Nina's an average teenaged girl, busy with school, her friends, and her family. XVI tells the story of Nina so would you mind telling us a little about her? Also, if you could offer her any type of advice what would you say? It has an amazing cover! (Just kidding! Well, actually, I really like the cover, but that's not always the best judge of what's in the book.) The dystopian world of XVI looks a bit like where we're headed as a society & seeing the consequences of continuing down the path we're on just might encourage some people to reconsider the things that they feel are so important to themģ. In your opinion, what are the top three reasons why teens (or even adults) should consider picking up XVI the next time they see it online or in stores?Ģ. Julia Karr is the debut author of newly released XVI, and today she's here to answer a few of my questions about XVI, writing, and more!
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Somewhere in the present, a teen girl just wants to kiss a boy without causing a hurricane.įrom good witches to bad witches, to witches who are a bit of both, this is an anthology of diverse witchy tales from a collection of diverse, feminist authors. In a desolate past, three orphaned sisters prophesize for a murderous king. In a terrifying future, women are captured by a cabal of men crying witchcraft and the one true witch among them must fight to free them all. A witch’s healing hands begin to take life instead of giving it when she ignores her attraction to a fellow witch. History tells us women accused of witchcraft were often outsiders: educated, independent, unmarried, unwilling to fall in line with traditional societal expectations.Ī bruja’s traditional love spell has unexpected results. A young adult fiction anthology of 15 stories featuring contemporary, historical, and futuristic stories featuring witchy heroines who are diverse in race, class, sexuality, religion, geography, and era. When I could finally feel my legs again I went in search of the mothers. I think I’m getting married in two weeks, that’s about the gist of it. He was just going along like…like what? Jace had disappeared with his dad and mine five minutes ago and I still wasn’t sure what was happening. I thought for sure my dad would object to at least some of this, but nope. Once the pied piper had spoken it’s like everyone went into work mode. Didn’t I say he was going to pull something else out of his hat? I was still sitting at the dinner table long after everyone else had left. How will Many react to the news of Jace and Sian's marriage? Will she cut her losses and move on, or will she fight to the death to hold onto the life she's always thought should be hers? The clock is ticking and time is running out as the life of lies and deception she built begins to crumble. he's started a campaign of vengeance against Mandy and Stanley for their suspected involvement in the attempted murder of his wife. Jace is watching over his new bride and their friends on Seychelles, while back in L.A. In this conclusion to the High School days of Jace Sian and the gang, we have a quadruple wedding, a honeymoon on a private island and lots of adventure. A mixture of formal and free verse, apparently, but with much more rhyme and structure than in the translation. This raises the question of what the verse is like in the original Swedish. The book is divided into 103 ‘songs’ of half a page to seven pages in length – only 102 in the English translation by Hugh MacDiarmid and Elspeth Harley Schubert, as they and the author agreed that Song 42 is untranslatable. Well, why not make it into a lesbian sf movie, though? With the book having been written by a male, and with the narrator having a variety of sexual relationships with women, I was surprised to find that the recent film version has a female protagonist. The characters are diverse and interesting. The existentialism of the situation – living lives of no destination in an inescapable vessel – is in practical terms no different from our own endless circling of the Sun… The issues of whether this feels different, and whether it should feel different, are never addressed but resonated with me nevertheless. It is the story of mass migration to Mars from the destroyed Earth, centred on a miles-long spaceship with thousands of emigrants that is knocked off course and is headed out of the solar system on a hopeless journey. Harry Martinson wrote the book in the 1950s, a decade after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki but before Sputnik launched the Space Age. Aniara has fascinated me for a long time because it combines three of my favourite literary interests: science fiction, poetry, and the works of Nobel Prizewinners. Martin Cahill of Tor praised the novel saying "Langan's novel is deliberate, elegant, and beautifully written the horror and trauma of these two men is explored to the bone, and in the end, knowing them so well only makes the horrors to come that much more terrifying". The Fisherman received mostly positive reception. The Fisherman by John Langan A terrifying tale of two widowers who bid to deal with their grief through their shared interest of fishing. They are faced with the choice to help him and regain their lost loves or defy him and fight for survival. At the creek they come face to face with the mysterious "Der Fisher", who is attempting to catch the primordial Leviathan. On their way to the creek, they stop at a diner and are warned of the dangers of Dutchman's Creek ignoring the warning, the two men continue on their way. After some weekends of fishing Dan suggests the pair try out Dutchman's Creek, a mysterious fishing spot with a cursed past that's rumoured to bring back lost loved ones. Abe forms a friendship with his coworker Dan, who recently survived a terrible accident that left him a widower as well. This novel, with a major 'fishing' theme and a secondary theme of widowing, was what I think of as a 'traditional' horror novel, where a relatable main character is drawn into events he doesnt understand by a friend with an agenda. After a bout of alcoholism, Abe uses fishing to find peace. Synopsis Ībraham or Abe, as he prefers, is a widower who struggles to find peace after his wife's death. The Fisherman is an American horror novel by John Langan. 