![]() ![]() With revenge on her mind, Tina spends the next four years surviving the streets on her own, training as a master thief with the Goondas, Sangui City's local gang. Greyhill's private study, she knows he pulled the trigger. But there's a dark secret lurking behind the family's immense fortune, and when Tina discovers her mother shot dead in Mr. Trading the peril of their besieged village for the busy metropolis of Sangui, they can barely believe their luck when Tina's mother finds work as a maid for the Greyhills, one of the city's most illustrious families. Tina and her mother first arrived in Kenya as refugees from Congo desperately searching for a better life. ![]() Summary (from the inside flap of the book): In the shadow of Sangui City, there lives a girl who does not exist. Location (my 2017 Google Reading map ) : Kenya and CongoįTC Disclosure: I borrowed this book from my school library ![]()
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![]() ![]() He later re-joined New Worlds magazine from the year 1976 to the year 1996. ![]() From the year 1964 to 1971, Michael Moorcock served as an editor of New Worlds magazine, an exceedingly controversial British Science fiction magazine. He later became an editor for Sexton Blake Library. In the year 1956, Michael Moorcock became the editor of Tarzan Adventures, a fete that he achieved when he was only sixteen years old. According to Michael Moorcock, the first three books that captured his imagination include The Apple Cart, The God of Mars and the Constable of St. Moorcock has published numerous literary novels with his famous work being the Elric Saga. Michael Moorcock is a well-established English author, who specializes in the fields of fantasy and science fiction. ![]() ![]() I had plenty of time to contemplate the advice he gave, words that changed the course of my career. I knew the Oakland, California subway station Gardner had slept in because I passed it each day on my train trip into San Francisco. The secret to happiness, in life and in business. Gardner rose to the top of his firm and became a multi-millionaire. In the daytime Gardner would put on his one suit, drop off his kid at daycare and take unpaid classes to become a stockbroker. Gardner told me the true story of how he spent nights in the bathroom of a subway station along with his 2-year-old son. You’ll have to read the book or watch the movie to find out why). ![]() At the time I was doing some freelance writing and I interviewed the real-life Chris Gardner, the man who actor Will Smith portrayed in the movie, The Pursuit of Happyness (‘happyness’ is purposely misspelled in the title. ![]() “What’s the best advice you ever got?” At the end of a recent podcast interview, the host asked me, “What’s the best advice you ever got?” Before I tell you what I said allow me to rewind to 2007 when I had another career decision to make: hold on to a large, steady paycheck as the vice president of a global PR firm or commit full-time to my growing writing and public speaking business. ![]() ![]() ![]() Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself. Paired with milk and honey in this exquisite boxed set: the sun and her flowers, a vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. From breakups to trauma, kaur leads readers through life’s most bitter moments to find their hidden sweetness. Each of the four chapters (“the hurting,” “the loving,” “the breaking,” and “the healing”) serves a different purpose and explores the many kinds of pain and healing of life’s experiences. ![]() In strikingly personal, yet widely relatable poems accompanied by original illustrations, Kaur challenges the idea that women should be quiet, gentle, and submissive and instead encourages women to be strong, powerful, and proud. Global sensation and internationally renowned author rupi kaur’s milk and honey celebrates the challenges and triumphs facing the modern woman. ![]() Available for the first time, #1 New York Times bestselling author, Rupi Kaur, presents a gorgeous boxed set of her books milk and honey and the sun and her flowers. ![]() ![]() ![]() In her new home, Tea puts all her energy into becoming an asha-one who can wield elemental magic. But Tea finds solace and guidance with an older, wiser bone witch, who takes Tea and her brother to another land for training. ![]() Her gift for necromancy means that she’s a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community. When Tea accidentally resurrects her brother from the dead, she learns she is different from the other witches in her family. If there’s anything I’ve learned from him in the years since, it’s that the dead hide truths as well as the living. Let me be clear: I never intended to raise my brother from his grave, though he may claim otherwise. So I downloaded it on Audible and dove straight in… I have heard so many good things about this book, so I thought that it was about time that I started reading it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Voth works feverishly day and night to authenticate the manuscript. At last, P becomes Jack Sheppard, one of the most notorious-and most wanted-thieves in history.