![]() She has flown to India on a moment’s notice, and upon arriving realizes her friend wants her to help her with a story. Smita has interrupted her long-awaited vacation to help a fellow journalist. ![]() It feels strange to declare my love for a book that’s so filled with people’s pain, but it’s true, I loved this one despite the horror I felt as I continued through its pages. ![]() As much as I loathe to admit that I follow an actress’s book recommendations, I typically enjoy everything she suggests, and Honor is no different. Honor by Thrity Umrigar* is a bestselling novel, many people have read it, including thousands of book clubbers as it also has the Resse’s Book Club stamp of approval. The details, setting, and circumstances may fade from my memory, but I’ll always remember the protagonist Meena – the woman who sacrificed her body for those she loved. This is a story that will stay with me for quite awhile. ![]()
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If a rule for the magic has been established - then it can't be ignored half a book later. ![]() But even magic and the fantastical needs to be consistent. Magic and the fantastical is part of the beautiful escape of the fantasy genre. Sadly, for me that just emphasises the wrongness and strains the character's credulity. It seems that the author is concerned that the reader/listener will not follow her development - so she over explains. They author struggles to make some of the key characters believable. Please don't make epics out of a one book novels! As for the Broken Earth trilogy, a drawn out storyline is not the only problem unfortunately. Authors, editors and publishers - Please start making single novel fantasy stories. It is a pain to listen to plot elements that would have been exiting in a 5-10 minute frame, being dragged out for over an hour. It keeps going long after the reader/listener has lost interest. Being stretched over a trilogy means that it looses its momentum. ![]() The Broken Earth story has material for one book - at max two. This lengthy format addiction means that too many authors stretch their material to fit. T is sad that fantasy fiction has somehow latched itself to the trilogy format. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is very important to remember that Allah Almighty's choice of the Holy Words below was for a Divine Purpose and not just by chance. You'll be amazed at what I've found!Ħ- So why didn't the early Muslims interpret the Holy Quran with these meanings then? (Hint: Were the illiterate Bedouins Scientists?) 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He’s dropped out of college and is dropping the ball on their carefully-finagled second chance. Despite having affluent adoptive parents, he is unwilling or unable to attain their version of success. The first part of the book is all in Deming/Daniel’s point of view. Then she abandons him again when he is 11, an act that Deming (who is adopted and renamed Daniel) doesn’t comprehend. and sends him to be cared for by her father in China, having him return when Deming is nearly five years old. Polly has Deming out of wedlock in the U.S. What if your only parent abandoned you? What if you lost your beloved child? It concerns Deming and Polly Guo, sometime residents of China and New York and about their identity as immigrants or as rural Chinese. ![]() This was a book club selection about a story that encompasses what for many of us would be the ultimate nightmare. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Lucashenko weaves a (sometimes) fabulous tale with the very real politics of cultural survival to offer a story of hope and redemption for all Australians.” “ Too Much Lip is driven by personal experience, historical injustice, anger and what in Indigenous vernacular could be described as ‘deadly Blak’ humour,” judging panel chair and State Library of NSW Mitchell Librarian Richard Neville says of the book. I have no idea what to do next, other than keep plugging away at my civilising mission to mainstream Australia.” Too Much Lip (Queensland University Press) “I only recently realised that I could be doing so much more in my writing and now this goes and happens. “It’s kind of terrifying,” Lucashenko says of the win. Since its publication the book has also been shortlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize and Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. Having previously earned a spot on the Miles Franklin Literary Award longlist for her award-winning 2013 novel Mullumbimby, Lucashenko’s follow-up Too Much Lip has been widely praised for its story of a woman returning to her hometown on Bundjalung country to navigate family legacies, the criminal justice system and commercial development of culturally important land. ![]() |