6/8/2023 0 Comments Sally berneathy books![]() ![]() But I do know about chocolate, cats, and murder. ![]() Okay, I just plain love to talk! And write!Įverything that happens to me, everything I see and hear, every movie I watch…everything inspires me to write.Īfter a decade of writing romances for Harlequin/Silhouette, I decided to follow the admonition “Write what you know.” I’d been through three divorces, so obviously I know nothing about romance. And puppets and poets and pirates and pawns and kings. ![]() Death by Chocolate and The Ex Who Wouldn’t Die are USA Today Bestsellers.Ĭontact information is available on my website. I have two ongoing mystery series, Death by Chocolate and Charley’s Ghost. It’s hard to make listeners sit still while I tell them a whole book! Like my family’s tales, my stories are funny, scary, dramatic, romantic, paranormal and, I hope, entertaining.īesides writing, my interests are reading, eating chocolate and riding my Harley. Thank goodness for computers so I can write down my stories. That could be because everybody in my family sings like a bullfrog with laryngitis, but they sure could tell stories-ghost stories, funny stories, happy stories, scary stories.įor as long as I can remember I’ve been a storyteller. When I went to bed at night, instead of a lullaby, I got a story. ![]() I grew up in a small rural town where our favorite entertainment on summer evenings was to sit outside under the stars and tell stories. ![]()
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6/8/2023 0 Comments The scarlets by madeleine roux![]() ![]() Overall, I think an amazing addition to the story and I'm so glad I read it. In this chilling e-original story set in the world of Madeleine Rouxs New York Times bestselling novel Asylum, which Publishers Weekly called a strong YA. ( But it was helpful to know their history too and know why they were always bickering. Crazy! It was also kind of sad to see Micah and Lara since we know what happens to them in Sanctum. It's cause HE killed him trying to get away and then was immeadiatly brain washed to be one of them. I thought the writing style was just as great as in the other two novels and I really can't wait to read more of Madeleine Roux's work in the future.Īs far as the actual story goes, mind=blown! CAL was the one who killed his father?!!? In Sanctum Micah is always mentioning how Cal was really messed up after his father died, making you think it was like natural causes or something, but NO. ![]() Spoilers- I wasn't sure how I was going to like this because I wasn't a huge fan of Cal in Sanctum, but I ended up loving it! Plus it was super helpful to fill in some gaps and information guesses for The Scarlets' past. But if you have read them, check it out because it is really helpful. ![]() Otherwise you'll be spoiled to a major plot point of Sanctum. ![]() The "Asylum #1.5" is a little misleading DO NOT read this until you have read BOTH Asylum AND Sanctum. 4.5 Stars: Non-spoiler- Such a great addition to this duology. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Pillars of the earth book![]() ![]() In 1989, Ken’s epic novel about the building of a medieval cathedral, The Pillars of the Earth, was published. It remains one of Ken’s most popular books. A World War II thriller set in England, this book earned him the 1979 Edgar Award for Best Novel from the Mystery Writers of America. Ken’s first major success came with the publication of Eye of the Needle in 1978. Subsequently, he worked for a small London publishing house, Everest Books, eventually becoming Deputy Managing Director. He started his career as a reporter, first with his hometown newspaper the South Wales Echo and then with the London Evening News. Over 170 million copies of the 36 books he has written have been sold in over 80 countries and in 33 languages.īorn on June 5th, 1949 in Cardiff, Wales, the son of a tax inspector, Ken was educated at state schools and went on to graduate from University College, London, with an Honours degree in Philosophy – later to be made a Fellow of the College in 1995. Ken Follett is one of the world’s most successful authors. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Stories in skeleton crew![]() ![]() ![]() King is best known for his iconic, immersive long novels, but he is also a master of the short story, and this is a magnificent collection. “Big Wheels: a Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman No. “The Raft”- “Word Processor of the Gods” This “wonderfully gruesome” collection ( The New York Times Book Review) includes: And a desert island is the scene of the most terrifying struggle for survival ever waged. An idyllic lake harbors a bottomless evil. A woman driving a Jaguar finds a scary shortcut to paradise. A trip to the attic becomes a journey to hell. “Wildly imaginative, delightfully diabolical…King once again proves to be the consummate storyteller” (The Associated Press).Ī supermarket becomes the place where humanity makes its last stand against destruction. The #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the 1986 Locus Award for Best Collection, Skeleton Crew is “Stephen King at his best” ( The Denver Post)-a terrifying, mesmerizing collection of stories from the outer limits of one of the greatest imaginations of our time. Todd’s Shortcut”-set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maineįeatures “The Mist” now a TV series event on Spike Includes the stories “Uncle Otto’s Truck” and “Mrs. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Jim bouton seattle pilots![]() A lot of baseball people didn't like Jim Bouton's diary of daily life playing for the new and now defunct Seattle Pilots, the minor league Vancouver Mounties and then the Houston Astros. "Ball Four" became a bestseller, a controversy and ultimately a classic. When the game is over, take a big bow on the mound in Yankee Stadium with 60,000 people cheering wildly, which I think is much like the dream of a lot of young fans. I dream my knuckleball is jumping around like a ping pong ball in the wind, Jim wrote. I'm 30 years old, and I have these dreams is how Jim Bouton opened his 1970 book "Ball Four," which a lot of young fans read under the covers by flashlight, laughing instead of sleeping and learning colorful new language. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments The Dark Half by Stephen King![]() ![]() In the small town of Castle Rock, Maine, where Thad and Liz keep a summer home, Sheriff Alan Pangborn ponders the brutal roadside murder of a man named Homer Gamache. So, with nationwide publicity, a bit of guilt, and a good deal of relief, the pseudonym is retired. He no longer needs George Stark, and in fact has a good reason to lay Stark to rest. But Thad is a healthier and happier man now, the father of infant twins, and starting to write as himself again. He even invented a slightly sinister author biography to satisfy the many fans of Stark's violent bestsellers. Thad Beaumont is a writer, and for a dozen years he secretly published novels under the name of "George Stark" because he was no longer able to write under his own name. When Thad Beaumont wakes to the nightmare of George Stark, he hears birds, thousands of them, all cheeping and twittering at the same time, and with the sound comes a presentiment full of memory and foreboding: The sparrows are flying again. ![]() ![]() In your memoir, Expecting Sunshine, you speak about loss and how you grieve and persevere despite your losses. Critics are calling Above the Star which is the first book in the trilogy, "A Wrinkle in Time Meets Princess Bride" I sat down with Alexis to learn more about her accomplishments, and how she's breaking barriers. The books are apart of an epic fantasy series called the 8th Island trilogy. She is also the author of Above the Star, Below the Moon (coming soon October 15, 2019), and Inside the Sun ( Also coming soon). This novel speaks about her journey with coping with loss and dealing with her grief. ![]() Alexis is the author of the multi-award-winning memoir Expecting Sunshine A Journey of Greif, Healing, A nd Pregnancy After Loss. ![]() Above all, she is a mom and a wonderful human being. For decades I have been told I must choose: “Be a painter or a photographer or a writer." But she has not listened, Alexis is a visual and literary artist as well as an author, documentary filmmaker, curator, public speaker, and teacher. Alexis Marie Chute is breaking the career stigma of women only being able to do one trade. ![]() ![]() ![]() But thanks to Streep’s brilliant performance – her Karen is mischievous, flawed and heroic, flashing her co-workers and risking her life for the sake of justice all in one day – it is nothing of the sort. Given that Streep plays real-life whistleblower Karen Silkwood, who was exposed to a life-threatening dose of nuclear radiation and died in a suspicious car accident at the age of 28, Silkwood could easily have been a grim, even turgid affair. Streep fans will know she’s marvellous at both comedy and singing (check out 1990’s Postcards from Edge and 2006’s A Prairie Home Companion for more of that), but successfully doing the splits in mid-air came as a shock. Streep plays the singing and dancing Donna Sheridan in this Abba-inspired blockbuster, whose Greek hotel plays host to a trio of unexpected arrivals: her former lovers (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgard), one of whom is the secret father of her teenage daughter (Amanda Seyfried). ![]() “We would try to do one take that had some grounding in human experience, and then the sky was the limit.” Streep achieves this, for despite the head-turning antics of her character you can still find something about the female experience to identify with. “This is absolutely through the roof, hyperbolic farce,” Streep has said of the movie. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments J elle wings of ebony![]() ![]() This was a really strong and interesting debut! Rue was a great character to follow. ![]() Rue must embrace her true identity and wield the full magnitude of her ancestors’ power to save her neighborhood before the gods burn it to the ground. Worse still, evidence mounts that the evil plaguing East Row is the same one that lurks in Ghizon-an evil that will stop at nothing until it has stolen everything from her and everyone she loves. And her sister, Tasha, is in danger of falling sway to the very forces that claimed their mother’s life. Miserable and desperate to see her sister on the anniversary of their mother’s death, Rue breaks Ghizon’s sacred Do Not Leave Law and returns to Houston, only to discover that Black kids are being forced into crime and violence. Rue is the only half-god, half-human there, where leaders protect their magical powers at all costs and thrive on human suffering. Rue's taken from her neighborhood by the father she never knew, forced to leave her little sister behind, and whisked away to Ghizon-a hidden island of magic wielders. But when her mother is shot dead on her doorstep, life for her and her younger sister changes forever. ![]() “Make a way out of no way” is just the way of life for Rue. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Earthbound by Aprilynne Pike![]() ![]() Tavia feels torn between the boy who mysteriously comes to her at night and the boy who has been by her side every step of the way. No one, that is, except for her best friend and longtime crush, Benson. Now, Tavia is on the run with no one to trust. But when Tavia discovers that the aunt and uncle who took her in after her parents' death may have actually been responsible for the plane crash that killed them- and that she may have been the true intended victim-she flees for the safety of Camden, Maine, where the boy she sees in her visions instructs her to go. Tavia immediately searches for answers, desperate to determine why she feels so drawn to a boy she hardly knows. When she starts to see strange visions of a boy she’s never spoken with in real life, she begins to suspect that there’s much about her past that she isn’t being told. ![]() Tavia Michaels is the sole survivor of the plane crash that killed her parents. Give it to fans of Beautiful Creatures and Nightshade. Synopsis: #1 New York Times bestselling author Aprilynne Pike has created a heart-stopping romance built on a love triangle like you’ve never seen before and filled with epic stakes and a centuries-long conspiracy. ![]() |