2016 American horror novel by John Langan The Fisherman Why did Reeve break up with Janie? Lizzie, Reeve's sister. Who did Janie write a letter to? Reeve broke up with Janie because she wouldn't tell her parents that she thought she was abducted. Where did Hannah go after she brought Janie to her parent's house? Janie wrote a letter to her real parents. Where was Jennie Spring abducted from? Hannah went back to the cult in California. What did Janie look up at the town library? A New Jersey mall. How did Janie find the address for the Spring house? Janie looked up old issues of the New York Times about the abduction of Jennie Spring. Where did Janie ask Reeve to drive her after her parents told her about Hannah? She looked up the last name "Spring" in a phone book at a gas station in New Jersey. What happened to Hannah when she turned 16? She had Reeve drive her to New Jersey where the milk carton said she had been abducted. Who did Janie's parents say Hannah was? Hannah joined a cult. What did Janie discover in the attic of her house? Janie's parents said that Hannah was their daughter and that Janie was really their granddaughter. Inside that trunk was the dress that Janie had worn in the picture on the back of the milk carton. An old trunk filled with papers from someone named Hannah. In the forward Twain's fictional Sieur Louis de Conte presents himself in the year 1492-more than 60 years after Joan of Arc's death in 1431-as writing his "Personal Recollections. The short "Peculiarity" note explains, first, that many actual details about (the long-ago) life of Joan of Arc are uniquely established and known, having been recorded under oath in court documents that are preserved in the National Archives of France and, that the "mass of added particulars" here are provided by Sieur de Conte, who, the (fictional) Translator assures us, is reliable. occupies the loftiest possible to human attainment". The "Translator's Preface" offers an overview of Joan of Arc's life, with heavy praise: "the character of Joan of Arc. Finally a foreword is presented by "The Sieur Louis de Conte", who represents an actual person in the life of Joan of Arc but here is fictionalized by the author Mark Twain as a childhood playmate of Joan who later serves as her page and secretary. The novel begins with "the Translator's Preface" then follows a short note entitled "A Peculiarity of Joan of Arc's History" also written by "The Translator". Further information: Joan of Arc Introduction I’m accomplishing this op and going back to Afghanistan. This was never supposed to happen.ĪNSON: I swear I’m never falling for that service bottom Ormond. Anson Dineyazzie, macho half-breed hired gun, has stolen more than just my heart. I’m a friend of cops, firemen, and soldiers alike, but suddenly I only want one man ordering me around. Iceman is running all sorts of questionable ops on Bent Zealots land, and now Anson and I have to prove our street creds just to stake a claim in our own backyard. ORMOND: I was flung into a life-or-death battle against the slimy Iceman, leader of a rival MC. Because these things never end pleasantly. A man may as well have a few laughs while on a fatal mission. Mercenaries don’t wear badges, but my dominant side soon has me all over that seductive Spanish servant. My partner is the famous badge slut, Ormond Tangier, known far and wide for his mad oral skills, his subservience to anyone in uniform. Infiltrate the Navajo Rez and find out who is claiming the Zealots’ turf, using kids to cook drugs. Turk Blackburn, Bent Zealots MC Prez, ordered me on a fresh operation to prove myself, my guts, my valor. I was on a quest for my father, my roots, looking for answers. Two wheels move the soul.ĪNSON: I was just a mercenary back from fighting the good fight overseas. Zheng He and his fleet built it using natural beach rock from Bimini Island and the stones from the ships' ballast. This theory is a stand-alone theory as it has no evidence to support it yet no evidence to disprove it.īimini Road is located off the coast of North Bimini Islandīimini Road was built as a dry dock to repair ships from Zheng He's fleet after it was caught in a hurricane. 'The Education of Little Tree' is a documented fake - not a memoir of a Cherokee boyhood, as claimed. On the West Coast, he argues, they sailed into. Menzies theory might just turn out to be one of those stories we love too much to kill. According to Menzies, half of the fleet, under the command of admiral Zhou Wen, was caught in a hurricane near Bimini and built the Bimini Road from beach rock and the ships' ballast as a slipway to haul damaged junks ashore for refitting and repairs of damage caused by the hurricane. As to America, Menzies says that he has found proof that the Chinese thoroughly explored the East Coast from what is now Florida to Rhode Island. His theory states that when Chinese admiral Zheng He's fleet was in the process of circumnavigating the globe in 1421-3, it stopped at Bimini. I agree with historian Gavin Menzies' theory. The celebration of fear is a strange and ancient one, which is the source of its strange and ancient power. Fall inspires fallen men with a fascination in tales of terror and supernatural horror, tales that dwell on dark mysteries that transcend the regular course of nature. “The Black Cat” is a story that collapses in despair over the primal terror of mindless tragedy-which is precisely what makes it a devilishly good read…Įven as nature falls asleep under the fiery spell of autumn, there awakens in the lords of nature a keen spiritual sensitivity that can be a type of perversity. |