![]() ![]() Jess holds her loved ones close but working constantly to stay afloat is hard.and lonely.īut then Jess hears about GeneticAlly, a buzzy new DNA-based matchmaking company that’s predicted to change dating forever. After all, her father was never around, her hard-partying mother disappeared when she was six, and her ex decided he wasn’t “father material” before her daughter was even born. Single mom Jess Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convince her to step back into the dating world. ![]() The New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners returns with a witty and effervescent novel about what happens when two people with everything on the line are thrown together by science-or is it fate? Perfect for fans of The Rosie Project and One Plus One. “A sexy, science-filled, and surprising romance full of warmth and wit.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Ĭhosen as a best pick by Bustle, Marie Claire, Entertainment Weekly, E! Online, PopSugar, BuzzFeed, Goodreads, Country Living, The Pioneer Woman, Woman’s World, Bookish, Bookreporter, Frolic, and more! “Writing duo and reigning romance queens Christina Lauren are back with The Soulmate Equation, their most ambitious book to date.” - PopSugar ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() He bears the shield of a king and a strange message. Watkins, tells of Innera, a girl of Dider, discovering a wounded soldier in the snowy woods. My kids looooved it, and we definitely enjoyed reading through it together, so I do highly recommend, it's just not as good as the first one. Shield, the second book of Christian fantasy fiction by Dawn L. However, that's my perspective, as the Mom. ![]() There are also a few rather magical details added, and it seems to not fit as much with the rest of the book. This one, however, starts out with a couple of characters who you think will be the main story arc, and they'll learn and grow just as their father before them in the previous book did, but then it ends up being a conglomeration of different storylines, and there's not a clear cut picture of what the theme or moral of the story is. I felt like with the plot in the other two (especially medallion), you know what's going on, you follow along on the journey really well, and you learn and grow with the characters as you go. In Medallion, a Christian fantasy fiction novel, Dawn L. BJU Press Reading Grade 4 Student 72. I felt like this one wasn't written quite as well as the other two, simply in terms of plot. Watkins 5.99 8.99 Save 33 5 out of 5 stars for Medallion. Chapter 1VocabularyUse a dictionary to define the words.1.Medallion2.thread圓.lonnadeReading and. We loveloveLOVE Medallion, and we really enjoyed Shield, which is the prequel. I don't think this book (sequel to Medallion) is as good as the first. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was emphasizing that revenge is the only way for him to attain justice and that the humiliation and the sufferings he had experienced in the hands of his friend Fortunato had consumed his patience that it was just fair to avenge all of Fortunato’s offenses against him would only be paid with Fortunato’s death. Montresor began his story by rationalizing the crime he was about to confess. ![]() The first line of the story clearly mentions the major theme of the story, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.” (Poe 331). Common to all of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories, “The Cask of Amontillado” is a first person narrative giving the story an impression of being a confession from the character who had committed the crime.Īt the opening of the short story, it is evident that the theme of the story would be about Montresor’s vengeance against the other character Fortunato, a wine connoisseur. Deeply rooted hatred, revenge and other factors drove the main character Montresor in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” to mercilessly murder his friend Fortunato. ![]() ![]() ![]() I use the word “interrupts” but I don’t mean it negatively. Erdrich also interrupts the narrative later for a folktale/history told by an elderly relative of Joe’s named Mooshum. I liked how Erdrich stopped Joe’s narrative a third of the way through for “Linda’s story” which is engrossing in its own right while also shedding light into Joe’s story. ![]() One of my favorite side characters was Linda, a white woman who was raised on the reservation by an Ojibwe hospital staff member after her parents rejected her at birth for a congenital deformity. Erdrich lets a lot of light and kindness and even humor thread through the story, mainly in her depiction of the various characters that populate the reservation’s community. Throughout the summer, Joe grapples with the emotional aftershock of his irrevocably changed family, and also seeks to find the person who attacked his mother.Īlthough the premise of The Round House is grim, I wouldn’t say that this is a dark-toned novel overall. At the start of the novel, Joe’s mother is raped and nearly killed by a perpetrator she either won’t or can’t identify. ![]() ![]() In a nutshell: The Round House is about Joe, a 13-year-old boy living on a North Dakota reservation in 1988. ![]() ![]() ![]() John Seward's hand during a fight with Renfield resulted in Van Helsing's allies lacking the strength to defeat Dracula at the crucial moment. In this world, Vlad Tepes killed Abraham Van Helsing, and an injury sustained to Dr. ![]() ![]() The novel deviates from the events of Bram Stoker's Dracula. The main characters are Jack the Ripper, and his hunters Charles Beauregard (an agent of the Diogenes Club), and Geneviève Dieudonné, an elder French vampire (a similar version of Dieudonné appeared in Newman's trilogy of novels, written under the pseudonym Jack Yeovil, for the Warhammer Fantasy universe). The reader is alternately and sympathetically introduced to various points of view. The interplay between humans who have chosen to "turn" into vampires and those who are "warm" (humans) is the backdrop for the plot which tracks Jack the Ripper's politically charged destruction of vampire prostitutes. It is an alternate history using 19th-century English historical settings and personalities, along with characters from popular fiction. Anno Dracula is a 1992 novel by British writer Kim Newman, the first in the Anno Dracula series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These barely-larger-than-Rescan toys of special guest bots have pull-back motor action, launching them forward.