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DAG (2000-01)
In today's review, I find the Secret Service detail might make for some comedy. As I attempt a positive review of the short lived sitcom DAG
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The Secret Service, the ever-vigilant guard of the President, is tasked with holding the launch apparatus of nuclear annihilation, fighting the foes of the treasury, and more notably, protecting the President from imminent doom. You would imagine the stoic faces of the sun-glassed guards to be almost robotic, with their tireless devotion, forgetting that they are humans, with real flaws and…
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Weird & Wonderful Wednesday
Oof… now I can’t look at the moon in quite the same way. In this novel the moon is knocked closer to the Earth by a meteor, and suddenly, the world is forever changed, coasts cease to exist in their previous places, there are earthquakes upon earthquakes, not to mention the volcanic ash that is blocking out the sun.
It’s the story of Melinda, a sixteen year old, told through journal entries. How she and her family (two brothers and their Mom) try to survive it all in Pennsylvania as the apocalypse seems to slowly inch towards them.
It was an interesting and different take on dystopia and on apocalypse. So often in the dystopian novels it is totally catastrophic right at the beginning and then there’s the ‘aftermath’, but, in this, it’s more like a slow decline.
You may like this book If you Liked: We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach, Tumble & Fal by Alexandra Coutts, or Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
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Intro post
Hello! My name is Yuri, welcome to my blog!
I am 18, and I love to write poetry. I love to read horror novels like "The Shining" by Stephen King and "Sweet" by Emmy Laybourne. I find the horror aspect of them so enlightening. I am also apart of a system caused by schizoaffective disorder.
I will add more to this, but this is just a place holder at the moment.
My tags:
Poems by Yuri - These are poems written by me
Poems loved by Yuri - These are poems not written by me that I enjoy
Yuri's friends - This is for posts with mutuals
Yuri's source - This is for posts related to DDLC
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Library Sale: The Results
I'm actually really glad I only got here for the bag sale, because I genuinely don't know how many of these books I would have bought if I were paying for them individually, but I kinda love like 90% of them now. Which is bad from a "has too many books" perspective but GREAT from my current perspective of being overwhelmed w/ excitement about them.
Anyway, these are the results of me whipping through a room full of books in approximately 40 minutes with no time to second-guess any pulls. This is the closest I will ever come to one of those manic timed shopping sprees that were popular in the nineties.
Part I: Books For A Me!
1. What Happened to Lani Garver - Carol Plum-Ucci (2002): this book made a huge impact on me as a teen, and it held up ten years later. This is a slightly undersized paperback, which I don't love given what it does to the font size and line spacing, but I was excited to find it at all, let alone in new condition!
2. The Body of Christopher Creed - Carol Plum-Ucci (2000): I haven't read this one, but it got more acclaim than the above. I don't think I'll like it as much, but I've long been curious, and my library doesn't have it anymore.
3. Sky on Fire - Emmy Laybourne (2013): I saw post-apocalyptic/survival YA thriller and went YEAH!, but turns out this is actually a sequel to Monument 14, which I've heard of (and was apparently quite popular?), but never actually investigated. There appear to be a LOT of books and I don't know if I'm that interested in "5 kids remain inside the store. one is pregnant. the rest have a blood type that will turn them into bloodthirsty killers if exposed to the air." So this will probably move to the rehome pile. But it is cool that this is the UK edition.
4. The Dirt Diary - Anna Staniszewski (2014): Also definitely a read-and-release, but I'm weirdly drawn to books where the daughter of a housecleaner ends up helping clean her richer classmates' houses and discovers SECRETS.
the contrast between these covers is hilarious 2 me
5. Sabre, The Horse From the Sea - Kathleen Herald (1948; this edition 1963): VINTAGE HORSE BOOK *SNAP* MINE. Alas, having gotten it home, I see it's a bit spotty on the sides, so that won't do. Will have to be a read and release.
(edit: oh damn, this is apparently a pen name for horse book authoring queen K.M. Peyton, AND it's apparently her first novel!)
