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Book a certain hunger6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() I was apprehensive at first as I am not an audiobook listener naturally but I think this is a wonderful book made even more wonderful by the masterful narration. ![]() I joined Audible specifically for this novel because I will read anything by CGS. Loved this, standing ovation from my kitchen in Tuscany where I will be experimenting with fennel and legumes this afternoon (not some of the other recipes though.). The writing is poetic, particularly about the joys of food and eating, and the prose is caressing and lush. ![]() The novel succeeds in the gargantuan task of combining in depth knowledge of the history of food and drink, informed critique of the US food chain, social commentary, criminal minds, butchery, etymology, architectural history and spicy erotic writing in a wonderful, fast-paced and light-handed novel, never lapsing into the stentorian or tedious. Dorothy Daniels is a wry, compelling Humbert Humbert (without the pedofilia) of a narrator, impossible to dislike as she regales us with her story of food, murder and cannibalism. Very sad to have finished ACH this morning, beautifully read (and I am an Italian speaker, always ready to flinch at a badly pronounced word) in Huber's arch drawl. ![]()
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Perfect chemistry book 36/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Simone Elkeles is such a fantastic writer! Something I really liked about this series/companion novels is that the main characters aren’t white! White people are fine but we, as a reading community, need diverse characters and the Fuentes brothers are a good start. ![]() There was nothing that was wrong about this book. ![]() I’m going to write this review as if there was no fourth book (which is sort of true, it might just be a rumor) I think that this is a perfect illustration of the characters. Let me just include this photo because I can’t believe I am just now finding this. I am very proud to say that I am not sad because of the ending and I am even less sad since hearing the Simone was going to release a fourth Perfect Chemistry book. I have long awaited the purchase of this book. ![]() Will that Fuentes bad boy streak come out with a vengeance and lure Luis to live on the edge like his new girlfriend and his own father? But when he falls for the wrong girl, Luis enters a dark world he’s never known, and just when he thinks he’s got life all figured out, learns some disturbing news about his family that destroys his positive outlook on life. Luis is smart, funny, and has big dreams of becoming an astronaut. Luis Fuentes is a good boy who doesn’t live with the angst that his big brothers, Alex and Carlos, have always lived with. ![]()
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This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() With queer representation, fabulist elements, and a pivotal but little-known historical moment, This Rebel Heart is Katherine Locke's tour de force. Listen online or offline with Android, iOS, web, Chromecast, and Google Assistant. Get instant access to all your favorite books. Narrated by Kathleen Gati and Steven Jay Cohen. As the protests in other countries spur talk of a larger revolution in Hungary, Csilla must decide if she believes in the promise and magic of her deeply flawed country enough to risk her life to help save it, or if she should let it burn to the ground. This Rebel Heart audiobook written by Katherine Locke. But her carefully laid plans fall to pieces when her parents are unexpectedly, publicly exonerated. Now Csilla keeps her head down, planning her escape from this country that has never loved her the way she loves it. Before Csilla knew things about her father's legacy that she wishes she could forget. Before her parents were murdered by the Soviet police. But that was before the Communists seized power. During WWII, the river kept her family safe when they needed it most-safe from the Holocaust. ![]() In the middle of Budapest, there is a river. ![]() “A haunting, beautiful read that centers queer Jewish characters.” - BuzzFeed This Rebel Heart Katherine Locke 3.77 938 ratings293 reviews A tale set amid the 1956 Hungarian revolution in post-WWII Communist Budapest. A tumultuous tale of the student-led 1956 Hungarian revolution-and an all too timely look at the impact of Communism and the USSR in Eastern Europe-set in a fabulist, colorless post-WWII Budapest from Sydney Taylor Honor winner Katherine Locke. ![]()
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The star attraction by alison sweeney6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() It all adds up to a pleasurable read, and a particularly impressive first foray into this genre. ![]() Sweeney uses many familiar chick-lit tropes (conversations with the best friend, sparring with the office nemesis, the inevitable happy ending with the spectacular romantic gesture) but does it very well and also infuses her story with insider-y Hollywood situations and realistic depictions of relationship woes. Next line the bottoms of 3 9 inch round cake pans with parchment paper and. Kirkus:A highly entertaining debut from Sweeney, host of The Biggest Loser and star of Days of Our Lives for 20 years. Though she’s happy with Jacob, her boyfriend of two years (“pretty much a record for me”), his ambivalence about marriage leaves her feeling doubtful, and Sophie exacerbates matters by picking fights with him while escalating her flirtation with Billy. Star Attraction by Alison Sweeney, May 14, 2013, Hyperion edition, paperback The Star Attraction (edition) Open Library It looks like youre offline. Sift together flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, allspice and baking soda and set aside. She finds herself smitten when he proves to be just as charming as his image, and is taken aback when she realizes the attraction is mutual. After years at a top PR firm, Sophie Atwater is entrusted with representing handsome A-lister Billy Fox. Actress and reality show host Sweeney (The Mommy Diet) hits it out of the park with her engaging fiction debut about an L.A.-based star publicist who lets her love life get in the way of work. ![]()
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The dreams in the witch house6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() The story itself centers are William Gilman a student of mathematics and, of all things, folklore at dear old Miskatonic University. there si so much that could be done with this idea… Unfortunately given the way it was done, there are also troubling questions raised by his doing so, but I’ll get to that in a moment. After all, who is to say if a witch is praying to the devil or some cosmic horror that takes on that aspect. Doing so in a story that involves witch craft and witches, those traditional worshipers of the devil, is also logical. ![]() ![]() Rooting aspects of this story in pseudo Judo-Christianity should work well, there is a logic to it, after all explaining things in terms of religion is what humanity has been doing for thousands of years, so seeing the devil in a manifestation of cosmic horror, or the roots of judo-christian myth laying in aspects of Lovecraft’s myths is not only logical but enticing as a concept. It stands out as the only real example of Lovecraft doing this in any of his cosmic horror tales. In terms of Lovecraft stories The Dreams of the Witch House is a little odd due to its mixing the cosmic horror that is Lovecraft’s staple with hints of Judo-Christian concept of the devil. ![]()
