![]() I had high hopes, I had a gift card, and I was in the mood for some fantasy.Įvery November on the island of Thisby, tourists flock in for the annual Scorpio Races. It IS my favorite of all my books, after all.” It was hard to imagine that I could like this more than The Dream Thieves (which I love so much that it was my favorite read of 2020), but I definitely needed to check it out. On Goodreads, she gave The Scorpio Races five stars and explained: “You know I had to. It’s pretty rare that a writer will publicly pick their favorite work, but Stiefvater is pretty unambiguous about this. ![]() ![]() I love Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven Cycle, so my interest was very piqued when I saw an Instagram post indicating that The Scorpio Races is her favorite of her novels. ![]()
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6/7/2023 0 Comments Steven heller graphic design![]() Joseph Aspirin for Children were my uppers and downers of choice. Over-the-counter caffeinated NoDoz and St. I never experimented with psychedelic drugs or narcotics of any kind, not even a minute toke of grass (I got plenty of contact highs, though). For instance, if you can remember the sixties, were you really there? Well, how can I really be taken seriously as a counterculturist if I can vividly remember those years? Easy! I was conscious. ![]() That said, there are a few questions that need addressing regarding my bona fides. I focus instead on how blind luck put me in intriguing places with curious people when, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, between ages sixteen to my mid-twenties, as an art director, graphic designer, cartoonist, and writer, I was sometimes on the fringes and sometimes in the center of New York’s youth culture-the alternative-sex-drugs-and-rock-’n’-roll-socially-politically-active generation, aka the boomer generation. ![]() However, it is not a trek through the hills and valleys of my autobiographical topology. ![]() ![]() This article is an excerpt from Growing Up Underground, the new coming-of-age memoir by Steven Heller published by Princeton Architectural Press. Identification card for the School of Visual Arts, circa December 1970. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Upton sinclair the jungle 1906![]() In the pickling of hams they had an ingenious apparatus, by which they saved time and increased the capacity of the plant-a machine consisting of a hollow needle attached to a pump by plunging this needle into the meat and working with his foot, a man could fill a ham with pickle in a few seconds. ![]() ![]() Jonas had told them how the meat that was taken out of pickle would often be found sour, and how they would rub it up with soda to take away the smell, and sell it to be eaten on free-lunch counters also of all the miracles of chemistry which they performed, giving to any sort of meat, fresh or salted, whole or chopped, any color and any flavor and any odor they chose. With what had been told them by Jonas, who had worked in the pickle rooms, they could now study the whole of the spoiled-meat industry on the inside, and read a new and grim meaning into that old Packingtown jest-that they use everything of the pig except the squeal. For it was the custom, as they found, whenever meat was so spoiled that it could not be used for anything else, either to can it or else to chop it up into sausage. ![]() With one member trimming beef in a cannery, and another working in a sausage factory, the family had a first-hand knowledge of the great majority of Packingtown swindles. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments The Red Line by Walt Gragg![]() ![]() ![]() While he works, it's up to hundreds of individual American soldiers to hold back the enemy flood. Army Staff Sergeant George O'Neill, a communications specialist, may be able to reestablish links that have been severed by hostile forces, but that will take time. But before the sun rises they are on the run across a smoking battlefield crowded with corpses.Īny slim hope for victory rests with one unlikely hero. What they lack in numbers they make up for in superior weapons and training. Standing against them are the woefully undermanned American forces. WWIII explodes in this electrifying debut military thriller in the tradition of Red Storm. With a powerful blizzard providing cover, Russian tanks thunder down the autobahns while undercover Spetsnaz teams strike at vulnerable command points. Read The Red Line by Walt Gragg available from Rakuten Kobo. World War III explodes in seconds when a resurgent Russian Empire launches a deadly armored thrust into the heart of Germany. The Red Line:. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. "Delta-Two, I've got tanks through the wire! They're everywhere!" Buy The Red Line by Gragg, Walt from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. "The best World War III epic I've read since Red Storm Rising."-Grant Blackwood, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Clancy Duty and Honor ![]() ![]() Like a Love Song follows Natalie, a Brazilian teenage pop star trying to recover from the consequences to her public image when her messy breakup is accidentally televised to the world. It was just so delightful, fun, and fluffy – the perfect balm for any bad or heavy day – and I can confidently say that this will be a romance that I will recommend for years to come. I think I spent most of my time reading this book grinning from ear to ear. Reading Like a Love Song felt like a big warm hug. ![]() While she fights her way back to the top with a sweet and surprisingly swoon-worthy boy on her arm, she starts to fall for William-and realizes that maybe she’s the biggest fake of them all. She was hoping for a fierce bad boy-not a soft-hearted British indie film star. ![]() Nati reluctantly agrees, but William is not what she expected. Her PR team’s desperate plan? A gorgeous yet oh-so-fake boyfriend. ![]() Not only is it humiliating-it could end her career. Natalie is living her dream: topping the charts and setting records as a Brazilian pop star…until she’s dumped spectacularly on live television. ![]() ![]() ![]() But GeneticAlly has a proposition: Get to know him and we’ll pay you. The stuck-up, stubborn man is without a doubt not her soulmate. This is one number she can’t wrap her head around, because she already knows Dr. Finding a soulmate through DNA? The reliability of numbers : This Jess understands.