![]() When he came out, everyone was hidden, including Randy under the drum! He got there when the brother who was “it” had to run into the house to use the bathroom. The drum was actually the “home base” for the game. Hide-n-seek was the most popular game, and Randy can still laugh at the time one of his brothers couldn’t find him because the older brother had hidden him under an old 55-gallon drum. ![]() Playing with his two older brothers and two sisters was a normal afternoon and evening pastime. Some are quite comical, while others are a little more “catch your breath” type of events for a very young man. At that time, the family lived in upstate New York on a 127-acre farm, and he has several memories from his younger days. The transformation that takes place… Meet Randy Massey!īorn the fifth of five children, Randy Massey was the “surprise” child of his parents Homer and Beatrice Massey. I thought it was interesting to see the way a writer becomes a writer. This article is from author Randy Massey. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Mike Russell’s writing style is extremely matter-of-fact, perhaps aiming for a sense of magical realism. One notable exception is the narration in ‘The End of the Pier’, however, this story comes across as more-or-less nonsensical, and as trying to be odd for the sake of it, rather than actually achieving any particular goal. Each time we enter a new short story world, we are presented once more with the same point of view, simply with a different name attached to it. The ‘mother’ in ‘Insensible Susan’ does not read any differently from, for example, the ‘diarist’ in ‘The Diaries of Sun City’. Though, indeed, we readers are presented with twenty different situations, which would indeed be strange situations to find yourself in, they are presented in the same way, with the same author voice coming through despite apparent changes in narrator. ![]() Possibly the greatest issue this collection faces is the similarity in all the stories. That is not to say that there is nothing good about this collection, or Mike Russell’s writing generally there are peaks – such as the repeated image of the individual being the whole world – as well as troughs. ![]() Promising readers mind-expanding, otherworldly, unique stories, the collection sadly does not deliver. Nothing Is Strange is a very apt title for this short collection of short stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I get confused with the different characters and the politics of the whole thing.Īt the beginning (I'm only 100 or so pages in) Smilla seemed to be gaining access to everyone and everything so easily and I was wondering (still am) just how a civilian could do this. I feel like I'm a couple of steps behind the story all the time and I'm struggling to keep up with what's going on. The politics/history of the relationship between Denmark and Greenland is also a learning curve for me (albeit an interesting one). This makes it difficult for me to identify with her character. My own country is so different to Denmark/Greenland I've seen snow briefly just a couple of times in my life so I can't fathom Smilla's passion for it. I think it's partly due to the setting and partly due to the writing. ![]() I've read a lot of books set in various locations around the world but Smilla feels the most 'foreign' to me by far. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I loved watching Posy and Gunnar fall for each other again. ![]() She has no idea what she’s in for with Gunnar back in her life. They have a history and she’s still so attracted to him, but she gives him a chance. Posy needs a barista in the worst way but is hesitant about hiring Gunnar. They were never truly together, but they had a ton of chemistry back in the day. Posy is a girl he used to know in college. He is shocked that his assignment is going undercover as a barista in Posy’s Pie Shop. Gunnar is not a fan of NYC, but he’s back for a job. After reading this one, I want even more of these books- especially Max’s story! I am so excited Sarina Bowen is continuing on with The Company series. And just as soon I figure out how to make a skinny peppermint latte with milk poured in the shape of a kitten. There’s nobody more skilled at stealth ops than me. I’d forgotten how much we infuriate each other, and that she somehow fills me with both irritation and desire in the same breath. But now I have to call her “boss,” and do everything the curvy perfectionist asks of me. Going undercover as Posy’s new barista wasn’t my idea. It’s my job to identify him before he can harm a hair on her pretty head. There’s a murderer on the loose in New York, and he seems to spend a lot of time at Posy’s shop. I’m the VP of a secretive billion-dollar security company. But all she gave me was a single kiss before I had to skip town. Posy was the pampered girl I tried to impress. Growing up, I was the rough guy from the wrong neighborhood who couldn’t catch a break. ![]() ![]() “Bazillion Points might just be the best publishing house in America…the New York-based publishers have an outstanding record for producing quality books for rock and metal fans.”- Metal Hammer UK “Bazillion Points releases first-class books, in high-quality formats, and although the publisher is only five years old, and the number of its releases hovers around 15, what is extraordinary is that seven of those books happen to be among the finest books published about metal or punk…”-PopMatters ![]() “Any book about a metal band endorsed by Ian Christe, author of the preeminent book on metal, Sound of the Beast, is worth considering.”- Library Journal We are independently independent, opening the gateways to a bazillion points of interest.