In addition to English, she speaks French (her first language), Arabic, Spanish, and Farsi. The daughter of a Tunisian-born French literature professor and a Swiss-born painter, Jaouad is a lifelong over-achiever. She had become a different sort of war correspondent.īetween Two Kingdoms, Jaouad's searching memoir of her illness and its aftermath, takes its title from an observation in Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor: "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick." The line between them, Jaouad discovers, is more porous than most people realize. During her "incanceration" - months in isolation to prevent infections - she documented her grueling treatments, first in a blog, then in a weekly column and videos for The New York Times called "Life, Interrupted," which generated an enormous response. Jaouad started writing about what it's like to face a life-threatening illness at 22. She quickly found herself fighting for her life in New York City cancer wards, where she was given a 35 percent chance of survival. Instead, within months, she was diagnosed with a rare form of acute myeloid leukemia. When Suleika Jaouad graduated from Princeton in 2010, she was considering a career as a war correspondent. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted, by Suleika Jaouad
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He should be read and adapted to screen more often, so that new generations of readers and viewers could get to know him better,” says Jerzy Rzymowski, editor-in-chief of the long-running Polish magazine Fantastyka. “I think that while Lem’s work is known globally, he is a kind of a forgotten, underestimated classic – he deserves more recognition than he has got so far. Required contemporary reading from emerging Europe.Polish comic book heroes set for Netflix adaptation.Six of the best: Nobel Prize-winning literature from emerging Europe.In a world replete with technology, much of which Lem himself correctly predicted decades ago, his ideas remain instructive and relevant. This year marks one hundred years since the birth of Stanisław Lem, whose pioneering science fiction and philosophy of technology oeuvre still captures the imaginations of readers today. The Year of Lem – which celebrates the centenary of his birth – aims to change that. Best known as the author of Solaris, Stanisław Lem has been largely forgotten outside of his native Poland. Wareham, 14 Henrik Vestergaard, 5, 36 Stephen T. Weeke, 58 Christine Williams, 1 Hongsheng Wu, 59 Wei Yang, 60 Donglin Zeng, 61 Daniel R. Taylor, 12 Alexander Teumer, 57 Nicholas J. Ong, 14 James Pankow, 50 Amit Patki, 51 Alison Pattie, 12 Astrid Petersmann, 49 Qibin Qi, 52 Rasmus Ribel-Madsen, 5, 53, 54 Rebecca Rohde, 4 Kevin Sandow, 18 Theresia M. Lee, 48 Matthias Nauck, 49 Raymond Noordam, 32 Ken K. Forouhi, 14 Zhenglong Gu, 39 Yang Hai, 18 Sarah E. Ahluwalia, 36 Renée de Mutsert, 15 Leslie S. Warwick Daw, 1 Diana van Heemst, 32 Lisa de las Fuentes, 33 He Gao, 34 Ioanna Tzoulaki, 34, 35 Tarunveer S. Uitterlinden, 30 Fernando Rivadeneira, 30 Cheryl D. Bowden, 27 Ulrich Broeckel, 28 Kaare Christensen, 29 Audrey Y. Wojczynski, 1 Wen-Jane Lee, 19, 20 Maria Argos, 21 Sebastian M. Fernandez, 11 Mohsen Ghanbari, 11 Mary K. David Hill, 12 Stefan Weiss, 13 Jian’an Luan, 14 Franco Giulianini, 9 Ruifang Li-Gao, 15 Fernando P. Chasman, 9, 10 Kristin Young, 4 Symen Ligthart, 11 W. Fetterman, 3, 101 Mariaelisa Graff, 4, 101 Christian Theil Have, 5, 101 Charles Gu, 6, 101 Lisa R. This book easily reads as if you were watching a movie and I loved that. Can Zhou save his city without compromising who he is or destroying his own heart? And against his better judgment, Zhou finds himself falling for Daiyu, the daughter of Jin Corp’s CEO. Yet the deeper Zhou delves into this new world of excess and wealth, the more muddled his plans become. Jin Corp not only manufactures the special suits the rich rely on, but they may also be manufacturing the pollution that makes them necessary. With the help of his friends, Zhou infiltrates the lives of the wealthy in hopes of destroying the international Jin Corporation from within. Frustrated by his city’s corruption and still grieving the loss of his mother, who died as a result of it, Zhou is determined to change things, no matter the cost. The rich wear special suits that protect them from the pollution and viruses that plague the city, while those without suffer illness and early deaths. Jason Zhou survives in a divided society where the elite use their wealth to buy longer lives. Readers will easily fall in love with the amazingly diverse characters that Cindy Pon has created, and their quest to bringing forth a better future for all of their people. Set in an alternate near future Taipei, Want is the thrilling adventure that YA desperately needs right now. "I already know and I need my baby girl home with me. "Don't say it," she said, her voice breaking. Valerius put the phone back up to his ear. She cleared her throat, but didn't take the phone from his hand. "Your mother wants to know if you're okay." "Tabitha," he said, gentling his voice as he offered her the phone. "I'm." He hesitated at giving her his full name since she would no doubt register it as the name of an enemy and panic even more. "Who is this?" the woman sounded a bit frantic. Valerius pried the cell phone from her hand and flipped it open. "I can't."