Mysteries that have the renovation of an old house at their centers are one of my reading weaknesses. She has to find out what's going on before she's the next one to have "an accident." Hiring handyman Derek Ellis to help her with the renovations, Avery soon realizes that some of the facts just don't add up, and that her aunt's fall down the staircase was not a case of an old lady losing her balance. Avery sublets her New York City apartment, quits her job as a textile designer, and moves to Waterfield, Maine- intent on renovating the old house in order to sell it for as much money as she possibly can so she can move back to New York. What at first seemed like a huge inconvenience turns out to be a blessing in disguise. As it is, when Avery arrived, her aunt was dead and Avery found herself the heir to her aunt's estate- including one very neglected Victorian house. If Aunt Inga had put the correct amount of postage on the letter, Avery Baker might have arrived at the elderly lady's old house in Maine in time to find out what she needed help with. Genre: Cozy Mystery, Amateur Sleuth, #1 Do-It-Yourself mysteryįirst Line: The letter from Aunt Inga arrived, as the saying goes, a day late and a dollar short.
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6/27/2023 0 Comments Tyll daniel kehlmannZusammenfassung Kehlmann bringt Fiktion und Realität in seinem neuen Roman "Tyll" zusammen. Kehlmann creates an intertextual riddle, shifting back and forward in time, deliberately full of flaws and conceptual loopholes. Caught up by the whirlwind of the Thirty Years" War, unprotected by law, Tyll turns from an able trickster similar to the character from the popular folk song into a fool for the so-called Winter King of Bohemia, Frederick V. Tyll, suffering from childhood trauma, runs away from home and becomes a travelling artist. Moreover, in contrast to the rough farce, Kehlmann equips his Tyll with an individual biography. But while De Coster presented his Till as a freedom fighter for the Protestant Netherlands against Catholic Spanish oppression, Kehlmann pictures an entirely different character. Kehlmann employs literary borrowings from the original rough farce and Charles De Coster"s world-famous version of the 19 th century, The Legend of Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak. Eulenspiegel, a real-life character became popular through folk songs of the 15 th and 16 th centuries in Germany, but Kehlmann creates a historical novel, placing his Tyll in the Thirty Years" War (1618-1648), a war tormenting central Europe. The Name Tyll refers to the old medieval figure Till Eulenspiegel. This article examines intertextuality in the novel Tyll, by Daniel Kehlmann, from 2017. 6/26/2023 0 Comments Dream Fever by Katherine SutcliffeHis wife, who loved Sutcliffe's book, insisted that he contact her. Sutcliffe was offered the job after Bill Graham, who searched for writers for Procter & Gamble, mentioned to his wife that they wanted to refocus the soap opera stories on romance. In 19, Sutcliffe worked as the Consultant Head Writer for the soap operas As the World Turns and Another World. In the past, she has used the soundtrack to Somewhere in Time and Kitarō's Silk Road. Sutcliffe also attempts to find a single CD that will provide inspiration during the writing of each book. She works eight hours a day, five to seven months a year. Three years later she sold her first book, Desire and Surrender to Avon Books. After working for a time at an oil company and as a headhunter for a computer personnel company, Sutcliffe decided in 1982 to quit her job and attempt to write a novel. Katherine Sutcliffe was born an only child in East Texas. Many of her books are considered to be "dark" romances, examining issues traditionally not mentioned in the romance genre. Katherine Sutcliffe (born 1952 in Texas) is a best-selling American author of romance novels. Roic is caught along with Raven, a cryo-revival specialist from the Durona Group who assisted in reviving Miles after his death on Jackson's Whole (detailed in Mirror Dance). Miles avoids capture because an allergic reaction to the drug used on him makes him extremely hyperactive, and escapes into the below-ground Cryocombs, where the frozen are stored. The narrative follows three points of view: those of Miles, his Armsman Roic, and Jin Sato, a local Kibou-daini boy.Īt a conference, an attempt is made to kidnap Miles and the other attendees. WhiteChrys, a major "cryocorp", to which sick or dying people go to be frozen in hopes of one day being revived and cured, is opening a subsidiary on Komarr, arousing suspicions. He is sent by Emperor Gregor to the planet Kibou-daini ("New Hope") to investigate White Chrysanthemum Cryonics Corporation. Miles Vorkosigan, the main character in the series, is 39 years old. Plot summary Ĭryoburn takes place six or seven years after Diplomatic Immunity. Also in 2011, it was one of the top five finishers in the poll for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Part of the Vorkosigan Saga, it was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2011, as Bujold's ninth Best Novel nomination. Cryoburn is a science fiction novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold, first published in October 2010. 6/26/2023 0 Comments Double Cross by Ben MacintyreThis epic event has never before been told from the perspective of the key individuals in the Double Cross system, who together made up one of the oddest and most brilliant military units ever assembled. It was the most sophisticated and successful deception operation ever carried out, ensuring Allied victory at the most pivotal moment in the war. Operation Fortitude, which protected and enabled the invasion, and the Double Cross system, which specialized in turning German spies into double agents, tricked the Nazis into believing that the Allied attacks would come in Calais and Norway rather than Normandy. At the heart of the deception was the 'Double Cross System', a team of double agents whose bravery, treachery, greed and inspiration succeeded in convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway. A stunning military achievement, it was also a masterpiece of trickery. On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. From the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor, A Spy Among Friends, and Rogue Heroes, a fascinating work of popular