![]() ![]() ![]() When she gets to school it all starts to go wrong, as Ethel steals her project and there are problems with a tortoise who doesn't like being called Speedy and a ride in a broomstick in near-hurricane conditions. She's even pleasantly surprised when her arch enemy, Ethel Hallow, drops in (from her broomstick) as Mildred rescues her cat from a tree. She's worked on the most wonderful project over the holidays and she's certain that everyone is going to be impressed. Mildred Hubble isn't usually quite so keen to go back to Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches on the first day of term, but today it's different. ![]() It's a school-based adventure story with illustrations by the author. Summary: The fifth book in The Worst Witch series will delight any early reader although it's probably more for girls than boys. ![]()
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![]() ![]() So excited to finally post this title! Two things to know about this book: There's no love triangle, and it's a standalone. If you're considering a book I've reviewed/rated, be sure to read other reviews/ratings alongside mine to help you decide if it's a read you might enjoy personally. And if, for some reason, a book doesn't entertain me or I don't finish it, I won't leave a rating or review at all. As long as a story takes me to another place and is well edited, I'm going to give it a good rating. Every writer's voice is individual and unique I've come to respect this truth during my own personal journey. ![]() My ratings here are subjective to me as an individual. Please don't consider every high rating a personal endorsement / recommendation from me. ![]() "I only rate or review books I enjoyed reading, and won't give any rating below 4 stars. Young adult, Adult, and literary romance. A.G.'s dark Alice in Wonderland inspired Splintered series has been published in over a dozen languages. #1 New York Times and International bestselling Author of gothic / fantasy & paranormal tales, mystical & romantic with a side of horror. ![]() ![]() ![]() Looking from the outside in it would seem as though he has no worries at all. ![]() ![]() He doesn't love easily but when he does oh boy he loves fully, to the point where he becomes obsessively protective of them. She's quirky, shy, not good in social standings as she doesn't know how to interact with her peers, and even within her own family she's invisible.īlaise Devroe, is an arrogant entitled alpha a-hole, the king jock of Fallen Crest Academy. This wrung out ALL THE FEELS, a time or two I even got teary eyed! These two were perfection, and perfectly perfect for each other! Oh how I adored this story!!Īspen Monson is Nate's little sister, she's the girl who likes to live under the radar, being invisible and a loner is how she likes it, camping out is the one place where she feels closer to her brother Owen, a brother she'd lost in a car accident, losing him the way she did, broke something within her. And It’s only right that my unicorn author could pull me out of my book funk! This was a slow burn which quickly got its hooks into me and I could finally breathe again, I was finally in my happy place, loving reading again! ![]() This is Blaise (Cross's brother)and Aspen's (Nate's sister) story.Īs soon as this arrived on my ipad, life was forgotten, put on hold, as I sat there inhaling the words and falling in love with these two characters fully. RICH PRICK: Is a full length YA/ROMANCE novel, by Tijan. MY REVIEW AND OTHERS: can also be found on my blog: ![]() ![]() ![]() She took a lot of care to not have cheating occur (especially given that the heroine is recently divorced from the husband who cheated on her-with her best friend!) on the hero's part, and to not make the original girlfriend a one-dimensional demon. ![]() I wouldn't trust the specifics of this premise-the hero is still in a relationship with another woman, and they're both at least attempting to save the relationship-to just any author, but Phyllis Bourne has quickly become one of my favorite romance novelists. ![]() A fun and thoughtfully developed contemporary romance featuring an etiquette expert and a detective whose newly-a-socialite girlfriend has signed him up for a manners makeover. ![]() ![]() ![]() See has donated her personal papers (1973-2001) to UCLA. She has written a personal essay ("The Funeral Banquet") for Half and Half. Writing under the pen name Monica Highland, See, her mother Carolyn See, and John Espey, published three novels: Lotus Land (1983), 110 Shanghai Road (1986), and Greetings from Southern California (1988). See's latest novel, Shanghai Girls (2009), chronicles the lives of two sisters who come to Los Angeles in arranged marriages and face, among other things, the pressures put on Chinese-Americans during the anti-Communist mania of the 1950s. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love focus on the lives of Chinese women in the 19th and 17th centuries respectively. ![]() Both Shangai Girls and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan received honorable mentions from the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature.