![]() ![]() Was there a particular incident, place or monument that first sparked your thinking for this novel?īecause ALMOST DEAD is linked to ‘Dead, Actually’, I already had my main character, so really it was a case of digging deeper into her psyche. Macey is the unforgettable side-kick in the first book and the lead in Almost Dead.Ģ. ![]() Of course, after I had my characters from the first book, ‘Dead, Actually’, then it as a case of finding Macey’s story. I know it’s much more grown up to say character, and in truth, sometimes that’s the case, but for what I call my Dead Books, it was most definitely plot. What comes first for you character or plot? Thank you so much for allowing me to hang out on your blog, Dale. ![]()
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![]() While Sharma died of suicide, she in 2021 had spoken about her tryst with depression. Just talking about her in the past tense gives me knots in my heart,” she elaborates. This is beyond acceptance, I see her smiling face. ![]() She was very dedicated to her work and that’s what I remember her as. “She was like a butterfly, always chirpy, and had a wide smile on her face. This is beyond acceptance,” she shares.īoth Sharma and Ghosh didn’t have many scenes in the show, however, they bonded well on different things like hand creams. We aspire for things and have our dreams but then one moment changes everything. Ghosh is still processing the news, which has shaken her as well. I wish this was a bad dream and I woke up,” Ghosh laments. ![]() I want to cry it out loud, but I’m unable to cry. ![]() Actor Sayantani Ghosh met Tunisha Sharma just a day before the 20-year-old died of suicide on the sets of her TV show Ali Baba: Dastaan-E-Kabul on December 24. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not every child is so fortunate, especially nowadays.The librarians I met at the Missouri River Regional Library in Jefferson City while reporting today’s cover story are keenly aware of how difficult it can be for some families to access their stacks. (If you sense an animal theme, I’m guilty as charged.)The library visits sparked wonder and imagination – and were only made possible by a parent who could take us. It’s how I met the venerable Clifford, Arthur, and Berenstain Bears. But the real joy – and first taste of independence – came afterward when our mom would let us wander the aisles choosing new books to check out. What I do remember are regular trips to the public library in Merrillville, Indiana, with my mom and twin sister.We’d enter the book fortress and make a beeline for the children’s floor upstairs. I grew up in the era of Toys R Us, when Geoffrey the Giraffe beckoned kids from across the parking lot or through the television screen to a wonderland that seemed to offer every toy imaginable. Yet, other than a vague recollection of toy-filled aisles, I have no specific memory attached to that store. ![]() ![]() ![]() (1) Names. In the cemetery in Angaston in South Australia, there stands a gravestone surrounded by dry grass and rusty wrought iron railings, and the name on the stone slab is: The elements that make up the start of a story for me are (in no particular order) (By the way, her blog is at and her website is She asked a number of writers to talk about The Anatomy of a Novel – the elements that make a particular book or story. ![]() Here’s an article that I wrote for the blog of my friend Simmone Howell, YA author of Notes from the Teenage Underground and Something Beautiful. I’m going to have a book launch at Stoneman’s Bookroom, where I work, I’ve sent offers of ‘author talks’ to the local schools, I’m printing images of the cover to use as posters…and hoping like mad that my precious book gets bought and read and enjoyed by heaps of children. Its release date is the 1st of August – and that’s soon. I’m starting to get excited about The Truth About Verity Sparks. ![]() ![]() She has helped a number of clients interpret their dreams in her capacity of dream group facilitator and is a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams of Dreams. Writing the book on dreams and their meanings has given her awareness of the importance of self-discovery through dreaming. Rose has also written her best selling book, Dictionary of Dreams, which has sold over 500,000 copies. She has been listed in the Notable Children’s Books and short-listed for the Environment Award for Children’s Literature in Australia. ![]() Her books are published by leading international publishers as well as trade publishers, marketed in Australia and internationally. Rose Inserra is a published children’s author of over 60 books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her research was not widely accepted in the begining. ![]() Pepperberg has proven without a doubt that the same intelligence is in the avian brain as well. I've always looked at my border collie's eyes and known there was so much intelligence behind them. It's written in easily understandable terms, providing great fodder for thought. The fact that this bird was able to not just mimic sounds, but count, choose, differentiate between shapes, colours and much more. ![]() We then go back to the beginning, learning a bit about Pepperberg and how a small childhood pet influenced her life and led her to her life's research.