One of my favorites is Worm Loves Worm because of its message of love and inclusivity. We’ll be posting our recommendations all week- and we also want to hear from you! What are your favorite books, whether for story hour or bed time? We’d love short reviews from drag queens, librarians, parents, and especially from kids! Please send your short reviews to Lil Miss Hot Mess with a photo of yourself we can post on our website.Īs always, we encourage you to shop at your local bookstore whenever possible, though if you are going to buy online, you can support DQSH through Drag Queen Story Hour on Amazon Smile. And some books are so popular, multiple people wanted to share their praise! People always ask Drag Queen Story Hour for book recommendations, so we thought we’d share just some of our favorites with you… just in time for your holiday shopping! These recommendations are direct from our libraries to yours, including our queens, librarians, and community members.
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And so, as Slaght and his devoted team set out to locate the owls, they aim to craft a conservation plan that helps ensure the species’ survival. They are easiest to find in winter, when their tracks mark the snowy banks of the rivers where they feed. That first sighting set his calling as a scientist.ĭespite a wingspan of six feet and a height of over two feet, the Blakiston’s fish owl is highly elusive. Soon he was on a five-year journey, searching for this enormous, enigmatic creature in the lush, remote forests of eastern Russia. He snapped a quick photo and shared it with experts. Bigger than any owl he knew, it looked like a small bear with decorative feathers. Slaght had a chance encounter with one of the most mysterious birds on Earth. When he was just a fledgling birdwatcher, Jonathan C. No scientist had seen a Blakiston’s fish owl so far south in a hundred years. 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We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information. She peppers Daphne’s speech with sharp observations about modern life, youth, and the burdens of contemporary womanhood. Setton’s sentences are the real draw here. Berlin devolves from a hipster mecca into a nightmarish hellscape as Daphne struggles to hold on to her tenuous sanity. A strange and violent event one night at her subleased flat leads to her gradual paranoid spiraling and the transformation of the city in her eyes. Living off her parents’ money, Daphne expects to make friends, find love, and discover her real life, the one she keeps expecting to appear and replace her bleak and circumscribed existence. In this dark and twisty debut, Setton crafts a clever thriller-cum–expat narrative for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Antoine Wilson’s Mouth to Mouth, and Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station.ĭaphne, a directionless 26-year-old Londoner, lands in Berlin with little plan for her time there. However, trying not to fall behind, 2-0, Lilly grooved a 1-0 pitch that Giambi killed for a three-run homer, his 27th, and a 5-0 bulge for the hottest team in baseball. 8 and 9 hitters to start the second, Lilly had a chance to get out of the inning unscathed if he could retire Jason Giambi. He got into a very defensive mode and it cost him.”ĭespite walking Ron Gant and Ramon Hernandez, the No. “When he got out of the first-inning jam, I felt we accomplished something,” Torre said of Lilly, who walked two, gave up two runs and left two runners on base by getting Terrence Long on a called third strike. Lilly was allowed to pitch because he immediately appealed the ban. However, there was no other way to describe Lilly’s performance one night after he was suspended for six games by Frank Robinson for hitting Scott Spiezio in the head last Sunday at Yankee Stadium. Torre rarely criticizes a player, especially a 25-year-old. “I didn’t like approach tonight,” Torre said after the A’s laid an 8-1 beating on the Yankees, thanks in large part to a season-high 11 walks by Lilly (five) and Witasick (six). So, with the Yankees in a five-run hole going into the third inning, Torre replaced the neophyte lefty with Jay Witasick. OAKLAND – Joe Torre watched Ted Lilly muddle through two innings Friday night and had enough. I was always glad to see one of my favourite secondary GH characters, Charles Audley, given his own romance, but on my first reading I wasn't that keen on Barbara. Anyone thinking that the name Grouchy must be a typo (& anyone who reads the Arrow editions of GH's books can certainly be forgiven for that!) It isn't. I'm not a big war story reader at any time, but GH's description of soot blackened faces & horses being shot under riders ring true. That's right folks – I breezed through the Battle of Waterloo! & I thought there was even more history than there was! On this reading, I would put romance, Regency life at around 75%, war story 25%.This read, I simply accepted that I wasn't going to remember every real life character & just went with the flow. I loved the romance, but on subsequent readings I just skimmed through the history & reread Bab's & Charles love story. I wasn't so keen on this book in my younger days & if GR had been around then I would have given it a solid 3.5*, as in found the history a bit indigestible. I will mention that GH was meticulous in her research - at the back of the book is what she calls the "short" bibliography & that runs to two & a half pages! This is her review (linked to with her permission). My good GR friend Hana has covered the historical side of reviewing the book, & I don't feel I can better her comments. Warning there may be spoilers for Regency Buck & Devil's Cub in this review,as GH uses characters from both in this book. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition.The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist a surveyor a psychologist, the de facto leader and our narrator, a biologist. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape the second expedition ended in mass suicide the third expedition in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with this Nebula Award-winning novel that "reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world" (Kim Stanley Robinson). Print Annihilation (The Southern Reach Trilogy #1) Instead, her book begins by establishing the Stalin regime’s remarkable cultural ambitions, including the elevation of intellectuals and writers. She neither glosses over nor dwells upon the parallels between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia typically drawn by exegetes of totalitarian art. In Moscow, the Fourth Rome-a series of linked essays following an adroitly plotted historical narrative-she recounts a scandalous episode in art history, while making a significant contribution to the understanding of 1930s European political culture and providing a lucid guide to the late-’30s period of mainly Soviet collective mania.Ĭlark ranges from literature to cinema to theater to painting to architecture (noting, for example, that the same adjectives- simple, restrained, calm-were used to describe both social-realist architecture and the positive heroes of socialist-realist literature). Author of The Soviet Novel, a classic analysis of socialist-realist fiction of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s, and a professor of Slavic literature at Yale, Katerina Clark here reads the text of High Stalinism. The pioneering walkaways must navigate cities ruined by industrial flight and landscapes wrecked by climate change. Removing oneself from the clutches of global capitalism is easier said than done. John Mandel and Claire Vaye Watkins craft literary thrillers that detail the devastation of climate change and global pandemics.īut what about utopian visions? Who dares suggest that people, the poor as well as the ultra-rich, might thrive in the future?Ĭory Doctorow, author of “Little Brother” and “Homeland,” presents a disturbing, if still hopeful, vision of the future in “Walkaway.” Set in the mid-21st century, when anyone can 3-D print pretty much whatever they need in terms of food, shelter and clothes, the novel follows a trio in their 20s - Hubert, Seth and Natalie - as they abandon the world of corrupt plutocrats and leave behind their possessions, debts, jobs and dysfunctional families. Newer authors such as Paolo Bacigalupi, Emily St. George Orwell’s “1984” and Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” are enjoying renewed popularity. |