![]() ![]() Here’s a brief description from the back of the book:Īfter their father’s death, Miss Judith Taverner and her brother Peregrine travel to London to meet their guardian, Lord Worth, expecting an elderly gentleman. The story is set in the Regency era (hence the title) and follows the heroine Judith as she experiences life in London for the first time under the protection of her guardian, Lord Worth. It’s a fun romantic story with moments that make you laugh out loud. ![]() Heyer wrote many books – some of them I like a lot and there are some that I don’t care for – but Regency Buck is definitely my favorite. One big difference though is that while Austen tackled some complex themes in her novels, Heyer’s novels are purely for fun. In case you’ve never heard of Heyer, she was an author in the early 1900s and her books are comparable in some ways with Jane Austen’s. The book is Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer. ![]() Everyone needs a fun fiction book in their life every so often. I haven’t finished my book of the month yet (I’ll blame it on February being a shorter month) so today I thought I’d review a fiction book just for fun. ![]()
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![]() But flowers can’t survive long cut off from the sun, and time is running out…. Spending months inside the cellar of her kidnapper with several other girls, Summer learns of Colin’s abusive past, and his thoughts of his victims being his family…his perfect, pure flowers. No family or police investigation can track her down. ![]() But flowers can't survive long cut off from the sun, and time is running out.Nothing ever happens in the town of Long Thorpe – that is, until sixteen-year-old Summer Robinson disappears without a trace. I'm going to die.įor months, Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her-and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet. I tried to shout, but he clasped his hand over my mouth, muffling my screams. "I'm not Lily."īefore I could blink, he threw his arms forward and grabbed me. ![]() Had he been hiding between the trees? "No. My stomach dropped as a tall, dark-haired man stepped into view. ![]() Published by Sourcebooks Fire on March 1, 2014 ![]() ![]() Secret societies, teen angst, conspiracies, mysteries, betrayal, and romance keep the action flowing while the characters grapple with moral questions brought up in Free to Fall. The characters struggle with the typical teen issues ranging from dieting to dating, as well as the school work load you would expect at a private prep school. Rory and her friends are addicted to social media, selfies, and coffee. Sixteen year old Aurora “Rory” Vaughn is accepted to Theden Academy, an exclusive college prep boarding school. ![]() ![]() This setting is ripe for the unfolding tale of high tech social engineering. Lux keeps track of all data and helps the user with every decision, major to minor. In this world, nearly everyone has an app on their phone called Lux. Set in 2030, Free to Fall by Lauren Miller is a young adult dystopian novel in which “The Doubt”, a small inner voice, is labeled as mental illness and medicated away in those who cannot ignore it. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you’re anything like me, my memory fails me when it comes to movies and books if I don’t rewatch or reread two or three times, and even then, if a significant amount of years have passed, I’m completely useless in a conversation about the book or movie. I know I’m a little fanatical about themed journals but if you’re a reader, I think keeping a reading journal has some perks. Since I am home without any pressing task or appointment (the laundry can wait!) I recorded a short video of the Fear of Flying pages in my journal. ![]() So much so that I wrote 14 pages of quotes in my reading journal from the book. I’m a little fuzzy on the details but I do remember really loving it. ![]() I read Fear of Flying (published in 1973) in 2006 and never typed up a book review for it. I was going to do a small review of Erica Jong’s How to Save Your Own Life, a book I finished a couple of weekends ago but thought it weird to discuss a sequel without mention of the previous book, Fear of Flying. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The short answer is that his single mom ends up in peril and the rest of his life is thrown upside down and he has to travel to China (from Maine) to engage with the spirits of many other emperors, and their minions, in a battle to save the world. ![]() ![]() Cover by Velinxi.Īccording to the acknowledgements, Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor was born of author Xiran Jay Zhao’s “obsession with Chinese history, sci-fi concepts, and shonen-anime-esque adventure stories” which combine into “one bonkers book.” If any of those things appeal to you, especially adventure, then you are going to love reading about what happens to fairly average middle schooler Zack when he find out he was born to host the spirit of Qin Shi Huang, the First Emperor of China. ![]() ![]() ![]() But their dad has just come home with a new dummy. This visit, they've sworn to their father that they will not pull any practical jokes on their wimpy cousin. ![]() Last time their cousin Zane came over to stay they scared the shit out of him. Trina and her little brother Danny aren't the nicest kids. In this third installment, Slappy once again tries to enslave young children. The Night of the Living Dummy subset of Goosebumps is the most frightening. "Do you believe someone just threw it away?" "I found this in the trash can," he told us. Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. ![]() Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series. ![]() Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mostly it's because the city of Lankhmar is in a slump with no picaresque adventures in prospect but also because even these chums sometimes get on each other's nerves after a while. Fafhrd and the Mouser have decided to break up their partnership (and you can't blame Yoko Ono). Then I'd be violating the fair use convention, get a stern e-mail from Leiber's estate and have to go to my website and grudgingly rewrite the review, anyway. So you may gather that I liked it.įrom the November 1959 issue of FANTASTIC, "Lean Times In Lankhmar" is so neatly constructed and worked out, so packed with ironic comments and amusing details, that it's going to be hard to summarize it without being tempted to quote great huge chunks of it. This is my favorite of all the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories, the funniest Sword and Sorcery story I've ever read and maybe the best single piece of writing Fritz Leiber ever did. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The former network primetime anchor was wearing a "Phenomenal Women" tee-shirt she received as a gift. ![]() She is doing podcasts, her Wake Up Call newsletter and developing documentaries and working on scripted series. We are responding to the media environment." "What is really nice is to build something from scratch. Lehr said she looks forward to seeing what Couric does in the future.Ĭouric said she started a company with her husband, John Molner, that has 40 employees. ![]() Couric's book talks about the on-air colonoscopy she did on the Today Show to raise awareness about getting checked.ĭr. Leslie Lehr thanked her for doing Stand Up To Cancer. She added, "You don't know how strong you are until you have to key into that inner strength." Joan Dodge, who lost a son to cancer, listened to the audio version of the book voiced by Couric and complimented her humanity.Ĭouric lost her first husband Jay Monahan to cancer said, "That means so much to me." news is very U.S.-centric, and you should understand what is going on in Ethiopia and what is going on in Ukraine, and that requires a lot of time and discipline and also appreciating the history of those places as well."Ĭouric poured her heart into the memoir and the discussion went there, too. "Work really hard, read everything you can get your hands on, if you are interested in foreign news then really read a lot about the world because U.S. ![]() ![]() To this point of family, the section on Agassi's 60 something year old father meeting Steffi Graf's similarly aged father is so amazing you almost question if it happened as described. with both family and thoughts of family around him. Later portions of the book here get into Agassi's Wimbledon championship at 22 and now much publicized (as a result of this book) Crystal Meth usage.įinally, the excerpt wraps up with Agassi's final US Open. Sections begin with Agassi's early years first with the relentless pushing courtesy of his overbearing father and then his money match against football great Jim Brown at age 9. The excerpt is titled "I Hate Tennis" and covers a lot of ground from the book. ![]() taken from "Open", Andre Agassi's autobiography. The latest issue of Sports Illustrated has quite the interesting book excerpt. ![]() ![]() ![]() Follow Zac as he struggles to stake out a unique path to power as a mortal in a world full of cultivators. ![]() Explore a vast universe full of mystery, adventure, danger, and even aliens - where even a random passer-by might hold the power of a god. Class systems, skill systems, endless choices for progression: It has everything fans of the genre love. Meanwhile, powerful beings from a long-forgotten cult gather in the dark, their goal unknown.ĭon't miss book two of the hit Defiance of the Fall LitRPG series with over 20 million views on Royal Road.Ībout the series: Jump into a System Apocalypse story that merges LitRPG elements with Eastern cultivation. Zac knows he is running against the clock in his mission to find his family, prompting him to set out to New Washington in search of answers. Even the System itself seems intent on forcing him into one desperate situation after another. Natives, aliens - everyone has their eye on the throne. However, becoming the strongest man in the world does not come without complications.Ī target has been placed on his back. Zac has managed to secure his island for the time being, growing into a true powerhouse through his endless struggles. ![]() Earth is fast crumbling from the pressures of not only the invaders, but from nature itself. ![]() |