![]() Audible chose Awaken the Darkness as one of the Top 5 Best Paranormal Romances of 2018. ![]() It was also a Barnes and Noble Top 5 Indie Favorite Pick. AudioFile Magazine chose The Segonian (Aldebarian Alliance Book 2) as one of the Best Audiobooks of 2021 and awarded it the AudioFile Earphones Award for Exceptional Audio. She is known for writing stories full of action that keeps readers flipping pages well past their bedtimes, strong heroes who adore strong heroines, lovable secondary characters, swoon-worthy romance, and humor that readers frequently complain makes them laugh out loud at inappropriate moments. ![]() ![]() Dianne Duvall is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of the acclaimed Immortal Guardians series, the exciting new Aldebarian Alliance series, and The Gifted Ones series. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() “It’s giant corporations who have their eye on tiny scraps of land or want right-of-ways through tribal lands,” she says, referring to recent fights over pipeline routes. In the Wall Street Journal, Erdrich stated that she still worries about modern forms of Native American dispossession. She pieced together her grandfather’s letters, history and fiction to create a novel that is compelling and forces us to reckon with our nation’s past, as our current administration continues to strip away the sovereignty and identity of Native Americans. ![]() In the 1950’s he was a tribal leader of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and an organizer and activist in the fight against the termination of nation-to nation treaties by the U.S. After years of creating fictional characters living on fictional reservations to tell important stories, she has tapped into the history of her own grandfather, the titular night watchman. The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich is nothing short of what is to be expected from one of our most prolific and important Native American voices. To quote a writer, we recently highlighted in our newsfeed, Grace Paley, “ Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.” Grace Paley took a lot of time away from writing to be an activist, however, the author of our March Book of the Month has powerfully found a way to do both. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Cruise’ is a short squib, a lampoon consisting entirely of postcards written by a gushing, silly, posh young lady on a cruise round the Med, an idea recycled from one of his travel books. ![]() Thus ‘Incident in Azania’ is set in the fictional country created for the novel Black Mischief and feels very much like an anecdote which could have been included in that novel but was cut as surplus to requirements. Not only that, but when you look more closely, you realise that a number of the stories are offcuts of the novels and so closely linked as to be barely standalone narratives. Spin-offs from novels or no short stories at all But the fact remains that in a writing career of 40 years he only published 26 short stories. And for real aficionados and completists it’s good to have everything in one volume like this. All the editions include the juvenilia written at school, and the half dozen stories written at Oxford, to bulk up the books. What all the editions tend to highlight is that Evelyn Waugh did not, in fact, write many short stories. I read the Penguin one but the Everyman edition (which includes a few more stories than the Penguin) is the one that’s available online. There are several editions of his collected short stories, notable the Everyman one and the Penguin one. ![]() During that period he published some 26 short stories. Waugh was a professional writer from the year he published his first short story in 1926 till his death in 1966. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Ron Howard directed holiday flick made some exciting additions to the storyline, making it a must-watch affair for fans of all ages. How The Grinch Stole Christmas is based on the infamous children’s book telling the story of a mean old Grinch who attempts to steal Christmas from the pleasant village near him by taking all of their gifts and decorations while they sleep on Christmas Eve. Seuss tale How the Grinch Stole Christmasoccupies a space with its merry movie collection, there is either a gift of good news or coal of disappointment about to come their way. Luckily for those out there, every corner of Netflix has been explored with every Christmas movie on the roster accounted for, and for subscribers looking to see if the live-action adaptation of the classic Dr. Finding the right thing to watch to get into the yuletide spirit can be a less than ideal task with all the options available. It’s that time of year again where people are scrambling to find the right gifts for everyone and make sure their festive experience this year eclipses all the rest. Rivera 2 years ago Where to watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas ![]() ![]() Additionally, there was moderate strength of evidence that mindfulness meditation interventions significantly improved sleep quality compared with nonspecific active controls at postintervention (ES 0.33 (95% CI 0.17-0.48)) and at follow-up (ES 0.54 (95% CI 0.24-0.84)). At posttreatment and follow-up, there was low strength of evidence that mindfulness meditation interventions had no effect on sleep quality compared with specific active controls (ES 0.03 (95% CI -0.43 to 0.49)) and (ES -0.14 (95% CI -0.62 to 0.34)), respectively. We determined the strength of evidence using four domains (risk of bias, directness of outcome measures, consistency of results, and precision of results). From 3303 total records, 18 trials with 1654 participants were included. ![]() ![]() To assess for relative efficacy, comparator groups were restricted to specific active controls (such as evidenced-based sleep treatments) and nonspecific active controls (such as time/attention-matched interventions to control for placebo effects), which were analyzed separately. ![]() ![]() Our study sought to evaluate the effect of mindfulness meditation interventions on sleep quality. There is a growing interest in the effectiveness of mindfulness meditation for sleep disturbed populations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As she’s escaping these enraged religious men with an extreme lack of originality in fashion, her mother’s dying wish is for her to take a big sword to Merlin. That is, just not as much as Nimue can, as a special druid child.