![]() ![]() Peter Nimble and his trusty sidekick Sir Tode show up with a magical book in need of repair, and Sophie lands in the adventure of a lifetime. The city, led by Inquisitor Prigg, is planning a large celebratory pyre in the coming days, a pyre that will hold all the (now banned) fairy tales and inventive stories Sophie and her father cherish. ![]() Sophie Quire is a quiet book mender who has been seeking out and saving fairy tales whilst missing her long-deceased mother, learning the ways of the old city’s winding streets, and helping her father in his bookshop. Recommended For: Middle grades, ages 10-12 (or anyone who enjoys a wild, fantastical romp with super villains, young hero(ine)s, and the “magic” of stories) Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard : a Peter Nimble Adventure by Jonathan Auxier. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she’s almost a new person now-an artist with her own studio, and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists it’s time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. The New York Times bestselling author of Dear Senthuran, the National Book Award finalist, and “one of our greatest living writers” ( Shondaland) reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss.įeyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Katie Couric Media, Harpers Bazaar, Apple Books, Marie Claire, The Guardian, Bustle, Financial Times, Glamour Magazine, PopSugar, Parade, Refinery 29, Essence, Vulture, and LitHub. YOU MADE A FOOL OF DEATH WITH YOUR BEAUTY ![]() ![]() ![]() I think promoting this book as a great choice for the fans of “Hating Games” might be wrong. Because now that they have nothing to lose, they're finally being themselves-and having fun with the last person they expect: each other.įour let’s make a party to congratulate we have a new evil-genius, sarcastic writer in the town who knows how to write a great mean romantic comedy stars!!! When Naomi discovers that Nicholas, too, has been feigning contentment, the two of them go head-to-head in a battle of pranks, sabotage, and all-out emotional warfare.īut with the countdown looming to the wedding that may or may not come to pass, Naomi finds her resolve slipping. Naomi wants out, but there's a catch: whoever ends the engagement will have to foot the nonrefundable wedding bill. And she is miserably and utterly sick of him. They're preparing for their lavish wedding that's three months away. Naomi Westfield has the perfect fiancé: Nicholas Rose holds doors open for her, remembers her restaurant orders, and comes from the kind of upstanding society family any bride would love to be a part of. ![]() ![]() When your nemesis also happens to be your fiancé, happily ever after becomes a lot more complicated in this wickedly funny, lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy debut. ![]() ![]() ![]() After all, we've looked to the Nordic countries for functional designs (the iconic Alvar Aalto stools) and relaxation ideas (saunas!) for ages. Trust us, it's lighter and funnier than it sounds. In each episode, the three authentically Swedish hosts-an organizer, designer, and psychologist-walk a participant through the steps of the death cleaning process, help them declutter, and hold their hand as they manage the thoughts and emotions around sentimental attachment and their own morality that emerge. In it, author Margareta Magnusson recounts the process of cleaning out her late husband's storage shed. The show is based on a 2018 New York Times best-selling book of the same name. (Think of it as more heavy-duty than spring cleaning but less intense than a full Kondo.) An age-old concept in Sweden and throughout Scandinavia, the concept has landed stateside with a new show on Peacock produced by Pohler and narrated by Amy Schumer called The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning. The technique is pretty much exactly what you're imagining: It's the process of decluttering and organizing your belongings so that when you pass, your loved ones won't have to wade through piles of knickknacks and 30-year-old paperwork. We have Amy Poehler to thank for the latest craze to sweep the organizing sphere: Swedish death cleaning. Six Tips For Successful Swedish Death Cleaning. ![]() ![]() ![]() May 4 Oshi no Ko Anime Posts Behind-the-Scenes Documentary.May 4 hololive Indonesia VTubers Join hololive English's 1st Concert. ![]() May 4 Veteran Producer Masao Maruyama Warns of Anime's Creative Decline.11:45 NFL Star Jamaal Williams Hosts Naruto Charity Auction With Voice Actor Maile Flanagan.Apr 8 Oshi no Ko is a Dark Look at the Entertainment Industry.Apr 10 Anime Boston 2023: What It's Like to Work in Anime (UPDATED).Convention reports chronological archives.May 4 Takuma Morishige's Tonari no Seki-kun Junior Manga Ends.May 4 Nihon o Tsukutta Otoko: Shibusawa Eiichi Aoki Hibi Manga Ends in 3 Chapters (Updated). ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() Readers follow Gomez through the queer spaces where he learned to love being gay and Latinx, including Pulse nightclub in Orlando, a drag queen convention in Los Angeles, and the doctor’s office where he was diagnosed a “high-risk homosexual.” In a world desperate to erase us, queer Latinx men must find ways to hold on to pride for survival, but excessive male pride is often what we are battling, both in ourselves and in others.Ī debut memoir about coming of age as a gay, Latinx man, High-Risk Homosexual opens in the ultimate anti-gay space: Edgar Gomez’s uncle’s cockfighting ring in Nicaragua, where he was sent at thirteen years old to become a man. I’ve always found the definition of machismo to be ironic, considering that pride is a word almost unanimously associated with queer people, the enemy of machistas. This witty memoir traces a touching and often hilarious spiralic path to embracing a gay, Latinx identity against a culture of machismo-from a cockfighting ring in Nicaragua to cities across the U.S.