![]() ![]() Now the question is, should they succeed in their plan, will they annul the marriage for the Human Queen to return to Natural World or is their love enough for her to overcome her desire to be freed from Midscape? ![]() With all that at stake and the Human Queen hoping to escape her fate, she strikes a deal with the Elf King to break the cycle of requiring a Human Queen to sustain the magic needed to recharge Midscape.Īs the Elf King and Human Queen spend time together working toward a common goal, a marriage forged by duties soon evolved into mutual respect and attraction to one another. ![]() However, with the magic that flows within the Human Queens weakening by the century, it is feared that this Human Queen might be the last of her kind and that Midscape will then inevitably meet its downfall. In this high fantasy world, the world is split into three realms – Natural World (human), Midscape (Elf, fae, vampir and all other supernatural creatures) and the Beyond (the dead), and every hundred years, the Elf King from the Midscape has to take a Human Queen from the Natural World to maintain the balance between the three realms.ĭespite being the superior race among the three realms, the Elf King requires the magic of the Human Queen to recharge Midscape. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Well?: Thank Daniel Clowes for coining a term we can use to discuss this work-like Clowes’ Ice Haven, Wimbledon Green is a “comic strip novel,” comprised of individual comic strips of varying length and style which each contain a small part of a an overall, novel-length story. Why Now?: With a title like that, what comic book enthusiast could pass it up once they were made aware of its existence? ![]() I honestly had no idea this book even existed until I saw it sitting on a cart at the library I work part-time at, waiting to be put back on the shelf. Wimbledon Green: The Greatest Comic Book Collector in the World (Drawn and Quarterly), by Seth ![]() ![]() ![]() In this novel, six explorers crashland on the planet Eden and while trying to fix their spaceship and get off they find that the planet is home to a civilization that seems to make absolutely no sense. Fortunately this is an excellent theme to explore and one rarely dealt with in SF, so Lem easily finds new wrinkles to explore every time he writes about it, even if the conclusions wind up being nearly the same every time. ![]() As in those two books the theme here is the one that Lem seems to count as his favorite, that we should not assume that because we are smart and can get into space and across stars, that we can automatically "understand" any alien life that we come across, or even start to fit what we see into established human preconceptions. I've only read three books by Lem counting this one and while nothing so far has bypassed Solaris as his absolute masterpiece, for me it's a step up from the strangely dense Fiasco. ![]() ![]() Verdant spores explode into fast-growing vines if they get wet, which means inhaling them can be deadly. The seas on Tress’ world are dangerous because they’re not made of water-they’re made of colorful spores that pour down from the world’s 12 stationary moons. To do that, she’ll have to get off the barren island she’s forbidden to leave, cross the dangerous Verdant Sea, the even more dangerous Crimson Sea, and the totally deadly Midnight Sea, and somehow defeat the unbeatable Sorceress. ![]() Charlie, meanwhile, has been captured by the mysterious Sorceress who rules the Midnight Sea, which leaves Tress with no choice but to go rescue him. When the duke realizes the two teenagers are falling in love, he takes Charlie away to find a suitable wife-and returns with a different young man as his heir. ![]() Charlie is the son of the local duke, but he likes stories more than fencing. ![]() Tress is an ordinary girl with no thirst to see the world. A fantasy adventure with a sometimes-biting wit. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces 2023 Winners.Prepare to Celebrate the Nation's Favourite Genre with National Crime Reading Month.Author Q&A: Swéta Rana, Queuing for the Queen.13 Books to Support and Celebrate Caregivers for National Carers Week.100+ Fathers Day Books for Every Dad Including Those Who Don't Read.47 great books to support positive mental health this Mental Health Awareness Week and every week.Which Domestic Noir Novel Should You Read? Take Our Quiz to Find Out!.Best Domestic Noir Novels – 20+ Brilliant Books about Household Horrors and Domestic Just Desserts.The 2023 Pulitzers Are Announced: See the Books, Drama and Music Award Winners.100 Police Procedurals Every Crime Addict Must Read. ![]()
