![]() ![]() I've tried a few titles lately that wouldn't necessarily be my cup of tea. I love this book but nearly didn't pick it up. We Are Legion (We Are Bob) is the first installment in the blockbuster Audible Original Bobiverse series - which has sold more than one million copies. ![]() Taylor’s hilarious novel sets the stage for the magnificent performance of Ray Porter, who revels in the brave new world of corpsicles, artificial intelligence, interstellar space probes, and space colonization in tantalizing detail. Bob and his clones are on a mission to find new homes for humanity and boldly go where no Bob has gone before.ĭennis E. Waking up 117 years later, Bob discovers his mind has been uploaded into a sentient space probe with the ability to replicate itself. Then he gets himself killed crossing the street. On an urge to splurge, he signs up to have his head cryogenically preserved in case of death. The first item on his to-do list: Spending his newfound windfall. ![]() There's a reason We Are Legion (We Are Bob) was named Audible's Best Science Fiction Book of 2016: Its irresistibly irreverent wit! Bob Johansson has just sold his software company for a small fortune and is looking forward to a life of leisure. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Suffocating in a loveless marriage and lonely existence, Taylor MacKenzie lives only through her writing, using the pen name Brooke Skipstone, her best friend in college and lover before her death in 1974.Īfraid of being murdered before anyone in her family or community knows her life story, Taylor writes an autobiography about her time with Brooke and shares it with those closest to her, hoping for understanding and acceptance.Īccused of promoting the queering and debasement of America by a local podcaster, Taylor embroils the conservative community in controversy but fights back with the help of a new, surprising friend.Ĭan she endure the attacks from haters and gaslighters? Can she champion the queering she represents?Īnd will she survive? Buy the book, and follow the author on social media: Trapped between a homicidal brother and a homophobic podcaster eager to reveal her lesbian romance novels, a seventy-year-old grandmother seeks help in Clear, Alaska. 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Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. ![]() ![]() Jean Paul Sartre, who popularised the existentialist movement, tells us that “existence precedes essence”. Waiting for Godot has frequently been described as an existentialist play, however – while it does have existentialist themes, it is not an existentialist play, it belongs rather, to what is known as “The Theatre of the Absurd”, focusing on absurdist fiction. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time.īeckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature and commended for having “transformed the destitution of man into his exaltation”. ![]() Beckett’s language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured post-World War II Europe. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, landscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as mankind’s inexhaustible search for meaning. The story revolves around two men waiting for someone – or something – named Godot. ![]() Waiting for Godot is a 1953 play by Samuel Beckett that has become one of the most important and enigmatic plays of the 20 th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he’s been emailing, will be compromised. ![]() Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Creekwood, #1) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Creekwood, #1) written by Becky Albertalli which was published in. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Creekwood, #1) by Becky Albertalli ![]() ![]() Bearing witness to human suffering day after day takes its physical and emotional toll, Harper admits, but, as a healer, she also considers “brokenness” to be “a remarkable gift.” In this time of heroic nurses fighting a pandemic, Harper allows readers to experience the healing process through her knowing eyes. (although one punctuated by violence), a marriage that fell apart, medical school, and a new city and fresh start-yet it is patients she focuses on: a newborn with no pulse a patient who, without warning, punches her in the face a young woman serving in the military in Afghanistan who was raped by her commanding officer. She recounts her life-a privileged upbringing in Washington, D.C. How to tell the truth when its simpler to overlook it. How to let go of fear even when the future is murky. ![]() Each of the patients Harper writes about taught her something important about recuperation and recovery. ![]() ![]() In this compelling, firsthand memoir, she offers a portrait of life on the medical frontlines as seen from a female and African American perspective. The Beauty in Breaking is the poignant true story of Harpers journey toward self-healing. From the start, Harper claims that she has no special powers, nor does she know “how to handle death any better than you.” But as an ER physician, she certainly has confronted the grim reaper far more often than most. ![]() ![]() ![]() While the tour marks the first time Poehler and Fey will bring a show to live audiences, this won’t be the first time the duo have appeared on stage together. “If this tour goes right, we can finally end this friendship,” the comedic icons and real-life best friends joked. The “Saturday Night Live” alums will celebrate their thirty years of friendship on this tour by sharing jokes, iconic stories and conversational entertainment, according to a press release. ![]() The tour will stop in Chicago and Boston before wrapping up in Atlantic City, NJ on June 10. ![]() The “Tina Fey & Amy Poehler: Restless Leg Tour” includes a limited run of four shows and kicks off on April 28 in Washington, DC. Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are hitting the road together for a comedy tour starting this spring. ![]() ![]() you make a big difference in the world.i hope you will write for the rest of your life. you are great i tell you the greatest author on the face of the earth. you are the gretest author in the whole world no one can come close to me. all the books i ever read this book is sooooooo good that nothing else can come close to them. the alice books changed our whole life and thinking. if you any other books just like alice please tell me. ![]() the alice books are sometimes a guide because mostly whatever happens to alice happens to me to.i have told everbody about your books. ![]() i hope you will make many more books like this. do you have another series like alice mckinley ?i wish the last book will come out today. my mom and dad tell me all i ever do is read.i can not wait to read now i’ll tell you everything(alice).it is so sad that the series are going to end. The alice books are amazing they help me go through school i feel more confident with school now i’v read all of your books during the last month. ![]() ![]() In the US it was published by Viking Press in 1979 as Each Peach Pear Plum: an "I Spy" story the national library catalogue summary explains, "Rhymed text and illustrations invite the reader to play ' I spy' with a variety of Mother Goose and other folklore characters." Biography Īllan Ahlberg was born 5 June 1938 in Croydon. Janet Ahlberg won two Kate Greenaway Medals for illustrating their books and the 1978 winner Each Peach Pear Plum was named one of the top ten winning works for the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005). Allan Ahlberg has also written dozens of books with other illustrators. He wrote the books and she illustrated them. ![]() They worked together for 20 years until Janet's death from cancer in 1994. ![]() Janet Ahlberg (21 October 1944 – 15 November 1994 née Hall) and Allan Ahlberg (born 5 June 1938) were a British married couple who created many children's books, including picture books that regularly appear at the top of "most popular" lists for public libraries. ![]() ![]() The form of the house, ever-flexible, echoes and contrasts the constantly shifting forms Machado’s tale comprises. It is, as Machado urges us to believe, ‘as real as the book you are holding in your hands.’ But it’s a place of metaphor, too, representing how easily a place filled with the promise of domestic bliss can transform into a prison. ‘The Dream House’ is, ostensibly, the couple’s Midwestern home. Machado’s abusive ex never gets a name she’s known only as ‘The woman in the Dream House.’ The house straddles reality and metaphor, sometimes uneasily. ![]() In the Dream House balances grief and fear, with an undertone of gratitude and relief at the opportunity for Machado voice her story. Yet Machado deftly disassembles domestic abuse narratives in same-sex couples, drawing upon her own traumatic experiences with an abusive ex-girlfriend, with a sleight of hand familiar to those who enjoyed her previous collection, Her Body and Other Parties (2017). Three hundred or so pages packed with emotional manipulation and physical terror is, unsurprisingly, a challenge for readers. Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House is noteworthy for many reasons, but for this most of all: Machado will keep you reading when you most want to turn away. ![]() It’s not that readers do not care for the subject in fact, caring is what makes it hard. People, generally speaking, do not want to read a memoir on abuse. ![]() In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado, Graywolf Press, 2019, pp.304, £14.99 (hardback) ![]() |