6/27/2023 0 Comments His Quiet Agent by Ada Maria Soto![]() ![]() ![]() Through a risky confrontation with the underground art world to a secret, heavily guarded storage unit, to sharing the quiet joy of impromptu cooking lessons, Martin and Arthur get to know each other on a deeper level than they ever have before. He's still haunted by the ghosts of his childhood, but is he ready to face a new future with Arthur? He knows there is only one way to find out, despite his understated anxiety.Īrthur arrives in New York City ready to play tourist, but instead finds himself unexpectedly and deeply entwined in the mysteries of Martin's past. At first, old habits rise up to conspire to keep them separated until after the new year, but Martin derails both their plans when he asks Arthur to join him for a week in New York City. The winter holidays interrupt their routines with the annual threat of annual obligatory trips for both of them. Are they dating? "Involved"? In a committed "something"? ![]() ![]() He's not even sure what to put on the Agency's dreaded form B-837, the "relationship form". Still in recovery from his last devastating mission, Martin is adjusting to his new reality as a permanent desk jockey at the Agency while Arthur is adjusting to his deep feelings for Martin. Arthur and Martin have settled into a quiet life, orbiting each other both on the job and off. ![]()
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6/27/2023 0 Comments Middlesex eugenides![]() ![]() During the course of the novel she is concerned with the writing of her undergraduate thesis, which revolves around the concept of "the marriage plot" in the 19th century novel. Madeleine Hanna: An English major at Brown University and the daughter of affluent parents.The story focuses on three college friends from Brown University - Madeleine Hanna, Leonard Bankhead, and Mitchell Grammaticus - beginning in their senior year, 1982, and subsequently follows them during their first year post-graduation. The novel was well received by many critics, and was featured on year-end best of 2011 lists. The book is both a realist story about marriage and a commentary on the kind of story it tells. Eugenides has stated that he worked on the novel for about five or six years, and that portions are loosely based on his collegiate and post-collegiate experiences. The novel grew out of a manuscript that Eugenides began after the publication of his sophomore Pulitizer Prize-winning novel, Middlesex. ![]() The Marriage Plot is a 2011 novel by the American writer, Jeffrey Eugenides. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Ps i love you book author![]() We read countless books in this series, but this particular one was Sweet Dreams #1 - the face that launched a thousand ships! ![]() ![]() (It wasn’t a nice attic, either - it was a cramped and precarious one, as depicted in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, and entering and exiting involved climbing atop a washing machine to reach the three steps that dropped down from the trap door in the ceiling.) I distinctly remember my friend and I stealing these from her big sister and reading them up in the attic (where we also kept the Ouija Board) so that her very territorial sister wouldn’t find out and yell at us even more than usual. Oh, man - thanks to my GR friend Cassandra for reminding me of this Sweet Dreams series, which was a much-beloved resource in my coming of age! ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Stephen king book rose madder![]() Just don't blame us if you end up having nightmares. Here's a few we think make a great place to start. Or for readers who just need a new thriller book to give them a good scare, take a wander into King's impressive imagination. And while you have probably heard of his most popular books, like Pet Sematary, The Stand, and ' Salem's Lot, some of his deeper cuts will also send shivers down your spine.įor those who like to read through an author's entire catalog, King's collection will give you plenty to check off the list. ![]() You may have come to his work from one of the many horror film and TV adaptations that have come out of his books, including The Outsider series on HBO, Stanley Kubrick's iconic film The Shining, and of course, the creepy clown classic, It. His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Those who really follow the genre have probably dipped their toes into his work, and even those who don't consider themselves King fans can hardly avoid coming across the characters who have become part of pop culture as a whole. Rose Madder by Stephen King, 9781501143687. As one of the most prolific horror and suspense writers in the biz, Stephen King has enough books in his extensive oeuvre to last thriller readers quite some time. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Anna kavan books![]() ![]() Her stories feel prescient today they capture the madness and degradation of isolation and living in a ravaged world, sentiments I can’t help but feel have also been evoked during our self-quarantined present.Ĭollected in Machines In The Head, under an arresting and apocalyptic cover featuring Gertrude Abercrombie’s Reverie (1947), are stories that span thirty years of Kavan’s career and which consequently evidence the transformation of Kavan’s style and writing concerns as they reflected what was both occurring in her personal life (institutionalization, war work, drug abuse), and what was occurring more broadly - politically. Her work is, by some odd logic, contemporary - which is to say, her writing is one that matches the hallucinatory chaos of our present. But Kavan’s writing feels both of the present and uniquely unparalleled. ![]() Anna Kavan is a singular presence in a group that includes the likes of Eve Babitz, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Ann Quin, writers whose work has been recently reissued to both acclaim and newfound followings. