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![]() At 592 pages, it did not feel too long, but instead felt like you’d just gotten to know these characters, and then it was over. This book is slowly paced, but so multilayered, the ten days that the text encompasses are easy to take in, in bite-sized pieces, hopping between points of view. I kept wondering how this would all end, and when it happened, I didn’t see it coming. Unlike the Lincoln Highway, which is a direct route, the path of this book is circuitous, and chock full of the unexpected. But they have very different ideas of what their destiny looks like, which results in divergent outcomes. Set in the 1950’s, three boys from a work farm for juvenile delinquents– one newly released and two others recently escaped– plus a wonderful eight year old brother, hit the road to make a fresh start. It’s a yarn with many side stories of both heroes and failures. This is an odyssey of adventure of young people that just don’t fit in, and the detours of life that others take us on. ![]() ![]() Still, the writing here is so extraordinarily excellent, and the characters so fresh and fully realized, this one gets a five star rating from me too. ![]() ![]() This one is remarkable too, but I related to the other two better, and liked their endings more. I loved this author’s previous two books ( see my review of The Gentleman in Moscow here) and ( see my review of the Rules of Civility here) both of which I gave five stars. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a small moment, but a great reminder that another’s shine does not dim our own. ![]() I especially liked moments that subverted typical tropes for instance, when another dancer is more talented than Parker and wins the solo in the recital, Parker reacts with support and admiration rather than jealousy. There are several themes at play throughout the story, and they dovetail nicely in the climax, telling a story that encourages kindness and supportive friendship/siblinghood, as well as balancing passion and commitment to one’s endeavors. Yet when the big recital comes, Parker may reconsider everything she thought about what it means to be a “real” dancer… Inspired by Mira – a new and talented dancer in class – and a collection of legendary Black ballet dancers, Parker resolves to dedicate her dancing at home to serious practice… even if it means less silly dancing with Ava and Cash. However, when she’s in ballet class, she stays focused on learning how to be a “real” dancer. Parker is a wonderful and caring older sister, always making time to play and have silly dance parties with her little sibs. Hello, friends! Our book today is Parker Shines On: Another Extraordinary Moment, written by Parker Curry and Jessica Curry, and illustrated by Brittany Jackson.Ī sequel to the real life-inspired Parker Looks Up, we catch up with the irrepressible Parker and her young siblings, Ava and Cash. Visit us for new picture books reviews daily! ![]() This review was originally written for The Baby Bookworm. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Alpha night by nalini singh![]() Even if the mating bond is full of static and not quite as it should be. Yet Selenka’s wolf is resolute: Ethan Night, broken Arrow and a man capable of obsessive devotion, is the mate it has chosen. ![]() Mating at first sight is a myth, a fairytale. Because Selenka’s new mate has a terrible secret, his mind surging with a power that is a creature of madness and death… Then violence erupts and Ethan finds himself crashing into the heart and soul of an alpha wolf. Assigned as part of the security force at a world-first symposium, he carries a dark agenda tied to the power-hungry and murderous Consortium. Numb and disengaged from the world, he’s loyal only to himself. That currently includes the empaths who’ve flowed into her city for a symposium that is a security nightmare, a powder keg just waiting for a match.Įthan Night is an Arrow who isn’t an Arrow. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alpha wolf Selenka Durev's devotion to her pack is equaled only by her anger at anyone who would harm those under her care. New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to her breathtaking Psy-Changeling Trinity series with a mating that shouldn’t exist…Īlpha wolf Selenka Durev’s devotion to her pack is equaled only by her anger at anyone who would harm those under her care. New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to her breathtaking Psy-Changeling Trinity series with a mating that shouldn't exist. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Book review a spy among friends![]() While elements are changed for dramatization, A Spy Among Friends captures the backroom dealings and intricate plotting needed to uncover and pursue the double agents hiding within the British secret service. The new limited series A Spy Among Friends offers a fictionalized but faithful retelling of the events surrounding the discovery and pursuit of Philby by his close friend and fellow spy Nicholas Elliott. While these stories and adaptations have been interesting, the true story is fascinating in its own right. While speculative stories and alternate histories abound, Philby’s tale has inspired John Le Carre’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and the Matt Damon film The Good Shepherd. Review: The story of Kim Philby, one of the most notorious spies discovered during the Cold War, has been told many times over in both books and documentaries. ![]() ![]() ![]() Comprehensive and anecdotal, Hardtack and Coffee is striking for the pulse of life that runs through it. Described here are the types of men found in any outfit their not very uniform uniforms crowded tents and makeshift shelters difficulties in