![]() ![]() ![]() The Comfort Book is Haig’s life raft: It’s a collection of notes, lists, and stories written over a span of several years that originally served as gentle reminders to Haig’s future self that things are not always as dark as they may seem. Incorporating a diverse array of sources from across the world, history, science, and his own experiences, Haig offers warmth and reassurance, reminding us to slow down and appreciate the beauty and unpredictability of existence. But then we never think about food more than when we are hungry and we never think about life rafts more than when we are thrown overboard.” Matt Haig is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library and the internationally bestselling memoir Reasons to Stay Alive and the follow-up Notes on a Nervous Planet, along with six novels, including How to Stop Time, and several award-winning children's books. “It is a strange paradox, that many of the clearest, most comforting life lessons are learnt while we are at our lowest. Named by The Washington Post as one of the best feel-good books of 2021. The new uplifting book from Matt Haig, the number one New York Times best-selling author of The Midnight Library, for anyone in search of hope, looking for a path to a more meaningful life, or in need of a little encouragement. ![]()
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An odd book fell into my hands recently, a doorstopper with the irresistible title “1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.” That sounds like a challenge, with a subtle insult embedded in the premise. ![]() ![]() ![]() He carried two guns belonging to his father - at least one a handgun - and four Molotov cocktails, officials said. Most students escaped through a back door, according to a local official. The father of a student said the shooter entered his daughter's classroom, then fired at her teacher and classmates as they ducked under their desks. "He said that after committing (the crime) he was caught by fear and panic and funny breathing, and that it was the right thing to call the police and report the event." "The child who committed the crime said when he called the police that he shot some people in the school and that … he is a psychopath who needs to calm down," Milic told state television station RTS. Authorities also received a call reporting the shooting two minutes earlier. ![]() The assailant called police himself after the shooting was over. Two children remained in serious condition after hourslong surgeries, doctors said later Wednesday. Six children and a teacher were also hospitalized. "As soon as she did not answer, I knew it was over." Radicevic did not provide Ana's full name or age. Ana was near the school entrance when the assailant shot the school guard, "and then he shot at my Ana," Radicevic said. Ljiljana Radicevic told The Associated Press that her granddaughter was also killed in the shooting. The victims included a girl with French citizenship, French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anne-Claire Legendre said in a statement. ![]() ![]() ![]() I look in confusion at my stretched arms but of course, silly me. He can make the pain stop I just know it in my heart. He wears the clothes of a smith, or perhaps a cooper, and a thin chain hangs from his neck. ![]() Working from my home studio, using top-of-the-line equipment, I always provide crisp, clear audio with editing and proofing to ensure a distraction free listening experience. This man is a captive like me, an adolescent with a lost look. I’m proficient in a wide range of accents and dialects, including UK, French, German, Russian, Irish, Scottish, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, and Eastern/Southern US. I’ve studied with some of the best in the industry, including Paul Meier and Pat Fraley, and am always studying new techniques to enhance my performance. I’m proficient in a variety of accents, am a member of SAG/AFTRA, have won multiple independent awards, including the IAA for Horror 2019, and am constantly working to expand my repertoire across the spectrum of incredible works available. I want you to feel the real world melt away as you engage with my work, whatever the genre, whether it's on the lighter side (cozy mysteries, LitRPG, comedic paranormal romance) or the darker desires (reverse harem, steamy dystopia, sci-fi thrillers) and everything in between.Ĭurrently on the rosters of multiple major publishers like Podium, Tantor and ACX, I’ve worked with authors around the world. ![]() Harnessing a childhood steeped in storytelling and a deep love of the written word, with over 600 titles (and growing) under my belt, I always strive to bring a wide range of characters to vibrant, compelling life, allowing for total immersion in the story. ![]() ![]() The second strand begins as an X-File recorded by American Occupation forces, and narrates how a group of wartime evacuees foraging for food in the Shikoku mountains glimpsed a possible UFO before losing consciousness for several hours. Here the cross-gender librarian of a private library, Oshima, and its enigmatic owner, Mrs Saeki, provide the mature-beyond-his-years runaway with employment and a roof. Kafka winds up in the provincial city of Takamatsu on the smallest of Japan's main islands, Shikoku. ![]() ![]() In the first strand, 15-year-old Kafka Tamura (we never learn his real name) runs away from Tokyo and his sculptor-father who kills cats to make flutes from their souls. The plot is a slow-ravelling two-strander. ![]() ![]() She misses her mom, her garden, her magic-and the way her dad treated her before her mom passed. Tara Maclay isn’t thrilled to be starting her senior year of high school in a new town. In this Buffy the Vampire Slayer prequel, fan-favorite and LGBTQIA+ icon Tara Maclay gets the main character treatment … whether she wants it or not. And Clementine knows that if she lets her heart fall, she’ll be doomed.