6/10/2023 0 Comments Harrow the ninth book![]() Side-by-side with a detested rival, Harrow must perfect her skills and become an angel of undeath - but her health is failing, her sword makes her nauseous, and even her mind is threatening to betray her. Harrowhark Nonagesimus, last necromancer of the Ninth House, has been drafted by her Emperor to fight an unwinnable war. ![]() Nothing is as it seems in the halls of the Emperor, and the fate of the galaxy rests on one woman's shoulders. She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend.Īfter rocking the cosmos with her deathly debut, Tamsyn Muir continues the story of the penumbral Ninth House in Harrow the Ninth, a mind-twisting puzzle box of mystery, murder, magic, and mayhem. “Deft, tense and atmospheric, compellingly immersive and wildly original.” - The New York Times on Gideon the Ninth ![]() “Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space! Decadent nobles vie to serve the deathless emperor! Skeletons!” -Charles Stross on Gideon the Ninth Harrow the Ninth, an Amazon pick for Best SFF of 2020 and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling sequel to Gideon the Ninth, turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the wreckage of herself aboard the Emperor's haunted space station. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Crazy rich asian trilogy![]() ![]() ![]() NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments The perishing natashia deon![]() ![]() On this episode of The Resistance, Natashia speaks openly about the power of her faith to fuel her activities and what she’s learned about balance and self-care in the midst of so many demands. Her second book, The Perishing, is due in November. Grace (out on Counterpoint Press) was named a best book of 2016 by The New York Times, The Root, Kirkus Review and more and was featured in Time, People, the L.A. While it’s quite a feat that she has time for anything creative, we’re certainly thankful for Natashia as a gifted storyteller. ![]() ![]() Oh, and there are other special family demands and even creative projects like her podcast. What I didn’t realize was that she was also busy with the Redeemed Project, a non-profit focused on criminal reentry work, or that she’s also going to seminary herself. When we sat down to record this episode of The Resistance, I knew Natashia was a practicing attorney and professor at UCLA, a wife and mother of two. That’s because the title of acclaimed author is just one of so many hats worn by Natashia Deón these days. What I thought would be a conversation about the beauty of her debut novel, Grace, quickly turned into one about balance and self-care. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments S. by John Updike![]() ![]() But Updike himself, in his very playful introduction to this collection, suggests there’s at least a bit of him in here. Then again, perhaps we get no more here than we get in any other book by any other author. Yet, in him we get a whiff of some of Updike’s own character. Bech has never married, and his behavior at 40 years of age is decidedly curmudgeon. This book is actually a collection of short pieces written during the 1960s and published principally in The New Yorker. In them we come to know Updike’s antithetical alter ego (or is it correct to say the anti-alter ego?), Henry Bech, a Jewish New Yorker who’s suffering from writer’s block. I’d heard good things about Bech, though, so I grabbed the first one: Bech: A Book. Perhaps fortuitously for me, the bookstore did not have any of the Rabbit books (strange, I know). I was in the bookstore a couple of months ago with a coupon for a free book, and I knew I wanted to use it to get to know Updike. ![]() I’ve read only a few of his short stories, and those long enough ago that I don’t remember them though I remember not understanding them. I’m not yet familiar with most of Updike’s work. I’m not sure how I would have felt about that, but this now gives me the opportunity to put up a sort of review in memoriam. This review was originally slated to post last Tuesday, the day John Updike died but before his death was announced. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Spare harry book![]() At the end, William, Kate, and their three children participated in the royal procession. ![]() William briefly participated in the ceremony, kneeling before the new king, pledging loyalty to him. Harry sat in the pew behind William's, on the opposite end. Prince William arrived a few minutes later with Princess Kate and their children, Prince George, 9, Princess Charlotte, 8, and Prince Louis, 5. Harry arrived at Westminster Abbey with his cousins, Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice along with their husbands, Jack Brooksbank and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, respectively. The past few years have brought to light the complicated relationship between the next heir to the British throne, Prince William, and his younger brother, referred to as the Spare in the palace growing up, as Harry recounted in his tell-all memoir earlier this year. He did not − the family members who appeared on the balcony were all working royals Harry stepped back as a senior member of the royal family in 2020. ![]() Though the coronation of King Charles III was about, well, the king, much of the interest was focused on his sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, as the two brothers reunited.