![]() ![]() Never before has the inner game of tennis and the outer game of fame been so precisely limned. Overnight he becomes a fan favorite and a media target.Īgassi brings a near-photographic memory to every pivotal match and every relationship. ![]() After stumbling in three Grand Slam finals, Agassi shocks the world, and himself, by capturing the 1992 Wimbledon. We feel his confusion as he loses to the world’s best, his greater confusion as he starts to win. By the time he turns pro at sixteen, his new look promises to change tennis forever, as does his lightning-fast return.Īnd yet, despite his raw talent, he struggles early on. He dyes his hair, pierces his ears, dresses like a punk rocker. Lonely, scared, a ninth-grade dropout, he rebels in ways that will soon make him a 1980s icon. By the age of thirteen, he is banished to a Florida tennis camp that feels like a prison camp. ![]() From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography.Īgassi’s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. ![]()
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She's a vlogger and actress promoting her first movie at SupaCon, and this is her chance to show fans she's over her public breakup with co-star Reese Ryan. This is the geeky, queer book of our dreams. ![]() ![]() Seeing girls and women uplifting, protecting, and loving each other is extremely powerful especially in the context of fandom. Three friends, two love stories, one convention: this fun, feminist love letter to geek culture is all about fandom, friendship, and finding the courage to be yourself.įull of irreverent humor and in-jokes, it's geeky and funny, with a heavy dose of self-discovery. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kings of a Dead World kept me gripped from beginning to end. this is a really great read, exploring a haunting vision of the near-future. “I enjoyed the expert world-building and the rich complex characters. The early feedback for Kings of a Dead World is fantastic, and from some very cool people indeed. When the opportunity comes to step out into the Sleeping world, but with no-one watching the watchers what are human beings capable of and where will it end? ![]() With only his AI, Ripley, to keep him company, he is becoming impatient and bored. Peruzzi: The Janitor, faced with endless time and equally endless loneliness, struggles with his position and craves for the family he’s never known. Ben fights to make the most of the limited time they have together. Waking each time from the Sleep to find more of her gone and only a month to try and revive her. Each person wired into a system through which they can be monitored and controlled.īen: An elderly man, struggling with the decreasing resources and the disease which is stealing his wife, Rose, from him. ![]() The remaining population huddled in cramped cities, watched over by one person, the Janitor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We see the widespread terror that her own culture has caused. ![]() Forest spent way more time crafting a thoughtful and fiery character in Elloren in this book and her world building is leaps and bounds better than in The Black Witch. In this story we actually see Elloren transported away from everything she’s ever known, to experience new cultures–places and people outside of herself. She’s developed a spine, defends those she cares about, takes a stance opposed her aunt and the wholly racist empire, and actively begins to work to find a solution to everything that was wrong in book one. Elloren is completely transformed in book two and is so much better. I’ll try not to give away too much in this review, however, I will say that book two in The Black Witch Chronicles is a definite improvement on book one. ![]() As the Resistance struggles against the harsh rulings of High Priest Marcus Vogel and the Mage Council, Elloren begins to realize that none of the people she cares about will be safe if Gardneria seizes control of the Western Realm. *I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.*Įlloren Gardner and her friends were only seeking to right a few wrongs, but their actions have propelled them straight into the ranks of the realm-wide Resistance against Gardnerian encroachment. ![]() ![]() Usually it’s the narrator that either sells it for me (or not) and I must admit to getting into the spirited Irish dialogue pretty quickly and yes, buys into that old Irish saw about whiskey and beer. Oh, it’s lengthy alright, and thankful I was listening to the audiobook, as I can do that fixing dinner, cleaning house, and working in my yard and this time of year the yard soaks up a ton of my time (currently working on some step pavers). I have to admit, however, this might be a cat of a different color. ![]() Yes, I discovered Tana French novels when I began participating in the Reading Ireland Month (March) and her writing, albeit lengthy, caught my attention and interest. ![]() “One of the greatest crime novelists writing today” (Vox) weaves a masterful, atmospheric tale of suspense, asking how to tell right from wrong in a world where neither is simple, and what we stake on that decision. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and starts to realize that even small towns shelter dangerous secrets. 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Benny is against becoming a zombie hunter because his half-brother, Tom, is known as one of the best zombie hunters around. ![]() ![]() Benny Imura and his friend Chong look for a job so their rations don't get cut in half. ![]() ![]() ![]() “These strong, charged images have never left me,” says Skurnick. ![]() Having divvied up the books into categories (Girls On The Verge, Danger Girls, Girls In Love), she unpicks the themes at the heart of the novels, paying special attention to those that elicit visceral reactions. Skurnick’s essays as well are a joy to read. Uncomplicated by subtlety or the trappings of Great Writing (see Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, & etc…) they not only never let you down, they don’t slow you down, either. Skurnick’s classics demand a different kind of attention than the other kind. Open any selection, to any page, and you’ll see what I mean. Her witty, insightful essays on over five dozen novels that set the standard for the richly diverse selection of young adult novels crowding bookstore shelves today are like a crash course in hindsight. Leave it to Lizzie Skurnick, whose Fine Lines columns for are now collected in a book, Shelf Discovery: Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading, to respond at length to my questions. ![]() ![]() Hero: Kodiak (Kody) Bowman (Rook and Lainey Bowman’s son, A LIE FOR A LIE couple origin, All In Series ) Heroine: Lavender Waters (Alex and Violet Waters’ youngest daughter, PUCKED and FOREVER PUCKED couple origin, Pucked Series ) I just want to pretend the lies are still the truth. Over and over again.īut I don’t want to save her anymore. Even her name is the thing fairy tales are made of. Lavender Waters is the princess in the tower. Years later, I’m faced with all the little lies, the untruths, the false realities, the damage I inflicted, when all I wanted was to indulge my obsession. ![]() Shoved the blade in and watched her fall. ![]() I turned my words into swords.And I cut her down. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. ![]() I received this book for free from Social Butterfly PR in exchange for an honest review. New Releases, Reviews New Release: Little Lies by H. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the aspects I liked the most, as usual with Quinn’s romances, was in fact that interaction between the characters. ![]() On this, the author delivered perfectly, and I read The Sum of All Kisses in one day, closing it with a smile. And I approached this one in exactly the right frame of mind to need a pick-me-up with a romance I could get behind, without ridiculously high expectations. They rely much more on sparkling character interactions and adorable situations than any other author I’ve ever read these are, for me at least, properly feel good books. Julia Quinn’s romances are always reliably sweet and, well, romantic. ![]() But when Sarah is forced into contact with Hugh at her cousin Honoria’s wedding, purely as a favor, she discovers that she actually likes him, and that his good looks don’t hurt, either. She’s never quite forgiven Hugh for delaying her marriage prospects and making her cousins miserable a series of disastrous encounters haven’t helped the situation, either. Lady Sarah Pleinsworth’s first season was abruptly cancelled when her cousin Daniel was shot and exiled as her family went into mourning. Now a cripple, he’s finally managed to get his father’s heavy hand away from Daniel Smythe-Smith, but has a lifetime left of loneliness to deal with. As his brutish father’s only hope for an heir, Hugh Prentice has not had an easy time of it, and when he got drunk and shot his best friend, his life got considerably worse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eventually, Lucy finds a solution that will keep the environment green, and ensure the capability of the drugstore. ![]() Although after the homecoming queen’s “disaster,” the drugstore becomes a center for beauty and makeup tips, Lucy is still not able to restore the drugstore into the state where it is the central hub of the town. Typically, I do not read novels over and over again though this is one that I have practiced this on.Ī homecoming queen with a beauty crisis comes in a pouting fit to Lucy Desberg’s family’s drugstore. The Desberg family’s drugstore is struggling to stay in business, however Lucy fixes this threating problem-temporarily. This book is short and sweet, yet it has an unique plotline. I got this book a couple of years ago, and ever since then, I have been dying to write a book review on it. ![]() |