Lovers of classic film noir, old suspense thrillers (e.g. And as if that’s not enough, Only Daughter will appeal to a variety of demographics.Īs Snoekstra said in an interview published in The Saturday Paper, her “roots are in film”, and she has come up with a clever, twisting plot-line that should work well as suspense cinema. Now, in late 2016, with her debut novel just published in something like 19 countries and a screenplay (by Erin Cressida Wilson) in preparation for Universal Pictures, Snoekstra is positioned to catch the attention of millions of crime story consumers. In 2014 Anna Snoekstra came to Sisters in Crime’s attention when her short story “Out Came the Sun” was joint winner of the Liz Navratil Award for Best Story with a Disabled Protagonist. As the imposter dodges the detective investigating her case, she begins to delve into the life of the real Bec Winter-and soon realizes that whoever took Bec is still at large, and that she is in imminent danger. Playing with her twin brothers.īut Bec’s welcoming family and enthusiastic friends are not quite as they seem. Mysteriously ominous things began to happen-blood in the bed, periods of blackouts, a feeling of being watched-though Bec remained oblivious of what was to come.Ī young woman, desperate after being arrested, claims to be the decade-missing Bec. She’d been enjoying her teenage summer break: working at a fast-food restaurant, crushing on an older boy and shoplifting with her best friend. In 2003, sixteen-year-old Rebecca Winter disappeared.
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6/4/2023 0 Comments Love Radio by Ebony LaDellePrince is smitten, but Dani's not looking to get derailed. When the romantic DJ meets the ambitious writer, sparks fly. But her college essay keeps tripping her up and acknowledging what's blocking her means dealing with what happened at that party a few months ago. She's focused on her plan: ace senior year, score a scholarship, and move to New York City to become a famous author. But being the main caretaker for his mother, who has multiple sclerosis, and his little brother means his dreams will stay just that and the only romances in his life are the ones he hears about from his listeners.ĭani isn't checking for anybody. Prince has always dreamed of becoming a DJ and falling in love. After all, at seventeen, he has his own segment on Detroit's popular hip-hop show, Love Radio, where he dishes out advice to the brokenhearted. Prince Jones is the guy with all the answers-or so it seems. Hitch meets The Sun Is Also a Star in this witty and romantic teen novel about a self-professed teen love doctor with a popular radio segment who believes he can get a girl who hates all things romance to fall in love with him in only three dates. 6/3/2023 0 Comments Eon eona seriesI had to force myself to sleep, but all that I could think of was the book I had just finished and what I could possibly expect next. Of course, by then it was 2 in the morning and I had a session scheduled with my trainer at the gym 4 hours later. When my senses returned, I rushed to my closet to get the next book. I have not read anything as spectacular and complex as Eon in a long while and I was reeling from the effects. Holy fruitcakes! That was the first thought that entered my mind the moment I read the last word of this book. But after a brilliant sword ceremony, Eon is catapulted into the treacherous world of the Imperial court, where his desperate lie comes to light … It is forbidden for females to practise the Dragon Magic and, if discovered, Eon faces a terrible death. He is actually Eona, a sixteen-year-old girl who has been living a dangerous lie for the chance to become a Dragoneye, the human link to an energy dragon’s power. Eon has been studying the ancient art of Dragon Magic for four years, hoping he’ll become apprentice to one of the twelve energy dragons of good fortune. 6/3/2023 0 Comments Mike tyson hbo documentaryTyson has been a pop-culture fixture for more than 35 years, an only-in-America success story who overcame poverty, racism and lack of education to become the planet’s most famous boxer and youngest heavyweight champion. But if it’s any consolation to showrunner Karin Gist and her creative team, which includes the I, Tonya duo of director Craig Gillespie and writer Steven Rogers, Hollywood has repeatedly gotten Tyson’s life wrong-not that Tyson has done any better when given the opportunity to control his own narrative. Premiering August 25th and starring Moonlight’s Trevante Rhodes, Mike is an eight-episode series that, according to the producers, aspires “to go beyond the soundbites and tabloid headlines, to create a deeper, more nuanced look at his complicated life, not only portraying incredible events-but asking WHY.” Hulu only made the first five episodes available to critics, but based on those it’s fair to say that the series, despite noble intentions, still doesn’t quite nail Tyson’s remarkable, complex odyssey. To Hulu executives I’m just a n****r they can sell on the auction block.” They stole my life story and didn’t pay me. “I don’t support their story about my life. “Don’t let Hulu fool you,” he warned on Instagram. No, the former heavyweight champion wasn’t returning to the ring-this time, he’d be battling Hulu, which will soon debut Mike, an unauthorized limited-series biography about him. On August 6th, Mike Tyson revealed his next opponent. 