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Middlesextells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City and the race riots of 1967 before moving out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesexis an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.” (Goodreads) Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

However, when including preparation and fundraising it took two years from idea conception to release. The author also seems to love firing off tweets in the text. I noticed this with The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz as well. If you're writing speculative fiction - I kindly ask that you remember you're writing a BOOK. You don't need to contain your social commentary to 180 or 250 characters mid-stride. SHOW ME the consequences of what you're upset about, SHOW ME why things are not working right, SHOW ME how they can be better. Here are some examples of the author firing off a tweet:Anonymous (2001). Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism, 4th ed. A.A. World Services. OCLC 49743393. For five days, the parents of a seven-year-old Japanese schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their daughter’s kidnapper. They would never learn his identity. And they would never see their daughter alive again. Is the therapeutic approach to alcoholism as depicted in this text consistent with contemporary efforts to treating addictive behaviours like alcoholism? Books introduce us to new worlds, exciting characters and possibilities that ignite our imagination. Whether it’s a dangerous Thriller that gets your heart racing, or a quirky debut with a distinct voice you just can’t put down; a great book can whisk you away somewhere new and stay with you for a lifetime.

It took a lot of people, blood, sweat, and tears to make this happen plus years of preparation,” she said. Welcome to the Building, an infinitely tall skyscraper in the center of the multiverse, where any floor could contain a sprawling desert oasis, a cyanide rain forest, or an entire world. First I want to thank NetGalley and RB Media for providing me with an advance copy of this Audiobook.

That was all before Rindasy set out on her mission: to destroy an Association weapons’ lab with a device called a pearlet, capable of taking out not just one but dozens of floors at once. And before another Shai-Manak landed on Carissa’s elevator car. G. Alan Marlatt also questioned the necessity of a need for a Higher Power but concluded that he was "impressed with the amazing success of A.A. over the past 50 years of its existence. If alcoholism is really a disease of the spirit (for which alcohol is no real solution), then it makes sense that the religious fellowship of A.A. provides fulfillment of the alcoholic's underlying craving for union with a Higher Power. Especially if it keeps its members sober, which A.A. often does." [24]

The ending was actually half decent, thank heavens for that, because I only finished it so I could kind of get my money's worth of a story and so I hadn't felt like I just wasted hours of my life. Vikram Seth’s novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find—through love or through exacting maternal appraisal—a suitable boy for Lata to marry. Set in the early 1950s, in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, A Suitable Boytakes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves. A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, A Suitable Boyremains the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of love and ambition, humor and sadness, prejudice and reconciliation, the most delicate social etiquette and the most appalling violence.” (Goodreads) The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

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Wild Massive is a weird story in the best way. At it’s heart, it’s about how stories affect reality, even the stories that don’t get told. Carissa’s past is a story that’s covered up, and the very absence of her story affects the reality of the building and the war taking place within it. That’s how it works, right? What we know and don’t are our reality. It’s why the internet has fractured our political culture; we might exist in different realities due to our different media sources. What those sources leave out of a story can be almost as powerful as what goes into it. The questions that our media fail to ask our politicians also shapes our reality. Wild Massive understands that.