![]() ![]() ![]() With a background in Psych Nursing, Shay brings her unique perspective to the online reading community. Under her alter ego, The Bookie Monster, Shana reviews horror and paranormal books, with an emphasis on (but not limited to) zombie fiction. She has been heavily involved in the collection and dissemination of the ICD-10 clinical and coding analytics across multiple projects including the NCHICA ICD-10 Pilot, the HIMSS WEDI ICD-10 Pilot and commercial testing programs. In addition to her clinical background, Shana possesses over 15 years of experience with project management and data analytics. Shana is a registered nurse with clinical experience in mental health, geriatrics, HIV and substance abuse. She currently lives in Cape Coral, Florida with her husband and two dogs, Daphne & Casey. Shana Festa was born in Lincoln, Nebraska on Octoand grew up in Northboro, Massachusetts. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Two older boys, Harp and Gully, are hassling them, and their menacing presence escalates into an act of violence. Ali, Lolly and Big Rose, a girl with autism, begin to build “the alien metropolis of Harmonee.” Outside the safety of the rec center, life for Lolly and his best friend Vega is getting more complicated. Encouraged by the facility’s director, Mr. ![]() When Lolly’s creation outgrows his West Indian family’s Harlem apartment, he moves it to the rec center. The only thing that makes him feel better is building with Legos, and after his mother’s girlfriend, Yvonne, gives him two trash bags full of loose Legos for Christmas, he lets his imagination soar. Wallace “Lolly” Rachpaul, 12, is still reeling from the murder of his older brother, Jermaine. ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Oath the main concept is a city which back in time decided to let sin rule and as a door is opened to the devil and to sin, it comes in and takes full control of its surroundings. ![]() Yesterday I finished the book and I must admit that in the end it was hard to leave my Kindle behind and do something else, because I was really obsessed with the book and wanted to read every single minute until I was finished! In other words, I was really caught up with the story and what made the book even better was its message, which was kind of hidden throughout 90% of the book!īecause, when Frank Peretti writes a book he does not only amuse you, but he always teach throughout the story, especially on the importance of prayer and living close to God. Here you can find my little The Oath review. Frank Peretti came to my mind and I bought myself the Kindle version of The Oath. Since then 15 years have passed and as I just got myself a Kindle I thought about what kind of book to read. ![]() A long time ago I remember reading some Frank Peretti books and I really enjoyed them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I found the way Shute established his characters clearly and set out a few characteristics for each engaging and reader-friendly. My first impressions of the writing style were positive. As such, I had no preconceptions of the book I was about to read. I decided to read the novel as I would if I were reading it for pleasure and leave the introduction until I had finished the narrative to avoid spoilers. Perhaps this is why I selected A Town Like Alice as my novel for this blog the title itself seemed embedded in my brain but I had never read the book. ![]() My previous knowledge of his writing and literary career was merely an idea of the novels he penned and a small bit of trivia. Nevil Shute was hugely popular with our original readers, all born in the mid-20th century, and it’s great to get a 21st century view. Sheffield Hallam University student Jason Flowers encounters the novelist Nevil Shute for the first time. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book has ruined my standards and I know future books going to let me down now in comparison to this one. Coming back to the game, to Peter, to his traumas and it all build up so perfectly toward the entire story, it's one of the most complete books I've read. Toward the end I was sure that there is a second book, because I thought there is no way they wrap it up in 50 pages, so it gave me a mind blown moment. ![]() The story of his growth and becoming more mature with each chapter, but still facing the same problems. Which is so rare in this genre that is dominated by 1 dimensional "boring hero" characters. The story was great and the story-telling was superb, it kept my interesting trough the whole story, and made Ender feel relatable and real. It was sitting on my shelf for 2 years because I ordered it online and lost all interest in reading it after reading the back cover summary "a 6-year-old trying to save the world from bugs" made me think it's a book for 6yo.īut I am so glad that I did. ![]() In preparation for an anticipated third invasion, Earth's international military force. Set at an unspecified date in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled humankind after two conflicts with an insectoid alien species they dub 'the buggers '. I finished Ender's Game last week, and what a brilliant book it is. Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s clearly super smart, she likes science podcasts and she’s a quick learner. It might just be personal preference, but I think Ropa could have been 18 and the plot wouldn’t have changed. As far as I could tell, this book is not intended to be YA, so the age of the protagonist really bugged me. My first thought when reading this book was “why is Ropa 14?”