![]() It definitely falls into the MilFic category of Right vs. The Lost Fleet: Dauntless is a difficult book to review, because I loved much of it, but other parts drove me to distraction. No known intelligent alien life is identified. Humans live in several interstellar nations that are divided into two blocks presently at war. ![]() Faster-than-Light Travel is possible through both jump points (read slow but still FTL travel through a ‘hyperspace’ style jump) and ‘hypernet’ (read FTL superhighways through space). Having said that, it also has the single most realistic and engaging space battles I have ever encountered.įar future, deep space with Earth playing no clear or significant part in the story. ![]() To that end, it is not so much an action adventure tale, as one about politics and the difficulties of command. Much of the book focuses on the protagonist, “Black Jack” Geary’s attempts to bring discipline and strategy back into the fleet. It is a straight serial Space Naval Military Science Fiction book that finds its hero in command of a fleet that is cut off and alone well behind enemy lines. The Lost Fleet: Dauntless is the first of six volumes in Jack Campbell’s ( aka John G. Grade: Δ - (Delta) A solid read, but only buy it if you like the genre. ![]() ( Science Fiction, Military Science Fiction) ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ORDER: / Amazon.ca / Barnes and Noble / KOBO / The Book DepositoryĬat: The story is about the first human clones and the lengths they go to in order to hide their background from the outside world. Would you please tell us something about the premise? TRC: THE ORIGINALS is your young adult release about three cloned sisters. Except that I’m really, really afraid of sharks and drowning. Walk the red carpet at the premiere of a movie adapted from one of my novels. What five things would you like to do that you have not already attempted? TRC: Your website bio information reads like a ‘bucket list’ of things you have done. I was born and raised in Wyoming, and have lived in Kansas, Boston, and San Francisco. Would you please tell us something about yourself?Ĭat: Sure! I’m a mom of twins and a writer of young adult novels living near Seattle, WA with my family. We would like to start with some background information for anyone who does not know about Cat Patrick. TRC: Hi Cat and welcome to The Reading Café. With the May 7 release of THE ORIGINALS The Reading Cafe like to welcome the author Cat Patrick. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This paperback book has 292 pages and measures: 19.7 x 12.6 x 1.8cm. But it's the youngest in the family - Hannah - who observes far more than anyone realises and who may be the only one who knows what really happened.Įverything I Never Told You is a gripping page-turner, about secrets, love, longing, lies and race. Lydia's older brother, Nathan, is convinced that local bad boy Jack is somehow involved. Marilyn, devastated and vengeful, is determined to make someone accountable, no matter what the cost. When Lydia's body is found in the local lake, James is consumed by guilt and sets out on a reckless path that may destroy his marriage. Celeste Ng, quote from Everything I Never Told You What made something precious Losing it and finding it. Her father is an American born of first-generation Chinese immigrants, and his ethnicity, and hers, make them conspicuous in any setting. 292 pages Rating: (169.3K votes) Get the book Before that she hadn’t realized how fragile happiness was, how if you were careless, you could knock it over and shatter it.After middle child Lydia disappears and is. ![]() Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue - in Marilyn's case that her daughter become a doctor rather than a homemaker, in James's case that Lydia be popular at school, a girl with a busy social life and the centre of every party.īut Lydia is under pressures that have nothing to do with growing up in 1970s small town Ohio. Everything I Never Told You examines the Lees, a middle class mixed-racial family in suburban 1970s Ohio. Lydia is the favourite child of Marilyn and James Lee a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. ![]() ![]() ![]() That victim survived and then misidentified Hinton as his assailant then the state completed this travesty by providing completely fake ballistic evidence to tie a gun found in Hinton’s mother’s home to all three murders. There was no evidence at all to tie Hinton to two of the three murders he was accused of, and he was “locked in a supermarket warehouse cleaning floors … when a restaurant manager 15 miles away was abducted, robbed and shot”. It only takes the first two pages of the introduction by the author’s equally remarkable lawyer, Bryan Stevenson, to make the reader appalled. But that isn’t what makes this a genuine spiritual experience: that comes from the nearly biblical capacity of the author to endure, to forgive, and finally to triumph. ![]() Anthony Ray Hinton’s memoir of his wrongful imprisonment for 30 years for three murders he did not commit is a riveting account of the multiple outrages of the criminal justice system of Alabama. ![]() ![]() ![]() So if Westerners think WEIRDly, maybe liberals think even WEIRDer. But the vast majority of people around the world more often think intuitively-what psychologists call “holistic thought.”