Jax O'Connell. The High Strung formed nearly 20 years ago, but the friendship of four core members started in the fifth gradeunderscoring their long and continually winding road. ![]() They reminded her of the odd, and often humorous, characters in the murder mystery books she loved to read. Janice Peacock decided to write her first mystery novel after working in a glass studio full of colorful artists who didn't always get along. ![]()
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![]() Perhaps not a title that children would choose without prompting, this translated (from French) account of anxious waiting provides a top-quality look into life during a time of violence. ![]() Abirached uses ticking clocks, puffing cigarettes, and a tapestry depicting Moses and the Israelites fleeing Egypt to further create a thick atmosphere, that contrasts with the tenants' attempts to keep positive. Visually, the story breathes more than "Persepolis," yet the linework, more thick and stylized, feels heavier. While "Persepolis" spans many years and many locations, Abirached's story trades comprehensive narrative for suspense. Humor and matter-of-fact acceptance of the situation offset the horrors of war, as Similar to Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis" in style and in subject matter, this title nevertheless stands out in its approach. Abirached's heavy, geometric blacks, repetition, and thoughtful use of negative space ramps up the anxiety of the make-shift family of apartment dwellers, gathering in the safest apartment in the complex to wait out the bombing, and hope for the safe arrival of Abirached's parents. ![]() REVIEW I Remember Beirut by Zeina Abirached. AUTHOR: Zeina Abirached TRANSLATOR: Edward Gauvin GENRE: Graphic Memoir ISBN: 0761385681 RELEASE DATE: Aug 2012 PAGES: 188 PAGES. Tense but quiet, Zeina Abirached weaves this autobiographical story spanning a single night of the Lebanese civil war: her parents, trapped a few blocks away, cannot get back to their children because of the day's violent bombardment. REVIEW A Game for Swallows by Zeina Abirached. ![]() ![]() Nominated for the 2005 RT Award for Contemporary Romance by Romantic Times Ĭhosen as a "Fresh Pick" by Fresh Fiction She is passionate about animal welfare and has served on the board of Seattle Humane. She lives in Washington state with her husband, two cats and a poodle. Today, Mallery describes her work as "Romance-Plus" blending elements of both Contemporary romance and Women's fiction in her stories. Mallery then began to foray into women's fiction, which she saw as an opportunity to explore some of the other relationships that are so important to women. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list the next year in 2015. A Fool's Gold Christmas made the Times ' e-book fiction list on October 14, 2012. ![]() A second book, A Christmas Bride, was No. 2 on The New York Times bestseller list for paperback mass-market fiction. On July 12, 2012, her book Summer Nights reached No. In 2008, her book Accidentally Yours became the first to make The New York Times Best Seller list. ![]() ![]() Mallery was published straight out of college with two books in January 1992. Mallery earned an MA from Seton Hill University. Biography īorn in 1970, Susan grew up in the Los Angeles, California area. Because of her love for animals, pets play a significant role in her books. Susan Mallery (born 1970) is an American author of popular romance novels set in non-urban, close-knit communities. ![]() ![]() She eludes him for five years, but he has finally chased her to ground and stolen her enchanted jewel, giving him absolute power over her. Denying him, she escapes, struggling to forget his searing, possessive kiss. Wroth provides her with the perfect opportunity to torment her sworn enemy-for with his new heartbeat comes a consuming sexual desire that can only be slaked by her. ![]() Coldly interested only in the power his mate will bring, he can hardly believe when Myst the Coveted, his army’s new immortal captive, awakens him body-and soul.įamed throughout the world as the most beautiful Valkyrie, Myst has devoted her life to protecting a magical jewel and to fighting the vampires. Nikolai Wroth, a ruthless vampire general, will stop at nothing to find his Bride, the one woman who can “blood” him, making his heart beat and filling him with strength. ![]() #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole makes her audio debut with the first title in her spellbinding Immortals After Dark series. ![]() ![]() ![]() I loved the tension that was developed through Zuri's relationship to where she lives. I really could feel the way Zuri wanted to cling hard to her world, to prevent any change, while she also desired to go elsewhere. She lovingly describes Zuri's world the reader feels very rooted in her world, on her block. I really think Zoboi did an excellent job with the setting. There was a lot about this book that I really loved, though there was a lot that didn't work for me. ![]() Quick funny aside, the last book I read was also about