![]() ![]() How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so slim. Or why she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn’t work. Others might wonder why Grace never answers the phone. You’d like to get to know Grace better.īut it’s difficult, because you realize Jack and Grace are inseparable. You’re hopelessly charmed by the ease and comfort of their home, by the graciousness of the dinner parties they throw. You might not want to like them, but you do. Though they are still newlyweds, they seem to have it all. He’s a dedicated attorney who has never lost a case she is a flawless homemaker, a masterful gardener and cook, and dotes on her disabled younger sister. He has looks and wealth she has charm and elegance. The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie?Įveryone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. However, everyone I talked to said that Behind Closed Doors was her best book, so I thought I would give it a try. I read The Breakdown and didn’t quite get the hype. I have heard nothing but good things about B.A. ![]()
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![]() ![]() There’s a lot of dread and worry about what’s going on in the woods as no one seems to know (or is willing to discuss) what’s out there. The first part of the book is well-balanced. Hungry for lack of offerings, the spirits warn they may no longer be able to protect the townspeople from the dark powers that are stirring in the woods. ![]() They need her help because a priest is dissuading townsfolk from the old ways. In this town, Vasya is born with sight that allows her to communicate with the household spirits. ![]() It sets the tone well and is an entertaining way of providing key background information for the main story, which takes place in a small Russian town next to the woods. The opening scenes depict a family sitting around and telling old stories of Morozko (Frost). It’s snowy, moody, and packed with magic-the superstitious, fairy-tale kind. The Bear and the Nightingale hits many pitfalls of Chosen One stories, but I didn’t notice until the cheesy climax because it’s such an entertaining read. ![]() ![]() ![]() "When you try that, sometimes you get a haiku, sometimes you get an email in a pirate voice," she said. Google plans to let people roll the dice a little bit with "Help me write," Pappu added, with a new version of the "I'm feeling lucky" button that's for years added a little spontaneous randomness to the company's search engine. Like Duet AI, Copilot is in limited testing. ![]() Indeed, Google rival Microsoft calls its own AI-boosted productivity tools Microsoft 365 Copilot. The "duet" label shows how tech companies are positioning AI as an assistant to boost what you do, like autocorrect or grammar check on steroids. That includes writing a job application, reference letters, essays, and formal thank-you notes for after a job interview. ![]() "We've been absolutely blown away by the really interesting and clever or creative things that people are doing with this feature," said Aparna Pappu, general manager of the Google Workspace productivity tools, in a briefing about the features. Google CEO Sundar Pichai shows off an AI-powered "Help me write" feature coming to Gmail and Google Docs that can turn a text prompt like "write a thank-you note" or "write a textile designer job description" into a draft document. Feed (Hardcover) Published July 17th 2012 by Turtleback Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() SCIFI: first contact, getting lost in space (maybe not finding a robot but a dragon), going against oppressive organizations, regular queer people rising to leaders, discovery of objects that change the course of history, both humanoid and non-humanoid queer aliens ![]() Hunger Games meets Demolition Man), amazing yet realistic worldbuilding, queer magical warriors like She-Ra, dragons/royalty but settings other than medieval-ish, flawed or collapsing magic systems These are the top 3 genres I’d love to work on for 2023-2024, but note that all of these must have queer romance as part of the main plot.įANTASY: high-concept epicness with pop culture comps (ex. I’m actively looking for queer YA and NA/Adult diversity-rich speculative fiction stories that contain unlikely casts, big families (related or found), personalities that stand out, worlds struggling with social change/climate issues/inexplicable events, high-stakes adventures, underdogs rising to the occasion, smart and witty voices, and LGBTQ+ rep across the rainbow. ![]() Hola! I’m Amy Acosta, a passionate and creative Latina living in the middle of the Caribbean with 3 cats and way too many books. ![]() ![]() ![]() She moves from the comforts of a modern home to an ancient one and she somehow already knows how to light fires and generally take care of herself (I’m sure there are a lot of 20-somethings that know those things, but we are given so little information about who Adrienne is as a person that there’s nothing to support this image of her as a street-wise, capable young adult). Adrienne is very young but she’s already a ghost writer. And things start going down – at sundown (sorry).Īs with many horror stories, you need to have a healthy dose of suspension of disbelief and a high tolerance for clichés in order to enjoy this book. So it’s a perfect, secluded setting for what’s about to go down. The house is outside the little town of Ipson, separated from it by a forest. Broke, without any living relatives and as good as homeless, Adrienne chooses to move into this house with her cat Wolfgang because then at least she’ll have a roof over her head. ![]() ![]() The Haunting of Ashburn House is the pretty scary story of Adrienne, a 20-something woman who inherits an old house from her great aunt, Edith. But it was fun and sometimes that’s all you need. I don’t think Coates meant it to be that either. ![]() ![]() The pair collaborated for so long that even after they separated in 1979, not only did they maintain their marriage but they went on to pursue a successful business relationship. It is for her relationship with Breen that Marion Zimmer Bradley is most famously known. Her daughter, Moira Greyland, came from this second marriage.