![]() ![]() Some limited and some in other languages. I collect The Colorado Kid and have eleven of those. So I have read them all and own a first edition of each, in addition to other editions. ![]() The Drawing of the Three - Bitter Medicine The Drawing of the Three - Lady of Shadows The Drawing of the Three - House of Cards The Gunslinger - The Little Sisters of Eluria The Talisman (Volume 1): The Road of Trials Gwendy's Final Task (2021) with Richard Chizmar Gwendy’s Button Box (2017) with Richard Chizmarįlight or Fright (2018) coedited with Bev Vincent The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012)Ĭharlie the Choo-Choo (2016) The Secretary of Dreams: Volume One (2006) The Dark Tower: Wolves of the Calla (2003) The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon Pop Up (1999) The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition (1990) ![]() The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three (1987) ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() (He does two hours a day, and a month-long retreat every year.) The collection of pieces aims to take stock of where humanity has reached, and where it might be going. It covers everything from war – Harari’s academic specialism – to meditation, his favourite leisure activity. The future-gazing follow-up, Homo Deus, was also a global bestseller, and now Harari has turned his attention to the present with 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. That book was Sapiens, which is bold, breezy and engaging, romping its way from the discovery of fire to the creation of cyborgs in less than 500 pages. Its sales spike when it is mentioned on Love Island. Barack Obama says it gave him perspective on “the core things that have allowed us to build this extraordinary civilization that we take for granted”. Ridley Scott wants to turn it into a TV series. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg includes it in his book club in 2015. Translated into English in 2014, the book sells more than a million copies. An obscure Israeli academic writes a Hebrew-language history of humanity. Yuval Noah Harari’s career is a publishing fairytale. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book also includes the story “The Sound of Her Wings,” which introduces us to the pragmatic and perky goth girl Death. ![]() ![]() On his arduous journey Morpheus encounters Lucifer, John Constantine, and an all-powerful madman. After his seventy-year imprisonment and eventual escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power. In PRELUDES & NOCTURNES, an occultist attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. Gaiman created an unforgettable tale of the forces that exist beyond life and death by weaving ancient mythology, folklore and fairy tales with his own distinct narrative vision. NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Neil Gaiman’s transcendent series SANDMAN is often hailed as the definitive Vertigo title and one of the finest achievements in graphic storytelling. Inked by Mike Dringenberg (#1-4) and Malcolm Jones III (#5-8) Penciled by Sam Kieth (#1-5) and Mike Dringenberg (#6-8) ![]() ![]() But Gemma has a way of slithering into people’s lives and eventually she pierces through his ironclad heart. He’s never needed help in his life, and when beautiful Gemma Wright tries to step in, he’s less than accepting. Truman’s hard, he’s secretive, and he’s trying to save a brother who’s even more broken than he is. ![]() ![]() When he’s finally released, the life he knew is turned upside down by his mother’s overdose, and Truman steps in to raise the children she’s left behind. There’s nothing Truman Gritt won’t do to protect his family-Including spending years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit. He wore the skin of a killer, and bore the heart of a lover… Imagine falling in love with a man, then finding out he was a killer…TRU BLUE is a sexy, dark stand-alone novel written in the same loving, raw, and emotional voice romance readers have come to love, and the deeply emotional literary prose women’s fiction readers have come to expect, from New York Times & USA Today bestselling, award-winning author Melissa Foster. ![]() If you enjoy strong characters, a story you can lose yourself in, and strong family devotion, this is a wonderful story to add to your to-read list.” – Top Pick, Harlequin JunkieĭOWNLOAD the FREE WHISKEY / WICKED FAMILY TREE ![]() “True Blue is heartbreaking at times but the romance excels and makes this a one-of-a kind book, you don’t want to pass up. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately deciding that the Dead should show charity, the resident ghosts take him in and raise the lad. Story-wise, the novel opens with the aftermath of a brutal murder as a little boy, the sole survivor, toddles to a graveyard. Instead, it’s a novel that ponders life and the path to adulthood – it just uses a graveyard and ghosts to tell it. ![]() Yes, ghosts and paranormal beings take center stage. But this novel is more than the sum of its spooky parts. Sometimes I would love a sneak peek into Neil Gaiman’s brain just to see how he crafts these Tim Burton-esque tales that take full advantage of the imagination! The Graveyard Book is no exception, though I fear too many readers might be tempted to write it off as just a run-of-the-mill ghost story. ![]() ![]() ![]() Strange Beard is book #5 in the Winston Brothers series. ![]() She's more than happy to forget he exists.