īack in the present, Dr. Bess brings P into the London underworld where scamps and rogues clash with London’s newly established police force, queer subcultures thrive, and ominous threats of an oncoming plague abound. Sold into servitude at twelve, P struggles for years with her desire to live as “Jack.” When P falls dizzyingly in love with Bess, a sex worker looking for freedom of her own, P begins to imagine a different life. Voth discovers a mysterious stack of papers titled Confessions of the Fox.ĭated 1724, the manuscript tells the story of an orphan named P. No one knows Jack’s true story-his confessions have never been found. Voth throws himself into his work, obsessively researching the life of Jack Sheppard, a legendary eighteenth century thief. ![]() Recently jilted and increasingly unhinged, Dr. ![]() Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines the life of thief and jailbreaker Jack Sheppard to tell a profound story about gender, love, and liberation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Also there's a prophecy about him, because of course there is. Everyone wants to have sex with him and while it may have been sort of funny at first (it wasn't), by book 2, the joke has worn extremely thin. The term Mary Sue gets thrown around a lot and I'm generally not a fan of its application (since usually it's used to tear down teenage girls) but Sam of Wilds is such a fucking Mary Sue (or Gary Stu, I guess, but down with the gender binary, let's just have one word). The writing was a little better than The Lightning-Struck Heart but the characters are so fucking annoying. I KID I KID WE ALL KNOW KLUNE ACTUALLY CAN WRITE but holy shit again, this series is so bad. But reading this series is like.you know, she might have had a point. ![]() What an awful thing for a teacher to tell a kid (sidebar, my eighth grade English teacher is one of the reasons I started to really take writing seriously, she was amazingly supportive - thank you, Mrs. I think the worst part of this one was that he dedicated it to his eighth grade English teacher, who apparently told him his stories would never amount to anything. Not only did I DNF this, I removed the rest of the series from my TBR pile and will be offloading them at my local indie bookstore's next book buy-back. ![]() ![]() ![]() I would have liked to see each volume made longer the ending to this one didn’t really interest me. Overall, this was a decent start to the series. I loved Maxim’s character design and found myself intrigued by the linework and colour. The traditional comic book art style demonstrated here is typically one I wouldn’t gravitate towards, but Andrea Olimpieri pulled it off really well. I don’t think this is a problem, however, because the target audience is mainly pre-existing fans of the series. While it was easy for me to pick up on the magic system, it is apparent that these graphic novels aren’t very accessible to those who haven’t read A Darker Shade of Magic. The Steel Prince was much faster paced than I anticipated, which is suiting because of how short each volume is. ![]() Hearing that Schwab released a set of graphic novels (prequels of sorts) following Maxim before he became king had me really excited. The Shades of Magic trilogy is absolutely brilliant-an easy all time favourite of mine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Somewhere, Leliana had found a lute, and with some begging and pleading, she settled onto a stool and played and sang for us. Teagan offered us wine, which everyone accepted but me. And Prince, of course, gnawing on a bone in the corner. My breath comes faster now, my eyes widening a little with excitement, and when he takes a fistful of hair at the back of my head I grit my teeth and grin with delight, my head angling. I’m tugged down to the floor and turned around, then pushed forward until my chest and arms are resting on the seat cushion of the couch I was just sitting on. He seems to think about something for a moment, and then his lips pull into a smirk, his blue eyes simmering as his hands move to grip at both my hips. ![]() ![]() ![]() She calls it love, but I don’t think the characters had enough interaction for Jules to actually fall in love with Liam.Īt the beginning of Evermore, Jules has to remind herself the Liam isn’t the enemy. ![]() They share one, maybe two kisses in the middle of the book before she breaks up with him, but on the way to her death, she figures she might as well sleep with him. It doesn’t work the way the author wrote it. Character DevelopmentĪ broken heart for a failed attempt to create romance.ĭon’t even get me started on the romantic relationship between Liam and Jules. Sara Holland has linked this inner struggle with the outward quest to find something that will kill Cara. Self-discovery is a relatable internal struggle. Especially as she learns more about her first life as the Alchemist. The internal struggle in Evermore is focused on Jules’ past lives. In Everless, she found out more about her family, but she also discovered that she lived 12 times before this. This book is a continuation of the journey Jules faced in Everless. Authors with good characters recognize this and mimic this in their characters. ![]() In real life, people have internal problems and situations they are trying to process while also attempting to navigate living in this world. It also doesn’t make for interesting reading because the characters fall flat. One without the other, the story is bland. Internal and external conflict are both needed to bring a character and a world to life. Jules trying to deal with internal and external struggles. ![]() |