6/3/2023 0 Comments Thirsty by mt andersonThe book could -end- a year from where it started, with the Sad Vampire festival. Chris fears the Sad Vampire festival and struggles with his life changes, and his family could grapple with their discovery instead of him crying about angels. You know what could have been interesting? The book keeping the first few chapters, and focusing on Rebecca and also the Sad Vampire festival. I never got to know anyone as characters because there were too many stupid subplots in there. I wanted to know more about Rebecca, but maybe the author was too afraid of writing romance. The vampire god plot was stupid, as was the savior aspect. The passages weren't as vivid as I remembered, but overall I liked how some of them seemed to link the world together. Now, I was determined to get through it because I wanted to read certain passages again that I'd remembered from when I was sixteen. As an adult, I tried a year ago to read it and was far too bored to finish it. I was absorbed in this when I first read it upon its original release. 6/3/2023 0 Comments Death in her hands ottessaHer suppositions begin to find echoes in the real world, and with mounting excitement and dread, the fog of mystery starts to form into a concrete and menacing shape. Her brooding about this note quickly grows into a full-blown obsession, and she begins to devote herself to exploring the possibilities of her conjectures about who this woman was and how she met her fate. And she's a little shaky even on best days. She is new to area, having moved her from her longtime home after the death of her husband, and she knows very few people. Our narrator is deeply shaken she has no idea what to make of this. While on her normal daily walk with her dog in the forest woods, our protagonist comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with a frame of stones. A novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home. Then Jeremiah said, “You guys need to get a room,” but I knew he was joking. He leaned in, and he kissed me, and his lips were cold and salty from the ocean. Let me see.” And then he peered at my face in his serious Conrad way. He squatted next to me and said, “I can’t tell. He said, “You have words on your cheeks.” Conrad strode over to me, lifted the sweaty magazine from my face, and grinned. They walked up the steps, cracking up over how Steven had lost his shorts after a particularly ferocious wave. Conrad and Jeremiah came back to the house first. Something romantic.Ĭonrad and Jeremiah and Steven had been surfing all morning. She’d probably come out soon with a glass of sun tea and a book I should read. My mother was playing solitaire on the front porch, Susannah was inside puttering around the kitchen. I was lying by the pool with a magazine on my face. And he learns something else: Jay is also transgender.Īs Nick is pulled deeper into the glittery culture of decadence, he spends more time with Jay, aiming to help his new friend reconnect with his lost love. At one of these parties, Nick learns that the spectacle is all meant to impress a girl from Jay's past-Daisy. Nick's neighbor in West Egg is a mysterious young man named Jay Gatsby, whose castle-like mansion is the stage for parties so extravagant that they both dazzle and terrify Nick. Nick rents a small house in West Egg from his 18-year-old cousin, Daisy Fabrega, who lives in fashionable East Egg near her wealthy fiancé, Tom-and Nick is shocked to find that his cousin now goes by Daisy Fay, has erased all signs of her Latine heritage, and now passes seamlessly as white. Going to New York is all about establishing himself as a young professional, which could set up his future-and his life as a man-and benefit his family. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Wisconsin, has no interest in the city's glamor. This YA reimagining of The Great Gatsby centers trans love in a cast removed from its cishet white default, finally exploring those longing glances and wistful sighs between Nick and Jay. In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. With her husband, she taught an honors class on writing personal essays and memoirs. She was a popular speaker at BYU Women’s Conferences. She has also written nonfiction books specifically for an Latter-day Saint audience. She also wrote Finding Daddy (2007) and Thoughts of a Grasshopper (personal essays, 1992). Her A Dance For Three was also an ALA Best Book. Her third novel, The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman, was also an ALA Best Book, a School Library Journal Best Book, and an Association for Mormon Letters Best Young Adult Novel. The 5 is Silent was an ALA Best Book, a School Library Journal Best Book, Utah Arts Council Best Young Adult Novel, Association for Mormon Letters Best Young Adult Novel, and another New York Public Library Children's Choice Book. Her second novel, My Name is Sus5an Smith. The book later became a children's choice book with both the New York Public Library and the International Reading Association. She had won the Delacorte Press First Young Adult Novel Contest the same day her husband received his offer of employment, and her winning book, The Romantic Obsessions and Humiliations of Annie Sehlmeier, was published in 1987. They both took positions at Brigham Young University in 1985. She is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.īorn Louise Roos and raised in Salt Lake City, she earned her master’s degree in English at the University of Minnesota while her husband, Tom, was a professor there. Louise Plummer is an author and retired associate professor of English. 6/3/2023 0 Comments Neon pilgrim by lisa dempsterI’ve never really read travel books before. Neon Pilgrim is about Lisa’s journey along the henro michi – a back-breaking trek, 1200 kilometres through Japanese mountains, all the way around Shikoku. I have to say though, that this book boosted that by about a hundred percent. I should probably flag it here that I interviewed Lisa for Yartz just before the Emerging Writers’ Festival, and she seemed absolutely lovely. I’ve also been following her blogging for a while, so I went into this book with an already reasonably good opinion of Lisa and what she’s been up to. The first thing I picked up off that pile was Neon Pilgrim by Lisa Dempster, which I bought from the EWF Page Parlour a few weeks ago. I’m officially on holidays, so I’m finally munching through some of the “to-be-read” pile. |