Get your first 14 days of the AudibleListener® Gold membership plan free, which includes one audiobook credit. *Note: From the Audible website, here are the terms of the free membership. This episode of Writing Excuses has been brought to you by Audible. Give us an Urban Fantasy in which the point of origin for your crossover is big box store retail spaces which somehow breach the boundary between our world and the magical one. His own Urban Fantasy projects, including one failure from which we can all learn an important lesson.Īudiobook Pick-of-the-Week: The Dresden Files Book One: Storm Front, by Jim Butcher, narrated by James Marsters. Moving right along, we explore what sorts of things we find in an Urban Fantasy, and what sorts of rules these stories usually abide by.ĭan tells us how he set about writing the John Cleaver books, which certainly qualify as Urban Fantasy, Howard tackles the burning question of where one might start in the project of building a mythos, and Brandon explains We begin our discussion of Urban Fantasy with a discussion of definitions, which quickly devolves into an argument over what we are actually supposed to be talking about.
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George) loses his home and family because of Christian persecution. In the first book, Sword and Serpent, Jurian (St. This post contains Amazon affiliate links, which means I earn a small fee for qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. Marshall makes these saints accessible and relatable to readers in a new way. By showing the journey of growth and conversion which saints like St. Marshall seeks to convey the humanity of great saints to the reader. Get to know these fourth century saints in a personal and inspiring way through these notable new novels. Taylor Marshall, a Catholic Theologian and Philosopher, draws on what we know of the lives of iconic saints such as St. The Sword and Serpent Trilogy is an exciting series which weaves together legends of many early Christian saints and martyrs into a fascinating narrative. My heart beat hard against my chest, and my palms sweated as Ms. Truthfully, I didn't need the voice lessons, but summer vacation was going to start in a few weeks, and I'd wanted an excuse that would get me out of the house now and then but wouldn't require a huge time commitment. My voice is naturally pretty-a result of my ultra-secret, hush-hush Fae heritage. My face felt hot with embarrassment, and my throat was so tight I worried my voice would crack the moment I opened my mouth. Morris gave me a sympathetic look before she put her hands on the piano. I'd very carefully avoided any contact between my mom and the students of this, my newest school, and the one I hoped I'd graduate from-if we could manage two full years in the same location, just this once. Morris, my voice teacher, was the only one in the room who realized the person causing the disruption was my mother. Standing in the wings, I wanted to sink through the floor in embarrassment. And as if that wasn't bad enough, she was late, too, so that when she pushed through the doors and practically fell into a metal folding chair at the back, everyone turned to glare at her for interrupting the performance. I don't mean tipsy-I mean staggering, slurring, everyone-knows drunk. The absolute last straw was when my mom showed up at my recital drunk. d'Urberville, becomes infatuated with Tess and repeatedly tries to seduce her, but she rebuffs his advances. When Tess mistakenly causes the death of Prince, the family's horse, she feels guilty enough to try and “claim kin” from some wealthy d'Urbervilles nearby, unaware that they aren't actually related.Īlec, the libertine son of old, blind, Mrs. Although the d'Urbervilles have no wealth or power anymore, the Durbeyfields feel that this will improve their fortunes. Tess's family is very poor, but her father learns that he is descended from the d'Urbervilles, one of the oldest, noblest families in England. She first appears performing the May-Day dance, where she exchanges a meaningful glance with a young man named Angel Clare. Tess Durbeyfield lives in the rural village of Marlott in southwest England. His novels are all written in the same format and although they certainly won’t appeal to everybody I do think that if you read one of his books and enjoy it, there’s a good chance that you’ll enjoy at least some of his others. Each of Rutherfurd’s novels tells the story of a city or country over a period of hundreds of years and follows the lives of some of the families who lived there. I should start by saying that I’m a big fan of Edward Rutherfurd, having read all of his previous books ( London, Sarum, The Forest, Dublin, Ireland Awakening and Russka). Some real historical figures make brief appearances – including Peter Stuyvesant, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln and a few others – but the story is told through the lives of a fictional family, the Masters, who we follow down the generations. Along the way we learn about some of the important events that have shaped the New York we know today, from wars, blizzards and stock market crashes to the 9/11 tragedy. This historical fiction novel by Edward Rutherfurd looks at the fascinating story of New York City from its early years as a 17th century Dutch trading post through to