5/30/2023 0 Comments SEVEN-X by Mike Wech![]() ![]() I set the parameters of the story to fit into the horror/suspense genre because it is the most effective genre for lower budget film production. I wanted the freedom to explore a story and characters without the limitations of the screenplay format. Instead of writing another film script, I wanted to take a chance and write a novel. ![]() Where did the idea for your current book come from? As a child I used to love telling stories to my friends and acting them out. which gave me a love for the written word. I read The Exorcist, The Shining and It and felt the words move me into a state of excitement and fear. What novels affected you the most growing up? I've almost been paralyzed, yet God had mercy on me and kept me around. I survived a near-death experience after being stabbed in the chest in a foreign country, a broken neck from a car accident and a heart-attack. ![]() Tell us something unexpected about yourself! Today we are chatting with Mike Wech the author of SEVEN-X. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments Finding alaska book![]() ![]() Not waiting to live your life but instead constantly be seeking what makes you feel alive and fills you with passion. Green makes ‘seeking a Great Perhaps’ the cornerstone of this story. Of all the John Green books I’ve read this one is easily my favorite and yes that includes The Fault in Our Stars. ![]() It’s a book aimed to a teenage demographic but it’s a short read with a great storyline full of lessons. I’m going to keep this review short, because so much has been said on this book. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. He heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. ![]() Miles “Pudge” Halter’s whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the “Great Perhaps” (François Rabelais, poet) even more. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Orwell novel burmese![]() ![]() Burmese Days the first novel of the author George Orwell which he has written deriving from personal experiences and inspirations that was published in the year 1934. Along with the flow of the plot, the representation of women that has covered both, the Burmese and the British women can be divided onto two sets, the favorable representation and the demanding one, reflecting how racial differences can affect the societal status of women within the flow of the plot. Burmese Days, from a gender conscious-perspective heavily embeds some thought-provoking representations concerning women's statue, roles and position within the community of upper Burma. It covers the occurrences and the political events that revolve around the plot reflecting the power of the colonizer and the effect on the feeble nations at particular eras. Burmese Days by George Orwell is a novel that is rich with its imperialist discussion that resides within the category of novels that have provided a critique of colonialism. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Real life by brandon taylor![]() ![]() Yet much like the tropes of queer literary lust that populate the final half of the novel.even this halting dialogue never feels wholly out of step with Wallace’s psyche, which itself functions in discordant, sometimes off-putting, thrillingly contradictory ways. The novel’s at times stunted and awkward dialogue.can clash with its often tight, beatific prose. Taylor proves himself to be a keen observer of the psychology of not just trauma, but its repercussions: how private suffering can ricochet from one person to injure those caught in his path. It is a curious novel to describe, for much of the plot involves excavating the profound from the mundane. a novel that probes - painstakingly, with the same microscopic precision its protagonist uses in the lab - the ways that an anxious queer black brain is mutated by the legacies of growing up in a society.where the body that houses it is not welcome. ![]() In Taylor’s stunning debut, Real Life, quiet diligence toward one’s goals mutates into a spiral that leaves the mind and body bruised as if survivors of a psychic war zone. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Hearts Key by Marianne Evans![]() ![]() ![]() Evans knows how to write, and how to keep readers reading. Once again, I am utterly “wowed” by a Marianne Evans novel. Tyler’s constant and undying love for Amy, his gentleness with Pyper, his consecration to Christ…he’s a beautiful picture of Christian dedication and true love in its purest form. Little Pyper’s heart-breaking fear of men, fostered by her father’s shameful abuse, is poignantly painted and beautifully handled. She makes it easy to feel Amy’s hesitation about entering Tyler’s Nashville-colored world, and her simultaneous longing to be with him, wherever he is. This author has an incredible insight into human emotion, and what makes people tick. When Tyler, now a rapidly rising Christian music artist, re-enters Amy’s life, the sparks from five years earlier burst into flame. ![]() Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. ![]() Her courage in the last moments of that mistaken union puts the reader firmly on her side, and longing for something better for her and her adorable little girl, Pyper. Hearts Key 1st Edition is written by Marianne Evans and published by White Rose Publishing/ Pelican Book Group. Having watched Tyler Brock and Amy Maxwell tiptoe around their feelings for each other inHeart’s Surrender, I was pleased to revisit this couple in the heartwarming finale to the Woodland Series.