(oh double damn, Bookfinder has it priced starting at $30 with no ebook so apparently it's gone scarce over the years even for a common paperback edition; booo)
6. The Secret of the Andes - Ann Nolan Clark (1952; this edition 1974): I'm a simple girl; I see a little vintage Scholastic paperback, I buy it. Did not even realize it's a Newbery winner! I probably won't keep it...but I do adore this cover, and it's so small...
7. Brother of the Wolves - Jean Thompson (1978): I am also a simple girl in the way I will see a Weekly Reader edition of a book with animals or Native Americans (or both!) on the cover and buy it.
8. Wren - Marie Killilea (1954; this edition 1968): a children's adaptation of an evidently popular midcentury memoir called Karen (written by the mother of the titular Karen, who had cerebral palsy) that I must admit I don't know. I just saw a girl hugging an Irish Setter on the cover of a vintage paperback - especially since the summary promises to focus on the kid and their pets - and said "gimme." Probably read & release.
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9-10. A pair of Doctor Who Target novelizations: The Day of the Doctor (Steven Moffat) and Twice Upon a Time (Paul Cornell)
I actually just stumbled upon an old post reminding me why I wanted DotD so bad (I should probably actually watch the whole special at some point, maybe). I wasn't sure if I wanted to actually read the one w/ the Twelfth Doctor or if that was going in my resale bag, but who am I kidding...I cling to any non-Eleven Doctor Who stuff I find in the wild like my life depends on it.
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11. House Warmings: For Those Who Make A House a Home - Patricia Hauck Sprinkle (1992): Total gift book, literally intended as a housewarming gift, I don't need it at all but it was SO PRETTY! It's a slim volume with a puffy cover, featuring little anecdotes (and a definite Christian slant) from the author's life about the houses they lived in and, well, making them...homes. The color illustrations on nearly every page are just so beautifully cozy 90s-ish. See also, the artist's website -- Gail Roth.
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12. A Zoo Man's Notebook - Lee S. Crandall, "in collaboration with William Bridges" (1969): Nonfiction; I literally didn't even flip through this, I just saw "William Bridges" (an early Bronx Zoo director, which I know because I already had one of the many books he wrote about it) and ran. It's packed full of anecdotes and interesting facts about the animals there. Books about zoos were really popular in the latter half of the twentieth century, I've noticed, but seem to have fallen out of fashion. Still, stories about animals never go out of style. Speaking of which...
13. Some Of My Best Friends Are Animals - Terry Murphy ("Director of the Dublin Zoo") (1979): so obviously I was not gonna not take it with that information...another book full of anecdotes and photos. It's surprisingly heavy for not being that thick even using glossy photo paper, which is a pain, but I might keep it anyway.
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14. Horseplay At White Meadows - Marlene Chase (2013): a cozy mystery of the type that drives me nuts, because they have beautiful sleek hardcovers on very solid bindings, with ribbon bookmarks!, and all in all just look like damn works of art, all for writing that is as basic as can be while still being competent at storytelling. They're really ideal for like, 13-year-olds who want to read Grown Up Books and grandmas who want simple, clean reads (I don't think this is even a murder mystery, it's just someone furtively trying to drive a rival out of business with nefarious "accidents"). But between the cover photo and the fact that there are horses and it's set on a dude ranch, though, I can't give this one up right away.
oops, after all that raving I forgot to take a photo so (weirdly huge) Amazon pic theft it is
15. The Artist's Library: A Field Guide (2014): the only ex-library discard in the batch, I won't keep this long-term but it's a small, sturdy little hardcover and I wanted to look through it. Near as I can tell, it's about celebrating the beauty of public libraries and ways to be creatively inspired while working on projects in a library.
