![]() The story opens in the heat of the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s, where Ye Wenjie, the young daughter of a prominent professor of physics, witnesses her father beaten to death by Red Guard fanatics. It’s far from perfect, but in its best moments is so unlike anything hard SF has thrown at us before that no dedicated reader of the genre should overlook it. Given a graceful and accessible translation by multi-award winning author Ken Liu for its 2014 US release, it’s a unique tale of first contact and alien invasion set against the tumultuous political history of Liu’s homeland and the most mind-bending speculative frontiers of theoretical physics. Tweets by The Three-Body Problem, first in a trilogy, readers in the West are at last getting to sample the work of Liu Cixin, mainland China’s most popular science fiction superstar. Book cover artwork is copyrighted by its respective artist and/or publisher. ![]() ![]() All reviews and site design © by Thomas M. ![]()
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If you're looking for help with a personal book recommendation, consult our Suggested Reading page or ask in: /r/suggestmeabook Quick Rules:ĭo not post shallow content. It is our intent and purpose to foster and encourage in-depth discussion about all things related to books, authors, genres or publishing in a safe, supportive environment. Subreddit Rules - Message the mods - Related Subs AMA Info The FAQ The Wiki Join in the Weekly "What Are You Reading?" Thread!. ![]() ![]() ![]() While in England, she won a scholarship to study at the South Hampstead School. Weldon says that she had no intention of becoming a writer at that time as her mind mostly occupied by the idea of getting married and having babies. At the age of 15, she moved back to England to live with her mother. Weldon studied at the Girls’ High School in Christchurch for a couple of years. Following the divorce of her parents when she was six years old, she and her sister lived with her father in Coromandel and Auckland. Weldon was brought up in Christchurch, New Zealand as her father was employed there as a doctor. Her family was full of novelists and so, she had a literary environment while growing up. Usually, Weldon’s works portray contemporary women who are caught in oppressive situations because of the British Society’s patriarchal structure.Īuthor Weldon was born as Franklin Birkinshaw on September 22, 1931, in Birmingham, England. She has collaborated with many other authors, including Amanda Craig, Deborah Moggach, Rose Tremain, John Updike, Amy Bloom, Lesley Pearse, John Cheever, Andrea Lee, Isabel Wolff, etc. Additionally, Weldon has written numerous standalone books, essay and short story collections, novellas, and nonfiction books in her career. ![]() She is famous for writing women’s fiction, contemporary, and literature & fiction stories and is particularly well known for creating the Love & Inheritance series, Spoils of War series, and the She Devil series. Fay Weldon is a prominent English author, playwright, and essayist, who is known for her work based on feminism. ![]() ![]() ![]() I learned I quite enjoy the taste of brutality on my tongue. He’d plucked me from the streets and promised a life of luxury, if only I could get my hands a little dirty.īut, like all other things, it snowballed out of control. Working for Rafael Ricci, the don of Boston’s-at one time-premier crime family was never supposed to be a permanent thing. Where the violence coded into my DNA could be satisfied, the parts of me aching for death and destruction sated. Somewhere I could go and not lose myself in the lack of absence of noise. Said my brain had wired itself to short-circuit under certain stimuli-sometimes, simply the existence of stimuli at all. My peers in college, and later my colleagues, dubbed it a psychological disorder. Learned to seek it out in times of chaos, a force to ground myself in. I fell in love with the innate stillness of it-the calm it provides, the secrets you can wedge into its depths. With each interruption, nurses entering to draw blood or family members coming to offer false moral support, my body craved the void. The kind found in sleepy hospital rooms, hidden between the dull, intermittent beeping of an electric monitor and the steady drip of an IV bag. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s difficult not to be caught up in her story and impossible not to feel terrified at her ignorance about exactly what she’s up against. Kirby, the single one of Harper’s intended victims to get away, is a fierce, vulnerable main character. But what happens when one of them, Kirby, manages to survive? He knows he has to follow his own trail through time to find his ‘shining girls’, and he has to kill them all because he’s killed them before. In its upstairs room he finds a series of gruesome mementoes from his murder victims – except that Harper hasn’t killed any of them yet. ![]() In Chicago, 1931, serial killer Harper is given the keys to a house that allows him to travel through time. If you’re sitting comfortably as you begin reading The Shining Girls, you won’t be for long. I haven’t read anything like it before, and in a strong and crowded crime fiction field it stands out like a searchlight. It’s a vicious murder plot that’s based on science fiction concepts, a science fiction novel which leaves its central concepts barely, sparely explained. ![]() As The Shining Girls’ tagline says, this is a thriller that breaks all the boundaries. