![]() ![]() ![]() In 1977, after visiting Vidal at his cliff-perched villa on the Amalfi Coast, Martin Amis observed that “he has little of the paranoia worryingly frequent among well-known writers.” Norman Mailer had been onto something, Amis concluded, when he said that “Vidal lacks the wound.” It was an act, a put-on-perhaps the most effective double bluff in the history of literary P.R. In the course of more than half a century, his quips, aphorisms, insults, and punch lines amounted to a self-portrait, airbrushed so as to highlight his favorite warts: Olympian detachment, patrician hauteur. In October of 1975, dining in Rome, Gore Vidal told his new friend the novelist Michael Mewshaw that Françoise Sagan was “a magnum of pure ether.” He didn’t stop to clarify, but rigor was beside the point the Vidalian bon mot was about the speaker, not about the subject. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Suff was hired by Riverside County in 1986 while on parole from Texas after serving part of a 70-year prison term for the 1973 murder of his 2-month-old daughter, Dijanet, who died of a ruptured liver and numerous broken bones. Suff also was linked to at least one slaying in San Bernardino County and others in Orange and San Diego counties, but there wasn’t sufficient evidence to charge him. Distinctive tire-tread tracks from the van linked him to several of the killings.ĭuring their investigation, authorities said that 19 women in Riverside County had been identified as possible victims of the serial killer, beginning in 1986. Police said he used his own van to pick up the victims, several of them on Riverside’s University Avenue. Suff was charged with 13 slayings and convicted of 12 of them. He participated in county van pools and chili cook-offs. Suff lived in Colton and was a warehouse clerk for Riverside County at the time of his arrest. Suff’s victims’ bodies were found in remote areas such as Cottonwood Canyon south of Canyon Lake in a dumpster in northeast Riverside, and in an orange grove located a half-mile from a Riverside police station. ![]() ![]() (Of course, if you were a lowly peasant, you likely would still have spoken English.) This sounds rather bizarre to us nearly 900 years later, at least it did to me. The English king and ruling class were not English but Norman French, and the official language and language of court was French. This first book in a series takes place at a fascinating time in English history. ![]() Married off by her father at a tender age and against her wishes to Welsh prince Llewellyn, Joanna discovers that her political match is actually not so undesirable, and she eventually grows to love and appreciate her husband and his foreign Welsh culture and language, supporting him through the many 13-century political upheavals and grabs for power. ![]() ![]() This engaging work of historical fiction follows the life of Joanna, the illegitimate daughter of King John, the last Angevin king. ![]() ![]() Gush and critique posts should contain the book title/author if applicable. Reviews and screenshots of book excerpts must contain the book title/author in the post title.Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for and/or keywords that will inform future searches. ![]() ![]() Rules Post titles must be clear and informative For updated information regarding ongoing community features includings upcoming AMAs, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with informative links about Book Clubs, AMAs, etc. Home of the magic search button and endless book recommendations as well as discussions about tropes and characters, Author AMAs, book clubs, and more. ![]() R/RomanceBooks is a discussion sub for readers of romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, Hedda dies, and Haelewise is left unmoored. For with her strange black eyes and even stranger fainting spells, Haelewise is shunned by her village, and her only solace lies in the stories her mother tells of child-stealing witches, of princes in wolf-skins, of an ancient tower cloaked in mist, where women will find shelter if they are brave enough to seek it. Haelewise has always lived under the shadow of her mother, Hedda-a woman who will do anything to keep her daughter protected. This is the truth they never wanted you to know, as only a witch might tell it. Everyone knows the story of Rapunzel in the tower, but do you know the story of the witch who put her there? Told from her own perspective, The Book of Gothel is a lush, historical retelling filled with dark magic, crumbling towers, mysterious woods, and evil princes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Its luxuriance, fecundity, horror, and energy will not soon fade from the reader’s mind. The story of the last member of the aristocratic Azcoitia family, a monstrous mutation protected from the knowledge of his deformity by being surrounded with other freaks as companions, The Obscene Bird of Night is a triumph of imaginative, visionary writing. This haunting jungle of a novel has been hailed as “a masterpiece” by Luis Bunuel and “one of the great novels not only of Spanish America, but of our time” by Carlos Fuentes. Las viejas que pueblan la Casa de la