If you want to read the spoiler summary and my review on this book, checkout this post! November 9 Book Club Questions However, things get messy when Fallon discovers a secret Ben has been hiding from her. Every year they meet on the same day, same time and same place until they eventually fall in love with each other. They are undeniably attracted to each other. The two of them meet at a restaurant on November 9 and swear to meet again every year for the next 6 years until they’re both 23. Ben is an aspiring writer in college who hopes to one day publish a book. November 9 by Colleen Hoover follows two teenagers, Fallon O’Neil and Benton (Ben) James Kessler.įallon used to be a teen actress, until one day an unfortunate fire causes her face and body to be scarred, limiting her opportunities in the acting world.
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He is the founder of the field of ancient DNA studies his father was a Nobel prize-winning biologist, Sune Bergström, and his mother, Karin Pääbo, an Estonian chemist. Pääbo is Swedish/Estonian, and is currently director of genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. He was probably singled out for this by an early passion, not for Neanderthals as such, but for mummified humans of a later date: the ancient Egyptians. Pääbo's mission was to provide another of those "missing links" that have been so much a feature of the progress of evolutionary thought. But since it quickly became obvious that for every human gene there was an almost identical chimp gene (even mice are genetically more than 90% similar to us), the mystery of "what made us human" remained. In the 40 or so years since the genetic code for protein manufacture had been cracked, much had been already learned about many of the 24,000 or so human genes. 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This is an extraordinary debut novel that comes so damn close to my kind of perfect, and yet another book with a lovecrafty angle that overcomes my antipathy for lovecraft by not adopting his (to me) crappy storytelling shenanigans or his (to any reasonable human) crappy personal views on race&gender&etc. Oooh, goodreads choice awards semifinalist for BEST HORROR 2019! what will happen? *Many thanks to the publisher for providing my review copy. Again, this book won't be for everyone, and you've been warned, so don't come knocking on my door when you're still sleeping with the lights on a week after finishing this grim tale. If you can stomach the tough stuff and enjoy dark reads while not minding a bit of the paranormal thrown in, I highly recommend you pick up this slim read. I've been so burned out on the commercial, mainstream fiction of 2019, that it was refreshing to find something as unique and memorable as A Cosmology of Monsters. Overall? This book touched me in a place I didn't even know existed. While you're reading this review, please pretend you are reading the author's words as I give you a FRIENDS-esque summary. Full disclosure: I had a bunch of nifty, gorgeous quotes to use on this review, but I seem to have lost them and already mailed my copy of the book to a friend. When Willa's curiosity leaves her hurt and stranded in the day world, she calls upon an ancient, unbreakable bond to escape. It's dangerous work-the day-folk kill whatever they do not understand-but Willa will do anything to win the approval of the padaran, the charismatic leader of the Faeran people. She creeps into the homes of day-folk under cover of darkness and takes what they won't miss. Willa, a young night-spirit of the Great Smoky Mountains, is her clan's best thief. This Description may be from another edition of this product.įrom #1 New York Times best-selling author Robert Beatty comes a thrilling new series set in the magical world of Serafina. Illustrator’s agent: Ed Maxwell, Sanford J. Reminiscent of Garth Williams’s work in Stuart Little, the artwork helps set up Isaiah as a modern-day counterpart to that intrepid mouse. Sutphin’s detailed line drawings pair perfectly with this sweet tale from the authors behind the Treasure Hunters books and other titles. Isaiah’s friendship with a human girl named Hailey (it’s implied that she has albinism) further drives home the novel’s themes of celebrating individuality and belief in oneself. As Isaiah comes to recognize his own skills, courage, and self-worth, he emboldens others, like Mikayla, a mouse with her own unacknowledged talent. After being taken in by a mischief of mice who live in the cellar of the Brophy family home, Isaiah becomes a valuable member of the family, outwitting the family cat and rescuing a mouse caught in a trap, among other exploits. When he and his 96 siblings escape from the lab, Isaiah is the only one who eludes capture. Born and raised in a lab, Isaiah the mouse has blue fur, is well-spoken, and can read and write. A very special mouse escapes from a lab to find his missing family in this charming story of survival, determination, and the power of friendship. This book started off incredibly good but kind of fizzled toward the middle and end. Sounds a little trite but trust me people it works, or at least it did for me! Alice is the consummate good girl (Lucien calls her "Goody Two-Shoes") until she gets around Lucien, then she finds herself behaving in ways she never imagined. Lucien is that delicious combo of dangerously dark and little boy vulnerable. 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