įlower Net, The Interior, and Dragon Bones make up the Red Princess mystery series. Her books include On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family (1995) and the novels Flower Net (1997), The Interior (1999), Dragon Bones (2003), Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2005), Peony in Love (2007) and Shanghai Girls (2009), which made it to the 2010 New York Times bestseller list. ![]() The Chinese side of her family has had a great impact on her life and work. ![]() Lisa See is a Chinese American writer and novelist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus, although he is still a fairly young man, he has serious, somewhat sad eyes and a fierce determination. Jackson has also known trauma and tragedy: his mother and brothers died of illness when he was young, and his father died shortly thereafter of alcoholism. He’s immediately able to look past her skin color to see her good heart and her keen intelligence. Also unlike most of Cussy’s patrons-and most of the people in Troublesome Creek-Jackson doesn’t regard her with fear or disgust. Jackson is thoughtful and well-read unlike most of Cussy Mary Carter’s male patrons, he prefers Pulitzer Prize winners to local color authors. Jackson Lovett is Troublesome Creek’s most eligible bachelor, having recently returned to Kentucky from a stint out west where he helped to build the Hoover Dam. ![]() ![]() So, I started to write, by hand at first, scribbling short stories in notebooks which never saw the light of day. ![]() To this day I don’t know why, unless it was a natural progression from my never being without a book close by-often several-because books have always been an important part of my life for as far back as I can recall. Somewhere in between my girls growing up and the grandchildren arriving on the scene, I started writing. Eventually I met my husband, we married and produced two daughters who then grew up and between them presented us with two gorgeous grandsons and one beautiful granddaughter. ![]() So what was I doing twenty years ago before I wrote books? Well, I did the all of the usual things, like growing up and attending school, finishing at secretarial college, which I hated, then spent the next several years wandering aimlessly from job to job. I know it isn’t a great average when compared with some authors but it sounds pretty good to me! Twenty years with almost forty books published or in the pipeline. So, hang on for a minute while I take this huge milestone in. ![]() Hi, my name is Michelle Reid and I’ve been writing for Harlequin Mills & Boon for the last twenty years, and the crazy part about it is that I only realised it had been twenty years while updating this page! ![]() ![]() ![]() If historians or critics fifty years from now were to read most of our contemporary literary fiction, they might well infer that our main societal problems were issues with our parents, bad relationships, and death. ^ 1^ When we call literary writers “political” today, we’re usually talking about identity politics. It’s hard to think of any “serious” literary writers in the United States under the age of fifty who engage the big political issues of our time as directly as Boomer authors like Paul Auster (“Leviathan”), Thomas Pynchon (“Vineland”), or Robert Stone (“A Flag for Sunrise”), let alone in the way that muckraker novelists like Upton Sinclair used to. It’s a monoculture, taken for granted, like monogamy, or monotheism, or having one sun. ![]() Sometime in the past couple of generations, capitalism’s victory over our hearts and minds seems to have become complete, in that hardly anyone even notices it anymore. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tension peaks at the egg-drop contest, as the three friends plan to use the prize winnings to bring Natalie’s mother back to life with a gift of a rare cobalt blue orchid. The diversity of the characters provides identity and interest, not issue or plotline. ![]() Providing support and some comic relief are her two sidekicks, Dari (a smart Indian immigrant boy) and Twig (Natalie’s wealthy, white best friend). Momentum builds over nine months as Natalie observes, questions, researches, experiments, and analyzes clues to her mother’s state of mind. With a STEM-inspired chapter framework and illustrated with Neonakis’ scientific drawings, Keller’s debut novel uses the scientific method to unpack the complex emotions depression can cause. It reminds her of when her mother was excited by science and questions and life. ![]() Narrating in first-person, the mixed-race seventh-grader (1/4 Korean and 3/4 white) is drawn to her mother’s book, titled How to Grow A Miracle. With the help of an egg-drop contest and a scientific-method project, Natalie explores breakable things and the nurturing of hope. Natalie’s vivacious botanist mother (who’s white) has retreated from life, leaving her therapist husband (who’s biracial) and daughter to fill the gaping hole she has left. A middle school story in which parental depression manifests itself in absence. ![]() ![]() ![]() Read it again and continue doing the great vaccination project in Africa.” It has successfully made African economies dependent on life support. The problem is the government to government, IMF, WB and other non-binding economic growth support which has not worked in the last 50 years. Dambisa does not criticise emergency and humanitarian aid, she welcomes it. While another wrote, “Bill Gates you need to read the book again. ![]() We must not give time to wealthy, arrogant, white men like Bill Gates.” ![]() This is a grave and insulting misrepresentation of a well written/structured book with criticisms of AID that have been made for decades. One said, “This man didn't read the book, from his arguments that is very clear. ![]() Several commenters on the YouTube video have equally lashed out at Gates. So far, it looks like Dambisa is winning. This first-hand knowledge and experience has highlighted for me the legacy of failures of aid, and provided me with a unique understanding of not only the failures of the aid system but also of the tools for what could bring African economic success.” To this, I add my experience working as a consultant at the World Bank, and being born and raised in Zambia, one of the poorest aid-recipients in the world. The former Goldman Sachs consultant continued: “I have dedicated many years to economic study up to the PhD level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid, and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation. ![]() |