![]() On the not-so-bright side, someone out there wants her ex-husband, Steven, out of the picture. ![]() On the bright side, she has her live-in nanny and confidant Vero to rely on, and the only dead body she's dealt with lately is that of her daughter's pet goldfish. "A funny and smart, twisty and surprising series."-Megan Mirandaįinlay Donovan is-once again-struggling to finish her next novel and keep her head above water as a single mother of two. "Cosimano skillfully combines suspense and laughs in the manner of Janet Evanovich’s early (and best) novels, finished off with a metafictional twist."- New York Times Book Review From Edgar-Award nominee Elle Cosimano, comes Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead-the hilarious and heart-pounding follow-up to Finlay Donovan is Killing It. ![]()
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![]() Hi, Pizza Man! by Virginia Walter illustrated by Ponder Goembel The kids always laugh when the pizza gets tickled. It’s a sweet story about a shared family game. ![]() When Pete’s plans to play ball with his friends are cancelled by the rain, his father decides to cheer him up by turning him into a pizza: kneading the dough, tossing it in the air, applying toppings (which are really checkers and pieces of paper), and cooking him in the oven (the couch). This is one of my all-time favorite storytime books. I based it heavily on Storytime Kate’s Pizza storytime, with a few tweaks. ![]() Today was beautiful though, and we had a great time with this theme. But our area got hit by a series of atmospheric rivers, which turned our outdoor storytime area into a marsh for several weeks. ![]() I had planned to do this storytime right after New Year’s, in honor of National Pizza Week (January 8 through 14). ![]() ![]() The second chapter introduces the central conceit of the novel. ![]() Her mother might not be moved to act, but a threat is indeed upon the world. The book opens with a chapter told from the point of view of Lynesse Fourth Daughter, the younger daughter from the ruling house of the small kingdom of Lannesite who has taken it upon herself to seek out the sorcerer Nyrgoth Elder in his isolated tower in order to invoke an ancient compact that he would help in a moment of need. ![]() ![]() Lyn imagined a legion of tiny imps sewing that rich quilted fabric with precious metal, every tiny convolution fierce with occult meaning.Īdrian Tchaikovsky’s Elder Race belongs to a long tradition of Science Fiction that doubles as speculative anthropology, and this book would be right at home among the Hainish novels by this sub-genre’s master, Ursula Le Guin. Nyrgoth Elder was seven feet tall, gaunt, clad in slate robes that glittered with golden sigils, intricate beyond the dreams of tailors. I am much altered from my ancestors, within and without, and these post-colonial natives have changed little. She is closer to baseline than I, but then the second great rise of Earth culture was one of grandiose ambitions and a refusal to accept limits, even the limits of human form. I forget how their stock and mine have diverged since the first colony ships left Earth. ![]() It’s always a shock, when I look on them the first time after waking. ![]() |