![]() ![]() ![]() Thank you for having me! I’m Veronica, I live in Chicago, I have a spouse and a dog. Hello Veronica! Thank you so much for taking the time for this Nerd Daily interview! Can you start by telling us a bit about yourself and what you’ve been up to recently? I recently got the chance to ask Veronica how she is feeling about the 10 year anniversary, what she has learned and how she has changed over the last 10 years, and what faction she considers herself in these days. With the 10th anniversary of Divergent’s debut, beautiful new editions of the series are being released, featuring new covers with artwork from Victo Ngai and exclusive content from Veronica herself! ![]() To this day, Divergent is still a much discussed trilogy that stands out amongst the crowd of YA dystopian stories. Garnering high praise from critics and readers alike, Divergent propelled Roth into the spotlight as an author with an eye for action and plot twists that would break your heart. A decade ago, Veronica Roth’s debut novel, Divergent, was released. ![]()
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![]() Born in a rural community in the early 1960s, he is raised by his grandfather, a deposed clan chief, and his great-aunt, or "grandmother," after his parents immigrate to the capital city of Kampala. ![]() The teller of this panoramic tale is Mugezi, a quick-witted, sharp-eyed man whose life encompasses the traditional and the modern, the peaceful and the insanely violent, the despotic and the democratic. From a young African writer who has already earned comparisons to Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes this masterful saga of life in 20th-century Uganda. Every once in a while there emerges a literary voice with the power and urgency to immerse readers deep within a previously "invisible" culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() We mutually agreed to a follow–up session later in the week. Chomsky showed great interest in the material. The scheduled one–hour meeting stretched to 3–4 hours. Soon after our discussions began, he asked his secretary to cancel his remaining appointments for the day. I had assembled a portfolio of evidence, primarily photographic, that I could present briefly but adequately in 30–60 minutes. Chomsky’s Knowledge of the AssassinationĪ JFK assassination researcher, Raymond Marcus, attempted in 1969 to get a number of well–known activist academics, including Chomsky and Howard Zinn, interested in the assassination: He is famously unconcerned about the JFK assassination, and is often accused of failing to recognise the importance of the event. Noam Chomsky is perhaps the best–known public critic of US government policy and actions. ![]() It is available as a paperback and ebook from Amazon ( USA, UK, Canada, Australia, and more) and Google Play. Although Chomsky appears to accept that the assassination was not the work of a lone nut, he notes that it did not lead to significant changes in public policy, and that the event is thus of little importance.Ģ2 November 1963: A Brief Guide to the JFK Assassination is the essential JFK assassination book. ![]() ![]() The characters really make this book! If you are looking for a good mystery with a paranormal twist with murder and mayhem, you need to pick up this magical book for sure. ![]() If you read this book for nothing else you need to read it to learn more about Kath and her Grandmother "Crazy Ivy". This book had so much to it mystery, paranormal, family drama, action, and adventure. At times they may have seemed a bit over the top, but there was a method to that madness, so to speak, and it all worked out as great writing in the end. They were so well developed and easy to like. I really enjoyed the characters in this book. So much happens in the mystery realm in the first few chapters that it really hooks you. The mystery of all the things going on when Kath comes to town for her Grandmother's funeral is so fascinating that you can't help but want to read on and on in the book once you start. Read a sample Read a sample Description Details Reviews In this mystery in the Haunted Yarn Shop series, Kath. The whole paranormal side was a great touch to the story. This book was not like that at all, which was a very refreshing thing to see in a first book. ![]() Sometimes first books in a series can just seem way to "fluffy" or to much like setting the scene for future books. ![]() Review. For a first book in a series, it was great and just kept plugging right along from the first page right up to the last word. Last Wool and Testament: A Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery Mass Market Paperback Septem Product Details. ![]() ![]() At times scarcely credible in the details it reveals of the suffering of millions of ordinary Chinese people, it is an unforgettable record of tyranny, hope and ultimate survival under conditions of extreme harshness. Through the lives of three different women - grandmother, mother and daughter - this book tells the story of 20th-century China. It's a story.about the survival of a Chinese family through a century of disaster. The New Yorker Her family chronicle resembles a popular novel that stars strong, beautiful women and provides cameo roles for famous men.But Wild Swans is no romance. Von der Kaiserzeit bis zur Herrschaft Maos und seiner Nachfolger erlebt Jung Changs Familie die rücksichtslose Umsetzung politischer Ideen, die Millionen Menschen das Leben gekostet hat und die Jung Chang und ihre Familie nur unter großem Leid überleben konnten. ![]() Jung Chang erzählt die Geschichte von drei Generationen in China die ihrer Großmutter, ihrer Mutter und ihre eigene Geschichte. ![]() 637 (3) Seiten mit Illustrationen und Karten. ![]() ![]() In this story, Eva is a likable character as well as independent, feisty, clever, smart, and brave. All opinions in this review are completely my own.