5/24/2023 0 Comments Siege and storm by leigh bardugo![]() ![]() Siege and Storm begins with Mal and Alina crossing the ocean from their home country of Ravka (which is very loosely inspired by Russia) to the western continent of Novyi Zem. ![]() Now comes Siege and Storm, book two of the Grisha trilogy. The story was still interesting after that, but to a lesser degree, and I was not sure what to expect of book two. That was when one of the heroine’s love interests (and for my money, the more dynamic and fascinating one) was revealed to be a villain of such proportions that I consider him irredeemable. Shadow and Bone, the first book in your YA fantasy trilogy, had many things going for it and except for in one or two places in the story, I was enthralled until around the two-thirds mark. My spoiler free review of Shadow and Bone can be found here. READERS PLEASE NOTE: Since Siege and Storm is the second book in Leigh Bardugo’s Grisha trilogy, the review of this book below will by necessity include spoilers for the first book, Shadow and Bone. ![]() ![]() Janine B- Reviews Historical Fantasy / Magic / Russia / YA / Young-Adult 13 Comments SeptemREVIEW: Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo ![]()
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![]() ![]() He had also defeated FDR in the Democratic primary for US Senator in 1914. A prominent New York attorney, he was deeply involved in Democratic Party politics. Gerard was a particularly interesting choice. Pershing, General of the Armies Admiral Hugh Rodman, retired Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet and former Ambassador to Germany James Gerard. Instead, he sent ministers extraordinaire to represent the United States. To this day, no American President has attended a British coronation. Roosevelt, January 5, 1937, PSF, Diplomatic Correspondence, Box 32, Great Britain, 1937-1938, FDR Library.įDR did not attend the coronation. Bingham, outlined the general view of the British Establishment (as well as his own) on the recent abdication crisis and the qualities of the new King and Queen in the first two pages of the letter below. Our Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Robert W. ![]() George VI had assumed the throne upon the abdication of his brother, Edward VIII, who decamped for France in favor of life with the American divorcee Wallis Simpson. To many in the United Kingdom, the coronation was a welcome relief after the royal and constitutional tumult of 1936. In 1937, FDR was invited to the crowning of King George VI, the current king’s grandfather, the main event in four days of coronation celebrations. Saturday, May 6th, marks the coronation of King Charles III in London. King George VI (MO 1975.90a) and his wife Queen Elizabeth (MO 1975.90b) by Frank Ernest Beresford, 1937, FDR Library. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Unraveling brandon leake![]() ![]() ![]() What defines Brandon is his faith in Christ, his role as a father, husband, and relative and his immense passion for Spoken Word. He is the winner of Season 15 of America's got Talent. Since then Brandon has traveled the world as a speaker, educator, and artist. There he started his non-profit entitled "Called To Move - CTM" as an artistry collective with the hopes of encouraging people to seek self actualization through art. ![]() He attended Edison High School, and then moved on to Simpson University in Redding, Ca receiving a degree in Psychology. About The Author Brandon Leake is a Stockton, CA, native, born and raised to a single mother, Carla Gibson-Leake. Universally relatable, surprisingly educational, and all around powerful, Unraveling is a collection of poetry inspiring us to slow down, breathe, and read between the lines.īrandon Leake is a Stockton, CA, native, born and raised to a single mother, Carla Gibson-Leake. Universally relatable, surprisingly educational, and all around powerful, Unraveling is a collection of poetry inspiring us to slow down, breathe, and read between the lines. On the flip side, he encourages readers to look at something evil, and yet still see the beauty it holds. Throughout his collection, Leake asks readers to look at something beautiful, yet still see its flaws. ![]() In an era of self love, the ability to love oneself is only as effective as the ability to know oneself. Brandon is the first spoken word poet to compete on AGT and to receive the Golden Buzzer award in the first round, going on to win the entire competition!įrom famous spoken word poet, artistic educator, and founder/CEO of "Called to Move" Brandon Leake comes his debut poetry collection Unraveling. Season 15 winner of America's Got Talent, Brandon Leake, presents his debut poetry collection. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Gideon the ninth audio book![]() ![]() Her plans of fleeing to join the Emperor's armies (called the Cohort) are quickly foiled by her lifelong antagonist and heiress of the Ninth House, Harrowhark "Harrow" Nonagesimus.ĭespite their clashing personalities and mutual hatred of each other, Gideon is Harrow's only real choice of cavalier, primarily due to an atmospheric contamination incident around the time of their births that killed the rest of the Ninth House's children. ![]() The narrative begins with eighteen year-old Gideon Nav's 86th attempt to escape the Ninth House, a death cult tasked with guarding a Locked Tomb said to contain the Emperor's greatest foe, and by whom Gideon was raised in indentured servitude. Lyctors are immortal necromancers, revered as saints, who serve as the Emperor's right-hand necromancers in wars against his enemies. At the start of Gideon the Ninth, the Emperor invites the heirs of the Nine Houses and their sword-wielding bodyguards (called cavaliers ) to undergo a series of trials to become Lyctors. ![]() The Houses in turn are ruled by the Emperor, an impossibly powerful, immortal necromancer whom they have worshipped as a god for the past ten thousand years. In the star system Dominicus, there are nine planets, each home to a great House which practices its own school of necromancy. It is Muir's debut novel and the first in her Locked Tomb series, followed by Harrow the Ninth (2020), Nona the Ninth (2022), and Alecto the Ninth (2023). Gideon the Ninth is a 2019 science fantasy novel by the New Zealand writer Tamsyn Muir. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Trail of lightning![]() Its setting is remarkable, wonderful and strange, but so too are those of many other books. Its characters are typical of the monster hunter genre too: not always likeable, but always loveable. The basic plot arc could belong to almost any book within the genre. What separates it from other monster hunter books isn’t its plot. Trail of Lightning, the first in the Sixth World series by debut novelist Rebecca Roanhorse, is one of those books that grabs you by the hand and makes you listen. ![]() The further they dig to find the truth behind the monster, the more Maggie is forced to recognize that confronting her past may be the key to solving the mystery. Who created the monster that abducted the girl, and why? Maggie’s investigation leads her to reluctantly team up with Kai Arviso, an overly charismatic young medicine man with powers of his own. ![]() When her search for a missing girl and her monstrous captor goes south, Maggie is left with questions. ![]() Preternaturally deadly monster hunter Maggie Hoskie is one of the byproducts of the supernatural rebirth of Dinétah. ![]() After a sudden climate apocalypse, one of the only places left intact was Dinétah, a former Navajo reservation that has become a land where gods and supernatural heroes walk among humans. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Borne jeff![]() ![]() She cannot remember how they died or how she came to the city. Rachel grew up on an island with her parents, and then traveled with them seeking safety as the apocalypse ravaged the world. Wick has a professional rival named called the Magician who also used to work for the Company the Magician has plans to take control of the city herself. The Company is now just a shell of a building in the city with a few survivors camped out inside. Wick used to work for the Company, a sinister organization that once governed the city and that is responsible for creating Mord, along with other biologically engineered creatures the characters call “biotech” (120). Wick is a drug dealer, selling memory beetles to his clients which, when ingested, allow for the erasure of painful memories. ![]() Rachel takes Borne to her home, an abandoned hotel called the Balcony Cliffs, where she lives with her friend and lover, Wick. At first glance, Borne appears to be a cross between a vase and a sea anemone, and he is tangled in Mord's fur. In an unnamed post-apocalyptic city menaced by a giant flying bear named Mord, the narrator Rachel discovers a strange object that she comes to call Borne. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Vandermeer, Jeff. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Medair by Andrea K. Höst![]() Can Cass ever find her way home? And after the people of her new world discover her unexpected value, will they be willing to let her leave? Struggling with an unfamiliar language and culture, she must adapt to virtual classrooms, friends who can teleport, and the ingrained attitude that Strays are backward and slow. Whisked to a world as technologically advanced as the first was primitive, where nanotech computers are grown inside people’s skulls, and few have any interest in venturing outside the enormous whitestone cities, Cass finds herself processed as a ‘ Stray‘, a refugee displaced by the gates torn between worlds. Where are the people? What is the intoxicating mist which drifts off the buildings in the moonlight? And why does she feel like she’s being watched? Increasingly unnerved, Cass is overjoyed at the arrival of the formidable Setari. ![]() The sprawl of abandoned blockish buildings Cass discovers offers her only more puzzles. Surrounded by the wrong sort of trees, and animals never featured in any nature documentary, Cass is only sure of one thing: alone, she will be lucky to survive. ![]() On her last day of high school, Cassandra Devlin walked out of exams and into a forest. ![]() ![]() This two-page verbal-visual montage is able to narrativize oppression as an ongoing process, and sets the tone for the rest of the narrative, where Natarajan and Ninan re-inscribe Gulamgiri through foregrounding Jotiba and Savitribai Phule’s struggles against caste oppression and their contribution to social reform in India in the 19th century, and represent the challenges continuing to the present. Walking past this incident, they halt at a poster of the film Batman Begins, and Ninan exclaims why she understands the need for superheroes: “to swoop down out of the sky and kick the baddies to bits” (p. ![]() As the authors walk through a New Delhi neighbourhood, they witness a group of children being beaten and abused using references to the ‘untouchable’ caste for inadvertently kicking a football into the house of a (supposedly) pious upper-caste man. ![]() In the opening pages of A Gardener in the Wasteland, the authors of the book, writer Srividya Natarajan and artist Aparajita Ninan, appear on the page discussing their plan to ‘adapt’ the 1873 work of Jotiba Phule Gulamgiri (Slavery). ![]() ![]() Since Star Trek and Star Wars, and with the explosion of the genres of science fiction and fantasy literature, children today are far more sophisticated in taste than we were 50 years ago. It was her first children’s book and it gained such popularity that several sequels about David and his adventures on the Mushroom Planet ensued. This was the world in which Cameron’s eight-year-old son lived in the early 1950’s when he asked his mother to write a space story with himself as the main character. We built rockets in school and the boys became their own living action figures on the playgrounds as astronauts. ![]() I remember the tension-filled moments of NASA’s first blast-offs, and the fearful excitement listening to reports of landings. Those were the pioneering days in venturing off Planet Earth into the unknown. Today, it’s hard to imagine how obsessed the children of the 1950-1960’s were with space travel. ![]() In this case, my destination was The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron (1954). ![]() Well, you do if you are me – You pick up a children’s book you’ve never read and go away for a few hours. ![]() What do you do when spring’s precocious mood throws winter back in your face? You take a trip to another planet! ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Ghost rider the road to damnation![]() Ghost Rider: Vengeance Forever (2022) #1.Ghost Rider (2022) #1-(ongoing) by Benjamin Percy.Kushala, The Spirit Rider in Midnight Suns (2022) #1-5.Ghost Rider: Kushala Infinity Comic (2021) #1-8.King in Black: Ghost Rider (2021) #1 & Ghost Rider: Return of Vengeance (2021) #1.Spirits of Ghost Rider: Mother of Demons (2020) #1.Absolute Carnage: Symbiote of Vengeance (2019) #1. ![]()
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