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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nineteen-years-old and pregnant, Matilda Emmerson has been sent away from Ireland in disgrace. ![]() Just as George Emmerson captures Grace with his brushes, she in turn captures his heart. But far more precious than her unsought fame is the friendship that develops between Grace and a visiting artist. When she and her father rescue shipwreck survivors in a furious storm, Grace becomes celebrated throughout England, the subject of poems, ballads, and plays. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has been Grace Darling's home for all of her twenty-two years. I am just an ordinary young woman who did her duty." 1838: Northumberland, England. "They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, a giant new star has appeared in the sky. ![]() Knausgaard’s nine narrators are all working through something: alcoholism, career disappointment, crises of faith and despair. Arne’s artist wife Tove is having a psychotic break Kathrine, a priest, is questioning her tepid marriage Turid, a nurse, works nights on a psychiatric ward while her unfaithful husband, Jostein, drinks and rails against an unfair world. It’s “hot as hell” lawns are “yellow and parched” catastrophe feels imminent. The action takes place over two late-summer days around Bergen, Norway. This time, however, we see them through a glass darkly, and as the pages turn, “The Morning Star” reveals itself to be the evil twin of “My Struggle.” It’s an uncanny, polyphonous, diabolical work that gives Knausgaard’s brand of banal realism a mythical-fantastical twist. At first, it seems familiar: As in his great six-volume autobiographical novel, “ My Struggle,” major subjects include bourgeois anxiety and malaise, the stock-in-trade of middlebrow fiction. ![]() “ The Morning Star” finds the bestselling Norwegian author in strange and unsettling new territory. Perhaps it’s a coincidence that Karl Ove Knausgaard’s new novel ends on page 666, but don’t bet on it. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Seeing that tweet made me smile – and took me back to that hallway at NBC in 1998. Kristian (or someone managing her account) had shared my tweet, along with three emojis. I went to bed and the next morning I saw a notification on my phone. She was unbelievably beautiful, shook my hand and said ‘welcome’ - and I had to play it cool and resist telling her that I named my Cabbage Patch Doll ‘Hope’ after her.” “True story – I met Kristian Alfonso the first day I started interning at Days in 1998. When I saw Bo and Hope was trending, I did something I rarely do. She had no idea how excited I was, or what that moment meant to me.Įven though I worked and interacted with Kristian for six months, I never told her how much I had admired her character when I was growing up (or the Cabbage Patch connection). I smiled and said thank you, as if I was meeting someone I had no history with. This person I admired said one word to me – welcome – and 24 years later, I still remember how good that moment felt. Most people say “nice to meet you” but Kristian said “welcome.” Just the way she said “welcome” made me feel special. ![]() Kristian reached out her hand to shake mine, smiled, and said, “Welcome.” Her bouncy brown curls were now straight, but she was so glamorous – and even more beautiful in person. I was 20 years old – probably around the same age Kristian was when I first saw her on TV. “Hey Kristian,” the guy showing me around said casually. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book’s been criticized (with some justification) for being proto-Stalinist, but overall it’s been maligned. This Bolshevik SF sends a revolutionary to socialist Mars. Deals very well with the confusion of the “modern” (19th Century) protagonist in a world he hasn’t helped create (see Bogdanov).Īlexander Bogdanov-The Red Star: A Utopia (1908 trans. ![]() The Culture are “goodies” in narrative and political terms, but here issues of cross-cultural guilt and manipulation complicate the story from being a simplistic utopia.Įdward Bellamy-Looking Backward, 2000–1887 (1888)Ī hugely influential, rather bureaucratic egalitarian/naïve communist utopia. Socialist SF discussing a post-scarcity society. I change my own mind hour to hour on this anyway. ![]() Of course, other works-by the same or other writers-could have been chosen: disagreement and alternative suggestions are welcomed. Those below are chosen not just because of their quality-which though mostly good, is variable-but because the politics they embed (deliberately or not) are of particular interest to socialists. There are huge numbers of superb works not on the list. This is not a list of the “best” fantasy or SF. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The author will have written at least one story in this series. San Francisco Thrillers (By:,John Miller) Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems (By:John Miller) Lawrence,Barry Gifford,Sandra Cisneros,Sam Shepard,Leslie Marmon Silko,John Miller)įlorida Stories (By:Dave Barry,Elmore Leonard,Ernest Hemingway,John D MacDonald,Isaac Bashevis Singer,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Stephen Crane,Zora Neale Hurston,Tennessee Williams,Alison Lurie,Joan Didion,John Miller) On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question (By:William Shakespeare,Virginia Woolf,Leo Tolstoy,Graham Greene,Jorge Borges,Gustave Flaubert,Walker Percy,Albert Camus,Cynthia Ozick,William Styron,Dorothy Parker,Sylvia Plath,Primo Levi,John Miller)Ĭhicago Stories (By:Stuart Dybek,John Miller) ![]() ![]() ![]() In THE WIZARD OF DARK STREET, the concepts of magic (or supernatural, or intuitive forces) vs. ![]() I love the transformative powers of magic, its endless possibilities that cause us to step outside of our little box of how we think things work, and see that very often what we take as absolute reality is very often only the illusion of our own perception, our thinking mind. I love the idea that there is more to the world than meets the eye…much, much more. ![]() Shawn: I’m pretty consistently drawn to elements of magic. But he was very encouraging! Oh yeah, and he also told me to work on my spelling.ĮJ: What brought you to the paranormal genre? He was very kind to read the entire thing (at least he said he did), and then he told me I should read Tom Robbins because he thought I had a similar thing going on, with a sort of sci-fi bent. I finished writing it (I think I was doing my best imitation of Douglas Adams at the time) over the Christmas break my sophomore year and gave it to him to read. I remember he had written a novel, and I just thought that was the coolest thing, so I decided that I would write one, too. Shawn: I had a fantastic English teacher my freshman and sophomore year in high school who I looked up to immensely. Please welcome today's paranormal guest author Shawn Thomas Odyssey! Shawn is the author of The Wizard of Dark Street. ![]() ![]() Edwards’s articulation in Marvin’s Curse is fashionably suitable for the YA audience and full of imagination. I felt this heartfelt story of embracing one’s true self and the growing pains of maturity was a bit rushed towards the end without fully developing several characters, but I’m hoping the book’s last sentence is a segue for a sequel. Marvin is ungainly, but he is a character the reader can relate to and empathize with on many levels. Marvin’s Curse is an interesting paranormal-twisted tale of a teenage boy dealing with the angst of death (both for the living and dead), the awkwardness of being different, the annoyance at his new step-dad, and the move out of the city. This is a gift that has been handed down from generations. ![]() His father tries to assure him its a gift, but Marvin feels otherwise. His family, now complete with a step-dad, tries to make a fresh start by moving into the country however, the graveyard outside their backyard does not bode well for Marvin who’s trying to ignore his ability to see and speak with the dead…until he meets teen love, Stella. If you want to get away from real life for awhile, this is a book to read.How does a 17 year old boy cope with the fact that he can see spirits He feels its a curse that was handed down to him when his father died. This intrusion of his privacy by spirits is seen as a curse and a painful reminder of the loss of his father. Seventeen year old Marvin discovers after his father’s death that he has an inherited sixth sense. ![]() PurpleRay Publishing 1 edition (June 10, 2013) ![]() ![]() ![]() I did appreciate how diligent Gibson is in building strong female characters. ![]() Thread Four: Slick Henry and friends care for the comatose body of the "Count" Bobby Newmark from the 'Count Zero'. ![]() ![]() Thread Three: Mona a innocent prostitute is sucked into a crime world where she is made to look like Angie as a piece in an abduction attempt on Angie. Thread Two: Angie Mitchell from Book 2 (Count Zero) of the Sprawl trilogy seeks to find lost boyfriend while dealing with the addiction and costs of Simstim fame. Thread One: Japanese Yakuza princess in peril hides in London and hangs with "Sally Shears" aka Molly Milions (of Neuromancer and Johnny Mnemonic fame). In this book Gibson is weaving together four plot threads. Anyway, even with that, this wasn't his best book and not in the strong half of the Sprawl trilogy. It is like Gibson doesn't just have foresight, he has foresmell and foretaste. The textures and smells and ambiguities too. Part of it is how, like PKD, he seems to always have a sense of what is around the next two corners. “The world hadn’t ever had so many moving parts or so few labels.” ― William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive There is something about Gibson that keeps me coming back. Bright enough to attract/Worn enough to comfort ![]() |