![]() ![]() ![]() I liked the prologue better than most of the rest of the book. It also features the most dramatic scene of the book. The prologue features a different tone than the rest of the book, however.I knew that Furyborn is YA, but it’s definitely on the older end of the YA spectrum and the style is typical YA fantasy – nothing particularly fancy. Unfortunately for me, this book is totally different from that. I was willing to give it a shot because I adored the fantasy-esque scenes Legrand wrote in Some Kind of Happiness. I would have skipped this book if it was by anyone else.(At least I feel like it’s been a long time since I read a book that was neither here nor there for me!) Hence the brief thoughts post instead of a full review that I struggled to write for a week and then gave up on. I need to create a rule where I don’t request young adult fantasy – I have high hopes of enjoying it, but I rarely do and then I don’t have much to say in a review that I don’t feel has been better articulated elsewhere. I think everyone in the book blogging world who would want to read this already has. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A Gift for a Ghost is his first long-form work. /rebates/2fbook2f5872723912fA-Gift-for-a-Ghost-A-Graphic-Novel&. His first published title was La Reina Orquídea, a precious and haunting short piece that placed the author at the center of national attention in Spain. As their world and Teresa's intersect, they're haunted by the echo of something that happened 160 years ago.Ībout the Author: Borja González is a self-taught illustrator and comic strip artist. ![]() They've barely started rehearsing when strange things begin to happen. An untalented punk band and a parallel dimension-what could go wrong In Borja Gonz lezs. They have everything they need: attitude, looks, instinct. A Gift for a Ghost by Borja González, Lee Douglas(Translator) 3. A Gift for a Ghost by Borja Gonzalez available in Hardcover on, also read synopsis and reviews. In 2016, three teenage girls, Gloria, Laura, and Cristina, want to start a punk band called the Black Holes. In 1856, Teresa, a young aristocrat, is more interested in writing avantgarde horror poetry than making a suitable marriage. ![]() An untalented punk band and a parallel dimension-what could go wrong? In Borja González's stunning graphic novel, two parallel stories reflect and intertwine in a tale of youthful dreams and desires. ![]() ![]() ![]() Varazda may need Damiskos’s help, but not as much as Damiskos, finally awakening to a new sense of life and purpose, needs Varazda. Then the villa’s guests begin to reveal their true characters and motives-no one here is what they seem-and Damiskos finds himself at the centre of a bizarre web of espionage, theft, and assassination. Yet as they keep getting in each other’s way at the villa, their mutual dislike is complicated by a spark of undeniable attraction. Enigmatic and beautiful but distinctly prickly, Varazda is the antithesis of the straightforward and serious Damiskos. Work takes him to the remote seaside villa of an old friend, where, among an odd assortment of guests, he meets the eunuch sword-dancer Varazda. ![]() Adrift and still grieving, he tries to find meaning in an unsatisfying job. Five years ago, Damiskos’s brilliant military career was cut short, leaving him with a permanent disability and scars that are not all physical. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a space opera with an early middle aged female ship captain and a young female ship mechanic trying to get an old space ship back in flying shape and get to the captains home planet to get her daughter. I can see it being a pilot episode for a show on SciFi channel and having all the components for a successful run for at least couple of seasons. I am not sure why it was not very liked by my friends, because I thought it was perfect for a first book in a series. It is a Sci-Fi light with enough of everything to make it enjoyable and interesting. I think I am the one of this buddy read who enjoyed this book the most. A buddy read with the MacHalo Freaks, because we are on a Sci-Fi kick:):):) ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of the recipes are complicated or time consuming, but many are simple and plenty could be made from regular ingredients you have in the kitchen right now (though half the fun is finding out about new ingredients or new ways to use ingredients you thought you already knew about). The recipes are organised in two broad sections - Ashkenazi and Serphadic - and within different food categories within these two broad distinctions. She explores her own Jewish roots and the culture and history of the whole diaspora by writing about the meals, traditions and recipes she uncovers on her search for Jewish food. Just as with another of her books, Arabesque, with The Book of Jewish Food Roden manages to combine food writing with recipes that make this book a delight to both read and cook from. ![]() ![]() Most likely that means it's impossible to come up with a map that is completely uncontentious. So there is probably quite a lot of decision making and interpretation, I expect. I think 'quibbles' are inevitable with any map: Map makers have to interpret Tolkien's texts and will sometimes have to mark explicitly on their maps something that is either vague in the text, or is inconsistent between different texts. The interactive map is marked up with the location of various events, and these can be chosen from menus. The interactive map of Middle-earth run by lotrproject, here I'll second Karen Fonstead and also suggest "I may be on the side of the angels, but do not think for one second that I am one of them." - Sherlock ![]() Fonstad's decisions (for example: her placement of the Dwarf-city of Belegost). The Atlas of Middle-earth by the late Karen Wynn Fonstad might be even more useful for comparing the different Ages of Middle-earth, though I have some quibbles with some of Ms. ![]() The maps that Christopher Tolkien produced for the hardcover Lord of the Rings and Silmarillion are useful for comparison, though not drawn to the same scale. I wish someone would make a high quality map/geography comparison between the three ages! I've found some decent maps, but they're not consistent in their quality/style. ![]() Where can I find the best maps of Middle-earth through the three ages?