'Told in crunchy prose, with lashings of earthy dialogue, it reads like an Elmore Leonard Thriller, but with dragons. įor Squib Moreau, Regence Hooke and Vern, aka Lord Highfire of Highfire Eyrie, life is never going to be the same again. Unfortunately for Squib, Hooke has his own eye on that very same stretch of bayou - and neither of them have taken into account the fire-breathing dragon hiding out in the Louisiana swamp. Īn apprenticeship with the local moonshine runner, servicing the bayou, looks like the only way to pay off the family debts and maybe get Squib and his momma a place in town, far from Constable Hooke's unwanted courtship and Fake Daddy's reputation. But sometimes life gets in the way - like when Fake Daddy walked out on them leaving a ton of debt, or when crooked Constable Regence Hooke got to thinking pretty Elodie Moreau was just the gal for him. Squib Moreau may be swamp-wild, but his intentions are (generally) good: he really wants to be a supportive son to his hard-working momma Elodie. Highfire is a genre-bending tour-de-force of comedy and action by the million-copy-selling master storyteller. 'A dazzling first adult novel from bestselling children's author Colfer' Daily Mail 'A funny, offbeat adult fantasy novel' Independent
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It took weeks to thrift the perfect dress (black chiffon and lace, like a sexy vampire assassin), and it was supposed to be a perfect prom. She wanted to enjoy her prom night after an entire year chasing early admission deadlines and her spot at the top of the class of ’22. Because she’s the only one smart enough to see it. Shara Wheeler is doing what she does: a doe-eyed performance of blank innocence that makes everyone think she must be so deep and complex and enchanting when really, she’s the most boring bore in this entire unbearably boring town.Ĭhloe is going to prove it. Thirty-three minutes until the end of the late service at Willowgrove Christian Church, where the Wheelers are spending their morning pretending to be nice, normal folks whose nice, normal daughter didn’t stage a disappearing act at prom twelve hours ago. But right now, squared up to the back door of the Wheeler house, she’s actually physically ready to do it. Usually when she has a thought like that, it means she’s spiritually on the brink. Chloe Green is going to put her fist through a window. “There’s always been to me something kind of horrific about that. “ The Bunnies are so hyper-feminine,” Awad tells me over an appropriately quaint miniature cortado. The novel is set at a fictional, idyllic college campus in New England among a particular group of well-coiffed MFA writing students who nibble on mini cupcakes and call one another “Bunny.” Following the cardinal logic of a teen movie à la Heathers, a cynical outsider, Samantha, is drawn by magnetic force to the allure of the Bunnies, gradually ensorcelled by their “creative workshops,” in which they transform real, live bunnies into real, live men-complete with brooding, blue-eyed gazes and Proust. In Mona Awad’s new novel, Bunny (out today from Penguin) the figure embodies all of that, blown up-literally-and melded into male fantasy. The bunny is perhaps the singular most versatile mammalian image in modern culture: one of innocence, one of sex, one of lateness, one of sheer horror. When a young female medical student is found murdered in the village of Ketanu, Dawson is despatched to lead the investigation. In Wife of the Gods we meet Inspector Darko Dawson, a detective who is a dedicated family man but something of a thorn in the side of his superiors. Quartey’s novel is a much darker tale than anything you’d find in the pages of McCall Smith’s novel, reflecting the clash between the new Ghana and its age-old customs. On the back of my copy of Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey, is a comment by The Booklist which suggest Quartey’s novel will be relished by fans of Alexander McCall Smith’s Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency series.Īdmittedly Wife of the Gods and the Ladies Detective Agency are both in the crime fiction genre and both are set in Africa. 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Window Shopping was a quick, steamy holiday read with a grumpy heroine and sunshine hero (you read that right!) Even though this book is a holiday romance and had Christmas coming out of every page, it was also probably my limit of drama and suspense as well (which I wasn’t expecting from a holiday romance) but I’m a baby when it comes to drama so I’m sure it’s generally tame. Her signals of distress (“there is no room for me in my house”) are ignored, and the details of the incest are suppressed by her family and by the community at large. The tragic focus of the novel, in which the protagonist witnesses her best friend being raped by her older brother, is the nine-year-old victim, Devory, who ultimately commits suicide. There is also no question that the book is an exposé-a