Īfter all, love is never a matter of time-but a matter of timing. Her aunt always said the apartment was a pinch in time, a place where moments blended together like watercolors. And she, quite literally, lives seven years in his future. And she might again.Įxcept, he exists in the past. The kind of man that, before it all, she would’ve fallen head-over-heels for. ![]() A man with kind eyes and a Southern drawl and a taste for lemon pies. The love part is hard because she doesn’t want to get too close to anyone-she isn’t sure her heart can take it.Īnd then she finds a strange man standing in the kitchen of her late aunt’s apartment. And for the last year, that plan has gone off without a hitch. The last one is silly and obviously metaphorical, but her aunt always told her that you needed at least one big dream to keep going. So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon. ![]() ![]() Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sloane’s grief is by no means the theme of the story, or the main cause of plot complications. If this synopsis makes you wonder if this story is a) a grief story or b) Harry Styles fanfic, the answer is c) neither. They start talking and texting, and, when he gets back, a relationship. She finds out the owner is Jason, a musician currently out of town for work. One day, she’s in her car when a dog jumps in through her sunroof. An artist, she now paints “astronaut cats” to pay the bills she has for the roof over her head and the car in her garage – she doesn’t do much else requiring funds. Sloan Monroe is entering her third year of unmitigated grief due to the loss of her fiancé in a tragic accident. The audiobook, despite its inconsistency, is still a worthwhile listening experience due to the quality of the tale being told. The highest of its peaks is undoubtedly the love story, and that peak rises so high above not only the story’s valleys, but all the neighboring peaks of the other romances I’ve reviewed lately, that it has earned my most passionate recommendation. Narrated by Zachary Webber and Erin MallonĪbby Jimenez’s The Happy Ever After Playlist, both as a story and audiobook, is full of peaks and valleys. ![]() ![]() A secret Dez has spent her life keeping safe. The two team up with a group of rogue Sixes hellbent on taking down Denazen before they're caught and her father discovers the biggest secret of all. It's not until Dez's father shows up, wielding a gun and knowing more about Kale than he should, that Dez realizes there's more to this boy-and her father's "law firm"-than she realized.Kale has been a prisoner of Denazen Corporation-an organization devoted to collecting "special" kids known as Sixes and using them as weapons-his entire life.Īnd, oh yeah, his touch? It kills. Rules of Survival is written by Jus Accardo and published by Entangled: Embrace. ![]() He wears her shoes in the shower, is overly fascinated with things like DVDs and vases, and acts like she'll turn to dust if he touches her. Tired of running and desperate to clear her name, she breaks one of the most sacred rules: never return to the scene of the crime. Shes been on the run for almost a year now, avoiding not only the police but the real killer. Mikayla Morgan is wanted for her mothers murder. When a strange boy tumbles down a river embankment and lands at her feet, seventeen-year-old adrenaline junkie Deznee Cross snatches the opportunity to piss off her father by bringing the mysterious hottie with ice blue eyes home. If you want to survive, you have to follow the rules. ![]() ![]() Taylor encourages Americans to map the sites, preserve them, and give surrounding communities ownership over their reconstruction. That’s why she has made it her work to catalogue every remaining one. history, says historian and artist Candacy Taylor. The guide was published for the final time in 1966, and of the 224 original Green Book sites in Los Angeles, only about 8 percent still stand, mostly due to neglect and gentrification.ĭocumenting those sites is essential to recasting U.S. A guide to thousands of safe havens nationwide for people of color, from barbershops to ballrooms, the book was brought to the mainstream this year with the divisive film Green Book, winner of three Golden Globe awards and the best picture Oscar. What he published was the Negro Motorist Green Book. In 1936, a postal worker named Victor Green set out to create a guide that would help black travelers drive the “Road of Dreams” safely, and as he put it at the time, “ without embarrassment.” It was dotted by racist signs and Sundown towns, cities like suburban Glendale that warned blacks to “leave town by sundown.” ![]() For African Americans, Route 66, the iconic cross-country highway, was dangerous. 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