The first husband by laura dave5/31/2023 ![]() Reeling, Annie stumbles into her neighborhood bar and finds Griffin-a grounded, charming chef who seems to be everything Annie didn't know she was looking for. ![]() But when Nick comes home from a meeting with his therapist (aka "futures counselor") and announces that he's taking a break from their relationship so he can pursue a woman from his past, the place Annie had come to call home is shattered. She visits the world's most interesting places for her syndicated travel column and she's happily cohabiting with her movie director boyfriend Nick in Los Angeles. ![]() "A fresh, funny take on the search for a soulmate." - PeopleĪ savvy, page-turning novel about a woman torn between her husband and the man she thought she'd marry by the author of the New York Times Bestseller and Reese's Book Club Pick, The Last Thing He Told MeĪnnie Adams is days away from her thirty-second birthday and thinks she has finally found some happiness. ![]()
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The Breeze Horror by Candace Caponegro5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Highly recommended for zombie fans looking for something different. Contrary to the original cover, no killer curtains make an appearance. The Breeze Horror was originally published in 1988 and recently republished by Bloodshot Books. I was rooting for the main character, Sandy, and her young son, to get off the island and escape the beachers. It gets pretty gory and definitely isn't for the faint of heart.Īlthough I could empathize with the beachers, the norms were even more compelling characters. ![]() Are the monsters the unlucky ones caught in the rain, or the ones who refused to help the infected?īut I don't think what the beachers do to the norms by the end of the book is justified by any means. It's always more interesting when a villain isn't just inherently evil. They had motivations and personalities, just like the rest of the characters. It's refreshing to read a book that lets you get inside the head of a zombie. Their anger and hatred of friends and family is because of how they were treated after they became infected. They prefer inflicting pain and torturing the norms. The "beachers" come to resent the "norms" and plan their revenge, becoming more sadistic as their bodies become more decayed.Ī different kind of zombie book, these zombies-or beachers-aren't interested in eating brains. The frightened residents of Sea Breeze Island quarantine the infected on the beach. ![]() When a space shuttle carrying toxic waste collides with a meteor, contaminated rain pours down, infecting everyone it touches, causing their bodies to decompose, but leaving their minds intact. ![]() Tijan meyer the insiders5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() They breathed a little easier just by being near one another, and when they weren’t you could feel the heaviness they carried when they were apart. You could feel the burning chemistry between them with every interaction. There was a shift in Bailey and Kash’s relationship, more intense in every way, and more open in others. I was completely mesmerized, I couldn’t stop, one page to the next had your heart racing and your head reeling with thoughts of what was to come. Tijan’s carefully crafted words, once read, transfuse the emotions of the character straight into your heart. She was making new friends while others were making assumptions on who Bailey was and the life she had led to that point.īailey’s emotions were delivered with a raw intensity, every one of them left a searing mark inside of me. Now that the secret is out on who her father is and her relationship with Kash, people have begun to take notice of Bailey everywhere she goes. I honestly don’t know where to begin, of course I went into it not knowing what to expect, but even so, Tijan delivered an epic read that has my mind spinning.īailey’s starting graduate school with bodyguards by her side. ![]() The Damaged was fascinating from the first word to the last.Ī few words was all it took for reality to fade and I was fully engulfed inside this world. ![]() ![]() Neil Gaiman declared himself a fan and started comparing Clarke to Shakespeare. ![]() Norrell is the only book ever to have been both long-listed for literary fiction’s Mann Booker Prize and win fantasy’s Hugo Award. A reader’s report that Clarke’s publisher commissioned before acquiring the book and then distributed widely afterward began with the reader declaring they were waiving their usual fee because they had enjoyed reading the book so much. It is substantial, both in length and in ideas, and also enormously fun to read. Norrell is a big, sprawling, mythical book, a Victorian pastiche full of footnotes and arch Austenian wit in which ancient magics keep seeping in through the margins. Norrell, in the kind of massive, culture-shaking event most novelists dream of. ![]() In 2004, Susanna Clarke published her first novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr. ![]() My autobiography of carson mccullers5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() Though Shapland recognizes herself in the letters, which are intimate and unabashed in their feelings, she does not see McCullers as history has portrayed her. ![]() Shapland is a graduate student when she first uncovers letters written to Carson McCullers by a woman named Annemarie. How do you tell the real story of someone misremembered-an icon and idol-alongside your own? Jenn Shapland's celebrated debut is both question and answer: an immersive, surprising exploration of one of America's most beloved writers, alongside a genre-defying examination of identity, queerness, memory, obsession, and love. Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner of the Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award, and a Lambda Literary Award ![]() |