With a boost from an illegal stimulant cadged from his roommate, Pete churns out his own manuscript, The Tornado Ashes Club, in which a man unjustly accused of murder takes to the open road with a recovering heroin addict/folk singer named Esmeralda, his grandmother, and the ashes of his grandmother’s One True Love, Luke. The climax occurs when the trio flings Luke’s ashes into a tornado on Christmas morning. He improbably sells this…remarkable work, and then he sits back and waits for the money to […]
Assassin in the palace
Synopsis: Convicted assassin Celaena is offered a chance to leave the mines where she has been imprisoned, on the condition that she compete in a series of trials to find a new King’s Champion.
the almost moon.
Last year I didn’t finish four books which is an embarrassing number for me… I say that because I *struggled* to finish The Almost Moon- starting and finishing three books in the process… Another thing I try to avoid. I read Lucky when I was a sophomore in college and loved its gritty honesty. I read The Lovely Bones (along with the rest of the world) right before the movie adaptation came out. I was excited to see The Almost Moon at a library yearly […]
A book about books! Mr. Penumbra should be our CBR mascot.
This is one of those books I wish I had multiple copies of, so I could loan it immediately to everyone I know. It was so much fun! I listened to the audio book, and finished it on my drive home from work. By the next morning