6/12/2023 0 Comments Nomadland surviving americaShe builds the narrative around one especially accommodating nomad, senior citizen Linda May, who is fully fleshed on the page thanks to the author’s deep reporting. Bruder traveled with some of the houseless for years while researching and writing her book. At a distance, the nomads might be mistaken for RV owners traveling the country for pleasure, but that is not the case. As a result, they sleep in their cars or trucks or cheaply purchased campers and try to make the best of the situation. Most of them did not lose their houses willingly, having fallen victim to mortgage fraud, job loss, health care debt, divorce, alcoholism, or some combination of those and additional factors. Journalist Bruder ( Burning Book: A Visual History of Burning Man, 2007) expands her remarkable cover story for Harper’s into a book about low-income Americans eking out a living while driving from locale to locale for seasonal employment.įrom the beginning of her immersion into a mostly invisible subculture, the author makes it clear that the nomads-many of them senior citizens-refuse to think of themselves as “homeless.” Rather, they refer to themselves as “houseless,” as in no longer burdened by mortgage payments, repairs, and other drawbacks, and they discuss “wheel estate” instead of real estate.
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Rock Paper Scissors is a tense, chilling thriller told both over the course of one unsettling weekend, and also through ten years of anniversary letters interspersed throughout the chapters. Even reading in the heat of summer, you can feel the cold seeping in, along with a steadily growing dread, as you come to realize the Wrights are not alone. The location only increases the suspense: a rumored-to-be haunted, converted chapel in the middle of nowhere, isolated and cut off by an incoming snowstorm. Told in multiple points of view, each narrator has a different plan for the weekend, and neither fully trusts the other. When Amelia wins a weekend getaway to the Scottish Highlands, what begins as a potential romantic weekend to save their marriage instead kicks off an eerie, unsettling sequence of events. Adam, a successful screenwriter, lives with face blindness and cannot recognize those around him. This is the story of Adam and Amelia Wright, a married couple on the brink. This is an absolutely propulsive read, brimming with atmosphere and full of surprises. And wow does Rock Paper Scissors take all of these elements to a whole new level. Suspense is always my go-to genre-I love the fast-pace, the puzzle-solving aspect, the mysteries hidden inside the story, and also the mysteries hidden inside other people. Reluctantly Brin joins the Druid on his dangerous journey. To win through the vile growth that protects this dark force, the Druid Allanon needs Brin Ohmsford-for she alone holds the magic power of the wishsong. But dark on their trail comes the Reaper, most fearsome of all Demons, aiming to crush their mission at any cost.Īn ancient Evil is stirring to new life, sending its ghastly Mord Wraiths to destroy Mankind. Now Wil Ohmsford must guard the Elven girl Amberle on a perilous quest as she carries one of the Ellcrys’ seeds to a mysterious place where it can be quickened into a powerful new force. The magical Ellcrys tree is dying, loosening the spell that bars the Demons from enacting vengeance upon the land. On Shea, last of the bloodline, rests the hope of all the races. The sole weapon against this Power of Darkness is the Sword of Shannara, which can be used only by a true heir of Shannara. But the supposedly dead Warlock Lord is plotting to destroy everything in his wake. In peaceful Shady Vale, half-elfin Shea Ohmsford knows little of such troubles. Long ago, the wars of the ancient Evil ruined the world. For the first time in one elegant collector’s edition hardcover, and featuring an introduction by New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks, here are the first three novels of that classic series: The Sword of Shannara, The Elfstones of Shannara, and The Wishsong of Shannara-the beginning of a phenomenal epic of good and evil. 6/12/2023 0 Comments Mullet Madness! by Alan HendersonBut he was adored, regardless, for his Christ-like appearance.ĭrawing of Irish soldiers and peasants by Albrecht Dürer (1521). Contemporaries mocked him, speculating that he had a servant just for hairstyling. Just like changes in clothing, the foreign popularity of mullet-like hairstyles chronicled a world of new global connections.ĭürer himself spent immense time hairstyling. His 1521 drawing of Irish soldiers and peasants shows the artist’s interest in hair customs beyond England. The art of the mulletįor Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), the combination of short and long hair was a rather puzzling, exotic sight. The style was associated with people considered rebellious by nature, part of the rhetoric used to legitimise the later use of violence against them. He wrote that “the Savage” wore clothing “like the Irish-trouses” and that Indigenous Abenaki were: “of complexion like our English Gipseys, no hair or very little on their faces, on their heads long haire to their shoulders, onely cut before.”Īt a time when hair was key to community cultures, the mullet was written about with imperial and racist overtones. Winslow connected this early mullet to contemporary understandings of medicine and race. 6/12/2023 0 Comments The casual vacancy goodreadsI grant it, she could afford that little experiment without breaking out into a financial sweat, a rare luxury among authors. I am far from criticizing her for that, let me just say it was a very bold move, rejecting a genre which made you famous, renowned and super-rich, trying something entirely new and different. But HP series was finished some time ago and now Ms Rowling decided to branch out. Rowling you will immediately think ‘Harry Potter’ even if you haven’t read any of the books or haven’t seen the movies. Who will prevail? Is it important at all?