įive years ago, I had just arrived at the University of Virginia, and I had a thought flash: Aren’t most of these WEIRD elements even more true of liberal culture within the United States? Liberalism thrives in universities (Education), cities (Industrialized), the wealthy East and West coasts (Rich), and ultra-pluralistic groups like Occupy Wall Street and Unitarian churches (Democratic). On psychological tests, Westerners tend to view scenes, explain behavior, and categorize objects analytically. People from Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democratic countries are consistent psychological outliers compared to the other 85% of the world’s population. Guest post by Thomas Talhelm (on a recent publication with Haidt, mentioned by Tom Edsall in NYT)Ī few years ago, psychologists looked at all of the psychological studies of people in different cultures and concluded that Westerners are WEIRD. ![]() ![]() Jan 31 22 Liberals are WEIRDer than Conservatives ![]() ![]() ![]() It's a natural step up from the Wimpy Kid series, with more text and narrative complexity, but just as much on-target humor and all-around fun. As with this story's predecessor, the well-observed middle-school dynamics (and Angleberger's sharp sense of humor) are greatly amplified by the book's design, which includes faux wrinkled pages, abundant doodles, and other scrawled marginalia. ![]() In this hilarious tale, Harvey gets Dwight suspended from Ralph McQuarrie Middle School for being a troublemaker. But antagonistic classmate Harvey, who has taken to wearing a Darth Paper finger puppet, is slowly turning the class toward the Dark Side. Tom Anglebergers acclaimed works have been celebrated as delightful (New York Times). Following the format of the first book, Tommy and his friends compile episodic accounts that attest to Dwight/Origami Yoda's wisdom in dealing with problems that range from a classmate with terrible body odor to getting out of selling collectible popcorn tins for a school fundraiser. But Dwight's (and Origami Yoda's) days are numbered, as complaints about Dwight's behavior may lead to his being sent to a school for troubled youth. ![]() Tommy, Dwight, and the rest of their friends from The Strange Case of Origami Yoda are back, and so is Dwight's wise, eponymous finger puppet, Origami Yoda, who has also transitioned to seventh grade. ![]() ![]() Monzcarro "Monza" Murcatto is the notorious leader of The Thousand Swords mercenary company. ![]() And that means revenge.īest Served Cold takes place three years after the events of The First Law in Styria, a land of warring city-states reminiscent of Renaissance Italy, and is a tale of betrayal and revenge, plain and simple. And that's all before the most dangerous man in the world is dispatched to hunt her down and finish the job Duke Orso started. Her enemies number the better half of the nation. Her allies include Styria's least reliable drunkard, Styria's most treacherous poisoner, a mass-murderer obsessed with numbers and a Northman who just wants to do the right thing. Betrayed, thrown down a mountain and left for dead, Murcatto's reward is a broken body and a burning hunger for vengeance. Her victories have made her popular - a shade too popular for her employer's taste. War may be hell but for Monza Murcatto, the Snake of Talins, the most feared and famous mercenary in Duke Orso's employ, it's a damn good way of making money too. ![]() ![]() ![]() While armies march, heads roll and cities burn, behind the scenes bankers, priests and older, darker powers play a deadly game to choose who will be king. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the squabbling League of Eight, and between them they have bled the land white. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading this novel, I was both horrified and comforted to recognize parts of myself in Attenberg’s protagonist, Andrea, a single Jewish woman without children nearing her 40th birthday as the novel unfolds.Īn art school dropout who negotiates relationships with a complicated, overbearing mother as activist and father as jazz musician and drug addict, Andrea spends a great deal of her time seeking sex and love in New York City while attempting to make peace with the fact that she doesn’t paint anymore, works on autopilot at a job she doesn’t even care enough about to hate, and hasn’t yet grieved her father’s overdose and death years ago. Cue the brilliance of All Grown Up by novelist Jami Attenberg, who seemed to rummage through the trenches of thoughts and feelings I never knew I had about the “polemic” posed by women like me. ![]() ![]() ![]() This time around, we'll be dealing with only one adaptation, the 1991 Oscar darling written for the screen by Ted Tally and directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Jodie Foster as protagonist Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins in his first appearance as Hannibal Lecter, a role for which he is perhaps most recognized. Now, with 2015 nearing an end-the year in which the aforementioned television show said goodbye (for now)-we're ready to move ahead into Thomas Harris's sequel to Red Dragon, perhaps the most famous and revered of all Lecter properties, The Silence of the Lambs (or SOTL). Last month, I took a look at the first of four novels featuring the character Hannibal Lecter, Red Dragon, as it related to its two screen adaptations, Manhunter and the Brett Ratner film of the same name, as well as the TV series Hannibal, which I felt handled the material the best. ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, their message is more relevant and pressing than ever. The authors, both prominent health professionals in the field of nutrition and eating disorders, urge readers to embrace the goal of developing body positivity and reconnecting with one’s internal wisdom about eating-to unlearn everything they were taught about calorie-counting and other aspects of diet culture and to learn about the harm of weight stigma. The go-to resource-now fully revised and updated-for building a healthy body image and making peace with food, once and for all.When it was first published, Intuitive Eating was revolutionary in its anti-dieting approach. ![]() |