īradley was formally educated, having attended Hardin-Simmons University (Abilene, Texas) and the University of California (Berkley). Her relationship with Robert, which produced one son (David Robert Bradley), did not last. The ‘Bradley’ name with which she is associated entered the picture after her first marriage. The author was called Marion Eleanor Zimmer at birth. Two years later, she married Robert Alden Bradley. Born in 1930 in Berkley, California, the author spent her childhood on an Albany farm.īradley was 17 when she started writing in earnest. ![]() ![]() People that followed her work closely will attest to the fact that her writing clearly manifests the authors that inspired her. The novels that stayed with her would paint pictures in her mind of strange and distant worlds. As a child, she was drawn to adventure stories. Moore, Henry Kuther, and Leigh Brackett, to mention but a few. But even before success came her way, Bradley was always writing. It wasn’t until she sold her first short story that her publishing career took off. She started by writing for school magazines. ![]() ![]() At the suggestion of one of her colleagues, Jo seeks the help of psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs. Tragedy strikes two days later, when another ferry pilot crashes in the same area where Jo's plane was attacked. She rescues the man, who is handed over to the American military police it quickly emerges that he is considered a suspect in the disappearance of a fellow soldier who is missing. ![]() Returning to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, bound and gagged. ![]() Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Supermarine Spitfire-the fastest fighter aircraft in the world-to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft from the ground. In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series, a series of possible attacks on British pilots leads Jacqueline Winspear's beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs into a mystery involving First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. ![]() ![]() ![]() In commemoration of the game's Steam release, achievements, and multi-language localization have been added. ![]() Will she succeed with the exhaustion setting in? Unable to sleep and exhausted, Sophie wanders into town to discover that everyone else has fallen asleep.Īfter attempting to wake those she knows, the true terror of her reality awakens and she must make the decision to save everyone. In The Sand Man, you play as Sophie Grundler, a girl suffering from Insomnia. This is the second title in the Strange Man series, developed by Uri Games. Season of Mists is a 1990-1991 American eight-part comic and the fourth collection of issues in the DC Comics The Sandman series. It’s so scary you might not be able to take it. The Sandman was written and set between 19, and was undoubtedly informed by contemporary events like the AIDS epidemic in America and England. ![]() In that case, I’ll tell you a scary story. ![]() ![]() In 2002, a year before he started his run on her main series, Greg Rucka worked with J.G. Wonder Woman is defined by her gender.Įven to this day, her stories struggle to define who she is and what she stands for what with her upcoming movie deciding to giver her a large discus shield and have her fight in that other World War before returning to fight with a group of other superheroes in modern day. Male superheroes are defined by their symbols or their superpowers or their ideologies. ![]() Yet, there’s never been that breakthrough moment for Wonder Woman. With great power comes great responsibility. Writers and artists across more than seventy years have poured so much story over the likes of Superman, Batman, Spider-Man and the like that they’ve become known more by slogan than story. The thing about Wonder Woman is that, compared to her peers, she is remarkably ill defined. ![]() But when the Amazon Princess learns that Danielle has killed the drug dealers who murdered her sister, she suddenly finds herself in battle with Batman, who is searching for the female fugitive.Ĭaught in a no-win situation, Wonder Woman must choose between breaking a sacred oath and turning her back on justice. ![]() When Wonder Woman partakes in an ancient ritual called the Hiketeia, she is honor bound to eternally protect and care for a young girl named Danielle Wellys. WONDER WOMAN: THE HIKETEIA is a brilliantly orchestrated modern Greek tragedy of duty and vengeance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After immigrating to the United States from Russia as a teenager in 1981, Gessen returned to their country of birth in 1991, working as a journalist and editor while also writing books such as the 2012 release The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin and Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler’s War and Stalin’s Peace in 2004. A staff writer for The New Yorker and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and other publications, Gessen (who uses the gender neutral pronouns they/them) is also joining the faculty of Bard College as Distinguished Writer in Residence in the Division of Languages and Literature this fall. Masha Gessen understands the genuine terror created by totalitarian regimes. ![]() |