![]() ![]() Block is an accomplished storyteller, and Matt Scudder is a fine example of hero as human being. Drinking steadily all summer, Scudder accomplishes all of the above, his intuition, doggedness and respect for a higher law sputtering through the alcoholic haze. The real booksas opposed to those shown to the IRSstolen from Skip Devoe's bar must be ransomed, and the masked gunmen who robbed the Morrisey brothers' after-hours place have to be identified. Tommie Tillary, an investment salesman in flashy clothes, whose wife has been murdered in Bay Ridge, needs to be cleared of suspicion. ![]() In the summer of 1975, Matt is busy with assorted favors. ![]() His real home, however, is any one of three or four local bars, and his family are their owners, staff and habitues. Divorced from his wife, who lives with their sons on Long Island, Scudder rooms in a West Side hotel. Scudder is a former New York cop, now an unlicensed private detective who does favors for friends. Featured here is Matt Scudder in his follow-up appearance to Eight Million Ways to Die. The prolific, Edgar Awardwinning Block has written many mysteries, most in assorted series with colorful protagonists. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I loved this book for what it is and what it stood for. I honestly appreciated every single page, every single word Kemmerer wrote. ![]() This book speaks quite heavily on psychical and psychological abuse. You can thank me later.Īs for the review, let me start off by mentioning some trigger warnings. So good, I wanted more! I didn’t want it to end! □□Īdd this to your TBR. I just loved this and I’m so glad it stayed that way with each reread. Supportive friends also made a world of difference in their lives. He was extremely fortunate to have been adopted into a loving home but the traces of abuse still linger in him years later. Rev’s parents stood out to me even more upon this reread. She’s a teenager, going through a lot, does not have a stable home life, is already facing sexism from a young age and is being cyber bullied. She’s prickly, angry, the testament of ‘hurt people hurt people’ applies to her quite aptly. But there are some really heartwarming moments sprinkled in between that allows you to get through it.Ībuse is never really great to read about, but it’s especially difficult when a child goes through it at the hand of a parent and Rev has gone through what no one should have to go through.Įmma isn’t the most likeable heroine. I need Brigid Kemmerer to get back to writing some more contemporary stories.Īs much as it isn’t a pleasant story to read, it made me feel warm inside. This duo of books is definitely up there as some of my favourite YA contemporaries and favourite books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The blurb is straight to the point, and so too is the book. When loyalty to his bike club and his brothers has been Damage’s life and route to wealth, what happens when business becomes serious and brother starts killing brother? It’s a biker novel published by a small press. The first of the books I’m going to discuss today is one of the overwhelmingly brilliant ilk. When I look back on my reading year these disquieting books almost always turn out to be my favourites. ![]() Other times I’m totally ambivalent about whether I even like the book or not and yet it’s lodged its hooks in my brain and I know it’s a book I’ll never forget, and sometimes the book has made me fall in love with it and I feel sadness that I’ll never get to read it for the first time ever again. Sometimes these books are so overwhelmingly brilliant that I’m left with a confused jumble of feelings and thoughts that I can’t fully articulate, but which nag away at me, pressing me to do the heavy work of comprehension. It’s a kind of edginess that comes of getting too involved in a book. Every so often I read a book that leaves me with a sense of disquiet. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. In Freakonomics, they set out to explore the hidden side of. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives - how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakonomics. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues others have an admittedly freakish quality. ![]() He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question. He is a much heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life - from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing - and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. Wade have on violent crime? Freakonomics will literally redefine the way we view the modern world. Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. ![]() ![]() Elements like Characterization will be woven into the discussion in all of the chapters, since separating out the people from the story seems pointless to me. The main text will include chapters on Inspiration, Elements of Story, Beginnings & Endings, Writing & Revision, The Bleeding Edge, and a special chapter on writing exercises that I think will blow most people’s minds visually-and will set out all of the things my wife and I do in our workshops and masterclasses. Writer and filmmaker Gregory Bossert is planning to create an animated tutorial around the prologue fish. The image below is an example of one of the ways in which this approach can be useful in teaching creative writing. The cover above is a rough, but close to being final-it’s by Jeremy Zerfoss, who is doing the majority of the art, and the design of the book. ![]() The diagrams will be radically different from what you find in most writing books, and the integration of the text with image will also be something you haven’t seen before. ![]() In fact, its 300 pages will include over 175 diagrams, illustrations, and photographs. This will be the first creative writing guide that doesn’t just supplement text with images, but replaces text with image. ![]() My WONDERBOOK: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction for Abrams Image is well on its way to being finalized, with publication set for 2013. