![]() ![]() This book is also packed with measured, realistic plot twists (in classic Jean Kwok style). The mystery in this novel is gripping and kept me listening. ![]() It felt like experiencing the city myself - from the massive biking culture to the waffles, and even a character who’s a KLM pilot - this book is essentially an ode to The Netherlands. Something else I enjoyed about this book is how much page time the author gives the city of Amsterdam. With three different narrators who match all the accents in this novel perfectly, it’s such an immersive experience. So, if you haven’t read this one yet, do the audiobook. I listened to this book on audio, and the narration definitely took this book up a notch for me. While she’s there, the story flits between the POVs of the three Lee women as readers learn what happened to Sylvie Lee. When no one hears from Sylvie after several days, Amy - who’s never left the US in her entire life - flies to The Netherlands to find Sylvie. We meet the cast of characters pretty quickly - Sylvie, Amy, her sister, their parents, cousin, Lukas and his parents Helena and Wilhem. But while her family in New York still think she’s in Amsterdam, her cousin Lukas calls asking to talk to her. ![]() ![]() Sylvie had gone to Amsterdam a month before to spend some time with the dying grandmother who raised her. This novel opens with the disorienting discovery that the firstborn of the Lee family is missing. ![]()
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Funny and romantic, this effervescent story about family, friendship, and finding yourself is perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han. ![]() ![]() In The Battle for Home: The Vision of a Young Architect in Syria (Thames & Hudson, $26.95), the remarkable debut that introduced al-Sabouni's courageous writing and aspirations for Syria to the world, the author advocates for a radical architectural revival connecting Homs to its rich past while also prioritizing the individual and collective needs of residents. Observing the devastation firsthand, Syrian architect Marwa al-Sabouni believes that poorly planned architecture contributed to the conflict in Homs as cultures and religions, separated from each other, lost the ability to understand and work together. ![]() Since 2011, the ongoing civil war has devastated the lives of the city's inhabitants and its ancient infrastructure, creating an architectural wasteland in desperate need of reconstruction. As the population grew, corrupt leaders segregated newcomers by housing them in shoddily constructed concrete blocks that did nothing to foster community and shared purpose. ![]() The ancient city of Homs was once Syria's religiously tolerant, culturally vibrant industrial center, where people from diverse backgrounds lived in harmony with their neighbors and their natural surroundings. ![]() ![]() ![]() So far I've read Feel My Pain, Take My Body, Red Hot, Scum, and Primal. Merikan, and have been on a reading streak with them. Subreddit Schedule & Eventsĭetails on past, current, and upcoming special events, author AMAs, and monthly reading challenges are listed in the schedule section of the subreddit wiki. Or try this link to use Google to search the subreddit. ![]() Find a Bookįind all-time favorites and popular recommendations on our subreddit resources page and check out our New Reader guide. No complaints about author identities or over-generalizing about author or reader gendersįor more detail on the rules, please click here.įor our guidelines on how to write a book request that follows the rules, please click here. Mark your spoilers and warn us about books without a HEA/HFN No discrimination, bigotry, or microaggressions towards marginalized groups Requests must be text posts and post titles must be specificīook requests must be specific and follow our guidelines A place to discuss M/M romance books, including book requests, reviews and recommendations, non-book media, and general discussions of the genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some have said her story was too particular: that being in hiding meant she was spared exposure to the most gruesome horrors. ![]() Much has been written about Anne Frank and whether her story was the best one to represent the Holocaust to mass audiences. They wrote in Germany, Austria, Holland, France, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, Romania, and Hungary not surprisingly, their writings reflect Europe’s linguistic Tower of Babel, including Yiddish, the mother-tongue of East European Jews that was almost entirely extinguished by the annihilation of its population. Some were assimilated Jews while others were strictly Orthodox and many fell in somewhere in the middle, including several children of mixed marriages and at least one convert to Catholicism. Some came from affluent families while others were the impoverished children of peasants or laborers. Some wrote as refugees, others in hiding or passing, and still more inside the Jewish ghettoes of Eastern Europe. Who are these writers? They were both boys and girls their diaries begin as early as the mid-30s in Germany and span the entire period of the Holocaust, several ending only after liberation. Decades later, more than seventy-five diaries of young writers have surfaced from the wreckage of the Holocaust, and many dozens more remain untranslated in archives around the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() She believes in what she sees and feels she must help them. Mattie feels frustrated as to who could help her and who would believe what she has to say. No lull time here or time for breaks, there seems to be something happening every step of the way, during this crisis. I feel transformed as I read the book, desperately watching as Mattie’s life crumbles. ![]() more ainst time as the images and voices call out to Mattie for help but