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![]() ![]() Iger saw it as a distribution platform with global reach. In the summer of 2016, Disney came close to buying Twitter. ![]() “Instead of toasting what had been a momentous day in my early days as CEO, we cried together over the news,” Iger writes.ģ. Iger didn’t waver on the deal, but the news hit Iger and his wife, Willow Bay, hard on a personal level. Jobs took him on a walk to confide in Iger that his pancreatic cancer had returned and because of that, Jobs wanted to give Iger an eleventh-hour chance to back out of the deal, which made Jobs the single-largest individual shareholder in Disney. After getting over the board’s squeamishness, Iger got another surprise just 30 minutes before he and Apple and Pixar chief Steve Jobs were to announce the Pixar acquisition from the company’s Emeryville, Calif. ![]() ![]() ![]() I look forward to seeing Lovegrove meet it with future installments. Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows sets a pretty high bar. The average reader, reading at a speed of 300 WPM, would take 5 hours and 19 minutes to read. I suspect horror fans will get more out of this than your average Sherlockian, but as a fan of both worlds, I thought Lovegrove melded them nicely, and this read went by much faster than expected. Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows. ![]() ![]() Lovegrove does an outstanding job of evoking Doyle’s style and mixing in healthy dollops of the macabre and fantastic that define the Cthulhu Mythos. The first in a three-part series reimagining the classic canon of Holmes with a Lovecraftian edge, Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows rewrites the early days of Holmes and Watson, from their fateful meeting all the way to an early encounter with one of the Great Detective’s most diabolical foes. But now, the truth is coming to light as Holmes and Watson do battle with unknowable evils lurking in the heart of London, the kind that threatens not just their lives, but their very souls. John Watson: the stories of Sherlock Holmes we know and love were a smokescreen, a subterfuge protecting darker secrets and greater evils. A long-lost inheritance brings to light a curious confession by Dr. ![]() ![]() And I just wanted to think a lot about the way secrets impact our bodies. I didn’t know I was trying to write it at 12, but when I wrote my first novel and this collection of essays, I was really trying to write “Heavy.” I needed to write that book because there were just so many secrets my mother and I kept from each other. ![]() I’d been trying to write that book since I was 12. What initially inspired you to write “Heavy,” to tell the story of your childhood? So it meant a lot to me that the judges could see the artistry of what I was trying to do and also just the soulfulness of what I tried to do. I’m somebody who really takes memoir and autobiographical prose really seriously there’s an art to it that I think we don’t consider often, because I think we think if it’s real, you just put what’s real down on the page. ![]() I was shocked that I won it, but I’m really thankful I won it. I really like that prize, not because I won it, but I’ve judged it before, and I think it’s the only prize of its kind that looks at autobiographical prose. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Find many more outstanding podcasts at dia/podcasts! Show Notes Remember, you can listen and follow the podcast anytime on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Stitcher, PlayerFM, YouTube and audio file download.īig Gay Fiction Podcast is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. The discussion wraps up with some book recommendations. She also shares how characters come to her, and the occasionally surprising results. In addition, we discuss Throwing Hearts, which is this month’s Big Gay Fiction Book Club selection, and the continuation of her Imago series that was released earlier this year. Walker joins us to talk about her latest book, Bossy. ![]() Rosen for his finalist nod in the LGBTQ Young Adult category. They also give kudos to podcast guest L.C. The guys congratulate the authors who are finalists in the gay romance category for the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards: Adriana Herrera, Lance Ringel, Felice Stevens, Erin Colleen McRae & Racheline Maltese, and Cat Sebastian. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The title character, reluctant detective John Finch, is tasked with investigating a double-murder, one victim a human and the second a gray cap.Įric Brown reviewed the book for The Guardian and says that " Finch plays with the conventions of the noir thriller, espionage and fantasy genres, mixing all three to produce something unique and unsettling." He does suggest that the "fractured, fragmented prose style. Their "Rising" followed a destructive civil war between rival human factions. Written in the noir style of detective novels, it stands alone, while referencing characters and events from the earlier City of Saints and Madmen and Shriek: An Afterword.