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Told in both Jack’s and Ellie’s voices, The Swap offers a fresh and honest take on tween friendship, all while exploring more serious themes of family, loss, empathy, and what it really means to be yourself. Now they’re dealing with each other’s middle school dramas-locker room teasing, cliques, video game battles, bra shopping, and a slew of hilariously awkward moments-until they hopefully switch back! Yours Truly, Skye OShea Starting at 1.45. Eligible for Free Shipping Expedited Shipping Available Item Condition. ![]() JACK thought girls had it easy-no fights with bullies, no demanding dads, no power plays-but facing mean girls at sleepovers and getting grilled about your period is way harder than taking a hit to the face at sports practice. The Swap by Megan Shull Write The First Customer Review. Click here for the lowest price Hardcover, 9780062311696, 0062311697. And she’s him.ĮLLIE assumed popular guys didn’t worry about body image, being perfect, or talking to girls, but acting like you’re cool with everything is tougher than it looks. With one random wish, Jack and Ellie are living life in each other’s shoes. Palacio and Katherine Applegate, as well as of graphic novels such as Click, Invisible Emmie, and Smile. Now a Disney Channel Original Movie, Megan Shull’s smart and funny, very readable book The Swap is a great summer reading (or anytime!) choice. About the Book After thirteen-year-old River Ryland is discovered to live mostly alone and a visit from Social Services goes horribly wrong, River runs away. ![]() ![]() It's time that she learned the truth about her brother, but there is a shocking twist that Austin never saw coming. He's lived a hard life these past seven years, and the shadows of his past are threatening to destroy Lexi's family. Austin Cole has returned to the city where he grew up, and just in time. Lexi has been secretly infatuated with Austin since childhood, so finding out he's a Shifter just makes him sexier. He broke her trust and abandoned her family, yet what he reveals makes it impossible to stay angry. He is no longer the boy Lexi once knew, but a dangerous-looking man with tattoos and dark secrets. On the anniversary of his death, her brother's best friend shows up unexpectedly - a man she hasn't seen since the funeral. ![]() It's been seven years since Lexi Knight lost her brother in a tragic accident. Reading Challenges: CC's Goodreads Reading Challenge If you buy the book using that link, I will receive a small commission from the sale. This post contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book. ![]() ![]() The answer is more simple than it sounds. Rebecca Traister’s Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger, takes this sickening information, digests it, and shouts through a megaphone what to do with it. I probably drove past that dumpster a hundred times, and I had no idea. She described thinking that’s what sex was, and not even knowing-like many-that it was assault at the time. A bright, religious girl-the kind that plays Belle in the school musical, and did-described being so distraught by her assault at sixteen that she didn’t tell a single person, and immediately threw her clothes away in an alley dumpster. Every day, it gets worse.Ī #WhyIDidntReport post by a woman from my hometown, Carrollton, Texas, bowled me over. ![]() Announcements and reminders of a myriad of violence against marginalized communities in recent months. #MeToo and #WhyIDidntReport, content warnings and rape testimonies from college campuses to closed offices to childhood bedrooms. Every day, I read distressing recollections from colleagues and friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m just reading Down to the Bone by Mayra Lazara Dole, and her protagonist has been thrown OUT of her home for being caught in a lesbian relationship. You probably already know that I’m ambivalent about my homeland I love Canada, am proud to be Canadian, but for a long time now I haven’t thought of Canada as “home.” It’s a complicated term/feeling/concept…and let’s face it: most of us have more than one home, right? And you can be AT home, but not FEEL at home…if feeling “at home” is to feel beloved, wanted, valued, safe. My fellow Canadian is asking folks to write a haiku that reflects your feelings about home-and today, for those of you who might not know, is Canada Day. Down to the Bone by Mayra Lazara Dole - 9780060843106 We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. ![]() I’m having one of those days of sheer indulgence…been reading all morning, just slurped down a coffee ice cream/Milo/banana & peanut butter smoothie, lost internet connection but managed to restore it myself when the Verizon rep proved useless…and now I just found a fun haiku exercise from You Know…that Blog. Down to the Bone by Mayra Lazara Dole, 9780060843106, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. ![]() ![]() Within hours it becomes clear that this is no ordinary blackout. (16:50) Eastern Daylight Time on the second Tuesday of May, the first day described in the book's narration, the phone lines in the town suddenly go dead, along with all the electrical appliances. ![]() ![]() He is now the widowed father of two daughters, Elizabeth and Jennifer.Īt 4:50 p.m. Army colonel and Gulf War veteran, he had moved to Black Mountain with his family when his late wife Mary, a native of the town, was dying from cancer. John Matherson is a professor of history at the local Montreat Christian College. Black Mountain is strategically located along an interstate highway and provides the water supply for the nearby city of Asheville. Although it has no large businesses, it is becoming a summer destination for people from larger cities. Background īlack Mountain, North Carolina, is a small American town, home to a college with about six hundred students. A trade paperback edition was released in November 2009. ![]() Released in March 2009, One Second After and was ranked as number 11 on the New York Times Best Seller list in fiction in May 2009. The novel deals with an unexpected electromagnetic pulse attack on the United States as it affects the people living in and around the small American town of Black Mountain, North Carolina. One Second After is a 2009 novel by American writer William R. ![]() |