Īmy’s abusive marital situation bursts into existence from the first page. I read this book out of sequence in the series, but that little error in no way lessened my enjoyment of the story. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments London Spy by Tom Rob Smith![]() ![]() This international bestseller, the first in a trilogy, has sold over two million copies worldwide and has won seven awards including the British Book Awards New Writer of the Year, the International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel, and the CWA Steel Dagger Award, as well as being longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. ![]() A film adaptation of a best-selling novel by St John’s alumnus Tom Rob Smith will be released next month, and his new BBC spy drama will be on our screens later this year.Ĭhild 44, the award-winning novel by Tom Rob Smith, St John’s graduate and former Harper-Wood student, has been made into a film directed by Daniel Espinosa and produced by Ridley Scott. ![]() ![]() ![]() The series is related to the huge Captain Marvel movie and character from the comics. The series is a big deal and is a best selling comic series for Marvel comics that comes out on a monthly basis. Willow Wilson is also the author of the Ms. The book was a Notable Book and won a World Fantasy Award in 2013. She first came into print with the publication of Alif the Unseen, her first fictional novel. Since then, she has moved on to writing and creating in a different way as the creator behind the Air comic book series as well as several other hit books. She started out freelancing as a critic of music as part of a magazine called Weekly Dig in Boston. Wilson first started trying out writing when she was just seventeen years old. ![]() Willow Wilson is an American author born in New Jersey on August 31, 1982. ![]() ![]() And I'm not sorry." Yet as Lynley and Havers wind their way through Keldale's dark labyrinth of secret scandals and appalling crimes, they uncover a shattering series of revelations that will reverberate through this tranquil English valley-and in their own lives as well. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse. ![]() Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. Now into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to escape the ravages of Cromwell's raiders. ![]() ![]() ![]() About the Book George's acclaimed debut novel introduces Scotland Yard's Thomas Lynley and his partner Havers who are assigned to a murder in Keldale, where the detectives uncover a shattering series of revelations that will reverberate through this tranquil English valley-and in their own lives as well.īook Synopsis To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Shattered by teri terry![]() ![]() ![]() “Terry’s world is remarkably like today’s. In this stunning series finale, Kyla finally finds out who she really is-and the road to this discovery, and to deciding who she wants to become, is full of dangerous twists and turns that will keep readers riveted. Someone close to her may be one of them, and even more frighteningly, her birth mother has been keeping secrets of her own. But even in the idyllic wilderness and the heart of her original family, Kyla realizes there is no escape from the oppressive Lorders. There she is hoping all the pieces of her life will come together and she can finally take charge of her own future. Sporting a new identity and desperate to fill in the blank spaces of her life pre-Slating, Kyla heads to a remote mountain town to try to reunite with the birth mother she was kidnapped from as a child. Kyla is in danger from both the government Lorders who erased her memory and the terrorists who tried to use her. The stunning conclusion to the Slated trilogy, for fans of Unwind and Legend ! ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Unlikely animals hartnett![]() ![]() ![]() Both funny and sad, the kind of story we like best. It was a source of entertainment at Maple Street Cemetery. Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize.ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE The Washington Post, Book Riot You’ll fall in love with the offbeat cast of characters (both living and dead) and find yourself rooting for them right through the last page.”- Good Housekeeping (Book Club pick)Ī lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake. ![]() You’ll fall in love with the offbeat cast of characters (both living and dead) “This tragicomic novel is heartfelt, touching, and delightfully quirky. “This tragicomic novel is heartfelt, touching, and delightfully quirky. We're giving away 25 finished paperback copies of Unlikely Animals! We're giving away 25 finished paperback copies of Unlikely Animals!. ![]() |