![]() ![]() It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away-with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. Nora Stephens’ life is books-she’s read them all-and she is not that type of heroine. ![]() CW: mentions of depression, grief, death of a parent (mother) ![]()
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![]() ![]() The characters were vapid, self-absorbed, idiots with the emotional ranges of a rutabaga. I listened to the entirety of this book and I have no idea why these people were locked into the giant yet unbelievably tiny prison. Listening to this audiobook is what I imagine it would be like to consume high levels of methamphetamines. Listening to this book made me want to die. If you like Elantris then you will like Incarceron and vise versa. ![]() Incarceron is a lot like Elantris by Brandon Sanderson. I look forward to the second book: Sapphique, which should be released in Dec 2010. The world, people, creatures and concept of Incareceron is creative, interesting and entertaining. ![]() This is a great book and I would and have recommended it to others. Both are trying to escape their own prisons, Finn who is literally trapped in Incarceron and Claudia whose life is like a prison. The book focuses on the parallel lives of the two main characters: Fin and Claudia. One chapter is about Incarceron, the next is about the "real world" and so on. The chapters in the book flip focus back and forth between Incarceron and the "real world". I found the portions about Incarceron to be more interesting, probably because it is a new and foreign world. The book is interesting for the first 30 minutes and then drags for an hour or so but once your're into it 2 hours it is great This book takes place in two worlds/dimensions, the "real world" and Incarceron. I enjoyed this book and thought that the narration was good. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘I’m a small man but my music is huge’: Wasifuddin Dagar on the AR Rahman plagiarism row.Watch: Elephant gently shakes a tree to get a jackfruit from it.How a stint in Bombay helped Georg Bühler become one of the most prominent Indologists in Europe. ![]() How did the Indian langur end up in a prehistoric mural in Greece?.Maharashtra: 14-year-old booked over social media post on Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.What an elderly English tourist taught writer Anees Salim about his hometown, Varkala.Nathuram Godse was worthy son of India, says Union minister Giriraj Singh.Transformation of the goddess and clay: Naveen Kishore’s photos capture hues of conflict.In Delhi, space for dissent shrinks as police pressure venues hosting civil society events.Watch: Beyoncé was joined by her daughter Blue Ivy on stage for a dance routine during UK concert.Why a ‘fail-safe’ signalling system fails to prevent deadly train crashes.‘The match between a translator and a writer is alchemical. ![]() ![]() ![]() My students wanted me to read the book because Roosevelt was one of Eldredge’s heroes, for the very reasons that Bederman had deconstructed in Manliness and Civilization. It wasn’t long before my own church was hosting a men’s Bible study on it, and soon after a women’s Bible study on the book’s feminine counterpart, Captivated. I can’t remember now if they had a book in hand, or only told me I needed to read it: John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart.Įldredge’s book was all the rage at that time on Christian college campuses and in evangelical churches. ![]() ![]() One day after class, some of my (white, male) students approached me. Like me, my students were shocked by how attention to race, gender, and power challenged their received narratives, how the old stories about Teddy Roosevelt suddenly seemed insufficient. ![]() |