![]() ![]() There is a hope and longing built into this idea - oh what I wouldn’t give to be able to shed this skin, to transform into something mighty and destructive and unstoppable, to right the wrongs I see and to live full of power. Love for family, love for community, love for ourselves. It is a story of women’s anger, but also women’s love. She deals with some very heavy things, and she is usually left to navigate them alone. I felt completely for Alex, I understood this character in my bones. The story starts in childhood with all the confusion of memories made before context. ![]() Our narrator is Alex, it is part memoir, part scientific study, part history. This book is uses the premise of “spontaneous dragoning” to rail against the silences we are forced to carry, the secrets we lock away in our hearts, the ways ignorance and fear and discomfort limit and cage us. I haven’t been shy about my love for magical realism and the way these stories force us to confront our decidedly less wondrous reality. ![]() And my goodness gracious, does Kelly Barnhill ever capture all of those feelings perfectly in this exquisite book. Because we’ve been mad, I’ve been angry my whole damn life, but it’s just now I’m finding books that mirror my own simmering fury at the world I was given. Let’s start with: if I have anything to be grateful to the former occupier of the White House for, it is the uptick in feminist rage literature. ![]() I’ve been sitting here staring at a blank screen, trying desperately to figure out the words to convey the depth and urgency of my love for this book. ![]()
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The house of the borderland6/7/2023 ![]() Knock and enter at your own liability." The House on the Borderland remains one of Hodgson's most celebrated works. Lovecraft wrote, "Few can equal in adumbrating the nearness of nameless forces and monstrous besieging entities through casual hints and significant details, or in conveying feelings of the spectral and abnormal." "Almost from the moment that you hear the title," observes Alan Moore, "you are infected by the novel's weird charisma. The House on the Borderland has been praised by China Mieville, Terry Pratchett, and Clark Ashton Smith, while H.P. ![]() ![]() I live here in this ancient house, surrounded by huge, unkempt gardens." An exiled recluse, an ancient abode in the remote west of Ireland, nightly attacks by malevolent swine-things from a nearby pit, and cosmic vistas beyond time and space. ![]() Recursion blake crouch netflix6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Kind of like Quantum Leap but only when Sam would leap into himself. Imagine someone builds a device that can map someone's memory, one that sticks out enough that it's really clear, and then transport them back in time to when they were making that memory. However, if you need a little more, I'll put this in spoiler tags but they are not really spoilers except in explaining a bit of the book's plot mechanics: ![]() My opinion is, if you like any of those other books, just jump in and start reading and you'll enjoy it best that way. If you like books like Replay by Ken Grimwood, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North, Life After Life by Kate Atkinson, The Middle Falls Series by Shawn Inmon, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, as well as other works by Blake Crouch (I've never read his Wayward Pines trilogy but I did read his book Dark Matter and I strongly recommend that one as well) then this book is for you. ![]() ![]() I mean I was literally awed reading this! It's got 4 and 1/2 stars on Amazon and I'd say it deserves it. Netflix has landed the rights to Blake Crouch’s upcoming novel Recursion for Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beer’s Shondaland and Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho which they will develop as a feature film as well as a television universe. Recursion will hit book shelves from Crown on June 11, 2019. ![]() Opal raven cycle6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() but hurricanes flooding and rain are all mentioned.there are no ill effects from the weather.Zephfair Fandoms: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater Language: English Words: 4,072 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 12 Kudos: 135 Bookmarks: 14 Hits: 1323 The missing laundry room scene from Opal. Thought I’d have to bug you at least two more times.” He was just closing the lid on the second load when, behind him, Adam said, “That was fast. Then, in an attempt at further productivity, or at least at looking like an overachiever, Ronan gathered more clothes from his room and shoved them in the washer once the first load was tumbling in the dryer. While the first load washed, Ronan made himself toast and threw open windows and the front door, standing in the doorway and watching Adam work for a while until the washer buzzed it was done. Thelimetree Fandoms: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater The body is a question only touch can answer ![]() News from nowhere by william morris6/7/2023 ![]() He has also created voices for countless video games and recorded hundreds of audiobooks, but he is perhaps best known as the voice of Adam Macy in The Archers