Įngaging: One aspect I appreciate about Kristin Harmel’s storytelling is that she engages me from the first page, and I never experience a lull as I am compelled to turn the pages. Thanks, #netgalley #gallerybooks for a complimentary e-ARC of #thebookoflostnames upon my request. The Book of Lost Names becomes an important link between the two timelines. The story is told in dual timelines from the present-day perspective of Eva who is a semi-retired librarian living in Florida and the young Eva as she flees Paris and joins an underground forgery operation in a small mountain town near the Switzerland border. Inspired by true stories from WW11, a young Jewish woman who flees Paris with her mother after the arrest of her father finds herself committing to a forgery ring whose primary goal is to create documents that will help hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis. ![]() ![]() *This post contains Amazon affiliate links. ![]() ![]() Genre/Categories: Historical Fiction, WW11, France ![]() ![]() ![]() But Follett immediately declares his independence from cliches: by luring us over to The Needle's point of view, forcing us to admire his ingenuity (even as he murders a harmless landlady and then his own confederate) by making three-dimensional fellows of the British intelligence men who must catch The Needle before he makes contact with a German submarine and by dropping in the apparently extraneous story of a young, unhappy man and wife who've been living on an empty North Sea island ever since the husband lost his legs in a honeymoon car accident. The familiar D-Day gimmick: only one man can ruin the secrecy of the Normandy landing-a top German undercover agent known as "The Needle" because of his deadly stiletto. ![]() But Ken Follett is here with that particularly British tone of controlled, leisurely tension-you'll feel it on the very first page-that can transform a not-very-original spy plot into a sly gavotte that has you holding your breath as the dancers slowly come together. Not even John le Carre or Geoffrey Household. ![]() ![]() And in beautiful prose, Miller sheds light on her complicated yet loving relationship with her parents that has thrived in spite of the odds.Ĭoming Clean is a story about recognizing where we come from and the relationships that define us-and about finding peace in the homes we make for ourselves.Įditorial Review An Amazon Best Book of the Month, July 2013: Most children who grow up in dysfunctional families don’t realize at first they’re any different from anybody else-but Kimberly Rae Miller is more observant than most from childhood, she had a growing sense that there was something wrong in her household. ![]() In this moving coming-of-age story, Kim brings to life her rat-infested home, her childhood consumed by concealing her father’s shameful secret from friends, and the emotional burden that ultimately led to an attempt to take her own life. You would never guess that Kim grew up behind the closed doors of her family’s idyllic Long Island house, navigating between teetering stacks of aging newspapers, broken computers, and boxes upon boxes of unused junk festering in every room-the product of her father’s painful and unending struggle with hoarding. ![]() ![]() Kim Miller is an immaculately put-together woman with a great career, a loving boyfriend, and a tidy apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. ![]() ![]() ![]() Micah Kelly never thought he’d see his childhood crush-and first kiss-again. And when he runs into an old friend from his past soon after he makes the move, he wonders if it might be kismet. When the chance to play for his hometown team, the Miami Thunder, comes along, he’s open to it. But despite the post-win high, something’s missing. ![]() ![]() I really enjoyed PERMANENT INK and OFF THE ICE by this team and I wasn’t let down with this new story.ĭaniel “Bellzie” Bellamy should be on top of the world-a Stanley Cup is the perfect topper to his fourteen-year NHL career. TRADE DEADLINE featuers a veteran hockey player whose tranfer to a failing team doesn’t bring the professional results he was looking for, but does reconnect him to his childhood love. Hi there! Today, I’m sharing a review for a new M/M contemporary hockey romance from the writing team of Avon Gale and Piper Vaughn. ![]() ![]() He talks to snakes, he lives under a cupboard, and, as Uncle Vernon ominously implies, strange things happen whenever he's around. ![]() In this world, Harry's a grade-A outcast with a side order of weirdo. Welcome to life with the Dursleys: they make "ordinary" look "heavenly." ![]() For simplicity's sake, we're going to look at this as a stand-alone story, instead of one part of a larger saga. You can look at the film on its own-as a single beginning/middle/end story-or you could look at it as Chapter One of a seven-chapter (or eight-movie) saga, which means it probably just encapsulates the first four of five stops on the Joseph Campbell Express. In the case of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the Hero's Journey is actually divided in two. Want more? We have an entire Online Course devoted to the hero's journey.) We're working with those 12 stages, so take a look. He wrote The Hero with a Thousand Faces, in which he outlined the 17 stages of a mythological hero's journey.Ībout half a century later, Christopher Vogler condensed those stages down to 12 in an attempt to show Hollywood how every story ever written should-and, uh, does -follow Campbell's pattern. ![]() ![]() Ever notice that every blockbuster movie has the same fundamental pieces? A hero, a journey, some conflicts to muck it all up, a reward, and the hero returning home and everybody applauding his or her swag? Yeah, scholar Joseph Campbell noticed first-in 1949. ![]() |