The death stench creeps gyo5/12/2023 ![]() Although first seen as a harmless nuisance to the public (with the exception of the Shark, which still retained its predatory instincts), the Death Stenches are later revealed to be undead monstrosities who begin to attack people. ![]() Eventually, the Death Stenches make their way to the shore and begin harassing several land dwellers. Over time, the Death Stenches began taking aquatic life (fishes, sharks, etc.) that crossed their paths as hosts, turning them into undead, berserk monstrosities. ![]() ![]() However, before the weapon could be deployed on the battlefield, Allied Forces dropped bombs on the cargo ship containing the Death Stench robots, causing them to sink to a watery grave, or so they thought. The robots were designed to release a toxic gas that would make enemy soldiers extremely sick when inhaled. ![]() According to research notes from Koyanagi, the Death Stench robots were originally designed by the Japanese government during World War II as a last ditch biological weapon to turn the tide of the war. ![]()
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Middlesex eugenides review5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() She’s a great narrator, being almost painfully honest. I liked Calliope and her eccentric family. ![]() “I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960 and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michgan, in August of 1974.” ![]() This is not a spoiler the first sentence spells this out. For the purposes of simplicity, I’m mostly going to refer to Calliope as she throughout my review because she’s living as a girl for the vast majority of the book. I really liked it, but I’ve forgotten a lot of details. I wish I had reviewed this immediately after I read it. Then her hormones start raging and her life changes forever. For her part, she’s pretty happy as a girl until she hits her teens. Thanks to a less-than-thorough family doctor and parents with a bit of a “hands off” policy, no one realizes that Calliope is different for years and years. What makes Calliope’s story so different though, is that she’s a hermaphrodite. Calliope then moves on to her parents’ courtship and then her own life, up into her teen years. As the Turks and Greeks were fighting, they managed to flee to America and start a new life there. She tells the story of how she came to be by starting with her grandparents in their isolated village. Calliope Stephanides is born to a family of Greek immigrants living in Detroit. ![]() ![]() These could not get adequate books because the brutes burned and destroyed extraordinary libraries across Europe unexpectedly. Cahill informs the reader about the copyists, friars and unskilled Irish. Celts had ruled a large part of the Western Europe for a long time. He continues to inspect an agnostic Irish and a Celts’ member. In the book, How the Irish Saved Civilization, Cahill focuses on past events starting with the demise of a domain that had existed for 1100 years. This balanced instruction, breadth and depth of what he considered as the essentialness of the stories as well as the foundation of the Irish Catholic (Cahill 9). He also joined the Union of New York Theological Seminary where he studied scripture. He earned a film and memorable literary degree from the University of Columbia. ![]() ![]() In addition, he pursued an ecclesiastical reasoning degree. He acquired a BA in advanced logic and literary works. Additionally, he concentrated on Greek and Latin literary works. He joined the University of Fordham to study philosophy, medieval theory and the scripture. It also made him think about the unique plans of the antiquated creators. This enabled him to make personal interpretations of his exploration. He was knowledgeable about Jesuits and he always mulled over aged Greek and Latin. This author was born in an Irish American family with six children. ![]() Thomas Cahill wrote How the Irish Saved Civilization. ![]() Claire heywood daughters of sparta5/11/2023 ![]() Yet even as queens, each is only expected to do two things: birth an heir and embody the meek, demure nature that is expected of women.īut when the weight of their husbands' neglect, cruelty, and ambition becomes too heavy to bear, Helen and Klytemnestra must push against the constraints of their society to carve new lives for themselves, and in doing so, make waves that will ripple throughout the next 3,000 years.ĭaughters of Sparta is a vivid and illuminating reimagining of the Siege of Troy, told through the perspectives of two women whose voices have been ignored for far too long. While still only girls, the sisters are separated and married to foreign kings of their father's choosing - Helen remains in Sparta to be betrothed to Menelaos, and Klytemnestra is sent alone to an unfamiliar land to become the wife of the powerful Agamemnon. With their high birth and unrivaled beauty, they are the envy of all of Greece. Daughters of Sparta is a tale of secrets, love, and tragedy from the women behind mythology’s most devastating war, the infamous Helen and her sister Klytemnestra. Daughters of Sparta is a tale of secrets, love, and tragedy from the women behind mythology's most devastating war, the infamous Helen and her sister, Klytemnestra.Īs princesses of Sparta, Helen and Klytemnestra have known nothing but luxury and plenty. Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood: 9780593184370 : Books THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER For millennia, men have told the legend of the woman whose face launched a thousand shipsbut now it's time to hear her. For millennia, men have told the legend of the woman whose face launched a thousand ships - but now it's time to hear her side of the story. ![]() Law man by kristen ashley5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Cosmo Girl as Hawk woos Gwen in his own unique way, Gwen survives firebombs, drive-bys, kidnappings, hot pursuits by biker hotties and gorgeous police detectives and discovers the heartbreaking reason why Hawk kept her at arm’s length.