![]() ![]() ![]() Jazz puts aside her reservations and gets to work masterminding the perfect crime. When she’s offered a lucrative opportunity by an eccentric Norwegian businessman, it’s too sweet a deal to turn down. ![]() Jazz is one of those workers her wage barely covers her rent and she yearns for an apartment that’s bigger than a coffin and has its own bathroom. It’s home to extravagant billionaires and rich visiting tourists, with poorer workers who keep the city running smoothly and profitably. Jazz lives on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, with a population of 2000. Refreshingly, Artemis centres on a female character – the crafty, belligerent and whip-smart Jazz Bashara, a porter (glorified delivery girl) by occupation and criminal smuggler on the side. Second books are a difficult beast but Weir has written yet another clever and action-fuelled story packed with the author’s trademark wry humour and fast-paced science. Suffice to say, fans of Weir’s particular brand of witty, smart and high-concept storytelling were a tad excited about the release of his latest novel, Artemis. Released in 2011, it was both a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, before being adapted for the big screen by movie juggernaut Ridley Scott. Andy Weir’s debut novel, The Martian, was an absolute triumph. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I will admit that I am not a huge M/M reader, it is not a genre I would actively seek out under normal circumstances, but Laura has interspersed the story and relationship development between Charlie and Jer, throughout the previous books in the series, and having followed their journey through all the thrills and spills in the previous installments, I was just as excited to read of them finally getting their happily ever after, just as much as everyone else in the crew. This novella focuses on Jeremy (Nick’s brother) and Charlie Merritt, the guy that basically started the ball rolling in book one, Hard as It Gets, by being the victim of a kidnapping. ![]() Hard to Be Good is the fifth book/novella in Laura Kaye’s Hard Ink Series, this is more of an interlude than anything, and doesn’t offer a huge amount of development on the bigger issues that Nick Rixey and the rest of his remaining team are trying to investigate and solve in relation to their discharge from the Army. 4 - "You're always good company, to me." Stars! ![]() ![]() ![]() There were also a few quotations that caused me to laugh out loud – it's good to be able to infuse some humor in what is a topic that can get quite serious.Īnother aspect of the structure of the book is that at the end of each topic (chapter), Rudy summarises by providing direct advice to aspergirls, followed by advice to aspergirl parents. What I particularly like about this tome is she quotes regularly from interviewed girls and women with AS and consequently adds many voices to hers in her coverage of a myriad of topics, from challenges in schools, to the impact of puberty on aspergirls. Her approach to writing is to say it as it is, and simply. Rudy Simone has Asperger's Syndrome (AS) and has been a strong advocate for those with the condition for some years. Aspergirls is quite atypical of many i have read and refreshing in style. Being a parent of a girl with autism biases my reading interest toward books on the topic, and to date I have read a lot. ![]() ![]() ![]() In London 1942, Stella meets Dan, a US airman, quite by accident, but there is no denying the impossible, unstoppable attraction that draws them together. The next morning, a mysterious letter arrives and when she can't help but open it, she finds herself drawn inexorably into the story of two lovers from another time. Having fled from her abusive boyfriend and with nowhere to go, Jess stumbles onto a forgotten lane where a small, clearly unlived in old house offers her best chance of shelter for the night. Late on a frozen February evening, a young woman is running through the streets of London. ![]() I tried, for the sake of my own sanity, but I never even got close, and I never stopped hoping either. Now it looks like forever is finally running out. I promised to love you forever, in a time when I didn't know if I'd live to see the start of another week. Iona Grey's prose is warm, evocative, and immediately engaging her characters become so real you can't bear to let them go. An accomplished novel from a talented writer, Letters to the Lost is a stunning, emotional love story. ![]() ![]() Orwell recognises that much political writing exists as iterations of significant works based on an ‘orthodox’ and ‘imitative style’, with such regurgitation intent on blurring perceptions that ‘a mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details.’ Such a claim is vital and acknowledges the political potency of euphemism, yet it fails to recognise the centrality of such repetition in building linguistic fortifications for the defence of political ideologies. While Orwell’s list of linguistic ‘swindles and perversions’ – including ‘dying metaphors,’ ‘meaningless words’ and ‘pretentious diction’ – continues to characterise much of contemporary political discourse, it should be questioned by a subtle alteration in the analysis of language used within the public and political spheres.Ĭontemplating the death of the metaphor requires the acknowledgement of language and semantic fields as markers of complex value systems. Preoccupied with the ‘decay’ of his mother tongue and the political implications inherent to such a decline, Orwell defines the source of such linguistic decadence as a ‘reduced state of consciousness’ in which the metaphor is dead, and pretentiousness prevails. ![]() First published in 1946, George Orwell’s commentary on political language remains culturally salient. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although I'm giving serious consideration to just one. I may not be anyone's idea of the shining hero, but I'm going to make it out of this place alive, and I'm not going to slaughter thousands to do it, either. But the Scholomance isn't getting what it wants from me. Sometimes I think they want me to turn into the evil witch they assume I am. Most of the other students in here would be delighted if Orion killed me like one more evil thing that's crawled out of the drains. Just give me a chance and I'll level mountains and kill untold millions, make myself the dark queen of the world. Forget the hordes of monsters and cursed artifacts, I'm probably the most dangerous thing in the place. I don't need help surviving the Scholomance, even if they do. I'm not joining his pack of adoring fans. Far as I'm concerned, he can keep his flashy combat magic to himself. FINALIST FOR THE LODESTAR AWARD * "The dark school of magic I've been waiting for."-Katherine Arden, author of the Winternight Trilogy I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my life. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver comes the first book of the Scholomance trilogy, the story of an unwilling dark sorceress who is destined to rewrite the rules of magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition, it also tackles current controversies such as raptor persecution, deer management and rewilding and asks bigger questions about the nature of conservation itself: what do we see when we look at our wild places? What should we see? 'A hugely enjoyable and inspiring read' - Isabella Tree, author of Wilding 'I commend this book strongly. ![]() Regeneration is the story of this success, featuring not only the people who are protecting the land and quietly working to undo the wrongs of the past, but also the myriad creatures which inspire them to do so. After 25 years of extremely hard work, the pinewoods, bogs, moors and mountains are returning to their former glory. The only problem was that due to centuries of abuse by human hands, the ancient Caledonian pinewoods were dying, and it would take radical measures to save them. Home to over 5,000 species, this vast expanse of Caledonian woodlands, subarctic mountains, bogs, moors, roaring burns and frozen lochs could be a place where environmental conservation and Highland field sports would exist in harmony. In 1995 the National Trust for Scotland acquired Mar Lodge Estate in the heart of the Cairngorms. The inspiring story of a Highland estate, which was rescued from the catastrophic effects of decades of human interference, and is now one of the most successful examples of rewilding in the UK. ![]() ![]() ![]() Iris's father says that writing a poem means first identifying its "beating heart" foregrounding believable, dynamic characters and showing both the cost of inaction and fear around the HIV/AIDS crisis, and the power of activism to bring change and build community, Polonsky has done just that. ![]() Alongside emotional first-person prose peppered with mentions of era-specific entities and people-ACT UP, Indiana teen Ryan White-acrostic poems exchanged by Iris and her father address themes of life's fragility as well as managing grief and rage. World Made of Glass by Ami Polonsky - Audiobook - World Made of Glass as its meant to be heard, narrated by. Surprising herself, though, she suddenly tells new kid Julian, who's just moved from Indiana and doesn't balk at the news, or at Iris's family situation-she and her mother live in the same West Village building as her father and his boyfriend. People at Iris's largely white, private New York City school know her father is gay, but Iris hasn't told her friends, DnD players who head up an after-school Philanthropy Club, that he's sick. ![]() Set in 1987, this short, emotionally charged novel by Polonsky (Spin with Me) follows a few months in the life of seventh grader Iris Cohen, whose father is dying of AIDS. ![]() ![]() I think the text is pleasant to read aloud, but I'm not sure I see the book being chosen for anything other than bibliotherapy. There really is no story here outside of the lesson about learning to read at one's own pace, and that's the kind of thing teachers want to read about on the first day of school to break the ice and set the tone for the year. This is a definite classroom book that will most likely be used to address kids' anxiety about reading. The visual comparison of the world of words to a scary, complex forest works really well, as does his shift in perspective at the end of the story toward seeing the world of words as an ocean whose waves he can surf with ease. The whimsical illustrations really help to convey how the author felt about words, books, and the act of reading and also how his feelings changed and developed over time. The pictures in this book do a great job of capturing abstract concepts in a concrete medium. In first person, the author relates his experience learning to read and to accept himself as a "slow" reader. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since 2010, the company has developed and sold more than fifty-five novels for adults, young adults, and middle-grade readers. Oliver co-founded Glasstown Entertainment with poet and author Lexa Hillyer. Chester. She has written one novel for adults, Rooms. ![]() ![]() White Read-Aloud Award nominee for her middle-grade novel Liesl & Po, as well as author of the middle-grade fantasy novel The Spindlers and The Curiosity House series, co-written with H.C. It debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017, garnering a wide release from Open Road Films that year. Before I Fall was adapted into a major motion picture starring Zoey Deutch. The film rights to both Replica and Lauren's bestselling first novel, Before I Fall, were acquired by Awesomeness Films. She is also the New York Times bestselling author of the YA novels Replica, Vanishing Girls, Panic, and the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem, which have been translated into more than thirty languages. Lauren Oliver is the cofounder of media and content development company Glasstown Entertainment, where she serves as the President of Production. ![]() |