![]() ![]() Let end on a high note, with this stunning piece of art at the end of the book (that I now realise is an ACTUAL COVER. ruined the experience a little? (although as stated as above, Fionna/Marshall Lee is great, and it MUST BE MADE CANON). ![]() I'm not one generally for romance, and the constant romance plot in this just kinda. I recently have been reading the non gender-bent comics, and have noticed that this one, with Fionna and Cake is HIGHLY more romaticised than the stories of Finn and Jake, and for some reason, that bothered me. ![]() this is where my biggest complaint arises. OH MY GODS.Īlso, after reading this, I would definitely say I am a shipper of Fionna/Marshall Lee. This was unbelievably cute! The characters made me laugh pretty loudly, in traditional Adventure Time style, and they were well written too!ĪND THE BOYS NIGHT PART, WHEN THEY GOT MATCHING T-SHIRTS. This is sitting at a good 3.5 stars, but I figured I'd be nice for once and round up ![]()
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![]() ![]() In her mid-teens, Juana was sent to live with her aunt in Mexico City by then, rumors of her prodigious intellect had spread to the capital and she was presented at the court of a new viceregal couple, Antonio Sebastian de Toledo (the Marquis de Mancera) and Leonor Carreto. ![]() In a somewhat dramatic teenage display of commitment to her education, Juana cut off her hair every time she made a mistake in Latin. She asked to be allowed to disguise herself as a man so that she could go to university, but was not given permission and had to continue to tutor herself. Juana taught herself all she could by reading her grandfather’s library and soon mastered logic, Latin and the Aztec language Nahuatl. At the age of three, she followed an older sister to school and convinced a teacher to show her how to read. She was officially registered as “a daughter of the Church” because her parents were unmarried. Juana was born in 1648 in San Miguel Nepantla, Mexico, near Mexico City. In honor of Women’s History Month, I want to honor my favorite (and too-little-known) feminist, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a 17th century nun, poet and scholar. ![]() ![]() ![]() Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations-and the odds are against them. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.ĭetective Miller is looking for a girl. A secret that someone is willing to kill for-and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. ![]() When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. HUGO AWARD FOR BEST SERIES Humanity has colonized the solar system-Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond-but the stars are still out of our reach. Corey comes the first book in the genre-defining space opera series, The Expanse, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing girl. A reversible cover that features the full, uncropped artwork of the original cover artįrom New York Times-bestselling and Hugo award-winning author James S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She gets that weird feeling again, but this time she looks down to see that her legs are gone-replaced by a shiny, beautiful tail! Welcome to Emily’s Big Discovery, the first in a sparkling, charmingly illustrated series of readers. Eager to figure out what’s happening, Emily later dives into the sea. ![]() Standing beside the pool, she feels the water calling her, but when she jumps in, she gets a strange, kind of scary sensation. But it’s hard to make friends at the beach when everyone else is having fun in the waves! So when swimming lessons start at school, Emily is excited to finally have the chance to learn. Her mother has always cautioned her to stay out of the water. Even though she lives in a houseboat, Emily Windsnap doesn’t know how to swim. Introducing an exciting new line of readers that brings half-mermaid Emily Windsnap-star of the New York Times best-selling series-to a younger audience. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Honora and Conal disappear, after a suffrage rally turns into a riot, and abandoned Winifred has nowhere to turn but home. Meeting her friend Honora’s silver-tongued brother turns Winifred’s heart upside down. The only light in his life comes from a chance encounter with Winifred, the girl he determines to make his wife. The scars of Bill Howarth’s troubled childhood linger. It’s 1911 and Winifred Duffy is a determined young woman eager for new experiences, for a life beyond the grocer’s shop counter ruled over by her domineering mother. Consequently I’m delighted that I have finally been able to read one of Judith’s books and be part of the launch clebrations for A Hundred Tiny Threads with my review today.