Part II: Books To Rehome
(either to sell to Half Price Books, or I might just put them in Little Free Libraries; depends how long it takes me to collect a full bag and my mood that day)
Last time I just did a cover photo of the pending culls, but this time they're honestly all interesting enough that I wanna talk about 'em, so:
16-18. The Gryphon/Alexandria/The Morning Star - Nick Bantock (2001-2003): the second trilogy, also books 4-6, in the Griffin & Sabine series with removable letters and postcards. Absolutely beautiful books and literal works of art; I already have the full set but it was absolutely KILLING me that these were still there with 25 minutes to go (you fools!), despite one of them having been left flat with cover facing up, so I seized them. I feel like they should have value (I see on the HPB website they have a couple copies priced at $10, so not a lot but standard at least), but I also love them so much that I sort of just want to put them in an LFL so that someone else can have pure treasure.
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19. Pagan Spring (Max Tudor Mystery #3) - G.M. Malliet: I know this doesn't have actual value because it's a random semi-cozy English Village mystery from 2013, but I couldn't help picking it up because it's so pretty! (my motto of the day, apparently) Deckle edges and the endpages are illustrated with a map. Gonna be hard to give up. What if I didn't give it up yet.
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20. Unleashed - Lisa Wogan (2007): this is a smallish photo essay/coffee table book introducing specific dogs by name and the outdoor activity/sport they excel at, from backpacking to windsurfing. It's so cute and I know I would have fallen in love with these dogs and imagined they were mine if I'd read this book as a kid. That's why when I'm done, I'm going to put it in the Little Free Library outside a local elementary school. Kids still like physical books right? At least ones about dogs?
21. The Grace of Dogs - Andrew Root: I saw a dog and put it in the bag. Turns out this is written by a theologian and focuses on what you might expect; sounds boring and I'm happy to send it on.
22. Rescuing Sprite - Mark Levin: I actively disliked this book, but I figure, cute dog on cover might entice someone.
#i got excessive with words AND photos this time! and i am so sorry if the cut doesn't work#library sale
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Hi! Top 5 books?
Oooh wow, not a Skam related ask! This is in no particular order, I’ll add Goodread links if you want to check any of them out x
1. Pretty Things by Sarra Manning - the book that made me want to write
2. Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan - a gorgeous example of LGBTQ+ storytelling
3. Apples by Richard Milward - experimental yet so bloody realistic coming of age story
4. Monument 14 Trilogy by Emmy Laybourne - reminded me why I love dystopian future novels for the first time since Hunger Games
5. Only Ever Yours by Louise O’Neill - a masterclass in feminist sci-fi and female characters in general
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Book Review: "Sweet" by Emmy Laybourne
A celebrity #cruise for dieting goes terribly wrong in "Sweet" by Emmy Laybourne! #bookreview #Sweet #EmmyLaybourne #reading #horror #thriller
Warning: This book review contains major spoilers for “Sweet” by Emmy Laybourne! If you’re looking for a spoiler-free review, it won’t be here!
Cover of “Sweet” by Emmy Laybourne.
I’m back with another book review, and this time I’m reviewing “Sweet” by Emmy Laybourne! Here’s a summary so we know what it’s about:
“Solu’s luxurious celebrity-filled Cruise to Lose is billed as “the best cruise…
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New Young Adult Books Coming Out Today! (January 29th, 2019)
Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!
New Standalones/First in a Series:
King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo
A Curse So Dark & Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
Death Prefers Blondes by Caleb Roehrig
The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan
Dream Keeper by Amber R. Duell
Spin by Lamar Giles
The Lonely Dead by April Henry
Come Find Me by Megan Miranda
The Wild Lands by Paul Greci
The Dead Queens Club by Hannah Capin
New Sequels:
Ransacker (Berserker #2) by Emmy Laybourne
Happy reading!
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Sweet
By Emmy Laybourne (2015)
“PEOPLE WOULD KILL TO BE THIN.
Solu's luxurious celebrity-filled Cruise to Lose is billed as "the best cruise since the Titanic," and if the new diet sweetener works as promised - dropping five percent of a person's body weight in just days - it really could be the answer to the world's obesity problem. But Laurel is starting to regret accepting her friend Viv’s invitation. She's already completely embarrassed herself in front of celebrity host Tom Forelli (otherwise known as the hottest guy ever!) and she's too sick to even try the sweetener. And that's before Viv and all the other passengers start acting really strange.
