![]() ![]() ( Slight spoiler alert ! With how flirtatious, imprudent, and daring Lydia is, seeing her in this kind of trouble felt plausible.
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![]() "Eliza Victoria is the author of several award-winning novels including the Philippine National Book Award winner Dwellers (2014), Wounded Little Gods (2016), and her science fiction collection Nightfall (2018). Will Lambana spill its secrets and provide the healing balm Conrad needs? Or will he perish in the process?įans of Neil Gaiman, Emil Ferris and Charles Burns will love this new graphic novel! He has little idea of the creatures he will encounter and the truths to be revealed along the way. Slinky sirens and roaming wraith-like spirits populate a parallel world ruled by corruption and greed, which Conrad must enter to find the cure he seeks. On the shadowy, noir-tinged streets of Manila, multiple realities co-exist and intertwine as the two friends seek a cure for the magical malady. He teams up with Ignacio, a well-connected friend who promises to hook him up with the Diwata and their magical treatments-a quest that’s not only risky but highly illegal! 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This interview was conducted over Zoom and via email. ![]() We discovered that we are both novelists, mothers, first-generation Americans - all because of a picture of a rose (it was a Darcey Bussell). ![]() Name-dropping the famous rose breeder was a secret handshake, inciting a flurry of conversations. Gian and I became quick friends after she commented “Ooh, which David Austin?” on a flower photo I posted on Instagram. The author’s father is from Kurdistan of Iraq, where he grew lush gardens amid turmoil, and the book is based on his stories as well as a trip the family took in 1979. ![]() The novel explores the burden and blessings of family, ambition, and privilege during times of political upheaval. 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![]() ![]() While most historical fiction that has slavery as part of the plot is set during the Civil War era, Anderson chooses to begin her story on Monday, May 27, 1776. ![]() With Chains, Anderson revisits this genre, this time to explore the complex issues of slavery, freedom, revolution, loyalty and the maturation of the self - self-worth, self-interest and a personal sense of morality. She has authored non-fiction picture books, like Independent Dames, the Vet Volunteer Series for young readers, several teen novels, including the impressive Speak, which won the National Book Award silver medal in 1999, and the exceptional Fever 1793, a historical novel for mid-level readers about the yellow fever epidemic that gripped the colonies. ![]() Laurie Halse Anderson is a diverse writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() During this time, he also began his career as a writer, publishing many short stories which introduced him into a circle of literary critics. After graduating from high school in 1942, Truman Capote began his regular job as a copy boy at The New Yorker. Capote adopted Truman, legally changing his last name to Capote and enrolling him in private school. In 1933, he moved to New York City to live with his mother and her new husband, Joseph Capote, a Cuban-born businessman. He was a lonely child who learned to read and write by himself before entering school. His parents divorced when he was four and he went to live with his mother's relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. He was born as Truman Streckfus Persons to a salesman Archulus Persons and young Lillie Mae. ![]() Truman Capote was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognised literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel." At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays. ![]() ![]() (The Caspian chapters in PC are about 12k in total by comparison.) The Light Princess, The Shadows, and other fairy tales were published nested inside the novel Adela Cathcart, a story about an ill woman who regains her health by starting a story club in her home. Phantastes, the novel that Lewis says baptized his imagination at the age of 16, contains a 8k+ word short story in the middle of it. ![]() Something that's very common in several of MacDonald's books is a story-within-a-story. Lewis's personal hero, as far as mortal men go) over the past several years and I had a bit of an epiphany while cooking dinner a couple nights ago. I've been reading a lot of George MacDonald (a 19th century author who might be described as C.S. Years later, I've grown to quite like the structure and would not change it, but even so, I've always been a little mystified that Lewis made this storytelling choice. Suddenly being pulled away from the Pevensies and spending four chapters with a new character before dropping him and returning to the Kings and Queens of old made the story harder to get into as a reader, particularly a new reader of Narnia who had never encountered this way of arranging a story before. ![]() ![]() Prince Caspian is my favorite of the Chronicles, but that wasn't always the case and a big reason for that was the story's peculiar structure. Oh look, Rose is here with a thread about Prince Caspian. ![]() |