![]() ![]() They also delve deep into issues like diversity and representation in media, with main characters making their way from the States to Korea to pursue their dreams after growing up without seeing many Asian faces in Hollywood. While varied in scope, each book discusses the complexities of K-pop star lifestyles, careers, and training systems. Some are written by stars themselves, and others by lifelong aficionados or recent arrivals down the K-pop rabbit hole, but they all explore fictionalized versions of this glossy, performance-based world that has become beloved by so many across the globe. publishers, with several books arriving recently that explore the life and times of K-pop stars and idol hopefuls. Hallyu, K-pop YA is having a moment with U.S. While fanfiction and self-publishing have been forums for fan-written stories based on the lives of their favorite stars, 2020 is a milestone year for young adult novels centered around the Korean pop music industry.Īrriving as the latest ripple of the Korean Wave, a.k.a. But one final frontier for K-pop is literature. ![]() Interest in all things K-pop is at an all-time high nowadays, with Seoul-based musical acts and artists gaining prominence on radio, television, music and video streaming platforms, and, of course, on social media. ![]()
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![]() Nick knows Charlie’s gay, and Charlie is sure that Nick isn’t.īut love works in surprising ways, and Nick is discovering all kinds of things about his friends, his family … and himself.Ī charming, sweet, and absolutely heartwarming second volume to this warm and lovable story, Heartstopper continues to steal my heart! I Like Charlie Spring! In a romantic way not just a friend way! “ – Alice Oseman, “Heartstopper (Vol. To see my review of Heartstopper, Volume 1 – Click HERE Total Star Rating: 4 Stars ![]() ***Warning!!! This review contains spoilers from the previous book in this series, so continue reading at your own risk! You’ve officially been warned!*** ![]() Genre(s): LGBT, Graphic Novel, YA Fiction ![]() ![]() The Ludlum plot that follows is laughable, and not one in a million readers will be able to retain its thousand-rooted growth down the novel's 624 clotted pages of schizoid twistings and gasps of paper-thin prose. Carlos manages to enter secret computer files and discover Bourne's alter identity and focuses insanely on blowing him away. (Bourne today is as much Batman as Bond, and Carlos is as nutty as the Joker, with no attempt to lift him above comic-strip villainy.) After a ten-year hiatus, bad assassin Carlos vows vengeance upon rival but good assassin Bourne and declares there is not room for both of them on the same planet, even though Bourne is now inactive. Bourne and Carlos battle from Washington, D.C., through the Caribbean, Europe and Russia-but their real battle takes place in some Psycholand modeled on Disney under LSD. ![]() 007 James Bond, splits the ice wherein he's been frozen in the Webb psyche and springs back to life when Webb and his family are threatened by the toweringly psychotic terrorist Carlos the Jackal, who also has returned from the dead. Now in retirement as mild-mannered academician David Webb, deathproof Jason Bourne, the noble assassin and rip-off from the also licensed-to-kill. ![]() ![]() Third and hopefully final volume of the Bourne trilogy, begun with The Bourne Identity (1980) and The Bourne Supremacy (1986). ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, my fellow Geekiary writer Jamie wrote about it almost exactly a year ago! Of course, if you follow any of the author’s social media, the official Sons of Ares fan group Twitter, or are part of the ever-growing Howler family in the Hic Sunt Leones Facebook group for Red Rising fans (just to name a few places that have shared Iron Gold news), you probably knew about the four points of view. ![]() I’ll admit it: I truly didn’t believe that it could get much better than the original Red Rising trilogy – and yet, with Iron Gold, author Pierce Brown broke the chains mold.ĭo you remember when you were reading everything through Darrow’s point of view, how difficult it was to put down Red Rising, Golden Son, and Morning Star? Welcome to a new age, my goodmen…one in which it’s even harder to set a Pierce Brown book aside, because this time you get not one, not two, not even three, but FOUR scintillating points of view. ![]() ![]() ![]() And it would be easy for a casual fan to impute all those novels to William’s hand. The books were regularly published throughout the 1990s, 2000s and even the 2010s. It is difficult to determine when William stopped writing the Blood Bond Series. ![]() The Blood Bond series saw Johnstone attempt to subvert some of the common Western tropes while also keeping a lot of things the same, and most of his fans seem to think that he succeeded. Johnstone was already a popular author at the time, having written some of the most renowned Westerns on the literary landscape. The Blood Bond series began publication in 1989. The books follow the exploits of Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves, men from two different worlds who form an unbreakable bond. Blood Bond is a series of Westerns written by William W. ![]() ![]() ![]() “As a work of historical fiction, Petra brings Kelly herself-and the radical green utopias she advocated-to the fore in a way that no biography or work of scholarship yet has. Bill Gaston, author of The Mariner’s Guide to Self-Sabotage and Just Let me Look at You “Heartfelt and vital…it kept me up at night” Lukas Beckmann, co-founder of the German Green Party and a close colleague of Petra Kelly “I am deeply impressed by how the author describes the main character of her novel Petra with piercing empathy from various perspectives, both fictional and real, and seeks to understand and to penetrate to her core.” Wayne Grady, author of Up from Freedom and