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![]() Their relationship was cute, but it wasn't the real focus of this story.Overall, this wasn't a terribly deep book but it was utterly charming. It was nice that the budding relationship between Norah and Luke wasn't used as the vehicle to bring about magic change. Norah's Mum deserved an award for perfect parenting skills and the therapist came across as one of a kind as well. Louise Gornall has a great way with words making Norah come across as very witty and intelligent. The depiction of what it's like to live with mental health issues felt honest and real.Being in Norah's head and trying to follow her thought processes and her fears was quite alarming at times. It was obvious that the author knew what she was writing about. But one day she meets Luke, the boy who just moved in next door.I really enjoyed this. ![]() Her contact with other people is limited to her mother, her therapist, and regular snooping on social media. Norah has been confined to her house for several years. ![]() A heartwarming young adult book written from the perspective of a teenage girl who is living with agoraphobia, anxiety, and OCD and uses self-harm to cope. ![]() ![]() The story was about challenging the notion of romantic-comedies or romantic movies in general. I'm changing my rating to a 5 stars simply because as soon as I woke up this morning, my first thoughts were of this book! I am in love! Please.i just want a cute ease reading gods let me have this ![]() happy fun workplace scenes!! which I am always a sucker for.īasically, this book is such a revolutionarily good contemporary I might have to come back and five star it.īottom line: ?!?!?!?!?!?!?! More please. and a romance that is secondary to the happily ever after, too a romantic plotline that is secondary to the other aspects of our girl's life a group of female friends who might seem shallow but are anything but ![]() a female character who isn't nice to our female protagonist.without veering into girl hate and a bunch of satisfying scenes in which that heroine screams and/or gets hers ![]() a powerful, badass, damaged heroine who heals herself a screaming rant against the line "not like other girls" a takedown of the bit in The Fault in Our Stars when the characters' steamy makeout happens in the Anne Frank House Holly Bourne, where have you been all my life?Ī short, by no means definitive list of just some of the literally innumerable awesome things this book contains: ![]() ![]() ![]() What is it about that particular time period and place that fascinates you?įolks tend to consider America as settled and civilized by that time, but much of the Southwest was still divided into territories rather than states, and the lack of transportation infrastructure coupled with the rugged landscape served to essentially cut these people off from the rest of the country. Your novel, All Things Left Wild, is set during the turn of the 20th century in the American southwest. All Things Left Wild is forthcoming from Blackstone Publishing. Set during the turn of the 20th century, when a botched robbery leaves a young boy dead and sets two men on conflicting journeys across untamed landscape- All Things Left Wild is a coming of age for one, a mid-life odyssey for the other, and an illustration of the violence and corruption prevalent in our fast-expanding country. James Wade is a seasoned journalist, editor and the author of the novel All Things Left Wild. ![]() ![]() Instead, Cha decides to interweave her four narratives somewhat haphazardly into something that only resembles a plot. It would take a critic far more skilled than myself to glean something resembling a plot from If I Had Your Face. However, all the novel seems to have is its characters. Depending on how you read this novel it could either be a horrifying insight into contemporary Korean society or, and this was how I read it, a gloriously camp celebration of the excesses of a deranged society – Jackie Collins meets Margaret Atwood. Women in Seoul can choose to have their faces sculpted to look like someone else’s. ![]() It is a city where beauty rules and young women regularly undergo surgery to look like their idols. The novel is set in modern-day Seoul – a hyperreal dystopia of plastic surgery, call girls and a strict social hierarchy. When you begin reading If I Had Your Face it isn’t difficult to see why it comes garlanded with praise on high from the literati. No single object can handle this amount of raw buzz. ![]() Who thought it was a good idea to have über-zeitgeisty names like Taylor Jenkins Reid, Helen Oyeyemi and Jia Tolentino plastered on the cover of a book like this? It’s reckless. I just can’t sleep with the frantic buzz coming off it. I’ve taken to keeping my copy of Frances Cha’s If I Had Your Face in my sock drawer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Word in port is that the Spanish treasure galleon El Trinidad, fresh from New Spain, is stalled in nearby Matanceros harbor awaiting repairs. And law in the New World is made by those who take it into their hands. In the name of His Majesty King Charles II of England, gold in Spanish hands is gold for the taking. ![]() ![]() But for Captain Charles Hunter it is a life that can also lead to riches, if he abides by the island′s code. Port Royal, Jamaica′s capital, a cut-throat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses, is devoid of London′s luxuries life here can end swiftly with dysentery or a dagger in your back. Jamaica in 1665 is a rough outpost of the English crown, a minor colony holding out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. 