5/31/2023 0 Comments Fairy gifts patricia briggs“They are not lost as long as I live,” my father agreed. “As long as someone does, they aren’t lost.” “Do you remember them? My wife and children?” I asked. I must have looked a little wild-eyed when I turned to him. My father said a name that slid off my ears. Silver tells of Bran and Samuel’s past, from Samuel’s point of view, telling how they were Changed and how Samuel met Ariana. The Mercy Thompson Timeline (from Patricia Briggs website) In Red, with Pearls (previously published in Down These Strange Streets) The Star of David (previously published in Wolfsbane and Mistletoe) Seeing Eye (previously published in Strange Brew)Īlpha and Omega (previously published in On the Prowl) Gray (previously published in Home Improvement: Undead Edition) Patricia Briggs is quite good at writing short stories, which is why re-reading is such a pleasure.įairy Gifts (previously published in Naked City) Interspersed with the novels, I read the short stories in Shifting Shadows. Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson (2014) Patricia Briggs
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5/31/2023 0 Comments All my puny sorrows book review(For myself only–I think my husband may be on Facebook and Reddit while he’s sleeping.) I know that Mennonites are Christians, and that they’re sort of like the Amish but not really. One regret I have about this book is that I didn’t get a chance to research Mennonites as well as I would have normally while I was reading since I read so much of it on planes, or in bed, where I have a fairly strict no devices before going to sleep policy. This novel is not especially plot-driven it’s more about Yoli figuring out her somewhat messed up life (she is getting divorced, drinks too much, has a fairly successful career writing books that mean very little to her, has two teenaged children who seem like good kids, but she definitely isn’t happy) and coming to terms with finally losing the person who means the most to her. Her reasons for continuing to attempt suicide are never quite defined other than that she wants to not be alive anymore. Elfreida is a pianist, and a very famous and accomplished one. The novel is narrated by Yolandi, a writer of “rodeo novels,” and a lapsed Mennonite, who travels home to Winnipeg from Toronto to be with her sister Elfrieda who has tried to kill herself. It was probably one of my favorite surprises of the Indiespensible books I’ve read-I wasn’t excited to read it but I ended up really enjoying it, despite the heavy subject matter. I read it over the summer, mostly while I was travelling to and from Georgia to visit my aunt with my parents. This one was Indiespensible #50 from Powell’s back in November of 2014. 5/31/2023 0 Comments Silicon valley bad bloodThe author glosses over Holmes’ history as an unpopular high schooler and, later, Stanford dropout, focusing on her early vision of the specialized blood-reading equipment, the rapid evolution of Theranos, and the early skepticism about the device’s efficacy and reliability. His eye-opening reporting on the company’s inaccurate, voided, or corrected test results, as well as the loss of major retail partnerships with Walgreens and Safeway, knocked Theranos off the tech radar and left it irreversibly devastated. While raising $9 billion through a series of aggressive (and falsified) claims and dozens of private investors, the company’s spiking net worth caught Carreyrou’s attention a few years ago. Founded in 2003, when Holmes was just 19, the company’s claim to “fame” was its revolutionary blood-testing system, which touted the detection of everything from high cholesterol to hepatitis C to cancer using only one drop of blood. A deep investigative report on the sensationalistic downfall of multibillion-dollar Silicon Valley biotech startup Theranos.īasing his findings on hundreds of interviews with people inside and outside the company, two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning Wall Street Journal reporter Carreyrou rigorously examines the seamy details behind the demise of Theranos and its creator, Elizabeth Holmes. 5/31/2023 0 Comments Poppy's return aviWhile developing the story, however, Avi's interest shifted towards the mouse that Mr. Avi found the book "fascinating" and decided to write his own novel about an owl named Mr. At a university bookstore, he found a book written by a naturalist, who described his experience rescuing a baby owlet and nurturing it back to health and into the wild. BackgroundĪvi conceived the idea for Poppy while living in Corvallis, Oregon, when his wife was a visiting professor at Oregon State University. In 1996, Poppy received the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for fiction. The complete series is composed of Poppy, Poppy and Rye, Ragweed, Ereth's Birthday, Poppy's Return, and Poppy and Ereth. Within the narrative sequence of the series, it is the second book. Poppy is the first-published of Avi's Tales From Dimwood Forest series. The novel was first published by Orchard Books in 1995. Poppy is a children's novel written by Avi and illustrated by Brian Floca. |