![]() ![]() ![]() It all started with a Stolen Bride > I read “The Stolen Mage Bride” first, and was intrigued by how Mercedes’ world-building elements (eg soulmate flowers □□□) elicited significantly more powerful emotional responses to her characters’ Mordor-like trek to their happily ever after. ![]() Netflix for Romantic Fantasy Readers > I spent the last 2 months binge reading all 16 of Sylvia Mercedes’ currently released romantic fantasy books on the market (except the Scarred Mage Trilogy, which I’ve strategically waited to read until after the Prince of the Doomed City series is complete), and I felt like I was starring in a Pringles commercial - her books being the Pringles. This review is ridiculously biased even for a perpetual 5 star reviewer, I would know, but in the name of objectivity, you can scroll to the end for the 1 star why no’s (I’m just gonna go ahead and tell you they’re weak, but I tried). ![]()
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![]() ![]() She even makes friends, something that was virtually impossible before given her itinerant lifestyle and the contempt of kids at school. At first, it is a disaster, but Cady gets better, and also helps out in the pie shop. She loves the idea of cooking, although she hasn’t been able to do much with their van’s hotplate and an occasional motel microwave, and Shell and Suzanne allow her to experiment. Michelle, called Shell, brings a reluctant and hostile Cady with her to Julian, around an hour inland from San Diego, where Shell lives with her partner Suzanne and runs a pie shop.Ĭady wants to help bake. ![]() The principal at her school in San Diego finally felt the need to contact protective services, and they in turn contacted the sister of Cady’s late mom to take at least temporary custody of Cady. So of course I couldn’t resist reading this sweet middle grade coming-of-age story set in Julian and centered around the art of pie making.Ĭady Bennett is 12, and she and her dad are homeless life has gone downhill for them ever since Cady’s mom died when Cady was five. Ever since, we have grabbed them up whenever we could. ![]() The first time we traveled to San Diego, we were advised to look for pies from Julian, California in specialty grocery stores, and it was love at first bite. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Powerful and urgent, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time. ![]() Gessen charts their paths against the machinations of the regime that would crush them all, and against the war it waged on understanding itself, which ensured the unobstructed reemergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own - as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. The essential journalist and best-selling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.Īward-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. ![]() Named a Best Book of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek, Paste, and Pop Sugar Winner of the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award Winner of the 2017 National Book Award in Nonfictionįinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards ![]() ![]() First, the book reveals that the band of steel around the edge of the phone was never a big hit with Apple’s engineers, who warned that it could cause reception problems. ![]() The story, as told in the book, is significant for a few reasons. 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Fortunately she grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, where few people were aware of the stigma of being a fire horse - at least until Meg became a teenager, when she flunked freshman Algebra twice, then decided to cut her own bangs. Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign. ![]() Librarian note: AKA Jenny Carroll (1-800-Where-R-You series), AKA Patricia Cabot (historical romance novels). ![]() ![]() ![]() She has taken to movies and drugs after their death – Whoopi Goldberg is her favorite.įor starters, if you dislike literature that has dark humor, icky descriptions of all bits of life that are not glossy, this book is not for you. They have been largely indifferent to her existence and her childhood hasn’t been really happy. Her parents have died recently – dad of cancer and mom of overdose. Ottessa’s heroine also has an on-again-off-again boyfriend Trevor who treats her terribly. Reva is extremely materialistic and jealous of our narrator (“ No fair“, as she would say always when her friend gets something she doesn’t). ![]() There is Reva, our narrator’s best (and only) friend. ![]() Tuttle who prescribes her all kinds of medications without a check. She has an inheritance that can allow her to sleep for a whole year in an apartment in Manhattan. The story is set in the 2000s, with our narrator being a young, thin, beautiful, Columbia graduate. Alongside ridiculous is an insight into the heart and spirit of a tender, vulnerable, and exhausted woman. The story premise sounds ridiculous: Our unnamed character decides to hibernate for a year to sleep away from her depression and wake up a new person. ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’ by Ottessa Moshfegh is easily one of the oddest books I have read. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() SuperSummary helped me lead a productive discussion, get ideas for questions and gain a deeper understanding of the material.” - Laura D., Book Club Member “ I needed a quick clarification of my own understanding of a novel before discussing it with my students. I particularly like the discussion questions/essay questions offered, as well as the summary of events and then interpretation/meaning of a section.” - Adrienne B., Middle School Teacher “I started a book club and wanted some reference material. I ended up getting an A-B on every paper I wrote! I recommend SuperSummary to all my college friends.” - Annabell C., College Student “I use SuperSummary to supplement my own lesson planning designs. 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