![]() Sarah used to be the kid that would always be found walking home with her nose in a novel though she never thought she could ever write one. While she loved reading, she is not one of the classic authors that always dreamed of becoming an author as a child or in her teenage years. She also read a ton of novel along the way that she believes were a huge influence on her later career as an author. Laura Ingalls Wilder’s novel “The Long Winter” is probably what resulted in her obsession with prepping. ![]() She also loves hiding from large groups of people, making artsy stuff and sarcasm.įleming has always joked that she got into post apocalyptic fiction when she got a copy of Malevil from her father as a nine year old. Nonetheless, she does not live in a bunker or have a year’s worth of food in her garage. Lyons also loves to all things to do with water filters, camping gizmo and hunting knives. She likes to refer to herself as a wannabe prepper, which means she is obsessed with storing supplies and food. Along the way, she has had two kids and brought a hamster and two cats into her family. ![]() ![]() The author was born and brought up in Brooklyn but has lived for more than ten years in Oregon. Sarah Lyons Fleming is an apocalyptic horror novelist that is best known as the author of “Until the End of the World” and “City” series of novels. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() With chapters from the past interspersed throughout the novel, Williams juxtaposes Shane and Eva as reined-in adults with their terrifyingly out-of-control teen selves. Now Shane has been clean for two years and Eva’s finally found a doctor who properly medicates her chronic, debilitating migraines. As seniors in high school, Shane and Eva shared one week of passionate connection they revealed to each other their raw pain and the extreme coping mechanisms (addiction, cutting) they used to survive. ![]() ![]() At a Brooklyn literary panel, she has a surprising public reunion with Shane Hall, the reclusive, award-winning author of four books of literary fiction. She can’t afford to give up the series, which keeps her and her 12-year-old daughter, Audre, financially afloat, so her dream of researching and writing the stories of the Louisiana Creole women who are her ancestors is permanently on hold. Two writers reunite 15 years after an intense, weeklong affair changed both of their lives.Įva Mercy is the successful author of a long-running erotica series with a devoted fan base, but as the deadline for the 15th book approaches, she has to admit she’s run out of ideas. ![]() ![]() Part of the collection's appeal is its range and depth: at 600 pages, it offers gems and new discoveries at every turn. Pulitzer Prize winner Eugenides ( Middlesex) has assembled something quite extraordinary here: a fascinating, consistently compelling, and superbly edited collection of short stories about romantic love. Though every reader will grouse about overlooked favorites.Eugenides has chosen splendid work. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name". Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. The happy marriage, the requited love, the desire that never dims-these are lucky eventualities but they aren't love stories. A love story can never be about full possession. But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. ![]() ![]() When it comes to love," writes Jeffrey Eugenides in this wonderful, if upsetting, collection of stories, "there are a million theories to explain it. ![]() ![]() Jude is a successful model and pretty much all-around great guy. ![]() It’s refreshing, delightful and – had it been released earlier in the year – would easily have made my Best of 2017 list. I gobbled it up – giggling and sighing – and I can only hope more readers find this terrific book. There’s a significant age gap, a child (gasp! usually a big no-no for this romance reader) and a nice slow burn build up to a passionate and intense affair. Deal Maker is a charming, funny, romantic and just plain lovely story featuring two men unlucky in love who go-big and love hard nonetheless. Morton’s previous books, but OMG, I loved this one. You know that marvelous feeling you get when you connect with a novel on every level the characters, the setting, the dialogue.? Well, that’s how I feel about Deal Maker. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since its release in Japan last year, Suzume has earned the designation of becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of all time in Japan and globally it also garnered especially attention at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, as it was the first Japanese animated film to play in competition in two decades. The film follows a 17-year-old girl named Suzume ( Nanoka Hara)who joins forces with a young man named Sōta ( Hokuto Matsumura) to track down and close a series of mysterious and supernatural portals that have the potential, once opened, to release devastating natural disasters all over Japan. Following the recent success of his domestic, international, and record-breaking hits Your Name and Weathering With You comes his latest light romance adventure film Suzume. ![]() Writer-director Makoto Shinkai continues to reap the rewards of building his ecological cinematic universe. SPOILER ALERT: This interview includes details about Crunchyroll’s Suzume. ![]() ![]() ![]() One night, when sixteen year old Summer goes out with her friends for a night full of fun and promises of a good time that turns into a horrible nightmare that Summer will remember for the rest of her life. It was one of those books that messed with my head (and made me not want to go out by myself at night), and while I was happy (for the most part) with the way things wrapped up at the end, it kind of left me wanting more at the same time. It was a good book – definitely a psychological thriller that lives up to its description. I heard plenty of mixed reviews about it, which caused me to put off reading it longer than I should have, but when my mom offered me her copy to read, I decided to give it a go. I’ve heard about this book a long time ago, and it’s been on my list to read for just as long. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Says Joni Gruelle, granddaughter and namesake of Johnny Gruelle, “My grandfather was such a special man and I think he would be just so pleased and so happy that his little Raggedy Ann & Andy are still loved after so many, many years. In the popular books, kindly Raggedy Ann comes to life when humans aren’t looking and embarks on adventures with her brave brother Raggedy Andy. Gruelle created Andy in 1920 to appeal to boys and girls and to bring a central male character into the Raggedy storyline. As of today they will forever be enshrined together in the hall, exactly where they need to be.”Ĭreated by illustrator and author Johnny Gruelle as a rag doll for his daughter Marcella, Raggedy Ann was officially “born” in 1915 and became a children’s book character in 1918. Two additional toys-the Atari® 2600 game system and the kite-were also admitted into the hall, bringing the total number of current toy inductees to 38.Ĭhristopher Bensch, Vice President for Collections at Strong, says the hall was remiss in separating the rag doll duo: “Some things were just meant to be together-macaroni and cheese fireworks and the Fourth of July and, of course, Raggedy Ann & Andy. (Big sister Raggedy Ann was inducted into the hall in 2002). Raggedy Andy’s™ little broken heart was mended today when, after five long years, he was finally reunited with his famous sister Raggedy Ann™ in the National Toy Hall of Fame® at Strong National Museum of Play® in Rochester, New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This comes as a surprise, and because she is a little terrified, she ends up messing her lines. However, when the actress supposed to play Titania in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s pulls out, Kelly is chosen for the role. While she is passionate about the arts, she doesn’t see herself getting a major role soon, at least not until she has learnt the ropes in her new home. ![]() Kelly has just moved to New York for her acting career. The book stars Kelley Winslow, a seventeen-year-old actress with big dreams. Wondrous Strange comes first in the Wondrous Strange series. ![]() Livingston lives in Toronto by her works keeps her travelling throughout Canada. The Canadian author enjoys performing for high school students across the country whenever she is not writing. Her target audience is mostly young adults, but she has co-authored some children’s series with Jonathan Llyr. She is also a principal performer and the founder of Tempest Theatre Group that brings Shakespeare’s classics to life. The talented author-cum-actor holds a University of Toronto English master’s degree. Lesley Livingston is an award-winning fiction writer who is as comfortable with the written word as she is with theatre. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’ll be their first cosmic comic together since the end of their run, and it’ll also probably be the first Marvel Cinematic U tie-in comic to be widely bought by fanboys. The book will introduce Nebula (played by “Phonogram” author Karen Gillan), who had a brief role in “Annihilation” but never any greater appearance during their run. In addition to that, Abnett and Lanning will be teaming up with artist Wellinton Alves to illustrate a prelude to the Guardians film, which is arguably more exciting. Abnett and Lanning will write two back-up stories to the issue illustrated by an unannounced artist, and the issue will also feature the first appearances of Captain Marvel and Venom on the team. ![]() As revealed in the solicitation from Marvel released today, Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning are coming back to cosmic comics.Ībnett and Lanning, who wrote the Cosmic Marvel Universe for a few years and essentially gave birth to the modern iteration of the Cosmic Marvel U, will be hopping on with Brian Bendis for “Guardians” #14, the 101st issue of the series (without all the relaunches) that is being subbed in as the 100th due to the X-Men crossover. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Given that some kids do dwell on them, this story has a tone which is ‘safe’ compared with the bizarre exorcist stuff that the cinema churns out and if a kid has an obsession he could do worse than read this story which keeps a due sense of proportion. ![]() Amusing story, perceptive remarks about family relationships and a good reminder that ‘there are more things in heaven and earth…’ I am unhappy with the idea that ghosts are solely the products of internal, mental disturbances, of psychic emanations from a person, usually an adolescent, and it is good to visualise these forces as external in order to be objective but I am not sure whether I want children to dwell on them. The boy of the house gets into trouble for all the mischief and he discovers details about a previous appearance of the same ghost from rubbish turned out from the attic and, after failed exorcisms, the ghost is finally laid to rest. An old house if haunted by a poltergeist. ![]() |