![]() ![]() The ocean is uncontrollable and dangerous. ![]() If you’re a book blogger, reviewer, or just a reader who consistently posts reviews on either goodreads, amazon, or another similar site, you can sign up for your free ebook copy here! odder still these treacherous tides d n bryn dn bryn queer books lgbtq books queer fantasy There won’t be pre-orders for this book, but you can now add it on goodreads, read chapter one, Primary rep includes: gay, bi, trans, poc, blindness, chronic depression, and addiction. Odder Still exists in the larger These Treacherous Tides universe, but can be read without any prior knowledge of the world and is the start of its own series following Rubem and Tavish’s adventures. Here though, both the power-hungry rebels and the tight-gripped monopolies want to viciously dissect his parasite for its energy-producing abilities, and the only person offering him sincere help is the dashing and manipulative philanthropist selkie at the center of all the city’s chaos. But when a sentient parasite latches to his brainstem, he’s forced out of his comfortable-if lonesome-life in search of someone in the nearby underwater steampunk city who can safely remove it. Rubem is plenty happy keeping to his wine, his pets, and his extensive collection of fishnets. ![]() □An underwater steampunk city of selkies ☢️A Marvel’s Venom-style parasite x human relationship Design and art are by the amazing Odder Still features: I’m thrilled to finally show off the cover for Odder Still, which comes out June 9th. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() That said I’m going to miss Nevada and Rogan. ![]() What fantastic news! anything by you guys is an automatic preorder! Thank you for the series, thank you for the blog, and thank you for writing. ![]() Anywhoo, tomorrow is my very last clinical day before I head off to take my FNP boards sometime in the murky future, so I believe I shall pre-order some books as a reward (see, new books are distracting when you are supposed to be writing papers and making presentations). So there I was thinking, okay, I have 2 weeks left and only 3 clinical days to go, what should I read? Books I have read so many times I can recite my favorite scenes by heart! Also, I am driving all over Houston for my clinical sites so I feel close to Nevada. I do not read new books during the semester as I become too engrossed and neglect my studies, but I have to finish this semester or my husband might divorce me (not really, he has been incredibly patient throughout). I was wondering how to leave a comment thanking you for Hidden Legacy and letting you know how Nevada and Rogan are getting me through the very end of a long grad school experience. ![]() ![]() ![]() The reader is too, wondering what the heck is going on. Our hero, Rabbit, who is not the cat up there, is drawn along for the ride most of the story. ![]() ![]() The only thing it’s missing is butterflies. The cover art on the American release is beautiful with sun warmed clouds and detail in every inch, even deep into the background. There are a couple creases, but you’ll never see them unless you look closely. For the most part I managed to keep the book in good shape. I’m one of those people who would prefer to keep the spine smooth, so doing so with such a thick book is a challenge. This one’s around 550, and my thumbs hurt from holding it open. I learned while reading that I do not like paperbacks over about 350 pages. For the most part the chapters are short, so I was able to get one in while getting ready to head to my job that I’ve now left. I found myself reading it off and on over the next few months, often reading a chapter early in the morning, then setting the book down. I began reading it on a business trip to South Carolina, but since my driving partner was quite the talker, I didn’t get much reading done. After receiving it in the mail along with Fanuilh and a few others, I finally decided to get to it. Once again I was unable to find it at any bookstore, though I did see part 3 once, an improvement on past efforts. Lorna Freeman’s first Borderlands novel, Covenants, was aggressively recommended to me by a friend. ![]() ![]() ![]() Halla is a respectable widow with the worst in-laws. I’m definitely going to give the rest of the books in The World of the White Rat a go. I am so happy to find this author this is one of those books that made me want to get their entire catalogue to read. ![]() Swordheart is full of funny lines and interesting situations. Halla and Sarkis were phenomenal characters that really made my day. ![]() I loved Swordheart! It feels like forever since I have connected with a book this deeply and enjoyed it so much. and the sword itself may prove to be the greatest threat of all. When Halla draws the sword that imprisons him, Sarkis finds himself attempting to defend his new wielder against everything from bandits and roving inquisitors to her own in-laws. Sarkis is an immortal swordsman trapped in a prison of enchanted steel. Halla is a housekeeper who has suddenly inherited her great-uncle's estate. Published by Tantor Audio on March 23, 2021Īmazon, Audible, Audiobook, Barnes & Noble, Apple This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book was turned into a film starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson and a very memorable postcoital spaghetti carbonara and we can watch that too. ![]() We will discuss fiction and autobiography, food, why everyone in the 1980's was obsessed with group therapy. Nora Ephron, who died last night in New York from leukemia. Nora Ephron, screenwriter of Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally who drew upon marriage to Carl Bernstein for novel Heartburn, dies at 71. Consider this description of the husband and his mistress: "My husband, a fairly short person, and Thelma Rice, a fairly tall person with a neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb and you should see her legs, never mind her feet, which are sort of splayed."