īy the look on her face as she saw the caller ID, he had a good idea of who it was. "I can't call my mama and tell her," she said, her tears welling. She hesitated on the last number to be called. One by one, she'd contacted her family and assured herself that they were safe. The Dark-Hunter in him wanted to find Acheron, but the man inside refused to leave Tabitha, who was keeping vigil in her sister's store until the coroner, Tate, arrived. Valerius was torn between his loyalties and his duties. For me, motivation is the core of a character and absolutely essential to creating well-rounded, complex, and relatable individuals. Even a motivation as simple as getting through the work day, or as pure as surviving an apocalypse, can have huge impact on a character’s part in a story. Why? Because every person (or magical being or animal) you meet has a goal that drives them, influences their actions, and shapes their personality and worldview. To give just one tip to budding writers, it would be to give your characters, both major and minor, a strong motivation. With the release of my second novel, The Courtesan’s Avenger, I finally feel like I’m in a place to offer some solid advice (without feeling like an imposter!). Take it away, Kate!Īs an author, the question I get asked more than any other is: “What advice do you have for aspiring writers?” or some variation of it. There’s a lot of useful information here, so read through and let us know what you think in the comments. Today, Kate’s written an excellent post about character motivation, something she feels is key to good story-telling. Set in the steampunk world of Desertera, The Courtesan’s Avenger is a tale of murder, intrigue and justice – I can’t wait to read it □ Kate has just released The Courtesan’s Avenger, the second book in her Desertera series (and if you haven’t read her first book, The Cogmsith’s Daughter, get yourselves a copy now!). Today I’m very pleased to welcome author (and author-y friend!) Kate M. Trish Doller writes incredibly real teens, and this searing story of love, betrayal, and how not to lose your mind will resonate with readers who want their stories gritty and utterly true. And she must believe that love–even with someone who seems an improbable choice–is more than just a possibility. But when Callie’s mom is finally arrested for kidnapping her, and Callie’s real dad whisks her back to what would have been her life, in a small town in Florida, Callie must find a way to leave the past behind. Her dreams are haunted by memories she’d like to forget completely. She’s never had a home, never gone to school, and has gotten most of her meals from laundromat vending machines. Stolen as a child from her large and loving family, and on the run with her mom for more than ten years, Callie has only the barest idea of what normal life might be like. How: A copy of this novel was provided by Bloomsbury Australia in exchange an honest review. What: Where the Stars Still Shine by Trish Doller And she records the effects of weather, rain and heat, on the land itself, in a lovely colorized prose. She writes about the animals she keeps and those she encounters in her almost daily walks, particularly the birds, snakes, and insects. The truth is, I was rather glad when she seemed to get bored with that mission because the memoir shape-shifts into something more of a day-book, and Silko herself becomes a sort of Thoreau of the Southwest. Silkos recounting of family and local history comes in the early chapters. As it turned out, while growing up in the Laguna Pueblo west of Albuquerque, Silko learned a lot of things most of us just dont think much about, and maybe we should, among them the tangled relations of a simple family group, duty to ancestors and gods, and the sacredness of all things living and inert scattered across a bountiful landscape of desert and mountains. I presumed I would find personal recollection and perhaps even some elements revealed out of the writers fascinating but sometimes veiled past. So I suppose I'm biased, but despite the fact that this new book is non-fiction, ostensibly a memoir, I willingly plunged in to "The Turquoise Ledge." Now she's published a memoir called "The Turquoise Ledge." Alan Cheuse has this review.ĪLAN CHEUSE: Its been more than 10 years since Leslie Silkos last novel. Leslie Marmon Silko is the author of the novel "Ceremony," among others. From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. His revelations and their impact on our own time are both fascinating and at times frightening.ĭolores has written the three volume set "Conversations With Nostradamus", the series on the translation of Nostradamus' quatrains. Working through several different subjects, Dolores was able to establish communication with the living Michel De Notredame, better known as the prophet Nostradamus. The results were, to say the least, quite spectacular! A retired Navy wife from Huntsville, AR, USA, Dolores was nearly fifty years old when she began experimenting with hypnosis and past-life regression. Her roots in hypnosis went back to the 1960s, and she was specializing in past-life therapy since 1979.ĭolores became, perhaps, the world's most unlikely expert on the prophecies of Nostradamus. Dolores Cannon (1931 - 2014) was a self described "past-life regressionist" and hypnotherapist who specialized in the "recovery and cataloging" of "Lost Knowledge". It does not make someone appear more evolved if they pretend that homophobia is over. I would be remiss if I didn't also mention that ignoring homophobia is what spreads homophobia. Also, as queer issues are currently a hot topic, it only makes sense that they would be on his mind. As a constant reader, I've seen him write about social justice issues often. I think it is strange for anyone to presume that, in the current American climate, authors like King wouldn't write about homophobia. I simply live in the US, where bigotry is ubiquitous. I'm not from a small town or particularly prejudiced area. As a queer woman, I have seen this prejudice play out repeatedly. I'm not from a small town …more No- we are not past writing novels that mirror real life. Mickey No- we are not past writing novels that mirror real life. |