![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They quite approve of the blossoming romance, apart from Hoppy. And no, Avril doesn’t, as the cover blurb indicates, have to stand up to her family. It takes a little longer for the families to bury the hatchet(literally in the grandfathers’ case). It takes only about a week for the girl and boy to declare their love for each other - probably lucky they met, because there’s no local school where they can meet other teenagers they study by correspondence. the grandfathers don’t agree, of course, and work hard to stop the reconciliation.Īs a teen romance, this sort of succeeds. Their wives know, but they’ve continued their own friendship.īut a chance encounter with the Carringtons’ gorgeous teenage son, Nathaniel, and a late-night rescue on the road after a local agricultural show, begins to bring the families back together. Actually, the feud is between the two grandfathers, Hoppy and Les, and they’re not sharing their reasons for the quarrel with their children or grandchildren, who are expected to go along with it. ![]() She loves her life, although her family has had a feud going with their neighbours, the Carringtons, for about half a century. Avril lives with her farming family in rural Victoria, Australia. ![]()
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The Black Company series by Glen Cook is one of those series, and I apologize for taking so long to get to these wonderful books. ![]() Every now and again I get to read a book or series of books that have not been touched by other reviewers on the site, but really should have been. ![]() ![]() ![]() The mundane worlds of schools and sleepy sea-side towns are invaded and transformed, creating a landscape which is constantly shifting to hold on to its inhabitants. Teenagers develop ungodly appetites, a city becomes insomniac overnight, and bodies are diligently picked apart to make up better ones. In her brilliantly inventive and haunting debut collection of stories, Julia Armfield explores bodies and the bodily, mapping the skin and bones of her characters through their experiences of isolation, obsession, love and revenge. 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In The Selfish Gene, Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins argues that it is not species or groups that compete and vie for survival, nor even individual members of the species, but genes themselves. As one of the fundamental patterns of nature, I decided to pick one of the best books written on the subject. ![]() If you would like to stream audio on your browser, click here listen on SoundcloudĮvolution by natural selection is a topic that many people either champion or dismiss, but far fewer really understand. ![]() ![]() ![]() This month we read The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Particularly noteworthy has been his striking integration of formal innovationĪnd thematic concerns, and his presentation of vividly imagined characters and Novelistic and short story forms, Wolfe's work is remarkably diverse. SF, fantasy, and unclassifiable fictions. Today it is clear that Gene Wolfe has already produced a major body of SF, quasi Moral, social, and epistemological issues are central features of all Wolfe's ![]() ![]() Ingenious reworkings of familiar SF motifs, and its exploration of complex Narrative voices and of an intricate web of symbolism and literary allusion, its Prismatic manner of exposition, its sure control of a variety of imaginative Displaying a blend of intellectual and aesthetic sophistication,Īn eloquent and poetic prose style, and masterful storytelling instincts,Ĭerberus established Wolfe as an eccentric but important new figure in SF. The Fifth Head of Cerberus in 1972 abruptly signaled an end to Wolfe's literaryĪpprenticeship. Undistinguished first novel Operation Ares, came out in 1970. 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Placing all her hope in a new government program, she seizes the opportunity that offers a chance for the women of Earth to find love among the stars, on a world beyond the one they know. Would you take a chance and leave the only world you knew behind? What would you do if Earth didn't have enough men? Read online or Download Torkel's Chosen by Michelle HowardĮpub electronic book Torkel's Chosen by Michelle Howard for iphone, ipad txt format version, file with page numbers Torkel's Chosen by Michelle Howard Kindle Edition with Audio Multimedia CD Video Hardcover New or used, cheap Audiobook pric There's also other available format to download: PDF Kindle ePub Mobi Daisy ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To summarize my mixed feelings about this book, The Obelisk Gate is majorly inflicted with the infamous second book syndrome. I am severely disappointed with it and as usual, I will always be honest with my ratings and reviews regardless of the majority’s opinions, so here it is. Believe me when I say that I truly wish I could love this book the same way but I just can’t. It’s a work of a genius and I gave it 4.5 stars. At the time of posting this review, out of 12470 ratings, less than 200 readers rated this book below 3 stars, I am one of them. This is probably the most unpopular opinion I ever wrote so far. Sadly, it’s not a happy coincidence because I highly disagree with it. The Obelisk Gate just won the Hugo Award 2017 for Best Novel of the year category, and coincidentally, I finished reading the book on the same day the result of the award was announced. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you’ve read any of these books, click the image to join the spoiler discussion! If you have anything to add to any of these summaries, I’d love to see your comments. I still think they’re useful, though, so that’s why we’re here: I’ve created this landing page for all of my ten-second spoilers! ![]() I won’t ever have the time to go back and write full-length summaries or reviews for these books. Bookstagram became my main priority, but I still love posting spoilers here.įor some of these books I read pre-blog, all I have are two-sentence summaries to jog my own memory. I made a Bookstagram to promote my blog, but quickly fell in love with that community. To me, there seemed to be enough of a gap that I could start my own blog of spoilers to help people like me! I found a couple of sites that spoil the endings (shouting out my new friend Jen Ryland here!), but couldn’t find everything I was looking for. ![]() When I didn’t write down the ending right away, I would try googling it to add it to my list. Often the synopsis alone isn’t enough to jog my memory! I especially needed these spoilers for books in a series, when it had been a while since I read the previous novel. I started jotting down endings because I found myself re-reading books I had already read, knowing I’d read it before but unable to recall the ending. Before I started blogging and Bookstagram, I was writing down the endings to books in my bullet journal as I finished them. ![]() |