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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In its bones, this novel is a thriller * Daily Telegraph * It is a work of maddening brilliance and gripping originality, deceptively casual in style, but vibrating with wit, intellect and ambition - Richard Lloyd Parry * The Times * Which other author can remind you simultaneously of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and JK Rowling, not merely within the same chapter but on the same page? Viewed through the "post-modern" lens, his exemplary blend of a light touch and weighty themes, of high literature and popular entertainment, ticks every box. So like Murakami himself, I'll borrow from Orwell: 1Q84 is quite simply doubleplusgood * Independent on Sunday * 1Q84 reads like a cross between Stieg Larsson and Roberto Bolano. It is his most achieved novel an epic in which form and content are neatly aligned. Murakami's magnum opus * Japan Times * 1Q84 has a range and sophistication that surpasses anything else in his oeuvre. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Year of Reading Dangerously is a listener’s odyssey and it begins with this audiobook. Crack the spine of your unread Middlemarch, discover what The Da Vinci Code and Moby-Dick have in common (everything, surprisingly) and knock yourself out with a new-found enthusiasm for Tolstoy, Douglas Adams and The Epic of Gilgamesh. This book is Andy’s inspirational and very funny account of his expedition through literature: classic, cult and everything in-between. Andy Miller had a job he quite liked, a family he loved and no time at all for reading. ![]() ![]() And so, with the turn of a page, began a year of reading that was to transform Andy’s life completely. Books that whispered the promise of escape from the 6:44 am train to London. Books he’d said he’d read, when he hadn’t. But, no matter how busy or tired he was, something kept niggling at him. Get this audiobook for free when you try Audible:Ī working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir.Īndy Miller had a job he quite liked, a family he loved and no time at all for reading. The Year of Reading Dangerously by Andy Miller on Audible: ![]() ![]() By the mid-90s there was even talk of the "Windrush generation". ![]() Over the next decade or so the name of that ship kept cropping up – in TV documentaries, books, newspaper articles. My dad had died in the 1980s, but I remember him mentioning, almost in passing, that he had sailed to this country on a ship called the Empire Windrush. I was gripped from the start as those two familiar parents of mine began to emerge as fully rounded human beings with an amazing story to tell. Whatever the truth, that silence was finally breached and my mother, reluctantly, began to speak to me about her life before I was born. ![]() ![]() But the way I remember it, neither she nor my dad ever seemed to want to talk about their lives in Jamaica, or about why in 1948 they made the momentous decision to leave that island to come to another. She always claimed that I was never interested in her past when I was younger. I hadn't realised I was starting a novel, I thought I was just being curious about my own family history when, in my 40s, I finally got my mum to tell me about her experiences of emigrating from Jamaica to Britain. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Wild Queen: The Days and Nights of Mary, Queen of Scots (2012). ![]()
![]() ![]() Morrison notes that it's only a comic, and Buddy is actually alright. Meanwhile, Buddy is soundly defeated by the villains, and lies in a pool of blood behind his writer. Morrison takes the opportunity to thank the editors and artists who helped make the book what it is, and names some specific readers who wrote in, and inspired him. ![]() The writer simply comments that the discussion has become boring, and provides Buddy with some villains to fight as a distraction. Buddy is incredulous, demanding that Morrison bring back his family. They go for a walk, where Grant explains that the real world is far more bleak than the comic book reality, and that he has used the comic as a mouthpiece for his own concerns about animal rights.Įventually, Grant reveals that this will be his last issue of Animal Man, and that there will be a new writer soon - a new write who might make dramatic changes to Buddy's character. The writer is remorseless, noting that the drama of the story makes the comic more realistic. ![]() Grant explains that he controls every aspect of Animal Man's life, showing him the comics he's written.īuddy becomes angry, knowing that Grant Morrison is responsible for the death of his family. Grant Morrison invites Animal Man into his home, where they discuss the nature of Buddy's existence. ![]() ![]() ![]() This doesn’t mean that the pace is slow but is the consequence of their complexity. Indeed it takes a while to understand the great story that is told in this novel, also because it embraces entire decades and contains a number of flashbacks.