![]() ![]() With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. "A Fine Balance" creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers-a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the cast violence of their native village-will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future.As the cahracters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love. ![]() With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall masters from Balzac to Dickens, this magnificant novel caputures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. ![]()
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Tools that convert (seemingly) latent aspects of our environment into quantities we can sense greatly ease scientific discovery. ![]() Chapter 1, "Coming to Our Senses", discusses how important the augmentation of our five basic senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch) is for expanding scientific knowledge.Summary ĭeath by Black Hole is divided into seven sections: The Nature of Knowledge, The Knowledge of Nature, Ways and Means of Nature, The Meaning of Life, When the Universe Turns Bad, Science and Culture, and Science and God. It is an anthology of several of Tyson's most popular articles, all published in Natural History magazine between 19, and was featured in an episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolutionĭeath by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries is a 2007 popular science book written by Neil deGrasse Tyson. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With alliances shifting quicker than the tides, Xingyin has to overcome past grudges and enmities to forge a new path forward, seeking aid where she never imagined she would. While Xingyin is determined to keep clear of the rising danger, the discovery of a shocking truth spurs her into a perilous confrontation.įorced to flee her home once more, Xingyin and her companions venture to unexplored lands of the Immortal Realm, encountering legendary creatures and shrewd monarchs, beloved friends and bitter adversaries. But her fragile peace is threatened by the discovery of a strange magic on the moon and the unsettling changes in the Celestial Kingdom as the emperor tightens his grip on power. ![]() The stunning sequel to Daughter of the Moon Goddess delves deeper into beloved Chinese mythology, concluding the epic story of Xingyin-the daughter of Chang’e and the mortal archer, Houyi-as she battles a grave new threat to the realm, in this powerful tale of love, sacrifice, and hope.Īfter winning her mother’s freedom from the Celestial Emperor, Xingyin thrives in the enchanting tranquility of her home. ![]() ![]() ![]() The basic premise: What if computers were created in Victorian England? The results is a vastly different and far grimmer world where the Imperial British Empire extends its rule across the entire world and well into the future. I felt the book was worth my time, but ended up mourning the much better novel that could have been if the high standard of the first section had been kept up.Ĭombining the cyberpunk, steampunk, and alternate history sub-generas of science fiction, The Difference Engine is truly a one of a kind novel. The last 1/3 is told as a series of disjointed fragments revealing large chunks of leftover plot, as though the writer didn't have time to weave them together to give pacing and complexity. The next 1/3 is a mediocre action story climaxing with a gunfight in a burning warehouse (the ultimate action cliche). The first 1/3 is absolutely gripping and fascinating. It gives the impression that they worked together for a while, agreed to work separately on the rest, and then both mailed in half-baked work when they ran out of time. The novel: written by two people, and it shows. If only I could get serious nonfiction books narrated with this level of talent. ![]() So this is what a professional sounds like. ![]() The perfect ideal of expressiveness without melodrama from start to finish. All kinds of British accents, and he nails each of them. First of all, Simon Vance does an amazing job with this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Klaus breaks his own glasses when he is purposely tripped by the new foreman, Flacutono, and is sent to see Dr. Georgina Orwell, the local optometrist, who lives in an eye-shaped building, which also resembles, suspiciously, the tattoo on their nemesis Count Olaf's ankle. They meet Sir's more sympathetic partner, Charles, who shows them the library, which contains three books, one about the history of the lumbermill, one about the town constitution, and one donated by Dr. Upon arrival, the children learn that they will have to work at the mill, but as part of the deal, their new guardian, Sir (whose name is impossible to pronounce otherwise), will try to keep Count Olaf, their nemesis, away. Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire are traveling on a train heading for Paltryville, the location of the children's new home, the Lucky Smells Lumbermill. The book was published on April 15, 2000, by HarperCollins and illustrated by Brett Helquist. ![]() In this novel, the Baudelaire orphans live with the owner of Lucky Smells Lumber Mill. The Miserable Mill is the fourth novel of the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. ![]() ![]() ![]() EIGHT PERFECT MURDERS is a love letter to the crime fiction genre. Will these crimes prove as impossible to solve in the real world as they are on the page? In his newest release, Swanson delivers a shocking, addictive mystery with a classic crime twist. Following the owner of a mystery-dedicated bookstore in Boston, EIGHT PERFECT MURDERS imagines what happens when a person with a desire to do harm gets his or her hands on a guide to some of the most infallible murders in the crime fiction genre. I’ve been a mystery reader since I was a little kid (I owe a debt of gratitude to Carolyn Keene and Nancy Drew for that!), and over the years certain books - and certain murders found in the pages of those books - have stuck out as “perfect.” In Peter Swanson’s EIGHT PERFECT MURDERS, fictional crimes become a blueprint for real-life violence. ![]() What makes for the perfect murder? If you’re as crime fiction obsessed as I am, it’s probably a question that’s popped into your head once or twice in the context of the murder mysteries you are devouring. The Verdict: a must-read for crime fiction obsessed bookworms ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Washington Independent Review of Books' Patricia Schultheis called The Night Tiger "a galloping good read that’s blessedly free of political polemics and post-colonial self-righteousness." In Locus magazine, it was called "an immersive ride into the past a slow burn of a novel that hints early and often at regional myths and legends. Meanwhile, unexplained deaths take place across the area, and there are rumours of the harimau jadian, a tiger that can transform into a human. Houseboy Ren is trying to fulfil his former master’s dying wish: to find his lost finger within 49 days. One of her dance partners leaves her with a human finger. In 1931, in British Malaya, Ji Lin works as an apprentice dressmaker and dancehall girl. In 2022, The Night Tiger was included on the Big Jubilee Read, a list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors produced to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee. Class=notpageimage| Settings of The Night Tiger within Malaya ![]() ![]() They all tend to behave as we imagine hippies are supposed to behave-they take drugs, skinny dip in a river, and show an interest in ecstatic experiences. There are 20 people on the bus, including a Frenchman and his daughter (occasionally mistaken for man and wife) as well as Rayan, a charismatic Irishman, and his stunning girlfriend, Mirthe. She’s at peace with solitude, and her dream involves “traveling to Nepal.to find a cave and remain there alone until her teeth fell out, her hair became white.” Meeting Paulo complicates both of their lives, however, for she would like him to be her travel companion on a bus trip from Amsterdam to Kathmandu, through Austria, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey, and beyond. Karla is Dutch and a Protestant, and she yearns to see the world from a wider perspective. They meet, appropriately enough, in Dam Square, perhaps the hippie center of the cosmos. This character has linked up with Karla in Amsterdam in September 1970. While the narrative is written in the third person, it doesn’t take a great leap of imagination to identify some aspects of a character named “Paulo” (also referred to as “the Brazilian”) with the author. ![]() ![]() The novel reads rather like a series of impressions clustered around a trip (no pun intended) through Europe and toward Kathmandu. Prolific Brazilian author Coelho is back with another novel, loosely based on his experiences growing up (a problematic phrase) in the psychedelic 1960s and '70s. ![]() ![]() ![]() She puts it down to an unfortunate coincidence. She confides in her friend, Melissa, who tells her not to worry about it. When Zoe gets home, she can’t get the disturbing photograph out of her mind. Beside a row of unsavory personal adds is her photograph with a website address, “.” As she browses the evening newspaper to pass the time, she stumbles across the classifieds section. One day, Zoe gets a seat on the train, a rare treat for her since it’s usually standing room only. ![]() Zoe is wrong someone is always watching her. She takes the same route to work every day and faces the same overcrowded platforms every morning for her commute, thinking that no one notices her in the crowd. She hates her job, but it pays the bills, and she has two teenagers to bring up. The protagonist, Zoe Walker, is a forty-something divorcee who works as a bookkeeper in central London. Her experience working in the police force informs her novels. Aside from writing thrillers and crime novels, Mackintosh supports mothers who experience medical complications during pregnancy. ![]() The fastest-selling title by a new crime writer in 2015, the novel is available in more than thirty languages. ![]() Winner of the 2017 Richard and Judy Summer Book Club, Clare Mackintosh’s I See You (2017), a thriller with a heavy emphasis on criminal procedure, follows what happens when a young woman sees her photo in a newspaper “classifieds” section, with no explanation for why it is there. ![]() |