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Goddess of Spring by P.C. Cast6/28/2023 ![]() It perfectly sums up the myth of Hades and Persephone. This poem isn't in the book, but it's so beautiful I had to include it. ‘Flowers are for the dead’, ‘least that’s what Know the bed is warm and our hearts are cold, Or even the roses in the mouth of servants. I didn’t want the pearls other girls talked about, More info to come soon about the HoN TV series! ![]() House of Night Other World, book 4, FOUND, releases July 7th, 2020. Cast lives in Oregon near her fabulous daughter, her adorable pack of dogs, her crazy Maine Coon, and a bunch of horses. PC is an experienced teacher and talented speaker. Her novels have been awarded the prestigious: Oklahoma Book Award, YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award, the Prism, Holt Medallion, Daphne du Maurier, Booksellers’ Best, and the Laurel Wreath. ![]() ![]() PC is a #1 New York Times and #1 USA Today Best-Selling author and a member of the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame. ![]() After her tour in the USAF, she taught high school for 15 years before retiring to write full time. After high school, she joined the United States Air Force and began public speaking and writing. PC was born in the Midwest, and grew up being shuttled back-and-forth between Illinois and Oklahoma, which is where she fell in love with Quarter Horses and mythology (at about the same time). ![]()
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Benny imura6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() The people have established contact with many other towns, including Asheville, North Carolina, where there is a huge settlement and the beginnings of a new government. Meanwhile, Benny, Chong, Nix, and the others are safe (and a little bored) in Reclamation. The danger isn't just from the undead, there is danger within. ![]() But when Gutsy witnesses many of the dead being dug up, she realizes that all is not what it seems in New Alamo. Gutsy has a great group of friends, both young and old, that are helping her through her loss. ![]() And when Gutsy buries her in the Catholic tradition - tied up but not quieted-someone digs her up and brings her back to Gutsy's house. She lives in New Alamo, a very protected and seemingly thriving community, safe from the "Los Muertos" (her mother's name for the undead.) Her mother has just died from tuberculosis - yes, many of the old diseases have returned. ![]() Wow! Wow! Wow! I'm so happy to be back in the Rot & Ruin. Well, actually, I'm very glad I'm not actually there, but Broken Lands was such a welcome addition to the world that Maberry created in his Benny Imura (Rot & Ruin) series. ![]()
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Carry me home janet fox6/28/2023 ![]() Janet is a 2010 graduate of the MFA/Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Janet’s next novel is a companion book for THE CHARMED CHILDREN titled THE ARTIFACT HUNTERS (Viking, 2020) and a contemporary middle grade novel CARRY ME HOME (Simon & Schuster, 2021). ![]() Janet’s debut picture book, VOLCANO DREAMS: A STORY OF YELLOWSTONE, about the Yellowstone super volcano, launches in September 2018 (Web of Life Books, illustrated by Marlo Garnsworthy). The novel won SCBWI’s Crystal Kite award in 2017. Janet’s debut middle grade novel THE CHARMED CHILDREN OF ROOKSKILL CASTLE (Viking, 2016) received starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and Shelf Awareness, is on a number of state lists, and is a Junior Library Guild selection. Her published works include the non-fiction middle grade book GET ORGANIZED WITHOUT LOSING IT (Free Spirit Publishing, 2006 new edition 2017), and three YA historical romances: FAITHFUL (Speak/Penguin Group, 2010), FORGIVEN (Penguin, 2011), and SIRENS (Penguin, 2012). ![]() ![]() Janet Fox writes award-winning fiction and non-fiction for children of all ages. ![]()
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Spare Parts by Charles Henri Ford6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() The history of the art magazine as we know it is as inextricably linked to the history of printing as it is parallel to the evolution of criticism and the emergence of art movements. Thirty years later the state of the art press may be no less in question: the art periodical has received little popular or scholarly focus magazines are still influenced by new technology, academic whim and the fluctuating fortunes of the market and the realm of the ‘art press’ remains a wildly varied and shambolic place. The ‘art press’ was fêted in an exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and Studio International published a special survey issue on ‘art magazines’, its cover emblazoned with a bright red, faux spray-painted question mark. In 1976 the art periodical experienced something of a bumper year. ![]() Adolf Meyer, Ein Versuchshaus des Bauhauses in Weimar (A Prototype of the Bauhaus in Weimar), 1923 ![]()
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Have we met by camille baker6/28/2023 ![]() When he was seventeen years old, Bob met Dorothy Bowman at the Ridge Rink Roller Rink on N. During WWII Bob served in the Army Air Corps in Alaska. Bob worked for an optical company until he got a job driving a bus in Alaska. His first daily job was working for a druggist on 1st Avenue for $14 a week. His first paid job was helping a friend with a paper route distributing the ‘The Buyer’s Guide.’ He earned 15 cents each day. ![]() While growing up, Bob helped with family chores such as mowing the lawn, chopping and piling wood for the wood furnace, washing dishes, and emptying the pail of melted water from the ice chest refrigerator. He was very familiar with the waters of the North Puget Sound, having spent many hours fishing in places such as Point-No-Point and Jefferson Head with special fishing buddies. This hobby has filled his life with many wonderful experiences on the waters of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. They bought him a fishing pole, which was the start of a lifelong love of fishing. When Bob was in elementary school, his uncle and aunt were visiting from Alaska. His favorite school-aged activities were roller skating, touch football, baseball, track, and going to school games. ![]() He was the second oldest of four children: Ruth, Bob, Russ, and Bill. ![]() His parents were Marie Antoinette and John Baker. Robert Camille Baker was born Main the Fremont area of Seattle. ![]()
