![]() ![]() Brian's short storyīeen adapted to film (which he also produced), and he has appeared in Release is the novella 'Darkness on the Edge of Town' (2010). (2009) and 'The Last Zombie' (2010) with Fred Perry. 'No rest for the Wicked' (2001), 'Talking Smack' (2002), 'No Rest At All' (2003), 'Fear of Gravity' (2004), 'Unhappy Endings' (2009), and 'Dark Faith' (2010) with Gary Braunbeckįurther written two graphic novels: 'Dead of Night: Devil Slayer' Brian's 'Clickers' series (with J F Gonzalez) includes 'The Next Wave' 'The Hollow' (2006), 'The Conqueror Worms' aka 'The Earthworm Gods' He has published at least one novel each year since 'The Rising': 'City Shocker for 'Sympathy for the Devil' (2004). ![]() ![]() Other awards include a Bram Stoker for 'Jobs In Hell' (2001), and a Like fellow horror writer Bentley Little,īrian has won a Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel ('The Rising'). 'The Rising' (2003), helped re-introduce the Zombie sub-genre into literature in a big way. Brian Keene is a horror novelist and short story writer who has, since ![]()
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![]() ![]() This, however, was a difficult concept to get across in first grade. While my friends made their career plans, declaring they would become doctors, nurses, and lawyers, inwardly I knew that I wanted to be involved somehow in comedy. I thought that people who could make other people laugh were terribly fortunate. I've always believed in comic entrances.Īs I grew up in River Forest, Illinois, in the 1950's, I seem to remember an early fascination with things that were funny. ![]() JI was born at eleven A.M., a most reasonable time, my mother often said, and when the nurse put me in my mother's arms for the first time I had both a nasty case of the hiccups and no discernible forehead (it's since grown in). ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1969 Winston Groom married his first wife, Ruth Noble. Groom followed this advice, and in New York, he moved in the city’s literary circles, encountering among others fellow Alabamian Truman Capote. While at the Star, Groom met southern author Willie Morris, who encouraged him to go to New York to pursue his writing career. Upon his discharge, Groom settled in Washington, D.C., and began working as a reporter for The Washington Star, covering police and court matters and later writing a column. During his military service, Groom achieved the rank of captain. Army (1965-1967), mostly with the Fourth Infantry Division, completing a tour of duty in Vietnam (1966-1967), an experience that had a profound effect on both his fiction and nonfiction. While working as the editor of a literary magazine at UA, Groom decided against his ambition of becoming a lawyer and instead decided to become a writer.Ī member of ROTC at the university, Groom served in the U.S. ![]() He attended University Military School in Mobile and then entered the University of Alabama (UA), where he was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. A number of Groom’s novels draw on his experiences in Vietnam, and in his later years, he turned to writing historical nonfiction.īorn in Washington, D.C., on March 23, 1944, Groom grew up in Alabama. Long-time Mobilian Winston Groom (1944-2020) is best known for his novel Forrest Gump, a work in the tradition of southern fiction that became a cultural phenomenon after it was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name. ![]() ![]() Michael hears a story that human shoulder blades are a vestige of angel wings. The man is crotchety and arthritic, demanding aspirin, Chinese food menu order numbers 27 and 53 and brown ale. Michael assumes that he is a homeless person, but decides to look after him and gives him food. ![]() ![]() When Michael goes into the garage, he finds a strange emaciated creature hidden amid all the boxes, debris and dead insects. He and his parents are nervous, as his new baby sister was born earlier than expected and may not live because of a heart condition. Plot ġ0-year-old Michael and his family have recently moved into a house. In 2010, a prequel entitled My Name is Mina was published, written by David Almond himself.ĭelacorte Press published the first US edition in 1999. Since publication, it has also been adapted into a play, an opera, and a film. Printz Award, which recognises one work of young adult fiction annually. ![]() In the US it was a runner up for the Michael L. It was the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and it won the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British author. Skellig is a children's novel by the British author David Almond, published by Hodder in 1998. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My friend Sharon Shinn was one of the first to alert me to these books, with her review of the opening volume Grimspace: “Sirantha Jax doesn’t just leap off the page - she storms out, kicking, cursing, and mouthing off. ![]() And one of those is Ann Aquirre’s 6-volume Sirantha Jax cycle, a far-ranging space opera in a well-realized universe that left fans happy with a satisfying concluding volume. Successful series that have wrapped up with a beginning, middle, and an end. But there are a few completed story arcs, out there - not many, but a few. Which leaves me in a bit of a quandary, since most of the adventure SF I like tends to be part of series. I want to fall in love with a series, sure… but do I want to fall for a publishing endeavor with an uncertain future, one that could easily be derailed by an author illness, a fickle market, publishing setbacks or other unexpected tragedy? Who needs that anxiety and potential heartache? Not me I have three teenagers. I love adventure science fiction, but I’m a little shy of all these open ended series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The thing you have to understand about this world is that seeing this type of thing-conjoined twins, that is-is not as mind-boggling as it would be in our society. Like, for reals, she's been sleeping for twenty years. ![]() While Nora is a loud-and-proud lesbian, ambitious and ready to get on with her life, Blanche is.asleep. Nora and Blanche are not normal, even by Twofer standards. But once in England, Nora's past begins to surface in surprising and disturbing ways, pushing her to the brink of insanity and forcing her to question her own - and Blanche's - grip on the truth. Sick of carrying her sister's dead weight, Nora wants her other half gone for good - a desire that takes her from San Francisco to London in search of the Unity Foundation, a mysterious organization that promises to make two one. Blanche, by contrast, has been asleep for twenty years. Nora is strong, funny, and deeply independent, thirsting for love and adventure. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this heartbreaking and darkly hilarious memoir, Michael tells the story of his harrowing and challenging last year with Kit while revisiting the thirteen years that preceded it, and how the undeniably powerful bond between him and Kit carried them through all manner of difficulty-always with laughter front and center in their relationship. ![]() Over the course of eleven months, Kit and Michael did their best to combat the deadly disease, but Kit succumbed to his illness in February 2015. What many of his fans don't know, however, is that while his professional life was in full swing, Michael had to endure the greatest of personal tragedies: his husband, Kit Cowan, was diagnosed with a rare and very aggressive form of neuroendocrine cancer. From his time at Soaps in Depth to his influential stints at TV Guide and Entertainment Weekly to his current role as founder and editor-in-chief of the wildly popular website, Michael has established himself as the go-to expert when it comes to our most popular form of entertainment. For the past decade, TV fans of all stripes have counted upon Michael Ausiello's insider knowledge to get the scoop on their favorite shows and stars. ![]() ![]() This book-the testimony of their experience-exposes the extent to which we are poisoned every day of our lives, from the simple household dust that is polluting our blood to the toxins in our urine that are created by run-of-the-mill shampoos and toothpaste. Using their own bodies as the reference point to tell the story of pollution in our modern world, they expose the miscreant corporate giants who manufacture the toxins, the weak-kneed government officials who let it happen, and the effects on people and families across the globe. To prove this point, for one week authors Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie ingested and inhaled a host of things that surround all of us. The most dangerous pollution, it turns out, comes from commonplace items in our homes and workplaces. ![]() Pollution is no longer just about belching smokestacks and ugly sewer pipes-now, its personal. ![]() ![]() ![]() The short story format leaves room for the reader's imagination and inferences: because of format constrictions, not everything can be explained in detail. It is great that we have books to entertain us, that we can passively enjoy when we are tired, and that we also have books that can engage us and make us think (and all sorts of variations and combinations of both).Īnother reader said that "the author doesn't really end the stories," which is only true if you have a fixed idea of what you think a story should be. One person found it "puzzling and challenging" and while her 12-year-old boy liked it, her 9-year-old daughter found it "too weird." I think it is actually a good thing to involve the reader. I'd like to briefly address a few issues raised by the comments. ![]() ![]() I was thankful I found it in a store and got to handle it myself since the online customer reviews, while positive, are somewhat misleading. If you appreciate wonderful illustrations, combinations of pictures and words that tell stories, older children's books (age 12+) with a quirky and magical edge, then I suspect you will love this book as well. I didn't buy it that day, but it haunted me and I went back for it. But a curious book jumped out at me, Tales From Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan. In this case, I went to the famed Fantastic Comics store in downtown Berkeley thinking I would be purchasing some manga for a gift, which I did. It always occurs when you are not looking for it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Were Florence and Edward incompatible in ways beyond sexual ones? What do their difficulties in bed say about their relationship altogether? Or is sex an isolated aspect of a marriage?Ħ. At what point did Edward and Florence’s solemnity become viewed as old–fashioned? What contributed to that shift? What are your recollections, or those shared by relatives who lived it, of the emerging youth culture of the late 1960s and ’70s?ĥ. We are also told that Edward was born in 1940, while his parents contemplated possible outcomes of the war with Germany. Ian McEwan describes the novel’s time period as an era when youth was not glorified but adulthood was. ![]() What might have been the intention in including that line when this version of the marriage ceremony was written? How does it make Edward feel?Ĥ. Edward replays the words “with my body I thee worship” in his mind. Is Edward’s libido truly the primary reason he proposes marriage, or were other factors involved (perhaps ones he did not even admit to himself)? Are relationships harmed or helped by cultural restrictions against sex before marriage? Would this marriage have taken place if the couple had met when birth–control pills were no longer just a rumor?ģ. What do the novel’s opening lines tell us about Edward and Florence? How did your perceptions of them change throughout the subsequent pages? What details did you eventually know about them that they never fully revealed to one another?Ģ. ![]() |