![]() Conor's motherĬonor's mother is undergoing chemotherapy treatments throughout the novel. As a top-scoring student and "Blond Wonder Child," Harry is able to obscure his bullying tendencies by impressing teachers. Harry is a student at Conor’s school who taunts and physically assaults Conor on a daily basis. Conor dislikes how she doesn't behave like most grandmothers, as she doesn't cook, dyes her hair, and is bossy toward Conor. She briefly moves in to Conor's mother's house when the cancer treatments leave Conor's mother weak, and Conor later moves in with her. Conor’s grandmotherĬonor's grandmother is a real estate agent in her sixties. Prone to anger and isolation, Conor learns with the monster's help to accept the unfair reality of his mother's impending death. He is also the victim of bullying at school. ![]() At thirteen, Conor is haunted by a dream in which his terminally ill mother's hands slip from his grasp. Conor is the novel's protagonist and point-of-view character. ![]()
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Even our finite world is brimming with choices, possibilities, transformations-this struck me as the main tenet in Klara du Plessis’ debut collection, Ekke. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “A work of high comedy, sadness and imagination.”-The Denver Post Galápagos is a comic lament, a sadly ironic vison.”-St. “Wild details, wry humor, outrageous characters. a condensation, an evolution of Vonnegut’s entire career, including all the issues and questions he has pursued relentlessly for four decades.”-The Philadelphia Inquirer “A triumph of style, originality and warped yet consistent logic. 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It is unusual to have a character introduced in the first chapter, then only see fleeting glimpses of them, but hey, I’ll roll with it for now…Ĭhapter Two introduces Bennie, Sasha’s boss. Sasha then disappears into the background for the rest of the book. She also has a bath in the kitchen of her apartment (that’s odd to me). The first chapter is straightforward enough, telling the story of Sasha, who is a compulsive kleptomaniac. ![]() While the book is innovative, telling each story in a variety of styles (hello, chapter told entirely in PowerPoint), it just didn’t really work well enough for me. This book has won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. When the Goodreads Book Club announced it as their original book, I thought I would take part and see what the hype was about. ![]() If you liked this, try: I’m really not sure…this is not my kind of book.Ī Visit from the Goon Squad seems to be appearing everywhere at the moment. Why I read it: Part of the Goodreads Book Club ![]() In a nutshell… It’s a book of short stories connected loosely by characters, told in a variety of styles. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is the first book in the Alex Rider series. 'Stormbreaker' is written by Anthony Horowitz, the author of the Power of Five and many other books. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. 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It was my first introduction to her work and, in fact, I think it was the first book I read that dealt with real historical figures rather than fictional characters in a historical setting. This is probably Seton’s most famous novel. ![]() I have read six Anya Seton novels, although she was an author I discovered years before I started my blog, so I don’t have reviews to link to for most of these books. She died in 1990 aged eighty-six, having written twelve novels, some of which were bestsellers and some which were adapted for film. Last month, I looked at the work of Elizabeth Chadwick this month it’s the turn of another historical fiction author: Anya Seton.Īnya Seton was the pseudonym of Ann Seton Chase, an American author born in Manhattan in 1904. Welcome to my monthly post on all things historical fiction. ![]() ![]() That’s not to say that the writing isn’t good, with clean sentences and well-developed characters. It's sad that this novella can be picked up, read, and shrugged off as old news. The internet has changed how we think, the internet’s normal has become our normal. As it stands, in 2022, we are all too aware that our brains are desensitised, and that is no longer a surprise. This new idea of our brains being numbed by the internet was fresh and horrifying, but we struggled through it (by consuming more content). Back then, we, as a society, were shocked by the idea of being desensitised. If published a few years ago, it would have more impact, provoke more thought. ![]() ![]() The thing about this novella, though, is that it feels somewhat out-of-date. ![]() ![]() ![]() He does so less out of conviction in their theology, and more out of a sense that life in the Culture is a dead-end state, a pleasant but ultimately hollow existence. ![]() The hero of this story, interestingly, is Horza, a man with shape-changing abilities who works as an agent for the Idirans. ![]() However, the Culture is being encroached on by the Idirans, a religious warrior species that rejects what they regard as its empty machine dependence. Here, we get a galaxy that's partly under the sway of The Culture, a giant liberal wish-fulfillment fantasy of a society in which benevolent machine overseers ensure freedom, tolerance, and material well-being for all. And, indeed, reading it gave me a better handle on Banks's vision, which I think is what really attracts people to his Culture books. But given his popularity in the SF community and his recent tragic death, I figured I'd give him another try - maybe I just hadn't picked the right books? Consider Phlebas is the first entry in the Culture series, so it seemed like a sensible place to go next. I've listened to two other Iain M Banks novels, Player of Games and Surface Detail, and had a somewhat lukewarm reaction to them. Visionary but half-cooked intro to Culture 'verse ![]() ![]() In fact, “splatting” is a fun hobby for thrill seekers. In Arc of a Scythe, no amount of self-inflicted harm can kill a person. If you were intrigued by Neal Shusterman’s speculative takes on life and death in Arc of a Scythe, you’ll love to see the beginnings of those ideas here. It’s a magical, dangerous place where bands of lost kids run wild. In the Skinjacker trilogy, kids who die linger in Everlost, a limbo made up of all of the things and places that no longer exist in the living world. ![]() The Skinjacker trilogy by Neal Shustermanīefore Neal Shusterman wrote Arc of the Scythe, he gave us the Skinjacker trilogy, and it won’t surprise you to know that it also has a lot to do with death. Here are some places to start! Series to Read if You Love Neal Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe 1. These books combine so many fascinating genres (speculative fiction, dystopian, horror, political thriller, high-stakes action/adventure), and they leave you desperate for more. Death is no longer inevitable, but must be inflicted by Scythes to keep the population under control. ![]() In the future he’s imagined, all diseases can be cured, all injuries can be healed, and even old age can be reversed. 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