Īnyway, Nimue, as a Fey and a supposed witch, ultimately ends up in the crossfire when this angry mob of priests who call themselves the Red Paladins decide they should casually commit genocide and eradicate their people to ‘cleanse the earth for God’. ![]() Nothing is ever really explained about what the Hidden is, but it seems like these are the sources of power and ‘other’ that the Fey people can access compared to normal humans. Ever since, Nimue has had these strong powers where she can use the ‘Hidden’. In this instance, Nimue is a young girl perpetrated as a witch in her own village of Fey people (who are also called Druids) because of an accident where a demon bear hurt her as a young girl. For those who don’t know much about the Lady of the Lake or Nimue, she’s portrayed differently in many stories of the legend but in most, she is an ally to Merlin and helps Arthur take the throne as the one true king. From the beginning, I was excited to get through this story because the Lady of the Lake has always intrigued me. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Amy Liptrot has lived her life on the edge of things, both literally and metaphorically. Wherever she journeys next, you will want to go with her" ( New Statesman) Liptrot is an Orcadian warrior with the breeze in her blood and poetry in her fingers, and The Outrun may even be a future classic. " The Outrun will no doubt sit alongside Richard Mabey's Nature Cure and Helen Macdonald's H Is for Hawk - the sheer sensuality of Liptrot's prose and her steely resolve immediately put her right up there with the best of the best. one of the most scabrously honest, sassy and moving books about addiction and recovery that I have read" ( Scotsman) Anyone who has ever been unhappy or unwise will find much that resonates in this powerful, beautiful writing" (CATHY RENTZENBRINK Stylist) I enjoyed this book enormously" (WILL SELF Guardian) It's Liptrot's aptitude for marrying her inner-space with wild outer-spaces that makes her such a compelling writer. ![]() ![]() This is an aspect of the trenches on the Western Front that every soldier’s memoir talks about. One of the things that’s important and generally forgotten in terms of soldiers’ and civilians’ experience of World War I is that there probably had been no other time in history when human beings had been exposed to such a large number of dead bodies for extended periods of time. How, to your mind, did the horror genre emerge from World War I? ![]() What I’m trying to do is think about the origins of horror, and not just as popular entertainment, but really as a way to see the world. Including, depressingly, our own mortality. One of the things that runs through my work is the idea that, while monsters are entertaining-and while horror films themselves are commodities, made to make money, made to give us thrills-they’re also a way that we can, at least in an oblique way, think about issues of both violence and death. How does your new book fit in with your earlier research? ![]() You’ve written titles on monsters, Lovecraft, and Vampira, a cult horror figure from the 1950s. ![]() ![]() And now that we’ve gotten all the sort of facts out of the way, let’s dive into the actual reviews! Celebrating Queer Love: Covers of Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales, Something Wild and Wonderful by Anita Kelly, and The Fiancée Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur Never Ever Getting Back Together And then finally, The Fiancée Farceby Alexandria Bellefleur came out like two weeks ago and I read my finished copy that I pre-ordered from Barnes & Noble despite having the e-ARC. I again got both an e and audio ARC from Netgalley so thank you so much to them for that. It came out in March and is an adult romance. It came out last Fall and I was lucky enough to get both an e and audio ARC copy so my profuse apologies for being so delayed in getting this review to you, but the tl dr is that I loved it! Then we have Something Wild & Wonderful by Anita Kelly and this book was really, really phenomenal. ![]() Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales is technically a YA contemporary romance, but it reads like a New Adult or even adult just minus explicit sex scenes. ![]() What a truly fantastic set of ARCs that I have finally at long last read!! I cannot wait to actually dive into these three books, but let me give you the quick and dirty facts on them real quick. ![]() ![]() It impresses me how much work likely went into creating this book. ![]() This book clears up some of the many lies “journalist” Rita Skeeter claims in her biography Man or Monster? The Truth about Newt Scamander the definition of beast a brief history of muggle awareness of these creatures and ministry classifications before diving into a listing of creatures themselves. Scamander was permitted to re-issue the book only as long as he put in a disclaimer in telling Muggle readers the book was a work of fiction. In a foreword by Scamander, the author tells us that in 2001, a reprint of the textbook was made available to Muggle readers to raise money for Comic Relief, a well-respected charity. ![]() This book – green and gold with a dragon/serpent on the front – is the wizard’s version of this book. I am a huge Harry Potter fan and I can’t seem to get enough of Harry Potter’s world. ![]() I was super excited when I read on the Raincoast Books website that there was going to be a re-release of Newt Scamander’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them ( JK Rowling, $26.99, Raincoast Books, Bloomsbury). ![]() |