īazillion Points was founded in Brooklyn, NY, in 2007 by Ian Christe, author of Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal (HarperCollins, 2003) and Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga (John Wiley & Sons, 2007). ![]() ![]() America’s “smallest but heaviest publisher,” Bazillion Points delivers books from many netherworlds to a rabid, overlooked readership of voracious bookwurms. ![]() ![]() In 1993, he founded The Pipeline, an early Internet service. Gleick collaborated with the photographer Eliot Porter on Nature's Chaos and with developers at Autodesk on Chaos: The Software. ![]() ![]() He was the McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University in 1989-90. After its demise, he returned to New York and joined as staff of the New York Times, where he worked for ten years as an editor and reporter. Having worked for the Harvard Crimson and freelanced in Boston, he moved to Minneapolis, where he helped found a short-lived weekly newspaper, Metropolis. Three of these books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists, and they have been translated into more than twenty languages.īorn in New York City, USA, Gleick attended Harvard College, graduating in 1976 with a degree in English and linguistics. James Gleick (born August 1, 1954) is an American author, journalist, and biographer, whose books explore the cultural ramifications of science and technology. ![]() ![]() ![]() set focuses on approximately 230 countries and territories and contains comprehensive features not found in comparable sources, including statistical surveys detailed director. The annual Worldmark Yearbook covers recent social, political and economic events worldwide. Worldmark Yearbook 2000 (Hardback, 2000 ed.) ![]() ![]() Each entry contains a bibliography/suggestions for further reading and crossa references directing the users to articles of related interest. Both the original edition and the new were shaped by expert boards who determined the entry list and reviewed content. Mathematics is illustrated with images, equations, tables, and figures, and includes sidebars. Thirty percent of the content is new to this edition, highlighting advances in mathematics since 2000. Readers will see the uses and effects of math in daily life, while short biographies highlight notable mathematicians. that cover the basics of algebra, geometry and trigonometry, with the goal of making these topics more accessible and interesting. Written for middle school/high school students, as well as non-math-major undergraduates, Mathematics contains some 300 entries. This full-color update of the award-winning 2002 A-Z encyclopedia explains concepts, provides a historical overview, and explores careers in the field. Mathematics: MacMillan Science Library, 4 Volume Set (Hardback, 2nd ed.) ![]() ![]() Then, catastrophe strikes, and Kendall's life is once again altered. ![]() She doesn't want to be an afterthought to him, nor does she want to live her life in the midst of the clubhouse, especially with the competition taking place between Kendall and the club president's wife. But when Kathryns fathers dairy barn burns down during a thunderstorm. She demands his complete attention and isn't willing to share her man with all the baggage of the MC. An Amish Barn Raising by Amy Clipston, Kathleen Fuller and Kelly Irvin - book. She's ready to move on with her life and the man of her dreams, the sexy VP of the Death Dwellers MC. Kendall Miller is trying to pick up the pieces of her life in the wake of her ex-boyfriend's assault. Misdeeds ebook &mid Death Dwellers MC By Kathryn Kelly. ![]() Will Johnnie be able to live with the choices he makes? As Johnnie tries to balance his club life and personal life, another tragedy forces him to make a choice between the two. Before he can move on with his future, however, he still has loose ends to tie up from the past, in the form of a rival MC's president who is also Kendall's ex-boyfriend. ![]() John "Johnnie" Donovan is determined to make his relationship work with Kendall Miller, the attorney he met during his cousin's bachelor party. ![]() ![]() ![]() If she doesn’t, she will die and become his own bride. What is more, if she finds her true love during that day, he will let her live. Intrigued-or perhaps playing along-Death agrees to let Keturah live another day. In the middle of the story, Keturah stops and refuses to finish until the next night. The reader recognizes it as her own story, the story of an orphaned girl who longed to find love but was interrupted in her quest by Death. To stall Lord Death, Keturah begins to tell a story. Death tells her that she has been foolish, as most of her neighbors will die soon in any case, of the plague. Death tells her that she thinks too highly of love, which is just a “story,” spun out of “dust and dreams.” Nevertheless, he agrees to let her live, if she is willing to pick another person from her village to die in her stead. She is too young to die, and she has never known love. ![]() ![]() He is Lord Death, and he has come for Keturah. On the third day, she encounters “a goodly man, severe but beautiful,” riding a black horse. ![]() ![]() Everything has been precisely placed to full effect. This latest release, The City of Last Chances, was carved out of granite by an industrial literary automaton. Where to even hone in for this review? Well, Tchaikovsky fantasy is a real heavy duty fair and if you’re only familiar with his sci-fi then this is a great entry point into another side of his writing. ![]() City of Skip to the bottom of the review if you don’t have much time because I’m giving this book a 10. ![]() Ilmar, City of Long Shadows, City of Bad Decisions. While she kindly provided an arc of the title, this review and my thoughts are my own. The Ilmari intolerance for their occupiers sparks with every tighten of the thumbscrew and surely the sparks will ignite soon.Ī thank you to Cassie Waters from Head of Zeus for inviting us aboard the book tour for The City of Lost Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky. ![]() But still the Pallseen decided to take and occupy it, seeking to bring their perfection to a city of ancient curses, a bloodthirsty criminal underworld, tricksters, cheats, murderers, demons, and, of course, the dark and mystical Anchorwood that becomes a portal to worlds unknown when the moon is full. Ilmar, they call it the city of bad decisions. ![]() |