Īnd as all this happens, Gwen finds that her sister’s troubles are serious trouble and she must decide who to keep alive: her sister-from-hell or the man of her dreams. Thus begins the head-to-head of the Commando vs. However when Gwen gets a dose of badass, bossy, straight-talker Hawk in the daylight, she decides she’s done. But when Hawk gets a dose of Gwen in the daylight, he makes the decision that he finally wants real with Gwen. This means Gwen’s Mystery Man, Cabe “Hawk” Delgado has to step in to keep her safe. He has all the character traits you want for an alpha. For me Mitch will remain in the top of my fave alpha list for a long time. She hits the Denver Underground radar with a big, loud ping. Law Man is part of Kristen Ashleys Dream Man series, and the story focuses on police detective Mitch Lawson and Mara Hanover. Gwen has no clue what’s going on but she’s used to Ginger’s antics and decides to lay the problem on her sister’s biker boyfriend’s doorstep. ![]() Gwen’s struggling with the decision to end their crazy non-relationship when her sister-from-hell, Ginger’s best friend pays a visit and warns Gwen that if she and her sister don’t get smart, they’ll both get d-e-a-d, dead. ![]() Hoping it will blossom into something real, she lets him. But her fear that she lost her dream man turns into a relationship with a mystery man when, night after night in the dead of night, he comes back for more. ![]() While drinking cosmopolitans, Gwendolyn Kidd meets the man of her dreams. ![]() The glass house amitav ghosh5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() 'They're shooting somewhere up the river. The novel opens in 1885 with an ominous rumbling sound, "unfamiliar and unsettling, a distant booming followed by low, stuttering growls." Only one person in the marketplace of Mandalay knows that the sound is an 11-year-old Indian-born orphan boy named Rajkumar: "'English cannon,' he said in his fluent but heavily accented Burmese. Two lovers are the glue binding together a massive century-long sweep of story, from the British invasion of Burma (now Myanmar) in the late 1800s through the chaos of two World Wars to the age of e-mail and the Internet. But beneath this colorful exterior run deep currents of conscience, lending the novel extra dimensions. ![]() Review | The Glass Palace by Amitav GhoshĪ vibrant blockbuster of a novel, a London critic described The Glass Palace as "a Doctor Zhivago for the Far East." It's historical drama on a grand scale, swift-moving yet packed with detail, as naturally cinematic (and romantic) as Gone With the Wind. ![]() To kill the kingdom5/10/2023 ![]() If you are having trouble finding the link to add a new thread, try this. Please avoid all-caps, especially in thread topics, as it is considered SHOUTING. They are able to edit and improve the Goodreads catalog, and have made it one of the better catalogs online.Īctivities include combining editions, fixing book and author typos, adding book covers and discussing policies. Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who have applied for and received librarian status on Goodreads. Alexandra Christo's debut novel 'To Kill a Kingdom' is so much more than a retelling of 'The Little Mermaid.' It's an epic story of swashbuckling pirates, fierce sirens, and the humanity that. Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to comment or request changes to book records.įor general comments on Goodreads and for requests for changes to site functionality, try Goodreads Help or use the Contact Us link instead.įor tips on being a librarian, check out the Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. ![]() ![]() ![]() A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. ![]() ![]() Her family, friends, and Syrian opposition believe that the Syrian government assassinated her by targeting the Homs Media Center, where she and other correspondents were sending vivid reports of civilian suffering. The controversy surrounding Colvin’s death partially overshadowed her achievements in life. Colvin’s trajectory, personal as much as professional, was fascinating by any standard for the passion and turmoil that shadowed her from birth to untimely death. Now, Lindsey Hilsum has written the book “In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin,” and it is one of the best biographies I have read about any journalist. It was only after her death that two films, a documentary and a drama, appeared. ![]() Long before her fatal trip into the city’s rebel-held Baba Amr quarter, producers had proposed turning her life into an action-packed movie. The extraordinary life of war reporter Marie Colvin would have merited a biography even if she had survived the Syrian army’s bombardment of Homs in February 2012. ![]() Where's My Cow? by Terry Pratchett5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The world is flat (on the back of a giant turtle), wizards are bumbling cowards, elves are nasty little imps, and heroes are big and dumb with arrogant talking swords. The Discworld Series starts with The Colour of Magic, and The Light Fantastic as an ironic satire on conventional fantasy tropes. His works appealed not just to fans of genre (although they, perhaps, were the most loyal), but also across fiction boundaries to appeal to theoretical physicists, historians, sociologists, and even religious leaders - despite his avowed atheism throughout his life! His work travels across the children's and fantasy genre from alternate histories of colonial era (Nation) to alternate histories of the Western World (Dodger) to children's stories (Where is My Cow, The Carpet People) and, most importantly, to his life's work in the Discworld Series. However, his prodigious output (sometimes as many as two books a year, and often one book every year), alongside his wit, humour, and compassion grew his audience by a factor of millions. He started his career as a form of a hobby, with only little awareness of his works outside the fantasy and science fiction field. His works were much loved across the world, and earned him a knighthood, a fan club, and notoriety across genres. Sir Terry Pratchett was a phenomenon of literature, who sadly passed away in the spring of 2015. ![]() Terese marie mailhot books5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The writing is spare and honest-self-harmingly honest-allowing readers to stare at all humanity under harsh fluorescent lights. It deserved all of it.Įach essay is self-contained with beautiful structure, sustained metaphors and thematic callbacks, but the essays are also connected, building off each other with novelistic order. Heart Berries had a lot of hype, especially for a first book from a young woman born on a coastal reserve in rural British Colombia. It was a finalist for many of Canada’s major nonfiction awards, and blurbed by the likes of Roxane Gay, Katherena Vermette, and Sherman Alexie (before his MeToo allegations). It was reviewed in the New York Times, and then became a NYT bestseller. ![]() This tight book of memoir in connected essays, Terese Mailhot’s debut, has been universally lauded over the course of 2018. ![]() |