7/8/2023 0 Comments The guest list lisa foley![]() ![]() Jess arrives to stay with her brother Ben and finds him missing - from various clues in his apartment and from the suspicious behaviour of the other residents in the building she begins to suspect something deeply unpleasant has happened to him…Ī little about me: I always knew I wanted to work with books somehow, so I studied English at university before working in a bookshop, a literary agency and then as a fiction editor at a big publishing house, during which time I realised that every book starts off as a messy first draft full of plot holes and mistakes. I’m the No.1 Sunday Times and New York Tikes bestselling author of The Hunting Party, The Guest List and most recently The Paris Apartment, a murder mystery set in a beautiful but eerie apartment block in Paris. Hello and welcome to my author page! Whether you’ve read my books before, are thinking of trying one out or just landed here by chance (or fate…?) it’s great to see you! ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments Author the remains of the day![]() Farraday has recently bought Darlington Hall near Oxford from the descendants of the last noble-born owner and has asked Stevens - a fixture there for nearly four decades - to relax a bit before implementing a much-reduced staff Oxfordshire to the West Country that he is taking alone at the insistence of his new employer, a genial American, Mr. Cartoonishly punctilious and reserved, he edges slowly into an account of a brief motoring holiday from Though, its narrator, an elderly English butler named Stevens, seems the least forthcoming (let alone enchanting) of companions. ![]() Kazuo Ishiguro's third novel, ''The Remains of the Day,'' is a dream of a book: a beguiling comedy of manners that evolves almost magically into a profound and heart-rending study of personality, class and culture. THE REMAINS OF THE DAY By Kazuo Ishiguro. ![]() Section 7, Column 1 Book Review Deskīy LAWRENCE GRAVER Lawrence Graver teaches English at Williams College and is the author of a study of ''Waiting for Godot.'' October 8, 1989, Sunday, Late Edition - Final ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Freshwater emezi![]() ![]() ![]() But it’s also a story of survival and strength and of coming to terms with what it means to survive. It is not an easy experience it’s a story of trauma and violence and heartbreak. ![]() Freshwater embeds you deep into Ada’s mind, demanding that you feel what this young woman feels, that you see the world the way she does. ![]() But then something vivid and clear happens - Asughara turns the tables on another domineering man with her unbridled sexuality, say - and Emezi’s prose calls the reader to attention. In 2018, they were chosen as one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35. In those parts of the book, the reader is left floating in a sea of language which sounds pretty, but which doesn’t seem to be actively describing anything. Akwaeke Emezi is the author of the memoir Dear Senthuran and the novels The Death of Vivek Oji, Freshwater, Pet, Bitter and the forthcoming You Made a Fool of Death with your Beauty. Some scenes lack a sense of place or a narrative thrust. Freshwater at times feels a little too unmoored from reality. What is reading, but inviting another voice to take up residence in your head? Emezi’s voice is hypnotic and powerful and imaginative, leaving the reader unsure of what in the story is real and what is not. The following is from Akwaeke Emezis debut novel, Freshwater. These voices in Freshwater - the chorus of personalities - should feel familiar to anyone who spends a lot of time lost in books. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Role Model by Rachel Reid![]() ![]() Harris Drover can tell standoffish Troy isn’t happy about the trade-anyone could tell, frankly, as he doesn’t exactly hide it well-but Harris doesn’t give up on people easily. ![]() He doesn’t want to be in the news anymore, and he definitely doesn’t want to “work on his online presence” with the team’s peppy social media manager. Traded to the worst team in the league would be bad enough, but coming on the heels of a messy breakup and a recent scandal… Troy just wants to play hockey and be left alone. ![]() The hits just keep coming for Troy Barrett. The highly anticipated fifth novel in USA TODAY bestselling author Rachel Reid’s Game Changers series sees a grumpy professional hockey player meet his match in an out-and-proud social media manager… "Rachel Reid crafted a story of true heart, beauty, heat, and glorious, hard-won redemption! I loved both heroes and their journey to love was a gorgeous one to watch!" -Lauren Blakely, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Scoring With Him ![]() ![]() ![]() One of Myers high school teachers sensed that he would not graduate but knew that he was a gifted reader and writer, and encouraged him to continue writing no matter what he did or where he went. Although he was an avid reader, Myers struggled both socially and academically, in part due to a speech impediment which made him a frequent target for bullies, which in turn earned Myers a reputation for frequently getting into fistfights. His childhood was dominated by his church and his local neighborhood. Myers eventually changed his middle name from Milton to Dean to honor their parentage. When his mother died when he was two years old, Myers went to live with Florence Dean, his biological father’s first wife, and her husband Herbert Dean, who raised him in Harlem, New York City. ![]() Walter Dean Myers was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in 1937. ![]() ![]() ![]() Journalist Emma Goldberg first covered their story for New York Times. Taking the Hippocratic Oath via Zoom, these new doctors were sent into iconic New York hospitals including Bellevue and Montefiore, the epicenters of the epicenter. Only a week later, these young physicians learned that they would be sent to the front lines of the desperate battle to save lives as the coronavirus plunged the city into crisis. In March 2020, soon-to-graduate medical students in New York City were nervously awaiting "match day? when they would learn where they would begin their residencies. ![]() The gripping account of six young doctors enlisted to fight COVID-19, an engrossing, eye-opening book in the tradition of both Sheri Fink's Five Days at Memorial and Scott Turow's One L. