![]() LovecraftĪround August, I hit a wall and stopped reading for a long while. It's a nice reminder that you don't have to love something in order to be affected by it. It provides an orgry-like handbook of styles so dense it took me most of the year to swallow it all, and though I honestly didn't love it along the way, I've maybe thought more about the book in full than most any other I read this year. ![]() ![]() Coover's most known for his satire and deconstruction of the major campy genres, but this one in particular takes on an epic, acid-bath-like quality, more like a petri dish of absurd send ups of human behavior and destroyed takes on social custom than any kind of linear exhibit or who-dun-it? The amount of linguistic mechanics Coover packs into every page here feels like a Ulysses-sized redux of the board game Clue. I think it was partially a function of the the plot, which pretends to be basic-a noir-ish dinner party in which people end up getting killed in strange circumstances-but is in fact anything but. For some reason with this particular Coover, I found myself drifting in and out of the narrative every five or six pages. ![]() Once I start reading something I typically like to stay with it and only it until I reach the end. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Ultimately, he shows us how humans may someday achieve a form of immortality and be able to leave our bodies entirely, laser porting to new havens in space. We travel beyond our galaxy, and even beyond our universe, as Kaku investigates some of the hottest topics in science today, including warp drive, wormholes, hyperspace, parallel universes, and the multiverse. He then journeys out of our solar system and discusses how new technologies such as nanoships, laser sails, and fusion rockets may actually make interstellar travel a possibility. He reveals the developments in robotics, nanotechnology, and biotechnology that may allow us to terraform and build habitable cities on Mars and beyond. Michio Kaku presents a compelling vision of how humanity may develop a sustainable civilization in outer space. With irrepressible enthusiasm and a deep understanding of the cutting-edge research in space travel, World-renowned physicist and futurist Dr. ![]() We are entering a new Golden Age of space exploration. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to offer a stunning vision of man's future in space, from settling Mars to traveling to distant galaxies. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ***** 'This is my favourite novel by this author so far. ![]() A great book with an ending you may not be expecting.' ***** 'Lisa Jewell never lets me down ever. ***** ' This book had EVERYTHING!!! I enjoyed this very, very much.' I Found You (English, Paperback, Jewell Lisa) Genre Fiction ISBN 9780099599494, 9780099599494 Edition 2017 Pages 464 Imprint. ![]() A fantastic psychological suspense novel.' Against her better judgement, she invites him into her home.īut who is he, and how can she trust a man who has lost his memory? He has no name, no jacket, no idea what he is doing there. Lisa Jewell is a repeated bestselling womens fiction author whose books are often known to. When her new husband fails to come home from work one night, she is left stranded in a new country where she knows no one.Īlice finds a man on the beach outside her house. One of the major themes I Found You contends with is how our memories shape us as people. Lily has only been married for three weeks. A proper thriller with wonderful characters' Sabine Durrant /rebates/2f97815011546072fFound-Novel-Jewell-Lisa-15011546052fplp&. 'Fresh and intriguing, with characters so real I ached for them. ![]() ![]() Her ferocity bounds off the page and into your heart, endearing her and her plight to save the people of Pavan from its new, tyrannical overlords within pages of meeting her. Without giving anything away, I must also express my love for the dynamic and incredible Zephyr. ![]() ![]() Watching how everyone takes Aurora’s big revelation and what it means for Pavan, this storm-hunting crew, and the world itself is handled with care and, I must say, pretty realistic flair. We know after the events of Roar that its only a matter of time before Roar has to reveal who she truly is to her new crew of friends, but nothing can truly prepare you for how someone might take the news that you’re secretly a princess. I could not be more happy with how Rage‘s story unfolds. ![]() ![]() ![]() I wanted some closure, but since happy endings don’t happen to everyone, I guess like the real-life Jeroem, we’ll always yearn for his lost soldier to come home. A young boy (Dutch ballet star Rudi van Dantzig) is passionately attracted to his handsome Canadian. The nostalgia felt by Jeroem was so palpable I’m aching for them to be reunited. The true story of a boys war-time sexual awakening. What I loved best about the film is that I was able to feel the mood of that era or that moment between the lives of Walt and Jeroem. ![]() It is so easy to romanticize the whole thing, though there’s this nagging thought about statutory rape, pedophilia, and such at the back of your mind. Ive seen where this movie has been made in the Netherlands. ![]() Walt is of legal age or, let’s say, past the age of 18, most likely in his early 20’s while Jeroem is at the cusp of adolescence. For A Lost Soldier is about a romance that develops between a Canadian soldier and a young boy. This is the part where it gets tricky and somehow off-putting. The latter has also shown interest in the young boy until their relationship turned sexual. Since the arrival of the Canadian