Temple Stream by Bill Roorbach6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Roorbach does little to subvert the classic male rescue fantasy. Danielle’s careening and unpredictable personality seems an odd fit for Eric’s mellow character. Predictably, they are trapped by the storm, woefully underprepared, and forced to weather it together. This view is not shared by “Danielle, for now,” as she warily introduces herself. Gracefully combining deep knowledge, lyrical. Spotting her struggling with bags in the parking lot, he offers her a lift, and this act of kindness feels so good-and alien-to him after a particularly bad year that he turns up unbidden at the door of the small riverside cabin in which she’s squatting, convinced that she is now his responsibility. As he proved in his 2002 essay collection 'Into Woods,' Bill Roorbach is a brilliant guide to the natural world. Eric feels “something rumbling inside him,” impelling him to act. Roorbach’s latest (after Life Among Giants) begins on the eve of the first big snowstorm of the season in the woods of Maine, with smalltown defense lawyer Eric waiting in line behind a raggedly dressed, strikingly thin young woman with matted hair who is counting change to pay for her paltry pile of groceries. ![]()
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Mind of the raven by bernd heinrich6/12/2023 ![]() At its best, his writing is distinguished by infectious enthusiasm, a lighthearted style and often lyrical descriptions of the natural world. ![]() As the birds mature, Heinrich details how these and other ravens feed, nest, mate, play and establish a society with clear hierarchical levels. As he describes tending to the demanding babies, chopping up roadkill, cleaning up after them and enduring their noisy calls for food, readers will marvel at how much Heinrich knows and at how much joy he derives from acquiring that knowledge. ![]() Although he has raised many ravens through the years (beginning with a tame pair that shared his apartment at UCLA in the 1960s), Heinrich focuses much of his attention on four nestlings he adopted from the Maine woods near his home. In a book that demonstrates the rewards of caring and careful observation of the natural world, Heinrich (Ravens in Winter, etc.), a noted biologist, Guggenheim fellow and National Book Award nominee (for Bumblebee Economics, 1979), explores the question of raven intelligence through observation, experiment and personal experience. ![]() Until we have faces6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() A general sadness permeates as the characters wallow in loneliness when one recognizes that “we all reek of desperation,” he could be speaking for all of the stories’ protagonists. ![]() In “Who Are You Wearing?” a man gets a gig waving signs at cars and wearing a bumble bee costume for the Halloween Superstore and in “The Good Shepherd,” a man runs a farm that processes shelter dogs as a poultry substitute. Set in the contemporary Midwest and revisiting themes from Nye’s debut novel, All the Castles Burned, this stoic, grim collection follows men who process emotions through violence, anger, and alcohol and find describing their feelings the “hardest thing to do.” These men are former athletes and members of the military, many of whom have fallen from their glory days and have been relegated to demoralizing jobs. ![]() Corto maltese secret rose6/12/2023 ![]() The 1978 release of Will Eisner’s A Contract with God increased the genre’s appeal and collectability. Three books, all released in 1976, continue to lay claim as being the first-ever graphic novel: Richard Cobden’s Bloodstar, Jim Steranko’s Chandler: Red Tide and George Metzger’s Beyond Time and Again. ![]() comics historian Richard Kyle to establish a separate category for books that contained comic strip art and stories, but were far different and meatier than comic books or comic strips. The term was first coined in 1964 by U.S. Graphic novels have had an official designation in bookstores for nearly two decades. ![]() City on Fire by Bill Minutaglio6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Government officials knew how explosive ammonium nitrate was, but they were still ill prepared for the trauma that hit Texas City. ![]() ![]() Based on the peacetime and wartime uses of ammonium nitrate, the Texas City Disaster of 1947 demonstrates the government’s negligence in its disaster preparation methods one cannot not merely place blame at the hands of those onboard the ship because in reality, the government was simply unprepared for such a disaster. Although the explosion itself was a shock, the proceeding turmoil could have been predominantly avoided. Grandcamp cargo ship exploded in the Texas City port, killing more than 550 people and creating an unexpected calamity among those living and working in the area. On April 16, 1947, Texas City, Texas became home to one of the worst accidents in America’s history. Texas City Disaster Aftermath Part 1 1947 7 Changes Resulting from the Texas City Disaster. ![]() The ark plan laura martin6/11/2023 ![]() She’d spent most of her childhood tackling challenges that were a bit over her head. ![]() The double major also fit her obnoxious over-acheiver MO. Because she was raised by a frugal Dutchman so two majors for the price of one just made sense. Then, at the last minute, she decided to tack a Creative Writing major on as well. So…realizing that God gives us gifts for a reason, she went to Butler University for Education to be an English teacher. Her SAT scores were so uneven it was comical. Mainly because while her brain does great things with words and writing, it refuses, flat out, to comprehend math. What Laura really wanted to be was a vet. ![]() But, after many summers spent filing garbage-related