![]() ![]() Amanda Ibarra, Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC An ode to women everywhere whose birthright is not only survival but joy.” Alone with a husband she doesn’t know, Ana carves a space for herself in Washington Heights, learning almost everything from scratch. There is a path to a better life, but no manual. “ Dominicana hinges on the promise of new beginnings built on generations of sacrifice and dreams. Cristina Lebron, Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL Summer 2020 Reading Group Indie Next List ![]() Throughout these pages, I fell in and out of love, I laughed, I cried, and I was deeply moved.” It’ll be really hard to forget these characters and the realness in their heartache. However, upon Ana’s arrival, her fate untangles into something unexpected. Big lights, tall buildings, and a bright future constitute the promise of a new beginning. Ana Cancion, who’s only 15, leaves her home behind for a new life in New York City with her soon-to-be husband, Juan Ruiz. ![]() “Angie Cruz is a beautiful writer with a powerful voice, and readers of Julia Alvarez and Sandra Cisneros will greatly enjoy this book! Dominicana is a riveting story about family, womanhood, and what it means to be an immigrant. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Read the introductions from authors Casey Wolf, Clayton Bye, Cynthia B. The premise begins with two questions, “How does one outrun darkness?” and “What's the speed of dark?” I invite you to read this short story and ask yourself, what secret dreams and silent screams inhabit your inner peace?Įnjoy each story as told by different voices, varied life experiences and individual writing style. The short story The Speed of Dark by Clayton Bye reminds me of Twilight Zone’s epic psychological horrors. But it's there, it's with you long after the story is done.” It works its way slowly through your flesh, sometimes festering, sometimes not. He says, “A story that disturbs is like a deep sliver. ![]() In the Introduction Clayton says it best when speaking about the Horror genre. Author Clayton Bye is editor and also the contributor of Retrovirus and The Speed of Dark within this collection. ![]() Nineteen authors contributed twenty-seven short stories in this Horror Anthology, The Speed of Dark. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For Maren, a camp with overly excited and borderline obnoxious kids is not her thing it's the opposite to her preference for not standing out in the crowd. Twelfth introduces us to Maren, the twelve-year-old kid who unwillingly joins a theatre camp since her parents hope that she will be more open and cheerful like her artsy older sister Hadley. It's a mildly heavier topic for a middle-grade novel, yet it is actually a timely discussion for pre-teens who are already in the age of exploring their identity and passion. My expectation of Twelfth is about a silly treasure hunt around a theatre camp, but what I received was a story of people finding their lanes without the pressure of becoming someone else. Trigger warnings: antisemitism (mentioned), anxiety (mentioned), arson, domestic abuse (mentioned), fire, homophobia, kidnapping, misgendering, transphobia. Thank you, Janet Key, Little Brown Books, and TBR Beyond Tours for giving me a digital advanced copy of Twelfth in exchange for an honest review. But after living the life I got to live? Just goes to show you, I was dreaming too small." "You know, when I was your age, this would have been exactly my dream cone true. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the following months, the Miramax mogul was branded a monster after an overwhelming number of women detailed how he sexually harassed, assaulted, and raped them, which ultimately led to his conviction in 2020 and sentencing to 23 years in prison.Īt least 100 women, including actresses Rose McGowan, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lupita Nyong’o, and Uma Thurman, detailed their experiences with the serial predator. ![]() Harvey Weinstein’s movie empire came crashing down in October 2017 following the one-two punch of exposés by The New York Times’ Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, and Ronan Farrow’s damning investigative report in The New Yorker. ![]() ![]() ![]() This data collection threatens to allow the Chinese Communist party access to Americans’ personal and proprietary information.” The order issued on 6 August 2020 stated: “TikTok automatically captures vast swaths of information from its users, including Internet and other network activity information such as location data and browsing and search histories. In the US, Donald Trump in August 2020 signed an executive order that blocked people from downloading the app, which was followed by an order for TikTok to sell its US business. The distrust has already been expressed in scrutiny from regulators and politicians around the world, worried about the amount of data TikTok collects and whether Chinese authorities have access to it. ![]() “As the geopolitical