keeping clean, warm, and dry their pleasure in a cup of coffee food rations, dominated by salt pork and the versatile cracker or hardtack their brave pastimes in the face of death punishments for various offenses treatment in sick bay firearms and signals and modes of transportation. This is the story of how the Civil War soldier was recruited, provisioned, and disciplined. The authenticity of his book is heightened by the many drawings that a comrade, Charles W. Billings of Massachusetts enlisted in the Army of the Potomac and curvived the conditions he recorded. Hardtack and Coffee is one of the few to give a vivid, detailed picture of what ordinary soldiers endured every day-in camp, on the march, at the edge of a booming, smoking hell. ![]() ![]() He asks the question: Is it possible to teach the principles of the placebo, and without relying on any external substance, produce the same internal changes in a persons health and ultimately in his or her life? Then he shares scientific evidence (including color brain scans) of amazing healings from his workshops, in which participants learn his model of personal transformation, based on practical applications of the so-called placebo effect. Joe does more than simply explore the history and the physiology of the placebo effect. Belief can be so strong that pharmaceutical companies use double- and triple-blind randomized studies to try to exclude the power of the mind over the body when evaluating new drugs.Dr. ![]() Joe tells of how others have gotten sick and even died the victims of a hex or voodoo curseor after being misdiagnosed with a fatal illness. Joe Dispenza shares numerous documented cases of those who reversed cancer, heart disease, depression, crippling arthritis, and even the tremors of Parkinsons disease by believing in a placebo. Is it possible to heal by thought alonewithout drugs or surgery? The truth is that it happens more often than you might expect. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The man who died twice review![]() ![]() I was a little disappointed about the little space the two of them were given over the course of the book. Next to the gang are Chris and Donna, their friends in Fairheaven’s police force. ![]() Why change a winning team? Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim are all there, a team made of nearly 300 years altogether, yet so full of life and wit to compete with any teenager. The marketing email from NetGalley said: ‘the gang is back!’ And it was indeed. Overall, I think they were met, of course with their ups and downs. Let’s be clear, it’s not a masterpiece nor anything that will change your life forever, but given the success of the first book, it was a tough challenge to meet the expectations. I devoured The Man Who Died Twice despite me taking four covid tests, visiting four cities in two different countries and meeting friends and relatives I had not seen in almost a year. And of course to the great success of my article A simple analysis of The Thursday Murder Club (with spoilers!). Receiving the email from Penguin approving my preview of the sequel of The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman was a testament to my efforts to read and provide reviews through Netgalley, Goodreads and LWF. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments David michelinie venom![]() ![]() “Getting to do a multi-issue story with the original Venom was like sitting down to dinner with an old friend - who wants to eat your brain for dessert!” Michelinie said in Marvel’s announcement. Venom: Lethal Protector puts Michelinie back in the driver’s seat once again to revisit Venom’s legacy in a five-issue limited series for present-day readers, featuring art from rising illustrator Fiorelli. “In the spirit of hit titles like X-Men Legends and Maestro, explore an earlier era of Marvel Comics for an all-new, horrifying tale that not only revisits the wicked web-slinger’s past, but hints at what’s to come in his future!”Īlongside Todd MacFarlane, Michelinie first helped introduce Venom into the comics side of the Spider-verse back in the 1980s as part of the Amazing Spider-Man series. “Before Carnage and space gods, clones and toxins, and the revelation that he was a father, Eddie Brock was a down-on-his-luck reporter who had tried to take his own life and been saved by an extraterrestrial alien,” Marvel teased in its reveal. ![]() ![]() ![]() This biography does full justice to this most remarkable and profoundly influential artist, and offers numerous reproductions and archive photos alongside a detailed and insightful commentary. The author,Daniel Wildenstein ,did an excellent job in presenting Monet to the reader. ![]() There is a lot of information and the reader will learn much about Monet and the world in which he lived. The high point of his explorations was the late series of water lilies, painted in his own garden at Giverny, which, in their approach toward almost total formlessness, are really the origin of abstract art. This book is a complete overview of Monet's life & work. Whether it was through his early interest in Japanese prints, his time as a conscript in the dazzling light of Algeria, or his personal acquaintance with the major painters of the late 19th century, the work Monet produced throughout his long life would change forever the way we perceive both the natural world and its attendant phenomena. ![]() It could be said that Monet reinvented the possibilities of color. Of all the Impressionists, it was the man Cézanne called “only an eye, but my God what an eye!” who stayed true to the principle of absolute fidelity to the visual sensation, painting directly from the object. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (1840–1926) to capture light itself on canvas. ![]() |