It follows Lisbeth, the white daughter of a slave owner, Mattie, the slave woman who is called away from her own child to be Lisbeth’s wet nurse, and their relationship over the course of more than twenty years. Yellow Crocus takes place in the pre-Civil-War, slave-owning south. I don’t usually read a lot of historical fiction, so this is probably not something I would have grabbed on my own. Since I wasn’t in charge anymore, I didn’t grab the book until the meeting was over and everyone was done with it so we didn’t have one of our usual too-many-people-not-enough-copies fiascos. Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim was the December book for that group. I’m capable of reading four extra books per month for work, but it was kind of a lot, so I passed the adult responsibilities to a coworker who is better suited for it (read: she prefers adult lit to YA). I run the YA one and two 4 th/5 th grade ones per month. I don’t actually run the adult book club at my library anymore.
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I think one of the problem the book suffers is that you have to read other series first before reading this wolverine series and in a way its both a drawback and a good thing (continuity of krakoa) but its still a fun read with some good, some mid and some meh stories. Umm yeah so if you're expecting to find the Dracula story its collected in X-Force and dor ead this after X of Sword and Hellfire Gala (2021). Maybe you’ve seen a particularly positive review, or you’ve spotted the spine glaring at you from its cell on the bookcase. “I’ll get to it later,” you say, and still the months pass you by. “It’s brilliant,” someone says, “and entirely unique. The months go by, and the reviews pile up. You hear a lot about a book, and so you buy it. I’m sure you a few of you have been in similar situations before… I’ve owned the paperback for a good 7-8 months, and it unfortunately spent the majority of that time in Bookcase Hell. This was one of those books that came at just the right time for me. Then an ex-bandmate turns up at Clay’s door with a plea for help–the kind of mission that only the very brave or the very stupid would sign up for. Their glory days long past, the mercs have grown apart and grown old, fat, drunk, or a combination of the three. A retired group of legendary warriors must get the band back together for one last seemingly impossible mission in this rousing debut epic fantasy.Ĭlay Cooper and his band were once the best of the best, the most feared and renowned crew of mercenaries this side of the Heartwyld. Hart stated texting showed pair was planning a life together and testified that Daybell called the people who might prevent their union “obstacles.” After Charles Vallow’s death, Daybell told multiple people he felt his wife would dead soon and sent a text to his future wife that “I feel she will be gone by then.” Two days after his death, Daybell and Vallow Daybell exchanged:Ĭhad: “ I need so badly to just gently kiss you…for hours.”Ĭhad: “It would likely lead to other activities.”Ĭhad: “It would likely lead to nakedness.” Less than nine months after that conference, Charles Vallow was shot dead on July 11, 2019. Hart flagged a contact in Lori’s phone that was created during that time with Daybell’s phone number but using the name of a presumably fictitious religious leader. George Utah at a preppers conference on Oct. “It was apparent, shortly after meeting they were involved in an ill icit affair together,” Hart said. They have sex (not always intercourse) 11.5 times in the main book (.5 for a hypothetical but described sex scene) and !THREE times in just the bonus scene at the end alone. The pacing is jarring and all out of whack at times. It’s disappointing because there is A LOT that seems to be happening in this book or should be happening, that is completely glossed over, vaguely alluded to, or flat out skipped completely. Nothing is gained from it, but so much potential is taken away. But the repetitiveness of it just doesn’t fit in this story. I want to read the most explicit of the explicit. So much of the first half of this book is fight then sex then fight then sex, and sometimes fight fight then sex and sometimes sex sex then fight and well … you get the picture. (I loved A Touch of Darkness and the Hades saga has been a pretty solid 4 stars for me!) Reviews so far are pretty spot on and I’ll write a more thorough review over the weekend but once again, a lot of the issues I’ve had with A Touch of Ruin, A Touch of Malice, and King of Battle & Blood are repeated or even exacerbated I this one. I’ve read it! I am glad Isolde wonders if all her and Adrian are ever going to do is fight and fuck, because I’m wondering that as well! Julia, Bridie, Dr Lynn and all of their patients are real in their humanity and their flaws. This book is a magnificent piece of fiction. Her loss for Julia (and the reader) is compensated partially by Julia’s spontaneous adoption of the newborn son of