Ī Hundred Tiny Threads was published on 17th August 2017 by Honno Press and is available for purchase here and directly from Honno. I was thrilled to interview Judith about her Pattern trilogy to which A Hundred Tiny Threads is the prequel. ![]() I feel as if I’ve known Judith Barrow, author of A Hundred Tiny Threads, for ever as she has been such a supporter of Linda’s Book Bag since I started blogging. Netgalley Advocate Netgalley General Data Protection Regulations A Publication Day Extract from The Night She Met the Duke by Sarah Mallory.An Extract from The Nice Guy and the Devil by Tom Trott. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To think of a novel as a “gift” was intriguing to us. I will try to demonstrate how these doubles are inseparable-how neither can exist without the other and how out of their groupings creativeness is born.” In WRM, we like to look at our theme for the year from all angles. Steinbeck says, “I will tell them one of the greatest, perhaps the greatest story of all-the story of good and evil, of strength and weakness, of love and hate, of beauty and ugliness. The book explained how and why he wrote East of Eden. Steinbeck wrote this book as a gift to his sons to tell them the story of their history, both natural (how their family settled in the Salinas Valley) and spiritual (the fight for good and evil in the heart of every man). Steinbeck wrote a book entitled Journal of a Novel to his close friend and editor, Pascal Covici. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() Physical trainer Roberta 'Rob' James moved to Little Bridge hoping she'd found paradise, but things haven't turned out quite as she'd hoped. ![]() Welcome to Little Bridge, one of the smallest - and most beautiful - islands in the Florida Keys, home to sandy white beaches, salt-rimmed margaritas, stunning sunsets and some of the quirkiest - but also kindest and most resourceful - people you'll ever meet. ![]() *Includes an excerpt from the forthcoming new full-length novel No Judgments* ' Her trademark frank humor makes for compulsive reading' PUBLISHERS WEEKLYĮscape to Little Bridge Island, the first story in a new series from Meg Cabot 'Meg Cabot is chick-lit royalty' NEWSWEEK ![]() ![]() She sighed and leaned out of bed to grope around for the beeping phone. That thought lasted approximately three seconds before curiosity won out. With a sour grunt, she contemplated turning her cell off and catching more shut-eye. ![]() It was one of those immutable commandments of journalism for god’s sake. Only people with a death wish would harass an entertainment reporter before ten on a weekend. She turned to look at her clock radio-some incessantly cheerful red thing-and squinted until the numbers came into view-7:33 a.m. Not quite the worst part of her job, but way up there. All that air-kissing invariably had a downside. ![]() She groaned and twisted only to get a face full of her own hair, which reeked of assorted socialites’ perfumes and industrial-strength hair sprays. ![]() Her cell phone gave a faint beep from somewhere on her hardwood floor. Nothing like waking up to a full-blown head cold with a side of pink boa. Her swollen tongue tasted like glitter, feathers, and faux fur. Lauren King rolled over, coughed miserably, and buried her face in her pillow. My book would be a lesser offering without you all. Thanks go to the enthusiastic and fabulous Astrid at Ylva Publishing for taking a chance on an untried Aussie writer, and to Cheri, Bonnie, and Sheri, who helped me whip my scribblings into shape. ![]() Her patience has been remarkable and her warmth sustains me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Taylor fleshes out slender sources into a convincing recreation of Jennings’s relatively privileged but precarious existence, setting it against a vivid portrait of the deeply conflicted Madison, a theorist of liberty who lived off of slave labor and a master who prided himself on his paternalism yet broke his vow never to sell his “charges.” At the heart of the story is the tension between the warm human relationship between Madison and Jennings and the remorseless inhumanity of slavery as an institution and ideology in one tragicomic vignette, Madison declaims into a guest’s ear trumpet about slaves’ unfitness to live free among whites-while his servants studiously pretend not to hear him. Historian Taylor reconstructs the life of Jennings, a slave belonging to President James Madison who became his valet, barber and major-domo, bought his freedom from Madison’s widow Dolly, and published admiring reminiscences of the couple. The complex relationship between a president and his bondman abounds in ironies in this revealing study. ![]() |