My favourite Scalzi book is still Fuzzy Nation, but Agent to the Stars is worth a read if you don't mind the odd Sci-Fi and are a fan of dry humour that pokes fun at American celebrity culture. This is in large part due to the exceptional narration by Wil Wheaton (of Star Trek TNG fame). I've only ever listened to them, three in fact, so I have no idea if they read as well as they sound. The problem? They have a severe image problem- they're hideously ugly and smell bad.ĭisclaimer: I've never actually read a John Scalzi book. This week I blitzed through John Scalzi's Agent to the Stars, about an up and coming talent agent who is contracted to introduce an entire alien race to Earth. Audible had a couple of huge sales this past month (I'm what people in the digital marketing world call a 'whale') from which I'm still reaping the audio benefits from.
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At the same time, there is truth in the beauty of family tales in jasmine-scented Isfahan, of sensory memories, of food shared, of love and everyday survival. There is sadness (Khosrou – now known as Daniel – will never be able to make new memories with loved ones who are still in Iran) and there is hardship. Everything Sad Is Untrue is a true story in that it is autobiographical, but memories are unreliable, they are the stories we choose to tell ourselves. He is weaving memories to help define himself, but his classmates mainly perceive a boy whose lunch smells funny, who makes things up and talks too much about poop. Doing his best impression of Scheherazade, the legendary storyteller of 1001 Nights, he speaks of blood sacrifices, forbidden love and libraries in the desert. Following an extended trip via an Italian refugee camp, Khosrou stands in front of his middle school class in Oklahoma explaining how he got there. In what many are calling an autobiographical novel, author and protagonist Khosrou (Daniel) Nayeri weaves a refugee narrative based on his own life as an. Khosrou’s mother converts to Christianity, which leads her to flee Iran with her children in the middle of the night. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature*** Foreign Policy & International RelationsĮverything Sad Is Untrue (a true story) by Daniel Nayeri. From Duden's historically sensitive analysis of the notebooks of an early eighteenth-century German physician, readers can gain an understanding of the very different world of early modern patients and healers. $24.95).įortunately for historians with little command of German, Barbara Duden's important book Geschichte unter der Haut (1987) has recently been translated into English. By Barbara Duden (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1991. The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany. 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She was a columnist for the now defunct ADULT magazine, and her work has appeared in VICE, The Guardian, and Hazlitt, among others. Summers is a freelance writer whose work focuses on sex, politics, tech, fashion and culture. Summers's latest novel, A Certain Hunger, a satire of early foodieism. The following is excerpted from Chelsea G. If you’re looking for a fast-paced read rooted in paranormal romance, I highly recommend cracking open Storm and Fury. There are action-packed demon battles and excellent world-building, but what I loved most about this book was getting a deeper look at the character of Zayne, a one-of-a-kind Warden who must protect Trinity no matter the costs. But when demons attack the compound, compromising Trinity’s safety, she’s forced to team up with Zayne, a haughty Warden from a neighboring clan whom Trinity feels inexplicably drawn to.Īrmentrout creates such vivid scenes and characters that I was hooked with every chapter. The book tells the story of Trinity-a powerful 18-year-old with a gift so rare, she’s spent her life hidden under the protection of gargoyle-like Wardens. Armentrout’s new spinoff series that’s both a fast-paced adventure and a swoon-worthy romance. Our heroine is a new one and she is Trinity. We had a ton of familiar faces, like Layla, Roth, and of course, Zayne who is one of the main focuses of this book. It was so much fun revisiting this world she created. So it’s no surprise that I was drawn to Storm and Fury, the start of Jennifer L. Storm and Fury is the beginning of a sequel series of the Dark Elements series by Jennifer L. I love reading books with the perfect mix of romance and fantasy-books that have action-heavy plots but feature intimate romances between characters you can’t help but love. If you buy the agenda, apparently you can hardly help like the book. The "civilized" world, she taught us had much to learn from the "primitive." Now this groundbreaking, beautifully written work as been reissued for the centennial of her birth, featuring introductions by Mary Pipher and by Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson.Ĭoming of Age in Samoa is a pleasantly-written South Sea fantasy, heavy with the author's social agenda upon it. Adolescence, she wrote, might be more or less stormy, and sexual development more or less problematic in different cultures. Here, for the first time, she presented to the public the idea that the individual experience of developmental stages could be shaped by cultural demands and expectations. It details her historic journey to American Samoa, taken where she was just twenty-three, where she did her first fieldwork. When they do - as in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, for example - they become classics, quoted and studied by scholars and the general public alike.Margaret Mead accomplished this remarkable feat not once but several times, beginning with Coming of Age in Samoa. Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book. |