įirst of all let me state the obvious: hearing the name of J.K. Pagford, seemingly an English sleepy town like many others, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, becomes a war zone and, like in every war, there will be casualties. Surprisingly there are more than one or two token candidates. Who will fill his shoes? Will his death benefit his allies or his enemies? He was a well-known councilor and a coach of the local female rowing team. When Barry Fairbrother dies suddenly of aneurism in his early forties, leaving his family and a lot of unfinished issues behind, the town of Pagford is in shock. 6/11/2023 0 Comments Paul temple and the vandyke affairPages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. It features an exclusive interview with the definitive Paul Temple, Peter Coke, and rediscovered vintage recordings. This audio edition also includes the BBC Radio 4 programme The Radio Detectives: Send for Paul Temple, an affectionate look at the indomitable husband and wife team, Paul and Steve Temple. However, no-one knows who this mysterious Mr Vandyke is. The only clue is a telephone message left in Miss Millicent's handwriting: 'A Mr Vandyke telephoned, he left no message'. When they visit Mary Desmond she is, understandably, very upset - it's already been a week since her eighteenth-month-old daughter vanished. In this adventure, Paul Temple is called in to investigate the disappearance of the Desmond baby, and the 'Sitter-In' Miss Millicent. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case. From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. 6/11/2023 0 Comments The iron fey series book 1All of that is to say that I was constantly mesmerized by the references and eyewinks Julie Kagawa inserted in The Iron King, smiling like a little child full of wonder. The part of me who used to watch The Never Ending Story, wide-eyed, to read Alice in Wonderland, eager to meet that odd cat and to visit whatever weird world fantasy on which I could get my hands. This book managed to reach a part of me I had forgotten for years. Therefore, before taking the time to write a proper review of each book, I intend to… well, do my best? Warning : I’ll do what I can, but I’m feeling restless – and I’m pretty sure this sensation will end when, and only when, I’ll be able to grasp The Iron daughter. Now Meghan will learn just how far she'll go to save someone she cares about, to stop a mysterious evil, no faery creature dare face and to find love with a young prince who might rather see her dead than let her touch his icy heart. When a dark stranger begins watching her from afar, and her prankster best friend becomes strangely protective of her, Meghan senses that everything she's known is about to change.īut she could never have guessed the truth - that she is the daughter of a mythical faery king and is a pawn in a deadly war. She has never quite fit in at school or at home. Something has always felt slightly off in Meghan's life, ever since her father disappeared before her eyes when she was six. Meghan Chase has a secret destiny one she could never have imagined. 6/11/2023 0 Comments The Devil's Teeth by Susan CaseyBut as Casey readied herself for the eight-week stint, she had no way of preparing for what she would find among the dangerous, forgotten islands that have banished every campaign for civilization in the past two hundred years. Two days later, she got her first glimpse of the famous, terrifying jaws up close and she was instantly hooked her fascination soon yielded to obsession-and an invitation to return for a full season. In a matter of months, Casey was being hoisted out of the early-winter swells on a crane, up a cliff face to the barren surface of Southeast Farallon Island-dubbed by sailors in the 1850s the "devil's teeth." There she joined Scot Anderson and Peter Pyle, the two biologists who bunk down during shark season each fall in the island's one habitable building, a haunted, 135-year-old house spackled with lichen and gull guano. These sharks were the alphas among alphas, some longer than twenty feet, and there were too many to count even more incredible, this congregation was taking place just twenty-seven miles off the coast of San Francisco. Susan Casey was in her living room when she first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon Islands, their dark fins swirling around a small motorboat in a documentary. A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators-and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them 6/11/2023 0 Comments Of salt and sorrowIn fact, I didn’t even realize the triplets and twins were different until halfway through just due to a lack of distinctness between them. Had the girls not looked different or had different ages I would have thought there were a lot less than twelve sisters. Strange visions and mysterious boy appear, but what does it mean? And will the sisters die off one by one until Highmoor becomes a tomb?Īnnaleigh and her eleven sisters are standard characters. Where the walls used to echo with laughter, there are now black mourning dresses trailed through the empty hallways after the tragic deaths of four sisters. Craig managed to send chills down my spine!Īnnaleigh and her eleven sisters live in Highmoor, a winding estate by the sea with their father. Despite the sticky summer heat, House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. 6/10/2023 0 Comments Eleni by nicholas gageIf you are headed to Greece, what Greek books should you read before you go? Or, if you are interested in armchair travels, what are the best books about Greece to take you there?īelow, find atmospheric books set in Greece to teach you more and spark that wanderlust.Įxplore novels about Greek mythology – let loose with Dionysus – and famous Greek figures. We were exhausted but stuffed with delicious food and sights. Then, we Greek island-hopped across Santorini and Mykonos.Īfterward, we flew to Istanbul to end our whirlwind but beautiful trip. We spent our honeymoon touring historical sites in Athens. Greece is a popular destination amongst honeymooners, and we are guilty as charged. What are the best Greek books to read before you go? Discover riveting and scenic books about Greece to take you there. |