![]() ![]() ![]() As much a memoir as a sports book, it was extremely well received (at a time when mainstream interest in football was on the rise in Britain following the 1990 World Cup) and won several awards, in addition to spawning a whole sub-genre of football fan memoirs (none of which quite matched this). Fever Pitch (published in 1992) is author Nick Hornby's ( About a Boy, High Fidelity) first book and is an autobiographical look at being a sports fan and all that entails in the context of growing up supporting Arsenal FC in England.Įach chapter covers a single match attended between the late 60s and the early 90s, and relates to Hornby's own childhood and life experiences. ![]()
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Submission is not weakness – it is the furthest thing from it. ![]() ![]() ![]() At Sterre's command, Ylfing begins telling stories once more, fanning the city into a mania for a few shipments of an exotic flower. That is, until Ylfing's employer finds out what he is, what he does, and what he knows. But Ylfing has been struggling to come to terms with what his master did, with the audiences he's been alienated from, and with the stories he can no longer trust himself to tell. Now Ylfing is all alone in a new realm, brokenhearted and grieving-but a Chant in his own right, employed as a translator to a wealthy merchant of luxury goods, Sterre de Waeyer. Three years ago, Yfling watched his master-Chant tear a nation apart with nothing but the words on his tongue. The follow-up to the fan-favorite A Conspiracy of Truths "reveals the author's stunning prose, beautiful worldbuilding, and emotional detail," ( Library Journal, starred review) and serves as a timely reminder that the words we wield can bring destruction-or salvation. ![]() ![]() Lily Lamprey is an an actress on a soap opera-esque show called Knightsbridge. It was the last straw when she seduced the vicar. ![]() ![]() I mean, it is one of the most awesome first lines I’ve read in ages. You hooked me from the first line (I don’t count the excerpt from the “article” from fictional gossip rag London Celebrity which precedes it). Now I am, of course, kicking myself about those two unread books because oh lordy, I loved Pretty Face hard. But trusted friends have told me I need to read both books like, yesterday so when I saw Pretty Face was available for review I snapped it up. I have your other book too – Artistic License written under the name Elle Pierson (I haven’t read that either – this is basically the story of my giant TBR of Doom). Although I own Act Like It in both ebook and audiobook formats, I haven’t yet read/listened to it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve listed these out at the end of this review as a reminder to myself as much as anything. ![]() It is to contrast with my own detached, academic position as a white British reader.įollowing an introduction which gives an outline of the contents of the whole book, the chapters proceed in chronological order with some themes relating to the same time covered in separate chapters. This is absolutely in no way a criticism of Olusoga, or a reason to ignore the contents of this book. When the National Front were hounding people out of their homes, it was he who was being hounded out. As a British-Nigerian this is visceral, the talk by Enoch Powell of “sending back” non-white citizens of Britain meant he feared he would be separated from his family as a boy. The first thing that struck me about this book was the Preface where Olusoga writes about his motivation for writing the book. Although, to be honest, I bought it before I realised and in all likelihood by the time you read this Black History Month will have finished. Since October was Black History Month I thought Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga would make a very appropriate read. ![]() ![]() Springer lives in East Berlin, Pennsylvania. Her most recent series include the Tales of Rowan Hood, featuring Robin Hood’s daughter, and the Enola Holmes mysteries, starring the much younger sister of Sherlock Holmes. Field award, various Children's Choice honors and numerous ALA Best Book listings. Springer's children's books have won her two Edgar Allan Poe awards, a Carolyn W. : Enola Holmes: The Case of the Missing Marquess (An Enola Holmes Mystery) (9780142409336) by Springer, Nancy and a great selection of similar. ![]() Her novels and stories for middle-grade and young adults range from contemporary realism, mystery/crime, and fantasy to her critically acclaimed novels based on the Arthurian mythos, I AM MORDRED: A TALE OF CAMELOT and I AM MORGAN LE FAY. In a career beginning shortly after she graduated from Gettysburg College in 1970, Springer wrote for ten years in the imaginary realms of mythological fantasy, then