He's a stylist, a seemingly effortless imaginer of weirded-up nonsense and navigator extraordinaire of the multiple POV school of plots and schemery. This is Slade House, the newest novel from David Mitchell - who wrote the beautifully twisty Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. "What I see is the wackometer needle climbing," she thinks, as her subject drones on about creepy twins, "psychic vampires" and then - wait a minute - did she just drink that tonic water in front of her? Didn't the last person to go missing around here drink something first, too? Or maybe not cheesy, exactly, but certainly derivative, troped-out and, somehow, comfortingly familiar. Has promised that she will listen, and she's trying her best. How?Īt a table at a skuzzy pub just up the street from the haunted house, a journalist sits, listening to her source ramble on and on about mysterious disappearances, ancient secrets, strange conspiracies and immortality. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Slade House Author David Mitchell
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With its message of hope, belonging and the enduring power of truth and love, the story of the Boy Who Lived continues to delight generations of new listeners. Having now become classics of our time, the Harry Potter audiobooks never fail to bring comfort and escapism to listeners of all ages. But perhaps most terrifying of all are the Dementors patrolling the school grounds, with their soul-sucking kiss. In his first ever Divination class, Professor Trelawney sees an omen of death in Harry's tea leaves. Sirius Black, escaped mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, is on the run - and they say he is coming after Harry. When the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it's the start of another far from ordinary year at Hogwarts for Harry Potter. Just stick out your wand hand, step on board and we can take you anywhere you want to go.'" "'Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. This is a suspense novel with a dash of romance and a whole lot of mystery. Pintip Dunn is back and her words are just as addictive. I wouldn't say it was predictable, for the target audience it probably would be a brain exercise and I recommend it to anyone, really. I read too many books in my life so I guessed everything pretty early on, but I still couldn't be 100% sure, so when things got revealed I didn't roll my eyes, I was just happy I was right. My only problem was with the ending, and although I understand why it needed to be like that, and it's also YA, so it was probably more suitable for the target audience, I waited for something different with more blood and heartbreak. I read it in a day and actually see myself rereading it in the future, because it was that entertaining. I also liked the main plot about the time travel and how it affected the present day, how different their older selves were from them due to the things they went through, and that every relationship was healthy and people communicated with each other. I really enjoyed this one, especially the romance! It was super sweet with a stubborn heroine and a golden retriver love interest. Sans this strip, the industry is characterized by guys sitting on rocks making stupid puns, a Family Circus kid misunderstanding the meaning of a word, or an overweight father playing golf while telling jokes such as I LIKE GOLF and GOLF IS HARD. I can confidently state that Calvin and Hobbes outclasses the rest of the comic strip world more than anything else has ever outclassed the rest of its medium. So saying that Calvin and Hobbes is the best comic strip ever doesn't really hold a lot of weight.Īnd it's really a shame that it's so difficult to quantify this strip's greatness. 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Most of the thoughts aren’t clear, just Noise. Todd lives on New World, a colonized planet where all of the men can hear each other’s thoughts. Yes, it was intentional because the novel is written by a 12 year old boy. I was greatly annoyed by the bad spelling and grammar in this novel. (And the short story that takes place afterwards.) (I like books that make me happy, not sad.) It just wasn’t my kind of book, but I got so wrapped up in the characters and the story that I read the entire trilogy. When I read the summery I expected a cute little fun book about kids who can read minds and a talking dog, but what I got was a thought provoking book, which was often sad. I’m not rating this series, because it wouldn’t be fair to the books. 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When their latest case brings back a ghost from their past, Cassie and the other Naturals find themselves racing against the clock - and reliving their own childhood traumas. As a unit, they're responsible for identifying new Naturals - and solving particularly impossible cases. Now twenty-three years old, she and her fellow Naturals have taken over running the program that taught them everything they know. Dive back into the world of The Naturals in this e-novella from Jennifer Lynn Barnes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inheritance Games.Ĭassie Hobbes has been working with the FBI since she was a teenager. Embassytown features the following: intelligent horse-sized insectoid aliens, faster-than-light propulsion, androids, organic technology (‘biorigging’), warpspace (‘the immer’), clones, advanced bionics, nanotech notepaper, flying microcameras (‘vespcams’), people with futuristically well-adjusted sexualities, projected holographic adverts (‘trids’), a diasporic human race spread across galaxies and tracing its roots back to the mythical home planet of Terre, a pan-galactic language closely resembling English (‘Anglo-Ubiq’), space-adapted monotheism (‘Christ Pharotekton’) and artificial intelligences (‘artminds’) made seemingly sentient with ‘turingware’. |