5/24/2023 0 Comments Love, Lex by Avery Aster![]() ![]() The Undergrad Years is a New Adult contemporary miniseries about first loves, independence, and everlasting friendships. Right? -Lex Easton, women’s studies major, motorcycle enthusiast, and virgin. I gotta protect them and keep my mouth shut. ![]() Why should I? My friends and I had a previous stint in juvie that nearly destroyed us. His inked body is jacked like a superhero, and he says I can trust him. Officer Ford Gotti, the Harley-wheelin’ biker cop who arrested us, keeps sticking his perfectly-sculpted nose into my case. Like I’m walking around Soho with a stick of dynamite in my Louis Vuitton purse-not! Now, my besties and I are in jail. According to the police report, this vomit-inducing incident happened around the same time I’d supposedly blown-up my mother’s penthouse. ![]() This summer, I’d planned to celebrate my eighteenth birthday in Europe with my fellow Manhattanites-Taddy Brill, Blake Morgan, and Vive Farnworth-until I caught my boyfriend screwing my mother. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Gordon korman framed series![]() Unfortunately, that's not how the principal and a very annoyed police detective see things.īefore Griffin knows it, he is attending a new school especially for young delinquents and he's also under house arrest. True, he has recently been connected to the theft of a valuable baseball card and a crime at the local zoo, but that doesn't mean he is involved this time. When the missing retainer shows up in the trophy case where the school's pride and joy, a famous Super Bowl ring, usual sits, fingers point immediately in Griffin's direction. Really!Īll Griffin wants to do is find his missing retainer before his parents discover he has lost it yet again. Yes, he has had his problems lately, but this time he is totally guilt-free. ![]() How do you prove yourself innocent of a crime when you are only in middle school and everyone in authority thinks you are guilty? That's the problem Griffin Bing is battling. Reviewed by Sally Kruger aka "Readingjunky" for ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Kwan yin oracle![]() Even today visitors to the island will encounter monks in their traditional robes as they walk along the many paths that criss-cross the picturesque landscape. In its heyday, the island had eighty-two temples and nunneries together with some one hundred and twenty-eight shelters that between them housed 4,000 Buddhist monks and nuns. In due course, it became known as the “Heaven of the Sea and Kingdom of the Buddhists”. ![]() The island’s scenic beauty meant it was the perfect setting for temples and other religious buildings. The mountain is of one of four in the country that are held sacred by Buddhists and it was here that over the centuries a once large Buddhist community was to evolve. Putuoshan dominates the small rhomboidal land mass with its total area of about 12.5 square kilometres (4.8 square miles). These islands are in fact the peaks of submerged mountains and so rise steeply from the sea. ![]() Zhoushan City is situated on Zhoushan Island that in turn gives its name to a group of some four hundred small islands off the east coast of China in Zhejiang Province. 5/24/2023 0 Comments The shadowglass![]() ![]() " A worthy conclusion to a story that is, at its core, about love and letting go. " A must-purchase." - School Library Journal
5/24/2023 0 Comments Circle of the moon by faith hunter![]() I liked that Nell is getting stronger and more confident of her place in Unit 18. Mud is irrepressible and the dialogue between her and Nell sparkles. ![]() ![]() My favourite parts of this story dealt with Nell’s relationship with her sister, Mud and her visits back to her family in the Cloud Of God compound. I liked the idea that Nell and Occam were both still recovering rather than being magically all better but I could have done with less “Previously, on Soulwood” and just getting on with the story. ![]() If you haven’t read any of the others, don’t start here, go back and enjoy the whole series.įor me, this book got off to a slightly clunky start as we caught up with events since the violent and traumatic end to the last book, “Flame In The Dark”. “Circle Of The Moon” is the fourth Nell Ingram book, set in the same world as the Jane Yellowrock series. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The promise booker![]() ![]() On each reading we felt that the book grew. ![]() The chair of this year's panel of Booker judges, Maya Jasanoff, described the selection in a statement: " The Promise astonished us from the outset as a penetrating and incredibly well-constructed account of a white South African family navigating the end of apartheid and its aftermath. ![]() I'm fascinated as a writer by the edge of the map by things that are not said." "If the only thing you had was a small window that opened on to these four funerals and you didn't get the full trajectory of the family story, as a reader you'd have to fill in those gaps yourself. "It occurred to me that it would be a novel and interesting way of approaching a family saga," the author explained. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments She hulk vol 1 deconstructed![]() ![]() The modern era of She-Hulk comics build on the foundation laid by Byrne, especially in the solos by Dan Slott (2004, 2005) and Charles Soule (2014). ![]() ![]() With a history as beloved as hers, the only way we could do her comics justice was with TWO reading guides! So check out our classic She-Hulk comics guide if you want to see how Jen developed over the 80s and 90s, which includes her fourth-wall-breaking solo with John Byrne and her major appearances on both the Fantastic Four and the Avengers! But if you want to jump into her modern stories (which are inspiring the Disney+ show this summer!) then here is what you need to read: Modern She-Hulk Comics Recommendations: Jennifer Walters is one of the smartest, funniest, and strongest characters at Marvel. ![]() Hey you! Thanks for coming back for the modern She-Hulk comics reading guide! ![]() ![]() She makes them eat Chinese takeout dinners, forbids them to enter her kitchen, and never explains the strange visitors with Afros and black berets who knock on her door. And even though Delphine will have to take care of her sisters, as usual, and learn the truth about the missing pieces of the past.When the girls arrive in Oakland in the summer of 1968, Cecile wants nothing to do with them. Even though her father and Big Ma will send them from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to stay with Cecile for the summer. ![]() Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, seven years ago. ![]() Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Imagine me gone review![]() ![]() ![]() ‘An intense celebration of art, language and life.’ – The Guardian Weaving together the voices of five family members, Adam Haslett imagines how a single event can define many lives, unfolding a rich and painful novel that has all the makings of an American classic. In a family marked by tragedy, Michael, Celia and Alec struggle for years to save one another from the destructive legacy of guilt. While all three are still young, the course of their lives is changed forever. And then there's Alec, the most ambitious and also the most sensitive, growing up in the shadow of his older siblings. His sister Celia is the sensible one in the family: tougher than the boys, unshakeably certain about how the world works. Michael is a precocious kid, smart and funny, obsessed with books and music. Universal and essential, Imagine Me Gone is the heart-breaking story of an ordinary American family shaped by tragedy. ‘.please know that you tried very hard indeed, and that you loved your family as deeply as you could’ Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Awards 2017 ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Akira manga vol 1![]() ![]() At the very least, the ending is extremely dissapointing, giving zero resolution to the romance, the superhero plots, and literally not mentioning what happened to a few of the major characters. I'm honestly not sure it even has a plot, given how seemingly random everything is. Sets itself up as kind of an X-Men superhero story, before becoming a crossdressing harem romance, with some chapters of pure sex comedy and some chapters of shonen fight scenes. Putting aside real life events, is Raw Hero any good? It is one of the weirdest works ive ever read, with bizarre plot plots, insane character motivations and backstories, extremely over the top fanservice, and you're basically more than halfway done the manga before the plot even starts. This being his first project since PS ended, readers tend to hold that ending against Raw Hero. Raw Hero is a work that alot of people reading it probably have an in-grained bias towards, as Akira Hiramoto lost a great deal of good will among fans after the controversial ending to Prison School. ![]() |