Īnd what fascinating research it is. I found the opening outpouring of grief in the first chapter a bit overwhelming as I hadn't yet read Alex's story. His passing was noted in many prominent publications, including the New York Times. African Greys' lifespans are 50 years+, but Alex died unexpectedly after only 30 years. Irene Pepperberg set out thirty years ago "to explore the cognitive capacities of a nonhuman, nonprimate, nonmammalian animal, using communication as a window into his mind." She was ahead of her time, but her studies have scientifically proven that using 'birdbrain' as a putdown is, well, wrong!Īlex & Me begins at the end. We've all heard stories of animal communication, most notably with primates and dolphins, but Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() I would sacrifice our happiness for her safety, even if she hates me in the end.īecause I was made to love the brilliant witch, and there’s a fine line between love and pain. She’s the most incredible thing I’ve ever seen… but she’ll never be mine. ![]() My pack is my father’s legacy, and I honor him every day.īut Greer makes me question everything, including what kind of male I want to be. Our union would solidify the bond between his pack and my coven. Greer My coven relies on me to be strategic but it’s becoming harder each day. While we prepare to go on the offensive against the leaders of witchkind, I discover our most trusted ally, Alpha Aleksandr, is my fated mate. Zephyr (Immortal Coven 4) by Amara Rae (Goodreads Author) 4.20 Rating details 204 ratings 51 reviews A witch with the gift of air. ![]() They believe our kind isn’t supposed to mate other immortals.Īs a hybrid coven, we work twice as hard to survive. Our list of enemies is growing, and we’re inching closer to war with the witches who want to destroy us. My coven relies on me to be strategic… but it’s becoming harder each day. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email, and be sure to describe your book or include a link to your Readers' Favorite review page or Amazon page. What sites your reviews are posted on (B&N, Amazon, etc.) and whether you send digital (eBook, PDF, Word, etc.) or hard copies of your books to each other for review is up to you. Simply put, you agree to provide an honest review an author's book in exchange for the author doing the same for you. This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Review Exchange Program, which is open to all authors and is completely free. ![]() To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email. You and the author will discuss what sites you will post your review to and what kind of copy of the book you would like to receive (eBook, PDF, Word, paperback, etc.). The author will provide you with a free copy of their book in exchange for an honest review. This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Free Book Program, which is open to all readers and is completely free. ![]() ![]() ![]() In recounting this painful tale, Yen Mah's unadorned prose is powerful, her insights keen and her portrait of her family devastating. But she was encouraged by the love of an aunt and eventually made her way to the U.S., where she became a doctor, married happily and, ironically, was the one her father and stepmother turned to in their old age. His first wife, Yen Mah's mother, died at her birth, and the child, considered an ill omen, was treated with crushing severity. But he was indifferent to his seven children and in the thrall of a second wife who makes Cinderella's stepmother seem angelic. In addition to an assortment of profitable enterprises, he stashed away two tons of gold in a Swiss bank, and eventually the family fled to Hong Kong. ![]() Yen Mah's father knew how to make money and survive, regardless of the regime in power. Although the focus of this memoir is the author's struggle to be loved by a family that treated her cruelly, it is more notable for its portrait of the domestic affairs of an immensely wealthy, Westernized Chinese family in Shanghai as the city evolved under the harsh strictures of Mao and Deng. ![]() ![]() ![]() What are your thoughts on the author’s use of the second person during Essun’s story? Why do you think she addressed the reader as “you,” and did you appreciate her unique technique or find it distracting?.Do you like to read fantasy or is it a genre you usually pass over? How did you feel about the world-building aspect of the novel? Did it draw you in or turn you off?. ![]() This is what you must remember: the ending of one story is just the beginning of another.ĭiscussion Questions for The Fifth Season When the reasoning mind is forced to confront the impossible again and again, it has no choice but to adapt. Who misses what they have never, ever even imagined? Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind. And where there is no mercy.įor all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. ![]() It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. ![]() It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world’s sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. This is the way the world ends…for the last time. Audiobook Length: 15 hours and 27 minutes ![]() |