![]() ![]() To the mystery, not the subplot? - 80% Special suspect? - relative Misc. ![]() The blind shaman called Listening Woman speaks of witches and restless spirits, of supernatural. ![]() How difficult to spot villain? - Challenging Time/era of story: - 1980's-1999 Buy a used copy of Listening Woman book by Tony Hillerman. (people, objects, places) 20% Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear) of violence and chases 30% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 40% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 10% How society works & physical descript. Click on a plot link to find similar books! Plot & Themes Composition of Book descript. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() “I feel like we kind of manifested its release, honestly,” Mensing said.Īfter reading the version of the novel that leaked in 2008, Abercrombie said she was eager for Meyer to release the finished one. Maren Abercrombie and Emily Mensing, who host the podcast “Remember Twilight?,” are two such fans. The Twilight saga, which follows teenage Bella Swan’s romance with Edward Cullen, a century-old vampire, turned into a multimillion-dollar brand following the first book’s release in 2005, producing five movies and millions of devotees around the world, many of whom have been clamoring for “Midnight Sun.” Because of all the time that’s passed, they’ve built up in their minds what they thought it was going to be, and so no one can live up to those kinds of expectations.” “I’m pretty sure people aren’t going to get exactly what they think they’re getting. ![]() “That’s really flattering but also nerve-racking,” Meyer said in an interview last month. She had hoped for a low-key release, but when she announced the publication date in May, so many of them flocked to her website that it quickly crashed. Now, more than a decade later, her legions of fans will finally be able to read it. She put the book on hold after several chapters leaked online in 2008. When Stephenie Meyer decided this year to release “Midnight Sun,” a retelling of her best-selling “Twilight” novel from the vampire’s point of view, she thought: “No one can possibly care about it anymore.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Spilling over with the sumptuous flavors and romance of Tuscany, These Tangled Vines takes readers on a breathtaking journey of love, secrets, sacrifice, courage-and most importantly, the true meaning of family. Fiona both fears and embraces her new destiny as she searches for the truth about the fateful summer her mother spent in Italy and the father she never knew. ![]() While the mystery of her mother’s affair is slowly unraveled, Fiona must navigate through tricky family relationships and tense sibling rivalries. She is the only person who knows about her late mother’s affair in Tuscany thirty years earlier, and she intends to keep it that way…until a lawyer calls with shocking news: her biological father has died and left her an incredible inheritance-along with two half siblings.įiona travels to Italy, where the family is shocked to learn of her existence and desperate to contest her share of the will. ![]() If Fiona has learned anything in life, it’s how to keep a secret-even from the father who raised her. From the USA Today bestselling author of A Curve in the Road comes a sweeping and captivating tale of one woman’s journey to the lush vineyards of Tuscany-and into the mysteries of a tragic family secret. ![]() ![]() Tangles is 1) a graphic memoir, 2) was written by a woman, 3) was published in 2012 (just hitting the five year mark), and 4) has only 832 ratings on Goodreads. I chose Tangles: A story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me by Sarah Leavitt. I wanted to read and blog about something that doesn’t have more reviews than Heinz Field has seats. While I highly recommend checking out graphic memoirists like Alison Bechdel and Marjane Satrapi, there are, as I type this, over 76,000 reviews of Bechdel’s Fun Home on Goodreads. And I still had a pretty significant stack.ģ) Since I have promised to explore “new and exciting” memoirs, I wanted my choice to have been published within the past five years.Ĥ) I wanted to read something that isn’t too widely known. My research consisted only of pulling every graphic memoir written by a woman from our collection at Beechview and seeing what I connected with. Fortunately, though women are still fairly underrepresented in comics, there are a lot of graphic memoirs by women from which to choose. Not only are they telling their stories, they’re quite literally showing them.Ģ) In honor of Women’s History Month, I wanted to read something by a woman. I think that in utilizing comics as a medium, memoirists provide a unique and immersive reading experience. I even did a staff pick about it in September. ![]() ![]() Graphic memoir is one of my very favorite genres. In choosing my memoir this month I had a few criteria:ġ) I wanted to read a graphic memoir. ![]() |