5/10/2023 0 Comments A little life near me![]() ![]() Without giving too much away, the main character Jude experiences horrific repeated sexual abuse and violence as a child, and the core of the story hangs on how this trauma affects the rest of his life and the lives of those closest to him. So after saying it’s one of my ‘favourite’ books, I always feel the need to add a caveat to that statement, because while exquisitely written it is also relentlessly sad, with 700 pages detailing harrowing abuse and trauma. ![]() Of course, A Little Life is not an easy read. It’s one of those books that stays with you forever. I’m not exaggerating when I say this novel challenged everything I thought I knew about love and friendship. ![]() By the end of it I felt profoundly changed. But Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life is different: it was one of the first books where I openly sobbed after reading. I will happily admit, as a devoted and lifelong reader, that there are more than a few books that have made me cry. ![]()
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5/10/2023 0 Comments Hide and Seek by Jack Ketchum![]() ![]() ![]() Where something lurks waiting in the dark. It's a need that finds them at last in an old abandoned house at night, a house reputed to be haunted, where phantom lights burn in broken windows. And gradually becomes the fourth member of the group - the poor relation. For Casey the thrill's the thing and the riskier the better. She's not opposed to stealing caviar or cars or running around naked in graveyards. Games you might even want to play yourself if. The most daring of the three is a beautiful, troubled girl named Casey. Hide and Seek, by Jack Ketchum (Unabridged)Hide and Seek is a book about games. When the college kids arrive, that changes. He works in a lumberyard hauling two-by-fours and furring around all day with a forklift. Dan's a local and didn't get a chance to go to college. So that when a trio of friends, rich college kids, arrive there on a forced march with their parents for summer vacation they have to make their own amusements. Even now, sixty-odd years later, there's not much to do, not much going on. The Great Depression hit hard and never let go. ![]() Not ever.Dead River's a sleepy little town on the coast of Maine without much going for it. Games you might even want to play yourself if you're with the right people. I don't believe in omens, but I think you can know when you're in trouble.Thus begins Jack Ketchum's riveting second novel Hide and Seek. HIDE AND SEEK by Jack Ketchum - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKCemetary Dance : Baltimore 2000 First edition, first printing, mint, new/unread, flawless dustjacket, signed by author. ![]() ![]() Throughout this book, I felt what the characters felt. Drake’s strength as a writer is in clearly rendering these people (particularly Riley, the protagonist) so they seem believable and familiar to the reader. It’s clear what they want and what’s keeping them from getting it. Characters seem realistically flawed, emotionally alive. Everybody in the book seems hurt and wanting, stuck in an agonizing pattern of self-defeat and dysfunction. ![]() The whole story, every character interaction, is a pool of hard, bitter emotions. The book is clearly in the horror category but also has a noir genre feel to it, including the common noir element of the emotionally or psychologically damaged law enforcement officer for a main character. Scene after scene exhibits Drake’s competence at playing out a narrative thread. ![]() The narrative voice is strong, rich with nuance and flavor. ![]() This short debut novel quickly establishes that newcomer Ennis Drake can really write. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Salem falls by jodi picoult![]() ![]() ![]() There, working in a diner, he finds a peaceful existence and a blossoming romance with proprietor Addie Peabody. Leaving prison and his past behind him, Jack plants new roots in the small and quiet town of Salem Falls. On the advice of his attorney, a reluctant Jack cops a plea and serves the time. With a trial looming, Jack faces the decision of his life - suffer for eight months in jail and get out quickly or endure the remainder of years locked in a cell. Bride, a handsome school teacher wrongly accused of statutory rape by a prep school student with a crush. ![]() Salem Falls brings the Crucible into the 21st century via Jack St. In this acclaimed writer's stellar eighth novel, she deals with yet another intriguing and innovative topic - a modern day witch hunt. In the case of Jodi Picoult, not seven, but eight, is magic. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Cogheart author![]() ![]() ![]() He streaked past them all, slaloming between their legs. Street, selling newspapers, mittens, roast chestnuts and machine parts. We mustn’t let them get away with what they did. We’ve got the one thing they want – the one thing that’ll draw them to us. “They know everything about us, and we don’t have a clue about them, so how can we ever win? But we have to win, Lil. “There could be dangerous things inside, and clank knows what chaos Roach and Mould could cause with them.” “I realize the odds don’t look good,” Robert added. “If we give in now,” he said, “ then everyone who’s tried to protect it would’ve died in vain, and we’ll never discover its secret – the truth of what it can do.” “ He’s right, Lily.” Malkin narrowed his black eyes. “This whole time I hoped he might be alive, might still come back, but he’s not going to, is he? We should just give them the box – the machine – before they kill us too.” Robert took a deep breath, his mouth dry. They’d kill her and Robert too, if they had the chance, and nothing she could say or do, no help she could call on, would ever stop them. They’d done so much damage to possess it. ![]() And all for this box this perpetual motion machine. ![]() ![]() In this remarkable final installment of the Nightshade trilogy, Andrea Cremer crafts a dynamic novel with twists and turns that will keep you breathless until its final pages.Īndrea Cremer spent her childhood daydreaming while roaming the forests and lakeshores of Northern Wisconsin. And then there's deciding what to do when the war ends. There's proving herself as the pack's alpha, facing unnameable horrors, and ridding the world of the Keepers' magic once and for all. There's keeping Ansel safe, even if he's been branded a traitor. There's saving Ren, even if it incurs Shay's wrath. ![]() ![]() But now that the final battle is upon her, there's more at stake than fighting. Please join us for an author reading and signing as to celebrate Andrea Cremer's, BLOODROSE, the new and final book in her international bestselling Nightshade Trilogy.Ĭalla has always welcomed war. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Basalt by Sarah L. Nelson![]() ![]() Gender Hierarchy and the Queens of Silla."Diversity of the Upper Paleolithic "Venus" Figurines and Archaeological Mythology," in Powers of Observation, Alternative Views in Archaeology.The Neolithic of Northeastern China and Korea.PhD Dissertation, University of Michigan, 1973. Chulmun Period Villages on the Han River in Korea, Subsistence and Settlement.Nelson died at the age of 88 in 2020 after a long illness. She was also well known for her work on gender and archaeology and for her fiction writing about ancient East Asia. She also conducted extensive research in the archaeology of gender and Hongshan culture. Nelson was known for her research on the archaeology of East Asia, in particular Korea and northeast China. Nelson was raised in Florida and obtained her PhD from the University of Michigan in 1973. ![]() Sarah Milledge Nelson (Novem– April 27, 2020) was an American archaeologist and Distinguished Professor Emerita from the Department of Anthropology, University of Denver, United States. Gender in Archaeology: Analyzing Power and Prestige (1997) ![]() Archaeology and history of East Asia, Gender archaeology ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure. In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think. The external world could take care of itself. With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion. They resolved to leave means neither of ingress or egress to the sudden impulses of despair or of frenzy from within. The courtiers, having entered, brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts. This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince's own eccentric yet august taste. ![]() When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys. And the whole seizure, progress and termination of the disease, were the incidents of half an hour.īut the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim, were the pest ban which shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. Blood was its Avatar and its seal-the redness and the horror of blood. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. ![]() THE “RED DEATH” had long devastated the country. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Ship of theseus novel![]() ![]() ![]() The core book – ‘The Ship of Theseus’ – is a whole story in itself – and its title is based on a paradox. Just as those things were, this book is now a treasured possession, even though I feel I’ve barely scraped its surface yet. ![]() When I opened it, I got the same feeling as when I used to browse my favourite antique/junk shop as a teenager, picking up a box brownie for five quid, an old suitcase, even a World War 2 gas mask. ‘The Ship of Theseus’, or ‘S’ as the wider project is known, is the creation of filmmaker, J.J Abrams and writer, Doug Dorst, and it’s a book to get excited about. It’s a work of art, and I’d never seen anything like it before. I’ve categorised it as an ‘Odd Book’, but it’s the best kind of odd. My favourite find by miles is an extraordinary one. But being surrounded by thousands of tempting second-hand books for a whole six hours means that I never go home empty-handed and my wages are always a little depleted! Sometimes I get to look after Molly’s Little Bookshop for a day, and it’s always a treat. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Josie silver new book 2021![]()
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