6/12/2023 0 Comments Jg ballard the kindness of women![]() ![]() ![]() While many of Ballard's stories are thematically and narratively unusual, he is perhaps best known for his relatively conventional war novel, Empire of the Sun (1984), a semi-autobiographical account of a young boy's experiences in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War as it came to be occupied by the Japanese Imperial Army. The story was later adapted into a film of the same name by Canadian director David Cronenberg. In 1973 the highly controversial novel Crash was published, a story about symphorophilia and car crash fetishism the protagonist becomes sexually aroused by staging and participating in real car crashes. ![]() In the late 1960s and early 1970s Ballard focused on an eclectic variety of short stories (or "condensed novels") such as The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), which drew closer comparison with the work of postmodernist writers such as William S. Ballard came to be associated with the New Wave of science fiction early in his career with apocalyptic (or post-apocalyptic) novels such as The Drowned World (1962), The Burning World (1964), and The Crystal World (1966). G." Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Spellsinger series![]() ![]() ![]() Spellsinger, the first in Alan Dean Foster's eight-book Spellsinger series, introduces a world of magic and mayhem, where animals are people and plunging ahead no matter what the consequences may be the only way to survive. ![]() ![]() Reluctantly, he finds himself teaming up with a semi-senile turtle wizard a thieving, backstabbing otter and a bewildered Marxist dragon to rally an army for the war about to come. Here, when he plays a strange instrument called a duar, peculiar things happen-powerful magic that may be the only way to stop a dark force that threatens his new world-and his old one. But when a journey through an interdimensional portal lands him in a world of talking animals and ominous sorcery, he finds he is on a very different trip indeed. Snatched through a portal into a land of magic, a young musician must use a mysterious, multistring duar to rescue the world into which he has fallen before he can return to his own Jonathan Thomas Meriweather is a typical college student, interested in girls, music, and an occasional taste of reefer. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Eldorado by Jay Allan Storey![]() The world Storey creates is no Mad Max look at the future, but a sobering, realistic view of what might lie ahead of us. Richard’s journey takes him through the decaying remains of a civilization that was built on cheap oil, and destroyed itself by not heeding the warnings about dwindling oil supplies. But when Danny disappears, the local police are unable to search for the missing youth, and Richard is forced to give up his comfort and set out to find his brother. A college professor, he still has a house which he shares with his younger, troubled teenage brother, Danny. The novel’s protagonist, Richard Hampton, is one of the few Vancouver residents with some semblance of a normal life. This is the stage set for author Jay Allan Storey’s new dystopian novel, Eldorado. Suburban communities like Surrey have been largely abandoned, and Vancouver itself is becoming a human wasteland of joblessness and homelessness. The end of the Petroleum Age means the luxuries we’ve come to enjoy – automobiles, computers, and e-readers – have been left in the distant past. ![]() In post Peak-Oil Vancouver, Canada, the future is not bright. ![]() ![]() When Jack’s mom gets sick, he goes home to the family’s Texas ranch to help out. But a few years back, in the wake of a family tragedy, he dropped from the public eye and went off the grid. Jack Stapleton’s a household name-captured by paparazzi on beaches the world over, famous for, among other things, rising out of the waves in all manner of clingy board shorts and glistening like a Roman deity. ![]() But the truth is, she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his middle-aged, corgi-breeding stalker. Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. A shot of pure joy.”-Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers I wish I could erase it from my mind just to read it again for the first time. As funny and sweet as all the very best nineties rom-coms, but with Center’s signature heart-tugging depth. Katherine Center's The Bodyguard is “My perfect 10 of a book. ![]() ![]() This book follows the protagonist Hans Olofson, a Swedish young man born and grown up in the freezing Norrland, abandoned by a mother he never knew and living with his alcoholic father. Through The Eye of the Leopard, I have fallen deeper in love with his brilliant story-telling, the beauty of his words, the haunting images he created, and the mystery and tension he conveyed through the pages. ![]() I have read almost all of his non-Wallander books, except his children’s books, and without exception, I enjoyed them all. In the span of a decade, I have hungrily devoured many of this modern literary master’s works, often ordering his new books before they came out. I was hooked by his unique story-telling style instantly and permanently. I have been a fan of his ever since I stumbled upon The Return of the Dancing Master about ten years ago. This was not the first book I have read by this first rate author, best known for his Inspector Kurt Wallander crime fiction series. The Eye of the Leopard, Mankell’s book set in his native Sweden and his beloved Africa, where he apparently spent part of his life. He showed me the landscape of Africa, more specifically that of Zambia, her people, her culture and customs, corruption and war, problems that were scorching her soul and tearing her apart. ![]() Swedish Writer, Henning Mankell took me on a journey to discover that amazing continent, like no other. Yet somehow I feel like as if I have been. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Sparrow by L.J. 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R/RomanceBooks is a discussion sub for readers of romance novels. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Mystic Tea by Rea Nolan Martin![]() Visionary Fiction evolved as the natural intersection of several established genres, including Metaphysical, Mystical, Magical Realism, and character-driven Sci-Fi and Paranormal. ![]() This distinction is important to me, because the first order of a story is to be well-told through relatable characters, regardless of genre. “Before there was a Visionary genre,” Martin says, “my books won recognition in the Literary genre. ![]() Humor is an unexpected hallmark of all Martin’s stories, especially given their deep mystical context. Traverse City, MI, -( PR.com)- On Monday, Independent Publishers of Traverse City, Michigan awarded New York author Rea Nolan Martin the gold “IPPY” award in Visionary Fiction for her recently published novel, "Sunnyside Up." Martin’s previous IPPY golds include her 2016 novel, "The Anesthesia Game," and her 2014 novel, "Mystic Tea." All three gold medallions were awarded in the category of Visionary Fiction, a genre Martin helped pioneer with her 2008 release, "The Sublime Transformation of Vera Wright," about the miraculous hijinx of an everyday saint. ![]() ![]() As a spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh, The Promise delivers. ![]() All this he does with a sensibility, artistry, and scope that are entirely his own. His deft inhabiting of different characters’ consciousnesses evokes Virginia Woolf. Galgut’s searching examination of family, place, and the dysfunctions that connect them reminded us of William Faulkner. With an almost deceptive narrative economy, it offers moving insights into generational divides meditates on what makes a fulfilling life-and how to process death and explores the capacious metaphorical implications of “promise” in relation to modern South Africa. ![]() On each reading we felt that the book grew. ‘The Promise astonished us from the outset as a penetrating and incredibly well-constructed account of a white South African family navigating the end of apartheid and its aftermath. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The one woman laura may![]() ![]() Jean Grey (First appearance) (Only in flashback).X-Men (First appearance) (Only in flashback).Spider-Man (Miles Morales) (First appearance) (Only in flashback).Champions (First appearance) (Only in flashback).Julian Keller (Earth-18366) (Only appearance corpse).Lizard (Curt Connors) (First appearance) (Only in flashback).Deadpool (Wade Wilson) (First appearance) (Only in flashback). ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I love how Bramhall is able to write about the delicate parts of a growing relationship, how she is able to show both main characters’ vulnerability, worries and desires without exaggerating and still making reading it such a wonderful experience.Īnd on top of all this you get a dramatic crime plot that kept me nail biting from the start (it is rather drastic and bloody in two scenes). For being able to write this into an awesome plot I commend Andrea Bramhall. It is definitely not far away from how things can happen in real life. Their thinking, the problems they face, how they come closer, all this felt real. What makes this part so outstanding for me is how real Gina and Kate felt throughout the story. And I am biased, because I also loved the first two parts of the series. ![]() |