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Frankenstein junji ito review![]() ![]() Using Mary Shelley’s monumental gothic horror story on science gone wrong and men playing at god, Ito finds a way to extend his exploration on humanity’s monstrosity by making it clear that any creation born out of human curiosity can only result in misshapen monsters. With Frankenstein, Ito takes the introspective element of human horror and applies it to creativity. People become spiral shapes themselves, offering their bodies as proof of humanity’s inner monstrosity. In Uzumaki, he turns an obsession to spiral shapes into a metaphor on how people twist, turn, and contort to fit their strangest desires into their daily routines. Junji Ito’s original body of work often turns its human characters inside out to show how monstrous we truly are. Touch-up Artist and Letterer: James Dashiell ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Robert jordan book 6![]() And in Shadar Logoth, city of darkness, a terrible power awakens. ![]() ![]() In the town of Salidar, Egwene al'Vere gathers an army to reclaim Tar Valon and reunite the Aes Sedai. In the city of Ebou Dar, Elayne, Aviendha and Mat struggle to secure the ter'angreal that can break the Dark One's hold on the world's weather - and an ancient bane moves to oppose them. Attacked by the servants of the Dark, threatened by the invading Seanchan, Rand rallies his forces and brings battle to bear upon Illian, stronghold of Sammael the Forsaken. Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, has escaped the snares of the White Tower and the first of the rebel Aes Sedai have sworn to follow him. The war for humanity's survival has begun. ![]() And as the realms of men fall into chaos the immortal Forsaken and the servants of the Dark plan their assault on the Dragon Reborn. In the White Tower the Amyrlin Elaida sets a snare to trap the Dragon, whilst the rebel Aes Sedai scheme to bring her down. ![]() But there are other powers that seek to command the war against the Dark One. Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, strives to bind the nations of the world to his will, to forge the alliances that will fight the advance of the Shadow and to ready the forces of Light for the Last Battle. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Pride zoboi![]() In the forming process, the base material flows around each individual shape, creating small variations in their layout. ![]() This year’s design integrates a joyful rainbow of geometric shapes on a white base, which are compression-molded into the final band. Inspired by the strength and beauty of the LGBTQ+ community, the new Sport Band design showcases the original pride flag rainbow colors and five others - black and brown symbolize Black and Latin communities, in addition to those who have passed away from or are living with HIV/AIDS, while light blue, pink, and white represent transgender and nonbinary individuals. Additional advocacy organizations Apple supports include Encircle, Equality North Carolina, Equality Texas, Gender Spectrum, Human Rights Campaign, ILGA World, the National Center for Transgender Equality, PFLAG, SMYAL, and The Trevor Project. Through these efforts, Apple supports and brings awareness to LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations that are working to bring about positive change, including Equality Federation Institute, an advocacy accelerator that is building a network of state-based LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations in the U.S., and GLSEN, an education organization working to end discrimination, harassment, and bullying based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression. ![]() ![]() Apple Watch Pride Edition celebrates the LGBTQ+ communityĬelebrating the ongoing movement to protect and advance equality for LGBTQ+ communities around the world, Apple is introducing a new Pride Edition Sport Band accompanied by a matching watch face and iOS wallpaper. ![]() ![]() They thought the guys and their explanations of their art were so freaking cool. So I pushed a little bit and they said that it was an experiment where they were going to see how many numbers they could get by convicing girls who were just into "artsy guys" that they had made something that was really deep.Īs the party started going, people would come up and look at the "art" and girl after girl was just fascinated (I'm sure guys would have too, they weren't targeting the guys). I asked the guys (the renters of the house) who made it what it was about and they said it was an art project. ![]() ![]() In a bedroom upstairs there was a pile of trash like this except there were some random pieces of cloth on it and some paint spilled on it. I was once at a party at an adjacent house to an art school, that was being rented out by art students. ![]() |