![]() ![]() Which means they're lame and Maggie's not. And they care about things like "matching" and "footwear." Of course, they also can't clean a gun blindfolded, shoot a crossbow, or exorcise ghosts from a house. Did you know normal girls don't stuff their bras with holy water balloons? Nor do they carry wooden stakes in their waistbands. ![]() Maggie's battled ghosts and goblins and her fair share of house brownies, but finding herself a boy - fitting in with her peers - proves a much more daunting task than any monster hunt. Listen Free to Dead Little Mean Girl audiobook by Eva Darrows with a 30 Day Free Trial Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet and iOS and. Blood and gore and insides being on the outside and all that. Something about virgin blood turning vampires into pointy rage monsters. Which presents a problem when Maggie's mother informs Maggie that she can't get her journeyman's license for hunting until she loses her virginity. Something about virgin blood turning vampires into pointy rage monsters. She's also not like other girls her age, but then, who would be when the family business is monster hunting? Combat boots, ratty hooded sweatshirts, and hair worn short so nothing with claws can get a grip, Maggie's concerns in life slant more toward survival than fashion or boys. ![]() Seventeen-year-old Maggie Cunningham is tough, smart, and sassy. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This book was nonstop from the very first page. And from the minute she arrives Mahit is thrust into a game of political intrigue, empire expansion and emperor succession…all while trying to figure out what really happened to her predecessor (she doesn’t for one second think his death was natural as claimed), adjusting to a completely foreign culture (and find allies in her new home), trying to survive what could be internal sabotage from her own people, guard an incredibly valuable technological secret and follow through on the “normal” ambassadorial duties. When she arrives, she discovers that the reason the Empire requested a new ambassador is because the previous is dead. Mahit Dzmare is a newly minted ambassador from a small mining Station send to the center of the Teixcalaan Empire. I had it on the backburner, but when I saw it at a used bookstore, I figured that was a sign to move it up the list. Oh, and of course, Binti is amazing, but I still need to finish that trilogy! Anyways, the point is that I’ve been kinda keeping my eye open for space operas now and this one came across my radar last year. ![]() This review originally appeared on the book review blog: Just One More Pa(i)ge.Īfter reading and LOVING The Long Way to a Small, Angry Plant (and the follow-up books set in the same world, A Closed and Common Orbit and Record of a Spaceborn Few), I realized that “space opera” was a new favorite sci-fi sub-genre for me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Peppered with seemingly irrelevant (albeit amusing) yarns, this work is a delight to read, whether or not a trip to the continent is planned. He glorifies the country, alternating between awe, reverence and fear, and he expresses these sentiments with frankness and candor, via truly funny prose and a conversational pace that is at once unhurried and captivating. Pitfalls aside, Bryson revels in the beauty of this country, home to ravishing beaches and countless unique species (""80% of all that lives in Australia, plant and animal, lives nowhere else""). His unrelenting insistence that Australia is the most dangerous place on earth (""If you are not stung or pronged to death in some unexpected manner, you may be fatally chomped by sharks or crocodiles, or carried helplessly out to sea by irresistible currents, or left to stagger to an unhappy death in the baking outback"") spins off dozens of tales involving jellyfish, spiders and the world's 10 most poisonous snakes. Arranged loosely by region, the book bounces between Canberra and Melbourne, the Outback and the Gold Coast, showing Bryson alone and with partners in tow. The author of A Walk in the Woods draws readers in campfire-style, relating wacky anecdotes and random facts gathered on multiple trips down under, all the while lightening the statistics with infusions of whimsical humor. Still, Bryson's lively take is a welcome recess from packaged, staid guides. With the Olympics approaching, books on Australia abound. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kevin Smith (1–8, 1/2), David Mack (9–11, 13–15, 51–55), Brian Michael Bendis (16–19, 26–50, 56–81)ĭaredevil is the name of several comic book titles featuring the character Daredevil and published by Marvel Comics, beginning with the original Daredevil comic book series which debuted in 1964. Art by Bill Everett.