![]() ![]() ![]() In an introductory author’s note, she says her goal is “to tell stories in what I regard as the most honest way possible: by accepting language’s inherent obliqueness and using it to the story’s advantage.” Melchor is up-front about her intentions. Last year’s follow-up, “ Paradais,” was a slim but potent novel about a sexual assault, from its cold-hearted planning to agonizing execution. “ Hurricane Season,” her first novel translated into English and a finalist for the 2020 International Booker Prize, explores the demise of a Veracruz “witch” in a milieu of drugs, violence, porn and other assorted vices. ![]() Steely resolve in the face of violence has been a hallmark of Melchor’s remarkable and still-nascent career. “Once he’d fallen to the floor they cut off his left foot with a machete to see if he was still alive,” she writes, “and since he continued groaning, they poured another can of fuel over him.” In 1996, a man named Rodolfo Soler stood accused of rape and murder, and Melchor relates the townspeople’s vengeance - torturing him and burning him alive - in prose as cool as the events were grotesque. In “ This Is Not Miami,” her new book of not-quite-nonfiction, Fernanda Melchor tells the true story of a lynching in her home of Veracruz, a state on the Gulf Coast of Mexico. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. ![]()
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The narrator, Elizabeth, lives in a cramped apartment in New York with her husband and their two young daughters both decided to choose and/or leave corporate (or similar) work in the eighties to pursue their own dreams, which the narrator points out early in the novel was their first big mistake: Elizabeth has longed to teach at the college level, while her husband makes furniture, bookcases etc. ![]() Lynn Steger Strong’s new novel “Want” joins this exclusive club of excellent novels of this ilk. As I’ve mentioned before in reviewing novels this year, the newly independent woman finding herself in New York has become a genre unto itself the best example this year is “The Exhibition of Persephone Q” the two women writers who’ve helped to establish this genre are the superbly gifted Mary Gaitskill and the always fascinating Ottessa Moshfegh. ![]() ![]() ![]() REVIEWS (4.5 of 5 stars on Amazon): " Heinrich seems to be a born teacher. Each new discovery and insight into raven behavior is thrilling to read, at once lyrical and scientific." Mind of the Raven follows an exotic journey-from New England to Germany, and from Montana to Baffin Island in the high Arctic-offering dazzling accounts of how science works in the field, filtered through the eyes of a passionate observer of nature. ![]() At the heart of this book are Heinrich's love and respect for these complex and engaging creatures, and through his keen observation and analysis, we become their intimates too. Heinrich's passion for ravens has led him around the world in his research. He studies their daily routines, and in the process, paints a vivid picture of the ravens' world. But as animals can only be spied on by getting quite close, Heinrich adopts ravens, thereby becoming a 'raven father,' as well as observing them in their natural habitat. ![]() Winner of the 2000 John Burroughs Medal for Natural History Writingįrom the book jacket: "Heinrich involves us in his quest to get inside the mind of the raven. MIND OF THE RAVEN: INVESTIGATIONS AND ADVENTURES WITH WOLF-BIRDS ( 380 pp., Harper Collins,1999) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I heard it was ‘just pills’ over and over,” she says. 6 - the journalist has widened her lens, crisscrossing the country to explore the roots of the opioid crisis. Now, in her new book, “ Dopesick” - which enters the nonfiction list at No. That’s the opening of an article that Beth Macy wrote for The Roanoke Times back in 2012, the first in a series about the deadly heroin epidemic roiling suburban Roanoke County, Va. “But it all caught up to him, eventually.” “For his entire adolescence, Mumpower managed to outwit any parent, program or police officer that stood between him and his drugs. For a time, he even outfoxed his court-appointed drug testers. He stole prescription painkillers from his parents’ medicine chest. “Spencer Mumpower … stashed marijuana inside his computer and guns under his pillow. ![]() ![]() Half a moon / Renée Watson - Black enough / Varian Johnson - Warning: color may fade / Leah Henderson - Black. I have to say some of my favourite stories were "Oreo" by Brandy Colbert (I felt for the heroine in this one, oreo seems like a bit of a cruel term to use, especially for liking musicals! THE REVOLUTION OF BIRDIE RANDOLPH. ![]() I have to say some of my favourite stories were "Oreo" by Brandy Colbert (I felt for the heroine in this one, oreo seems like a bit of a cruel term to use, especially for liking musicals! Her work is full of nuance, honesty and authenticity. And this is why anthologies are hard to rate. Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today - Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it's like to be young and Black in America. ![]() ![]() A collection of short stories explore what it is like to be young and black, centering on the experiences of black teenagers and emphasizing that one person's experiences, reality, and personal identity are different than someone else Nerd. Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today-Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it's like to be young and Black in America. ![]() ![]() ![]() And treading on weakness is exactly what dating felt like, with so many of these women-with their wide-open hopefulness, their hunger for connection”). (“Ethical people don’t take advantage of other’s people stupidity that’s like being a slumlord or a price gouger. ![]() He interrogates whether he treats women badly even as he treats them badly. Nate self-consciously analyzes his treatment of women, and the self-consciousness is itself maddening, yet alluring. ![]() Waldman goes deeply into the swirlingly complex contradictions of the sensitive literary man’s relationship with the women that surround him. In a delicately disdainful assessment of Keith Gessen’s celebrated novel, All the Sad Young Literary Men, Andrew O’Hagan wrote, “There must, after all, be a way of life in which literary men are not enslaved to the sad business of always having to do better than ‘the people they went to college with.’ ” ![]() It is admittedly a very narrow and weirdly provincial universe Waldman is so fiercely and effectively exposing a universe of aspiring writers, novelists, and contributors to highbrow magazines who live in certain neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Manhattan, and went to certain schools. ![]() ![]() When Katherine suddenly vanishes, Casey becomes consumed with finding out what happened to her. But the more they get to know each other-and the longer Casey watches-it becomes clear that Katherine and Tom’s marriage is not as perfect and placid as it appears. One day on the lake, Casey saves Katherine from drowning, and the two strike up a budding friendship. They make for good viewing-a tech innovator, Tom is rich and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of liquor, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple who live in the house across the lake. ![]() The New York Times best-selling author of Final Girls and Survive the Night is back with his most unexpected thriller yet.Ĭasey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. ![]() ![]() ![]() The series has been so popular that the author, although complete with this series, has begun another series based on other characters in The Vampire Academy. There is also and incredibly powerful love story between two guradians, Rose and Demetri - which is forbidden for many reasons. Richelle Mead is the author of the international 1 bestselling Vampire Academy series, the Bloodlines series, the Glittering Court series, and the Age of X series. These stories follow the Dragomir princess Lisa (the very last in her line, and therefore she is very valuable and most want to see her dead - really dead) and her guardian Rose and the very special bond these two share. ![]() I can CLEARLY see what all the hype is what with. Then of course the evil vamps, the Strigoi, who follow most vampire rules. I have the entire Vampire Academy collection but I hadnt brought myself to start reading it, until now. Those tweleve families have guardians that go to school with the vampires and train very very hard to protect them. There are good vamps, the Moroi, that can even go out in the sunlight and they are governed by the royal families. This series takes vampires to a new level. ![]() I stumbled across this series and could not get enough. Yes, I have to say, even better than the Twilight series. Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection by Richelle Mead Books Authors Discover More Books Authors Discover Events Quizzes FAQ Copyright 2022 Penguin Random House LLC. These were the BEST Vampire books I have EVER read. ![]() |