Brought to life by the vocal magic of Darla Ann Middlebrook Dead Man’s Hammer is an epic. Christina Engela's Space Sucks is a collection of various science fiction scenarios that. Short stories are an ideal medium to convey snapshots of imaginary worlds while limiting exacting details that would detract from the main focus of the story. Tech and how it works is less important to her than the people who live in those times and use it, and their own stories and experiences. We are proud to bring you the third audiobook book in Christina Engela’s Quantum series. The rise of science fiction as we know it stemmed from short stories published in feature magazines by authors like Asimov, del Rey, and van Vogt. The Quantum Series is sci-fi, but instead of focusing too strongly on tech, Christina focuses more on her characters, creating believable and very realistic people, fleshing them out with her own broad range of experiences and creative interpretation. Life out on the frontier isn't always easy, and there are various things that make living on Deanna a mite more interesting than on more civilized Human colonies. author, Christina Engela, spanning everything from adventure to suspense to comedy and then. Known as a bit of a space oddity, Deanna orbits a star named Ramalama - and has two mad little moons of its own named Ding and Dong. The Quantum Series by Christina Engela is sci-fi with a dash of fantasy, featuring a host of regular characters including heroes, heroines, villains, aliens, and unusual and often humorous situations mostly set on Deanna, a backwater Terran colony on the fringes of known space - which has something of a reputation, and not always a good one.
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Macquarie Island where the action of Book 2 takes place in the southwest is often very cold, very wet, and very gloomy. It was, as far as the authorities were concerned, the perfect place for a penal colony because with its rugged coastline, impenetrable bush and paucity of edible flora and fauna, escape was virtually impossible. Tasmania still has one of the great wilderness areas left on earth, and at the time that (For the Term of) His Natural Life was set in the early C19th, was a densely forested and hostile landscape except for the pasture lands where settlers were. On the contrary, it’s the perfect setting for what has come to be known as Tasmanian Gothic. Our smallest and most southerly island state is nothing like that. People overseas usually think of Australia as blue skies and sunshine, but for the purposes of this book, the hot and arid landscapes of Australia are irrelevant. As I was leading the discussion, I had to start by clearing up some assumptions about this strange land of ours downunder. It was good fun reading this Aussie Classic with a bunch of mostly American readers in the Yahoo 19th century reading group. The banning of the Transatlantic slave trade in 1809 did not prevent the sale and transportation of slaves from the Southeast to enslavers in the Southwest as demand grew for labor “hands” to cultivate and pick cotton. New Orleans immediately became a vital shipping and trading port for the South. The successful slave revolt in Saint-Domingue (modern Haiti) and Napoleon’s subsequent failures to subdue the former slave rebels precipitated the Louisiana Purchase from France to the United States. Cotton, a booming staple, represented the “second story” of slavery in the New World, the first being that of the luxury goods, sugar and rum. Unlike many narratives, this history focuses on how the incredible expansion in wealth and prosperity in the young nation rested upon the unpaid and dehumanizing toil of enslaved African Americans in the emerging cotton industry of the Deep South and Southwest. Baptist presents a readable and engaging account of slavery in the United States from approximately the American Revolution through the Civil War. Overall Rating: 4/5 - That one-point deduction is for Kiera and the way she hurt Kellan (and Denny) over and over again because of her indecisiveness. And then one night everything changes…and none of them will ever be the same. At first, he’s purely a friend that she can lean on, but as her loneliness grows, so does their relationship. Then an unforeseen obligation forces the happy couple apart.įeeling lonely, confused, and in need of comfort, Kiera turns to an unexpected source-a local rock star named Kellan Kyle. When they head off to a new city to start their lives together, Denny at his dream job and Kiera at a top-notch university, everything seems perfect. If not for Kellan Kyle, I really would’ve stopped reading altogether but I’m glad that I continued because Kellan and Kiera’s story wrapped up beautifully in the last book.įor almost two years now, Kiera’s boyfriend, Denny, has been everything she’s ever wanted: loving, tender and endlessly devoted to her. It took a while for me to move on the second book in this series because I was so seriously traumatized with all the drama that transpired in the first book. Probably one of the most stressful new adult series I’ve ever encountered. Recently, a meta-analysis concluded that women who were older at the onset of natural menopause (≥55 years) had a higher risk of hemorrhagic stroke (pooled relative risk, 2.24 ). 7– 9 In the past decade, an increasing number of epidemiological studies have investigated the relationship between age at menopause and (ischemic and hemorrhagic) stroke risk, with conflicting results. Some studies have reported that early menopause increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases, 6 which is generally ascribed to the postmenopausal decrease in endogenous estrogens. 2 Women have around 4% higher lifetime stroke risk than men, 3– 5 which might be attributable to female-specific risk factors like the age at menopause. 1 Over the past years, the lifetime stroke risk has increased significantly. Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide affecting 2.6 million women in 2016. Reid, and Natalia Anderson on the TV series, Resident Advisors, which aired on Hulu in 2015. Reid was also a creator and writer with her husband, Alex J. In addition to her own books, she has written essays that appeared in publications such as the Los Angeles Times, Glamour and Marie Claire. She worked as a casting assistant in the movies for three years before working at a high school for one year before selling her first book. I always love to hear authors’ backstories as to how they became an author and what their path looked like before they found success as a writer.įor Taylor Jenkins Reid, she was in show business before she embarked on her solo writing career. She has been consistently writing almost a new book a year and if her fans have anything to say about it, they hope she never stops! Who is Taylor Jenkins Reid? Taylor Jenkins Reid books have been staples on the best-sellers lists even before The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo became a #Booktok sensation causing it to land yet again on the best-seller lists years after its initial release. She fears her father and strives to stay out of his way. Esch is fiercely loyal to Skeetah and cares for Junior as if he were her own child. She frequently consults memories of her mother for guidance and strength, giving her mother’s character an almost embodied presence in her life. Prone to daydreaming, Esch is obsessed with Greek myths and uses them to make sense of her world, obsessively comparing herself to the sorceress Medea. She is athletic and in touch with her own body, but only to the extent that it is non-feminine as she witnesses her body becoming more anatomically feminine, she attempts to distance herself from it. Growing up solely around men has lent her a sense of independence and a tough exterior, and Esch bears the hardships of falling in love and pregnancy without complaint or weakness. Esch is the only girl in her family and one of few women in the novel in general. The main character and narrator of the novel (age 15). But what begins as outright loathing slowly evolves into a passionate romance. There her fiery independence clashes with the brooding and mysterious nature of her employer, Mr. Born into a poor family and raised by an oppressive aunt, young Jane Eyre becomes the governess at Thornfield Manor to escape the confines of her life. It lives as one of the great triumphs of storytelling and as a moving and unforgettable portrayal of a woman's quest for self-respect. Ever since its publication in 1847, Jane Eyre has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic. But after she falls in love with her sardonic employer, her discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a heart-wrenching choice. The loneliness and cruelty of Jane's childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester. This carefully crafted ebook: "Jane Eyre + Wuthering Heights (2 Unabridged Classics)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. How far will Violet go to save the boy she has come to love?Īn intense, gripping YA novel, perfect for fans of John Green, Jay Asher, Rainbow Rowell, Gayle Forman and Jenny Downham. Full Title: All the Bright Places When Written: 2013 Where Written: California and Georgia When Published: 2015 Literary Period: Contemporary Genre: Young Adult Fiction Issue Novel Setting: The fictional town of Bartlett, Indiana Climax: Violet discovers that Finch drowned in the Blue Hole, presumably by suicide. But as Violet's world grows, Finch's begins to shrink. And it's only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. And when they pair up on a project to discover the 'natural wonders' of their state, both Finch and Violet make more important discoveries- It's only with Violet that Finch can be himself - a weird, funny, live-out-loud guy who's not such a freak after all. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it's unclear who saves whom. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister's recent death. This New York Times best-selling love story about two teens who find each other while standing on the edge is soon to be a Netflix film starring Elle. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. The Fault in Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park in this compelling and beautiful story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die. Like, we get what the kings names were, and we know the different captains, but no one is actually interacting, it’s just long paragraphs of describing a battle. There’s no dialogue and no, like, actual main characters. Do you even know how much I love Gondor & Rohan? Probably not because you assume I’m at least mildly sane, despite these reviews.Īlso, this section is honestly mostly boring. OH OH OH already this title tells me this section is going to contain a lot of screaming. Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan Ohhhhhh, this is Isildur’s death! I was trying to figure out why everything sounded so familiar, and then realized we get shots of this in the beginning of the Fellowship movie.Īlso, there’s a note somewhere that Aragorn later gives Sam one of the jewels that he finds when he becomes Elessar, king of Arnor, and discovers a horde of stolen things in Saruman’s tower, and I swear, I’m not crying at all. Wow jfc there are TEN footnotes on the first page, chill out But I need something familiar (ish) to carry me through the next hour until I get to go home, so here we are. I’m so sick of being in the space I’m currently in. I just finished reading 200 pages of another book. Is it a good idea for me to be starting this right now? PROBABLY NOT, GONNA DO IT ANYWAY. What, you thought this was suddenly going to turn into a serious review? The Third Age The Disaster of the Gladden Fields |