which takes place in a fantasy world with a steampunk flavor. Though I have the much-lauded Murderbot series on my TBR, I have never read any of Wells’ work before. The Element of Fire is her debut, and when this book crossed my dashboard I thought it’d be a decent place to sta...
I’m still hooked on tracking my reading on a spreadsheet and actually use two as I found them both online and each one tracks different data (and I’m nowhere near savvy enough to know how to combine them so I shall continue to use them both!). Out of the 290 books I read last ...
If you’ve ever found yourself lost in a world drawn by words, created by an author’s imagination, and lit by the spark of a lover’s first kiss, you know the magic the best romance books can hold. These works offer an escape, a thrill ride through star-crossed love or heart-melti...
where adult observers could intervene. It was like they’d drawn a veil of fellow-feeling and good intentions over their own childhoods as soon as they crossed the magic line into adulthood, and left all the strange feuds,
Under the Udala Trees is a book about star-crossed love. The novel follows the life of Ijeoma, a young girl who, at the start of the book, is sent away from her family in order to stay safe during the Nigerian civil war. While away, Ijeoma meets Amina, another girl also separated ...
Earlier in this post, I wrote about how my last few years have been a quivering heap of chaos and woe, with lots to regret and little to show. Wouldn’t you know it, I’m also a poet (SORRY, that one crossed a line). Based on what I disclosed, you might think I’m just a ...
On Sundays, Han Mei enjoys (read) comic (连环画)books at home. 免费查看参考答案及解析 题目: ___ (read)asoftenaspossible,andyou'llfindyourpfemeaningful. 免费查看参考答案及解析 题目: TheGreensalways ___ (read)newspapersinthemorning. 免费查看参考答案及解析 题目: ___(read)Engpshevery...
Ardra Shephard:Coping well with anything means allowing yourself to feel whatever you’re feeling. I never use humour to deny what I’m going through. I believe in laughter, but I also believe in freaking out as necessary. Grieve and get on with it is kind of my MO. A comic sensibility...
I don’t remember the rest of the performance. Suddenly, we were finishing with a bow and I looked up at the hundreds of people who couldn’t clap hard enough. Shakily, I crossed the stage to the stairs and we walked to our chairs at the back of the room. ...
The two versions of the list that crossed my plate were similar but disagreed on some things. I can't speak for all those other guys and what more they have (or haven't) learned since then, and I'm not at liberty to say what more I personally know about those sets,...