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Acceleration by graham mcnamee![]() Wayne is a petty criminal and is working at a fast food place for the summer. They grew up in “the jungle” (the nickname of the housing complex where all three live) together. That is where he is likely to strike, or so Vinnie believes because of all the books he has read. Vinnie is smart and soon figures out where “Roach” feels most comfortable. He enlists first the help of his friend Vinnie. He decides to try to find out who “Roach” (the nickname he gives the diary’s author) is and what is his next move. He tries to take it to the police, who ignore him. ![]() Once he realizes it is the diary of a serial killer in training Duncan doesn’t know what to do. There he finds a diary and decides to read it. He takes a summer job working in the lost and found (aka “The Morgue”) of the subway. ![]() What would you do with a book like that? How far would you go to catch a madman?ĭuncan is an average kid living an average life in a blue collar section of Toronto. And Duncan can’t make himself stop reading. ![]() It’s a diary filled with the dark and dirty secrets of a twisted mind, a serial killer stalking his prey in the subway. ![]() And between Jacob, the cranky old man who runs the place, and the endless dusty boxes overflowing with stuff no one will ever claim, Duncan’s just about had enough. “It’s a hot, hot summer, and in the depths of the Toronto Transit Authority’s Lost and Found, 17-year-old Duncan is cataloging lost things and sifting through accumulated junk. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments With the Band by Jean Haus![]() ![]() *New Adult/Mature YA for language and sexual situations. But as she gets to know the man behind the stage persona, ignoring him proves to be more difficult than flowing through a time sig shift. If she wants to stay in the band, Riley needs to ignore the growing sparks between her and her band enemy. Behind the drums, the world and its troubles evaporate. Even if she was interested in jerks, a hook up would probably get her booted out of the ego-ridden band, and playing keeps her sane. She becomes determined to ignore his rudeness and his hotness. The other-a dark, sexy rock god she can’t help being attracted to- is a total jerk and pushes her to quit. Riley soon finds out rock bands have a different dynamic than marching bands, especially when each of her male band mates has a major ego and is a major player. When family problems push Riley Middleton into giving up a percussion scholarship in another state and attending college from home, her friends push her to try out for a local rock band. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments The mill on the floss review![]() ![]() Franco Moretti has claimed that the European bildungsroman depends on the hero's breaking with, rather than remaining faithful to, youthful impressions. The essay suggests that the nineteenth-century development of educational theory was shadowed by a prescient fictional vision of childish destructiveness emblematized in the broken toy, and it asks what this might mean in particular for the bildungsroman and its educative telos. ![]() Using Melanie Klein's play theories, it argues that the child's toy is the archetypal object of the “prosaic imaginary,” at once material and symbolic, internal and external, partial and whole, destructive and therapeutic an everyday object that is not simply typical high realist ballast but also the stuff of dreams. ![]() “Toy Stories” takes Maggie Tulliver's “grinding and beating” of her broken doll in The Mill on the Floss as a starting point for thinking about manifestations of childish distress, rage, and shame in the nineteenth-century novel. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Jennie Wade by Tecla Emerson![]() ![]() It was Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, a small, unremarkable town an easily forgotten town that would live in infamy and one that history would never forget. A time marked by the largest number of casualties in the Civil War. It was a time and place that would be recorded in American history forever. ![]() Her brothers were scattered, her sister would soon be having a baby, her mother was not bearing up well and Jack, her intended, had not been heard from in weeks. ![]() Jennie, a young local girl, did her best to keep up with the demand for bread and water and medical care for the troops. The town was not prepared for what happened during the early days of the summer, 1863. Oddly, the Confederate troops were pouring in from the north and Union troops were marching in from the south. It was anyone's guess what the outcome would be. It had been foolish to stay but now there was no choice. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Book the prophets by robert jones![]() ![]() But it is also a story shot through with hope, beauty, truth, and the power of love. As tensions build and the weight of centuries culminates in a climactic reckoning, The Prophets reveals the pain and suffering of inheritance. But when an older man – a fellow slave – seeks to gain favor by preaching the master’s gospel on the plantation, the enslaved begin to turn on their own, and Isaiah and Samuel’s love is called out as sinful and dangerous to the plantation’s harmony. In the barn, they tended to the animals and each other, transforming the shed into a human refuge, a source of intimacy and hope in a world ruled by vicious masters. ![]() That was how it was from the beginning and how it was to be until the end. The book tells the story of Isaiah, who was Samuel’s, and Samuel, who was Isaiah’s. ![]() Putnam’s Sons), was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for fiction and a New York Times bestseller. Robert Jones Jr.’s writings have been featured in The New York Times, Essence, The Paris Review, and the anthologies Four Hundred Souls and The 1619 Project. ![]() |