īut first, she needs just one teeny-tiny favor. She is definitely not still thinking about Roscoe. ![]() Simone let go of the past a long time ago. She'd also like some answers from her former best friend about why he ghosted her, but if she never gets those answers, that's a-okay. Ten years after Roscoe Winston dropped out of her life, all Simone Payton wants is to exploit him. Unfortunately, after one chance encounter, Simone keeps popping up everywhere he happens to be. Roscoe Winston remembers everything-every look, every word, every single unrequited second-and the last thing he needs is another memory of Simone. He'd also like to forget her entirely, but that's never going to happen. Ten years after Simone Payton broke his heart, all Roscoe Winston wants is a doughnut. ★★★★★ Goodreads Choice Award Semi-Finalist for Best Romance ★★★★★ ![]() ![]() ![]() Last month, media reports began flooding social networks over calls for overhauling Roald Dahl's books. ![]() ![]() The young adult series has been adapted into a television series and a number of films, including two recent features where Jack Black portrayed the author."īut Stine is just one among a growing number whose works are being altered to appease an elusive readership. "There have reportedly been more than 100 edits to books like 'Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns' and 'I Live in Your Basement!' There are dozens of books in the "Goosebumps" series. He sort of struts when he walks and acts real cool.'" Lee is African-American, and he sort of struts when he walks and acts real cool, like the rappers on MTV videos.' The revised version now calls the character 'tall and good-looking, with brown skin, dark brown eyes and a great, warm smile. In another book, "Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns," Deadline outlines that a "character is described as 'tall and good-looking, with dark brown eyes and a great, warm smile. ![]() In another reissuing, "Bride of the Living Dummy," instead of the ventriloquist dummy, Slappy, knocking a girl unconscious with a "love tap," the villain now uses a magic spell. One edit is noted as changing an alien with "at least six chins," to a being that is "at least six foot six." Stine, is the latest author to join the cast of contemporaries whose works are being cleared out to make space for "more inclusive language," according to Deadline.Ĭurrently, Stine is involved in the rewrites with his publisher Scholastic. ![]() ![]() ![]() How beautiful is this new cover below? I own an older copy but I feel like I might need to own this one just because it’s so pretty.It boasts all the things I love about Hale’s writing: clever characters, unique settings, and beautiful storytelling. This is a stand alone novel which is less common for Shannon Hale. ![]() I’m excited to share some thoughts on this lesser known retelling of a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. I haven’t reviewed this particular novel here before because it’s been years since I read it (pre-blog days). ![]() Check out my reviews of two of my favorite Shannon Hale novels The Goose Girl and Princess Academy (plus a few more on my Reviews Page). I reread this book at the start of this year when I was on a bit of a Shannon Hale kick. Today I am here to share a review of Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale. ![]() I hope you are finding things to do and ways to get outside this week! We’re hoping real spring weather is coming our way soon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From finding suitable housing-she is often forced to share a living space with several other women at a time-to maintaining a job in an anti-Semitic society, Florence struggles to live out her Soviet dream. Once there, Florence faces myriad difficulties. This thought frightens me more than anything else.” “I fear if I stay I may fall into the ranks of the indifferent,” Florence writes in a letter before leaving New York for Moscow, “or, worse, the eloquent malcontents. ![]() In order to produce more, it is necessary to know more." A Soviet education poster that reads, "In order to have more, it is necessary to produce more. Enamored of the ideals pedaled by the Soviet Union’s propaganda machines, she expects to adapt easily to the socialist utopia that was once home to her parents. When she fails to find satisfactory employment in New York during the Great Depression, Florence sets out to reconnect with an old flame who has returned to the Soviet Union. Inspired by a true story, Florence’s life takes center stage for much of the novel. Spanning years of tension between home and native lands, The Patriots weaves together the narratives of Florence Fein, her son Julian and his son Lenny over the course of the 20th and early 21st centuries. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Worst of all, asserts Phillips, this abandonment of rationality leaves the West vulnerable to its legitimate threats. Scientists skeptical of global warming are hounded from their posts, Israel is demonized, and the US is vilified over the war on terror-all on the basis of blatant falsehoods and obscene propaganda. Without its religious traditions, the West has drifted into mass derangement where truth and lies, right and wrong, victim and aggressor are all turned upside down. It was Christianity and the Hebrew Bible, Phillips asserts, that gave us our concepts of reason, progress, and an orderly world on which science and modernity are based. We tell ourselves that faith and reason are incompatible, but the opposite is the case. In The World Turned Upside Down, Melanie Phillips explains that the basic cause of this explosion of irrationality is the slow but steady marginalization of religion. Millions more advance popular conspiracy theories: AIDS was created in a CIA laboratory, Princess Diana was assassinated, and the 9/11 attacks were an inside job. ![]() An astonishing number of people subscribe to celebrity endorsed cults, Mayan armageddon prophecies, scientism, and other varieties of new age, anti-enlightenment philosophies. In what we tell ourselves is an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally. ![]() |