![]() ![]() And even the perfect kids seem to be Chasing Normal too. That even though she and her dad aren’t a conventional family and aren’t rich and don’t go to church they are incredibly lucky to have each other and to have love. Taking The Cake by Lisa Papademetriou, 2012, Scholastic Paperbacks edition, It looks like youre offline. But as the summer progresses and Mieka learns a thing or two about herself hey, she can actually learn to enjoy herself at camp, even if it is Bible camp and she happens to be a bit chubbier than every other camper there and her family members she realizes that there’s no such thing as normal. She’s blond, beautiful, fit, friendly, popular and practically perfect. Aunt Kate stays at home with the kids where IS Mieka’s mom anyway?, Uncle Dave wears a suit to work, cousin Mark is a genius and Greta well, she’s Mieka’s age but that’s where the similarity ends. It’s all too much to handle, especially when she has to stay with her Aunt Kate’s family. She tells Mieka she’s fat, frumpy, and basically unwanted. Confectionately Yours 2: Taking the Cake - read free eBook by Lisa Papademetriou in online reader directly on the web page. Grandma Baker isn’t just brutally honest, she’s brutal. ![]() It’s tough enough that her mom left a few years ago and that her artist dad decorates the house solely with ‘treasures’ from the ‘vintage’ store read: all their furniture is made out of plastic but it’s just too much when Mieka and her dad have to leave Boston to go to spend the summer with her sick grandmother in Texas someone Mieka has never met. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The real problem was the huge amount of stress, fatigue and emotional pressure she was under. It wasn’t the bending over that hurt her back, that was just the final straw. She might avoid picking things up off the floor and even change the way she gets out of a chair. You could understand why she might then think her back is weak and needs protecting. If you look at that movement on its own it’s scary that such a small thing could hurt her back. ![]() The bending to pick up the bag was the mouse that sunk the boat and received all the blame. Then at the end of a long day at school she bent to pick up her handbag and felt her back go. She hadn’t been sleeping well and with the recent cold weather hadn’t been able to get outside for her usual walk/run after school. She was going through a break up with her boyfriend of a few years and her Mother was in hospital recently diagnosed with thyroid cancer, treatable but still scary. ![]() She had multiple children in her class who required extra attention and she wasn’t receiving enough additional support. The mouse made the smallest impact but it was the final straw.Ī school teacher in her first year out of university was teaching at a public school in a low socioeconomic area. In the children’s book, ‘Who Sank the Boat’ by Pamela Allen, the mouse is blamed for sinking the boat. ![]() ![]() ![]() Finding love between people isn't easy, nor should it be. Writing love stories that are centered on flawed but lovable characters is my passion. Adventures come in many way I love writing, it's been my dream for many years, and in October of 2013, when my first book went live on Amazon, that dream came true. Each character I've written is a part of me in some way. ![]() People and places make my stories what they are. One state in particular is New Mexico, the state where I was born has always held a place in my heart. I live in Colorado but love many other places besides my home. I am a mother of three amazing people, and three adorable fur babies. ![]() Even in a book, there have to be obstacles for the story to feel real. I love writing, it's been my dream for many years, and in October of 2013, when my first book went live on Amazon, that dream came true. ![]() ![]() ![]() There was no way in hell he was spending the next hundred and eighty years strapped to a wheelchair. He didn’t give a f**k what the doctors said. ![]() ![]() There was no way he was letting his future mate think that he needed to piss in a bag, even if he did, besides this little setback was only temporary. He’d find a way to ditch it before they reached the compound. He wasn’t too worried about the catheter, at least not right now. “Fine, but let’s get the hell out of here before someone catches us,” Chris said impatiently. “Madison is already going to kill me when she realizes that I took you and since I don’t feel like sleeping on the couch for eternity we’re not going to add pissing in her car to our list of f**k ups tonight.” “I’m not yanking your catheter out,” Ephraim, his adopted father and one hell of a stubborn Pyte, said dryly. “Just yank it the hell out!” Chris hissed quietly, throwing an anxious glance at his closed bedroom door. ![]() ![]() ![]() The youngest, Lucy, visits Narnia three times via the magic of a wardrobe in a spare room. In the frame story, four English children are relocated to a large, old country house following a wartime evacuation. Most of the novel is set in Narnia, a land of talking animals and mythical creatures that is ruled by the evil White Witch. Like the other Chronicles, it was illustrated by Pauline Baynes, and her work has been retained in many later editions. Although it was originally the first of The Chronicles of Narnia, it is volume two in recent editions that are sequenced by the stories' chronology. Among all the author's books, it is also the most widely held in libraries. It is the first published and best known of seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956). Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1950. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a fantasy novel for children by C. