![]() ![]() ![]() You get 4 meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue! What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family? One of PopSugar’s "42 Books Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2021"! This book had me laughing aloud within its first five pages… Utterly clever, deeply funny, and altogether charming, this book is sure to be one of the best of the year!”-Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read “A hilarious, heartfelt romp of a novel about-what else?-accidental murder and the bond of family. ![]() "Sutanto brilliantly infuses comedy and culture into the unpredictable rom-com/murder mystery mashup as Meddy navigates familial duty, possible arrest and a groomzilla. I laughed out loud and you will too.”- USA Today (four-star review) ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tade Thompson’s innovative, genre-bending, Afrofuturist series, the Wormwood Trilogy, is perfect for fans of Jeff Vandermeer, N. The fugitive known as Bicycle Girl, Kaaro, and his former handler Femi may be humanity’s last line of defense. Operating across spacetime, the xenosphere, and international borders, it is up to a small group of hackers and criminals to prevent the extra-terrestrial advance. And the city’s alien inhabitants are threatening mass murder for their own sinister ends… Nigeria isn’t willing to let Rosewater go without a fight. The Mayor finds that debts incurred during the insurrection are coming back to haunt him. Life in the newly independent city-state of Rosewater isn’t everything its citizens were expecting. The Rosewater Redemption concludes the award-winning, cutting edge Wormwood trilogy, set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction’s most engaging new voices. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But I’m alert! Eyes shut open! Already all lights in the house are turned on! I’m at the verge of hysterical breakdown, waiting to see Sun Down Motel’s ghosts banging on the door. My husband is still making entire Jurassic World’s sound effects by snoring loudly. ![]() It’s midnight in LA, even my 24/7 partying neighbor is sleeping. I cannot sleep! I cannot move! I cannot breathe! When I was younger so much younger than today I never needed anybody’s help in anyway but even all ghost members of Beatles cannot save me! I’m numb, terrified! I’m speechless! I’m about to do something in my pants but I don’t! I barely hold myself! Thankfully, I wore diapers before reading something sooooo scary! So I’m giving my 5 gaazzzzzillion ssstaaarss (I cannot even speak or properly write, this book is so horrifying! I wish I hold my childhood Teddy bear to gather my wits but I already ripped its head when I was nine, reading Salem’s Lot! Dammit!) Twilight zone’s intro music blasting out in my mind: nananana!!!! I’m in the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition and I’m at the dimension of imagination….Nanana!!! ![]() This is one of my favorite horror reads of the year and so far it’s my favorite novel of the author! ![]() ![]() At any time, this book would have kept me in my thoughts. Parts of the book begged a second or third re-read. The book is a series of reflections where Rankine somehow intertwines her thoughts about bereavement and isolation, American society, TV images she has taken in and everyday impacts of Big Pharma. ![]() Some of the ideas and sentiments are so recognisable but not necessarily in the way Rankine has presented them. The quote really sums up my feelings about alot of the book. ![]() “Sometimes you read something and a thought that was floating around in your veins reorganises itself into the sentence that reflects it” Now I know I have just been missing out on Claudia Rankine all this time for no good reason! I was gifted Citizen for Christmas a few years ago and still haven’t read it yet! For some reason, I came across this book, bought it and read it straight away. ![]() ![]() ![]() the writer takes us beyond the superficial and delves into the soul and the. ![]() 'The series is deep and grand and altogether extraordinary. All the Devils Are Here is the latest entry and the 16th novel in the louise Penny’s series of novels, that includes A deep dive in human nature and psychology, what does ‘’ good really mean’’ better yet what does ‘’ bad ‘’ really mean. When a strange key is found in Stephen's possession it sends Armand on a desperate search for the truth that will take him from the top of the Tour Eiffel, to the bowels of the Paris Archives.Īnd as Armand begins to uncover the secrets his godfather has kept hidden for decades, he finds himself ensnared in a web of lies and deceit that threatens to destroy everything - and everyone - he holds dear.įor even the City of Light casts long shadows. But the evening ends in horror when Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Armand is convinced is no accident, but a deliberate attempt on an elderly man's life. On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather for a family dinner with Armand's godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache's world of facts and feelings. ![]() She has won numerous awards, including a CWA Dagger and the Agatha Award (seven times), and was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. There is more to solving a crime than following the clues. LOUISE PENNY is the author of the 1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling series of Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels. 