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book was made up of page after page of brightly colored flowers, many of which Georgie recognized because sometimes Miss Ames sat beside him in the library and helped him pronounce the names of the different flowers. Georgie knew that Miss Ames was one of the few people in school who liked him. One of our rules is that a book can only be checked out for two weeks, but since this book means so much to you-” She did not finish her sentence. “Bring it back to the library and I’ll let you check it out as often as you wish. “No, Georgie, you took it home with you because you like it so much,” Ellen Ames said calmly. “I lost it,” he had answered the school librarian when she questioned him. On two occasions he had tried to steal it. ![]() The open book on his desk, however, was the one thing in school that he loved. He was seven and a half years old and although he had been in first grade for almost two years, he had not yet learned to read. He bent over the book on his desk, hunching his shoulder blades together so that the partially healed cuts on his back would not be stretched apart, carefully keeping his shirt away from the raw wounds underneath, where even the slightest friction caused a burning pain. ![]() ![]() This is definitely not for the faint of heart. With that purpose in mind, it actually kept me quite interested, it held certain points of suspense that made me want to read on! However, this is supposed to be a romance and as much as I want to give this book any more stars. It fell more along the lines of a psychological thriller, and it read like an episode of Criminal Minds rather than a New Adult novel. I had so much hope for Born, Darkly and although the premise intrigued me, I was skeptical on how the author managed to pull a romance with a serial killer.Īfter finishing I realized, to me. Have you ever heard about an amazing plan where so many different things can go wrong? “For this to be over, one of us has to die.” “It’s never over.” He positions himself between the door and me. ![]() The ankle shackles slow his advance, but don’t stop him. ![]() “Grayson, this is over.” I hold up my hands. ![]() ![]() ![]() Black Stache opens the trunk only to find it filled with sand. Black Stache manages to run down and board the Wasp, and Leonard Aster, Molly's father, attempts and fails to escape with the trunk. Meanwhile, the feared pirate Black Stache hears of a similar trunk containing a great treasure on board another ship, the Wasp. While searching for food, Peter encounters a mysterious trunk and its guardian, Molly Aster, a girl about his age. In 19th century London, orphaned boys Peter, James, Thomas, Prentiss, and Tubby Ted are shipped out on the decrepit ship Never Land. ![]() A series of Never Land chapter books for younger readers is based on the novels. ![]() The book is followed by four sequels: Peter and the Shadow Thieves (2006), Peter and the Secret of Rundoon (2007), Peter and the Sword of Mercy (2009), and The Bridge to Never Land (2011). Written by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, and illustrated by Greg Call, the book is a reinterpretation of the character Peter Pan, who first appeared in J. Peter and the Starcatchers is a children's novel that was published by Hyperion Books, a subsidiary of Disney, in 2004. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So, from that, you might go, meh, but you only have to watch episode 1 or read chapter 1 of the manga, and you’ll be into the story. One day, Hori meets someone else who also does not present his true self at school her quiet, glasses-wearing classmate, Izumi Miyamura. This series continues to be a ton of fun and I enjoyed this volume just as much as the first four The art style of this manga is one of my favorites and I love. Kyouko Hori is a popular high school girl, who, despite her ostentatious appearance, excels in academics, has a family-loving character and is a completely different person outside of school. Though I know that it was first self-published on Hero’s website.īack to Horimiya, is the story just as straightforward as the description gives it, as such: Watch 2 episodes of those and then read the first volumes of the manga, and you’ll agree with me. It took me some time to finish it, but I think it was because the Anime tried hard to stay true to the story and not stray too much as most adaptations do, examples? Card Captor Sakura, Junjou Romantica, or Sekaiichi Hatsukoi. But what I really wanted to know with this one after watching the anime, and one of the reasons why I read the manga, is how it would end between Hori y Miyamura, just how their relationship would truly develop, and the other one I wanted more of was Yuki and Tooru, but not all my questions were answered there, just for the main ones though it was kind of a no-brainer that it’d go to a sort of happy ever after. ![]() ![]() This series would make a wonderful TV series. Novik writes action scenes really well and has a glorious suite of delightfully revolting monsters that squish satisfyingly when they meet their messy end. And it’s just as well she’s got more going for her as this year, as the School has become a lot more aggressive – with El apparently a prime target. ![]() ![]() For starters, she now has a loyal group of friends, and other alliances with a handful of enclave kids who have far more resources and protections than those without that kind of advantage. Though I was a bit fed up with the cliff-hanger at the end – and I’m warning you now, there’s another at the end of The Last Graduate.Įl isn’t such a hardcore, in-your-face character this time around. I’m not sure if it’s because I was a teacher, but the magical schools sub-genre is a favourite and I thoroughly enjoyed A Deadly Education. ![]() |