#19 A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny (2022) One of the best in the series, I think. Number 18, and still going strong. Classic Penny. Great characters, suspense, and fast-paced delight. #20 Spring by Ali Smith (2019) Spring starts out like a treatise on the shocking public dis...
a blog about the worlds, conventions, and curiosities of fantasy fiction Negative Reviews That Don’t Turn Me Off a Book May 18, 2020/18 Comments More often than not, it’s the gushing, positive things in reviews that help convince me to read a book, and the negative ones that make me...
Unfortunately for me, this is one of those books that takes a great premise and sets up the world well, but then gets lost in its own narrative. This is not a book that i would recommend. Looking for a good book? Some may find The Carnivale of Curiosities by Amiee Gibbs to be a ...
Many zoos back then were more collections of curiosities than places where you could learn about various habitats. So when David Sarnoff, president of RCA, bagged a live opossum in the South, the critter was given a new home in an antelope enclosure, per this item in the Dec. 20, 1931 ...
The Carnivale of Curiosities – I started with this because I love carnival stories and magic. It really wasn’t capturing my attention, though, so I gave it several chapters and culled it around page 17. Death and the Conjuror – Unimpressed with the writing style at the beginning but susp...
Open up your cabinet of curiosities. Tell good stories. Teach what you know. Don’t turn into human spam. Learn to take a punch. Sell out. Stick around. This book isnotjust for “creatives”! Whether you’re an artist or an entrepreneur, a student or a teacher, a hobbyist or a pr...
these researchers must navigate their curiosities by raising and answering their critical questions (Peters et al.,2016). Indeed, publication work describes academic labor, entailing trustworthiness, candor, integrity, and perseverance. Editors are responsible for protecting intellectual benefits and respectin...
Hayes responds: That there was so much more going on that we might imagine in the lives of those who now exist now only as footnotes or obscure curiosities. That and also that the female impulse to bury those women who don’t suit us (for whatever reason) is not a good one. That th...
Laura E. Pricelives in southwestern Florida with her husband and son. Her work has appeared inOn Spec, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, GigaNotoSaurus, Penumbra eMag, Gallery of Curiosities, The Best of Metaphorosis 2017,andBetwixt.She also blogs atseldnei.wordpress.com. ...
…James Thurbergave us an awkward moment among the tender youth of the unclad world… …Otto Soglow’sLittle King rose to the occasion, as always… …Daniel Alain’sartist tried his best to make some small talk while at work… …and we close withE. Simms Campbell, and the yawning gulf...