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Thin rich pretty by beth harbison6/27/2023 ![]() A dazzling account of Schickler's life of longing after a mystical God and passion for women. The Dark Path: A Memoir by David Schickler (Riverhead, September 12). Four linked novellas about love, disappointment and the desire for connection. ![]() They return to a United States on the verge of dis-uniting, and have to make a terrible decision.ĭirty Love by Andre Dubus III (Norton, October 7). A young American missionary couple sailed to Liberia in 1832, pursuing a utopian dream. A stunning mystery set in Iceland in the early 1800s, based on the true story of the last woman executed there for murder.īy the Rivers of Water: A Nineteenth Century Atlantic Odyssey by Erskine Clarke (Basic Books, October 8). ![]() Two graphic novels, two sides of the same story-the Boxer Rebellion in China-from a master of the form.īurial Rites by Hannah Kent (Little, Brown, September 10). A wild novel.īoxers & Saints boxed set by Gene Luen Yang (First Second, September 10). But here we start, in the first of four segments, with obvious and not-so obvious standouts:īleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Press, September 17). Winnowing them down to just a few columns is difficult (and forgetting some standouts is a given). Summer's barely begun, but the fall books are filling our office. ![]()
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Sorrow and bliss paperback6/27/2023 ![]() It feels like the end but maybe, by going back, Martha will get to start again. With Patrick gone, the only place Martha has left to go is her childhood home, to live with her chaotic parents, to survive without Ingrid, the sister who made their growing-up bearable, who said she would never give up on Martha, and who finally has. ![]() There has been since a little bomb went off in her brain, at seventeen, leaving her changed in a way no doctor or drug could fix then and no one, even now, can explain-why can say she is so often sad, cruel to everyone she loves, why she finds it harder to be alive than other people. ![]() But she must now that her loving husband Patrick has just left.īecause there’s something wrong with Martha. ![]() Now, she lives in a gated community in Oxford that she hates and can’t bear to leave. Now, she creates internet content for no one. She used to work at Vogue and was going to write a novel. The internationally bestselling, compulsively readable novel-spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark, and tender-that combines the psychological insight of Sally Rooney with the sharp humor of Nina Stibbe and the emotional resonance of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. While I was reading it, I was making a list of all the people I wanted to send it to, until I realized that I wanted to send it to everyone I know." - Ann Patchett "Brilliantly faceted and extremely funny. Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction Winner of the Book of the Year (Fiction) at the British Book Awards ![]()
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![]() A proud warrior prince and his wounded half-brother. To read more about the overall series, see my article “ The Evolution of The Child of the Erinyes.”Ī woman of keen instinct and unshakable loyalty. OR CHOOSE YOUR PREFERRED LINK DIRECTLY: Amazon Kindle US Amazon Kindle UK Barnes & Noble Nook Kobo Apple/iBooks Thalia Indigo Angus and Robertson ![]() She is a fit heir to the great mantle of such writers as Scott O’Dell and Robert Graves, and even, dare I say it, the goddess herself.” MM Bennettsĭiscover The Child of the Erinyes, a myth with meat inspired by Ariadne, Theseus, and the Minotaur! LINKS: The links on this page take you directly and automatically to your own country’s retail site. ![]() “Lochlann has translated words, ideas, poetry, character, myth into an alchemical wonder, a dazzling novel of the ancient world. Two brothers plot Crete’s overthrow, but desire for this woman will propel all three into an unimaginable future, and spark the immortal rage of the Erinyes. ![]() ![]() Aridela: an extraordinary princess who dances with bulls. Crete: where magic & mystery meet courage and hope. ![]()
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Book my name is lucy barton6/26/2023 ![]() Strout’s book is brief you seem to read it in a single held breath. What then unfolds is a dull lesson in the difference between what’s needed on the page and on the stage. It has established its suppressed-tears tone, and it has assured us that there will be no writerly interventions (by adapter Rona Munro) nor staging choices (by Richard Eyre) to make the beautiful book Strout wrote into a functional theater text. ![]() Twenty minutes in, every card in its deck is already on the table. ![]() It doesn’t flop hard - with its limited ambition, it has no height from which to fall. And what do 40- muffled-sound-year-old women want? We want rueful stories about mothers and daughters! We want Elizabeth Strout novels! We want Laura Linney! Every Venn-diagram circle about a certain kind of woman - the sort that subscribes to nonprofit theaters, specifically - overlaps in this little sliver. Recent figures tell us that 68 percent of Broadway audiences are women. Everything about programming the one-woman performance in Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Of all the questions flooding through a mutinous brain during My Name Is Lucy Barton, “How did we get here?” has the most obvious answer. ![]()
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Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom6/26/2023 ![]() Please consult the Terminator franchise for more on how that situation plays out. Indeed, they might not be compatible with the continued existence of humans. They'll become goal-driven actors in their own right, and their goals may not be compatible with those of humans. In an extreme case, they could wholly replace human workers, enabling humankind to quit working and live comfortably off the robots' labor.īut the problem is that, Bostrom argues, superintelligent machines will be so much more intelligent than humans that they most likely won't remain tools. ![]() ![]() They could cure diseases and resolve intractable scientific quandaries. ![]() At some point, many experts believe that artificial intelligence will advance to a point where it not only exceeds human intelligence, but is capable of expanding its own intelligence, setting off an exponential "intelligence explosion." In theory, these hyper-intelligent machines could be used to serve human ends. His latest book, Superintelligence, is all about what happens if and when general artificial intelligence (AI) emerges - and why that could mean a world dominated by machines. The Oxford professor has written about the possibility that we're all living in a simulation, the likelihood that all intelligent life on Earth will become extinct in the next century, and whether or not morality can exist in an infinitely large universe. ![]() Nick Bostrom doesn't worry about the same things most philosophers worry about. ![]() |