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I can't believe how completely I had forgotten it. This book just flashed into my mind this evening unbidden. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once I knew who he was, I started developing a heroine who would compliment and challenge him. With Shadowed by Grace, Scott Lindstrom showed up first. When a hero or heroine arrives, I play with them until I know what his or her journey will look like. But as I play with an idea, eventually characters show up. Still a fascination won’t be enough to fill one page let alone more than 300 pages of a novel. ![]() Some came in as privates after basic training, others as officers because they’d already been in one of the services. Many of these men were not soldiers, but others had been in the reserves. ![]() What would it be like to be a sculptor, museum curator, or architect who joins the army to help protect art and architecture? As I read some of the stories of the Monuments Men, my imagination began spinning questions. All it took was the cover photo: a clearly WWII soldier holding a painting. Somewhere, somehow, I have to find 90,000 words that will communicate a story that will captivate me…my editors…and eventually readers.Īnd it all starts with a blinking cursor on a blank screen.įor Shadowed by Grace, that spark came when I saw a non-fiction book at the library. As an author, I sit at the computer with the germ of an idea, a blank document page, and a blinking cursor. ![]() When a book is born, there’s a scary moment, hour, or week. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, the stories are delicately handled. A man starves to death instead of accepting charity, a crippled young boy seeks to end his life because he thinks he is “useless,” boys get lost in a cave and presumed dead, a newly arrived Greek boy learns not to be a “crybaby and a mama’s boy” through grueling rituals of schoolyard initiation. There is nothing overtly inappropriate in the charming novel, but it is certainly gritty. Like so many stories about the early twentieth century, there is a fascinating development of technology and a rapidly changing social scene that makes for great fiction, especially when told through the eyes of the young.Īpproach the book forewarned: there is some difficult material that will likely incite nagging questions and a great deal of puzzling from young people. The books are not widely known, but those who read them and loved them as children seem never to forget them. The character John Dennis Fitzgerald, heavily influenced by the real-life experiences of the author, is an Irish Catholic boy with a smart older brother, Tom, who can scam the pants off any kid or grownup in town. ![]() Like so much good storytelling, the tale arises from an outsider observing a close-knit social group, in this case the predominantly Mormon community. ![]() The Great Brainseries, published from the 1950s to 1970s are rollicking tales of boys figuring out life in small-town Utah. Fittingly, one of Utah’s best-loved authors wrote a series of children’s books unlike any other. Visiting Utah reveals that it is a place unlike any other. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many clamored for attention, but the one that practically jumped into my hands was The List of 7, by Mark Frost. They finally arrived today, carefully packed in tightly wrapped plastic, and I gently unwrapped them and settled in to examine my new treasures. Except that would probably dog ear the covers. Man, I could just lay these babies down on the floor and roll around in ’em. There’s even a beautiful copy of Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space, which I’ve lusted after ever since Violette Malan teased me with the cover in her article on science fiction mysteries last month. Lewis, Clark Ashton Smith, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Bellairs, and half a dozen more. Merritt’s The Moon Pool a smattering of Ursula K. Including four early volumes from Neal Barrett, Jr three vintage Lovecraft collections (one of them The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath) both Ballantine volumes of William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land one of Lin Carter’s better fantasy collections, Imaginary Worlds A. Twenty-eight volumes in terrific shape, for less than twenty bucks. Seriously, click on that link and look at them. Just look at at all those gorgeous vintage paperbacks. Like this one, which I found online last week. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Like a padding cat or the shadow of death, Genki Kawamura's book snuck up on me the next thing I knew, I was crying." - Robin Sloan, New York Times bestselling author of Mr. "At first, If Cats Disappeared from the World feels as light and puzzling as a fairy tale, but then, steadily, chapter by chapter-using nothing more than conversation, memory, and a winning narrator's searching, sensitive thought experiments-it raises its cosmic stakes higher than any thriller. Praise for If Cats Disappeared from the World: Genki Kawamura's timeless tale is a moving story of loss and reconciliation, of one man's journey to discover what really matters most in life. With each object that disappears the postman reflects on the life he's lived, his joys and regrets, and the people he's loved and lost. But before he can tackle his bucket list, the Devil appears to make him an offer: In exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, our narrator will get one extra day of life. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage to keep him company, he was unprepared for the doctor's diagnosis that he has only months to live. The international phenomenon that has sold over a million copies in Japan, If Cats Disappeared from the World-now a Japanese film-is a funny, heartwarming, and profound meditation on the meaning of life. "Brian Nishii narrates this imaginative tale set in Japan about the complexities of death, life, and cats.A brief, charming parable." - AudioFile Magazine ![]() ![]() ![]() Launched by Apple TV+, Home Before Dark is inspired by the real work of underage reporter Hilde Lysiak and follows a fourth-grader journalist, Hilde Lisko, as she moves from Brooklyn to a small lakeside town and subsequently tries to uncover the truth behind a cold case that everybody in town is trying to keep a secret.Įven though the show is a mystery drama, the juxtaposition between the innocent face of Brooklynn Prince (‘ The Florida Project’) who plays the protagonist and the dark themes of the show surrounding the small town makes ‘Home Before Dark’ a bit scarier and creepier than initially expected.Ĭreated by Dana Fox and Dara Resnik, ‘Home Before Dark’ - even though heavily inspired by real-life events - is a work of fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() He didn’t follow the “running craft” as it was taught. But to feel God’s pleasure? That isn’t on our list of reasons to do anything.Įric Liddell was also a creative runner. I daresay we write for other reasons: because God has put a message on our hearts, or we want to express ourselves, or we want the affirmation that comes with being published. ![]() How many of us follow God’s calling for that reason: so we can feel His pleasure? Is that why you write? Why? Because God also made him fast, and when he runs, he feels God’s pleasure. Eric explains how he knows God wants him in China, but for now he is responding to his other calling, to run. Jenny doesn’t understand why he isn’t pursuing that mission. ![]() Fans of the movie Chariots of Fire remember the scene where the British missionary and Olympian Eric Liddell and his sister Jenny are passionately discussing the call of God to serve as missionaries to China. ![]() ![]() A huge Starcade birthday party, a nasty manager who’s a stickler for the rules, dumpsters full of tickets surrounded by a barbed wire fence…what could possibly go wrong? 297 pages grades 4-7. ![]() They need a team, though, and DJ recruits a couple of unlikely new friends with unique skills. It’s an impossible task, but DJ and Conor have pulled off some pretty amazing feats in the past. Lucky threatens to turn Conor into a social pariah unless he and DJ can come with 100,000 tickets in two weeks. ![]() ![]() In his first few days of school, Conor manages to antagonize Lucky, the kid who runs the school with his enormous stash of Starcade tickets, the middle school currency. Summary: DJ’s trying to make a fresh start after transferring to a new middle school, but when his former best friend Conor shows up, he starts to slip back into his old ways. ![]() ![]() ![]() With my back pressed against his chest and my ass nestled between his hips, the hardness of his body was making it difficult to function. “Get up, Adrianna,” his warm breath sent shivers across my damp neck. My body ached and I was exhausted after holding that position. ![]() We were both leaning on the barre in a heap of heavy breathing when Kova’s arm secured my waist and tugged me to stand. WARNING: This novel contains explicit content. One toe off the beam and their forbidden desires could ruin everything they’ve worked for, throwing it all off balance. Every interaction can be misconstrued, but there’s no mistaking the darkening of his gaze, the lingering of his touch, or the illicit image of his bare skin pressed against hers. Kova’s power and domination, coupled with Adrianna’s fierce tenacity, reveal there is more for her body to learn. As the relentless pursuit of her dream keeps her striving, a passion is ignited within him. She doesn’t come close to his high standards. ![]() When two time Olympian Konstantin Kournakova is persuaded into training the young hopeful, he immediately regrets it. Perfection, precision, and dedication are required of his athletes. ![]() Even if that means leaving home to attend World Cup Academy of Gymnastics, a training center that serves one purpose-producing champions. Olympic glory is the ultimate goal, and she’ll do anything to achieve it. Years of pain and determination make her one of the best. Adrianna Rossi is no stranger to the rigorous demands required of her body. ![]() |