![]() ![]() When Ruth's uncle, Owen Lawrence, arrives searching for a long-lost treasure, both Gage and Ruth find themselves pulled into the search, and things become sinister as the killer grows desperate. Another body washes up with the surf, and Gage is intent on discovering who the killer is. Scarred by her past, Ruth attempts to avoid young men, but she realizes that avoiding Gage Hampton will be harder than she thought. She's determined to stay as far from him as possible. Her life shifts out of her comfort zone, but not nearly as much as when the newest park policeman, attractive Gage Hampton, arrives to take her statement. Ocean of Fear National Park Service biologist Ruth Campbell discovers a body on the beach near Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. National Park Service biologist Ruth Campbell discovers a body on the beach near Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. Another body washes up with the surf, and Gage is intent on discovering who. /rebates/2f97810880547102fOcean-Fear-Nemeth-Carol-10880547142fplp&. Her life shifts out of her comfort zone, but not nearly as much as when the newest park policeman, attractive Gage Hampton, arrives to take her statement. ![]() National Park Service biologist Ruth Campbell discovers a body on the beach near Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. After marrying the love of her life, who she met while stationed in Italy, they lived in a lot of places, including North Yorkshire, England. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Many other people mentioned that the other causes he listed were being researched or had reliable preventative measures that could be taken such as vaccines, while gun violence remains an unsolved issue. 200+ Americans died from gun violence in the past 48 hours,” author and gun control activist Shannon Watts responded. ![]() On Twitter, the response was fierce and immediate, with tens of thousands of Twitter users responding. I am therefore thankful for the candor and depth of critical reactions shared in my Twitter feed.” “I apologize for not knowing in advance what effect my Tweet could have on you. “My intent was to offer objectively true information that might help shape conversations and reactions to preventable ways we die,” Tyson said in his apology posted on Facebook. Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data.- Neil deGrasse Tyson August 4, 2019īy comparing the loss of 34 people over the weekend to deaths caused by illness and accidents, many people felt Tyson was downplaying the role that gun violence plays in American society. On average, across any 48hrs, we also lose… In the past 48hrs, the USA horrifically lost 34 people to mass shootings. In the tweet, the astrophysicist and author coolly referred to the mass shooting deaths in Ohio and Texas, suggesting they pale in comparison to deaths from other causes, namely illness and accidents. Neil deGrasse Tyson issued an apology Monday after he tweeted about gun deaths over the weekend. ![]() ![]() ![]() In short, Novik’s world building is some of the best I’ve ever read. Of course Napoleon added those dragon recruits to his troops to great effect, as did the British, and the Swiss, and the Russians.Īnd of course the Chinese revered and recognized dragonkind, built their cities to accommodate their draconian neighbours, gave them rights and employment, allowed them to create their own hierarchies and culture. Of course there are sentient dragons populating the globe. ![]() That surprise was further augmented by Novik’s impeccable research, the solidity of her character and plot development. ![]() Such a surprise awaited when I flipped to the first page of His Majesty’s Dragon: Napoleonic naval adventures married seamlessly and believably to an aerial component via dragons. Reader note: I’m reviewing the entire nine novels of the Temeraire series in this review. ![]() ![]() ![]() The love triangle between Elloren, Lukas, and Yvan is expanded upon, but in…an interesting way. ![]() At least they’re…okay? Maybe? Sort of?Īnd…Forest is deeeeefinitely toying with our feelings here. ![]() I liked seeing where Wynter was (because I still have a major soft spot for her, and she deserves so much better), but I…don’t know if it contributed to the story much at all. We also get to check in on a few favorites from the previous books, including Tierney and Wynter. The first portion of the book jumps between the POVs of several, completely new characters they show up later, and those chapters gave a little bit of backstory for them, but I don’t think entire chapters were needed to explain their backgrounds. ![]() Remember how I said in my review of The Iron Flower that book 2 didn’t fall into the trap of middle-book-slump? I seem to have forgotten then that the series is slated to be a series of five books, making The Shadow Wand the middle book.Īnd I hate to say it, but there’s some serious disappointing middle book syndrome going on here.