![]() Feeling responsible for her neighbors, Dina decides to get involved. Under the circumstances, ""normal"" is a bit of a stretch for Dina.Īnd now, something with wicked claws and deepwater teeth has begun to hunt at night. ![]() Meant to be a lodging for otherworldly visitors, the only permanent guest is a retired Galactic aristocrat who can't leave the grounds because she's responsible for the deaths of millions and someone might shoot her on sight. different: Her broom is a deadly weapon her Inn is magic and thinks for itself. ![]() She runs a quaint Victorian Bed and Breakfast in a small Texas town, owns a Shih Tzu named Beast, and is a perfect neighbor, whose biggest problem should be what to serve her guests for breakfast. "On the outside, Dina Demille is the epitome of normal. ![]()
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![]() Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious mother, and grew to be an awkward, six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son. ![]() Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight. Here is my offering to you.įor a world of devoted fans, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers.ĭedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with meaning. You are fat and thin and pretty and plain, gay and straight, educated and unlettered, and I am speaking to you all. You are Black and White, Jewish and Muslim, Asian, Spanish speaking, Native Americans and Aleut. ![]() I gave birth to one child, a son, but I have thousands of daughters. ![]() ![]() Now, building on that momentum, the author will publish a prequel, The First to Die at the End, on Oct. ![]() In 2020, when the world was on lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, bookworms on the platform helped catapult Silvera’s novel to the top of the New York Times best-seller list. The novel was published in 2017, but it saw an unexpected surge in sales three years later thanks to BookTok, the subsection of TikTok that has proven powerful when it comes to launching best sellers. The story follows their romantic adventures together as they try to make the most of their last day. Silvera’s heartbreaking YA novel follows teens Mateo and Rufus, who were both just notified by Death-Cast-a service that alerts subscribers when they are going to die within 24 hours-that their time has come. “None of us is going to be the exception to death.” “People thought I was going to do a fake-out,” the author says. ![]() ![]() Adam Silvera put it right there in the title: They Both Die at the End. ![]() ![]() ![]() So she sends him a passage from Roland Barthes, one that explains that saying ‘I love you’ is like ‘the Argonaut renewing his ship during its voyage without changing its name.’ The name – the words – are the same, but the meaning of them is remade every time they are spoken. Nelson says to her partner Harry: ‘What’s your pleasure? You asked, then stuck around for an answer.’ describes telling Harry she loves him, and then feeling ‘feral with vulnerability’. It is a memoir about a relationship, it is literary criticism, it is gender theory, queer theory, ontology, it is specific and universal, creative and critical. ![]() ![]() It is a love story that refuses to be boundaried. That first day, all I could think was this: these words are unflinching and beautiful at the same time, in equal measure, a combination that until that moment, I hadn’t realised was possible. I knew that reading it had shifted something in me, but I wouldn’t understand what that was until years later, on my fifth or sixth reading. The first time I read The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson, I was sitting in my bedroom in my hometown in Sydney, Australia. ![]() |