history that vividly recreates the vast web of deception spun by spies in order to conceal D-Day. 6/25/2023 0 Comments Cockeyed memoirThis book delves deep into the experience of having a disability, and it does it with wit and heart. Readers will find it hard to put down this wild ride around their everyday world with a wicked, smart, blind guide at the wheel. Knighton’s first book, Cockeyed: A Memoir, is a memoir about his experience losing his sight in his late twenties and learning to use his other senses to get around. Knighton is powerful and irreverent in words and thought and impatient with the preciousness we've come to expect from books on disability. Cockeyed is not a conventional confessional. His experience of blindness offers unexpected insights into sight and the other senses, culture, identity, language, our fears and fantasies. Stumbling literally and emotionally into darkness, into love, into couch-shopping at Ikea, into adulthood, and into truce if not acceptance of his identity as a blind man, his writerly self uses his disability to provide a window onto the human condition. Knighton learns to drive while unseeing has his first significant relationship - with a deaf woman navigates the punk rock scene and men's washrooms learns to use a cane and tries to pass for seeing while teaching English to children in Korea. In this penetrating, nervy memoir, which ricochets between meditation and black comedy, Knighton tells the story of his fifteen-year descent into blindness while incidentally revealing the world of the sighted in all its phenomenal peculiarity. On his 18th birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), a congenital, progressive disease marked by night-blindness, tunnel vision and, eventually, total blindness. 6/25/2023 0 Comments Override by S.J.D. PetersonZwar haben sie Ecken, Kanten und Macken, aber sie sind einfach Menschen. Donovan und Seth sind relativ einfach gestrickte Protagonisten, die auch nicht negativ auffallen. Viel Drama oder tiefschürfende Probleme darf und sollte man nicht erwarten. Override ist der Start einer neuen Serie von SJD Peterson, der mich überzeugt und eingenommen hat. Doch es braucht ein wenig Zeit und das Drängen von Donovans besten Freund bis Donovan sich überwindet und Seth anruft. Dennoch fühlt Seth sich zu Donovan hingezogen und macht ihm schon beim ersten Treffen in einem Club mehr als nur dezente Andeutungen. Und im Gegensatz zu Donovan, der in einer Fabrik arbeitet, kommt Seth auch aus einer wohlhabenden Familie und verfügt über Bildung und Finesse. Kleiner, zierlicher, ein paar Jahre älter und ein studierter Mediziner. Bis er auf Seth Manning trifft.ĭieser ist das komplette Gegenteil von Donovan. Dabei würde Donovan lieber seine devote Seite ausleben und dazu auch noch etwas über BDSM und dem ganzen Lifestyle lernen. Jeder sieht in ihm einen Alpha, einen Top. Leider entsprechen seine Neigungen nicht dem, was seine Mitmenschen von ihm erwarten. Groß, kräftig, muskulös und dazu noch ziemlich gutaussehend. Der Arbeiter Donovan Gregory ist ein Schrank von einem Kerl. 6/25/2023 0 Comments The infernal devices trilogyAnd this time, I fell in love. I fell in love with the characters, the friendships, the storyline, and the writing. I read the first book, and then quickly skimmed through Clockwork Prince and Clockwork Princess.įast forward to January 2016, and I still disliked The Mortal Instruments – but for whatever reason (probably due to a Tumblr edit), I decided to give The Infernal Devices another chance. I went into reading The Infernal Devices trilogy for the first time right after reading The Mortal Instruments in 2013 – and while I wasn’t a huge fan of TMI, I remember really, really disliking The Infernal Devices. I thought it was just really dry and boring, and that the characters were really two dimensional. Pages: Clockwork Angel: 479, Clockwork Prince: 502, Clockwork Princess: 567 Titles: Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, and Clockwork Princess 6/25/2023 0 Comments Brightly Burning by Alexa DonneWhen several attempts on his life spark more questions than answers, and the beautiful Bianca Ingram appears at Hugo’s request, his unpredictable behavior causes Stella’s suspicions to mount. Surrounded by mysteries, Stella finds her equal in the brooding but kind nineteen-year-old Captain Hugo. On the Rochester, there’s no water ration, more books than one person could devour in a lifetime, and an AI who seems more friend than robot.īut no one warned Stella that the ship seems to be haunted, nor that it may be involved in a conspiracy that could topple the entire interstellar fleet. Stella Ainsley leaves poverty behind when she quits her engineering job aboard the Stalwart to become a governess on a private ship. Donne’s atmospheric, twisty update of a cherished classic will keep you up late into the night!” -Elly Blake, NYT bestselling author of the Frostblood Saga “ Brightly Burning delivers a brooding gothic mystery and a swoony romance, all set in space. “One of the most anticipated YA debuts of 2018, Brightly Burning is a gothic, romantic mystery with hints of Jane Eyre, Marissa Meyer, and Kiera Cass.” - Entertainment Weekly 6/25/2023 0 Comments Deepfreeze by Robert Donald Locke"For your information, I picked up a flash from Denver. "Any late news?" Garth asked, over Dollard's shoulder. Since breakfast, he had sat glued to the news while a battery of video announcers reported from central strongholds on the progress of the bacterial epidemic that already had swept the Atlantic seaboard. The last of America's industrial tycoons refocussed his attention on the world telecasts. "Just see that we continue understanding one another," Edwin Dollard snapped. "It's right good we understand each other." It'll be like being reborn again." His pained somber eyes lit up. "As for women, there'll be time enough for them. The others-stupid sheep-let them die!" Lust spread his heavy cheeks into a wide grin. There'll be no tales out of those greaseballs."ĭollard's pudgy features relaxed. "The men still know nothing." His thin lips cracked into a forced smile. "Two more hours-and the ship will be ready," Garth announced. He was in time to observe Garth enter by the paneled tunnel door. Dwin Dollard's nervous stubby fingers spilled three precious drops of his fifth Scotch highball, as he veered his head away from the horrors on the telescreen. |