![]() ![]() ![]() When he brings a gun to school and starts shooting people, Valerie puts herself in front of his next victim, Jessica Campbell, and is shot in the leg. Valerie and Nick have compiled a Hate List, a list of people and things they hate Valerie sees it as an inside joke between the two of them, but Nick is more serious. Interspersed through the novel are newspaper articles about the events. It is a first person narrative from the point of view of Valerie Leftman, whose boyfriend Nick Levil was the shooter. The novel deals with the aftermath of a school shooting. The novel is set after a shooting incident at an American high school and deals with themes of hatred, bullying, family tension, and suicide. ![]() Jennifer Brown, who wrote a newspaper humor column for four years, switched to a more serious side for her debut novel, Hate List. Hate List is a young adult novel written by Jennifer Brown and published in 2009 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A task that did not go quite so smoothly as we have come to expect when Rez is involved. To do so he needed the King of Gendishen to recognize the claim. We got some of the secret war with the demons and fae but for the most part the focus was on Rez trying to secure his claim as King of Cael. In terms of story this 4th instalment of the series was probably an upgrade on what we got in Legends of the Ahn. All the characters in this series have shown a good amount of growth. Tam, Wesson, and the duo of Malcius and Yserria were the standout secondary characters in this instalment but Farson, Frisha, and Tieran all had good moments as well. ![]() Rezkin is the star of this story, and remains one of my favourite fantasy characters in general, but I feel like Kade has done a good job of developing a lot of the support cast to the point where I'm engaged and interested in their various story arcs and plights. The writing and the story do have a slightly YA-ish feel to them but that does not stop this being an exciting and utterly compelling read! The books deliver a super fun fantasy adventure story packed with likeable characters, plenty of action, humour, and even a few touching moments. On the whole this series is one of my favourite fantasy finds of the last 5 years. This was another good instalment in Kel Kade's King's Dark Tidings series. ![]() ![]() ![]() NB: Here is the complete list of the series by various authors:ġ. The action begins just before dawn on June 6, 1944, and ends near midnight that same day. Is it one of the visiting Varkolak, on Earth to attend an intergalactic medical conference? Or could it be a member of a super-secret society at the Academy dedicated to taking care of threats to the Federation, no matter what rules they have to break to do it? 15, 2019 Gratz ( Refugee, 2017, etc.) weaves together fictionalized accounts of individual experiences of D-Day, the beginning of the end of the Second World War. But when a series of terrorist attacks rock the usually placid Starfleet Academy campus, it becomes clear that somebody is playing the game for real. Gratz lives in North Carolina with his wife and daughter. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy is playing to get closer to a girl. Alan Gratz is the New York Time s best-selling author of several highly acclaimed books for young readers, including Allies, Grenade, Refugee, Projekt 1065, Prisoner B-3087, and Code of Honor. ![]() ![]() The game ends when only one player remains. Oh, and make sure the player with your name doesn't get to you first. Alan Gratz is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of several highly acclaimed books for young readers, including Ground Zero, Allies, Grenade,Refugee, Projekt 1065, Prisoner B-3087, and Code of Honor. Track him down and 'kill' him with a spork. When a terrorist attack rocks Starfleet Academy, it's clear someone has a very serious - and very deadly - secret agenda. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan, Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins, albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family's most precious - and dangerous - asset.Īs the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the US, inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. The Binewskis arex a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities (with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes). Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo A National Book Award Finalist: This 'wonderfully descriptive' novel from an author with a 'tremendous imagination' tells the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias have bred their own exhibit of human oddities. ![]() ![]() ![]() Formerly Doc’s girlfriend, Shasta has been associating more recently with Mickey Wolfmann, a very rich and married developer whom Doc knows from the newspapers as “the real estate big shot.” Mickey’s wife and her lover apparently want him institutionalized, but as usual in a Pynchon novel, there are conspiracies atop conspiracies as Doc tries to get to the people who are running the people who seem to be running things. About a third the length of its predecessor ( Against the Day, 2006, etc.) and as breezy as a detective novel by Tom Robbins, the book begins with a beautiful woman walking into the office of private investigator Larry “Doc” Sportello to ask for help. For better and worse, this is the closest Pynchon is likely to come to a beach book.