įrom the start, I feel like at least 100-150 pages could have been cut out (for clarification, The Shadow Wand clocks in at 554 pages). ![]() ![]() ![]() It is the room’s wallpaper, a “repellant” and “smouldering unclean yellow”, with “sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin” that forms the centrepiece of the story. Perhaps, the narrator muses, it had once been a nursery or playroom. The wallpaper is torn, the floor scratched and gouged. The room her husband selects as their bedroom, though large, airy and bright, is barred at the window and furnished with a bed that is bolted to the floor. The house is “queer”, long abandoned and isolated. There she is to rest, take tonics, air and exercise – and absolutely forbidden to engage in intellectual work until well again. The narrator is brought by her physician husband to a summer retreat in the countryside to recover from her “temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency”. ![]() Gilman’s short story is a straightforward one. ![]() ![]() ![]() Er lebt in Berlin, wo er als Tunterich und Drag King Ruco laPesto bekannt ist. Lou Conradi ist queerer Autor und Aktivist. Zwischen Demonstrationen, Polizeigewalt, Transition und Wohnungslosigkeit versucht eine Gruppe junger, impulsiver Queers, Kontrolle über ihr Leben zu behalten, während um sie herum die politische Lage längst außer Kontrolle geraten ist. Mit Erfolg: Steph ist schwanger! Was als alternative Familiengründung geplant war, ist jedoch schnell ein Chaos aus Beziehungsgeflechten und Existenzängsten. Während in Heidenau und Freital rassistische Mobs Geflüchtete angreifen, planen Steph, eine linksradikale Butch, und Maria, eine kommunistische trans Frau, zusammen ein Kind zu bekommen. Was hat das Einhorn mit der Jungfrau Maria zu tun und Feminismus mit Waffenexporten? Gibt es die unbefleckte Empfängnis wirklich, hilft BDSM gegen Polizeigewalt und was können trans Menschen erwidern, wenn sie mal wieder gefragt werden: „Was bist du?“ ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s not exactly a guide to doing nothing more like a suggestion that you could refuse to do some of the things that fracture your attention - reading every push notification that crosses your phone screen, watching 500 Instagram stories between every basic task - and protect your mind from becoming slippery and splintered. ![]() What can you do? To hear most people tell it, you can either succumb to using Facebook and Instagram for hours a day, every single day, or you can delete the apps and throw your phone into the ocean.Īrtist and writer Jenny Odell proposes a third choice: to “participate, but not as asked.” Her book How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy is out April 9 through Melville House it’s adapted from a talk she gave in 2017 at the Minneapolis art and technology conference Eyeo. ![]() ![]() Only when she has navigated her fragmented memories and fraught relationships will she be able to piece together what happened - and trust herself to fix it. Jen must face her troubled past in order to figure out whether something triggered a relapse to this risky behaviour, or if there is a more sinister explanation hidden in her hometown. Yet, when Jen awakens to find herself drugged and dangling off the local lighthouse during a wild storm less than twenty-four hours after a 'family emergency' takes her home to Cornwall, she needs all her skill to battle her way to safety. And she's checked herself into a rehab centre to prove it. Until she went too far and hurt the people she cares about. ![]() ![]() Both her work and personal life revolved around it. Jen Shaw has climbed all her life: daring ascents of sheer rock faces, crumbling buildings, cranes - the riskier the better. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This church was reportedly a Seventh Day Adventist church, and it is now in very tenuous condition. There are various foundations hidden in the tall grass on the former Deisem townsite, though, remnants of a town now lost. We were on site for about a half-hour on a Saturday afternoon, and we didn’t see a single car pass by.Īccording to reports by fans on our Facebook page, Deisem was quite a happening town back in the day, and was home to a well-respected general store, which is long gone. We arrived to discover this church is all that remains of Deisem. We discovered what was once a bright yellow line dividing two very narrow lanes is now barely visible, and gravel pokes through the asphalt in places. ![]() Driving through LaMoure County just south of Jamestown, we turned onto what can only loosely be described as a “highway” - Highway 34, northwest of Edgeley. So in July 2012, with my business partner and fellow photographer Terry Hinnenkamp, we set out for Deisem. One of the suggestions we’ve received on more than one occasion is a place called Deisem, N.D. Since starting a website about North Dakota’s ghost towns and abandoned places nearly ten years ago, suggestions about places to visit have been rolling in. ![]() The doorway of the old church frames the farm scene across the road. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has a great friend, and they have a way with words that I’d ‘kill’ for. There’s Gilbert White and Byron and Shelley, not to mention quotes and just generally things which I had never heard of before (at the time).Ĭharity is comfortably off in that way we’d all like to be, and has a tragic past of the kind we’d rather not share. Attractive touristy scenery.Īnd the education a person gets reading Madam, Will You Talk? is second to none. Handsome hero (might have mentioned him once or twice already) and good looking villain, as well. (I don’t even drive.) There is a boy who has everything you’d look for in a boy, and he has a dog, which has just about everything you’d look for in a dog.Īrt crime and kidnapping and romance in Provence. And she can disable cars to avoid being followed. ![]() ![]() Charity makes for exactly the kind of heroine I would want to be, and as for her Wolf of Orange hero… Well. It was her first, and I’m sort of wondering it might have been my first, too. ![]() It’s been such a relief to find that I’m neither alone in adoring Mary Stewart, nor in considering Madam, Will You Talk? as my very favouritest of her novels. We can just about start our own sisterhood, I reckon. ![]() |