ventured on contemporary fantasy, magical realism, and women's fiction before turning her attention to children's literature. ![]() Nancy Springer has published forty novels for adults, young adults and children. ![]() ![]() ![]() Deutsch is willing to pay them $100,000 each to bring him proof that the afterlife either exists or it doesn’t. ![]() Lionel Barrett, a physicist with an interest in parapsychology, along with two mediums: Florence Tanner, former Hollywood actress and now a mental medium and Spiritualist and Benjamin Franklin Fisher, a physical medium and the only survivor of an earlier attempt to investigate Hell House in 1940. A dying billionaire, Rolf Rudolph Deutsch, hires Dr. as if we are always just missing the hands at three, or twelve, or six.Īs far as the actual story goes, it has a classically ominous beginning to a haunted house tale. Matheson creates tension in Hell House in a couple of very effective ways: the book is broken into days, rather than chapters, which gives the feeling of time inexorably moving forward, no matter what the time stamps introducing each scene are listed in a way that is somehow unnerving, such as 3:17 p.m., 11:47 a.m., 6:11 p.m. The first thing I noticed was an immediate build-up of tension. It takes the basic premise of The Haunting of Hill House – that there’s a scientist and his wife, and two people who have had prior experience with the paranormal and that together they will spend a week in a very famous haunted house for the purpose of scientific research into the supernatural – and really takes it up several notches. Hell House, by Richard Matheson, is one of the best haunted house novels ever written. ![]() ![]() Their time is spent frequenting a facility where death is commonplace, and this time is used to meditate on issues such as reincarnation, transcendence, impending doom, and the use of technology and consciousness to influence our fate. Zero K focuses more on the theme of death, as it revolves around the young wife of the narrator's father, who is seriously ill. I have a lot to say about it, as his works leave the reader with numerous thoughts.Ī part of me was glad to find DeLillo back on home turf, discussing and meditating on the themes that he specializes in best: terrorism, the influence of TV in our society, death, and uncertainty. Fast forward to 2016, and fresh off of being awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and the author has dropped his latest opus, Zero K into bookshelves. ![]() I didn't hear about DeLillo's new novel until a few weeks ago, especially after I had mixed feelings about his previous Point Omega, which seemed like a collage of previous passages from earlier works rather than a true, organic novel. ![]() ![]() David was the strongest musician, and there was no doubt he’d be the best choice. He’d been my best friend since then too, but in recent weeks he had turned against me - no doubt by that sound engineer or maybe even Henry, our keyboardist, with whom I’d had a brief fling before David came back into my life.įor the record, I hadn’t wanted my ex in our band, but we’d needed a new drummer, and behind my back the other guys hosted David’s secret audition. Greg was the one I’d started the band with the summer before our senior year in high school, the co-writer of all our songs. Usually, we just rehearsed in Greg’s, the lead guitarist’s, basement. The slot had been booked by a friends’ band, and I tried to simply think of it as a more official practice. ![]() ![]() It didn’t help that we’d all driven two hours through traffic to play some gig at an empty bar in the Inland Empire. ![]() Our tensions had been high for weeks, ever since that recording incident or - if I’m being honest - since I began dating our drummer, David, again. We hadn’t broken up yet, but the fissures were obvious. By the time I was electrocuted on an ungrounded stage in San Bernardino, my first band was already over. ![]() ![]() ![]() There were kind of two main things going on that should have been really interesting, but weren't. ![]() The author took a cool premise and an even cooler setting and then wrote a really boring book. Narration aside though, this book had some problems. Her Southern accent was pretty terrible, but thankfully, she kept forgetting to use it. ![]() I listened to this book, and the narrator didn't really do it any favors. One night, she witnesses a man in a black coat magically abducting a child, which changes everything. Serafina's presence in the house is a secret so she mostly traverses the estate through tunnels and doesn't go outside. She and her Pa secretly live in the basement, where he is basically the electrical engineer of the place. Serafina is the Chief Rat Catcher at Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC in 1899. ![]() |