![]() ![]() Georgie Nikolopatos isn’t Greek, but she married a Greek man and now manages the family restaurant. Tell us Scribbler’s a bit about Feta Attraction and what inspired this story?įETA ATTRACTION is the first book of the Greek to Me Mysteries, which was sold as a three-book series to Berkley Prime Crime. It’s an honor and a privilege and a joy to be able to write full-time, and I am mindful of that every single day. That I’m so incredibly grateful to be able to live my dream. What would you most like your readers to know about you that they would not likely read in your official bio? Thank you for joining us at Scribbler’s today Susannah! ![]() Lawrence University, Susannah now lives in Connecticut with her husband, teenage son, and Elvira the Wonder Cat. A native of northern New York, where she attended St. ![]() Susannah Hardy thinks she has the best job in the world: making up stories and inventing recipes to go along with them. I’m delighted to weclome writer Susanah Hardy, author of the page turning and just released mystery, Feta Attraction. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When Laia and Elias’ paths fatefully cross, the 2015 debut installment in Sabaa Tahir’s best-selling fantasy tetralogy-a sweeping saga of love, courage, hope and the search for liberty-truly takes off. Elias has trained for 14 years to become a Mask, a killing machine for the emperor, but is desperate to escape everything about his life of violence. And even those at the top of the empire’s food chain, like 20-year-old Elias Veturius, the scion of a powerful Martial family, suffer in a society that values duty and brutality above all else. But after Laia’s older brother Darin is arrested for treason, Laia must seek out the rebel Resistance and make a desperate deal. In the tyrannical Martial Empire, inspired by ancient Rome, 17-year-old Laia and her people eke out an existence under the yoke of the ruling elite. ![]() ![]() ![]() Quite ample detail overburdening follows shortly, mostly by way of ominous narrative pronouncements, flashy visual markers that scream "I AM A LETHAL ASSASSIN FROM A CULT THAT DOESN'T KNOW WHAT 'SECRET' MEANS". The next couple of pages make up for that. ![]() It serves to introduce the protagonist in a way that says something about his decisiveness, about his past, and about his relationship with that past, but it does not overburden itself with detail. It hints at something big and, perhaps, shadowy. ![]() It's a short sentence, and while it does not immediately grab you the way some of the greatest first sentences of novels ever written do, it does perhaps intrigue the reader. a few days later, so you have time to forget some of the advice you might find on the first webpage that comes up in a search for "first line of a novel" when you're stumped for ideas on how to write a great first line. It is, in fact, exactly the kind of thing you'd write after ten minutes of pondering how to start a novel about an assassin who quits his secret assassin cult to rescue a fair damsel, some time in the days immediately following a three hour writer's workshop held at the local book store by someone who had recently published his or her first novel. It's a well-chosen, well-constructed first line for a novel, if not particularly original or precisely "great". The first page of the prologue begins with a line of dialog: "I quit The League tonight". ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the media gets in on the case, Lana must rush to find the killer before more dates turn deadly. There's a long line of slighted women, angry neighbors, and perturbed co-workers-all of whom seem to have a motive.Īs Lana continues to spiral down the treacherous path of scorned lovers and mistreated acquaintances, she can't help but dwell on how quickly an innocent evening filled with hope and positivity could turn so sour. To her dismay, she quickly finds that Rina's date has a rather unsavory past. Without hesitation, Lana begins to dig into the man in question. When Lana Lee's best friend, Megan Riley, asks her to help host a speed dating contest at Ho-Lee Noodle House, she doesn't see the harm in lending a hand. At the Ho-Lee Noodle House, murder is on the menu. Under suspicion of foul play, Rina enlists Lana's help in finding out what really happened that night. Lana Lee returns for another delectable cozy set in a Chinese restaurant in Vivien Chien's Hot and Sour Suspects. But before they can break out the champagne, Rina Su, fellow Asia Village shop owner and speed dating participant, calls to inform Lana that the date she's just matched with has been murdered. The night goes better than anticipated, and both Lana and Megan are beyond thrilled with the results. ![]() "Pair your noodles with this steaming mystery, and you have the perfect chilly night combination!"-PopSugarĪt the Ho-Lee Noodle House, murder is on the menu. Lana Lee returns for another delectable cozy set in a Chinese restaurant in Vivien Chien's Hot and Sour Suspects. ![]() ![]() Anyone can be drawn into the unearthly events contained within his stories. Ito’s unusual blend of horror elements (including, cosmic terror and body horror), aren’t reserved for elite hero characters that I can’t relate to. Maybe that’s what makes these stories so satisfying to me. ![]() These unfortunate ‘everyman’ characters really don’t know what they’re in for! Ito has a unique narrative style that compliments his bizarre stories, elevating the strangeness of the supernatural events above the common, everyday individuals experiencing them. His art style is always detailed, and his stories strange. Nate I truly enjoy the horror stories of Junji Ito. If you’ve been clamoring for sleepless nights and a sudden urge to change your pants, this book is for you. Another highlight is The Earthbound for it’s story, something I don't usually say about Junji Ito. Be sure to read The Secret of the Haunted Mansion for the one of the scariest page turns ever. ![]() It’s hard for me to get scared by manga (it’s not the visceral experience like movies) but Ito manages to make me stay up at night. ![]() The 13 stories range from horror classics to fun Ito zaniness. ![]() WillMore Junji Ito is always welcome, and that’s what we get in Smashed. Smashed Junji Ito Story Collection Manga Review ![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. What’s more, for anyone who prefers homemade to store-bought pastry check out our basic single-crust and double-crust pie recipes.