files, working dispatch for roll-off containers, selling dumpsters, working in a landfill scale house and answering phone calls from angry customers who thought the raccoon that got into their garbage was somehow her problem…she knew it wasn’t for her. ![]() Laura Martin comes from a long line of garbage men who worked hard and wore excessive amounts of gold jewelry. If you would like to contact Laura, please send her an email at Bio ![]() When she isn’t writing stories about dinosaurs and underground civilizations, she can be found in the Indianapolis area with her dashing husband, Josh, her four adorable kids and an opinionated bulldog. Edge of Extinction-The Ark Plan is Laura’s first novel-and a dream come true. Laura Martin believes in chasing her dreams and she brought that philosophy to her classroom for six years as a seventh grade English teacher. ![]() A stranger in olondria summary6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 10143883 Cataloging source HLS Samatar, Sofia Dewey number 813/. Yet even as the country shimmers on the cusp of war, he must face his ghost and learn her story before he has any chance of becoming free by setting her free: an ordeal that challenges his understanding of art and life, home and exile, and the limits of that seductive necromancy, reading StorylineĪward World Fantasy Award, 2014. Earlier, frightened, you began to have some intimation of it: so many pages had been turned, the book was so heavy in one hand, so light in the other, thinning toward the end. Thus A Stranger in Olondria is full of quotes from Olondrian tales and poetry, and the novel is very much about the joys and perils of stories and reading. ![]() ![]() In desperation, Jevick seeks the aid of Olondrian priests and quickly becomes a pawn in the struggle between the empire's two most powerful cults. But just as he revels in Olondria's Rabelaisian Feast of Birds, he is pulled drastically off course and becomes haunted by the ghost of an illiterate young girl. When his father dies and Jevick takes his place on the yearly selling trip to Olondria, Jevick's life is as close to perfect as he can imagine. Language eng Summary Jevick, the pepper merchant's son, has been raised on stories of Olondria, a distant land where books are as common as they are rare in his home. Label A stranger in Olondria : a novel Title A stranger in Olondria Title remainder a novel Statement of responsibility Sofia Samatar Creator SS: I conceived the A Stranger in Olondria story as a two-book project from the beginning, and had a basic idea of how the two parts would connect and. ![]() Under the sun agatha christie6/10/2023 ![]() The youngest of three children of the Miller family. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. More than seventy detective novels of British writer Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie include The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and And Then There Were None (1939) she also wrote plays, including The Mousetrap (1952). ![]() Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan. ![]() A cold day in paradise6/10/2023 ![]() Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.Interesting characters, good plot, and a setting (Upper Michigan) that intrigues me." I'm looking forward to reading straight through. ![]() "After reading a later book in the series, I've come back to pick it up at the beginning. ![]() And it seems like it’ll be a frozen day in Hell before McKnight can unravel the cold truth from a deadly deception in a town that’s anything but paradise. With Rose locked away, McKnight can’t understand who else would know the intimate details of the old murders-not to mention the signature blood-red rose left on his doorstep. ![]() But in the small town of Paradise, Michigan, where McKnight has traded his badge for a cozy cabin in the woods, a murderer with Rose’s unmistakable trademarks appears to be back to his killing ways. After all, Maximilian Rose, convicted of the crimes, has been locked in the state pen for years. Other than the bullet lodged less than a centimeter from his heart, former Detroit police officer Alex McKnight thought he had put the nightmare of his partner’s death and his own near-fatal injury behind him. ![]() Evie sebastian lisa kleypas6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The story warmed my heart as most of the conflicts were external and these are just two really good people. ![]() The romance is luscious, incredibly sexy, but also has a sweetness and loveliness that I really enjoyed. In many ways, this is the story about family, and I loved how the couple here is supported and loved by the families in the story. ![]() One this I loved about it was its context. At the same time, someone seems determined to kill Kier. Merritt, on the other hand, knows from experience that regrets are corrosive. But the class differences between them weigh heavily on Kier who does his best to keep his distance from the tempting widow. From the moment the two meet there is something between them. THE STORY: Lady Merritt Sterling, a widow, is running her husband’s business when she meets Kier MacRae, a Scottish distiller. Kleypas does so much was characters who are entirely likable and yet make the romance compelling. It had been as unlike anything that had happened in his life before, as it would be from anything that came after.”įINAL DECISION: I guessed the twist in this one almost immediately, but I loved it anyway because this is a wonderful story of two people who fall in love and the plot is almost superfluous. “He would relive that kiss in a thousand dreams. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.ĭevil in Disguise (The Ravenels, #7) by Lisa Kleypas I received this book for free from Netgalley in order to prepare an honest review. ![]() |