![]() ![]() Sometimes I wanted to rate this five gorgeous stars, and sometimes my rating was spiraling down. ![]() ![]() Fin seems fearless-and his confidence could just be infectious.Īward-winning author Dean Atta crafts a beautifully nuanced and revelatory story in verse about the exquisite highs and lows of first love and self-discovery.Īnd sometimes I didn’t fancy the lyricism. Then Mack meets actor Finlay on set, and the world turns upside down again. It's awful to be so far away from Karim, and it's made worse by the fact that Karim can be so hard to read. Mack has had a crush on Karim for as long as he can remember and he can't believe it when gorgeous, popular Karim seems into him too.īut when Mack's father takes on a new directing project in Scotland, Mack has to move away, and soon discovers how painful long-distance relationships can be. The ideal next read for fans of Kacen Callender, Elizabeth Acevedo, and Becky Albertalli.įifteen-year-old Mack is a hopeless romantic-likely a hazard of growing up on film sets thanks to his father's job. From the Stonewall Award-winning author of The Black Flamingo comes a romantic coming-of-age novel in verse about the beautiful-and sometimes painful-fallout of pursuing the love we deserve. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() While I think people could try to pick it up without reading the rest, you’d be missing a lot of nuances and tidbits from the previous books that could make this more enjoyable. I’m glad I was forced to be home because of a winter storm as it allowed me to enjoy this under the cover of the snow and by the warmth of a fire.Īs this is part of the A Court of Thorns and Roses series, it’s best to read this book as part of the series. Maas to explore a depth of character in this story that I genuinely wasn’t expecting, and not only that, but to find a mirror reflected there, showing us some of the darkness that lurks within us as well was surprising. What I’ll start with is the fact that I am really glad that this book series has been re-classified as adult and it allowed Sarah J. If you haven’t guessed already, this book is about Nesta Archeron. Not only is the main character my least favourite character of the entire series, but I could have written an essay about all of the reasons that I absolutely despised this character. ![]() After a very long wait, the next installment of the A Court of Thorns and Roses is finally here! I had mixed feelings about this upcoming book for a lot of reasons. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tuesday 20th June 8pm LexIcon Level 4, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin Karin Slaughter in Conversation with Edel Coffey Next up, we have an evening with Karin Slaughter in June – scroll down to book! ![]() We kicked off 2023 with international blockbuster Harlan Coben on 21st March at the Lexicon Library in Dun Laoghaire which was an amazing event. Watch out for our exciting 2023 events, starting with three must see authors -and keep October 7/8 free in your diary! Scroll down to join our mailing list to hear the news first □ The recordings of the events are available now to watch back at our You Tube Channel or scroll down to view individual events. We welcomed a host of Irish and international authors and live streamed the majority of our events for an online audience who were able to interact with our guests via social media. We are absolutely thrilled with the success of Murder One ’22, brought to you this year with the invaluable support of The Arts Council and DLR Libraries. ‘Murder One has rapidly become a vital cornerstone of the literary calendar and the energy and excitement generated by their calendar of online and offline events mean it would be criminal to miss it!’ ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Neither, however, overtook Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchmen, which sold 168,455 print copies in its first week in 2015. The Mirror and the Light is also on track to overtake sales of Margaret Atwood’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments, which sold 103,177 copies in its first five days. The first two books have sold more than 1.5m copies around the world. Bolstered by two Booker prize wins, a West End play and a BBC miniseries Wolf Hall made Mantel the first Booker winner to win the UK overall No 1 spot. ![]() The fortunes of Mantel’s trilogy have been nowhere near as turbulent. ![]() Widely praised by critics, a good number of whom predicted that it will win Mantel her third Booker prize, the 900-page novel follows Cromwell’s final ascent to unprecedented riches and honour in the service of King Henry VIII, before his abrupt fall from royal favour and public execution at Tower Hill in 1540. The new novel follows 2009’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies to complete Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy. ![]() ![]() Over the years, I became Managing Director of Pitch Wars, ended up becoming an agent intern, and finally an editor with Cornerstones Literary Consultancy. Determined to find out why I wasn’t chosen or why my queries weren’t getting full requests, I applied for a few jobs in the publishing community. ![]() ![]() I didn’t immerse myself in the community at all, because back then, I didn’t have Twitter. I did enter one year, was rejected and didn’t hear a peep from any of the mentors. Heather: I was never a Pitch Wars mentee either. I love the way it really does feel a little like putting on armor and chest-bumping each other before going into the fray. ![]() I love the community of Pitch Wars, the hustle of so many hopefuls working hard on their craft. McKelle: So, I was never a Pitch Wars mentee, but I did enter my book (now about to debut with HarperCollins) in one of the Pitch Madness contests, and it was the rush of attention from agents during that time that ultimately got me my agent now. ![]() ![]() ![]() I took the J to Canal, where I transferred to the Q up to the Times Square stop. Especially since I didn’t know whether I was going to have it. I hadn’t meant to ghost, but it was just easier not to deal with it. He had texted, called, and emailed a bunch since then. We hadn’t seen each other in a month, the last time being when he had informed me he was moving out of New York. ![]() ![]() I needed to find a way to break the news. What if I texted back: I’m pregnant! It’s yrs lolz. I would know that I was alone.