2009 "First Edition" stated on copyright page Harper Collins Publishers, New York hardbound very good condition with unmarked pages dust jacket very good. ![]() ![]() ![]() Into the story gallops Jodie O’Rodeo, once-popular cowgirl star of the The Jodie O’Rodeo Showdeo. Only Lenny knows the truth, but he’s on the run because Casper has framed him as the bank robber. ![]() Then the not-too-obviously named Fako Mustacho uses his new-found wealth to purchase a novelty company, get himself elected governor, and set his sights on the White House. Soon after, the bank in their town of Hairsprinkle is robbed by a “short, well-dressed man-about-town sporting a spectacular handlebar mustache.” Hmm. The Heidelberg Handlebar #7 is not just any run-of-the-mill fake mustache - it’s unique, made from a real mustache, and with the power to make a 7th-grade boy who wears it seem like a man-about-town - or a governor - or maybe the President of the United States! So when Lenny Flem, Jr, loans his best friend Casper Bengue ten dollars so he’ll have enough to get the Heidelberg Handlebar #7 - watch out! Presidential Election from a Mad Genius Criminal Mastermind Subtitle: Or, How Jodie O’Rodeo and Her Wonder Horse (and Some Nerdy Kid) Saved the U.S. (See my review here.) Not content to simply build on the popularity of all things Stars Wars, Angleberger has now given us (drum roll, please):įake Mustache, by Tom Angleberger (lexile: 710 AR book level: 4.6 202 pp) Tom Angleberger has written several wacky and fun books for kids, but he’s recently burst into prominence with The Strange Case of Origami Yoda and its sequels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the men, Lewis, shoots an elk who happens to be pregnant, which is rare for that time of year. They ignore the warning and find a huge herd of elk, shooting a few to bring home for meat. And honestly, if I can’t enjoy a little horror in the summer of a pandemic, when can I?įour friends live on a reserve and go hunting in a zone forbidden to them as it is set aside for elders only. ![]() These books are hard to find (at least as a Canadian, they seem be hard to find), and other than Louise Erdrich, I’m having trouble thinking of other Native American writers (please recommend some in the comments!) It was this curiosity that led me to pick up The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones, a horror book that’s landed on all the ‘must read of summer 2020’ lists. Ever since reading There, There by Tommy Orange a few years ago, I’ve been eager to buy more books about the American Aboriginal experience. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Demons are now dogging their every step, and it is becoming harder to tell friend from foe. ![]() Now Magnus and Alec must race across Europe to track down the Crimson Hand before the cult can cause any more damage. A cult that was apparently founded by Magnus himself. But as soon as the pair settles in Paris, an old friend arrives with news about a demon-worshipping cult called the Crimson Hand that is bent on causing chaos around the world. The Red Scrolls of Magic is a Shadowhunters novel.Īll Magnus Bane wanted was a vacation-a lavish trip across Europe with Alec Lightwood, the Shadowhunter who against all odds is finally his boyfriend. “ swashbuckling launch to the Eldest Curses series.” - Publishers Weeklyįrom #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller Cassandra Clare and award-winner Wesley Chu comes the first book in a new series full of “swoon-worthy romance abundant action” ( Publishers Weekly). “A rip-roaring adventure merged with satisfying romance.” - Entertainment Weekly ![]() ![]() Mutiny means a combination between two or more persons subject to service law, or between persons two at least of whom are subject to service law. Today the Army Act 1955 defines mutiny as follows: This, in turn, was replaced by the Army Act in 1881. The Mutiny Act, altered in 1803, and the Articles of War defined the nature and punishment of mutiny, until the latter were replaced by the Army Discipline and Regulation Act in 1879. In 1689, the first Mutiny Act was passed, passing the responsibility to enforce discipline within the military to Parliament. Until 1689, mutiny was regulated in the United Kingdom by Articles of War, instituted by the monarch and effective only in a period of war. ![]() Mutiny is typically thought of only in a shipboard context, but many countries' laws make no such distinction, and there have been many notable mutinies on land. ![]() ![]() Most countries still punish mutiny with particularly harsh penalties, sometimes even the death penalty. ![]() |