there is only so much information they can reveal. Her foster mother won’t call the authorities so Mattie takes matters into her own hands which means talking to the ghosts who she feels must be with Sally. Her usual reaction is to ignore these ghosts but when she now sees her foster sister who was just alive a few hours ago, dead, taped and bounded with a bullet hole through her head, Mattie cannot ignore this ghost. Mattie has been seeing dead people for a long time. ![]() That is a recipe for a great paranormal book. A quick read with nothing too extravagant: a bit detailed a times, some creepiness thrown in and a couple twists that I was not prepared for. I wanted a book that kept the pages turning with a Halloween theme and this book was just the one. Review 1: I’m glad that I saved this book for this month. ![]() ![]() There is none of the economist's propensity to theorize on the basis of airy assumptions here Sen's arguments are grounded in a keenly felt, deeply empathetic reading of Indian history and culture, augmented by a breadth and depth of research (extensively footnoted) that is breathtaking in its range and scholarly eclecticism. Sen convincingly demonstrates that Asian (and specifically Indian) traditions of rationality and scientific liberalism go further back than Western ones and have been just as important as the religious or mystical strains in shaping India's heritage. Emendation he provides, in capacious detail. "There is certainly a need for some emendation here," Sen adds dryly. ![]() He is particularly critical of the Western overemphasis on India's religiosity at the expense of any recognition of the country's equally impressive rationalist, scientific, mathematical and secular heritage, fields treated by Orientalists as "Western spheres of success." That is because Sen uses it, along with "exoticist" and "curatorial," to describe the three perspectives from which the West has tended to view India (each of which he dissects and discredits with precision and finesse). ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters are flawed and believable. the story arc builds slowly and credibly, with depth and realistic scenarios. Her pacing of the book is deliciously excruciating. But, because everyone is looking for something different in a read, I'll describe why I loved it. Sally Thorne has done it - a rare 5-star review from me. What did you love best about The Hating Game? Maybe Lucy Hutton doesn't hate Joshua Templeman. So why is she suddenly having steamy dreams about Joshua and dressing for work like she's got a hot date?Īfter a perfectly innocent elevator ride ends with an earth-shattering kiss, Lucy starts to wonder whether she's got Joshua Templeman all wrong. If Lucy wins this game, she'll be Joshua's boss. Lucy can't let Joshua beat her at anything-especially when a huge new promotion goes up for the taking. Trapped in a shared office together 40 (ok, 50 or 60) hours a week, they've become entrenched in an addictive, ridiculous never-ending game of one-upmanship. ![]() Everyone except for coldly efficient, impeccably attired, physically intimidating Joshua Templeman. She's charming and accommodating and prides herself on being loved by everyone at Bexley & Gamin. ![]() Lucy Hutton has always been certain that the nice girl can get the corner office. Debut author Sally Thorne bursts on the scene with a hilarious and sexy workplace comedy all about that thin, fine line between hate and love.ġ) An opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome. ![]() ![]() ![]() One won't be mad if they end up spending 90 minutes on this adventure, but I feel the obligation to suggest the comparable Abominable for, even as Over the Moon will sit well, the one with the yeti gets the same job done in a more impactful fashion. The animation in Glen Keane and John Kahrs film is undeniably breathtaking with the visuals that accompany Fei Fei's trip to the moon certainly matching her expectations as well as ours, but while the film seems to desire a more substantial weight it feels executed more in the vein of a kitschy fantastical tale solely for the kiddos. Tetsuya, a young male courtesan, is living a life of relative safety until an unknown samurai called. The two animated films are surprisingly similar with Culton's film succeeding more in the realm of utilizing the folklore and mythical elements of its story to lend real soul to the proceedings. Over the Mountain of the Moon: A Tale of a Samurai Consort by Reiko Morgan available in Trade Paperback on, also read synopsis and reviews. In understanding the context of how this film came to be and what it was intended for there is no questioning the "why" of its existence, but I might humbly suggest that if you found Over the Moon to be particularly moving that you seek out Jill Culton's underseen Abominable from last year. ![]() ![]() Paradise-Lost-A-New-Language-for-Poetry Audio Lecture First, to what extent did Milton diverge from orthodox perceptions of Genesis? Second, how did his own experiences, feelings, allegiances, prejudices and disappointments, play some part in the writing of the poem and, in respect of this, in what ways does it reflect the theological and political tensions of the seventeenth century? Two questions arise from this and these have attended interpretations of the poem since its publication in 1667. ![]() It is a literary text that goes beyond the traditional limitations of literary story telling, because for the Christian reader and for the predominant ethos of Western thinking and culture it involved the original story, the exploration of everything that man would subsequently be and do. It tells the story of the fall of Satan and his compatriots, the creation of man, and, most significantly, of man’s act of disobedience and its consequences: paradise was lost for us. Paradise Lost is a poetic rewriting of the book of Genesis. ![]() |