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The Eye of Jade by Diane Wei Liang6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() I thoroughly enjoyed THE EYE OF JADE as it brings the reader directly into a fairly recent China, revealing how people live and work today as well as the turmoil of those families impacted by the Cultural Revolution. Mei's investigation brings her to a truth that shakes the foundations of her own family. The recent appearance of a Han ceremonial bowl hints that there is a source of those antiques that escaped the destruction wrought at the time of the Cultural Revolution. Lu gave Mei her transport, a little red Mitsubishi.Īn old family friend, Uncle Chen, hires Mei to find a Han Dynasty artefact which was thought destroyed. Mei's immediate family consists of a successful sister, Lu, who is a tv star and has married well and their mother, an illustrator. ![]() Mei has resigned from the Ministry for Public Security to set up her own illegal private investigation firm, assisted by a young man from the provinces. THE EYE OF JADE is set in Beijing in the 1990s and introduces Wang Mei and her family. ![]() Review - The Eye of Jade by Diane Wei Liang ![]()
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![]() ![]() This genuinely clever math book uses rhyming couplets and riddles, as well as visual cues to help the reader find new was to group numbers for quick counting. ![]() ![]() Readers of The Grapes of Math are already ahead of the game. With a little creativity and common sense, as opposed to formulas and memorization, Tang believes that all kids can do well in math-and have fun while they're at it. Solutions and explanations are provided in the back of the book. ![]() Guided by hints in the verses, readers find solutions to each math riddle, by looking "askew" to find a pattern, subtracting in order to add, or adding numbers that have easy sums before clustering them to add in groups. Tang's witty little accompanying verses tickle the fancy even as they challenge the mind. Rather than laboriously counting 24 mushroom slices on a pizza, Tang suggests: "Let me give you some advice, / Just do half and count twice." And in adding the number of dots on a fan: "Instead of seeing groups of threes, / Count by fives and it's a breeze!"Įvery two-page spread features cheerful computer-generated art by Harry Briggs, depicting rows of camels, beaches full of seashells, and vines laden with grapes. How is it possible to count a complicated pattern of strawberry seeds or grapes on a vine or camel humps-in a blink of an eye? If children can open their minds to new ways of perceiving math, anything is possible! Greg Tang shows readers creative ways to use patterns and combinations of numbers to solve math puzzles quickly and effectively. ![]()
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Annie proulx brokeback6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s full of techies it’s just bursting with tech people. I get tired of seeing people high-fiving each other. “It’s one eternal traffic jam and everything seems mismanaged. “It’s just a place that is more irritating to me than anything else,” she says with a tiny shudder. While she doesn’t relish the upheaval, she’s not wedded to Washington – especially not Seattle, the thriving tech city where she briefly lived. It’s cosy and serene.īut she plans to move to New England, where she and her four younger sisters lived as children, and one sister lives still. Picture windows frame views of the distant Cascade Mountains. We sit in front of a stone fireplace flanked by well-stocked bookshelves and a coffee table where A History of Men’s Fashion tops another pile of books. The four-bedroom wooden house (yes, red cedar, she thinks) has been renovated inside using natural tones and materials – creamy walls, slate and wood for the floors. Shrubs and saplings have been planted in the gardens, encouraging unwelcome visits from nibbling deer and even a bear. The Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain has created an oasis here, amid her five acres of woodland. ![]()
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Universal harvester book6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() " -Adam Morgan, Electric Literature It's the late '90s, and you can find Jeremy Heldt at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa-a small town in the center of the state. But] more sensitive than one would expect from a more traditional tale of dread." -Joe Hill, New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "The most unsettling book I've read since House of Leaves. ![]() " -Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times " Grows in menace as the pages stack up. Universal Harvester is] beyond worthwhile it's a major work by an author who is quickly becoming one of the brightest stars in American fiction. ![]() Darnielle is a master at building suspense, and his writing is propulsive and urgent it's nearly impossible to stop reading. A New York Times Bestseller A Finalist for the Locus Award (Best Horror Novel) "A moving, beautifully etched picture of America's lost and profoundly lonely." -Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of the Day and winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature "Brilliant. So begins Universal Harvester, t he haunting and masterfully unsettling new novel from John Darnielle, author of the New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Nominee Wolf in White Van. Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at the local Video Hut. ![]()
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The eyes of darkness dean koontz review6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Then a shattering message appears on the blackboard in Dannys old room: NOT DEAD.ĭean Koontz writes page-turners, middle-of-the-night-sneak-up-behind-you suspense thrillers. Its a year since Tina Evans lost her little boy Danny in a tragic accident. He lives for one purpose only: to satisfy all appetites as they arise, seeking ever more outrageous experience. Brenda took off all her clothes.Įdgler Vess is a sociopath intent on murder. Alice stuck a meat fork through her hand and pinned it to the chopping board. Glenn drove the Land Rover into a stone wall at just over 100mph. Twelve years later Susan wakes in a hospital bed. And in the following four years, the four young men who participated in that grim fraternity rite also died violently. In a cavern called The House of Thunder, Susan Thorton watched in terror as her lover died a brutal death in a college hazing. ![]() |