After further contemplation, the author decided to combine the genres, producing what some people have called Medieval Noir’. Her passion for the subject had never dimmed. Jeri knew she wanted to produce fiction set in medieval times. Writing didn’t come into the picture until some years later, this after Jeri had exhausted her penchant for job hopping. She was even a tour guide at one time, not to mention experimenting with journalism. She got to try her hand at all manner of careers, this including graphic art, teaching, and hosting. As an adult, Jeri was prone to wandering through the job market. But for a few years, it was all she could think about. The author will be hard-pressed to tell you what drew her to acting. Though, rather than following the scholarly pursuit of history, Jeri decided that her time would be better spent in entertainment. And as a child, she grew up soaking up anything and everything medieval that she could find. Medieval history was especially popular in the household. Jeri’s family had a deep love for history, so it comes as no surprise that the author came to appreciate the subject. She has distinct memories of all the days of smog and smoke and earthquakes she endured. Jeri Westerson was born in 1960 in Los Angeles. She has also experimented with the paranormal genre. Jeri Westerson is an award-winning author that writes medieval mysteries and historical novels.
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This is a time of which I knew little relative to what came before and after. Volume I pluses include a better narrator (***** vs ****) (I was impressed with his mature Churchill voice and amazed that he started with a good child Churchill and gradually aged him into the famous voice we all love!), a more narrative/chronological layout as opposed to more topical, and illumination of the transition of the Victorian age through WWI and up to the Depression. I doubt too many will be able to read Volume I without soon proceeding to Volume II. What's not to like? Both volumes have advantages over the other (listed below), but bottom line is that both are marvelous works. This is a well narrated story written by what has been described as the best biographer of the 20th Century about a man who was perhaps the greatest man to live in the 20th Century. I am writing this review for both volumes and putting it in both places. Superb - Review of Both Volume I & Volume II It was a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller for seven weeks. 1 New York Times Bestseller of Hardcover Fiction in its first week and was the bestselling hardback debut in the US for 2019. Michaelides' debut novel, The Silent Patient, was the No. This work provided material and inspiration for his debut novel The Silent Patient. He studied psychotherapy for three years, and worked for two years at a secure unit for young adults. He studied English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge University. Michaelides was born in Cyprus to a Cypriot father and English mother. His debut novel, the psychological thriller The Silent Patient, is a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, with over 6.5 million copies sold. Alex Michaelides (born 1977) is a bestselling British Cypriot author and screenwriter. Which is to say, created a demand for it, since there was no such thing under feudalism.įor someone who is interested in the history of infectious diseases in relation to humanity, this is probably still fascinating. How diseases affected armies and governments, and how changes like capitalism (of which the author seems to be a huge fan) changed the approach to public health. Still, often there are titbits I didn’t know, and that seemed like it was going to prove true here too when I read the introduction: did you know that viral genes are involved in the formation of the mammalian placenta?īut overall, the rest of it was much less scientific, less based on… well… pathogenesis, and much more about history. Pathogenesis was less absorbing for me than I’d hoped I love non-fiction about diseases, even though I’m already studying for my MSc in the subject and thus most of it is not new to me. So when Youhei sees the new cat he immediately panics as he tries to protect his little buddy. Kuro is so big, Chi could not even tell it is also a cat! Chi thought it was some new beast altogether. When the big cat one day walked up to the Yamada's back door, Chi was startled by its size. All black and with a bit of an appetite, this cat has been known to not only sneak into people's yards but he has even been bold enough to enter some apartments searching for food.