įor anyone with a sweet tooth, there is nothing quite as good as the taste of a great American pie. The Sweetie Pie Cookbook brings together a collection of 40 Must-Have Great American Pie Recipes.Ĭhoose from some all-time traditional pies including:-Īnd discover some new, great American pie flavors including: ![]() There is nothing more American than a piece of homemade pie! And it generally takes pride of place on the Thanksgiving and 4th of July family dinner table. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. There isn’t a single month in the year when the nation doesn’t celebrate one sweet, great American pie or another.įrom National Pie Day in January to Great American Pie Month in February to Boston Cream Pie in October and National Pie Day in December, America sure does love dessert! There isnt a single month in the year when the nation doesnt celebrate one - Christina Tosch - 9781096299110. ![]() ![]() ![]() The other set of stories, Combats, is one sequence after another of elegantly choreographed battles. Plot is pushed aside in favor of sheer formal verve as we watch buildings, about which we know nothing, come into being. One set of graphic stories, Public Works, details massive structures being erected across a landscape. book on Yokoyama's work combines two of the artist's central themes: fighting and building. ![]() If the history of the world had turned out differently from what we know today, men would live according to different sets of values and different aesthetics It would be a civilization completely alien to ours." This first U.S. Yuichi Yokoyama makes comics in a unique language situated somewhere between the primal drives of William Blake and the elegant geometries of Sol Lewitt-they are works of philosophical complexity and stunning visual power, of which he has said, "I'm not trying to write stories that are set in the future, but rather to write stories which are delivered from references to any given epoch or time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The “army” marches into Money, faces down the town’s white populace and, in an exceedingly lame climactic scene, receives the demanded “apology,” then leaves, persuaded “that the war was not over, but…also, now, that they could win.” The book is a sermon, weakened by theme-driven editorializing (e.g., “Clement entered the General Store with an entitlement unknown to Mississippi Negroes in 1955”). Jeremiah calls a “town meetin’ ” in his barn, and he organizes local black families into an “army” that challenges their white oppressors, aided by the (very strange) efforts of guilty white liberal Edgar Rosenthal, who-as an almost unbelievably awkward subplot reveals-means to atone for having wronged a black fellow college student decades ago. ![]() In a melodramatic narrative hamstrung by numerous flashbacks, racist monster Sheriff Billy Ray Cuthbert assembles a posse and “avenges” Clement’s offense. When teenaged Clement-who’s visiting his mother’s sharecropper relatives, the Johnsons, in Money, Miss.-sasses a lady store clerk, Clement’s cousins fear the worst-as does their family’s stoical patriarch Jeremiah, who bears into old age the scars of a painful legacy of oppression, rape, murder and suicide. The Kansas City author’s second novel ( They Tell Me of a Home, 2005) is based on the story of Emmett Till, a northern black boy who in 1955 “disrespected” a southern white woman, and paid for his impudence with his life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I just loved her outlook and approach on life. Imogen doesn’t pull any punches she sees no need for subterfuge. ![]() I always respect that in any character, male or female. She’s abrupt (in a good way) and tells it like it is. They did end up together, but I wasn’t as drawn to them in their book as I was when they were just secondary characters. They were such an unlikely couple, you couldn’t help but hope that they would end up together. I was drawn to Imogen and Ty in Flat-Out Sexy. A southern gentleman like Ty will satisfy all her curiosity-and make all the risks worthwhile… ![]() Yet he’s the one who’s chasing after her, and Imogen realizes that she actually wants to be caught. If she follows the so-called “rules” on how to get a man, can she steer her way into the world and hearts of stock race car drivers, and establish their dating- and mating-patterns?Īlthough sexy and reckless racer Ty McCordle is the ideal test subject, Imogen knows that for the sake of science, she can’t give in to her growing attraction for him. Grad student Imogen Wilson realizes she’s hit on the perfect thesis for her sociology degree. Casee‘s review of Hard and Fast (Fast Track Series, book 2) by Erin McCarthy. ![]() ![]() Publication Date: February 2015 – May 2018įind out why I DNF’d the Glass Sword (Book 2) below: Why I Picked it Up / My Expectations: Genre: Young Adult, High Fantasy, Dystopian, Magic There are two novellas: #0.1 Queen Song & #0.2 Steel Scars ![]() SERIESous’ Top Picks: Fave Read 2015 ( Red Queen), Biggest Disappointment 2016 ( Glass Sword) And in this world divided by blood, who will win? One that threatens to destroy Silver control.īut power is a dangerous game. She quickly discovers that, despite her red blood, she possesses a deadly power of her own. Mare finds herself working in the Silver Palace, at the centre of ![]() To Mare Barrow, a 17-year-old Red girl from The Stilts, it looks like nothing will ever change. The poverty stricken Reds are commoners, living under the rule of the Silvers, elite warriors with god-like powers. ![]() Series Review: Is this series worth your time? Does it get better as the novels progress? Or does it get worse? Find out below: ![]() |