Lina goes to live with Howard, who she believes is her father. One of my favorite aspects of this book is how Welch explores the theme of searching for family. With her new friend and the diary, Lina gets to see Italy through her mother’s eyes and gains a new understanding of her mother. She is also given her mother’s old diary, which tells the story of Hadley’s adventure in Italy and sends Lina on a hunt for her true family. While in Florence, Lina meets Lorenzo, and a friendship quickly blossoms between them. Her mother’s last wish was for Lina to spend time in Florence, Italy with an old college friend and supposed father, Howard. Love and Gelato follows Lina’s story after losing her mother, Hadley, to cancer. Her strength, humor, and sincere attitude illustrated a character I would want to emulate. I enjoyed watching Lina, the protagonist, adventure to Italy, fall in love, and persevere through the ups and downs after great personal loss. However, I recently decided to reread the book, and to my surprise, I abandoned my past judgment and fell in love with the story and the characters. I thought the main character was unrelatable and the story was boring. When I first read Love and Gelato by Jenna Welch in my preteens, I didn’t like it.
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When Finlay is overheard discussing the plot of her new suspense novel with her agent over lunch, she’s mistaken for a contract killer, and inadvertently accepts an offer to dispose of a problem husband in order to make ends meet. She’s a stressed-out single-mom of two and struggling novelist, Finlay’s life is in chaos: the new book she promised her literary agent isn’t written, her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling her, and this morning she had to send her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head after an incident with scissors. “Funny and smart, twisty and surprising.”―Megan Mirandaįinlay Donovan is killing it. One of "The Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2021" ―Crimereads One of "The Most Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers of 2021" ―Goodreads One of "The Most Anticipated Debuts of 2021" ―Bustle One of "The Most Anticipated Books of Winter 2021" ―Parade "Getting the job done" for one single mom takes on a whole new meaning in Finlay Donovan is Killing It. 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The Mystery of Edwin Drood marked the last of Charles Dickens novels, and was left unfinished in its publication. The cover for the program used the same illustration that Charles Dickens had selected for his magazine story. On opening night, the fog machine that runs during a dream sequence malfunctioned during the number, and the first four rows of patrons sat covered in fog. Every time the Chairman or the drunken grave digger spoke, the patron’s head snapped up quickly, looking for the origin of the noise. However, the person would revive when one of two actors spoke on stage. Many in the cast noticed this and worried as to whether this person needed medical attention. The actor quickly replied, “I am the show!” Another funny situation occurred when a person in the front row of the matinee kept nodding off. During one performance, as the actors moved out into the audience trying to get votes for themselves as the lovers, murderer or detective, an audience member asked one of the actors to move aside so that they could see the show. Newcomers to Players were Lawrence Bencomo and Sara Flanders. The characters came off of the stage and into the audience to encourage audience members to decide the ending of the show (which changed from audience to audience) by selecting the lovers, the murderer and the detective. The final show of the season was the musical “The Mystery of Edwin Drood.” “Drood” was an audience participation show. Till We Have Faces is similar but with slightly different emphases. She truly wants to love and be loved in return. Psyche is a much more formless character in this tale, yet she still recognizes her sin and strives to pay penance for it. This story also reminded me of two things: how much I hate Venus/Aphrodite and how hopeless pagan religion is. Cupid and Psyche is a tale warning of curiosity, the rights of men and gods, spousal relationships, and justification. While these two stories complement each other, they are also different. Both stories are great in their own right, but they also complement each other in ways you will miss if you don’t read the original before the retelling. But when I saw that note, I decided that I should read the original first, and I’m glad I did. And I know, the front cover of Lewis’s book literally says a myth retold, but I hadn’t really thought about it much. Thankfully, I read the inside cover first, which informed me that this was a retelling of Cupid and Psyche. So I finally bought a copy, and a couple of weeks ago, I sat down to read it. A least a dozen people in the last year or so have told me that I HAVE to read Till We Have Faces by C.S. She also has chapters where she describes how Marx’s wife played an integral role in his success, and where she explains the relationship that women such as Virginia Wolf and Joan Didion have had with money and ownership. Biss does a great job of introducing the reader to the work and ideas that scholars and thinkers such as John Kenneth Galbraith and Karl Marx had during their lifetimes, without using unnecessary jargon. I found Biss’ book to be incredibly accessible, well-thought out and refreshingly honest and candid about money. I have recently become more interested in understanding more about homeownership and capitalism, two things I was assured by many of the reviews that I had seen online I would find out more about while reading this book. I decided to pick up Eula Biss’ most recent book, Having and Being Had, because of the reviews I had seen of it I had seen online. What secrets was he keeping and why are others so determined to find them out? Lily is a great character but readers’ hearts are likely to be won by her companion Malkin, a clockwork fox, one of many automatons created by her father. It follows the story of Lily, whose inventor father is missing, presumed dead after the airship crash. Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2017 | September 2016 Debut of the Monthįrom its opening scene aboard an airship harpooned in mid-air, Cogheart is filled with fabulous visual images and a tangible sense of adventure.
This is the third one of this narrator's books I've reviewed. There's a lot of scenes where characters do a lot of talking back and forth and this narrator made that come alive like plot and story rather than just talking. What does Francesca Townes bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? Lastly, it takes place in Scotland so there's Scottish accents and that was fun. It was sexy but it was really about how the main character felt, not just body parts moving around. I also liked the tenderness of the big love/sex scene. I don't want to give away any spoilers, but to me it was a new idea. I like the idea of what kind of creature Elle and her boyfriend actually are. It's a fantasy story, but with people who are like real people. Also the main character is really sweet and smart and sometimes funny. It's not the kind of genre I usually listen to but I ended up liking the idea of it well enough that I might listen to the next one in the series if it's available. I would recommend it to someone who likes stories about witches and werewolves and magic, yes. Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why? Pacy and engaging, this is a comic fantasy crammed with sharp and funny one-liners from the man who has previously come up with the memorably titled Island of the Sequined Love Nun and The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove. Dealing with the fallout from the angel's attempts to provide a festive miracle are a cop who has promised to stay off drugs if his sword-wielding lover will keep on taking hers, a Drugs Enforcement Administration pilot with a talking fruit bat, and a biologist with a penchant for mating rodents. Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe.Twas the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas, and all through the tiny communit. Combine the boy's earnest wish that Santa return from the grave with the best intentions of the stupidest angel in all creation and this Christmas in Pine Cove is certainly going to be one to remember. When young Josh Barker witnesses Santa being murdered, or rather, when he sees evil developer Dale Pearson, playing the town's Santa in the Christmas parade, being dispatched by his ex-wife's shovel. P ine Cove is a sleepy Californian coastal village with more art galleries than gas stations, in which everyone drives an SUV. "Marvelous.Pulsing with life, lit by a wisp of dry humor, fully imagined." - Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times " HHhH is a startling novel.Who would expect a postmodern exploration of the limits of historical fiction to be a page-turner? But it is, absolutely.Fascinating." - Madeline Miller, NPR The tone is clever, witty, casually postmodern.Captivating." - James Wood, The New Yorker "Binet has threaded his novel with a contemporary story, which is the drama of the book's own making. "Brings a raw truth to an extraordinary act of resistance.A literary tour de force.A gripping novel that brings us closer to history as it really happened." - Alan Riding, The New York Times Book Review A magnificent book." - Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature It's one of the best historical novels I've ever come across." - Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero Binet's style fuses it all together: a neutral, journalistic honesty sustained with a fiction writer's zeal and story-telling instincts. |