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm really torn, because at times I would put this book down and not feel any sense of urgency to finish it, and yet others I would be so drawn into a fight scene that I wanted to finish in one sitting! The writing was beautiful and enticing, but the repetitive lingo and heavy descriptions might irritate some readers. ![]() I whole-heartedly embraced the magical aspects of the book there were non-human life forms alongside those humans with special gifts, and just plain old normal people as well. ![]() There was a great myriad of characters (both in number and type) which I found very endearing. Overall, this one won me over by the end, I felt invested in the story and am so ecstatic that, as the first in a series, it doesn't leave us with a giant cliffhanger that we'll likely forget by the time book #2 in the series is released. On the one hand, it was fun, enjoyable, and entertaining, but on the other it was filled with the heavy fodder of sailor lingo and descriptions of scenes that were slow and lacking action. I can see now why many folks are having a tough time rating this one. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now Schoken Associates, one of the big players, has a new challenge for star copywriter Mitch Courtenay. It is the 22th Century, an advertisement-drenched world in which the big ad agencies dominate governments and everything else. The colour and depth are amazing, it’s definitely one of our favorite Adrian Chesterman book covers from this period. A city that is dominated by advertising and consumer culture. Chesterman really manages to bring to life the 22nd Century city that is featured in the novel. Most of Adrian Chesterman’s science-fiction book covers in the late 70s and early 80s often featured people or faces as a central part of the image, but his work here departs from this trend and instead portrays a huge futuristic city, grand in its scope. This is a classic Chesterman airbrushed image, epic in scope and steeped in atmosphere. Published in 1979.Īdrian Chesterman is the artist responsible for this beautiful and vivid book cover. ‘The Space Merchants‘ by Pohl & Kornbluth with book cover by Adrian Chesterman. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When an accident in space puts the mission in peril, everything Sunny and Maxon have built hangs in the balance. What exactly has gone wrong? Sunny wishes Maxon would turn the rocket around and come straight-the-hell home. Their marriage is on the brink of imploding, and they're at each other's throats with blame and fear. ![]() But now they're parents to an autistic son. Once they were two outcasts who found unlikely love in each other: a wondrous, strange relationship formed from urgent desire for connection. Now, twenty years later, they are married, and Sunny wants, more than anything, to be "normal." She's got the housewife thing down perfectly, but Maxon, a genius engineer, is on a NASA mission to the moon, programming robots for a new colony. Or, he was 2693 rotations of the earth old. is struggling to understand the physical realities of life and the nature of what makes us human.Nicely unpredictable.Extraordinary." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times When Maxon met Sunny, he was seven years, four months, and eighteen-days old. A New York Times Notable Book "Over the moon with a metaphysical spin. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Days unstrung by us and spent, slattern's litter, wrenched necklace fallen beads, three calm hearts in a fevered corpse, and history an old man sweeping up.' Two thirds of the collection are by Banks. And though the hard outlives the soft in the reckonings of decay that hardness too in dust's betrayed while that other can, and can choose to Leave Changes - and one of those isn't discarding the grain and milling the chaff.' Skull, May 1973. 'We are nothing, who crawl upon the surface, unseen from these heights, diffused by distance baffled by, frustrated by our little, little scale.' 'There is a skull beneath the skin alright, but beneath the bone a brain. ![]() MacLeod edits and introduces this collection. The two were working on this project when Banks learned of his terminal diagnosis and he made his final revisions just days before his death. Twenty-two languages are represented in this glittering collection. He first thought of publishing his poetry late in 2012, provided that it appeared in a joint collection with works by his lifelong friend Ken MacLeod. It contains some two hundred and fifty poems by the major English and American poets from Swinburne and Hopkins to Robert Lowell each poem is a translation of imitation of a work in a foreign tongue. He took poetry seriously and worked on in assiduously but showed it mostly to friends. Like the poems that appeared within his novels, this was selected from the many he had written between 19. ![]() What is less well known is that his first published work was the poem 041 in New Writing Scotland in 1983. 1984 saw the publication of the controversial first novel by Iain Banks The Wasp Factory and he since became a celebrated novelist and science fiction writer. ![]() ![]() Then one day, Bird receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, and soon he is pulled into a quest to find her. He doesn’t know what happened to her-only that her books have been banned-and he resents that she cared more about her work than about him. ![]() His mother Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he was nine years old. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. I was so invested in the future of this mother and son, and I can’t wait to hear what you think of this deeply suspenseful story!” -Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club Pick) ![]() ![]() “Riveting, tender, and timely.” - People, Book of the Week “It’s impossible not to be moved.” -Stephen King, The New York Times Book Review Named a Best Book of 2022 by People, TIME Magazine, The Washington Post, USA Today, NPR, Los Angeles Times, and Oprah Daily, and more įrom the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, comes the inspiring new novel about a mother’s unbreakable love. ![]() |