ĭaredevil (Elektra Natchios) (2020–present) ![]() ![]() ![]() Schwartz, Professor of Organizational Behavior, Oakland University “Howard Stein has one of the finest minds engaged in the study of culture in our time.” Culture is a projective screen and stage on which unconscious dramas are enacted, and experienced as being located ‘out there’.” Ideas and fantasies are externalized, cognitively reified, and then re-internalized. Far from being ‘superorganic’ and automatically internalized, much of culture proceeds from the inside out. Put another way, the unconscious can be explored in the world of ordinary symbols and ritual (i.e., in large groups)-not just in psychoanalytic psychotherapy (i.e., in individuals and therapeutic dyads). We view people’s metaphors and other cultural images as a “royal road” to the unconscious lives of people. Scholars of psychogeography trace the unconscious roots of societies. ![]() “Psychogeographic scholars address the questions: Where does culture come from? What keeps culture going? What are the causes of cultural change? Traditional Western science has long contended- tautologously-that culture comes from culture current history comes from what happened before, and so on. Stein’s Preface to the Second Edition of Developmental Time, Cultural Space: Studies in Psychogeography: ![]() ![]() ![]() Scanning history and literature from ancient Greece to the communes of the 1960s, Odell argues that complete escape from the reality of any seemingly untenable situation, while an instinctive desire, is unattainable. We turn FOMO into NOMO (the Necessity of Missing Out) and slowly discover the full context that defines us. By doing nothing, Odell proposes, we find the time and space necessary to repair our broken attention with sustained reflection. Here’s What Happened”Īs Americans, we are undergoing a “colonization of the self,” as Odell puts it, with capitalist ideas of productivity and efficiency impeding our listening and controlling our time and focus. Related: “I Used A Meditation App for 7 Days. It allows us to learn, to relate, and to truly experience. While hearing is merely auditory, listening is acoustic and psychological, registering with the ears and the brain. What is the difference between hearing and listening? It’s all about attention, argues Jenny Odell in How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It just was not right for her, and started sending publishers and agents query letters. She tried such careers as paramedic and considered going to the police academy and getting trained as a teacher. She made the choice that she really wanted to write, due to the fact that nothing else was really working out for her. There was never much of a break, but caught a lucky break and got the graveyard shift for a little while. She had a desktop and a laptop right next to each other, and would type stories in between calls. It was nice for her, but not a job for her. ![]() ![]() She took calls concerning car reservations and was able to get herself a work at home position. She got a real job, working at Enterprise Rent a Car, working at their call center. You have to go to school and get a real job, and write when you have some free time. She thought little of it, because everyone always says that a career in writing is not really an option at all. She took a manuscript that she had written while in a creative writing course at University of California Santa Cruz. She started typing up her urban fantasy novels on her computer while she was in high school. There are different kinds of stories, some written in crayon. She has many boxes in her garage, full of notebooks, some that date back to when she was a child. It is her passion and a big hobby of hers, and has been so as long as she can remember. Stunich cannot remember when she started writing she has just always written. ![]() ![]() Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Just beyond it lives Blue's widow, Briar Wilkes. Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Blue's Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.īut on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska's ice. ![]() ![]() Cherie Priest's long-awaited steampunk debut, Boneshaker, opens in the early days of the Civil War when rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. ![]() ![]() ![]() Show Your Work!Īfter you learn how to steal like an artist, this book will show you how to share like an artist. If you only read one book from this list, read this one. Steal Like An Artist has a lot more tips on creativity, inspiration, and balancing your art with your life. Then, when I’m songwriting, I’ll revisit this notebook for inspiration and ideas. It could be a direct quote from a book or a thought I had inspired by something I just heard. Any time I read, hear, or watch something interesting, I’ll jot it down in my RC Notebook. Us humans are recycling centers, whether we realize it or not.Īn example of stealing like an artist is a notebook I call my Recycling Center Notebook (my version of Kleon’s Swipe File). It’s to let your favorite artists inspire your music. The whole idea of “stealing like an artist” is not to copy or plagiarize. ![]() The subtitle of this book is “10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative,” and as someone who has read this book several times, that promise delivers. He makes a living from creating art, and in his trilogy of books on creativity, he shares what he’s learned. ![]() Austin Kleon is a writer who draws and a best-selling author. ![]() ![]() I was a little unsure when I started reading it, but after a short time I realized that it really was. I believe she said it was the only science fiction book that she ever liked. ![]() She is definitely not a science fiction fan.īut, alas, she actually recommended the book. I instantly knew it wouldn't be a "regular" teen science fiction novel, because, well, my librarian introduced it to me! This is the librarian that doesn't really want any books about fishing in the library but has an entire section on quilting. I was first introduced to Invitation to the Game by my librarian. I actually reviewed this book on a past blog when I read it the first time. ![]() I absolutely loved it the first time I read it several years ago, and this time I loved it as well. For me, Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes is a classic. ![]() |