SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR:The Island MotherbyJon Cohn YA/MIDDLE GRADE:Sleeping AroundbyMorgan Vega See the link, below, for covers and more about the books. Winners are announced 12/12/22. https://booklife.com/authors/11/16/2022/announcing-the-finalists-for-the-2022-booklife-fiction-prize.htm...
The Spanners Series. Now as Chief Communicator, Clara leads the way for interspecies communication on- and off-planet. Fighting these changes are thePsi-Defiers, led by one of the oldest friends of the Chief of thePsi-Warriors, its reluctant leader, Rabbi Moran Ackerman. Stories...
Sally Kirkland. Actress: Anna. Sally Kirkland, Best Actress Oscar Nominee, Golden Globe winner, Independent Spirit Award winner, LA Film Critics Circle Award winner, and veteran of over 200 movies. Feisty, hard-working, famously liberal, with the tradema
“Since my place and its story were givens, it remained for me to find those metaphors; encoded, half-forgotten clues within the Southern landscape”. This is how Sally Mann approached her research. At first glance, the pictures in the Deep South series appear to be peaceful and luminous la...
Speaking of what’s inside your book, let’s talk aboutback matter,or end matter. This comes after the main contents of your book and often includes an epilogue, acknowledgements and an appendix. But don’t limit your back matter to just these things — instead, try to tap further into ...
Worth exploring! Andrea Reads America I am a huge fan of the podcast medium. I listenwhile I clean,while I walk, while I cook, while I dress after my shower. I do not subscribe to print periodicals that run book reviews, I am not a librarian, andI no longer work in a book store,...
Last year, it honored the greatLily Tomlin(currently co-starring withJane FondainGrace & FrankieonNetflix)—“a critically acclaimed actress and comedian across TV, film and theater, and recipient of eight Emmy Awards®, two Tony Awards®, a Grammy Award®, among many others”— for Car...
Space ForceNetflix(not worth your time or ours; RENEWED for SEASON 2) The Doctor Blake Mysteries(EXCELLENTPBSseries, but star got blackballed for bad behavior and is OUT for the final film; changing name toThe Blake Mysteriesand featuring his new wife, instead) ...
The plan is for me to come almost every week and spend about 100 minutes alone with her. I am so happy to be doing this; it’s the main reason I moved to Seattle! I have to travel about 90 minutes each way and take two buses to get there and get home. ...
Weigh in, please. I’d love to have great discussions, here, about other elements ofSpec Ficand intersectionality (the places that social identities overlap and in which we analyze privilege, oppression and efforts to effect change). What have I left out, got wrong, etc.?