Īs he already did in his other novels, Stephen Baxter included in “Proxima” several ideas that are developed more or less slowly. The beginning of “Proxima” immediately throws the reader in the middle of the various subplots, a bit like Yuri is sent to prepare for the journey to the Proxima Centauri system without knowing what’s happening to him. The answers could be on the planet Mercury. Through trial and error, it was possible to understand how they work in an empirical way, but nobody knows what they really are and above all the principles that explain why they work. Stephanie “Stef” Kalinski is a scientist who is investigating the mystery of the kernels, objects discovered by humans and exploited as spaceship engines. ![]() ![]() Even worse, when someone finally tells him what’s going on, he finds out that he ended up in a group of people selected for an expedition to a planet in the Proxima Centauri system. When Yuri is awakened from hibernation, he finds himself in a place and time that’s very different from the one he grew up in. It’s the first book in the Proxima series. The novel “Proxima” by Stephen Baxter was published for the first time in 2013. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the 1956 film, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, people who’d been replaced by aliens could no longer cry, a telltale sign that they were not human. Animals do not shed tears of emotion apes have tear ducts but only to “bathe and heal” the eyes. ![]() Humans are the only creatures who cry for emotional reasons. I hadn’t expected the quilt - a patchwork of many quilts - to affect me so powerfully, the clothes and artifacts and mementos stitched into tapestries, with dates of births and premature deaths, soft beautiful tombstones. In the early 1990s I joined a stream of people strolling past the AIDS quilt spread across a gymnasium floor in Lansing, Michigan, the room quiet but for our muffled sniffling. Maureen Stanton | Longreads | January 2020 | 26 minutes (6,448 words) Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. ![]() ![]() "This dystopic-fantasy series, which began in 2008, has had such tremendous crossover appeal that teens and parents may discover themselves vying for - and talking about - the family copy of "Mockingjay." And there's much to talk about because this powerful novel pierces cheery complacency like a Katniss-launched arrow. That there is still a human spirit that yearns for good is the book's primrose of hope." Yet readers will instinctively understand what Katniss knows in her soul, that war mixes all the slogans and justifications, the deceptions and plans, the causes and ideals into an unsavory stew whose taste brings madness. There's nothing didactic here, and sometimes the rush of events even obscures what message there is. But more ambitious is the way she brings readers to questions and conclusions about war throughout the story. "Collins does several things brilliantly, not the least of which is to provide heart-stopping chapter endings that turn events on their heads and then twist them once more. "At its best the trilogy channels the political passion of "1984," the memorable violence of "A Clockwork Orange," the imaginative ambience of "The Chronicles of Narnia" and the detailed inventiveness of "Harry Potter." The specifics of the dystopian universe, and the fabulous pacing of the complicated plot, give the books their strange, dark charisma." ![]() ![]() ![]() But with time running out, Phaedra quickly realizes that with this investigation, there will be no second chances. With more suspects than she knows what to do with, Phaedra finds herself on the hunt for a killer once again. Until make-believe becomes reality and one of the participants winds up dead. It is a fool proof plan to draw attention to the establishment in the hopes of saving it. In a last-ditch attempt to drum up more business, Phaedra convinces Wendy to host an immersive Persuasion-themed murder-mystery weekend. ![]() Darcy).īut when Aunt Wendy decides she is selling Laurel Springs Inn, Phaedra faces losing her beloved home. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. She needs no Captain Wentworth to sweep her off her feet (though, she would not mind a Mr. A Murderous Persuasion - Ebook written by Katie Oliver. Phaedra Brighton has her life all figured out-she has a profession she enjoys, a wonderful (if exasperating) cat, and a cozy carriage house on the grounds of her aunt's inn. Not the best of Connelly’s procedurals, but nobody else does them better than his second-best. Phaedra Brighton is on the case when an innocent murder-mystery weekend turns into the real deal, in the newest Jane Austen Tea Society Mystery. Fans of the aging detective who fear that he might be mellowing will be happy to hear that putting him on a team did not make him a team player. ![]() |