6/30/2023 0 Comments Memory Mambo by Achy Obejas![]() ![]() Obejas' short stories and poetry have been widely anthologized in collections such as Cubana (1998), Little Havana Blues (1996), The Way We Write Now (1995), and Latina (1995). She received the Studs Terkel Award for journalism in 1996. In addition to her weekly column for the Chicago Tribune, her articles also regularly appear in national publications like the Advocate, Ms., Latina, Out and Nation. A poet, fiction writer, and journalist, she has worked as a reporter in Chicago since the early 1980s. ![]() In 1993 she received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. Upon their arrival, the family was sent to Indiana, where Obejas grew up in Michigan City. by boat with her family at the age of six. ![]() Daughter of José and Alicia Fleites ObejasĬuban-born Achy Obejas came to the U.S. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Natalie zina walschots hench![]() Beneath them are the Meat (minions of the villains) who serve as expendable muscle in fights but lack the superpowers needed to be a villain or hero. Society in Anna’s world is tiered in the following way – superheroes and villains – with their strength, speed or abilities – rule the world. Focusing on the life of a temp worker living in a world filled with supervillains and superheroes who becomes an impassioned villainess of her own making, the story reminded me of the recently-cancelled and greatly lamented Venture Brothers, in which doing evil deeds is nothing more than a nine-to-five job – and you can be outsourced in the blink of an eye.Īnna Tromedlov – aka The Palindrome, an alias she still regrets putting down on her Hench profile two years before – is a temporary worker who scuttles from one supervillain assistant job to another without any sort of job security or sense of permanence. ![]() Hench is an unstinting delight from start to finish. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Doll bones book![]() ![]() ![]() Furious at his father, and embarrassed that he cares so much about a "kid's game", Zach decides not to tell Alice and Poppy what happened and instead says he just does not want to play anymore. One day Zach discovers that his father has thrown out all of his action figures including William, effectively ending the game. Poppy runs the game which involves Zach's character "William the Blade" and Alice's character "Lady Jaye" on a quest for the Great Queen aboard William's sailing ship, Neptune's Pearl. Zach, Alice, and Poppy play a role-playing game with Horrific action figures and metal cut-outs. Doll Bones is the story of Zachary "Zach" Barlow, Alice Magnaye, and Poppy Bell's quest to return a haunted doll to its proper grave site in another town. ![]() ![]() ![]() Let me tell you a bit about this book. The author did an outstanding job in creating this man, and a brilliant strategy in starting her new series with such a complex, sexual and tortured character. ![]() I should have been better left off still wondering about it and not putting myself through ‘torture’ of listening to a most horrific narration I’ve ever heard. ![]() REVIEW: I read this book awhile ago and decided to get an audio of it because I was curious to find out how the story would play out through Lord Ian’s voice. No, she wants to take her money and find peace, to travel, to learn art, to sit back and fondly remember her brief but happy marriage to her late husband.Īnd then Ian Mackenzie decides he wants her. She was raised in drama–an alcoholic father who drove them into the workhouse, a frail mother she had to nurse until her death, a fussy old lady she became constant companion to. She has decided that she wants no more drama in her life. He’s also hard and handsome and has a penchant for Ming pottery and beautiful women.īeth Ackerley, widow, has recently come into a fortune. The youngest brother, Ian, known as the Mad Mackenzie, spent most of his young life in an asylum, and everyone agrees he is decidedly odd. Rumors surround them–of tragic violence, of their mistresses, of their dark appetites, of scandals that set England and Scotland abuzz. ![]() A lady couldn’t be seen with them without ruin. Meet the Mackenzie family–rich, powerful, dangerous, eccentric. ![]() |