![]() Some of those promises took bad turns but weren't broken, like how I said I'd never hate you even though you gave me enough reasons to, or how you never stopped being my friend even when your boyfriend asked you to. ![]() ![]() ![]() We made promises to each other on the day I broke up with you so you could do your thing out there in Santa Monica without me holding you back. And if bringing up the past annoys you nowas I know it did when you left New York for Californiaknow that I'm sorry, but please don't be mad at me for reliving all of it. I just want you to remember things the way I do. You knew enough meaningless trivia to fill notebooks, but you occasionally slipped on the bigger things, like my birthday this year (May 17th, not the 18th), and you never kept your night classes straight even though I got you a cool planner with zombies on the cover (which you-know-who probably forced you to throw out). I doubt it'll even surprise you since we always joked about how your brain worked in funny ways. Trust me when I say I'm not talking down to you as I recall this memory, and many others, in great detail. I'll break down the details of this promise again. ![]() It hurts even more because this isn't the first promise you've broken. And you should know I'm really pissed because you swore you would never die and yet here we are. You're still alive in alternate universes, Theo, but I live in the real world, where this morning you're having an open-casket funeral. ![]()
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![]() While some see the discussion about cultural appropriation in fiction as a necessary, if painful, step toward addressing the lack of diversity in publishing, others argue that the online Y.A. ![]() ![]() Zhao’s decision to move ahead with publication will likely reignite the fractious, ongoing debate about diversity, representation and “ cancel culture” in the young adult literary world. “ Ultimately, it’s true to my vision,” she said. ![]() She made some revisions, and “Blood Heir” is now scheduled to be released in November. In March, Zhao called her editor at Delacorte Press and told her that she wanted to move forward with the novel after all. ![]() reread her book several times, examining the plot and characters to see if the critics were right. Ladies and gentlemen, it's been confirmed: BLOOD HEIR WILL BE PUBLISHED! This is not a drill I repeat this is not a drill Blood Heir will be out November 19th 2019!Īccording to New York Times, this is why and how Zhao finally decided to go ahead with publishing Blood Heir (if you want to know why it was cancelled, scroll down to the Jan 31 update): ![]() ![]() Elizabeth Van Lew, a wealthy Richmond abolitionist, hid behind her proper Southern manners as she orchestrated a far-reaching espionage ring, right under the noses of suspicious rebel detectives. The beautiful widow, Rose O’Neale Greenhow, engaged in affairs with powerful Northern politicians to gather intelligence for the Confederacy, and used her young daughter to send information to Southern generals. ![]() Emma Edmonds cut off her hair and assumed the identity of a man to enlist as a Union private, witnessing the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating yet little known aspects of the Civil War: the stories of four courageous women-a socialite, a farmgirl, an abolitionist, and a widow-who were spies.Īfter shooting a Union soldier in her front hall with a pocket pistol, Belle Boyd became a courier and spy for the Confederate army, using her charms to seduce men on both sides. ![]() Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and “pioneer of sizzle history” (USA Today), tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War. ![]() ![]() ![]() One aspect of the setting that's unusual is the way Garner interweaves the fantasy world he creates with the everyday one. ![]() I believe it's the time and place where Garner himself grew up. They get involved in a fantasy adventure in Cheshire at a time which seems to be somewhere between the wars. These are two schoolchildren: a brother and sister called Colin and Susan. I've heard that he wrote some later ones using the same protagonists. "The Wierdstone of Brisingamen" was published in 1960 and it was Garner's first novel. I looked him up on the on-line catalogue and found that the RNIB has half a dozen of his titles. Recently I was looking for things to add to my list and I remembered Alan Garner. Somehow I never seemed to find a copy in a bookshop or library so I never managed to read it. And the book that was mentioned most often was this one. From what people around me said it seemed that Garner must be some sort of exponent of New-Age Celtic-based high fantasy novels for children. ![]() Fantasy novels were few and far between and any that came out were regarded by enthusiasts with a combination of excitement and awe. In those days there was no mass commercial fantasy genre, no Harry Potter or Terry Pratchett. When I was a kid people used to talk quite reverently about Alan Garner and his fantasy novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() But nothing can prepare them for what lies waiting aboard the Star Destroyer. The Purge’s half-dozen survivors will do whatever it takes to stay alive. But when a boarding party from the Purge is sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come back-bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours, nearly all aboard the Purge die in ways too hideous to imagine. When the Imperial prison barge Purge-temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy’s most ruthless killers, Rebels, scoundrels, and thieves-breaks down in a distant part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting and seemingly abandoned. “This is the Star Wars of every horror fan’s dreams-gory, funny, and brimming with a blood-spattered cast of swashbucklers and space-zombies.”-Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies The chilling tale of the undead in a galaxy far, far away. ![]() ![]() It comes at a time of critical importance as efforts are being made to ensure disaster management is based on evidence, especially at the local level and amid national discussions on centralizing disaster resilience efforts under a single national agency. This is the first nationwide household survey on measures of disaster resilience and disaster preparedness carried out in the Philippines. This research aims to address the gap in knowledge on both local disaster resilience and preparedness by providing a comprehensive overview of household measures of resilience and levels of disaster preparedness. Yet, significant gaps remain in disaster management capacities across different regions of the Philippines and surprisingly little data are available referencing local levels of disaster resilience and preparedness. The Philippine government has developed strong coping mechanisms over their long history of experience with disasters. ![]() The Philippines also ranks among the top three countries in the world for population exposure and vulnerability to hazards. ![]() Located along the boundary of major tectonic plates and at the center of a typhoon belt, its islands are regularly impacted by floods, typhoons, landslides, earthquakes, volcanoes, and droughts. ![]() But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement. The Philippines is one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries. Daunted by the singular tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when the two people I wanted to leave behind came looking for me, promising me to be a family again, I had to decide if I wanted to spend the rest of my life with them, or the three men who took care of me. Our bond grew strong, and before leaving the cabin to go home with them, they promised me to keep me safe forever. I soon realized that all three had an effect on me, and I couldn't deny the feelings I felt when I was around them. They let me stay, and the more time that passed, the closer I got to each of them. ![]() Three brothers, one stronger and more complex than the other. ![]() I am still adding some more novels in the list as I just added the ones I have rememberedThere's also a bit of review (. As the saying goes: age doesn't matter when it comes to love. After days of walking and getting lost, I found shelter in a cabin, far away from civilization. A list consisting of novels that had/has/have ‘Age Gap’ couples. But deep in the Alaskan wilderness, where I chose to run off to, there wasn't a place I could settle down. I ran away from the vile man my mother left me with, hoping to start over again in a different town. After days of walking and getting lost, I found shelter in a cabin, far away from civilization. ![]() ![]() ![]() She continued writing under her maiden name, and her subsequent novels became bestsellers, earning her enormous wealth and fame. A prestigious publishing house accepted her first novel when she was in her early twenties, and its publication brought her not only fame but the attentions of a handsome soldier, Major (later Lieutenant-General Sir) Frederick Browning, whom she married. Her family connections helped her establish her literary career, and she published some of her early work in Beaumont's Bystander magazine. She spent her youth sailing boats, travelling on the Continent with friends, and writing stories. Her elder sister, Angela du Maurier, also became a writer, and her younger sister Jeanne was a painter. She and her sisters were indulged as a children and grew up enjoying enormous freedom from financial and parental restraint. Born into a family with a rich artistic and historical background, her paternal grandfather was author and Punch cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character of Svengali in the 1894 novel Trilby, and her mother was a maternal niece of journalist, author, and lecturer Comyns Beaumont. ![]() In many ways her life resembles a fairy tale. ![]() ![]() Daphne du Maurier was born on at 24 Cumberland Terrace, Regent's Park, London, the middle of three daughters of prominent actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and actress Muriel, née Beaumont. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The wider selection showcased in New York amounts to a mini survey with nearly 20 works for sale. Last fall, ACA presented works by Ringgold at Frieze London. Organized by Lauryn Haynes, curator of contemporary art at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 29 galleries are participating in the Focus section this year, showing works that “explore identity through figuration of both real and imagined forms.” “Faith Ringgold: Change” is on view in the Focus section of the New York City art fair where a selection of galleries has been invited to mount one- and two-artists shows. “We decided to really show people what she’s been doing every decade,” said Dorian Bergen, the president of ACA, who works directly with Ringgold. There are three paintings from her Black Light Series (1967-69) on display, graphic political prints from the early 1970s, figurative sculptures made in 1978, story quilts including “Change 2” (1988) and “Tar Beach #2” (1990), and paintings on fabric from 2010 called tankas that feature portraits of Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and Martin Luther King Jr. ACA GALLERIES is showing for the first time at The Armory Show and the storied dealer has dedicated its entire booth to Faith Ringgold. ![]() ![]() ![]() With this book you walk away with the feeling you wish more bookshops were still like this. ![]() Through the years she becomes a part of the staffs' lives and they hers, though they never meet. The shop is able to supply the books to her in wonderful clean and tight copies for next to nothing, and there starts the connection. Bookshop at 84 Charing Cross Road saying they specialize in antiquarian and out-of-print books and immediately writes them with a list of the rare non-fiction she is looking for which she is unable to find stateside. One day Miss Hanff saw an ad in the Saturday Evening Review for the Marks & Co. Helene Hanff's 84, Charing Cross Road is a compendium of the twenty year correspondence between the New York writer Helene Hanff and the British bookseller Frank Doel. Book Review - Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret.Book Review - Shannon Hale's River Secrets.Book Review - Helene Hanff's 84, Charing Cross Road.Movie Review - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.Bookworming Contest - More Fire for Monday!. ![]() |