Īs I read through stories of the first and second ages, I find myself wanting to compare the geography of the three main ages. ![]() ![]() ![]() That multitudes of demons should suddenly appear in New England was no ordinary judgment against God’s chosen people. “In Mather’s rendering, the Salem witchcraft trials become the focal point of a grand cosmic drama. “Of all the narratives” of the Salem witch trials, only Cotton Mather’s Wonders of the Invisible World “articulates the official definition” of the proceedings, and is thus “the most important of the contemporary narratives for the historical observer” of them. ![]() Scarce second London edition, one of three published within a year of the first, of Mather’s theological interpretation of the Salem witch trials, “the most important of the contemporary narratives.” Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. Octavo, period-style plain tan wrappers pp. Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England… London: for John Dunton, 1693. “A PEOPLE OF GOD SETTLED IN THOSE WHICH WERE ONCE THE DEVIL’S TERRITORIES”: COTTON MATHER’S IMPORTANT ACCOUNT OF THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS, WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD, 1693 ![]() ![]() The M/M Romance Group strongly recommends that the reader review the General Information section before each story for story tags as well as for content warnings. They may also contain content that is disagreeable or distressing to some readers. The stories in this collection may contain sexually explicit content and are intended for adult readers. ![]() Nearly 190 stories were submitted and have now been published as a twelve volume set with two additional bonus volumes, titled Love Has No Boundaries. The result was an outpouring of creativity that shone a spotlight on the special bond between M/M romance writers and the people who love what they produce. The Goodreads M/M Romance Group invited members to choose a photo and pen a letter asking for a short M/M romance story inspired by the image authors from the group were then encouraged to select a letter and write an original tale. He also learns that the power of love allows us to endure great physical and emotional hardships. They are a product of the Love Has No Boundaries promotion sponsored by the Goodreads M/M Romance Group, and each anthology is published as a gift to you. Love Has No Boundaries By Stefan Mukoski In the movie Philadelphia, the character Joe Miller learns that love is many-sided and that it has no barriers. ![]() The stories you are about to read celebrate love, sex and romance between men. O čem je kniha Love Has No Boundaries Anthology: Volume 2? ![]() ![]() First, he loses his father in a bizarre work-related accident involving an exploding truck tire, and then, less than a month later, he discovers his best friend, Billy Bartholomew dead under a fallen slab of stone. The summer before his first year of high school in Bear Creek, Idaho, Eddie Proffit suffers two great tragedies. The novel is notable for Crutcher's unusual choice to include himself as a character within the story his literary cameo comes at a pivotal point in the plot, which involves his defending the right of adolescents to read contentious fiction. Aside from its story-within-a-story structure, The Sledding Hill is in many ways a traditional coming of age tale: its protagonist is faced with a significant obstacle to his psychological development which he overcomes, and in the process, ensuring a place in his community. After his death, Billy, continuing to feel an obligation to Eddie, decides to help him deal with the aftermath of the deaths. ![]() The story is told by his deceased best friend, Billy Bartholomew. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Sledding Hill (2005), a young adult novel by Chris Crutcher, follows protagonist Eddie Proffit as he struggles to cope with the sudden loss of both his father and his best friend to freakish accidents within a few weeks of one another. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() More importantly, though, it’s their first physical confrontation. This is the first time the two have encountered one another since the destruction of the first Death Star at Luke’s hands. The primary action of the issue comes from the clash between Luke and Vader. Or, should I say, Vader’s interest in Luke. While the story service is necessarily paid to the focus of the end of the last issue-namely Han and the Rebels trying to flee the Empire’s forces-Aaron throws the spotlight moreso on Vader’s part in the proceedings. While the last installment focused on reintroducing Luke, Leia, and the gang, issue two throws the spotlight on the Dark Lord of the Sith himself, Darth Vader. ![]() The second issue maintains the high bar writer Jason Aaron and artist John Cassaday set in the previous issue. Let’s just saying that the book is better than a trip to Toshi Station to pick up some power converters. Or that the series isn’t for scruffy-looking nerf-herders. Or that the issue was magnificence worthy of a Jedi. And no, I won’t say that the Force was with that comic. If you read my review of the first issue of Marvel Comics’ Star Wars relaunch, then you know that I was pretty damn jazzed about it. ![]() |