![]() ![]() In a classic weaving of Hoover-like plot twists, we find these two characters drawn together for the rest of the book. On the way to the interview, Lowen, the main character, witnesses a horrible accident involving a pedestrian and a truck – only to be helped by the very man who interviews her half an hour later. ![]() It’s going to be a nine-book series and there are three left to write. This is a spooky story of an author who becomes heavily disabled after a car crash and the main character of the book is contracted to finish writing her series. One of the best thrillers I have read in a long time. This was an unbelievably brilliant work of fiction, enough to rival And Then There Were None. I don’t think I will ever finish processing this book. ![]()
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![]() Guhrke ultimately moved back to Idaho and set her sights on a career as a writer, drawn to the independence of working for herself and to the romance genre as a source of personal pleasure. After earning a business degree in college, the Idaho native spent time in Los Angeles, where she tried her hand at selling advertising and catering meals for Hollywood events. Laura Lee Guhrke is a historical romance novelist whose books are regularly featured on the USA Today best-seller list. Not So Innocent, Sonnet Books (New York, NY), 2002.Ĭontributor to various periodicals, including Romance Writers Report, British Weekly, and Irish-American Press. The Charade, Sonnet Books (New York, NY), 2000. The Seduction, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1997.īreathless, Sonnet Books (New York, NY), 1999. To Dream Again, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1995.Ĭonor's Way, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1996. Prelude to Heaven, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1994. The Wicked Ways of a Duke, Avon Books (New York, NY), 2008. ![]() "GIRL-BACHELOR" SERIESĪnd Then He Kissed Her, Avon Books (New York, NY), 2007. ![]() She's No Princess, Avon Books (New York, NY), 2006. The Marriage Bed, Avon Books (New York, NY), 2005. His Every Kiss, Avon Books ( New York, NY), 2004. ![]() ![]() Guilty Pleasures, Avon Books ( New York, NY), 2004. RITA Award, Romance Writers of America Romantic Times Award for Best European Historical Romance, 2004. Worked previously as a caterer and as an advertising agent in Los Angeles, CA. ![]() ![]() "Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world." In her chapter The Mind at 3 Miles an Hour, Solnit discusses European philosophers whose walks may have lubricated the ideas that shaped western culture. Wanderlust implies that we lose possibility when we live in a world of interiors, enabled by speedy technology, focused on speedy growth, rather than walking through the world, engaged and sometimes finding what we didn't know we were looking for. Modern life moves fast, often in thoughtless ways, mostly as a result of how we've adopted modern technology. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.” ![]() Ironically, because as Solnit writes, “I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. It inspired a multi-year theatre project that, ironically, led to my interest in learning about technology for mapping and storytelling, which sent me back to grad school, which led to me founding a couple of tech startups. It actually changed my life, in a wandering kind of way. Wanderlust, by Rebecca Solnit, has had more impact in my life than any single book I've read. ![]() ![]() ![]() After I picked it up and devoured it whole (reading the entire 180k+ word book in a week), I rushed to read its sequels ( Little Men and Jo’s Boys) and found them entertaining (but not nearly as incredible as their predecessor). ![]() When I first read the book, it was like flinging open a newly-discovered door of possibilities. There’s something so compelling about this age-old classic, something that has clearly transcended the decades and continues to delight generations of readers. I couldn’t put the book down once I started it, and I found the same to be true even in rereading. When I first read this book two years ago, in February 2018, I immediately added it to my list of treasured favorite novels. I recently reread Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. ![]() ![]() ![]() These plot points are so old and so embedded in our collective wisdom that other storytellers can make use of them to create a vivid and affecting story, full of pathos like this one. Below I go into how write and illustrator work together to achieve that.Īlso, as the child character heads towards the story’s climax, the storytellers make use of plot points straight out of fairytale, even though this is a story baked in realism. ![]() Today in America, one in six children are living in poverty.įrom a storytelling point of view, this picture book is interesting because it does a fantasic job of helping the reader empathise with the boy and his parents. This short picture book elicits some strong emotions, and unfortunately, this story about economic deprivation is just as necessary today as it was at the turn of the 1980s. Interactive learning binder | Our mega Busy book ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince': The Kirkus Review Rowling lives in Scotland with her family. She supports a wide number of humanitarian causes through Volant, and is the founder of the international children’s care reform charity Lumos. Rowling has received many awards and honours for her writing, including for her detective series written under the name Robert Galbraith. Her latest children’s novel, The Christmas Pig, was published in 2021. In 2020, she returned to publishing for younger children with the fairy tale The Ickabog, the royalties for which she donated to her charitable trust, Volant, to help charities working to alleviate the social effects of the Covid 19 pandemic. ![]() Rowling wrote with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany. Harry’s story as a grown-up was continued in a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which J.K. To accompany the series, she wrote three short companion volumes for charity, including Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which went on to inspire a new series of films featuring Magizoologist Newt Scamander. ROWLING is the author of the enduringly popular, era-defining Harry Potter seven-book series, which have sold over 600 million copies in 85 languages, been listened to as audiobooks for over one billion hours and made into eight smash hit movies. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend intends to make a difference, especially in her African American community. Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a searing and compassionate new novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible injustice done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench ![]() “Deeply empathetic yet unflinching in its gaze…an unforgettable exploration of responsibility and redemption.”-Celeste Ng Winner of the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction ![]() ![]() Her strategy for dealing with her fears is to kill them. ![]() ![]() The Seeker, on the other hand, is afraid of Lacey. Not only that, but they want all humans and aliens to co-exist. ![]() This revelation makes the Seeker an even more interesting foil to Wanda/Melanie. We also learn that, like Wanda and Melanie, Lacey was there the whole time. With her gone, the body's original consciousness returns, and we're in for a surprise: "The Seeker's host body was named Lacey a dainty, soft, feminine name. The humans take care of that problem when Wanda helps them remove the Seeker and blast her back into space. The Seeker is the closest thing the novel has to a bad guy, claiming the trophy when she shoots poor Wes in the head. ![]() The Host blurs all sorts of lines between human and alien, good and evil, so it doesn't really have a concrete antagonist. If the old body-snatching movies were allegories for communism, then the Seeker is the big bad KGB gathering information on the god-fearing capitalists and converting them into evil red commies. They, quite obviously, seek information about others. The Seeker is a title bestowed upon a certain member of the alien race. ![]() ![]() ![]() Early on in life, Jeanne was recruited to be a prostitute for wealthy men. Jeanne eventually becomes the Comtesse du Barry, but her origins are far from noble. In this third installment, Christie examines the last period of Louis XV's reign from the perspective of his final mistress, a woman named Jeanne Bécu. This series is one of those that managed to transport me - while reading, there was little to distract me from the delicious details, incredible scandal, and suspense of the court of King Louis XV. If you're interested in starting from the beginning (I highly recommend it - every detail is worth reading), you can find my review of the first and second on my blog (Top Shelf Text). ![]() With this last look at the many women behind his throne, Sally Christie once again completely captivated me and had me dreaming of life at Versailles. The Enemies of Versailles continues the story of King Louis XV's reign through the lens of his last mistress. ![]() |