![]() The prophecies inform their next five decades. ![]() The Gold children-four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness-sneak out to hear their fortunes. It’s 1969 in New York City’s Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? And damn! It turned out to be so, so good. Having heard good things about this book ever since its release in 2018, I really don’t know why I kept delaying picking it up until finally, recently, I started reading it on a whim. I am stunned by this book – the thought, the writing, the story – I am stunned at how it all weaves together to make such a brilliant novel. ![]() ![]() Hey guys! I’m here today to review a book I read recently and absolutely LOVED. It’s easily become one of my favorite reads of ALL time. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Away from public scrutiny, shipping revels in suspect practices, dubious operators, and a shady system of "flags of convenience." Infesting our waters, poisoning our air, and a prime culprit of acoustic pollution, shipping is environmentally indefensible. Without all those dots, the world would not work.įreight shipping has been no less revolutionary than the printing press or the Internet, yet it is all but invisible. Without shipping there would be no clothes, food, paper, or fuel. In postindustrial economies, we no longer produce but buy. Each dot is a ship each ship is laden with boxes each box is laden with goods. ![]() On ship-tracking websites, the waters are black with dots. Eye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilization ![]() ![]() My Thoughts: Julie James' style of writing has a lot of focus on dialog. After that the FBI arrives and Cameron discovers that Jack Pallas is in charge- and he blames her for being disciplined and shipped off to Nebraska three years ago. Things get worse when hotel security finds a dead woman in the room and Cameron is the only person to have caught a glimpse of the murderer through her peephole. ![]() Noises cease for about half an hour and then loud banging and squealing start up again and she calls the front desk. Unfortunately she has a very bad night when her neighbors in room 1308 engage in a loud sex marathon until 3am. Attorney who decided to give herself a little break by staying overnight at the Peninsula Hotel in San Francisco while she waited for her hardwood floors to be sealed. The Premise: Cameron Lynde is an Assistant U.S. I won an ARC of this book through sheer luck in logging onto twitter just was was giving away some copies. ![]() I've been looking forward to this book for a while because Julie James is now on my autobuy list. ![]() ![]() ![]() Publishers use these marks when books are returned to them. ![]() Remainder Mark - A remainder mark is usually a small black line or dot written with a felt tip pen or Sharpie on the top, bottom, side page edges and sometimes on the UPC symbol on the back of the book.If excessively worn, they will be marked as "tray worn." Flat trays for SPI games are not graded, and have the usual problems.If excessively worn, they will be marked as "card worn." The cardboard backing of miniature packs is not graded.In most cases, boxed games and box sets do not come with dice. Alone Against the Dark and Petersens Abominations Unboxing 13,437 views 641 Dislike Share Save Seth Skorkowsky 97.Due to the nature of loose counters, if a game is unplayable it may be returned for a refund of the purchase price. Boardgame counters are punched, unless noted.Major defects and/or missing components are noted separately.Example, EX+ is an item between Excellent and Near Mint condition. A "plus" sign indicates that an item is close to the next highest condition.When only one condition is listed, then the box and contents are in the same condition. Boxed items are listed as "code/code" where the first code represents the box, and the second code describes the contents. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the books, white “noughts” have their names mispronounced, are labelled as gang members or are dismissed as “uppity”. The first book was published two decades ago, but Brexit, Meghxit and the current political regime mean they offer a particularly prescient and vivid representation of what is going on in black people’s minds. Written by one of the country’s most celebrated black female authors, the books dissect the inequalities between black and white Britons by turning them on their head, and imagining a world in which black supremacy is the norm, and Europe lives in the shadow of colonial Africa (renamed “Aprica”). ![]() ![]() ![]() Emmett reluctantly agrees when the stunning socialite asks him to back her trades and split the profits. Lizzie can play the Stock Exchange as deftly as New York's most accomplished brokers-but she needs a man to put her skills to use. He loathes the city's "high society" types, but a rebellious and beautiful blue-blood just might change all that.Įlizabeth Sloane's mind is filled with more than the latest parlor room gossip. His rise in stations, however, has done little to elevate his taste in women. But for one millionaire, the business of love is not what he expected.