![]() Three weeks ago, Jules found an anonymous note telling her not to marry Will. On Will's side, Johnno is the best man, and the four ushers are four guys they went to boarding school with, Femi, Angus, Duncan and Peter. (Charlie and Jules are very close, but Charlie and Will don't like each other.) Olivia is Julia's younger (19) half-sister. On the bride's side, Charlie is Jules's best friend. The Folly is owned by Aoife (wedding planner) and her husband Freddy. The day before, people arrive on the island. (The book cuts back and forth from the present and the events leading up to the present until the two timelines converge at the very end.) When they turn on, there's a scream and reports of a body. ![]() The night of the wedding, there's a storm, and the lights cut out. ![]() ![]() Jules runs a successful online magazine while Will is the host of a survivalist TV show. On an island off the coast of West Ireland, Julia "Jules" Keegan and Will Slater are having a wedding at a place called the Folly. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I've listened to lots of Matthew Reilly's books narrated by Mr Mangan and I have to say that he does a superb job of narrating action sequences at just the right pace and intensity. Have you listened to any of Sean Mangan’s other performances? How does this one compare? A real sense of rivalry and deadliness between the different dragons. Perhaps the moment at which the master dragons are freed and then burn some of the other masters. What was one of the most memorable moments of The Great Zoo of China? Rather, they add to the enjoyment because it's fun to see how Reilly adapted a tale about dinosaurs to one about dragons. However, these links do not detract from the novel. The links to 'Jurassic Park' are obvious (Reilly himself admits that comparisons were inevitable in the interview at the end of the audiobook). If possible, this novel has bigger action sequences than any of Reilly's previous novels. ![]() What made the experience of listening to The Great Zoo of China the most enjoyable? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So underappreciated is Harwood that, if you Google her name today, the first picture that comes up is in fact that of Phoebe Waller-Bridge rather than Harwood herself. Both these twists made it into iterations of the screenplay during Dr No's development, and had it not been for Johanna Harwood, a woman whose impact on Bond was vast and yet is seldom credited, 007's 1962 debut could have looked very different. Or everyone had talked in the style of Chicago hitmen instead of using the dialogue from Ian Fleming's seminal spy novels. Imagine if in Dr No, the first James Bond film in a franchise that has spanned nearly 60 years, the title character had been the lead villain's pet monkey rather than the villain himself. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home. ![]() Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. A marine biologist, she left for a routine expedition months earlier, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. ![]() "Shocking.Achingly poetic.Sharp and beautiful as coral polyps.Armfield exercises an exquisite-even sadistic-sense of suspense." -Ron Charles, The Washington Post "A deeply strange and haunting novel in the best possible way.An impressive and exciting debut novel that may leave you thinking about your own relationships in a new light." -NPR A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (NPR, The Washington Post, Lit Hub, The Telegraph, Goodreads, Tor.com, them, and more) ![]() ![]() ![]() Suddenly, Reid and his prize pupil find themselves hurled into a taxing murder case, which will push them to their very limits. And when Reid begins training Vira as a cadaver dog, he comes to realize just how special the newest addition to his family truly is… He adopts a rescue dog with a mysterious past-a golden retriever named Vira. Reid’s coming off a taxing year-mourning the death of a beloved springer spaniel as well as the dissolution of his marriage. Mason “Mace” Reid lives on the outskirts of Chicago and specializes in human remains detection. Burton’s The Finders marks the beginning of a fast-paced new mystery series featuring a heroic golden retriever cadaver dog named Vira and her handler, Mason Reid. Comic Book / Graphic Novel Sequential narrative with illustrations that are usually presented in a specific layout but not always.Many times these are protagonist experiences that women can relate to. Women’s Fiction These books focus on women’s life experience that are marketed to female readers. ![]() Suspense is the tension and the unpredictable factor. A thriller is the push and pull between the good and the bad guy(s). Suspense and Thrillers Many times this is a mystery, but not always.Non-Fiction Non-fiction book reviews for adults. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() edition features extra insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. The Bell Jar is a chef-d’oeuvre semi-autobiographical novel by an American poet and writer, Sylvia Plath, in the 1950s, but it was first published in 1963 in England. Such thorough exploration of the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche - and the profound collective loneliness that modern society has yet to find a solution for - is an extraordinary accomplishment, and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic. Her work, especially that of her adult life, heavily reflects the darkness and depression that she dealt with. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther’s breakdown with such intensity that Esther’s neurosis becomes completely understandable and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Sylvia Plath, an extremely influential and beloved female poet who lived in the mid-20th century, was the author of numerous poems as well as the semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar. ![]() The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: young, brilliant, beautiful, and enormously talented, but slowly going under-maybe for the last time. “It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath’s voice in The Bell Jar that make this book enduring in its appeal.” - USA Today St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series)Ī realistic and emotional novel about a woman battling mental illness and societal pressures written by the iconic American writer Sylvia Plath. ![]() ![]() Traditional to a cozy mystery, there is no swearing, graphic murder scenes, or sexual innuendos or unbearable scenes to read through. Both love her, she loves them, and they are obviously aware of the other being in Hannah’s life. She has two men in her life throughout this series, Norman and Mike. Hannah has her mother and two sisters in her life, a fluffy orange and white tomcat, as well as her assistant at her bakery Lisa. These books are significantly longer than most cozy mysteries, and they also contain several wonderful recipes throughout the story. Hannah Swensen owns a bakery, and is the classic cozy-mystery heroine whom solves the murder case in each story. ![]() ![]() The Double Fudge Brownie Murder that I am reviewing here is book 18.Īlthough I know I have not read all of the books up to book 19 that I am on now, I would say by looking at all of the covers and titles, I have read about 14 or 15 over the years. ![]() I am currently reading book 19, The Wedding Cake Murder. They are all titled with fun food references, such as Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (book 1), Carrot Cake Murder (book 10), and Raspberry Danish Murder (book 22). It has been quite a while since I have read one of the Hannah Swensen mysteries by Joanne Fluke. ![]() ![]() ![]() The movement had high hopes for a large turnout and originally set a goal of 100,000. Political marches in Washington are now commonplace, but in 1963 attempting to stage a march of this size in that place was unprecedented. ![]() The “I have a dream” section was not in it.Ī few hours after King went to sleep, the march’s organiser, Bayard Rustin, wandered on to the Washington Mall, where the demonstration would take place later that day, with some of his assistants, to find security personnel and journalists outnumbering demonstrators. King went to sleep at about 4am, giving the text to his aides to print and distribute. He thought it looked as though King were writing poetry. One of his aides who went to King’s suite that night saw words crossed out three or four times. I would deliver four strong walls and he would use his God-given abilities to furnish the place so it felt like home.” King finished the outline at about midnight and then wrote a draft in longhand. “When it came to my speech drafts,” wrote Clarence Jones, who had already penned the first draft, “ often acted like an interior designer. King would call down and tell him what he wanted to say Walker would write something he hoped worked, then head up the stairs to present it to King. ![]() It’s cliche.’ Photograph: Tom Self/Birmingham News/Polaris/EyevineĪ few floors below King’s suite, Walker made himself available. King with his adviser Wyatt Walker, who urged: ‘Don’t use the lines about “I have a dream”. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a result of her writings (including the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen), de Gouges was accused, tried and convicted of treason, resulting in her immediate execution, along with the Girondists, becoming one of only three women beheaded during the ensuing Reign of Terror – and the only executed for her political writings. By publishing this document on 15 September, de Gouges hoped to expose the failures of the French Revolution in the recognition of gender equality. ![]() The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen ( French: Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne), also known as the Declaration of the Rights of Woman, was written on 14 September 1791 by French activist, feminist, and playwright Olympe de Gouges in response to the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. First page of Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen ![]() ![]() As she shows, crewmen manufactured captives through enforced dependency, relentless cycles of physical, psychological terror, and pain that led to the the making-and unmaking-of enslaved Africans held and transported onboard slave ships. Mining ship logs, records and personal documents, Mustakeem teases out the social histories produced between those on traveling ships: slaves, captains, sailors, and surgeons. Sowande' Mustakeem's groundbreaking study goes inside the Atlantic slave trade to explore the social conditions and human costs embedded in the world of maritime slavery. ![]() Expanding the gaze even more deeply, the book centers how the oceanic transport of human cargoes-infamously known as the Middle Passage-comprised a violently regulated process foundational to the institution of bondage. ![]() This book reveals for the first time how it took critical shape at sea. Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. ![]() |