![]() But her brutally honest depiction is also bound to hit home, especially for readers who may very well be familiar with the experiences Machado depicts. In describing her year with an unnamed woman who first thrilled and later baffled her, Machado creates an oft-ignored space in the discourse around queer domestic violence. It’s important to have a disclaimer right up front because with her new memoir, In the Dream House, Machado creates a portrait of an abusive relationship that is precise and stylized, but also raw and messy and scary. She is known as a genre annihilator who makes the mere act of trying to distinguish between horror and sci-fi/fantasy and literary writing feel petty and irrelevant. She is many other things: she’s the writer in residence at the University of Pennsylvania, she’s recently made her debut as a comic book writer for DC Comics, she’s a 2019 Guggenheim fellow, and she’s the bestselling author of the short story collection Her Body and Other Parties, which was a National Book Award for Fiction finalist and is being adapted into a television series. ![]() Carmen Maria Machado is not a licensed therapist or a life coach or a mental health professional of any sort. ![]()
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But I saw it when I was skimming through my Kindle titles, seeing what I was in the mood for, and I thought, "Oh, well, I'll read a few pages and see if it captures me." You know how this goes, I didn't stop and finished the book in about two days, lol. I believe someone recommended it to me but my memory fails me. I'm not sure what originally made me download Texas Destiny by Lorraine Heath. ![]() So I decided to give one a try, and I'm so glad I did. And one thing I couldn't ever remember reading was a historical western romance. I've mentioned before that I didn't grow up reading romance, so I'm playing catch up with some of the oldies but goodies. This Friday I have a bit of a throwback book for you. ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s a greater sense of variety to the episodes. So it was difficult to know where to even begin with this one, plot wise.īut it’s also more than that. All four episodes tell a grand arc of alternate timelines, parallel universes (not always the same thing), and timey-wimey hijinks with the Doctor. Especially as it featured two very different Doctors!īut this was one of those box sets where there was a lot to process. I did intend to review it as soon as I could, as I did with the first series of The Diary of River Song. I’ll be upfront: it’s taken me far too long to review this series of the Doctor Who spin-off. Image obtained from: Big Finish Productions.) River Song experiences one of her strangest adventures yet, with multiple Earths, reality devouring aliens and two Doctors, in the second series of her own spin-off, The Diary of River Song! (Photo credit: Doctor Who/Big Finish Productions. ![]() By James Aggas 4 years ago River meets the Seventh and Sixth incarnations of her husband, as she has one of her strangest adventures in The Diary of River Song: Series Two. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is from this slice of life that his obsession to demonstrate the settlement pattern of these islands was born. From this episode of his life, he drew the story "American Indians in The South Pacific" published after the war. He returned home on the eve of the Second World War. ![]() Born in 1914, after a childhood spent skiing and exploring nature in Norway, Thor Heyerdahl moved to Polynesia in Fatu Hiva in 1936, accompanied by his young wife. What did these men come here to do, more than 18,000 km from home on this raft?Īt the head of this crew, the explorer Thor Heyerdahl. On board, a Norwegian team, mainly composed of former Norwegian resistance fighters, tough as nails, passed through SOE (Special Operations Executives - British Foreign Secret Service during the Second World War) with a smile on their face. On April 28, 1947, a steam tug sailed from the port of Lima in Peru, towing a strange raft about fifteen metres long. ![]() ![]() She commissions Quinta and Twain to make her a starlight dress and will reward them handsomely enough to make their dreams come true. ![]() Soon, their lace catches the eye of the Casorina, the ruler of Severon. Two, they enter the store and discover a book that teaches them how to weave starlight into lace. When Quinta meets Twain outside of the Emporium, two things happen: One, Quinta is sure she’s infatuated with this starlight boy, who uses his charm to hide his scars. Meanwhile, Quinta, the ordinary daughter of an extraordinary circus performer, chases rumors of the shop, the Vermilion Emporium, desperate for a way to live up to her mother’s magical legacy. On the morning Twain, a lonely boy with a knack for danger, discovers a strand of starlight on the cliffs outside of Severon, a mysterious curiosity shop appears in town. ![]() The heart-wrenching story of The Radium Girls meets the enchanting world of Howl’s Moving Castle in a story of timeless love and deadly consequences. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() No sooner has ‘Viriconium Knights’ introduced us to the mysterious city of Viriconium (with its murky alleyways and strange customs) then we are told that this may not be Viriconium at all, Plus there was the fact that you guys voted this as the book I should try next! All this means I’ll be going through the book and telling you what I think of the short stories and novellas inside (one every couple of weeks maybe, we’ll see how it goes). ![]() Larry’s reviews got me interested again and picking up the Viriconium references in Mark Newton’s ‘Nights of Villjamur’ had me wondering if I’d got more out of the book than I’d realised. I’d always meant to give these stories another go but was put off by how inaccessible I’d found it. ![]() I couldn't get the picture any larger so you're going to have to click on it to read.Īs you can see, the scenery is gorgeous (and hints at something worth reading) but I’ve got no idea of what’s being said and what the story is about! That was pretty much how it was when I read ‘Viriconium’ a few years ago. I was trawling through Google Images, looking for Viriconium imagery, and came across this picture (courtesy of these guys) that sums up perfectly the experience I had when reading Gollancz’ ‘Viriconium’ collection for the first time. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her Muslim ayah is made of cake, she used to believeĪnd yet, this is the 1940s, and with news of atrocities spilling from Punjab, where religious violence against women in particular grows worse by the day, they’ve let Brahma’s mother – a meddlesome, haunted hater – arrange a match for Alma. ![]() Little Roop is a budding psychopath, killing mice and crickets. The pair of them lecture at Delhi University, and in defiance of a society in which marriage and honour are everything, they’re raising their daughters, 14-year-old Alma and five-year-old Roop, to be fearless and free. He’s a timid dreamer, besotted with his wife, Tanisi, an orphan who grew up on a houseboat in Kashmir and has pale blue “drowning-in-a-lake” eyes. ![]() Named Pushp Vihar, or the House of Flowers, it’s been passed down through generations of Brahma’s family. Its backdrop is a beautiful old home on Dry-Biscuit Alley. ![]() ![]() ![]() While her sisters played with Barbie dolls, Cassandra played with model kits of Frankenstein and Dracula, and idolized Vincent Price.Due to a complicated relationship with her mother, Cassandra left home at 14, and by age 17 she was performing at the famed Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas. ![]() Feeling like a misfit led to her love of horror. Burned and scarred, the impact stayed with her and became an obstacle she was determined to overcome. Third-degree burns covered 35% of her body, and the prognosis wasn't good. ![]() The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story, filled with intimate bombshells, told by the bombshell herself.On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the nearest hospital in Manhattan, Kansas, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water. ![]() ![]() Is it the funniest travel book I’ve read all year? Of course it is, if only because there are so many gags per page. A week before publication, The Road to Little Dribbling was ranked by a certain online retailer at number five in “Books” and number one in “Travel Books”, while still only available to “pre-order” – not a phrase of which the author, a stickler for correct usage, is likely to approve. But, as his publisher reminded him, it’s 20 years since he wrote that: “ ‘Ever thought about a sequel?’ His tone was casual, but in his eyes I could see little glinting pound signs where his irises normally were.”ġ1 things you didn't know about the Brontës Notes from a Small Island, his 1995 voyage around Britain, was the most successful travel book ever, with 2.5 million copies sold to date. Every book he writes, whether on the English language or popular science or travel, is a bestseller. In case you’ve somehow missed him, Bill Bryson is the American-born author the British have licensed to poke fun at them. ![]() |