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![]() ![]() Her exclamation points (there are many) are the little stabs of intensity our emotions cycle through each day. Where a simple phrase will do, it does: “I was so happy.” “ Oh he is just so lonely!” “What a strange thing life is.” Lucy Barton in particular, the narrator - again - of Strout’s new novel, “Oh William!,” announces her reactions with the vocabulary of, well, a regular person. Even in her novels’ darkest moments, there’s a soft, periwinkle feeling. There is a quietude to her prose - even with scowly, persnickety characters like Olive Kitteridge - that exudes calm devotion. ![]() ![]() I imagine Elizabeth Strout scrawling out her novels longhand in some serene room in coastal Maine, a party of white pines standing tall outside her window. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My plan is to be an elementary music teacher, although if my father had his way, I’d still be prelaw. I even switched my major to music education two years ago. I’ve played the piano for as long as I can remember, and although I’ve never shared it with anyone, I love writing music. Then again, music has always been a passion of mine, so maybe I’m just a little more infatuated with his sound than other people are. ![]() I don’t understand how someone could hear these songs and not crave them day after day. I’ve noticed a few other neighbors come out to their balconies when he’s playing, but no one is as loyal as I am. I tell Tori I come out here to get homework done, because I don’t want to admit that the guitar is the only reason I’m outside every night at eight, like clockwork.įor weeks now, the guy in the apartment across the courtyard has sat on his balcony and played for at least an hour. Almost on cue, the sound of his guitar floats across the courtyard as I take a seat and lean back into the patio lounger. I slide open my balcony door and step outside, thankful that the sun has already dipped behind the building next door, cooling the air to what could pass as a perfect fall temperature. ![]() Maybe Someday By Colleen Hoover Introduction Excerpt. ![]() ![]() I love the ocean, and we spent a lot of time on the beach, or snorkeling in Hanauma Bay. We’re currently working on final art for our next picture book, but it’s still early days so I’m not sure we can talk about it too much at this point.Įric: That’s a tough one. What are some of your current and future projects that you can share with us? ![]() Reading is also simply fun - a doorway into a new adventure and into other worlds. A good story can expand the bandwidth of your imagination, and give you new ways of looking at the world, which in turn can impact your life in meaningful and tangible ways. Stories also give us a window into other people’s lives and experiences that we wouldn’t ordinarily have access to. ![]() By taking the often chaotic and random events of life and organizing them into a meaningful structure, we gain insight into the world, and into our own lives. Stories are one of the ways we make sense out of life. Why is storytelling so important for all of us? ![]() ![]() ![]() There it is, a flash of white through the trees. A gamble that he makes it before the storm is upon them. A crack of lightning, and she sees the silhouette of the captain in the pilothouse, looking out to the turbulent seas ahead. From what she remembers, they are between the church and the artists’ colony, the four cottages cowering on the hillside, empty and waiting.Ī horn shrieks, and she realizes the ferry is pulling away. ![]() She tries not to look down to the frothing water roiling against the rocks at the cliff’s base. It should be beautiful instead it feels oppressive, as if the vines might animate, twist and curl around her neck and strangle her to death. The arch’s skeleton has long since rotted away and the flowers droop into the path, clinging trails and vines that brush against her head and shoulders. Someone, years ago, built an archway along the arbor. It is cool inside this miniature forest the sky is blotted out by the purple-throated wisteria that drapes across and between the trees. A gray stone waist-high wall is all that stands between her and the cliffside. The path ahead is marked by towering cypress and laurel, verdant and lush. ![]() In her panic, she barely notices the pain. Her hair has come loose from its braid, flies unbound behind her like gossamer wings. ![]() A deep cut blooms red along her thigh, and the blood runs down her calf. The hem catches on a branch a large rend in the fabric slashes open, exposing her leg. The white dress, long and filmy, hampers her effort to run. ![]() ![]() At first, she's not sure if she can trust this stranger in the mountains, even if he has military written all over him. While on break from filming, the last thing she expects is to end up in the middle of a real-life action scene-one that puts her life on the line. But when a critical mission gets botched by a member of an iconic Hollywood family, he'll have to fight to protect his team's identity, as well as keep himself from falling for the woman who's turned his life upside down.