candid and detailed description of the life of a certain sector of the ultra-Orthodox world as experienced by a young female member of that world. A common reaction, by admirers and detractors alike, is that it is hard to put down. There is no question that the book is well written and designed to hold the reader’s attention. (Brown originally wrote the book anonymously but revealed her identity after the murder of eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky.) Eishes Chayil is a pseudonym for Judy Brown, the author of Hush, a book that has been described by some as a sensationalist exposé, and commended by others for its masterful suspenseful style. Christian will be leading the seminar in conjunction with The Soul Institute’s Adora Winquist - and don’t worry, Zucker will be there for support. The pair, who are still figuring out their wedding plans, want to share the knowledge they have learned with both couples (Saturday, May 6) and singles (Sunday, May 7) to take their relationships to the next level in a one-day workshop in the beautiful Santa Monica Mountains. Nicole and Daniel could have used a little of the help Zucker and Christian now provide others! While they’ve both “learned how to support each other and be open to each other’s advice,” Zucker praised Christian for his patience, calling him “my angel.” A“It’s about really wanting to be in it together, and I think the first obstacle is the choice - to want to be in it with that person and figure out, ‘How do I balance them out?'” Days of Our Lives Preview: Nicole Drops a Bomb on Anna - and the Show Honors a Milestone for Deidre Hall We regard attempts to present a balanced perspective with natural and understandable suspicion. Many Jews, particularly Orthodox Jews, see the conflict through a sharp partisan and political lens, selectively keeping informed through books, newspapers, online outlets and conferences, that confirm their views rather than challenge them. Like McCann’s frigatebird that can stay aloft for up to two months, we are suspended above a traumatic situation, getting a view from what feels like infinite sides. The fragments are at times significant, at times pedestrian, just when the reader needs a little psychic relief. In a creative play of One Thousand and One Nights, a complex weave of ancient Persian tales, the book’s format veers from the traditional novel the story is told in 1,001 fragments, often a paragraph or a page long that discuss the migration patterns of certain birds, the humiliations of checkpoints, the composition of rubber bullets and the tragedy of burned Israeli buses, among many other themes. These are real people alive today, but McCann gives them a fictional context and embellishes the details of their respective stories. Both lost young daughters to the conflict and both belong to an organization called Combatants for Peace. The novel features two friends, an Israeli and a Palestinian, Rami and Bassam, tied by bonds of blood and loss. I heard about and then read Colum McCann’s brilliant new novel Apeirogon, and it became clear. This word never appeared on my SAT vocabulary lists. An apeirogon is a polygon of infinite sides. "Politics", "Ethics", and "Rhetoric" are few among many of his works that hold discussions on questions of law, equality, justice, etc.Īccording to Aristotle, political science is a master science. He did not only lay the foundation stone of political science but also contributed significantly to its elaboration as well. He differentiated between meteorology, poetics, logic, biology, ethics, natural history, aesthetics, physics, rhetoric, metaphysics and even wrote extensively on these subjects. The first man to distinguish between various branches of knowledge had been Aristotle. In this blog, you will read about his understanding of the state, classification of constitutions and the cycle of governments. The subject of political science has evolved by questioning the nature and importance of concepts like state, constitution, citizenship, laws, and governments.Īristotle, famously referred to as the father of political science, had laid the bricks of the subject. She has since taught linguistics at Smith College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Georgetown University, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and Swarthmore College. in Romance Languages and Literatures in 1973, both from Harvard University, then did a postdoctoral year in Linguistics at MIT. She received her BA in mathematics in 1970 and her Ph.D. She has five children, seven grandchildren, and currently lives outside Philadelphia. For thirteen years she had a cat named Taxi, and liked to go outside and call, "Taxi!" to make the neighbors wonder. She loves to garden and bake bread, and even dreams of moving to the woods and becoming a naturalist.Īt various times her house and yard have been filled with dogs, cats, birds, and rabbits. Donna Jo Napoli is both a linguist and a writer of children's and YA fiction. |