![]() ![]() Growing up in Yegen, with the reflective Virginia Woolf, witty Lytton Strachey and other Bloomsbury group friends of Don Geraldo visiting the village regularly, Encarnita learned many stories. With her dark hair and wide, soot black eyes, the young Encarnita was as beautiful as she was serious. But Gerald is not the only new arrival in a dusty stable a child is born. But the arrival of Gerald Brenan, the British writer, and his string of artistic and literary visitors, brings a new excitement to the sultry town. ![]() For years Yegen’s small community has continued in its own quiet way, knowing little of the outside world. The wild flowers, poppies, lavender, rosemary and thyme fill the air with their enchanting scent as the setting sun streaks vivid bands of pink and purple across the sky. ![]() It is 1920 and the beautiful village of Yegen, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, awakens to a new year. The Second Flowering of Emily Mountjoy (1979). ![]()
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![]() The two main characters are your stereotypical “I’m not like other girls/boys” trope. This book is your typical teen book filled to the brim with cliques. Or right under my nose, and I wouldn’t even know it.Īfter reading Birthday Girl and not loving it, I decided to give Penelope Douglas another shot. I should’ve gotten his number or picture or something. Did he die? Get arrested? Knowing Misha neither would be a stretch. Name’s Ryen loves Gallo’s pizza and worships her iPhone. Until I run across a photo of a girl online. No social media, no phone numbers, no pictures. ![]() She’s the only one who keeps me on track, talks me down, and accepts everything I am. ![]() Sometimes there’s one a week or three in a day, but I need them. Her letters are always on black paper with silver writing. Whether or not Eminem is the greatest rapper ever…Īnd that was the start. ![]() And in no time at all, we were arguing about everything. It didn’t take long for us to figure out the mistake. My teacher, believing Ryen was a boy like me, agreed. Thinking I was a girl, with a name like Misha, the other teacher paired me up with her student, Ryen. In fifth grade, my teacher set us up with pen pals from a different school. I can’t help but smile at the words in her letter. ![]() ![]() ![]() So severe she once called 911 on herself. ![]() She is a legend in the small town in Michigan a legend no one dares to talk about. All you have to do is think about her, and she comes back from the dead, still wearing Kiss makeup, to kill you with her bare hands. ![]() Daphne had returned home, fell asleep, and then the garage door shut, killing her with carbon monoxide poisoning. She is a teenage girl who died while listening to music in her running car. She has also been dead since the 90s, a former resident of Samhattan, found inside her car in her garage. Daphne wears Kiss makeup, all eyes and long tongues. She has no friends or family and she likes to give creepy looks to anyone who comes near her. She likes to wear denim with patches of her favorite bands all over her clothing. ![]() ![]() ![]() This has swiftly become one of my favourite series of all time thanks to the incredible stories that Maberry has come up with, and my intention is to finish off all the Joe Ledger books before the end of the year. In particular, I have been making my way through the Joe Ledger series, which follows the titular agent as he investigates all manner of weird science and world-ending plots. People familiar with my blog will know that I have been really getting into Maberry’s writing over the last couple of years. I recently found myself in the mood for another intense and crazy thriller novel, and luckily I knew exactly the book to check out, as I ended up listening to the eighth entry in the fantastic Joe Ledger series by Jonathan Maberry, Kill Switch. Reviewed as part of my Throwback Thursday series, where I republish old reviews, review books I have read before or review older books I have only just had a chance to read. Publisher: Macmillan Audio (Audiobook – 26 April 2016) ![]() ![]() And then there's the hound of Hel, Garm, who's terribly difficult to shake and not at all convinced that Atticus is dead.īeing tricked by a trickster is par for the course. There are things hiding in the Arizona desert that don't want any company, and Coyote makes sure they know Atticus has arrived. The cost, however, might wind up being every bit as high as if he'd made no deal at all. With members of the Norse pantheon out for his blood, he can't train his apprentice in peace, so he asks Coyote to help him fake his own death. ![]() Neil Gaiman's American Gods meets Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden."-SFFWorldĬutting a deal with a trickster god rarely goes well for any human brave or foolish enough to try it, but Atticus doesn't feel like he has a choice. " Hearne is a terrific storyteller with a great snarky wit. . ![]() NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER o In the fourth novel of the Iron Druid Chronicles, two-thousand-year-old Druid Atticus O'Sullivan must pay his debts to cunning trickster god Coyote, a task that includes battling undead creatures of the night as well as a relentless hound of Hel and the goddess of death who commands it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the present Vyme is a mechanic who fixes and maintains starships at the edge of the galaxy. ![]() And while we don’t stay with this opening image for very long, it informs the rest of the story. Inside this enclosed space are crystalline plants, small sloth-like creatures with suction-cup appendages and flying lizards that start out as larvae. The main character, Vyme, describes an “ecologarium” (a self-contained ecosystem) set up on a beach for the education of the children in his procreation group. The first story in the book, “The Star-Pit” opened with some serious VanderMeer vibes. I think this summary below hits all the key elements you mentioned: intergalactic travel, insanity, autism (or being "golden," as it is called in the story). The story is " The Star-Pit" (1967) by Samuel R. ![]() |