'Makes most of her competitors seem like wannabes' THE TIMES Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo *** WINNER OF THE AGATHA AWARD FOR BEST MYSTERY NOVEL 2021*** ![]() ![]() Left unexplained or even examined at this point is why someone so lucky would wind up on a dangerous mission to an unknown destination for unexplained reasons. The other human, Teela Brown, is the product of five generations of ancestors who were all born due to their parents having won the birthright lotter for that year. ![]() The kzin they recruit is Speaker-to-Animals, a very junior member of the Kzinti diplomatic delegation to Earth, with only a title and no name earned yet. Nessus has a plan to alleviate Louis’ boredom.Īt first Nessus is very cagy about what exactly his plan is, but it certainly involves space travel, the Puppeteers’ better, faster hyperdrive they’ve never shared with humans or kzinti, and they need to recruit two more crewmates–a kzin, and another human, one who is the product of Earth’s Birthright Lotteries. This particular Puppeteer has chosen the human-pronounceable name of Nessus. When Puppeteers are speaking in their own language, the effect is often orchestral. Specifically, a Pierson’s Puppeteer, a being with two small heads on snake-like necks, three hooved legs, and its brain housed in its main body, rather than either of the heads. An entirely mundane hotel room, occupied by an alien. Then, when transferring from one birthday location to another, he winds up someplace else entirely. ![]() ![]() It’s his 200th birthday, and he’s using transfer booths to extend the celebration of it for a full twenty-four hours, and he’s really bored. Louis Wu is 200 years old, and he’s bored. ![]() ![]() She began work on her first novel, a traditional Regency romance, which sold in one week. ![]() Īfter purchasing her first computer for her business, Putney realized that it would make writing very easy. She served as the art editor of The New Internationalist magazine in London and worked as a designer in California before settling in Baltimore, Maryland in 1980 to run her own freelance graphic design business. She attended Syracuse University, earning degrees in English literature and Industrial design. Her books are known for their unusual subject matter, including alcoholism, death, and domestic abuse. ![]() She has also published romantic fantasy novels as M.J. 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We welcome respectful dialogue related to speculative fiction in literature, games, film, and the wider world. ![]() r/Fantasy is the internet’s largest discussion forum for the greater Speculative Fiction genre. For updated information regarding ongoing community features, please visit 'new' Reddit. ![]() Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her love of science fiction led her to earn her MFA in creative writing. She began her professional life as an astrophysicist and mathematician, working in the Astronaut Training Division at NASA's Johnson Space Center. ![]() Jeanne Cavelos is a writer, editor, scientist, and teacher. Or if there will be any survivors at all. In this desperate, apocalyptic battle, there's no telling who will be the victor. But Galen has unearthed the Shadows' darkest secret and discovered a monstrous truth about himself. Though the galaxy is being torn apart by bloody conflict - in which his powers might tip the balance - he is to locate only three key enemies and kill them. He is the only mage who has faced the Shadows and lived, the only one who possesses the unstoppable Spell of Destruction. At long last, in a forgotten corner of the universe, Galen has finally won the Circle's permission to leave the techno-mage hiding place. ![]() Soon the entire galaxy will fall to their evil. When one techno-mage battles the ultimate evilĪs billions die and the flames of destruction rage unchecked, the Shadows seem poised for absolute victory. The electrifying space epic reaches an explosive climax ![]() ![]() Soon he was on a five-year journey, searching for this enormous, enigmatic creature in the lush, remote forests of eastern Russia. He snapped a quick photo and shared it with experts. Bigger than any owl he knew, it looked like a small bear with decorative feathers. Slaght had a chance encounter with one of the most mysterious birds on Earth. When he was just a fledgling birdwatcher, Jonathan C. ![]() No scientist had seen a Blakiston’s fish owl so far south in a hundred years. I saw my first Blakiston’s fish owl in the Russian province of Primorye, a coastal talon of land hooking south into the belly of Northeast Asia. Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk, in Kirkus Even on the hottest summer days this book will transport you.” "A terrifically exciting account of time in the Russian Far East studying Blakiston’s fish owls, huge, shaggy-feathered, yellow-eyed, and elusive birds that hunt fish by wading in icy water. Winner of the Peace Corps Worldwide Special Book AwardĪ Best Book of the Year: NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Globe and Mail, The BirdBooker Report, Geographical, Open Letter Reviewīest Nature Book of the Year: The Times (London) ![]() ![]() Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and the Minnesota Book Award for General NonfictionĪ Finalist for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award ![]() |