Ĭhi's first encounter with Kuro back in volume two was not a positive one. The cat's name is Kuro a giant of a feline. This cat is the very cat that the building manager considers to be a nuisance and the same one with a reward on his head. There is another cat in the neighborhood. In the third volume of Chi's Sweet Home, Chi has made a new friend. Every moment of their daily life is filled with something we can all cherish. And before she could even know what hit her, the little kitty was picked up and soon under the protection and care of Yohei's family-the Yamada's. After taking a tumble Yohei feels just as distraught as the kitten he sees before him, and he quickly takes comfort in feeling a sense of sympathy with the cat. When the kitten feels all hope is lost, she is found in a park by a young boy named Yohei and his mother. Seperated from the warmth and protection of her mother, desperately attempts to reunite with her family of feral cats. Chi is a michievous newborn kitten who on a leisurely stroll with her family finds herself lost and alone. but fate can be fickle when magic is involved. As two lethal elemental gods set out to destroy Mytica, sworn enemies must become allies in the final fight to. The only certainty in these dark times is that whoever finds the magic first will control the fate of Mytica Available in National Library (Singapore). They ally in the flesh with King Gaius, who vows to use Lucia's powers to unveil the Kindred. THE WATCHERS follow Melenia out of the Sanctuary. Princess Cleo and vengeful Jonas lead them, slaying with sweetness, skill, and a secret that can control Lucia's overpowering magic - all so they can use the Kindred to win back their fallen kingdoms. Ashur and Amara, the royal siblings from the wealthy kingdom across the Silver Sea, charm and manipulate their way to the Kindred, proving to be more ruthless than perhaps even the King of Blood himself. But the King of Blood is not the only one hunting for this ancient, storied magic. All Gaius needs now are the Kindred - the four elemental crystals that give godlike powers to their owner. Now he must choose between family and justice as his father, the cruel King Gaius, sets out to conquer all of Mytica. Prince Magnus has just witnessed torture, death, and miracles during the bloody confrontation that decimated the rebel forces. Love, vengeance, and greed spark a deadly quest for magic in the third book of the Falling Kingdoms series Next door lives Nettie, an attractive widow whose calculating sensuality appeals greatly to Vivian. Gornick’s groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O’Brien has called “the principal crux of female despair”: the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond.īorn and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of “urban peasants,” Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother’s romantic depression over the early death of her husband. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. Vivian Gornick’s Fierce Attachments-hailed by the New York Times for the renowned feminist author’s “mesmerizing, thrilling” truths within its pages-has been selected by the publication’s book critics as the #1 Best Memoir of the Past 50 Years. Even the peripheral bureaucratic characters inspire a small amount of sympathy and drive the narrative forward. Bureaucracy and logistics are dealt with lightly, third hand, and briefly. This story is about people and relationships the simple, complex, old, and new ties to other people in life. Goldie’s writing is an advocate for her character’s responses and reactions to the event, not the disaster itself or even the politics that are bound to follow. Differing perspectives add depth, vivacity, and empathy. This makes every page seem like an autopsy of the psyche without resorting to cold psychological jargon. Each of the personalities have pain from the past and personal hurdles to overcome. Laying out reactions, effects of trauma, and finding the courage for the journey to contentment. Each chapter is told from one of six main characters’ perspectives on that day and after. Goldie has created a vivacious and recognisable world for readers to become absorbed into. Decades and The North Sea separate them but the aftermath unfolds with little to part those affected. It is a timely publication in tribute to those from Grenfell Tower. Nightingale Point is inspired by a tragic event at high-rise flats in the Bijlmer, Amsterdam in 1992. There are criticisms that can be made but, ultimately, it is perfectly imperfect. A tale of chances, chaos, and consequences. It is powerful, engaging, important, and at times painful. Luan Goldie’s Nightingale Point is visceral, not cerebral. And when the terrifying truth about her own family is revealed, it will transform her forever. In this shadow world that seems to mimic Greek mythology and the Bulgarian legends of the Samodivi or “wildalones”-forest witches who beguile and entrap men-she will discover a shocking secret that threatens everything she holds dear. Falling into a romantic entanglement with Rhys and his equally handsome and mysterious brother, Jake, soon draws Thea into a sensual mythic underworld as irresistible as it is dangerous. Away from her family and her Eastern European homeland for the first time, she struggles to adapt to unfamiliar American ways and the challenges of college life-including an enigmatic young man whose brooding good looks and murky past intrigue her. In this enchanting and darkly imaginative debut novel full of myth, magic, romance, and mystery, a Princeton freshman is drawn into a love triangle with two enigmatic brothers, and discovers terrifying secrets about her family and herself-a bewitching blend of Twilight, The Secret History, Jane Eyre, and A Discovery of Witches.Īrriving at Princeton for her freshman year, Thea Slavin finds herself alone, a stranger in a strange land. * Filmmaker Zack “#TheSnyderCut” Snyder will guest-star as himself in the 365th episode if Cartoon Network’s Teen Titans Go!, titled, well, “365!” and airing this fall. 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