Ī four-pack of the main four Rescue Bots in their Rescan-scale show-forms, all nice and neat. These sets combine a Rescan bot toy with a towable trailer, which itself converts into a role-play gauntlet toy with action features for kids to wear. In particular, wave 24 consisted of four different Bumblebee figures and a single racing truck Optimus Prime, to tie into the release of the Bumblebee film. Waves 10, 13, 24 and 25 contained no new figures. These releases retained the new accessories and other tooling from the Energize versions, and, curiously, the same individual product numbers too. In 2018, long after being replaced by smaller "Rescan" figures (see below), this pricepoint made a limited comeback (under the same Hasbro assortment number, no less), with the four core characters being re-released in new, more cartoon-inspired decoes. ![]() For the Energize subline imprint, the original toys were partially redecoed in clear blue plastic, and retooled to include new rescue tools and additional 5mm ports to hold them in vehicle mode. ![]() These figures are larger than the later "mainline" toys. The original Rescue Bots assortment consists of autotransforming figures, which can hold Rescue Gear in robot mode. ![]() ![]() Overall, Jesmyn Ward creates extremely vivid, real portrayals of life, her words floating off the page, creating mostly beautiful imagery as her stories unfold, though truth be told, some of this imagery I could do without. ![]() A wrenching look at the lonesome, brutal, and restrictive realities of rural poverty, Salvage the Bones is muscled with poetry, revelatory, and real. As the twelve days that comprise the novel’s framework yield to the final day and Hurricane Katrina, the unforgettable family at the novel’s heart-motherless children sacrificing for each other as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce-pulls itself up to struggle for another day. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pitbull’s new litter, dying one by one in the dirt, while brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child’s play and short on parenting. ![]() Lately, Esch can’t keep down what food she gets she’s fourteen and pregnant. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn’t much to save. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn’t show concern for much else. ![]() From Goodreads: A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch’s father is growing concerned. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He slips his shoes off at the door and makes his way into the kitchen. ![]() It’s not an official knock, but at least he’s making an attempt. Eddie heads across the street to Lake’s house, and Gavin walks inside, tapping his knuckles against the front door. Is there a sign on my house instructing people not to knock? Lake never knocks anymore, but her comfort here apparently extends to Eddie as well. “IS LAYKEN OVER HERE OR over there?” Eddie asks, peering in the front door. That’s all I really have to say right now… We’re having dinner with Gavin and Eddie tonight. I wouldn’t be able to do it without them, that’s for sure. Luckily, my grandparents have been supportive while I work on my master’s degree. For right now, though, I’m living off student loans. Hopefully, by this time next year, I’ll be teaching again. I’m thinking about applying to local schools for another teaching job after next semester. Didn’t get the days I wanted, but I only have two semesters left, so it’s getting harder to be picky about my schedule. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The deadliest fictional pandemics and what they tell us about coronavirus panic ![]() The mortality rate doesn't compare to that of COVID-19, which has been put between 1 and 3.4 percent (opens in a new tab).īut still, there are undeniable similarities. It's obvious why he tweeted that - with its "99.4 percent communicability", the superflu in King's novel wipes out the majority of the human race. after a weaponised influenza strain gets accidentally released.Įarlier this month, back before social distancing measures were introduced across America, and prior to COVID-19 (opens in a new tab) being officially called a pandemic by the World Heath Organisation (WHO), King tried to put a stop to the comparisons. One of the many novels about the rapid spread of a virus is The Stand by Stephen King - a story which details the collapse of the U.S. If it feels like we're living in a disaster movie at the moment, that's probably because there's been so much famous fiction chronicling deadly pandemics in the past. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() May 2: A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune, An Oral History – Max Evry Arkspire – Jamie Littler Death Comes to Marlow – Robert Thorogood Every Last Word – Tamara Ireland Stone The Long Game – Elena Armas Lore & Legends – Dungeons & Dragons My Dark Romeo – Huntington & Shen Normal Rules Don’t Apply – Kate Atkinson The River We Remember – William Kent Krueger The Scarlet Veil – Shelby Mahurin The Sun and the Void – Gabriela Romero Lacruz Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare Tom Lake – Ann Patchett Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Gabrielle ZevinĪpr 25: The Complete Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi Eragon – Christopher Paolini Love & Misadventure – Lang Leav The Mushroom Man – Ethel Pochocki & Barry Moser My 60 Memorable Games – Bobby Fischer One Last Stop – Casey McQuistonĪpr 24: 1964: Eyes of the Storm – Paul McCartney Betting on You – Lynn Painter Defiant – Brandon Sanderson The Do-Over – Lynn Painter Drowning – T. ![]() |