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One night she experiences an epiphany, one which spoke to my soul: ![]() She walks through town at night, sneaking into the yard of a rich couple to hide in the shrubbery and listen to their radio, as her family cannot afford one. ![]() There are several fascinating characters in the novel, but the one which captured my heart was Mick Kelly, a young teenage girl in an impoverished family. ![]() ![]() ![]() They burn and murder and wage bloody war in the streets. They do crimes like it's going out of style. They are the mafia with a sense of national duty, yakuza gone legit and multinational, with skyscrapers and schools and seats on charity garden club boards. ![]() It begins when Hilo is young - just an arrogant, powerful, Green Bone street soldier in his family's criminal empire on the imaginary island nation of Kekon - and follows him through triumph and tragedy (mostly tragedy), across a 20-year war with the family's rivals, the Mountain Clan. ![]() You pick them up and it's hard to put them down.įor the uninitiated, here are the basics: The three books in the series ( Jade City, Jade War and Jade Legacy, the newest) exist, essentially, to tell the tale of the Kaul family of No Peak Clan and, specifically, of Kaul Hilo, his sister Shae, and their extended families. They are terrible temptations, these books. Both more ordered and more chaotic at the same time. Mostly you get hooked because Lee has created a world that feels as real and logical and lived-in as the one outside the covers. ![]() You fall into these books like a love affair - all rough physicality and surprise - but stay (across thousands of pages) because there's so much more to it than that. Watermelon soda and sea air, delicate perfume and gunsmoke. Open the cover of a Fonda Lee Green Bone Saga book and you can smell the blood on the pages.Īutumn leaves, too. ![]() ![]() What he hadn't read or discovered was of greater importance and value to him than what he had already read or learned. ![]() In the brief introduction to Part 1, Taleb explains that the writer Umberto Eco considered the unread books of his vast library collection to be the most valuable. He then moves into Part 1: "Umberto Eco's Antilibrary, or How We Seek Validation," which consists of the first ten chapters of the book. He also provides the reader with a guide for understanding the reasoning and roadmap for the book. The Black Swan represents the idea that common knowledge can be revolutionized by the arrival of a new event. In the prologue, Taleb introduces the concept and premise of the book. The Black Swan is divided into four parts, bookended by a prologue and an epilogue. This study guide refers to the 2007 Random House edition of The Black Swan. The Black Swan was a New York Times bestseller and is part of Taleb's five-part Incerto series, consisting of five books thematically linked by the idea that humankind must learn to live with and adapt to the unexpected. ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s running from the terror of having been kidnapped by a lunatic who claims she belongs to him. The novel starts with Beth arriving in Alaska in a two-seat prop plane. This story entertained from its opening line - “ The good thing about being suddenly overcome with fresh terror is that you forget everything else you were afraid of ” - to its conclusion. She seamlessly works two plots around an independent and interesting protagonist, Beth Rivers. It’s also the first novel of Shelton’s that I’ve read and from the get-go I could tell I was in the hands of an experienced storyteller. Paige Shelton is a prolific mystery writer with several popular series already under her belt: the Scottish Bookshop Mystery Series, the Country Cooking School Mystery Series, the Farmers Market Mystery Series, and the Dangerous Type Mystery Series. First in a new series by Paige Shelton, Thin Ice follows thriller author Beth Rivers as she tries to escape a fanatic’s obsession in the wide-open spaces of Alaska. ![]() ![]() ![]() I prayed when I heard the muted cries of men who at last understood their fate.Franzak’s personal narrative captures the day-by-day details of his deployment, from family good-byes on departure day to the squadron’s return home. ![]() I was safe and comfortable in my sheltered cocoon 20,000 feet over the Hindu Kush. ![]() And in what appeared to be a forgotten war half a world away from home, Franzak and his colleagues struggled to stay motivated and do their job providing air cover to soldiers patrolling the inhospitable terrain. But what should have been a standard six-month deployment soon turned to a yearlong ordeal as the Iraq conflict intensified. The squadron was the first to base Harriers in Bagram in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. ![]() Michael "Zak" Franzak was an AV-8B Marine Corps Harrier pilot who served as executive officer of VMA-513, "The Flying Nightmares," while deployed in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2003. The first Afghanistan memoir ever to be written by a Marine Harrier pilot, A Nightmare’s Prayer portrays the realities of war in the twenty-first century, taking a unique and powerful perspective on combat in Afghanistan as told by a former enlisted man turned officer. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book was perfection wrapped in evil, desperate things, and I lapped it up so quickly-so quickly, in fact, I found that I had read the whole book in one night and that hasn’t happened since, like, 2013? Maybe? It’s that sinfully evil, I tell you. ![]() With everything she loves in jeopardy, Lara must decide who – and what – she is fighting for: her kingdom, her husband, or herself. But her greatest adversary of all might be the very man she’s trying to free – the husband she betrayed. ![]() But not only is the palace inescapable, there are more players in the game than Lara ever realized, enemies and allies switching sides in the fight for crowns, kingdoms, and bridges. Risking her life to the Tempest Seas, Lara returns to Ithicana with a plan not only to free its king, but for liberating the Bridge Kingdom from her father’s clutches using his own weapons: the sisters whose lives she spared. But when she learns her husband, Aren, has been captured in battle, Lara knows there is only one reason her father is keeping him alive: as bait for his traitorous daughter.Īnd it is bait she fully intends to take. The Traitor Queen ( The Bridge Kingdom #2)Ī queen now in exile as a traitor, Lara has watched Ithicana be conquered by her own father, helpless to do anything to stop the destruction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights Books, author of A Coney Island of the Mind and Pictures of the Gone World, among numerous other books, has been drawing from life since his student days in Paris where he frequented the Academie Julien and where he did his first oil painting. Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights Books, author of A Coney Island of the Mind and Pictures of th. The original edition contained the first twenty-seven poems to which the author has now added eighteen new verses. It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sullivan one-ups Dan Brown in his resolution of the Heir of Novron plotline by giving legitimate reasons as to why the church would want the existence of their god's heirs suppressed. The book also resolves the long-standing story about the Heir of Novron, a DaVinchi Code-like storyline regarding the church's suppression of their god's heir's existence. These bring the exciting adventures of Hadrian and Royce, the world's two greatest thieves to an exciting but bittersweet conclusion. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end and The Heir of Novron collects the final two books in the series ( Wintertide, Percepliquis) with the exception of prequels. It's a world with a lot of familiar elements (elves, dwarves, magic swords, lost lineages) but handles them in a way which is competent if not original. ![]() As big a grimdark fan as I am, I don't mind taking a break in a land where good guys are good and bad guys are awful. They're a collection of fun books which are a breath of fresh air in the dreary darkness which is otherwise my kind of fantasy. ![]() ![]() I've mentioned how much I enjoy the Riyria Revelations. ![]() |