Ī psychedelic beach book, of course: It’s hippie-era Los Angeles, and our hero smokes marijuana the way others smoke cigarettes, which is something of an occupational hazard in a profession that requires deductive abilities. ![]() ![]() Here’s your summary of Lucy Foley’s The Paris Apartment. Quick refresher- I don’t usually put the summaries of books into my reviews unless they are a) being dragged, b) I’m so lost in my adoration that I won’t get the summary across on my own, or c) the book is dark and full of spoilers. ![]() The award for appearing on this list twice now goes to the one and only Lucy Foley. Also see: Books I’d Like To Chuck Into The Sea These are just truly the dragging of a book. I’m not saying these are the only reviews I’ve written that aren’t positive. You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen.Side note I tried to fix this list, making them all the same color. ![]() Out of 500+ posts, there is Lucy Foley’s Guest List, and now the Paris Apartment will become the latest addition. For a refresher, I haven’t written THAT many salty reviews. Yep! 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I literally laughed out loud when Clara said that she had given him the name 'Led.' I also like that this is an alien story where the aliens are helping, rather than trying to take over the world. ![]() Sophekles - Author, The Serotonin Transfer I really like your multiuniverse setting with different timelines and the concept of the "Many Worlds Collective." ![]() You have written a wonderfully imaginative and original story with plenty of twists and turns. (Mary) Josephine O'Brien - Author, Sharing Skies I.have to say it is one of the most challenging, exciting and original books I've read. You had so many good touches like that, which made the book a continuing surprise. ![]() I loved that the aliens were chosen by lottery. I would have liked more of the reporter's life and I didn't like Epifanio at all. I feel for Clara, I imagine her alienating a lot of people because her enthusiasm and drive and ability to push herself makes her someone who doesn't suffer fools gladly. You have created your characters very well. This Changes Everything is a book that I am very happy to have had the chance to read and I would recommend it to any sci-fi/fantasy fan. This Changes Everything by Sally Ember is a well-written, complex work that is going to add a strong title to a genre that can sometimes become bogged down with the same old, same old. ![]() ![]() ![]() Much of the first part of the book is spent describing his friendship with aristocratic soldier Robert de Saint-Loup and a visit Marcel makes to his camp, mainly with the object of getting an invitation to dinner with Saint-Loup’s aunt, the Duchess of Guermantes. ![]() Our narrator, Marcel, is now a little older (if not much wiser) and still keen to make the acquaintance of any attractive woman who crosses his path. Le Côté de Guermantes ( The Guermantes Way), the third part of Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu ( In Search of Lost Time) has the story continuing pretty much as it did in the first two parts. Still, as anniversary choices go, it does mark a great way to celebrate reaching four figures □ I’d like to say that today’s book was carefully selected to mark the occasion, but the truth is that it was completely random. I don’t usually make a big deal of milestones, but WordPress tells me that today’s post is the 1000th to be published here at Tony’s Reading List, and while that’s not a thousand reviews (there have been plenty of fluff pieces scattered among the usual posts), it still makes for an awful lot of digital scribbling. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of Hammett's descriptors are inappropriate, teenage level. I quit at the end of the third CD(out of five) without really knowing just what the plot is, and who the characters are, and what their positions are. I have read at least 4 Dashiell Hammett books and most were quite good, but this one should never have gotten past his editor, or I'm tempted to say that he couldn't possibly have had one. This is possibly the worst book I have ever read! I was shocked at how poor the writing is. What disappointed you about The Glass Key? It's not really a book that induces great emotion. He did everything that I would expect an audiobook reader to do, and I would have no problem listening to him again.ĭid you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry? Thorne brought to the reading, but he was perfectly competent. I can't think of anything special that Mr. ![]() Thorne bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? ![]() All in all, The Glass Key isn't Hammett's best, but it's still more than listen-able. I didn't particularly like the ending, which I can't explain without giving it away, or the pacing, which lags for a bit in the early-middle. I liked Hammett's prose, the noir atmosphere, and the portrait he painted of a 1920's political machine. What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting? Where does The Glass Key rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far? ![]() |