the gentrification of Brooklyn, When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole, though that book went in a very different direction and the book I am currently reading, On the Come Up by Angie Thomas, has a strong wordsmith lady as the main character ( Pride has a poet and On the Come Up a rapper). The story hits all the beats one would expect from a retelling of this novel and maintains the social commentary inherent to the original, updating it for modern life, focusing on the gentrification of Brooklyn. The wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street with their sons Ainsley and Darius. ![]() ![]() Pride by Ibi Zoboi is a retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice following Zuri Benitez and her family in Bushwick. ![]() ![]() I found to be similar to, not just in Tey's writing style, but also in that they aren't straightforward crime novels. ![]() But in the title character, we have one of the most fascinating imposters in crime fiction. ![]() Where is a very clever mental exercise, is a clever tale of a scam that encounters unanticipated wrinkles. Brat Farrar (1949) This is a stand-aloneno Alan Grant to be found, even in passing. The key elements of the plot seemed transparent to me early on, so I enjoyed this as a relaxing read, full of detailed descriptions of a horse breeding and racing household in post-WWII England. ( )Ī lovely little interlude from heavy reading, this early mystery was reminiscent of one of my favorite Daphne du Maurier novels, The Scapegoat. Patrick Ashby is meant to have committed suicide when he was thirteen years old. A body washed up downstream from his home, but unrecognizable, was assumed to be his and buried. His twin, Simon, will turn twenty-one soon and inherit the family estate at Lachetts in Patrick’s stead.Įnter a stranger who looks too much like Simon to be ignored and claiming to be Patrick, not a suicide, just a run away. ![]() ![]() Not long after the accident, Patrick (the oldest of the children) threw himself off of a cliff near Latchetts. Their aunt Bee left her job and life in London in order to look after them. Eights years ago the children lost their parents in a plane crash. The stranger, who has gone by the name of Brat Farrar, has led a life of adventure and has come home just in time to assume his inheritance. Summary of the plot : The Ashby family lives at Latchetts. ![]() ![]() ![]() His work was translated and published widely in the United States and in Europe. In 1961, he came to international attention when he received the first International Publishers' Prize Prix Formentor. In 1955, he was appointed director of the National Public Library (Biblioteca Nacional) and professor of Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. He was a target of political persecution during the Peron regime, and supported the military juntas that overthrew it.ĭue to a hereditary condition, Borges became blind in his late fifties. ![]() He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in Surrealist literary journals. In 1914, his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school and traveled to Spain. ![]() ![]() Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo, usually referred to as Jorge Luis Borges (Spanish pronunciation: ), was an Argentine writer and poet born in Buenos Aires. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pomichter joined the writing staff at The Hometown News LLC, which is read along Florida's Central East coast, where he penned more than 400 byline stories. His poem, "Coming of Age," was featured in the anthology, "An Eternity of Beauty."įollowing a college internship with The Florida Today newspaper, G.W. Army Infantry veteran who began writing at an early age and published poems in anthologies in his early 20s. He is a graduate of Florida Air Academy & the Eastern Florida State College President's Cup winner, as well as a U.S. ![]() Pomichter is and award winning author and novelist, most recently recognized with a 2018 "Spacie Award" for BEST NOVELIST in 2018. Soon after the overwhelming success of his first book series, "The Lucky Marks s G.W. His poem, "Coming of Age," was featured in the anthology, "An Eternity of Beauty." Following a college internship with The Florida Today newspaper, G.W. ![]() ![]() The Company uses Cookies on the Site to collect data from those who visit the Site and use services on the Site. However, you can set or adjust your browser’s setting for avoiding using or transmitting some data for Cookies and/or deleting data stored in the Cookies at any time. Most of the browsers support the use of Cookies. Cookies will store details of the website's browsing behaviour and what is frequently chosen by you and your browser. 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In 1913, Henry Hamilton disappears while on a business trip, and his sister, Sorrow, won't rest until she finds him. If ye give not willingly, the Lords will rise. "Wilson's plot hits all the right beats.Devotees of cosmic horror will enjoy this woman-centered take on familiar tropes." ![]() |