![]() ![]() Ninth Ward by Jewel Parker Rhodes – I actually picked up this book to see if I wanted to give it to my niece and ended up captivated. Matter of fact, there were many mutual benefits to the relationships created in this story. Set in the Mississippi Delta, the characters, both black and white, really explore what it meant to live in Mississippi back in the day without a save-a-race white heroine. This book was refreshingly balanced, though. Very inspirational story.Ĭatfish Alley by Lynne Bryant – I almost didn’t read this one because it was a recommendation for those who loved The Help, which I didn’t love because of the rose-colored perspective of the author. This book is about a Somalian nomad/runaway who becomes a supermodel and human rights ambassador. It’s a book I probably need to read quarterly to remind myself that just because you can’t see the happy outcome doesn’t mean it’s not there.ĭesert Flower by Waris Dirie – I prefer fiction, but I love a good autobiography. The Alchemist by Paul Coelho – This book just makes you put your path in life in perspective. Here are the books I rated 5 stars (“I loved it”): ![]() Today is National Book Lovers Day, so I decided to go over to my Shelfari page to reminisce on the books I’ve read recently. ![]()
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![]() ![]() While there is a storyline involving the orphanage, the real focus in this book is on Helen and Clary and their romance. OPINION: I enjoyed this entry in the series. When the two work together on her sister’s new orphanage project, Clary and Helen face danger from those engaged in the seedy underbelly of child trafficking and also the attraction between them that society would be scandalized by. Clary, however, is no gentleman and no match for the innocent and aristocratic Helen. ![]() She realizes that every person she knows who married for love found their spouse in an unconventional fashion and also she has been intrigued by her sister’s employee Clary Homeward. THE STORY: Lady Helen Hawkestone has decided to stop searching for a man to marry at balls and soirees. I especially enjoyed seeing the characters from the series five years later. FINAL DECISION: An enjoyable cross-class romance with a hero with a dark past and a heroine who is determined to have him. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's hard to do any justice to the plot of this 500+ page novel in (and to avoid any spoilers) in a summary, so I'll just encourage anyone with a love for Victorian sensationalism to dig in. This technique helps highlight Collins' knack for creating characters with unique voices, while also letting certain unreliable narrators be as unreliable as they want without an omniscient narrator stepping in to straighten things out. Collins tells his story as a kind of a legal disposition with characters stepping into to tell their memories or share their diary entries surrounding the tragic and compelling story of Anne Catherick, the woman in white herself, and Laura Fairlie, a wealthy and innocent young woman who bears a strong resemblance to Anne. ![]() And I'm here to tell you that it holds up! This story of greed, chance, look-alikes, madness, forgery, complicated British inheritance laws, thwarted love, murder, and a couple of truly amazingly drawn Italians (one good, one so wonderfully bad) is just as much of a page turner 160 years after its publication. It's easy to think that cultural sensations like Game of Thrones or Harry Potter are unique to 21st century life, but The Woman in White, a serialized Victorian novel published in 1860 was just as much of a cultural phenomenon in its day. ![]() ![]() ![]() The most promising is a trilogy, "The Webster Sloat Stories," yet another riff on making one's dreams real. Lupoff offers plenty of variety%E2%80%94a ghost story the narrator insists he can prove is true, a tongue-in-cheek discussion of admissions at Miskatonic University (from the Lovecraft universe), a werewolf's reminiscences%E2%80%94but the execution is variable. Sadly, that level of skill and imagination is less evident in the rest of the book. The distraught client who seeks out Baker Street does so after gaining access to her husband's secret chamber only to find a room whose walls seem to shift. That Sherlock Holmes pastiche effectively merges the universes of Doyle and Lovecraft, with a credible Watsonian voice. ![]() The first entry in this collection from genre veteran Lupoff, "The Adventure of the Voorish Sign," is the strongest of the 15 stories. ![]() ![]() After more than two years of editing and rewriting, To Kill A Mockingbird was born. ![]() ![]() Hohoff advised Lee to rewrite the draft but this time, instead of writing Jean Louise Finch as an adult, focus on her reminiscence of her childhood growing up in Maycomb with her brother Jem, living under the roof of her father Atticus, and summer days spent with a boy next door called Dill. To her alarm and disillusionment, Atticus, while a good father and a good man to all the rest in Maycomb, holds racist views and is firmly a segregationist. The draft’s protagonist, 26 year-old Jean Louise Finch, Scout, now a New Yorker, goes back to visit her childhood home in fictional Maycomb County, Alabama, and finds discrepancies about her father Atticus now from the man she thought she had known all the years growing up. Hohoff did not see it adequate to be published however, she did see promising elements in it, “the spark of the true writer flashed in every line,” she later recounted. In 1957, Lee’s agent submitted it to Tay Hohoff, an editor at the now defunct publishing house J. ![]() Go Set A Watchman is Harper Lee’s first draft of a novel (See links at the end of the post). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rowling''s digital company Pottermore was launched where fans can enjoy news features and articles as well as original content from J.K. She has also collaborated on a stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two which opened in London''s West End in the summer of 2016 and on Broadway in early 2018. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos) and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos) as well as a screenplay inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them which marked the start of a five-film series to be written by the author. ![]() Loved by fans around the world the series has sold over 500 million copies been translated into over 80 languages and made into eight blockbuster films. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Okay, I'm going to be honest about something: I remember enjoying the arc I read of Flame in the Mist last year but, before reading this book, I couldn't remember anything that happened. A night swirling with mystery, an unknowable energy pulsing in its depths. Set against the backdrop of feudal Japan, Smoke in the Sun is the breathless, romantic, not-to-be-missed fiery conclusion to a spell-binding adventure. Mariko and Ōkami risk everything to right past wrongs and restore the honor of a kingdom thrown into chaos by a sudden war, hoping against hope that when the dust settles, they will find a way to be together. One arrow sets into motion a series of deadly events even the most powerful magic cannot contain. ![]() Mariko will do what she must to ensure his survival-even marry the sovereign's brother, saying goodbye to a life with Ōkami forever.Īs Mariko settles into her days at court-making both friends and enemies-and attempting Ōkami's rescue at night, the secrets of the royal court begin to unravel as competing agendas collide. ![]() Ōkami has been captured, and his execution is a certainty. Now she heads to the imperial castle to resume a life she never wanted to save the boy she loves. She didn't expect to find a place for herself among the group of fighters-a life of usefulness-and she certainly didn't expect to fall in love. For weeks, seventeen-year-old Mariko pretended to be a boy to infiltrate the notorious Black Clan and bring her would-be murderer to justice. ![]() ![]() ![]() It made me ache for a boyfriend like Adam." -Brent Taylor, The Naughty Book Kitties ![]() Trumble’s love for the characters is evident on every page, and it’s contagious.” -Robin Reardon, author of A Secret Edge A relevant message coupled with a charming teen romance makes this debut novel a true champion." -Christopher Verleger, contributor, EDGE " Don't Let Me Go is a particularly important novel because it tackles issues of acceptance, harassment, and responsibility. "A sexy, vibrant, and heartfelt debut that captures the drama, heartache, joy, and all-around craziness of being young and in love." -Martin Wilson, author of What They Always Tell Us "Trumble's debut is a deeply moving and in-dept look at the perils and anxieties of being gay in high school." - Publishers Weekly starred review ![]() ![]() The estate eventually settled the lawsuit with the defendants, which included Netflix, Penguin Random House and others, but soon the questions it raises will be irrelevant. And in Enola Holmes, the character has too much heart. The legal argument, in a nutshell: Sensitive Sherlock is protected by copyright. ![]() The character needed to develop human connection and empathy.” When Doyle wrote his final Sherlock stories in the wake of World War I, “it was no longer enough that the Holmes character was the most brilliant rational and analytical mind,” reads the lawsuit. The estate argued that early Sherlock Holmes is cold and rational, while the later versions of the character-the versions still protected-have a heart. Copyrights for his last few stories, however, have not yet expired, which complicates matters: Details from early stories are fair game, while elements exclusive to later stories aren’t. ![]() Even if he had, most of his Holmes stories have been in the public domain for quite some time, which means that they are free for anyone to adapt or use as they please. ![]() In a 2020 lawsuit, Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate argued that Enola Holmes, a book series and Netflix adaptation that follows Sherlock Holmes’ brilliant teenage sister, violated copyright laws.ĭoyle, of course, never wrote a sister for Sherlock. ![]() ![]() ![]() All the same, full of love, life and their unwavering faith in God, the Davis family is as strong as ever. Clark’s leg was amputated after a life threatening accident. Marty and Clark return from an almost year-long trip where they had visited their daughter Missie. The 240-page book was published in English in 2004. The book, ‘ Love’s Unending Legacy’ in the series Love Comes Softly, Bk 5 – V5 Other awards were CBA Life and Gold Medallion awards in 1999. Jannette received a presidential award in 1992 for her contribution to christian fiction. One of their daughters has co-authored some books with her mother. They have four children and grand children and live in Canada. They have worked as pastors in churches in Calgary, Indiana and Edmonton. She graduated from college and married Edward Oke, her husband, in 1957. Her parents are Fred Steeves and Amy Steeves. ![]() 32 of her books have translations in other languages. She writes books of the inspirational fiction genre and has written over 70 books. Jannette Oke is a bestselling author of Canadian origin born on the 18th of February, 1935 in Alberta. ![]() |