Īnd there are recipes for comfort food throughout, including many varieties of potatoes! Add to the mix that the protagonist Rachel Samstat is a stand-in for Ephron and the whole thing is a roman à clef about her breakup from Carl Bernstein. This novel by Nora Ephron, Bernsteins ex-wife, is revenge fiction that is so true-to-life it made a lot of people squirm when it was first published in 1983. Lucky for us this book is written by the late Nora Ephron (she of When Harry Met Sally and I Feel Bad About My Neck, but this is before that) and it's hilarious and gossipy and deep. ![]() ![]() Heartburn could have been a real bummer of a novel-it's about a cookbook author who discovers her husband is cheating on her while she's seven months pregnant. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Georgeanne has loved John since the moment she jumped into his little red Corvette seven years ago, but she doesn’t want to risk her heart again. But he is shocked to learn that their single unforgettable night in paradise produced a daughter, and he is determined to be a part of her life. When Georgeanne and John meet again, she is on her way to becoming Seattle’s domestic darling and he is past his hellraising ways. ![]() But a long night stretches ahead of them-a night too sultry to resist temptation. At the height of his hockey career, this bad boy isn’t looking to be anybody’s savior but his own, no matter how beautiful this angel may be. John Kowalsky unknowingly helps her escape, and only when it’s too late does he realize that he’s absconded with his boss’s bride. Georgeanne Howard, charm school graduate and Southern belle extraordinaire, leaves her fiancé at the altar when she realizes she just can’t marry a man old enough to be her grandfather, no matter how rich he is. New York Times bestselling and RITA ® Award-winning author Rachel Gibson’s ![]() ![]() ![]() She remembers nothing after a blow to her head. ![]() Nancy claims she doesn’t know where she has been. Her husband is with another wife, and her children are almost grown.Įverywhere she turns, people are telling her the same thing: We thought you were dead. Now that she is back five years later, everything has changed. When the body of Nancy Henry is pulled out of the water of Sykes Creek by two local fishermen, they soon realize she’s not dead.īefore she disappeared, Nancy Henry appeared to have everything: a successful husband who adored her, two beautiful children, a modeling career, and a charming home in south Merritt Island with a heart wreath on the door. Has former FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas finally gotten herself in deeper than she can handle? Secrets lead to lies and lies to murder in this pulse-pounding mystery with lots of shocking twists. ![]() ![]() ![]() He commends the manga for being "designed for all readers laymen and experts (fans and academicians) alike". Animation World Network's Fred Patten comments on the book being "300 pages larger a 40% expansion" in its "Revised and Expanded" edition compared to the original volume. ![]() It gives an overview of most of the famous anime works since 1917.Īnime News Network's George Phillips commends the encyclopaedia for "In-depth analysis of several major series, and discussions on hundreds of anime series rarely (if ever) heard of in the West" but criticises it for titles that "aren't listed under the names you suspect can be quite confusing at first". The third edition was released on 3 March 2015 with the subtitle of A Century of Japanese Animation. In the United Kingdom, it was published by Titan Books. It was published in 2001 by Stone Bridge Press in the United States, and a "revised and expanded" edition was released in 2006. ![]() ![]() The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917 is a 2001 encyclopedia written by Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy. Print ( Paperback (first and second editions) and hardcover (third edition)) ![]() ![]() ![]() You are expected to grow into a senior engineer. Instead of wasting time justifying their presence and proving competence, they can say Staff Engineer and everyone gets it. You don't need to flaunt your title because you have "traditional signals of authority".įor women and minorities, having the title makes a big difference. That means achieving your goals in part through the work of others.Īmerica being what it is, doing that is easier as a white male. It's a different job based on influence and leadership without authority. Here are my highlights □ Titles don't matter, unless you're not a white male Larson uses the same questions for every conversation so you get a good comparison of what being staff looks like. Full transcripts (cleaned up, I assume) are included in the book. ![]() The book extracts lessons on being a staff+ engineer from conversations with 14 staff engineers at different companies. Went through the audiobook soon after becoming tech lead so the timing was perfect. Staff Engineer was one of the more impactful books I've read in recent months. ![]() What I learned from Staff Engineer by Will Larson ![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, the Founders likely were the last ones to permit filiopietism to obscure any realistic analysis of the public well-being, past or present. ![]() Yet, in all of this, ancestor worship has little real place. Now in ’87, ’88, ’89, we celebrate our Constitutional Bicentennial, mark the framing of our national charter, its adoption finally by the 13 original states, and, as important – since it is and must always be for us a living Constitution – the gradual establishment (starting two centuries ago) of those procedures and precedents that would enable the more perfect union sought by the Founding Fathers to develop. ![]() ![]() 1976 marked the 200th anniversary of our nation’s beginning, when a decent respect to the opinions of mankind required that we declare our independence in terms of the essential truths we held to be self-evident. In these last years of the 20th century, we Americans have much to remember, much to commemorate both in our history and our heritage, which are, after all, different…the one marking simply what happened, the good and the bad, the other enshrining the best in our past, that to which Lincoln’s mystic chords of memory stretch out most meaningfully, touched, as he said, by “The better angels of our nature”. Heffner: I’m Richard Heffner, your host on THE OPEN MIND. Title: “In Defense of the Constitution: 1787-1987” ![]() |