Īt least she thought she did, until her test shows an unheard-of 98% compatibility with another subject in the database: GeneticAlly’s founder, Dr. Jess holds her loved ones close, but working constantly to stay afloat is hard…and lonely.īut then Jess hears about GeneticAlly, a buzzy new DNA-based matchmaking company that’s predicted to change dating forever. ![]() ![]() After all, her father’s never been around, her hard-partying mother disappeared when she was six, and her ex decided he wasn’t “father material” before Juno was even born. Raised by her grandparents-who now help raise her seven-year-old daughter, Juno-Jess has been left behind too often to feel comfortable letting anyone in. Single mom Jess Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convince her to step back into the dating world. The New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners returns with a witty and effervescent novel about what happens when two people with everything on the line are thrown together by science-or is it fate? P erfect for fans of The Rosie Project and One Plus One. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But I am the daughter of one of the most talented spies our people have ever had. He opened his mouth to protest, but I was quicker. I’ve wasted a few years, of course, but it won’t take long for me to get back into the form I was in before I married.” I may not be a man, but for a woman I am more than capable. “I spent all of my younger years practically training alongside you. “I am not sending my sister into a hornet’s nest. Much closer than the men you’ve already sent in. “You said you need someone who can get close. “Now what is this absurdity about Shechem? I thought you were spying on us that night around the fire, and now I now why.”įeeling gooseflesh prickle on my now-wobbly legs, I unwound my tunic hem from my belt and brushed the fabric back down over my knees. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Intimations by Zadie Smith![]() ![]() ![]() Intimations mirrors many white Americans’ shift from the stasis of quarantine to the sudden, incandescent rage of injustice. It’s worth reading the paragraph in full, if only to get a glimpse at the depth of Smith’s hard-earned exhaustion. I don’t think that anymore,” Smith concludes, devastatingly. “I used to think that there would one day be a vaccine: that if enough Black people named the virus, explained it, demonstrated how it operates, videoed its effects.I thought if that knowledge became as widespread as could possibly be managed or imagined that we might finally reach some kind of herd immunity. Titled “Contempt as a Virus,” Smith’s essay skillfully and effectively relates the virus currently plaguing America to the one that has killed and brutalized scores of Black people since the country’s founding: structural racism. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But if Rahotep fails, he and his entire family will die. If he succeeds, he will bask in the warmth of Akhenaten's favor. Entrusted by great Akhenaten himself with a most secret investigation, Rahotep has but ten days to find the missing Queen. But when he arrives in London to enlist the assistance of Dr. Rahotep, the youngest chief detective in the Thebes division, has earned a reputation for his unorthodox yet effective methods. Bodies washing up along the eastern coast of New England and the mysterious grounding of a ghost ship near Manhattan combine to bring Sherlock Holmes out of retirement to resume his pursuit of the villainous Baron Antonio Barlucci-the Whitechapel Vampire. Then, just days before the festival that will celebrate the new capital, Nefertiti vanishes. The priests are stunned by the abrupt forfeiture of their traditional wealth and influence the people resent the loss of their gods-and the army is enraged by the growing turbulence around them. But an epic power struggle is afoot, brought on by the royal couple's inauguration of an enlightened new religion and the construction of a magnificent new capital. With her husband, Akhenaten, she rules over Egypt, the most affluent, formidable, sophisticated empire in the ancient world. A thrilling novel set in ancient Egypt in which a savvy detective is secretly assigned to unravel the mysterious disappearance of the world's most enigmatic queen. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Soldier Prince, 5/5: An ingenious twist on all the tales of toys come to life through the power of a child's imagination. Little Knife, 5/5: A cautionary tale about the power of nature, the arrogance of men, and the danger of treating women as commodities. so dig in & enjoy the shivers down your spine. ![]() I can't say much more without giving everything away. ![]() I figured out the twist early on, but I have to admit it was a great twist! The Witch of Duva, 5/5: A decidedly adult fairy tale, the story revolves around evil hiding in plain sight and the subversion of expectations. The Too-Clever Fox, 4/5: This is a fable about a clever fox, traps, loneliness and friendship - but not in the ways you'd expect. Ayama and the Thorn Wood, 4/5: A story about two rejected outsiders that draws from Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, and the myth of the Minotaur. Lauren Fortgang was a wonderful narrator, with a note of childlike wonder in her voice that enhanced the feel of fairy tales being told around a fire on a chilly night. ![]() The stories are dark and chilling, exploring themes of female empowerment, loyalty and being careful what you wish for. You don't need to have read any of the Grishaverse novels to enjoy the six fables in this collection, all of which borrow elements from familiar stories and serve them up with a twist. ![]() |