A retired detective wants to give his wife a birthday present. One man wants to see his best friend and tell him that his daughter is about to be married. Tales from the Café contains four more stories of customers who have come to the café wanting to travel back in time for various reasons. While I already knew the café’s ‘secret’, it didn’t change my enjoyment of the stories of the customers. Naturally, I couldn’t resist reading a second book about the visitors to the mysterious café that offers patrons the ability to travel back in time. Last year’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold was a delightful emotional read. Year: 2020 (2017 in the original Japanese) Why I chose it: Enjoyed the original Before the Coffee Gets Cold. In brief: More about the visitors to Funiculi Funicula, a small café that has the ability for patrons to return to the past for a short time.
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The stories cover a period from around 1880 up to 1914. The character grew tremendously popular with the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine, beginning with “A Scandal in Bohemia” in 1891 further series of short stories and two novels published in serial form appeared between then and 1927. The first novel, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887 and the second, The Sign of the Four, in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in 1890. Holmes, who first appeared in publication in 1887, was featured in four novels and 56 short stories. A London-based “consulting detective” whose abilities border on the fantastic, Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to adopt almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve difficult cases. Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 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Urn:lcp:cellar0000laym_z9i3:lcpdf:ec2a88de-e5ca-45d6-ae74-a52e53df4660 A former President of the Horror Writers Association, Laymon has written over thirty novels, more than sixty-five literary short stories (which were published in Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock, and Cavalier), poetry, crime fiction, two suspense novels, a Western, and two romance novels. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 00:06:16 Boxid IA40290013 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier The Cellar book by Richard Laymon on all Children's Books Horror Books > Ghost Books ISBN: 043935806X ISBN13: 9780439358064 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5 in the Harry Potter Series) by Richard Laymon See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover - Paperback 16.89 Mass Market Paperback 25. 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Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American-in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author R. All attendees will be asked to wear a mask for the entirety of this event. Each ticket will get you a copy of the her new book! You can purchase your ticket to the event below. She will be presenting her new book, Yellowface, in conversation with Kali Fajardo-Anstine! Tickets are required. Kuang at Trinity United Methodist Church on May 20th at 6:00pm. Tattered Cover is honored to welcome R.F. He jogs with his dog for exercise, careful to wear his Georgetown shirt because “his favorite run took him through lily-white Northwest Washington and Daniel, his best friend at Yale, had instructed him that a Black man, running, should dress defensively.” Because he’s from the U.K., he may not understand all the nuances of American racism, but he understands enough. The working title for his dissertation is Sambo, Othello, and Uncle Tom: Caricature, Exoticization, Subalternization, 1700–1900. He left the sport for academia because of relentless racist harassment, and now studies stereotypes of Africans in British painting. He is 26 years old, a Black Londoner (his mother is Yoruba, his father Californian) and a former star polo player. I t’s 2019 in Washington, D.C., and Theo is changing his art-history dissertation after finding a painting of a horse in his neighbor’s giveaway pile. It’s as if Gaiman is trying to say something…. I was never much a fan of Richard Mayhew from Neverwhere, and many of the characters in these stories share that quality of being a less-than-stellar human being. In particular, he often writes protagonists who are-or at least start off as-vaguely unsympathetic. I’ve always appreciated Gaiman on a stylistic level. This unsurprising quality is not bad, just different. There’s a story about a troll who wants to “eat the life” of a victim, which essentially means … well, I’ll let you guess. Smoke and Mirrors is rife with examples like this: “Snow, Glass, Apples” reimagines Snow White as a vampire child and the Queen as a heroine protecting her realm-it all ends poorly for her, still. When there are twists, you can often see them coming. Gaiman is a writer who loves to play with and subvert tropes, but he does it in very obvious ways. I have to say that the more I read Gaiman’s stories the less unexpected or surprising they seem, if you know what I mean. Unlike the other collection, Smoke and Mirrors’ introduction also comes with a bonus short story embedded. As with Fragile Things this earlier collection has a description of each story’s origin in the introduction. Now that I own copies of Neil Gaiman’s three short story anthologies, I re-read Fragile Things and then tackled this one, Smoke and Mirrors. (Rep: Hispanic biracial fat pregnant questioning teen girl MC. I especially appreciated the fat rep, and the hero Leaf in particular. It’s full of heart, and full of humor, and the characters are wonderfully complex and deeply drawn. Belly Up by Eva Darrows (contemporary YA m/f romance novel) I am lucky enough to have been an early reader for this wonderful YA romance centering a pregnant teen girl.I want to note that I use the word fat as a neutral descriptor when listing rep, and use the word queer when a character or author identify that way or when I am unclear about their identity but know they fall under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella. If an author would like me to remove any info listed, please do let me know. Also, I am not intending to out anyone I get author info from the web and the book bio. If you spot something incorrect, please do feel free to let me know. I’m listing rep at the end of my descriptions. I link to reviews where I have written them and also where I have only posted trigger warnings, so you can easily find those. I’m unabashedly listing multiple titles by the same author, when they were my fave for fat rep. (Not all of them were published in 2018, of course.) It definitely shows my bias towards contemporary romance, but there is a smattering of paranormal romance, young adult fiction and speculative fiction as well. Continuing the tradition from last year’s list, this post lists my favorite books with fat representation that I read in 2018. |