īefore the train tunneled underground, my phone buzzed in my tote bag, alight with another text from Jonathan: Leaving Sunday. I would estimate the time this theoretical setback would delay the production schedule, then the shipment schedule. ![]() I would calculate the cost of using Swiss Bible paper in place of the Chinese paper that the client insisted we buy, should the latter prove too flimsy to prevent ink from bleeding to the other side, the Psalms obscuring the Proverbs, Matthew contradicting Mark, Peter preempting John. Whenever I couldn’t sleep, I would torture myself by creating a completely hypothetical Bible production scenario to troubleshoot. I thought about the next day at the office, and the day after. I had laid on the cheap bed of my Bushwick studio, listening to the sound of my breath. ![]() ![]() ![]() After talking with her Grammy who is suffering from short term memory loss, Paige is inspired to draw up a list that includes 1. With summer holidays coming to an end, she decides to plan out a great year, hoping that she can fake her way "through every step until things were truly good again." Her best friend Tessa McMahon suggests that Paige try to rejoin some of the groups she was a part of in freshman year. Paige has just finished her therapy and she now has to cope on her own. ![]() They discover they share a class in Honors English. She realizes that he understands what she's been going through, the sympathy from complete strangers since his sister was sick with cancer. Paige encounters Ryan Chase, a boy she has had a crush on since forever, in Alcott's Books and Beans. In her school where everyone is defined by something, she is known as "the Girl Whose Boyfriend Died". Paige has spent the last year attempting to come to terms with his death. A year earlier, Paige's first ever boyfriend, Aaron Rosenthal, whom she dated for a grand total of two months, died in a swimming accident. ![]() Paige Hancock lives in Oakhurst, Indiana with her mother and her younger sister, Cameron. At it's heart is a tender story, well told of a friendship blossoming unexpectedly into a first love. ![]() The Start of Me and You is a story about a young girl struggling to come to terms with the death of a friend while learning to live again. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was peculiar, as well, to see what Penney describes as the surreal, provocative artwork of murder-victim Jane,(thus killing off a main and recurring character in the books) represented as poorly-rendered American Primitive. It's a shame to see Penney's deeply thoughtful works reduced to such shallowness. Scenes are very short, pushing the plot ahead in only the barest, least thought-provoking manner. The use of that husky, almost-whisper voice (who talks like that?) also betrays the cookie-cutter approach to this movie. ![]() ![]() The characters, instead of being complex and unpredictable, are stilted, their utterances short, too fast, emotionless-a sign of poor direction and/or poor acting. The cast is impossibly good looking, with that plastic, every-hair-in-place, perfect make-up at all times look so common to made-for-TV movies. There is in the movie none of the sensitivity, insight, philosophizing that makes the books so compelling. ![]() How disappointing to find that all that has been reduced to soap opera standards. I wanted to like this movie, having read all of Louise Penney's atmospheric, intelligent, introspective books featuring Armand Gamache. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Laynie was desperate to lose weight (Image: Laynie Nesbitt) Laynie, from Walkden, had undergone a mastectomy after breast cancer treatment in 2016, but was heartbroken to be told by doctors in 2017 that she would not qualify for breast reconstruction surgery until she lost weight. ![]() Her weight loss journey all started when she was feeling at her most desperate to lose weight. Read more: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community Now, after losing the weight she loves to hike up mountains and her bloods are at a healthy level. Mum-of-five and gran-of-four Laynie admits she could hardly even walk without getting out of breath before her weight loss, and was borderline diabetic with high blood pressure. Her transformation has been so inspiring that her husband and friends have all been inspired to follow her lead and are losing weight too. Laynie, 58, has kept the weight off for the past two years, and now feels confident she has made lasting changes for a healthy lifestyle. But in June 2020, a chance conversation would spark a life-changing journey that has seen Laynie lose seven-and-a-half stone in under a year. Salford gran Laynie Nesbitt had been a yo-yo dieter for years, and had seen her weight continue to rise up to 19 stone. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meeting in person for the first time as they steal a spacecraft and flee amid chaos might not be ideal.and neither is crash-landing on the strange backward planet called Earth. Someone will stop at nothing until he's dead, which means they'll target Joy, too. Then the royal family is assassinated, putting Felix next in line for the throne.and accused of the murders. He will exasperate his noble family to the point that they agree to let him choose his own future and finally meet his Kindred face-to-face. A commoner from the lowly planet Hali, she lives a simple life-apart from the notoriety that being Kindred to the nobility's most infamous playboy brings.ĭuke Felix Hamdi has a plan. To save a galactic kingdom from revolution, Kindred mind-pairings were created to ensure each and every person would be seen and heard, no matter how rich or poor. Elle, New York Times bestselling author of Wings of Ebony "Utterly swoony.an endearing reminder that true love can change the world" You can also order a copy of The Kindred below to be automatically added to the registration list, and there will be an option to snag the book during the event. Loyalty is super psyched to welcome Alechia Dow and Aiden Thomas for The Kindred! This event is free to attend and will be held digitally via Crowdcast. ![]() |