-and the bath houses, night clubs, and drag queens who help redefine pride Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/BiographyĪn Honor Book for the 2023 Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Book Award ![]() ![]() ![]() Shakespeare refuses to give in to the hyperbolic imagery other poets indulge in. The sonnet is both an unusual love poem and a comment on the style of love poetry written by Shakespeare’s precursors and peers. The title of the novel comes from the first line of Sonnet 130, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”. Burgess “would never find a more appropriate publishing date”. The work was “almost haemorrhoidally agonizing” but if it were to be done 1964 was the time to do it. ![]() He describes the work as a labour of tortured love, a “ghastly but fascinating task” that by January 1963 he could put off no longer. The process of bringing that work on to paper and into print, however, was a difficult one, as is demonstrated by the title of his article about it, “Genesis and Headache”. Her novel was, he thought, unlikely to be the only one of its kind: “With the quartercentury looming, many of our foolhardiest novelists must be busy preparing fictional libels on the Bard”.īurgess was by this point already at work on his own fictionalised biography of Shakespeare. In May 1963 Anthony Burgess reviewed – not entirely favourably – Henrietta Buckmaster’s book, All of the Living: A Novel of One Year in the Life of Shakespeare. Nothing Like the Sun: a story of Shakespeare’s Love-Life: ![]() ![]() ![]() I believe it’s a futile exercise to discuss the plot of the book because it isn’t the main point. This story is mainly about the author’s quest to understand his mother, Imelda (Em), and her mental illness and an attempt to describe how the rest of them, including his sister Susan and his father Augustine (a.k.a. The title ‘Em and the big Hoom’ doesn’t make sense unless you start the book, or someone explains it to you. Depression means nothing more than the blues, commercially packaged angst, a hole in the ground until you find its black weight settled inside your mother’s chest, disrupting her breathing, leaching her days, and yours, of color and the nights of rest.” “Love is a hollow word which seems at home in song lyrics and greeting cards until you fall in love and discover it’s disconcerting power. ![]() ![]() There were many passages that made me stop and marvel at how effortlessly the text read but yet delivered quite a blow. ![]() Jerry Pinto has a brilliant writing style throughout this book. And when the narrator had similar thoughts and called himself out, I couldn’t not feel as if he wasn’t talking to me, poking my conscious. I’ve had my fair share of such instances. Perhaps knowingly telling yourself a comforting lie. Have you ever had a thought that you felt incredibly guilty for having? Perhaps wishing ill of someone for your own selfish reasons. ![]() ![]() ![]() Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as much for her brilliant cocktails as for the mystery that clings to her. ![]() Yerba Buena is the debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, following two women on a star-crossed journey toward each other.A Most Anticipated Book (Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, The Washington Post, TIME, Vulture, Elle, NBC News, Good Housekeeping, Parade, Electric Lit, BookRiot, Bustle, Goodreads, LGBTQ Reads, Autostraddle, PopSugar, Veranda Magazine, The Lesbian Review, and more)"A love story for our time."-Tara Conklin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics "This book is a precious thing."-Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of One Last StopWhen Sara Foster runs away from home at sixteen, she leaves behind the girl she once was, capable of trust and intimacy. ![]() ![]() ![]() If We Were Villains was named one of Bustle's Best Thriller Novels of the Year, and Mystery Scene says, "A well-written and gripping ode to the stage.A fascinating, unorthodox take on rivalry, friendship, and truth. In the morning, the fourth-years find themselves facing their very own tragedy, and their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, each other, and themselves that they are innocent. ![]() In this secluded world of firelight and leather-bound books, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingénue, extras.īut in their fourth and final year, good-natured rivalries turn ugly, and on opening night real violence invades the students' world of make-believe. Detective Colborne wants to know the truth, and after ten years, Oliver is finally ready to tell it.Ī decade ago: Oliver is one of seven young Shakespearean actors at Dellecher Classical Conservatory, a place of keen ambition and fierce competition. On the day Oliver Marks is released from jail, the man who put him there is waiting at the door. ![]() 'If We Were Villains' has been compared to 'The Secret History,' which is a book I have not read. What we do have is a group of people bound by mutual love of their subject and, in most cases, by degrees of love for each other. Rio's sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession.will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments." -Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The Nest "Nerdily (and winningly) in love with Shakespeare.Readable, smart." - New York Times Book Review We do not have a 'villain' in the conventional sense, who deliberately committed a crime in order to gain something. ![]() "Much like Donna Tartt's The Secret History, M. ![]() |