īorn in the slums of Five Points, Emmett Cavanaugh climbed his way to the top of a booming steel empire and now holds court in an opulent Fifth Avenue mansion. The men of the Knickerbocker Club know this more than anyone else. New York City's Gilded Age shimmers with unimaginable wealth and glittering power. ![]() (To see a larger version of the cover, click on the image.) ![]() HEA is thrilled to unveil the cover and an excerpt from Magnate, the first book in Joanna Shupe's new Knickerbocker Club series, which kicks off with a novella, Tycoon, in February. ![]() ![]() ![]() There's simply no knowing where Cent and this series are headed next.but it'll sure be interesting to find out.” - Kirkus Reviews, starred review As in the previous book, Cent's genius and her social skills (considering that she's been discouraged from creating close bonds with anyone outside her immediate family) seem almost more unusual than her teleporting ability, but her character has an intellectual and emotional validity as well as an inherent likability that encourages the reader to overlook those quibbles. By constantly experimenting with new tropes and extending the limits of the Harrison-Rice family's power to teleport, Gould ensures that each installment remains fresh and enthralling. He began by mixing speculative fiction, adventure and bildungsroman, then added in political and corporate thriller this novel is primarily hard sci-fi while maintaining the other genres. Gould grows more ambitious with every book in the Jumper series. ![]() ![]() “Gould literally raises the bar on teleportation in this sequel to Impulse. Fans of the series should give this one an enthusiastic response.” - Booklist “The question is, What is she prepared to risk in order to live the kind of life her special gift opens up for her? Like its predecessors, the novel straddles the line between YA and adult fiction its lead character is a teen, but the story has many adult-themed elements, and its writing seems geared more toward older readers. ![]() ![]() Nolan is on the outs with the Chicago mafia/mob/outfit after killing the brother of Charlie, a made mobster. Nolan has spent the past 16 years avoiding any work around Chicago. We are introduced to Nolan at the end of his month long recuperation from a gunshot. He takes some of the Parker basics - character with one name, working outside the mob, big and tough, no nonsense, single, crime procedural, etc. Collins did a pretty fine job for being only 20-years-old-or-whatever-he-was. As Little Steven says, "you're only as good as who you steal from." To be clear, Collins freely cops to admiring and copying Westlake and he picked a fantastic series to emulate. You'll have to ask him about the weird dates and editions.īait Money was Collins's first published novel and a dead ripoff of Richard Stark/Westlake's Parker novels. Worldcat lists original copyright as 1973. But he pubbed these in the early '70s when he was around 20-years-old. Collins's web page lists both books as 1981. This is a Hard Case Crime reprint twofer of Bait Money and Blood Money. I always try and arrive early at the Milwaukee airport so I have time to check out the large used bookstore, get a coffee, look at the mini-museum, maybe get a milkshake (the milkshake place there is expensive). I bought this one in the Milwaukee airport waiting for my wife's parents to arrive. One of the four Hard Case Crime novels I picked up a month or two ago. Reprint I read: Two For the Money by Max Allan Collins, 2004, 9780857683185. ![]() ![]() In appearance, these streamlined vessels seem much more ethereal and delicate than ancient Anatolian pottery. Their ample bodies invite the viewer to contemplate the silence of the space they hold within. ![]() They stand on a tiny, non-visible foot, which lightly lifts the bowls from the surface they stand on, endowing them with a gravity-defying stance. Unlike ancient Anatolian wares, they are made of denser, high-fire, gray-white stoneware, giving strength to their thin walls, and they are built with a combination of complex, wheel-thrown and coil-built techniques. These bowls are curvaceous, thin walled, and wide rimmed. ![]() ![]() However, they present quite a contrast to the formal diversity of ancient Anatolian ceramics, as they focus and elaborate on subtle variations of a single reductive bowl form. Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye, Untitled, 2011, ceramic, 5.2 x 9.9 x 9.9 inchesĪlev Ebüzziya’s vessels are characterized by their proud stance and pristine outlines. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So, I’d say that Ultramarine is more somber than The Pink Trance Notebooks and Camp Marmalade, partly because the composition of Ultramarine took much, much longer. ![]() That’s a writing rhythm I noticed in my book The Anatomy of Harpo Marx-how giddy the first four chapters are and how somber and death-driven the later ones are. Wayne Koestenbaum: In all of my long projects, there’s a movement from optimism and exaltation to a certain bittersweet sobriety by the end. Is there really a conclusion to a trilogy based in trance? I’m particularly interested in how you see Ultramarine fitting into the arc of the trilogy. Patrick Davis: You’ve just published the third of your trance notebooks, Ultramarine, with Nightboat Books. Here Koestenbaum reflects on his various obsessions-color, kink, the Northeast corridor, Gertrude Stein-and his signature “trance poetics.” (His poem, “,” was just featured in Harvard Review 59.) In an interview with Patrick Davis, he discusses his recently completed trilogy of “trance notebooks”: The Pink Trance Notebooks, Camp Marmalade, and, this February, Ultramarine. Wayne Koestenbaum is an essayist, professor, public intellectual, and poet. “I have a crush on the world to some extent”: An Interview with Wayne Koestenbaum ![]() |