an impoverished woman who died of the flu. Bridie becomes ill with the flu and dies. Nurse and volunteer become attached under the continual life and death struggles they face. Julia and Bridie face seemingly every complication of pregnancy with the occasional help of Dr Lynn. There is a constant flow of new patients onto the tiny ward. (The virus which causes the disease was not discovered until there was an electron microscope in 1935, and a vaccine was not developed until 1938.) There are two other supporting characters: a young volunteer, Bridie Sweeney, from a Dickensian home for orphaned children, and Doctor Kathleen Lynn, a real person, who violently opposed British rule, was Sinn Fein’s director of public health and founder of a free clinic on Charlemont Street. Through staff illness she has been assigned a tiny, three bed ward which is occupied by women in the late stages of pregnancy, and who have the fearsome disease which is taking so many lives. Nurse Julia Power, age 30, single, who lives with her younger brother, a shell-shocked casualty of the trenches of World War I, is the principal character. The Beautiful Ones is a charming tale of love and betrayal and the struggle between conformity and passion, set in a world where scandal is a razor-sharp weapon. Under his tutelage, Nina’s talent blossoms – as does her love for the great man.īut great romances are for fairy-tales, and Hector is hiding a secret bitter truth from Nina – and himself – that threatens their courtship. Nina is dazzled by Hector, for he sees her not as a witch, but ripe with magical potential. She has always struggled to control her telekinesis: the haphazard manifestations of her powers have long made her the subject of gossip – malicious neighbours even call her the Witch of Oldhouse.īut Nina’s life is about to change, for there is a new arrival in town: Hector Auvray, the renowned entertainer, who has used his own telekinetic talent to perform for admiring audiences around the world. But the Grand Season has just begun and already Nina’s debut has gone disastrously awry. They are the Beautiful Ones, Loisail’s most notable socialites, and this spring is Nina’s chance to join their ranks, courtesy of her well-connected cousin and his calculating wife. ‘One of the most beautiful books I’ve read in a long time’ MJ Rose, New York Times bestselling author of the Reincarnationalist series From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a sweeping romance rich with love and betrayal, with more than a dash of magic. This gives the stories much more weight than they would have had otherwise, because her criticism has an actual target. Riffing on both the stage play The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, and Gail Simone’s website Women in Refrigerators (which coined the term “fridging” for any female character who dies in order to further the plotline or character arc of a man), Valente’s book features six women whose lives were reduced to subplots for various superheroes, and gives them back their voices (which in most cases is little consolation they’re still dead).Īt first I was a bit worried that Valente hadn’t used real comics characters, but each character has a clear analogue, even if details in their stories differ. It’s a short read, a novella really, at only 147 pages, but it packs a punch. The Refrigerator Monologues is a feminist response to the way women are treated in superhero comics. When Uncle Frankie mentions a contest called The Planet's Funniest Kid Comic, Jamie knows he has to enter. He practices the craft of stand-up every day on friends, family, and the willing customers at his Uncle Frankie's diner. But Jamie doesn't let his situation get him down. He's new in town and stuck living with his aunt, uncle, and their evil son Stevie, a bully who doesn't let Jamie's wheelchair stop him from messing with Jamie as much as possible. Jamie Grimm is a middle schooler on a mission: he wants to become the world's greatest standup comedian-even if he doesn't have a lot to laugh about these days. Unsure if Joshi is his own blood, Genghis never completely accepts him. The series’ subplot – Genghis’ relationship with his son Joshi – is a tragedy often played out in the lives of great men. From a childhood of loss and hardship emerges the man who will conquer the world. We walk alongside him while he establishes himself as the supreme leader of all who encounter him – starting with his own brothers. Iggulden immerses us into the life of a Mongol boy navigating a brutal cultural and natural environment. When pondering character development or the influence of setting on psyche, this book often comes to mind. Wolf of The Plains is by far the most memorable. It has been several years since I read these stories but sometimes distance strengthens impressions. I do hope to catch up with the last one: Conqueror. As you can see from the image, I have four of the five books in this series. |
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