![]() I don't remember how many times I rewrote that scene, but it was a bunch. ![]() My editor would read it and say, "Nope, this doesn't ring emotionally true." So I'd tackle it again, trying to nail it without pushing the characters around. That last scene between Kiriel and Lane took several different rewrites after the rest of the book was done I knew what happened in that scene, but I couldn't get the emotional arc of it right, and by that point I had looked at the ms so many times I couldn't really "see" it anymore. Girl characters are not my strong point and I kept going off course with her and that made Kiriel's reactions inaccurate. But most of the bumbling I did with Lane wasn't due to Kiriel-it was due to Lane herself. With Kiriel and Lane, same old same old I knew where they were ultimately heading, and there were the usual dead ends. I have to back up, reassess, delete, and rewrite. ![]() ![]() Jenkins: When I write a book, I generally know what will happen in the end, and then my process always takes me down blind alleys while I'm getting there. ![]()
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![]() ![]() What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. What if Anden is a new beginning? What if revolution must be more than loss and vengeance, anger and blood-what if the Patriots are wrong? It’s their chance to change the nation, to give voice to a people silenced for too long.īut as June realizes this Elector is nothing like his father, she’s haunted by the choice ahead. ![]() They have only one request-June and Day must assassinate the new Elector. With the Republic edging closer to chaos, the two join a group of Patriot rebels eager to help Day rescue his brother and offer passage to the Colonies. ![]() June and Day arrive in Vegas just as the unthinkable happens: the Elector Primo dies, and his son Anden takes his place. A brilliant re-imagining of Les Miserables, the series is set to be a global film sensation as CBS films have acquired rights to the trilogy. Prodigy is the long-awaited sequel to Legend, the must-read dystopian novel for all YA fans of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Divergent by Veronica Roth. To gear up for the January 29 release of Prodigy by Marie Lu, the second book in her Legend trilogy, we have one copy of the book up for grabs! Thea enjoyed Legend (a solid popcorn dystopia action flick of a book), so what better way to kick off this dreary, snowy, stormy Thursday than with a good dose of adrenaline? ![]() ![]() ![]() Logevall takes us inside the councils of warand gives us a seat at the conference tables where peace talks founder. In between come years of political, military, and diplomatic maneuvering and miscalculation, as leaders on all sides embark on a series of stumbles that makes an eminently avoidable struggle a bloody and interminable reality. It concludes in 1959, with a Viet Cong ambush on an outpost outside Saigon and the deaths of two American officers whose names would be the first to be carved into the black granite of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Embers of War opens in 1919 at the Versailles Peace Conference, where a young Ho Chi Minh tries to deliver a petition for Vietnamese independence to President Woodrow Wilson. ![]() How did it happen? Tapping into newly accessible diplomatic archives in several nations and making full use of the published literature, distinguished scholar Fredrik Logevall traces the path that led two Western nations to lose their way in Vietnam. For France, the defeat marked the effective end of her colonial empire, while for America the war left a gaping wound in the body politic that remains open to this day. Fought over a period of three decades, the conflict drew in all the world's powers and saw two of themfirst France, then the United Statesattempt to subdue the revolutionary Vietnamese forces. ![]() The struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() She’s feisty, creative, clever, and isn’t afraid to be herself. ![]() Beauty is who you are on the inside and how you treat others.Ĭharacter Development: I absolutely love Ryan Hart! She’s like a modern Ramona Quimby. You can make your own happiness when things get hard. Always try your best to live up to your potential. True friends will support you and stand by you. Even when things aren’t all she would wish for-her brother is infuriating, her parents don’t understand, when her recipes don’t turn out right, and when the unexpected occurs-she can find a way forward, with wit and plenty of sunshine. Because Ryan is all about trying to see the best. But Ryan is a girl who knows how to make sunshine out of setbacks. That means changes like selling their second car and moving into a new (old) house. Her dad finally has a new job, but money is tight. Ryan Hart loves to spend time with her friends, loves to invent recipes, and has a lot on her mind-school, self-image, and family. ![]() ![]() ![]() This argument is evident throughout the book, first as the reader is confronted with the subtitle, Why Evidence Matters, and lastly as the reader is confronted with the concluding chapter: "Toward Evidence-Based Ethnography. ![]() Positivist critics of ethnography and those who are disinclined towards the methodology will find it especially appealing, and the book is set up to be read towards a damning verdict-that evidence does not matter in ethnography, that it should, and ethnographers should take lessons from lawyers in the vetting and understanding of evidence. The book is compelling at first glance, and the cover includes a bloody fingerprint, suggesting that something sinister is afoot. ![]() ![]() The book was published in 2014 to wide acclaim. Her book, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City is based on Goffman’s six year immersion in a black neighborhood in West Philadelphia. Controversy sells, even for academic presses. Alice Goffman, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, is a controversial