Įva Sharp's the writer and co-producer for the hit TV series SEAL Security. ![]() She's crashed the biggest party of her life, and she's about to pay the price.Īs the leader of an off-the-books black ops SEAL team, Luke Scott can't afford for anyone to discover the truth about who he is or what he does. The Stealth Ops Series Box Set includes the following three Navy SEAL romantic suspense titles by Brittney Sahin: Finding His Mark, Finding Justice, and Finding the Fight. ![]() ![]() ![]() During a mission to cross the Fold, the dangerous barren land separating their country, Alina emits a blazing light while rescuing Mal, revealing her true identity. ![]() Her best friend is Malyen “Mal” Oretsev, who grew up with her at the orphanage. When she is old enough, she joins the First Army as a cartographer. ![]() She is a teenage girl who grew up an orphan of the Border Wars. So keep reading to learn the answers to all your burning questions about Alina Starkov! (Warning: spoilers ahead!) Who is Alina Starkov?Īlina Starkov is the main character and narrator of the Shadow and Bone trilogy. And now with the new Netflix adaptation, interest in Alina Starkov and the series at large is greater than ever. Though the novel came out almost 10 years ago, the Grishaverse has expanded quite a bit since then. Gather round, darklings, and let us tell you the tale of Alina Starkov, the star of the Shadow and Bone trilogy by Leigh Bardugo. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each image is highly detailed and facial expressions take on an intense, almost haunting quality. Her palette of pinks, peaches, and other pastels, offset with blacks and grays, makes everything bold and pronounced. Memory is a running theme in Valero-O’Connell’s narratives and illustrations. In “Con Temor, Con Ternura,” the locals celebrate as they wait for what may be their demise, using the time to reacquaint themselves and remember lives lived and shared. ![]() By the time they do reunite, though, they may not know each other at all. In “Don’t Go Without Me,” the lovers must give up memories of each other in order to find one another again. ![]() An intense air of melancholy suffuses the book as Valero-O’Connell pairs love with loss - a nudging reminder that one comes with the other. In the titular story, two lovers get separated in a parallel dimension the second story tells of a technician stranded in space, with someone else’s memories as their only company the last recounts a community preparing for a prophecy that may lead to its destruction. From Don’t Go Without Me by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell ![]() ![]() ![]() The second track is a Justin Broadrick remix of "Angel Tears", a song from their 2003 debut full-length Australasia. ![]() ![]() The title track is the original version of the shortened song "March to the Sea" from their 2005 album The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw, which was released just a month and a half later. March into the Sea is the second EP by American post-metal band Pelican, released in 2005 by Hydra Head Records. The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They have a very different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take the four of them on a fateful journey in the opposite direction - to New York City.īursting with life, charm, richly imagined settings and unforgettable characters, The Lincoln Highway is an extraordinary journey through 1950s America from the pen of a master storyteller. A few black-and-white snapshots capture their honeymoon, edges scalloped, their faces bright and impossibly young. With his mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett plans to pick up his eight-year-old brother Billy and head to California to start a new life.īut when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have stowed away in the trunk of the warden's car. In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. Welcome to the enormous pleasure that is The Lincoln Highway, a big book of camaraderie and adventure in which the miles fly by and the pages turn fast. ![]() Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writingespecially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. So it was a no-brainer to pick up his next novel, The Lincoln Highway, when it came out last October. Two brothers venture across 1950s America to New York in the absorbing new novel by the author of the bestselling A Gentleman in Moscow. In 2019, I reviewed his book A Gentleman in Moscow, which was fantastic. ![]() |