![]() His stories often dealt with reality as illusion, Gnosticism, crazy people, drugged up people, people who seem crazy but are in fact drugged up, people who seem drugged up who are in fact crazy, Mad Oracles, drugged up oracles, reality going crazy, reality going on drugs, government conspiracies, evil corporations, simulacra, Cosmic Entities, Eldritch Abominations, and enough combinations of the above that a permanent state of Mind-Screwed-ness becomes an occupational hazard for his readers. His novels reflect this, and his writing made him one of the most beloved and most critically acclaimed writers in the sci-fi genre.ĭick has said his writings revolve around two questions:ĭick's characters typically spend much of his work wondering who they are, and whether their memories are real or fake. Throughout his life, he suffered from severe hallucinations and a distorted view of reality. Philip Kindred Dick (Decem– March 2, 1982) was an American Science Fiction author who wrote many influential novels. ![]()
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Thread!.Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.New Release: All the Days of Summer by Nancy Thayer. ![]() ![]() As she'd been told, she searched along the bottom for the small stick-on box holding the house key, hoping there weren't any nighttime creepy crawlers around. Success! A brightly patterned rock nestled against the wooden gate stood out under the moonlight like fluorescent paint under black light. Determined not to wake up Grandma Gerda, she tramped through the overgrown grass and shrubbery along the side of the house, searching for the mark. Her grandmother, a woman Desi had met only a few times in her twenty-eight years, had earlier instructed over the phone where the extra house key was hidden. ![]() Where did Gerda say that painted rock is? "Ouch!" She immediately regretted her outburst since it was almost midnight. ![]() A thorn from an equally old and gnarly bush snagged her T-shirt, puncturing her skin. 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King George III's physician was also Mrs Elliot's physician and the King became intrigued with stories the doctor related to him of Mrs Elliott's experiences in Paris at the time of the French Revolution. ![]() 153 pp, 8vo (8 15/16" H) - green cloth spine with gold lettering, pale pink boards with red crest on front board, glassine dust jacket, pale green wraparound band with title in black and illustration of a lady in red on front and back and price $3.95 on inside of front flap, plain red slipcase, no date. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the fate of her country, her love, and her life at stake, Belle must decide if she is ready to embrace her own strength-and the magic that ties her to so many female rulers before her-to become the queen she is meant to be. But violent factions of the revolution may already be lurking within her own castle, and doing nothing would endanger everything she holds dear. 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![]() ![]() ![]() They both aren’t exclusively romance, but SotS especially reviews quite a few. If you’re looking for Black lesbian romance, you need to immediately bookmark Sistahs on the Shelf and Black Lesbian Literary Collective. Which brings me to this post! “Black lesbian romance” has been a common keyword search that leads people to the Lesbrary, which reveals how little coverage there is, because although we have a general Black Bi & Lesbian Book Recommendations post, it is light on romance recs, so it’s past time to have some more relevant suggestions. Many Black authors are asking readers to read and buy not only the difficult, dark stories centring racism, but also stories about Black joy. As crucial as those books are, though, it’s not enough. This Pride, support Black Americans protesting for their rights. When you’re building your Pride TBR, support Black LGBTQ authors and Black-owned bookstores.īlack Lives Matter protests have brought a shift in bestsellers: anti-racist books are selling out, and Black authors are getting a bit of the recognition the extremely white publishing industry usually robs them of. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Fair Extension,” the shortest, is a fable about a terminal cancer patient who experiences a miraculous remission following a transaction with the devilish Mr. Because there is nothing else to do.” “Big Driver” concerns an implausible plot against an author speaking to a book club, and the toll her revenge takes on her, transforming her into a different person in the process. He had been convinced that moving to the city would be hell, but discovers, as he tells himself, “You realize that you are in a hell of your own making, but you go on nevertheless. The first, best and longest is “1922,” a richly detailed ghost story about a Nebraska farmer whose wife wants to sell land she’s inherited and move to the city, and how he enlists their 14-year-old son to conspire against her. None of the narratives have previously been published, and all are apparently recent. ![]() Following an overstuffed feast of a novel ( Under the Dome, 2009), King returns with four comparative snacks, each of which deals in some way with the darkest recesses of the human soul. ![]() ![]() In French there exist only partial translations, chief among them being those made by Bergmann many years ago. An excellent translation of the poems dealing with the gods, in verse and with critical and explanatory notes, made by Olive Bray, was, however, published by the Viking Club of London in 1908. In English the only versions were long the conspicuously inadequate one made by Thorpe, and published about half a century ago, and the unsatisfactory prose translations in Vigfusson and Powell’s Corpus Poeticum Boreale, reprinted in the Norrœna collection. ![]() ![]() ![]() Translations have been far from numerous, and only in Germany has the complete work of translation been done in the full light of recent scholarship. There is scarcely any literary work of great importance which has been less readily available for the general reader, or even for the serious student of literature, than the Poetic Edda. ![]() |