The two friends looked too happy to care. Strutting out came rapper Snoop Dogg, sitting next to Nelson as they launched into their stoner anthem, “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die.” Perhaps fittingly, each seemed to forget the words at times. Nelson then shouted, “Come out and roll one with me Snoop!” “And looking out at the Hollywood Bowl tonight, it still feels like there’s nothing bigger than Willie Nelson.”Īfter Young, Nelson brought out George Strait, a country superstar of the following generation, for their self-referential duet, “Sing One With Willie,” followed by the Willie perennial, “Pancho and Lefty,” with Strait singing the part once played by the late Merle Haggard. “As a kid growing up in Texas, it seemed like there was nothing bigger than Willie Nelson,” said Owen Wilson, one of the evening’s emcees along with Helen Mirren, Ethan Hawke and Jennifer Garner.
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'Written with bravery and honesty, Sick is an account of chronic illness, drug addictions, pain both physical and emotional, and the toll of misdiagnosis' - BuzzFeed Her searing memoir about trying to make peace with a chronic illness redefines both dislocation and belonging' - Oprah Magazine 'Khakpour is a citizen of the world but a foreigner in her own "Lyme-struck" body. Khakpour's prose is beautiful, at once silky and scorching, like the curls of smoke rising from a fire that's just starting' - Slate Sick upends all the tropes of the illness memoir. 'Draws attention to the ways in which women are expected to tell stories of sickness' - The New Yorker Khakpour takes us all the way in on her struggle towards health with an intelligence and intimacy that moved, informed, and astonished me' - Cheryl Strayed 'Reads like a mystery and a reckoning with a love song at its core. I was given this book for an honest review. For more vampires by Sophie Stern, check out Megan Slays Vampires or Sweet Nightmares: The Vampire’s Melody. This is a spicy quick read featuring a snarky vampire and the human who falls for him. The Vampire Who Saved Christmas takes place in the same world as ROSE VALLEY VAMPIRES by Sophie Stern. Now Juniper and Edward have to team up to solve the mystery and save the day before Christmas is ruined for one little boy. Juniper knows that Edward couldn’t have possibly stolen all of that blood, and she also knows that he’s a vampire. Suspicion is instantly cast upon Edward Sparrow – the tall, lanky man who runs the blood bank. Juniper James is working at the Rose Valley Blood Bank when something goes terribly wrong: a collection of blood is stolen, which means an upcoming surgery they’re supposed to supply blood for isn’t going to be able to happen. Grown-ups come to her, pouring out their problems and their conflicts, and – without Momo saying a word – go away knowing what they have to do. Momo is so good at listening that it almost qualifies as a magical gift. And all she gives them in return is a listening ear. Her only food and home furnishings are things other people have brought her. In fact, Momo lives in the space under the stage of an old, ruined amphitheatre outside an unnamed Italian city. She does not live in an orphanage or foster home. Momo is the name of a little girl who has no parents or guardian. And third, its setting and characters have the warmth and vitality of Italy and Italians viewed through the eyes of love. Maxwell Brownjohn, whom I take to be the same as John Brownjohn, translator of Mimus (by Lilli Thal) and other German-to-English marvels. Second, it comes to us in English through the very gifted J. First, it is a beautiful, thrilling, and thought-provoking fantasy conceived by a great storyteller. This tells you three very special things about this story. The author of The Neverending Story wrote this book in the German language, while living in Italy. Grace Lin perfectly captures the back and forth of a close friendship between two very different people, and like Arnold Lobel, highlights those differences as the root of the loving humor in her stories. If you were ever a fan of Frog & Toad, you will love Ling & Ting. Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same, by Grace Lin, Little, Brown and Company, 2010 So for today’s Windows/Mirrors Book Review, and in honor of the Year of the Monkey, I am pleased to present, telling her own story: But what happens when privileged writers claim the diverse spaces on publishers’ booklists when we know that those spaces are limited? Writers of color and other diverse backgrounds can get edged out of the opportunity to tell their own stories, as described by Jacqueline Woodson in her post “Who Can Tell My Story?”. That is not to say that authors can never cross color/other lines in their fiction–many writers of many backgrounds do this successfully. She challenges white writers to support #WNDB by reading, buying and promoting diverse books, not necessarily by attempting to write them. Ellen Oh‘s article Dear White Writers poses some interesting questions for me as a curator of this Diverse Book Review series. He and Lee escape the rebel base together, caught between two sides of a senseless war. But as his fellow rebels prepare to execute this tough-talking girl with nerves of steel, Flynn makes another choice that will change him forever. But they never fulfilled their promise on Avon, and decades later, Flynn is leading the rebellion.ĭesperate for any advantage in a bloody and unrelentingly war, Flynn does the only thing that makes sense when he and Lee cross paths: he returns to base with her as prisoner. Terraforming corporations make their fortune by recruiting colonists to make the inhospitable planets livable, with the promise of a better life for their children. Lee is captain of the forces sent to Avon to crush the terraformed planet’s rebellious colonists, but she has her own reasons for hating the insurgents. Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac should never have met. The second installment in the epic Starbound trilogy with Megan Spooner introduces a new pair of star-crossed lovers on two sides of a bloody war. This memory came to mind when I read Serhii Plokhy’s The Gates of Europe in the wake of Russia’s all-out attack on Ukraine in the last weeks. At the same time, it seemed to me that this concentrated gaze on Russia aptly illustrated a more general problem – namely, how to conceptualize Ukraine and its history without inevitably invoking the more powerful neighbor looming on the horizon. It was bitterly ironic, I thought, that this Soviet-era embodiment of local fighting spirit and resistance brandished its sword and shield to the East, to Russia, the erstwhile ally turned aggressor, rather than to the allegedly hostile West, which was, after all, the direction where the German occupants had come from. What drew my attention most, however, was the large Motherland Monument dedicated to the memory of the Great Patriotic War overlooking the river a little further to the south. As the room faced west, the glistening sun made work in hot summer evenings all but impossible, but as a consolation it offered a spectacular view of the river scenery and the hilly Western bank, including of course the golden domes of the cave monastery. When I travelled to Kyiv for research in the summer of 2016, I rented a small room at the top of a 1970s high-rise block in Livoberezhna, a residential area on the eastern Left Bank of the Dnipro River. Ukraine Without Russia: Towards a longue durée View of Ukrainian History Archival research only took me so far to really put meat on the bones of the story, I had to go out and really talk to people on the ground. To bring those truths to light, I had to piece together so many disparate threads, driving octogenarians and nonagenarians and even centenarians around the old neighborhoods, sifting through old property deeds and maps, and reading oral histories. The daily cruelties didn’t seem to shift so much between the end of slavery and civil rights. In "Truevine," the most astonishing things didn’t revolve around the sideshow spectacle but rather around what ordinary African-Americans faced during Jim Crow. Then teasing out the facts, unraveling one thread at a time, becomes this great search. Then teasing out the facts, unraveling one thread at a time, becomes this gre …more Deadlines help! Seriously, a story has to move me for me to dig into it. Beth Macy Deadlines help! Seriously, a story has to move me for me to dig into it. It consumed my every waking thought in the moments I had to step away. When I realized I needed to call it a night, this book haunted my dreams. I stayed up far later than I should have last night tearing through these pages. When I tell you that I DEVOURED this book, it's an understatement. This book was nothing short of PHENOMENAL and I'm honest to God astonished over what I've just read. I am sitting here in awe, in stunned silence, in utter disbelief as I reflect back on the MASTERPIECE that is Hook Shot. I am sitting here with absolutely no idea how to even BEGIN to put thoughts down about what I just experienced on these pages. I am sitting here with my thoughts spinning, with my heart pounding, with my breath slowly returning to a normal rhythm. He never gives up, and now.I'm not sure I want him to. Keeps knocking down my defenses and stealing my excuses Kenan Ross charged into my life smelling all good, looking even better and snatching my breath from the moment we met. She's not the plan I made, but she's the risk I have to take.Ī warrior. I promised myself I wouldn't trust a woman again,īut I've never wanted anyone the way I want Lo. Lotus DuPree is a kick to my gut and a wrench in my plans My perfect life blew up in my face and I'm still picking up the pieces.Ī wildflower. A deeply emotional standalone romance set in the worlds of professional basketball and high fashion.ĭivorced. Hastings appears to have been introduced by Christie in accordance with the model of Sherlock Holmes's associate, Doctor Watson, to whom he bears a marked resemblance. Moreover, when Christie expanded The Submarine Plans (1923) as The Incredible Theft (1937), she removed Hastings. Of the twenty-two Poirot novels published between 19, he appears in seven. He is not a character in either Death on the Nile or Murder on the Orient Express, the two best-known Poirot novels. In Christie's original writings, however, Hastings is not in every short story or novel. A few were stories into which he had been adapted (for example, Murder in the Mews). Many of the early TV episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot were adaptations of short stories, in most of which he appeared in print. Hastings is today strongly associated with Poirot, due more to the television adaptations than to the novels. He is also the narrator of several of them. He is first introduced in Christie's 1920 novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles (originally written in 1916) and appears as a character in seven other Poirot novels, including the final one Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (1975), along with a play and many short stories. Hastings, OBE, is a fictional character created by Agatha Christie as the companion-chronicler and best friend of the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. |