I hope you enjoy my postings and reviews and share my blog with friends. There will be no advertising since I'm not interested in making money, just sharing. All discussions will be related to books and reading. Here I will post reviews of books I have just finished reading and news items and articles of interest. At the urging of a number of friends, I decided to start a blog. I’ve been a book reviewer for a number of years and have posted hundreds of reviews on both Goodreads and LibraryThing. My focus is contemporary literary fiction (especially Canadian fiction) and mysteries. Schatje’s Shelves is my reading blog devoted primarily to reviews of the books I acquire for my library - a library which has 8,050+ books (print, ebooks, audiobooks) and keeps growing. Now that I'm retired, I have so much more time to read (and to enjoy the library my husband made for me). For 30 years, I was a high school English teacher/teacher-librarian.
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Renata’s wren encounter proves magical, one most children could only wish to experience outside of this lovely story. (This book was reviewed digitally with 10-by-20-inch double-page spreads viewed at actual size.) Garoche’s drawings are impressively detailed, from the nest’s many small bits to the developing first feathers on the chicks and the wall smudges and exposed wiring of the renovation. The text suggests the strong bond built by this Afro-Latinx father and daughter with their ongoing project without needing to point it out explicitly, a light touch in a picture book full of delicate, well-drawn moments and precise wording. Rosen uses lively language and well-chosen details to move the story of the baby birds forward. Renata witnesses the birth of four chicks as their rosy eggs split open “like coats that are suddenly too small.” Renata finds at a crucial moment that she can help the chicks learn to fly, even with the bittersweet knowledge that it will only hasten their exits from her life. Rather than seeing it as an unfortunate delay of their project, Renata and Papi decide to let the avian carpenters continue their work. One warm night, after Papi leaves the window space open, two wrens begin making a nest in the bathroom. Renata and her father enjoy working on upgrading their bathroom, installing a clawfoot bathtub, and cutting a space for a new window. A home-renovation project is interrupted by a family of wrens, allowing a young girl an up-close glimpse of nature. Likewise, Season 2 is centered on the eldest Bridgerton brother Anthony (Jonathan Bailey), when his plans to marry eligible Diamond of the First Water, Edwina Sharma, are upended as he falls for Edwina’s older sister, Kate (Simone Ashley), instead. Season 1 followed eldest Bridgerton daughter Daphne (Phoebe Dynevor) as she began a romance with the dashing Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page). Bridgerton is based on author Julia Quinn’s Regency romance series of the same name, and each season of the show is expected to adapt one of her novels, which tells each Bridgerton sibling’s love story. Warning: Spoilers for Bridgerton Season 2, and up through Bridgerton Book 4, follow. So, what’s in store for Bridgerton Season 3? Season 1 covered The Duke And I Season 2 covered book two, The Viscount Who Loved Me. With that level of success, it’s no surprise the show has already been renewed for three more seasons. Netflix’s romantic period drama Bridgerton became a global phenomenon when Season 1 arrived on Christmas Day in 2020. Her award-winning historical novels are published in over sixty countries and have received over forty literary prizes. The daughter of a refugee, Ruta is drawn to underrepresented stories of strength through struggle and hopes to give voice to those who weren't able to tell their story. Ruta Sepetys was born and raised in Michigan in a family of artists, readers, and music lovers. #1 New York Times Bestselling Author and Winner of the Carnegie Medal. #1 New York Times Bestselling Author and Winner of the Carnegie Medal. From the 1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray comes a gripping, extraordinary portrait of love, silence, and secrets under a Spanish dictatorship. Check it out :-) Before that I wrote the DAUGHTER OF SMOKE & BONE trilogy, which has been translated into 32 languages. My latest is STRANGE THE DREAMER, about a young librarian, a mythic lost city, and the half-human children of murdered gods. Thanks for reading!! Hi! I write fantasy books. As well as various short stories and novellas. I also wrote LIPS TOUCH: THREE TIMES, which was a National Book Award finalist, and the DREAMDARK books. It's about a blue-haired art student raised by monsters, a broken angel, and a war that has raged for 1000 years in another world. “Keeps up a relentless velocity while just being plain fun as hell.”-Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Babyīeth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate. “A modern horror masterpiece.” -Carmen Maria Machado, bestselling author of In the Dream House Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt is an explosive post-apocalyptic novel that follows trans women and men on a grotesque journey of survival. STARRED Reviews in Library Journal and Booklist!Ī Most-Anticipated Title in CrimeReads, BookRiot, Tor.com, Electric Lit, and more.įeatured in Autostraddle, Apartment Therapy, Goodreads, and more. Part of this work also demands that I reflect on and check how much space I and my fellow White people are controlling or taking up, and working to put my energies into supporting and centering voices from people of color and Native people. If I don’t ask specific, intentional questions, I am likely participating in creating or supporting homogeneous committees, panel line-ups, or promoting books or ideas that don’t match my (and my profession’s) values. It also means not making assumptions about who is invited to speak or participate in conferences, workshops, or professional opportunities. This means doing more research before selecting a book. I am going to work on strengthening a habit of getting as much information as possible before I make decisions. Kendra casts a spell that turns Kyle into a beast with fur, fangs and claws (see Jean Cocteau’s movie La Belle et La Bete to see how the author envisioned him – it’s not at all like how he is in the movie). When he plays a nasty prank on Kendra, a goth girl, she reveals herself as a witch. Kyle is gorgeous on the outside, but inside he is a very ugly young man. He goes to an exclusive private school, he dates the hottest chick there, and his newscaster father showers him with every material possession he could want. It’s set in contemporary New York and we see the story from the Beast’s point of view. Beastly is a young adult novel that follows the classic tale fairly closely. The roots of the story go back to the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche, and it has furnished the plot for many romance novels – Ravished by Amanda Quick and Mary Jo Putney’s short story, The Black Beast of Belleterre are two of my favorites. Scott Fitzgerald includes a new introduction by Dave Page that covers the history and provenance of the diary, its place and meaning in Fitzgerald’s literary development, and its revelations about his life and writing process. Presented in a simple format for both scholars and general readers alike, The Thoughtbook of F. Paul’s most influential families-models for the families described in The Great Gatsby. “Are you going to the Ordways’? the Herseys’? the Schultzes’?” Here, for the first time, is a complete transcription of this charming, twenty-seven-page diary highlighting Fitzgerald’s escapades among the children of some of St. He would later use The Thoughtbook as the basis for “The Book of Scandal” in his Basil Lee Duke stories, and brief sections were copied over the years for use by scholars and even published in Life magazine. and kept it securely locked in a box under his bed. He gave the journal a title page- Thoughtbook of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald of St. Paul, he began keeping a short diary of his exploits among his friends, friendly rivals, and crushes. Scott Fitzgerald was fourteen and living in the Crocus Hill neighborhood of St. As they say, sometimes the cover-up is worse than the crime. Told from alternating points of view, Good as Dead draws together an unlikely group of people bound to one another by a crime, a cover-up, and compounding deceptions. Susan Walter’s Good as Dead is a fun, fast ride through Hollywood’s suburbia. Because Holly and Savannah aren't the only ones in the neighborhood with something to hide. Novel Title: Good as Dead Author: Susan Walter Genre: Friendship Fiction, Psychological Thrillers, Domestic Thrillers Publish Date: 1 October 2021 Size: 1.5. But when their sudden appearance in privileged Calabasas, California, piques the curiosity of neighbors, the price becomes greater than they imagined. Holly and her daughter, Savannah, will want for nothing, beginning with a luxury dream house-all for the price of their silence. Then a fixer for the high-powered guilty party approaches Holly with an offer she is in no position to refuse. In one violent moment, a hit-and-run accident turns Holly's life upside down. It all starts with a promise from a stranger: We'll take care of everything. |