Encarnación de la Chimba y los monstruos de la Rinconada ilustran cada matiz de la desesperación y cada uno de los ínfimos placeres cotidianos, anudando siempre al ciego instinto de la vida un inextinguible terror ante lo oscuro, lo innombrable, lo que ya no tiene forma. La voz que narra El obsceno pájaro de la noche fluye infatigable de los labios del Mudito, como en un viaje desde el ser hacia la nada, elaborando un mundo destinado -por la maldición intrínseca de la existencia- al deterioro, la pérdida o la confusión de cualquier identidad posible. Un viaje por los laberintos de la identidad, la degradación y el olvido. ![]() ![]() ![]() Carrie is very responsive to loving strokes on the hair, kind of like a puppy. She has edited newspapers and poetry journals and has recently won awards from the Maine Press Association and also been awarded the Martin Dibner Fellowship as well as a Maine Literary Award.ġ. She graduated from Vermont College’s MFA program for writing. ![]() ![]() Obviously, something didn’t work.Ĭarrie has always liked cowboy hats but has never owned one. The Meyers brothers are from Bedford, too, so you’d think it would make Carrie funnier, coming from Bedford N.H. She lives with her cute family in Maine, but she grew up in Bedford, NH where she once had a séance with cool uber-comedian Sarah Silverman. This has not prevented her from writing books. She does not know how to spell fudgsicles. Thank you all for reaching out and I'm so sorry.Ĭarrie Jones likes Skinny Cow fudgsicles and potatoes. If you have messaged me, I'm going to be working through those in the upcoming weeks. If you have friended me, I have just friended you back (July 2021). I had been unable to get into my Goodreads account for years. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though the book's cluttered, quirky art is at its best in comical scenarios of ambulatory teeth in the cafeteria and at recess, the visual humor, like that of the narrative, lacks the incisive bite of Keller's earlier book. ![]() One of the standout spreads, the penultimate, highlights facts about teeth during the times of the Ancient Egyptians through to George Washington. The book's abundant puns and asides, many delivered by the teeth themselves, may elicit as many groans as giggles from readers. See search resultsfor this author Laurie Keller(Author, Illustrator) 4. The bulk of the narrative is silly filler (for instance, a funky-looking tooth fairy pays a visit to the school and complains that she sometimes almost suffocates trying to retrieve teeth from under pillows). Open Wide: Tooth School Inside Hardcover Import, by Laurie Keller (Author, Illustrator) Visit Amazons Laurie Keller Page Find all the books, read about the author, and more. While, in her first book, the states themselves delivered the facts in fun-filled chatty exchanges, here the teacher drills into his anthropomorphic pupils a smattering of tooth truths, including the physical composition of teeth, the function of primary teeth, causes of tooth decay and the importance of dental hygiene. Flossman welcomes his 32 students-eight incisors, four canines, eight premolars and 12 molars-to class at the start of Keller's (The Scrambled States of America) disappointingly flat lesson on tooth care and trivia. ![]() ![]() All the while, Branick and Lynx fret that I’m a spy, sent to destroy the Royals. I’m the one stealing Jaik’s heart and kissing Talisyn and antagonizing Arren. By night, I’m the servant they flirt with. Talisyn, with the beautiful cruel mouth and endless bravery. ![]() Lynx and Branick, the twin spymasters with deadly swords. Arren, who kills without mercy and guards his friends fiercely. Jaik, the cold-hearted hero who never smiles and never falters. Every girl in the city dreams of winning the heart of one of the dragon nobles, but they only care about each other. These princely scions of the four ruling families have been training to fight the plague-crazed Scourge since they were toddlers. The Dragon Royals are not a welcoming bunch. ![]() So I’m disguised as a man and sent off to military training. No one wants a girl in the Royal Dragon Guard. An orphaned servant like me? Everyone assumes on first shift, I’ll turn into a squirrel. ![]() ![]() ![]() What will Margie and Ford sacrifice to preserve the splendor and simplicity of the wilderness they both love? When Margie’s former fiancé sets his mind on developing the Paradise Inn and its surroundings into a tourist playground, the plans might put more than the park’s pristine beauty in danger. ![]() The job of watching over an idealistic senator’s daughter with few practical survival skills seems a waste of resources. It’s 1927 and the National Park Service is in its youth when Margie, an avid naturalist, lands a coveted position alongside the park rangers living and working in the unrivaled splendor of Mount Rainier’s long shadow.īut Chief Ranger Ford Brayden is still haunted by his father’s death on the mountain, and the ranger takes his work managing the park and its crowd of visitors seriously. An ideal sanctuary and a dream come true–that’s what Margaret Lane feels as she takes in God’s gorgeous handiwork in Mount Rainier National Park. ![]() |