![]() ![]() ![]() The book is a treat for fans of historical (and thoroughly well-researched) fiction, as Hooper explores the professional and personal growth of May Alcott, Louisa’s youngest sister and the inspiration for Amy March.Īuthor Elise Hooper and "The Other Alcott" She’s ahead of the curve of the resurgence of Little Women and Alcott family popularity as her first book, The Other Alcott, was published last year. Including the new two-part miniseries from Masterpiece and the BBC, the American Masters documentary devoted to Alcott, and the inclusion of Little Women on the list of top 100 books for The Great American Read initiative, audiences can’t get enough of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March.Īuthor Elise Hooper knows this feeling all too well. Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women will be celebrated in multiple ways in 2018. The quintessential American story of sisterhood is back in conversation, and on PBS, in a big way this year. Top row, left to right: Willa Fitzgerald as Meg, Kathryn Newton as Amy, Annes Elwy as Beth. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Pieces of Jade is a YA fantasy whose main character is Jade, a teenage girl protagonist with (of course) special magical powers and (of course) more than one guy who loves her. I also co-wrote the pirate adventure Pieces of Jade, books one and two of The Pom Pom Periodicals (That’s The Spirit, Give Me A C) and two short stories in Enchanted: Love Stories of the Paranormal with Melonie Piper. With Erica Cameron I'm the co-author of the Laguna Tides series, starting with Taken By Chance. I'm the author of Breaking Pointe, Stronger, THE YARA SILVA TRILOGY, including: Intrinsical, Indelible, and Inevitable, and Out of Bounds, the third book in the Pom Pom Periodicals series. I enjoy bonfires at the beach, hole-in-the-wall restaurants, speed talking, chocolate as a cure-all, and the word "precisely." ![]() I have worked as a spot-welder, babysitter, janitor, photographer, gymnastics coach, and movie extra. I live in Southern California with my husband, our two children and a large collection of board games. I have a hard time enjoying any book without at least a little romance in it. ![]() Most of these early works were inspired by She-Ra, the epitome of girl power to my young self. In sixth grade, I began writing plays and recruiting (with force when necessary) my friends to act them out. I became an avid reader in elementary school, when I first discovered the Babysitters Club and Sweet Valley Twins series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange.Įver since they disappeared on a suburban street in Scotland as children only to return a month a later with no memory of what happened to them, odd, eerie occurrences seem to follow in their wake. Readers with emetophobia may have trouble with some scenes. Just be prepared for them to get under your skin, whichever way you choose to interpret that.Ĭontent warnings include mention of death by suicide (including method used), self harm and sexual assault. Get to know the Hollows and let their world unfurl around you. However, this is one of those books where the less you know going in the better. I absolutely adored this book and want to gush about each of the sisters, their history, the imagery, the horror and the beauty. I don’t think I’ve ever been more relieved that a book didn’t come with Smell-O-Pages. It was a compulsive read and the imagery was almost tangible. I both loved and was wary of the intense bond between these sisters. This story is dark but somehow still gorgeous. I’ve been obsessed with this cover for months and now I’m equally obsessed with the Hollow sisters. Now, a decade later, the past is intruding on their present and their lives will never be the same.ĭark, dangerous things happened around the Hollow sisters. ![]() When they returned, they couldn’t remember where they’d been or what happened to them. When Iris Hollow was seven, she and her two older sisters, Grey and Vivi, were missing for a month. Three little girls fell through a crack in the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Details beyond just a trope, like a specific occupation or uncommon type of scene.An acceptable book request includes at least one of the following: Low-effort book requests will be removed. ![]()
![]() Girls want a guy who knows what he wants and goes after it. Then later, I’ll give you my step-by-step method on how to seduce a girl from a first date straight back to your place! How to Seduce a Girl – The 5 Core principles So to kick things off, let’s jump straight into the five core principles needed to become a good seducer. ![]() How well you pull off the seduction depends on the situation, what type of girl you’re dealing with, and how well you can read the attraction cues she throws your way. The art of the seduction is all about playing with the emotions – building tension, lust and desire whilst holding a bit of restraint and mystery to keep a girl coming back for more. The longer the seductive dance goes on, the better. So if you want to pull off the dance successfully, you have to be subtle with your advances on the women you seduce.īecause the moment you’re too obvious with your seduction – you’re too forceful or lunge in for the kiss too early – a girl’s defensive guard will go up and she’ll reject your eager ass. It’s an emotional and sensual dance with inconspicuous movements. Seducing a girl is like dancing the Tango. ![]() ![]() And in this article I’ll show you exactly how to seduce a girl back to your place so you get your junky fix.īut first things first, a few words on seduction… The thrill of meeting a girl and seducing her from the restaurant to the bedroom is like no other. ![]() Seduction is like the crack cocaine of dating. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ok, technically romance doesn’t drive the plot, but it’s there and cute AF. If you don’t know what that means, it means these books are a big hit with the Christian crowd (hi cuties), as well as other folks who don’t like a whole lot of, smutty stuff in their books. ![]() It has a sort of grumpy/sunshine dynamic, is slow burn, and ALSOOO. A world that is pretty Victorian in values, but with MAGIC. It features pacing and structure pretty similar to Jon’s Mysteries by AJ Sherwood, featuring an FBI agent who is pulled into another world. Reason being, THIS IS AJ’S SUPER POPULAR PEN NAME. Ok, SO FIRST THINGS FIRST when it comes to similar books to AJ Sherwood, we’re going to start with this series by Honor Raconteur (such a good name). #1 Similar Books to AJ Sherwood: The Case Files of Henry Davenforth I hope you enjoy my roundup guide to books similar to AJ Sherwood today, and if you have any suggestions or additions, feel free to contact me via email or send me a DM on Instagram! ![]() ![]() Hi, I’m Brianne Huntsman AKA “The Huntswoman”! I’m a big fan of monster romance novels, and I’m also a plus size lifestyle blogger. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1992, after living for 13 years in downtown Toronto, she moved with her four large cats to rural Ontario, where she currently resides with her wife, fellow fantasy writer Fiona Patton. She was a member of the Bunch of Seven writing group. Her first professional sale was to George Scithers, the editor of Amazing Stories in 1985, who bought her short story " Third Time Lucky". During this time she wrote seven novels and nine short stories, many of which were subsequently published. ![]() From 1984 to 1992 she worked at Bakka, North America's oldest surviving science fiction book store, in Toronto. Gameway's Ark, a game store in Downtown Toronto. ![]() Sawyer and they collaborated on their final TV Studio Lab assignment, a short science-fiction show. In 1982 she received a Bachelor of Applied Arts degree in Radio and Television Arts from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto, Ontario she was in the same class as science-fiction writer Robert J. Huff joined the Canadian Naval Reserve in 1975 as a cook, ending her service in 1979. Her first sale as a writer was to The Picton Gazette when she was ten. One of these, her Blood Books series, featuring detective Vicki Nelson, was adapted for television under the title Blood Ties.īorn in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Huff was raised in Kingston, Ontario. Her stories have been published since the late 1980s, including five fantasy series and one science fiction series. Tanya Sue Huff (born 1957) is a Canadian fantasy author. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes they are intentionally meant as eyes, but they are often just blinking moments that draw the attention into the dense figuration, creating anchor points in what seems an overwhelming and cluttered play of lines and colors around a human figure. It is full of proud beauty, carefully orchestrated colors, and within the repeating patterns there are many little “eyes” hidden in the paint, in curving lines. Seeing a painting by Glenn Brown is like watching a peacock opening its tail. ![]() Brown usually prefers not to disclose the names of his sources, unless of course they are mentioned in the title), but it also references the artist’s own previous work. This piece is based on works by two 17 th– and 18 th-century artists (Mr. Multiple sources often come together in one painting, such as in the green Bring on the Headless Horses (2020), which projects a seated nude over a Hercules figure, intertwining them. For his exhibition And thus we existed, the artist presents 17 recent paintings that are loosely based on historical figure drawings, alongside six paint-based sculptures. ![]() Since his appearance on the 1990’s London art scene, Glenn Brown has been in an ongoing dialogue with his predecessors, without being afraid of mutilating his examples or pushing aspects of their work to the limits through stylish deviation and exaggeration. ![]() ![]() ![]() "(I)s the book any good ? It is, but only in parts."Susanna Clarke's magic is above all, though, a peculiarly English phenomenon, a kind of apothecary's tincture of a national eccentricity out of which emerges a host of vivid characters from every walk of early 19th-century life" - Matthew Alexander, Daily Telegraph.(.) She's as deft at describing the flutter of gossip at a dinner party in London as she is at describing a gown covered in small shrieking mouths in Fairyland." - Ron Charles, Christian Science Monitor In fact, I'm so in love with Susanna Clarke's debut novel that I must have been beaned on the head with a golden snitch. It's altogether original - far closer to Dickens than Rowling. Not quite a consensus, but many enthralled Jonathan Strange y el señor Norrell - EspañaĪ- : unassuming, well-crafted, and very old-fashioned entertainment Jonathan Strange & il Signor Norrell - Italia General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is righteous, folkloric horror, and the devil is waiting in between these pages." It's the sensation of being a little kid who stayed out too long past dinner and sure, you were having fun, but now it's a moonless night and the forest is dark and you are hopelessly lost. "Reads so fast and so effortless that you don't realize how in thrall you are to it. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones is a gripping, terrifying tale bound to keep you up all night-from both fear and anticipation of what happens next. And if she doesn't face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale.įrom Hugo Award–winning author Ursula Vernon, writing as T. That would be horrific enough, but there's more-Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather's journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants…until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself.Īlone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrors-because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they're looking for you. ![]() Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. After all, how bad could it be?Īnswer: pretty bad. When Mouse's dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. ![]() When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother's home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods in this chilling novel that reads like The Blair Witch Project meets The Andy Griffith Show. ![]() |