![]() ![]() ![]() Her life has been turned upside down in a matter of months-her mother’s death propelled her father into a constant state of depression, and unable to deal with his erratic behavior, her longtime boyfriend has broken things off. She arranges for Kayla Kaufman to be his tutor. When Aaron asks bookmobile librarian Sarah Anne Miller for some additional study guides, she does one better. ![]() But he can’t let his Amish family know, not when his older brother already left the faith just a year after getting baptized, practically crippling the family. From New York Times bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray comes a new series that follows a bookmobile driver-turned-matchmaker who learns that her Amish patrons need a whole lot more than just new books to read.Īaron Coblentz has a he’s been studying to take the GED to get promoted at work. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A required purchase for all romance collections.” - Library Journal (starred review) for Emerald Blaze Action, romance, intrigue, and tons of danger leave readers wanting more of the Baylors, more of the Primes. “The phenomenal Andrews follows up Sapphire Flames with another satisfying entry in this popular series. New readers will have no trouble jumping in with this installment and series fans will not be disappointed." - Publishers Weekly for Emerald Blaze "Andrews’ whirlwind fifth Hidden Legacy romance opens with a bang and maintains a breakneck pace, dealing in magic that rouses and entertains. Andrews' worldbuilding is world-class, and the banter between Catalina and Alessandro sings. ![]() ![]() "A fun read full of magical battles and intrigue that keeps the action coming." -Bridgette Whitt - Library Journal on Ruby Fever "Andrews has a gift for placing likable characters within complex and interesting mysteries in which small, seemingly inconsequential, clues weave together into a spectacular finish. A winning romance that will thrill and satisfy fans while leaving them clamoring for the final book in the trilogy." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) for Emerald Blaze ![]() “Ilona Andrews’s books are guaranteed good reads.“ - Patricia Briggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s checked all the various different manuscripts and the published editions of Leviathan to check for variants and so on. He highlights where they’re different from each other in a way that is not obtrusive, so if you don’t care about the Latin, you can just read the English and go forward. For example, he will translate the passages in Leviathan that are different from the English one, so that if someone doesn’t read Latin, they can see what those are. He doesn’t give you so much commentary, just editorial apparatus. ![]() Is it running commentary on the differences between the two? It’s an incredible service to the scholarly community. So you get both texts, and he has this tremendous editorial apparatus that allows you to compare the similarities and differences between the two of them. Then the other two volumes are the text of the English Leviathan, face to face with Hobbes’s Latin translation of Leviathan. It gives you a sense of when it was written, how it was written, and so on. Noel Malcolm is one of the great Hobbes scholars of our time, and it sets Leviathan in context. The first volume is the introduction by Noel Malcolm. It’s in three volumes and very elaborate. It’s edited by Noel Malcolm, with an incredible level of scholarship. Yes, it’s a landmark in Hobbes scholarship. You’ve recommended a particular edition of Leviathan, the Oxford Clarendon edition edited by Noel Malcolm. Which edition of Leviathan should I read? Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]() ![]() ![]() While Katie bounces from job to job and obsesses about falling behind in life, Nas has bigger things in mind-waiting endlessly for their visa to come through, while working on a seismic art project that will revolutionize politics and society as we know it. They share everything, including a tiny room in a North London townhouse belonging to their landlord Jeremy, former host of the hit 90s show ‘Football Lads’. ![]() ![]() Katie and Nas are best friends, exes, and co-dependents. From Emily McGovern, author of Bloodlust & Bonnets and the hugely popular webcomic My Life as a Background Slytherin, comes Twelve Percent Dread, a fast-paced, hilarious graphic novel about friendship, capitalism, and never putting your phone away. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While exploring deeply significant issues in its own right, this new story nevertheless transforms the novel into the very thing its earlier half criticizes. Babel is, at least initially, a book about the nature of language, the politics of translation, and the fraught history that exists between colonialism and academia.Īnd yet at the same time, while I honestly think that the first half of Babel represents one of the most fascinating stories I've ever read, the novel's ending veers sharply away from these subjects, abandoning the themes which have already emerged from the story naturally, and instead twisting the book into a painfully didactic political and historical allegory. The majority of Babel's narrative represents an innovative work of alternate history, with the novel's fantasy elements merging so seamlessly with the novel's carefully researched real-world setting that both transform into a natural expression of the story's themes. Kuang's 2022 historical fantasy novel Babel (whose complete title reads: " Babel or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translator's Revolution") was a book which I came to be intensely conflicted about. ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘A poetic and remarkably fertile exploration of the relationship between human beings and the natural environment.' - Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian The Mushroom at the End of the World delves into the relationship between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth. ![]() These companions lead us into fungal ecologies and forest histories to better understand the promise of cohabitation in a time of massive human devastation. The Mushroom at the End of the World explores the unexpected corners of matsutake commerce, where we encounter Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, Finnish nature guides, and more. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's account of these sought-after fungi offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: What manages to live in the ruins we have made? ![]() Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world - and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the Northern Hemisphere. *One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 in Science* *One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 in Business and Economics* *One of Times Higher Education’s Best Books of 2015* ![]() On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins ![]() ![]() Most of the judging is done directly through the eyes of Shevek, so you expect it to come out pro-socialist/anarchist, which it largely does, but really, no person, rule, or principle comes off as entirely enlightened in this book. Shevek is the first to leave the moon.Ĭlearly this book is set up to compare two different societies/governments/economic principles. Those brought up on the moon are taught to judge/fear their parent civilization as "propertarian." Since the settling of the moon, contact between the two societies has been strictly limited. The planet, by contrast, is rich and lush, and defined by capitalist excess and want. ![]() Life on the moon is austere, but peaceful - the entire society is socialist anarchist. ![]() Shevek, a physicist, was born and lived his whole life on a moon, a moon where millions were resettled as a result of a revolution on the main planet. It's been a few weeks, but I'm still not sure I've got enough distance to talk about this book. ![]() I just suspect I would enjoy them better that way. I checked this one out now just because it was right there on the shelf at the library, but I'm starting to think I should read the Hainish books in order, even though they aren't technically a series. ![]() ![]() Haunted by people he has left to die in the past (his sister a Nazi soldier “the legendary Grace Priestly”) and wishing only to complete his contract, James accepts a dangerous mission from menacing private corporation Valta, leading to life-changing choices. An apparently unstoppable plague has made Earth one of the least desirable places to live fortunately, advanced technology lets James communicate by thought, provides powerful armor, and shields him from environmental discomforts. ![]() James Griffin-Mars, a highly trained “chronman,” travels from 26th-century Earth to past eras on numerous planets, salvaging coveted relics and materials to maintain humanity’s power supply without breaking Time Laws (for instance, bringing someone back from the past) or affecting the time line. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unbeknownst to me it was the fifth in Wesolowski’s ‘Six Stories’ series, a fictionalised podcast hosted by investigative journalist Scott King. I received Deity with the Abominable Book Club, a monthly horror book subscription. Deity (Six Stories #5) by Matt Wesolowski ![]() If you have any suggestions, please let me know in the comments below.Īnyway, without further ado, here are my top 10 books of 2021.ġ0. I think I’m going to try and read one classic a month… I think I’m going to try and find some shorter ones. I want to read 75 books and continue this exploration into different genres, but I also want to include more classics. ![]() My goal for 2022 is not overly ambitious. While this meant there were a lot of disappointments, some of which I couldn’t force myself to finish, there were also a huge array of books I never would have picked up if it hadn’t been for this goal, and ended up absolutely loving. I wanted to read fewer science fiction and dystopian novels, and more non-fiction and contemporaries. ![]() I also had a more generalised goal – of reading a wider variety of genres and formats. In 2021 I gave myself a goal of reading 70 books, which I just about surpassed with 76 (you can look through everything I read this year on my Goodreads page). ![]() ![]() ![]() Borne, learning to speak, learning about the world, is fun to be with, and in a world so broken that innocence is a precious thing. For Borne makes Rachel see beauty in the desolation around her. There is an attachment she resents: in this world any weakness can kill you. Yet, against her instincts-and definitely against Wick’s wishes-Rachel keeps Borne. ![]() Borne reminds Rachel of the marine life from the island nation of her birth, now lost to rising seas. Borne as salvage is little more than a green lump-plant or animal?-but exudes a strange charisma. ![]() One day, Rachel finds Borne during a scavenging mission and takes him home. Rachel ekes out an existence in the shelter of a run-down sanctuary she shares with her partner, Wick, who deals his own homegrown psychoactive biotech. The city is dangerous, littered with discarded experiments from the Company-a biotech firm now derelict-and punished by the unpredictable predations of a giant bear. "But like a person, you can be a weapon, too." In Borne, a young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined city half destroyed by drought and conflict. ![]() |