troops, Jeroem found himself somewhat attracted to the young soldier. It is a tender story of the bond between Jeroem (Maarten Smit,) a young boy from Amsterdam during World War 2, and a Canadian soldier named Walt (Andrew Kelley), who helped liberate the Nazi-invaded country. For a Lost Soldier is a 1992 Dutch film based on the autobiographical novel by ballet dancer and choreographer Rudi Van Dantzig. ![]() ![]() Personal benefit includes, but is not limited to: financial gain from sales or referral links, traffic to your own website/blog/channel, karma farming, critiques or feedback of your work from the community, etc. Interactions should not primarily be for personal benefit. Interact with the community in good faith. Respect for members and creators shall extend to every interaction. Visionīuild a reputation for inclusive, welcoming dialogue where creators and fans of all types of speculative fiction mingle. We reserve the right to remove discussion that does not fulfill the mission of /r/Fantasy. We welcome respectful dialogue related to speculative fiction in literature, games, film, and the wider world. ![]() r/Fantasy is the internet’s largest discussion forum for the greater Speculative Fiction genre. For updated information regarding ongoing community features, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]() ![]() The plot is predictable as per usual for a romance novel, but I don’t hold it against the story because you read romance novels for a reason and that reason is not for them to end up not being together. I really related to the way that Harriet and Wyn were terrified that their breakup would ruin the friend group because my entire friend group is married as well, so it would be super awkward if someone got divorced.Īs per usual, the writing style is beautiful and engaging and everything is described in such detail that it’s almost like watching a movie (of course, that’s if you have a vivid imagination like me). With the friend group? All of them were so amazing. Their relationship was everything and I wholly enjoyed reading this novel because of it. Like sparks flying, electricity trying to stop your heart kind of charged. Literally every single scene with Harriet and Wyn together was charged. ![]() The top two, though? The chemistry between Harriet and Wyn is off the charts, and the friend group dynamic that goes on the whole novel is superb. ![]() I feel like I’ve been waiting years to read this book and I finally got to finish it! Happy Place is officially my new favorite book by Emily Henry (yes, better than Beach Read, People We Meet on Vacation, and Book Lovers) for several reasons. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jenn Shapland’s My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is best described as a piece of braided nonfiction. There’s a call to create, a response, and a responsibility. In the hands of a writer or filmmaker (see Todd Haynes’s new The Velvet Underground or Angelo Madsen Minax’s astonishing North by Current), there’s a collaborative relationship between creator and archivist negotiating with the past to curate and contextualize. ![]() And it is through the use of archives that hidden lives are made public, celebrated, or obscured. Archives and archivists’ work shimmer with frisson: the tension between the public and the personal, the privilege of accessing someone’s most private selves. In my conversations with students interested in librarianship, I have noted a shared awe regarding archival work and assembly. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is often hilarious but also very tender in the treatment of his subjects. ![]() Russo paints a picture of small town American life like no other. Free to be the anarchist he will always be at heart. In the course of a week after his wife goes away, he gets himself into all kinds of off the wall situations. He bumbles along without really caring taking potshots at his overly zealous and to his mind ridiculous colleagues. This novel by my much loved author Richard Russo has perhaps the funniest prologue to a book I have ever read! While explaining to us how he is not in fact a Straight Man, Russo’s protagonist William Henry Devereaux gives us a wonderful anecdote about his stubbornness as a child, now a middle aged man he is the chairman of the English Department of a run down and underfunded college in Pennsylvania. ![]() ![]() ![]() Judging from the style of the handwriting, Obbink estimated that it dated to around 200 A.D. After acquiring the cartonnage at a Christie’s auction, the collector soaked it in a warm water solution to free up the precious bits of papyrus. ![]() ![]() ![]() Densely covered with lines of black Greek characters, they had been extracted from a piece of desiccated cartonnage, a papier-mâché-like plaster that the Egyptians and Greeks used for everything from mummy cases to bookbindings. When pieced together, the scraps that the collector showed Obbink formed a fragment about seven inches long and four inches wide: a little larger than a woman’s hand. The collector’s identity has never been revealed, but the scholar was Dirk Obbink, a MacArthur-winning classicist whose specialty is the study of texts written on papyrus-the material, made of plant fibres, that was the paper of the ancient world. One day not long after New Year’s, 2012, an antiquities collector approached an eminent Oxford scholar for his opinion about some brownish, tattered scraps of writing. Some scholars question how personal her erotic poems actually are. New papyrus finds are refining our idea of Sappho. ![]() |
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