the present day. Skepticism crumbles in the face of so moving a story so beautifully told, the kind of movie Roger Ebert would likely have loved. It helped make the film of Life Itself genuinely worthy of the title, and genuinely worth seeing. Ironically or not, that broadened the film’s horizons-and in ways that probably would have pleased Ebert greatly. James’s film was originally intended to be a straightforward adaptation of that book, but Ebert passed away in 2013, just one month into shooting. The best-known film critic in history was nothing if not prolific, churning out hundreds of reviews for print, television, and the Internet, as well as two dozen books on subjects that included not only movies but also computers and rice cookers-capped by his startlingly unguarded autobiography, Life Itself, in 2011. One challenge facing documentary filmmaker Steve James as he prepared his movie on the life of Roger Ebert is that so much was already known about, and so much had been heard from, the famous subject. As such, it joins a tradition that stretches back at least as far as Frederick Douglass and runs up through Barack Obama’s Charleston eulogy just two weeks ago. But this has never been an option because the Dream rests on our backs, the bedding made from our bodies.” The Dream is wrought from a legacy of white supremacy so entrenched it nearly conceals itself, and Coates’ book is a call to awakening. And for so long I have wanted to escape into the Dream, to fold my country over my head like a blanket. … The Dream smells like peppermint but tastes like strawberry shortcake. Taken as a whole the book is Coates’ attempt to sever America’s ongoing romance with its own unexamined platitudes of innocence and equality, a romance that, in the writer’s telling, “persists by warring with the known world.” In Between the World and Me this collective delusion is known as “The Dream.” The Dream, writes Coates, “is perfect houses with nice lawns. Between the World and Me is a love letter written in a moral emergency, one that Coates exposes with the precision of an autopsy and the force of an exorcism. Spoiler alert: Important details of the novel are revealed below This leads to some turbulence in the marriage, which is put to rest when Rebecca’s old ship containing the remains of a body is washed up on shore – and she learns of the truth behind Rebecca’s death. She hears stories of how wonderful Rebecca was and starts to believe that her husband is still in love with his ex-wife. de Winter is haunted by the memory of Rebecca wherever she turns and she begins to feel jealous of her predecessor. Danvers who remains a faithful assistant to Rebecca, Maxim’s dead wife. She is constantly intimidated by the housekeeper, Mrs. The narrator is met with a beautiful home with an eerie atmosphere. de Winter move to Maxim’s wealthy estate, Manderley house in England to begin their married life. After a few short weeks of a whirlwind romance, the young couple gets married. The heroine of the novel meets the love of her life, the character Maxim de Winter, on a fateful day in Monte Carlo. The novel Rebecca is the story of a young unnamed woman that is recalled as a flashback. That is until a ship is suddenly washed ashore and the truth comes out. The narrator is convinced that everyone in the world – her husband included – loves glamourous and talented Rebecca more than they love her. Danvers and the ghostly presence of her husband’s ex-wife, Rebecca. Rebecca recounts the story of a young woman who marries a wealthy widower and moves into the hauntingly beautiful Manderley house. In this final book of Daine's story, she and Numair are transported to the Divine Realms, ir the realms of the gods themselves through a very unusual agency- Daine's mother Sarra, now the Green Lady, a minor goddess of healing and childbirth in the northern provinces. Set in Tortall during the reign of King Jonathan IV and Queen Thayet, The Realms of the Gods is the final book in The Immortals series, which chronicles a time when the world is invaded by immortal creatures." -Cover flap summary Plot summary Their path leads them to the final clash, which involves both mortals and immortals- a battle in which the only chance for Tortall's future lies with Daine and her wild magic. And so they undertake the journey home- a dangerous journey that will teach them about life and about each other. But she and Numair are both needed in the mortal world to help fight the desperate war that is raging in Tortall. " Daine and the mage Numair are faced with certain death when they are suddenly swept into the mystical realms of the gods, where Daine learns the secrets of her past. He began his career by lettering comic books (notably Groo the Wanderer by Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier) and became famous with the production of Usagi Yojimbo, the epic saga of Miyamoto Usagi, a samurai rabbit living in late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth-century Japan. He and his wife, Sharon, presently reside and work in Pasadena. He later attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Stan Sakai (Japanese: 坂井 スタンSakai Sutan born May 25, 1953) is an artist who became known as an Eisner Award-winning comic book originator.īorn in Kyoto, Sakai grew up in Hawaii and studied fine arts at the University of Hawaii. |