įollowing the conclusion of the coronation ceremony, questions turned to whether Harry would join the royal family on the balcony at Buckingham Palace as King Charles greeted subjects. ![]() Anastasiia Riddle and Ariana Triggs, Associated Press ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Splat the Cat by Rob Scotton![]() ![]() I thought it was unusual that all the other cats in the story had clothes, except for Splat who only wore a hat. ![]() ![]() I like the illustrations of Splat the Cat, especially the wildly crooked tail that quivers at times when he is worried or excited however, sometimes the over done smiles are a little on the scary side. Splat does shows enough patience to get him through the night of uncertainty and ends up with two friends.īased on the Splat the Cat character created by Rob Scotton but this story was written by someone else. The story wasn't good or bad, but I could see a kid really liking Splat and his pet mouse Seymour (which goes everywhere that Splat goes). But his Mother invites Plank and Spike, which are not friends of Splat's. SUMMARY: Splat is eager for night to come because tonight he gets to camp outside. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Empire of storm![]() According to the canon video game Star Wars: Uprising, the Empire had 25,000 Star Destroyers. Their endless numbers serve across theĪs a side note, there might not be quite as many stormtroopers as one might imagine. Stormtroopers have replaced the clone armies of the Republic asĮxpendable soldiers. The number of stormtroopers also reinforces their expendability: ![]() Monitor politically sensitive areas-stamping out all signs of They guard mining operations, factories, and commercial On planets like Lothal, Tatooine, and Coruscant, they serve a variety Stormtroopers are stationed on strategic worlds throughout the galaxy. Their purpose is to safeguard the Empire’s interests through fear and violence: ![]() They are in some ways less a regular army than a fusion of army and police force (again, reinforcing the “police state” motif). Coruscant, the capital of the galaxy, by itself has 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) people 1, though most planets are significantly more sparsely populated. Even with advanced weapons and relatively fast transportation, considerable numbers of troops are needed to deal with the thousands of situations that might arise at one time (and a “situation” could be the equivalent of a full-scale catastrophe on a planetary scale). ![]() It needs enormous numbers of stormtroopers to instill fear, to put down rebellions on the worlds it rules, and so forth.Ĭonducting oppression at the galactic scale is a difficult business. ![]() The Empire is indeed a totalitarian state. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments NOT A BOOK by NOT A BOOK![]() ![]() ![]() Using Basmo, a reading tracking app for the modern reader, can help you gain a much more mindful approach to this incredibly beneficial activity. Reading allows us to live less stressful, wiser and more empathetic lives. Especially if we approach reading with mindfulness, there is a lot for us to gain if we spend more time reading and less time watching TV. ![]() On top of the knowledge boost reading provides us with, it also has a healing effect on our mental state. Reading can reduce stress, lower our blood pressure, our heart rate and muscle tension. Reading has a positive effect on our mental health, while watching TV has the exact opposite effect. Not only because reading is an incredibly useful learning tool, while the TV has a mainly entertainment purpose, but also because of the effect both have on our brains. Even from an early age, the use of screens brings massive disadvantages when compared to time spent reading. Reading is a whole lot better than watching TV in more ways than you can imagine. How to watch less TV? Create a reading habit.How do Books and Television Affect Your Brain?.Why is reading better than watching TV?. ![]() ![]() Those wings belong to the titular Essex Serpent, a water serpent terrorizing the village - or according to William Ransome, just rumor a born of the dead man who washed up on shore, the missing sheep, a lost child, the unseasonable darkness, and a strange waver in the line of the water. Near the coastal village of Aldwinter, where Cora eventually moves to be closer to the Ransomes, nature is not inertly beautiful, but dangerous and alive: A sheep is sucked into the mud, boats are taken by the water, earthquakes split houses, and the residents wake in the mornings "from dreams of wet black wings." Perry is good at catching the special collective dread that enflames communities - the fear that something sinister is stirring, waiting just out of sight. ![]() ![]() Every time she faces a challenge, her five brothers speak to her in her mind about courage and her role in the war-band. Hunted by a bandit with a dark link to her family's past, aided by a witch whom she rescues from the stake, Drest travels through unwelcoming villages, desolate forests, and haunted towns. So she starts off on a wild rescue attempt, taking a wounded invader along as a hostage. Her father, the Mad Wolf of the North, and her beloved brothers are a fearsome war-band, but now Drest is the only one who can save them. One dark night, Drest's sheltered life on a remote Scottish headland is shattered when invading knights capture her family, but leave Drest behind. ![]() A Scottish medieval adventure about the youngest in a war-band who must free her family from a castle prison after knights attack her home-with all the excitement of Ranger's Apprentice and perfect for fans of heroines like Alanna from The Song of the Lioness series. ![]() |