and of Simon in the Sony Award-winning Clare in the Community for the BBC. Highlights include playing Steerforth in David Copperfield, Newland Archer in The Age of Innocence and Iachimo in Cymbeline. ![]() For over 25 years he has recorded radio drama and book readings for the BBC, where he has twice been a member of the Radio Drama Company. He has played Rochester in Jane Eyre, Alec in Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Count Vronsky in Anna Karenina, the Actor in The Woman in Black, Jack in The Rivals, Tartuffe in Tartuffe, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, and appeared in the Young Vic/Vienna Festival production of Sweet Nothings (based on Schnitzler’s Liebelei). ![]() He trained as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy, and has performed in many leading UK repertory theatres. News from Nowhere study guide contains a biography of William Morris, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and. ![]() Andrew Wincott is a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford. ![]() Carl sagan blue dot6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Voyager 1, which had completed its primary mission and was leaving the Solar System, was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around and take one last photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space, at the request of astronomer and author Carl Sagan. ![]() In the photograph, Earth's apparent size is less than a pixel the planet appears as a tiny dot against the vastness of space, among bands of sunlight reflected by the camera. Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers ( 3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System. ![]() Seen from about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles), Earth appears as a tiny dot within deep space: the blueish-white speck almost halfway up the rightmost band of light. ![]() Something Human by A.J. Demas6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Details Select delivery location Used: Good Details Sold by WeBuyBooks-UK Condition:Used: Good Comment:Ships from the UK. Something Human is a standalone m/m romance set in an imaginary ancient world, about two people bridging a cultural divide with the help of great sex, pedantic discussions about the gods, and bad jokes about standing stones. Something Human has been added to your Cart Add a gift receipt for easy returns Buy used: 8.01 3.99 delivery January 23 - February 7. Unless, of course, the relationship between them changes the course of their people’s history altogether. With their people poised for a long and bitter conflict, it seems too much to hope that these two men could turn their fleeting happiness into something lasting. ![]() As they shelter in an abandoned temple, a friendship neither of them could have imagined grows into a mutual attraction.īut Rus, whose people abhor love between men, is bound by an oath of celibacy, and Adares has a secret of his own that he cannot share. They meet in the aftermath of battle, when Rus saves Adares’s life, and Adares returns the favour. Rus belongs to a tribe of tattooed, semi-nomadic horse-breeders. It’s not the way enemies-to-lovers usually works.Īdares comes from a civilization of democracy and indoor plumbing. They met on a battlefield and saved each other’s lives. ![]() Charlie sunshine by lily morton6/6/2023 ![]() Quick and frequent hookups are his favorite means of communication, and any other pesky emotional needs he has are met by Charlie, whom he’s devoted to. Being the support system for his mum and twin sisters leaves Misha with neither the time nor the inclination for a relationship. Misha Lebedinsky is the complete opposite of his best friend. He can’t imagine his life without Misha in it. The two of them are closer than peas in a pod and fiercely loyal to each other. It’s lucky that he has his best friend, Misha, to turn to. Despite him trying to be the perfect boyfriend, the men are either threatened by his looks or his epilepsy or a combination of the two. ![]() ![]() All he wants is a good relationship like the ones he sees his friends having, but none of the men he picks ever work out. Sometimes love is a lot closer to home than you think.Ĭharlie Burroughs can’t keep a man. ![]() ![]() You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. ![]() Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() About 7,000 human diseases are caused by gene mutations that, in theory, we can simply snip away. Those medical treatments show off CRISPR's most jaw-dropping possibilities. Clinical trials are underway to treat some cancers using CRISPR techniques. Scientists have bred more nutritious tomatoes, and created a wheat that doesn't contain gluten. ![]() Since Doudna published her paper in 2012, a lot's been going on in the world's CRISPR labs. "And then I realized by the end, I was understating the case." ![]() "When I started this book, I thought, 'OK, biotechnology and CRISPR, it's the most amazing thing happening in our time,'" Isaacson said. ![]() His latest, "The Code Breaker" (published by Simon & Schuster, part of ViacomCBS), is about Jennifer Doudna and her work on CRISPR. Walter Isaacson is the author of bestselling books about Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs. ![]() |