scholar. Interrogating Ethnography by Steven Lubet is a book that ethnographers will have to read, but is it for the right reasons? The dramatic charges and contentious exchanges between Steve Lubet and Alice Goffman that preceded the book have fueled interest and surely aided in the acquisition of a book contract. ![]() ![]() ![]() And don’t even get me started on requiring to drink ten times more water than I was used to. Eating is also a hassle when your hands are more fins than fingers. My only complaint is that the changes last a bit too long and, if you spend as much time swimming as I did, you gotta deal with some rather uncomfortable body parts days after you’ve already left the water: Try putting on clothes when your skin is constantly leaking mucus, or wearing pants when you have a thick tail coming out of your ass. So I had to check for myself and, oh boy, that was one wacky trip! Having my body change in front of my very eyes was quite the unforgettable event, and I recommend this for whoever wants a new unconventional experience that’s nothing like anything else. When people first told me about this place, I couldn’t believe it was real. ![]() ![]() Yes, I have plans for both volume 2 and 3. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, I don’t get a “overwhelming” feeling reading this story. It meant shortening certain details while letting others breath. I assumed this would be my only chance to do a Batman book alone, so I wanted to fit as much in as I could. Even with most of that edited out, WHITE KNIGHT isn’t something you’d want an 8 year old to read.ħ) There’s a lot jammed into BWK and it seems overwhelming–why? Murphy’s original plan was to include nudity and bad words. I only had to edit for swearing and nudity. Via his Twitter page, Murphy answered a few questions about WHITE KNIGHT.Ģ) How much did DC interfere with White Knight? Hardly none–I essentially have full creative control. 4-issues in, it looks that ALL of the city has bought in to Napier’s claim and has turned their back on The Dark Knight. If you’re not reading (and you should be), here’s the premise: The Joker - AKA Jack Napier (yes, it’s a nod to BATMAN ’89) has been “reformed” and tries to convince Gotham that it’s Batman, not The Joker (and the other supervillains of Gotham), that is the true cause of the city’s crime problem. I’ll make a prediction: Once its run is over, it’ll go down as an absolutely classic Batman story. ![]() If you’re a regular reader of BATMAN ON FILM, you know that we’ve been praising the heck out of writer/artist Sean Murphy’s BATMAN: WHITE KNIGHT 8-issue miniseries. ![]() ![]() It was also Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year. It won the Sue Kaufman award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Book of the Year, and the Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2021. ![]() His debut novel, Shuggie Bain, is the winner of the 2020 Booker Prize. His work has been translated into 39 languages. His essays on Ge Douglas Stuart is a Scottish - American author. His short stories have been published by The New Yorker. His second novel, Young Mungo, was a #1 Sunday Times Bestseller. Shuggie Bain was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, the Pen Hemingway Award, the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, The Rathbones Folio, the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award, and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize. ![]() ![]() Douglas Stuart is a Scottish - American author. ![]() ![]() In this intense sci-fi thriller, Alameda paints a bleak picture of the future and poses the question: Is the human species worthy of being saved? Two teen protagonists provide the first-person play-by-play in alternating chapters. The ships were lost now, finding them is the last hope for human survival. Among them, the USS John Muir carried the soil and plant life needed for terraforming. ![]() Potentially Sensitive Areas: Mild language, Mild sexual themes, Physical abuseīefore humans made Earth completely unlivable, the Exodus project was launched, sending out manned spacecrafts to begin the process of planetary colonization. but on the John Muir, the screams are the last thing you’ll hear. But their plan is the only hope for their crews, their families, and themselves. Tuck and Laura didn’t bargain on working together, or battling mutant aliens who use sound to kill. Laura belongs to a shipraiding family, who are funded by a group used to getting what they want. Parks and mountains are preserved in space. ![]() ![]() Tuck has been in stasis on the USS John Muir, a ship that houses Earth’s most valued artifacts-its natural resources. Set against a future of marauding space scavengers and deadly aliens who kill with sound, here is a frightening, fast-paced YA adventure from the author of the acclaimed horror novel, Shutter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thankfully, before she leaves, Enola discovers that her mother did in fact leave messages and money for Enola. So, like her mother before her, and for very much the same reason, Enola runs away from home. ![]() There is no way that she is going to accept this. The idea of having to live in a corseted world where she will have to learn how to be an ornament rather than a thinking and reasoning individual horrifies Enola. Mycroft announces that Enola is to be sent to a girl’s finishing school and that she will have to start wearing clothes befitting a young lady of her class. After they arrive, Enola discovers why the brothers stayed away from the family home and she begins to wish that she hadn’t called for them at all. Why would her mother do such a thing? What is Enola supposed to do now? After the initial shock wears off, Enola contacts her brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes. ![]() When Enola’s mother disappears on Enola’s fourteen birthday, Enola doesn’t know what to think. ![]() |
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