Īt the time of Finch, Ambergris is ruled by the gray caps, a non-human, "spore-based" species. Finch is a fantasy novel by American writer Jeff VanderMeer, his third set in the Ambergris universe. ![]() ![]() ![]() LeUyen Pham is the illustrator of the Princess in Black series as well as many other books for children, including Pat-a-Cake by Mary Brigid Barrett, God’s Dream by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Douglas Carlton Abrams, Aunt Mary’s Rose by Douglas Wood, and Real Friends and Best Friends by Shannon Hale. Shannon Hale and Dean Hale live in Salt Lake City, Utah. ![]() Shannon Hale is also the author of the Newbery Honor Book Princess Academy as well as the New York Times best-selling graphic novels Real Friends and Best Friends, illustrated by LeUyen Pham. Shannon Hale and Dean Hale are the award-winning husband-and-wife team behind the Princess in Black series, illustrated by LeUyen Pham. With a rising crescendo of a plot and a delightfully surprising ending, the latest adventure in the New York Times best-selling series features all the Princess in Black’s friends as heroes for the first time. It’s a giant, and it’s smashing everything in its path! The giant is too strong for the three friends, so the Princess in Blankets has an idea: it’s time to light the Sparkle Signal and summon help. But just when they’re about to wage battle, a huge foot smashes their snow monster. With a noisy giant crashing around the kingdom, the Princess in Black uses the Sparkle Signal to call ALL her heroic friends togetherfor the biggest adventure yet. ![]() It’s a perfect day to build snow monsters and battle them for practice. The Princess in Black is ready for her snowy playdate with the Goat Avenger and the Princess in Blankets. With a noisy giant crashing around the kingdom, the Princess in Black uses the Sparkle Signal to call ALL her heroic friends together - for the biggest adventure yet. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first one, which laid the groundwork, played off “The Twelve Dancing Princesses.” The second one played off “Cinderella.” This one plays off “Little Red Riding Hood.”Īnd now we interrupt this review for a mini-rant. Yes, you should read the earlier books to fully appreciate this one.Īll the books play off specific fairy tales. Princess of the Silver Woods wraps up the trilogy begun in Princess of the Midnight Ball and continued in Princess of Glass. I finally got a chance to read Princess of the Silver Woods! It first came out when I was busy reading books for the 2012 Cybils, but too late in the year to be eligible for one. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. With its vivid depictions of old New York and its story of two pioneering female doctors, The Gilded Hour is a captivating, emotionally gripping novel of courage and love. Faced with their helplessness, Anna must make the unexpected choice between holding on to the pain of her past and letting love into her life.įor Sophie, an obstetrician and the orphaned daughter of free people of color, helping a desperate young mother forces her to grapple with her doctor’s oath - and thrusts her and Anna into Comstock’s orbit, a dangerous man who considers himself the enemy of everything indecent, and of anyone who dares to defy him. įor Anna, her role as a surgeon has placed her in the path of four children who have lost everything. Even when doing so puts all they’ve worked for in jeopardy. ![]() With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bridge nearly complete and the city in the grip of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock, Dr Anna Savard and her cousin, Sophie – both graduates of the Women’s Medical School – treat the city’s most vulnerable. The year is 1883, and in New York City it’s a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. From the internationally bestselling author of Into the Wilderness comes a magnificent epic about two pioneering women doctors in 19th-century New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was a history of unrest with raids and kidnappings of women perpetrated by white men. The book opens with historical information about the first English people to arrive in Western Australia and their interactions with the Aboriginals who lived there. ![]() Pilkington uses the third person voice and constructs her text by using, among other research, interviews with her mother and Daisy. This rabbit-proof fence ran through the western part of Australia from north to south. They then begin a journey home of close to 1,000 miles by following a fence designed to keep out pests. After being taken from their families, they manage to escape from the government settlement in 1931. Three young girls are central to the narrative: Pilkington’s mother, Molly, Molly’s sister Daisy, and their cousin Gracie. The Stolen Generation was the result of an early twentieth century practice of having children who were of mixed race removed from their families and placed in government compounds. Australian Doris Pilkington’s work of nonfiction Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, published in 1996, relates the story of a native Australian family’s experiences as part of what came to be known as the Stolen Generation. ![]() |