![]() ![]() I didn’t realize the stories would be interconnected, and that really adds something to the collection as a whole. ![]() This delivered in more ways than I was anticipating. I’m always on the lookout for something similar. One of my favorite short story collections is James Herriott’s Cat Stories. When I saw this collection of interconnected short stories about women and their cats, I couldn’t hit the request button fast enough. With clever narration alternating between the cats and their owners, She and Her Cat offers a unique and sly commentary on human foibles and our desire for connection. So begins the first story in She and Her Cat, a collection of four interrelated, stream-of-conscious short stories in which four women and their feline companions explore the frailty of life, the pain of isolation, and the limits of communication. Just as he fears that the end is near, a young woman peers down at him, this fateful encounter changing their lives forever. With his mother long gone, his only company is the sound of the nearby train. Lying alone on the edge of the sidewalk in an abandoned cardboard box, a nameless narrator contemplates the indifferent world around him. Interconnected short stories explore the relationships between women and their cats in a Japanese city. ![]() ![]() ![]() They sat for those few months, as they were unsolicited and I wasn’t sure I’d like them, but I brought them over to the UK with me because they were light and I really should beef up my historical fiction reading again. Then a few months ago I got the re-releases of her Catherine de Medici trilogy for review. I was completely in love with historical fiction seven years ago, particularly the Tudors, so this was a huge disappointment. I read a couple of her Tudor books way back before I started blogging, so unfortunately I remember very little other than the fact that they were uninspiring. They’ve always seemed very popular to me with other historical fiction bloggers, but I haven’t actually reviewed any of them here. ![]() I have a confession: I’ve never actually been very fond of Jean Plaidy’s books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() People who love My Fair Lady, The Great British Bake-Off, and Bridgerton would enjoy this novel, so it may be geared more for adults who read young adult than for teens. It is definitely a book that demonstrates the broad diversity of the Jewish experience, including diversity of time period and country of origin. ![]() I appreciated the way the author has included real information about how Jewish people were treated during this time period, and found the author's note with additional information fascinating. My Fine Fellow by Jennieke Cohen Culinary delights abound, romance lingers in the air, and plans go terribly, wonderfully astray in this gender-bent take on My Fair Lady from Jennieke Cohen, author of Dangerous Allianceperfect for fans of Bridgerton or A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue. The story feels true to the time period in language and tone. My Fine Fellow is a fun read, especially if you know the story of My Fair Lady and love cooking. But Helena doesn't know that Elijah is Jewish and that makes a difference in 1830s England. She bets her friend, Penelope Pickering, that she can turn Elijah from a street hawker to a gentleman. When Helena Higgins discovers Elijah, she decides to make him her project in order to graduate from high honors from the Royal Academy. It's the story of Elijah Little, a poor boy who is hawking food in an 1830s England where going to culinary school and becoming a gentleman chef is as revered as being royalty. My Fine Fellow is a thoughtful retelling of My Fair Lady that takes on issues of gender norms and the treatment of Jewish people in England, with the feel of The Great British Bake-Off. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Against this backdrop, Shilts tells the heroic stories of individuals in science and politics, public health and the gay community, who struggled to alert the nation to the enormity of the danger it faced. Shilts shows that the epidemic spread wildly because the federal government put budget ahead of the nation's welfare health authorities placed political expediency before the public health and scientists were often more concerned with international prestige than saving lives. America faced a troubling question: What happened? How was this epidemic allowed to spread so far before it was taken seriously? In answering these questions, Shilts weaves weaves the disparate threads into a coherent story, pinning down every evasion and contradiction at the highest levels of the medical, political, and media establishments. ![]() By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He began his career as a research assistant for groundbreaking baseball author Bill James and later worked for STATS, Inc. Neyer is a longtime baseball writer and editor for, SB Nation, and. Subscribe to SABRcast on your favorite podcast networks, including Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, or Stitcher, and listen to each episode as soon as it’s released. SABRcast features insights and analysis of what’s happening in modern baseball on and off the field, plus compelling interviews with figures from around the game - and music from The Baseball Project. Baseball fans, tune in this season to SABRcast with Rob Neyer, a weekly podcast hosted by award-winning author and longtime SABR member Rob Neyer. ![]() |