. All opinions are my own.įind the purchase links here! The Library of the Dead Review Characters – 6/10 Yet as shadows lengthen, will the hunter become the hunted? ![]() And in the process, she discovers an occult library and some unexpected allies. ) as she calls on Zimbabwean magic and Scottish pragmatism to hunt down clues. She’ll dice with death (not part of her life plan. But what she learns will change her world. It’s on Ropa’s patch, so she feels honour bound to investigate. Until, that is, the dead whisper that someone’s bewitching children – leaving them husks, empty of joy and life. ![]() A girl’s gotta earn a living, and it seems harmless enough. Goodreads Description: Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghostalker – and she now speaks to Edinburgh’s dead, carrying messages to the living. Let’s get into it!Ĭontent Warnings:Death, Murder, Suicide, Child Abuse ![]() Today I’m sharing my The Library of the Dead Review! This book was a wild ride and I enjoyed it. Hi friends! I hope you’ve been having a good week so far. ![]() ![]() The formal name of the trilogy is “Remembrance of Earth’s past”. While brilliantly imaginative, there is a nagging issue for those who read AC Clarke: the plasma from the cannon would need to be travelling at earth escape velocity, more than 11 km a second. His imagination is fleshed out with the precision of a power engineer, which was his first profession. “The Wandering Earth”, for example, involves the world government using enormous plasma cannons to propel the planet out of range of the sun, which is about to become a red giant. Readers are invariably startled by his imaginative scope. Clarke as a major influence, so many of the themes in his novels could equally well be written by this Brit or an American. Liú Cíxīn is a nine-time winner of the Galaxy Award, China’s most prestigious literary science fiction prize. ![]() Their surveillance devices are already here and their fleet will arrive in 400 years’ time. They are looking for a new planet and have chosen Earth. ![]() ![]() Their evolution has forced them to be extremely resilient because of the planet’s erratic orbit, but now they realise the planet will be drawn into one of the suns. Very intelligent aliens originate on a planet in an unstable three-star system, so they are called the Trisolarians. The actual problem for all people of Earth is even more challenging. The ‘Three-Body Problem’ is a difficult to solve mathematical puzzle left for us by Isaac Newton. ![]() ![]() Elizabeth Taylor Prize of the Southern Association of Women Historians for the best article in the field of southern women’s history for her article “The Southern Ties of Helen Keller,” published in the Journal of Southern History, a Founders Award for Excellence in Teaching, an NEH Summer Fellowship, a 2005 OAH lectureship in Japan, and a Fulbright Scholars Award to the University of Iceland. In 2010 the Organization of American Historians (OAH) honored Nielsen by appointing her a Distinguished Lecturer. ![]() Other books include Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller (Beacon, 2009) Helen Keller: Selected Writings (NYUP, 2005) The Radical Lives of Helen Keller (NYUP, 2004) and Un-American Womanhood: Anti-Radicalism, Anti-Feminism, and the First Red Scare (OSUP, 2001). ![]() ![]() A Disability History of the United States (Beacon, Oct 2012), Nielsen’s newest book, is the first analysis of disability throughout United States history and covers the period prior to European arrival through the present. ![]() in History from the University of Iowa in 1996, Nielsen’s scholarship has centered on historical debates about who is fit to participate in civic life using gender, disability, and changing notions of competency as her tools of analysis. Professor of Disability Studies, History, and Women’s & Gender Studies. ![]() ![]() ![]() They identified themselves using fake names and told him that they were part of a circus company that was looking for someone with his precise musical talent. The men had heard that Solomon was an "expert player of the violin". ![]() Solomon met the two men in the village of Saratoga Springs, New York. In his memoir, he calls the violin "the ruling passion of my youth," going on to say, "It has also been the source of consolation since, affording pleasure to the simple beings with whom my lot was cast, and beguiling my own thoughts, for many hours, from the painful contemplation of my fate."ĭid two men really trick Solomon into going to Washington, D.C. During our investigation into the 12 Years a Slave true story, we learned that Solomon began playing the violin during the leisure hours of his youth, after he finished his main duty of helping his father on the farm. Did Solomon Northup really play the violin? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The studies reviewed include those focused on a series of cardiovascular, metabolic and neurological diseases, where iron can be found at the sites of plaques and lesions, as well as studies showing the significance of iron to aging and longevity. iron-catalysed free radical and especially hydroxyl radical generation). These diseases share a great many similarities and thus might be considered to have a common cause (i.e. We review the considerable and wide-ranging evidence for the involvement of this combination of (su)peroxide and poorly liganded iron in a large number of physiological and indeed pathological processes and inflammatory disorders, especially those involving the progressive degradation of cellular and organismal performance. ![]() |