Emancipation Day Shaena Lambert raises historical questions that haunt us all.” “A brilliantly realized and compelling novel. Five Wives is published by HarperCollins Canada. Joan Thomas, winner, Governor General’s award for Five Wives Joan Thomas Author of Five Wives, The Opening Sky, Curiosity, and Reading by Lightning ABOUT FIVE WIVES In the tradition of The Poisonwood Bible comes a novel set in the rainforest of Ecuador about five women left behind when their missionary husbands are killed. Madeleine Thien, winner, Giller Prize, for Do Not Say We Have Nothing : Five Wives: A Novel (9781443458542) by Thomas, Joan and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great. “ Petra is a masterpiece – a fierce, humane and powerful novel for our times.” ![]() ![]() |y .i55600918 |i 36796021515227 |l folj |s - |k |u 46 |x 1 |w 0 |v 25 |t 104 |z 08-22-08 |o l |f CD CHILDREN |a FICTION Carman, P. Patrick Carman is the New York Times bestselling author of over thirty books, including the acclaimed series the Land of Elyon and Floors and the teen superhero. |a Forests and forestry |v Juvenile fiction. |a Human-animal communication |v Juvenile fiction. Otherwise, when the decisive moment comes, you will surely discover you ahve no wings. |a When she finds the key to a secret passageway leading out of the walled city of Bridewell, twelve-year-old Alexa realizes her lifelong wish to explore the mysterious forests and mountains that lie beyond the wall. Quotes from The Dark Hills Divide Patrick Carman 272 pages Rating: (20.2K votes) Get the book If bringing down the wall would require you to fly, you must believe you can fly. ![]() ![]() |a The Dark Hills divide |h / |c Patrick Carman. ![]() ![]() ![]() The sections using quotes from the novel and explaining references are good. The strongest points are the context section, which notes the publication history and events in both the publishing world and “real” world. It’s not bad, and in a general way, it is good. The weakest part is the analysis section. There is a summery section as well as a major character section, and these two things work together. In terms of summery, this is well done, functioning more as a summery as opposed to spoiler filled plot synopsis. Like many other summery and analysis books, Worth Books makes it clear that this is a supplement to the book, in this case The Underground Railroad, and not a replacement for actually reading the book. ![]() Worth Books (a Division of Open Road Media) offers “Smart Summaries” of various titles is the latest group to offer such books. Today, there are Cliffnotes, Sparknotes, Monkeynotes, Charles River Editors Guides and so on. When I was in school, we just had Cliffnotes. I honestly believe that many students today do not realize how easy in some ways they have it. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s kind of like a student who has a C in a course where everyone else has a D or an F. Therefore, when we compare ourselves with others, we are under the wrong impression that we are either doing as well as or better than others. This is faulty because each of us tends to rate our skill, knowledge, and abilities as much higher than they actually are. Too often, in medicine, performance is measured in two default ways.įirst, medical professionals and institutions measure themselves against each other. When we measure the wrong things with the wrong things, we come up with a wrong analysis of our performance. One of the overarching things that comes out time and again in this book is that while skill, knowledge, and abilities are important, it is how we use (and measure the outcomes) them – performance – that matters most. While Gawande tackles performance and the medical profession – and does an excellent job of saying “this is how it looks” and “this is what we all need to do” – here, the principles apply to each of us a humans in every aspect of our lives: personally (as individuals and in our relationships), professionally, socially, and spiritually. This book should be on everyone’s must-read list. Gawande is not only a conscientious physician, but he is also a thoughtful leader (who admits his own shortcomings and failures) and an excellent writer, and that combination is always appealing to me. ![]() Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance by Atul Gawandeīy Atul Gawande, I added all his books to my to-read list. ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() Fans of the Game of Thrones series will enjoy the magic and fantasy in this timeless dystopian world.” ― VOYA for The Kiss of Deception ![]() “In The Kiss of Deception, a new realm is masterfully created, featuring court intrigue, feuding nations, breathtaking landscapes, and the gift of sight. “ A sumptuous fantasy.” ― Chicago Tribune for The Kiss of Deception “ Fantastical.” ― USA Today for The Kiss of Deception Pearson's Remnant Chronicles is an epic YA series to get behind.” ― Romantic Times on The Beauty of Darkness “ Readers will be gripping pages from the nerve-wracking start through the heart-stopping ending. Pearson's combination of intrigue, suspense, romance, and action makes this a riveting YA page-turner for teens. New York Times-bestselling author Mary E. In this heart-stopping conclusion to the Remnant Chronicles trilogy that started with The Kiss of Deception and The Heart of Betrayal, traitors must be rooted out, sacrifices must be made, and impossible odds must be overcome as the future of every kingdom hangs in the balance. ![]() While she struggles to reach Morrighan and warn them, she finds herself at cross-purposes with Rafe and suspicious of Kaden, who has hunted her down. With war on the horizon, Lia has no choice but to assume her role as First Daughter, as soldier―as leader. Lia has survived Venda―but so has a great evil bent on the destruction of Morrighan. The third and final book in the New York Times-bestselling Remnant Chronicles. ![]() |