On the one hand, my inbox helps me stay organized (I use it like a “to do” list). I have a love/loathe relationship with email. I’m going with that! (Or maybe the first few weeks of January don’t count.) So if it has taken you until today to start reading these posts, that is fine! You’re here now and that’s what counts! And they never disappoint! Someone told me yesterday that the first week of January doesn’t count toward good intentions. And then, miraculously, somewhere during week two, I recalibrate, regroup, and read them. Day after day, posts pop into my inbox and remain unread. On January 1st, I ALWAYS find myself derailed from my excellent intentions. When the new year begins, I know I can expect 31 insightful and inspiring posts from phenomenal creators. After all, Tara Lazar is one of my all-time favorite funny kidlit writers and an all-around generous soul. That has to be lucky, right?įirst, a confession: I look forward to Storystorm every December.
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The beautifully crafted structure includes two stories set 50 years apart. Following the Caldecott Medal–winning The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007), Selznick offers another visual narrative, one that feels even better suited to his inventive style. Opening Selznick’s new book is like opening a cabinet of wonders-the early museum display case “filled with a nearly infinite variety of amazing things” that is so central to this story. 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Interestingly, Fable was a little less tough and a little more weepy in Namesake, showing a vulnerability I didn’t expect. This story, this crew, Fable and West really captured my book-loving heart and being able to follow the story to completion was everything. I can’t tell you how relieved that makes me when I loved book one, there’s always that trepidation over the next one. This second piece in the duology did not let me down. If Fable is going to save them then she must risk everything, including the boy she loves and the home she has finally found.įilled with action, emotion, and lyrical writing, New York Times bestselling author Adrienne Young returns with Namesake, the final book in the captivating Fable duology. 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King Charles has been known for years for his passion for gardening and organic agriculture, so it seems fitting that “his” quiche includes fresh garden spinach, broad beans (fava beans) and fresh tarragon. Coronation quiche, a recipe that Charles and Queen Consort Camilla have shared with the world, will be served in many homes across Britain. This Saturday, May 6, King Charles III will be crowned. The dish incorporated curry powder and apricot puree. When Queen Elizabeth was inaugurated in 1953, a dish called coronation chicken was the star of her celebratory luncheon. Richard Glover's just-published The Land Before Avocado is a wonderful and witty journey back in time to life in the early 1970s. Most of all, it will make you realise how far we've come – and how much further we can go. And leave you wondering how bizarre things were, not so long ago. The Land Before Avocado will make you laugh and cry, feel angry and inspired. It is also the land of staggeringly awful attitudes – often enshrined in law – towards anybody who didn't fit in. It's a place of funny clothing and food that was appalling, but amusingly so. Let's break the news now: they didn't have avocado. The Australia of the late '60s and early '70s. It's a vivid portrait of a quite peculiar land: a place that is scary and weird, dangerous and incomprehensible, and, now and then, surprisingly appealing. In The Land Before Avocado, Richard Glover takes a journey to an almost unrecognisable Australia. There's plenty of nostalgia right now for the Australia of the past, but what was it really like? A funny and frank look at the way Australia used to be – and just how far we have come. The new book from the bestselling author of Flesh Wounds. One of those “no notes” situations where gosh dang I am in a book slump over it. I don’t feel like I can accurately put into words how much I loved this book. 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Tall, dark, and dour, the notorious Captain Jasper Blunt was once hailed a military hero, but tales abound of his bastard children and his haunted estate in Yorkshire. A London heiress rides out to the wilds of the English countryside to honor a marriage of convenience with a mysterious and reclusive stranger. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption-the most satisfying tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape since The Count of Monte Cristo.Īpt Pupil-a golden California schoolboy and an old man whose hideous past he uncovers enter into a fateful and chilling mutual parasitism. At the same time, nobody in search of the utterly distinctive King brand of driving narrative, graphically rendered scene and character, and stamp-on-the-clinging-fingers cliffhanger plot will go away unsatisfied. That he can transcend horror is proved triumphantly in these four works. Although he is by now a world-class grand master of the horrific, he resists entombment in that genre. "Is horror all you write?" is the second most frequent question Stephen King encounters,* he tells us in the Afterword to this superlative quartet of novels. |
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