![]() ![]() At first, the pair work well together, but Frances’ dynamic style puts Lady Crystallia, Prince Sebastian’s alter ego, on the stage, and they grow closer to discovery. Ages 12+. P8Q10Īn accident brings together the prince, who hides a predilection for wearing fashionable dresses out on the town, and the dressmaker, who lives to design avant-garde fashion. MaBook review: The Prince and the Dressmaker, by Jen Wang Wang displays the same sweetness in her illustrations, narrations, and solutions as she did in her award-winning Prince and the Dressmaker (2018). Verdict: With a lack of stereotypes, Wang uses her art to skillfully show characters’ expressions and the different ways that they struggle with their difficulties within their ethnic community. An “Afterward” describes the brain tumor that the author suffered when she was six years old. The health issue brings Christine and Moon back together. Seeing celestial beings, Moon becomes increasingly erratic, concerning her parents and driving her further from Christine, until she is diagnosed with a brain tumor. They spend so much time together that Christine’s baba tells her to work on her homework rather than being with Moon, and Christine is jealous of Moon’s popularity. P8Q8īrash, artistic Chinese-American Moon doesn’t follow the same rules that Christine does in her own Chinese-American family, but the two middle schoolers become close friends after Moon and her single mother move into an apartment at Christine’s home. ![]()
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![]() Catalina has been struggling with accepting her magic and the consequences of it since birth. It focuses on Catalina, Nevada’s sister, and a very rare Siren, building a bridge for the next full novel that is her journey. Choosing to focus on her sister’s upcoming nuptials rather than her slowly imploding life, Catalina finds herself forced to once again use her powers when it becomes obvious that certain someone(s) want to stop the wedding no matter the cost.Īs Catalina digs deeper into her investigation, she learns that jealousy is a powerful magic all it’s own but she is a Baylor and her sister will marry her Prince Charming if Catalina has anything to say about it.ĭiamond Fire is a novella that picks up right after book three. ![]() ![]() Nevada Baylor and Connor Ander Rogen are getting married and both families are ready to lend a hand in helping this couple tie the knot with no problems.Ĭatalina Baylor is at a crossroads since her power was outed to the world when she was declared a prime. Favorite Quote: “I know how to be Catalina Baylor, an ordinary person. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wow, this book started off intense and intriguing from the get-go. Torn literally picks up right where Wicked left off with Ivy finding out she’s the halfling after almost losing her life thanks to the Prince! Naturally she’s completely “torn” between telling Ren, creating a potential insurmountable rift, or believing in her love for him and facing the odds anyway. OMG! If I had realized how amazing the series gets, I so would have gotten to it sooner! ![]() I cannot believe it took me so many years to finally get around to reading the second book in The Wicked Trilogy. If she doesn’t figure out who she can trust-and fast-it’s not only her heart that will be torn apart, but civilization itself. Yet how can she live with herself if she lies to him?īut as the Fae Prince begins to close in, intent on permanently opening the gates to the Otherworld, Ivy is running out of options. Their chemistry is smoking hot, but Ivy knows that Ren has always valued his duty to the Order above all else-he could never touch her if he knew the truth. Then there’s Ren Owens, the sexy, tattooed Elite member of the Order who has been sharing Ivy’s bed and claiming her heart. ![]() And if the Order finds out her secret, they’ll kill her. ![]() After being betrayed and then nearly killed by the Prince of the Fae, she’s left bruised and devastated-and with an earth-shattering secret that she must keep at all costs. Torn between duty and survival, nothing can be the same.Įverything Ivy Morgan thought she knew has been turned on its head. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() At the center of the mess is Mark Spitz, an oddly named individual of “unrivaled mediocrity’’ whose exposure to the plague begins when he walks in on his mother gnawing her husband’s intestines. Those infected turn into one of two kinds of monster: catatonic souls (“stragglers’’) who drift about in stages of advanced rot but pose no threat to humans, and traditional gore-oozing, flesh-eating zombies. A plague has swept the world and extinguished nearly all life from the island only pockets of soldiers and the odd survivor remain. “Zone One’’ is a zombie novel set over the course of three days in a dystopian Manhattan. ![]() ![]() He knows that he must, among other things, spin a gripping yarn. When a novelist like Colson Whitehead tries on genre fiction for size, he knows exactly what he is getting into. This is not a judgment about it in either direction it’s simply an observation that those best at it tend not to be dabblers. Dabbling in genre fiction is a dangerous thing for a writer to do. Great literary fiction can be great for a number of reasons, but every work of great genre fiction is great for one: a killer story. The difference between genre and literary fiction is easy to define. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They go over the teachers' houses and have meals with them and their wives, and they are given books which they discuss frequently. Another small similarity is the fact that they are close to their English teachers. Unlike the Perks, which is written in letter form, Spud is written as journal entries. Spud and Charlie share a similar way of thinking and their situations are closely related, in terms of the fact that they are both learning about themselves and the world around them. I definitely saw similarites, although few, between Spud and the Perks. I haven't read Catcher in the Rye though, so I wouldn't know. I think it's been described somewhere (I can't remember exactly where) as the South African Catcher in the Rye. I almost want to say that this is sort of like The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Other than that, there isn't much more similarity. Except, I go to a nearby(ish) school and Spud is at a boarding school in South Africa in the 1990s, at the time of apartheid. We both go to all boys schools and have to dress in pointless dress codes. Mainly the school aspect, which is pretty much the entire book. I decided to read Spud because it is sort of like my situation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This was partly a response to demands to make the curriculum more practical, but it also reflected the changing urban economy. Prior to the Civil War, however, such instruction was not commonplace in HIGH SCHOOLS and ACADEMIES, and private business schools were concentrated in eastern cities, where there was a demand for clerks, bookkeepers, and other office workers.Īs high schools grew in number following the Civil War, interest in commercial education increased. Early in the nineteenth century, when such training prepared bookkeepers and merchants, most students were male, and these subjects were often taught in proprietary schools that prepared students for business careers. The teaching of commercial (business) subjects has a long history in American secondary education. ![]() ![]() ![]() To tame her frightening yet valuable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest male pilot in Huaxia, yet feared and ostracized for killing his father and brothers. But when she gets her vengeance, it becomes clear that she is an Iron Widow, a rare kind of female pilot who can sacrifice males to power up Chrysalises instead. ![]() When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. It doesn't matter that the girls die from the mental strain. The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall of China. Pacific Rim meets The Handmaid's Tale in this blend of Chinese history and mecha science fiction for YA readers. The instant #1 New York Times bestseller, now available in a stunning new paperback look with bonus content. ![]() ![]() ![]() The preceding material is either irrelevant or it would be better served by being introduced later as a flashback or background that has contextual relevance for example, character bios. ![]() However, I often start reading a manuscript (or a published book) and find that the story-as envisioned by the author-would be better if it began with paragraph two, or page two, or even chapter two. Do I use a linear story line with flashbacks or non-linear story line?Īll stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. ![]() Which characters get Points of View (POV) in the chapters and scenes?.Do the chapters get shorter toward the end of the book?.Where do the chapter breaks occur? Where do the scene breaks occur? Can/should the scene breaks be chapter breaks or vice versa?.How is your story organized, or not? Restructuring for clarity of story arcs and character arcs.īy structure I mean how the book manuscript is organized. (Please read the Introduction, if you haven’t already.) STRUCTURE First element in this series: Kill Your Darlings: The Art of Revision ![]() ![]() ![]() She now lives in Comox, British Columbia and Clinton, Ontario. From 1963 she ran a bookshop in Victoria, British Columbia for several years, before returning to Ontario in 1972. Although not necessarily directly autobiographical, they reflect the author's own life experiences, are concerned with women's lives and are 'probably unrivalled in their fullness' (Washington Post 1998).īorn in 1931 to a farming family, Alice Munro won a scholarship to the University of Western Ontario, where she studied from 1949-1951, but she left before graduating and moved to Vancouver. Her accessible, moving stories are set in her native Canada, in small, provincial towns like the one in which she grew up, and explore human relationships through ordinary everyday events. ![]() Her books consist of collections of short stories, and one book which has been published as a novel, although it is actually a set of inter-linked stories which falls between the two genres. ![]() Canadian writer Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, South West Ontario and has written short fiction since 1950. ![]() |