situation changes I suspect we will see companies such as TikTok will continue to be treated with some caution in the west,” says Alan Woodward, a professor of cybersecurity at Surrey University. ![]() Owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, TikTok’s success – more than 1 billion users worldwide – is combining with well-established fears about social media’s data collection practices and concerns over China’s geo-political ambitions to generate a background hum of distrust about the app. ![]() ![]() Though a writers' writer to some, she is a readers' writer for us all. If we speak in our best grant-writing, contribution-making voice and say that her body of work represents a culmination of twentieth-century literary achievement, can that in any way account for the profound, uncanny experience whereby reading Lydia Davis becomes seeing like Lydia Davis? A second generation postmodernist of sorts, her American concision is explained via her European sensibility and an affinity to late modernists, though not Modernism proper. Translator of the greats, author of miniatures we're told often enough that her stories are short, yet the impression those stories leave is certainly not fleeting. Why? As a writer she is strikingly singular, but it is perhaps the plurality of genres and modalities she writes in that repels categories, movements, and, often, syllabi. Lydia Davis tends to slip from people's personal canons. ![]() The second part of this page is intended as a guide for readers to navigate our cluster. ![]() ![]() ![]() Surrounded by hundreds of women isn’t what he’s looking for. Romance junkie, Rhoo plans a getaway to a book convention in Ottawa, except With an unusually youthfulĪppearance and a little known inherent bombshell of his own, he longs for aĭeeper connection with a man than just instant gratification. Rhudaii is a unique man in every imaginable way. He utilizes a rare weekend away from his job to indulge in some much-needed Stand service and Madame Eve’s incredible track record for successful matches, Immature males who don’t share his interests. As a dominant bear shapeshifter in his prime, andĪ taste for slim, trim boy-toys, his preference has brought him to aĬrossroad-his desire to find a partner to share his life with is overcast by (PRIDE) department of the RCMP, has little time to pursue his personal An officer with the Paranormal/Research/Intelligence/Discipline and Education ![]() ![]() ![]() She is also known for playing Bene Gesserit in Dune.ĭinita Gohil As Fate Maiden: Playing Fate Maiden in The Sandman is Dinita Gohil, who is best known for portraying Zoe in Treason and Linda in The Snowman.Īsim Chaudhry As Abel: Based on the biblical figure, Asim Chaudhry joined The Sandman cast as Abel (Cain’s brother). Souad Faress As Fate Crone: Game of Thrones star, Souad Faress, joined the cast of The Sandman as the Fate Crone. Some may remember her best as Zulla in Aladdin and Anwar’s mother in Skins. ![]() Nina Wadia As Fate Mother: Playing one of the Goddesses who helps Dream locate his totems is Nina Wadia. She is best known for playing Julia McNamara in Nip/Tuck, Catherine Parr in The Tudors and Cassandra Bianchi in The Blacklist. Joely Richardson As Ethel Cripps/Madame Daudet: Joely Richardson plays a supporting antagonist in The Sandman, cast as John’s protective mother, Ethel Cripps/Madame Daudet. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. ![]() His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. ![]() His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Title: Cycle of the Werewolf: A Novel Format: Paperback Product dimensions: 128 pages, 9 X 6 X 0.4 in Shipping dimensions: 128 pages, 9 X 6 X 0. ![]() ![]() Moreover, each view is distinct, though there’s not much linguistic differences between them. Unlike Penance, the events of the story are gradually unveiled across chapters in a more ‘present’ than ‘past’ manner (by ‘present’, I mean that the events from the murder up to the ending occurring in an active manner, not by having it recounted by the people involved), which makes the story more gripping and suspenseful. In this way, the events of this book comes to a circle. ![]() The fifth chapter is told in the point of view of Shūya Watanabe, and the last in the point of view of Yuko again. ![]() The second to class president Mizuki Kitahara, the third to the Naoki Shitamura’s second sister, and the fourth to Naoki Shitamura himself. The first belongs to Yuko Moriguchi, the homeroom teacher whose daughter her students killed. There are six chapters in this book and each chapter is also told from a different character’s point of view. Written in the same confessional style as Penance (which makes sense and really suits the story this time), Confessions is many times more gripping and distinct than Minato’s second book. Genre(s): Asian Literature, Thriller, MysteryĬonfessions is Kanae Minato’s first published book, but the second work of hers that I’ve read, which is perhaps a blessing because Confessions is what Penance should’ve been. ![]() |