![]() ![]() This one is probably one of my favorites of hers now as well because of that twist at the end!Ĩ.) Slasher Girls & Monster Boys stories selected by April Genevieve Tucholke I had read “Gone Girl” as well as “Dark Places” before I gave this one a go because I really enjoy the way Flynn tells her stories, they’re also super twisted. This was one of the first books I read when I started my blog because there was a ton of hype and glowing reviews for it! Of course I’m super happy I gave Schwab a try because she’s one of my favorite authors now. ![]() These are in no particular order and I do have reviews up for each of these books but I’m not going to link them since they’re older and slightly embarrassing! Still though they are available if you want to hear my full thoughts on some of them.ġ0.) A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. This is going to be a list of my favorite reads from 2015 back when I started this blog! There are so many books I read a while ago that I don’t talk about enough and some of them I do talk about plenty. Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.Īnother week, another Top Ten Tuesday! This week’s theme is a throwback freebie so it can be anything you’d like to discuss about older books such as: books published 10 years ago, older books you forgot you loved, or books from the year you started blogging (which I’m doing!). ![]()
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![]() ![]() The only other alternative was to cancel or postpone these dates, some of which have already been pushed back (see: COVID). Conrad has played with many artists over the years - NRBQ, Bob Schneider, John Doe, Patty Griffin, Ron Sexsmith, et al - and we’re very happy he was able to bail us out on such short notice. ![]() Tim O'Reagan had to drop out at the last minute due to circumstances beyond his control but we have recruited Austin, Texas drummer Conrad Choucroun to fill in. Next up is our first trip to Europe in a few years. Tour dates & ticket links: bit.ly/JayhawksShows Stay tuned to The Jayhawks website and social media for the latest updates. ![]() We will be adding some new summer and fall 2023 tour dates soon. ![]() ![]() ![]() Becker perfectly captures the youthful journey towards identity formation, one already fraught with pitfalls of self-doubt that are only enhanced for many of the characters as they struggle to find their place both culturally and socially living in a foreign country. Himawari House follows the lives of five college-aged students living under one roof in Japan as they take classes, work various jobs, bond with one another and share their cultural traditions. Becker, who previously worked with George Takei for the artwork in They Called Us Enemy, has a real gift for bringing her wonderfully written story to life in graphic form through a fluid art style that is able to represent the spectrum of emotions and keep a relatively introspective story engaging and forward moving. A beautiful slice-of-life, coming-of-age tale, a story about community and the struggles of fitting into a new culture while learning the language, Harmony Becker’s Himawari House is a moving feat of visual storytelling. ![]() ![]() Together they have a chance for freedom - but can Chloe trust her new friends? ![]() Now Chloe is running for her life with three other supernatural teenagers - a charming sorcerer, a troubled werewolf and a temperamental young witch. Even worse, her growing powers have made her a threat to the surviving members of the Edison Group, who have decided it's time to end their experiment - permanently. Genetically altered at birth by a sinister group of scientists known as the Edison Group, Chloe is an aberration - a powerful necromancer who can see ghosts and even raise the dead, often with terrifying consequences. Then she learned the shocking truth - she is a walking science experiment. 'Armstrong has some fun toying with supernatural teen thriller conventions, and the taut pacing should please fans of the exploding genre.' - BooklistĬhloe Saunders used to be a normal teenage girl - or so she thought. ![]() ![]() Will exhilarate even readers new to the series.' - Kirkus, starred review ' hits the ground running, leaving readers tripping, stumbling and racing to keep up. ![]() ![]() The story is told alternately from Wes and Jamie’s points of view and begins with Wes (Ryan Wesley). ![]() I just skipped over a few sections other readers, who know the game, might enjoy very much. ![]() This however, is a personal or nationality issue and didn’t stop me enjoying the story. Additionally, I get confused with ages and transfers etc., regarding college and sports in the US. I only experienced ice hockey as a young ice dancer, waiting to get on the rink for my practice. Although it is played over here it is not that well known. Being English, ice hockey is a bit of a mystery to me. ![]() However, there were a couple of issues for me to overcome firstly, the major themes of Ice Hockey and the American college system. I enjoyed reading the story of Jamie Canning and Ryan Wesley – which is continued in the second of the series, US. This book is nominated for a 2016 RITA award. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How, then, have we found ourselves in this position? Wasn't DAB meant to enable both far superior sound quality and many more stations? Bandwidth brainache While screen technology races into a bold new 4K ultra HD age, DAB radio is plumbing the depths and pushing the limits of audio awfulness. DAB bitrates in the UK have actually been falling. Even Radio 3 is scraping the barrel for tolerable sound quality. ![]() And remember, those are all MP2 bitrates. But stations that broadcast at 64kbps - at least from some transmitters - include Absolute Radio 80s, Amazing Radio, BBC Radio 5 Live, Jazz FM, Rainbow Radio and many more.Īll the rest broadcast at 80kbps to 128kbps with a single, solitary exception, namely BBC Radio 3 which is 160kbps to 190kbps. In other words, far, far more than many current DAB stations.Īctual bitrates will vary depending on where you are in the country. Even BBC Radio 3 is scraping the barrel for tolerable sound quality."Īnyway, the tolerable minimum for most people who remotely care about sound quality tends to be in the 128 to 192kbps range for the MP3 codec. ![]() "And remember, those are all MP2 bitrates. Pure's 300Di is a great way to add DAB - if only the system sounded better The sound of music ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book spans the years 1898-1934, the bulk of McCay's career. The artwork in this book includes outstanding examples from several categories of McCay's illustrations from his first paper, the Cincinnati Enquirer anti-war and anti-materialist cartoons playful strips for Life magazine early dream sequences futuristic illustrations for the New York Herald and allegorical and editorial cartoons for the Hearst newspapers. The highlights of the book are McCay's Dream of the Rarebit Fiend strips created for the New York Evening Telegram in 1905, as well as early efforts like A Pilgrim's Progress, Poor Jake, Day Dreams, Rabid Reveries, Little Sammy Sneeze ("He never knew when it was coming!") and more. McCay's dream-inspired strips, illustrations and cartoons feature rarebit-induced nightmares, playful "what-ifs," moralistic panoramas, pictorial allegories and other fantastic visions. He had a fascination with dreams that extended beyond his newspaper strip Little Nemo in Slumberland, and it was a fascination as compelling as that of Freud, Jung and Adler's, as proven in the pages of Daydreams & Nightmares. ![]() A fantasist of the first rank, McCay was a key pioneer in the histories of both comics and animation. Daydreams & Nightmares collects the rarest work from Little Nemo In Slumberland creator Winsor McCay's historic career. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ***In Just Like That, critically acclaimed author Cole McCade introduces us to Albin Academy: a private boys’ school where some of the world’s richest families send their problem children to learn discipline and maturity, out of the public eye. Now both men must be brave enough to trust each other, to take that leap. Yet Iseya’s walls of grief may be too high for someone like Summer to climb…until Summer’s infectious warmth shows Fox everything he’s been missing in life. Carina has a pretty strong track record when it comes to queer romance and I’m really looking forward to trying the. What starts as a daily game to reward Summer with a kiss for every obstacle overcome turns passionate, and a professional relationship turns quickly personal. The new Carina Adores line from Carina Press promises highly romantic, feel-good stories with a strong central trope featuring LGBTQ+ protagonists getting their Happily Ever Afters. ![]() But that fascination turns into something more when the older man challenges Summer to be brave. Summer Hemlock never meant to come back to Omen, Massachusetts.īut with his mother in need of help, Summer has no choice but to return to his hometown, take up a teaching residency at the Albin Academy boarding school-and work directly under the man who made his teenage years miserable.įorbidding, aloof, commanding: psychology instructor Iseya is a cipher who’s always fascinated and intimidated shy, anxious Summer. ![]() ![]() ![]() The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier in particle physics. ![]() His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station. When Chen’s parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of mysterious natural phenomena. A new standalone military SF adventure from the bestselling and award-winning author of The Three-Body Problem. ![]() ![]() He returned to France in 1917, and briefly attended a college prep school in Paris before attempting to enter the naval academy. Receiving his early education at Catholic schools in France, Saint-Exupéry was sent away to a boarding school in Switzerland after the outbreak of World War I. ![]() Saint-Exupéry enjoyed a mostly carefree and privileged life, and in 1912, he took his first trip in an airplane-an experience that would have a profound and lasting impression on him. His father died when he was a young boy, and his mother moved him and his four siblings to a relative’s château in the east. Early LifeĪntoine de Saint-Exupéry was born into an aristocratic family in Lyon, France, on June 29, 1900. His adventures as a pilot would supply the inspiration for all of his literary endeavors, which culminated with the 1943 publication of the classic The Little Prince. ![]() He received his pilot’s wings during his compulsory military service in 1922, around which time he also began to write. ![]() Raised in an aristocratic family, he fell in love with aviation at an early age after took his first airplane ride at the age of 12. (1900-1944) Who Was Antoine de Saint-Exupéry?Īntoine de Saint-Exupéry was a French writer, aviator, poet and author. ![]() |