BUT WILL THEY DIE FOR IT, TOO?
Tom Forelli knows that he should be grateful for this job and the chance to shed his childhood "Baby-Tom-Tom" image. His publicists have even set up a "romance" with a sexy reality-TV star. But as things on the ship start to get a bit wild, he finds himself drawn to a different girl. And when his celebrity hosting gig turns into an expose on the shocking side effects of Solu, it's Laurel that he's determined to save.
Emmy Laybourne, author of the Monument 14 trilogy, takes readers on a dream vacation that goes first comically, then tragically, then horrifyingly wrong.”
I had a hard time putting this down. I honestly put the other books I was reading on pause in order to read this one! While it took a while for the real action to start, the slower beginning of the novel still kept me engaged. The plot is absolutely wild, and the writing contains so much gruesome imagery. This is something I really liked, but I can totally understand it not being everyone's thing. I really appreciated being able to read a horror/thriller type story where the main character is plus sized. The plot also makes a lot of great commentary on societal fat shaming, and body image problems caused by media. I think the only thing that held this novel back is that it switched between two narrators, which started to be confusing when the two characters were together.
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Dry
by Neal Shusterman & Jarod Shusterman
Drop everything right now and get this book and a liter of Smart Water.
It is not surprising that Dry is an unblinking-eyes-glued to the page-terror-filled car-crash that you can’t look away from type of read. It does, after all, have Neal Shusterman at its helm. Co-written with his son, Jarrod Shusterman, I suppose is proof that genius may in fact be genetic.
You may remember Shusterman from earlier entries about the incredible and terrifyingly possible world of The Unwind Dystology. If you were a fan of that, you will surely be a fan of this. A little Michael Grant’s Gone Series paired with Emmy Laybourne’s Monument 14 world but wholly Shusterman in eloquence and verisimilitude to our world today.
Dry opens with a sputtering faucet, as the Morrow family tries to fill Kingston’s water bowl. The tap is dry. So begins the “Tap-Out,” a water crisis for all of Southern California. Seemingly not an unsurmountable event- well if it weren’t for all of SoCal becoming a dust bowl in recent years and the Frivolous Water Act draining all swimming pools, fountains and the like. Because people can survive for a time without transportation, electricity and adults - but every body needs water.
So embarks the tale of three misfits: the stalwart Alyssa, her younger brother Garrett and the survivalist creepy kid next door, Kelton. Three shortly turns into four and then five once a gifted street urchin and preppy spoiled business kid join the mix. This motley collection of characters proves that even the unlikeliest alliances can form during a catastrophe.
Shifting in narration amongst our rogue troupe while alternately periscoping outside into the unraveling martial law mob landscape compounds the growing tension in the narrative. We learn the sum of all the stories whereas each character only sees from one perspective, and in this case, maybe ignorance is bliss.
I almost started to reread this book as soon as I turned the final page. It was that good. It made me simultaneously want to stock up on perishables and take shorter showers. But this is the type of book-satisfying hydration that is not just skin deep. It is worthy of book-group discussions about mob mentality, about what lengths people will go to in order to survive, about conservation and climate change. But then, this at the core of all Shusterman novels: a serious question about humanity disguised as a YA page-turner.
And doesn’t that make you a little bit thirsty?
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"I learned so much about Norwegian immigrants and about life for homesteaders, not to mention fascinating facts about miners, cowboys, Pinkerton detectives, and Norse mythology. So to celebrate the launch of Ransacker, here are ten of my favorite random bits of knowledge I picked up along the way!" —Emmy Laybourne
Read the full post now!
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Niko: "You want to see your parents?"
Dean: "Of course I do. But I don't want to turn into a blood-drinking, bone-chewing monster on a bus with a bunch of eight-year-olds!"
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(via Review: Sweet by Emmy Laybourne)
Sweet by Emmy Laybourne is one of those books that is a perfect read for a summer day. Readers will be swept into the world of the rich and famous to find out how far they will go to maintain their appearances. Set on a cruise ship, Sweet by Emmy Laybourne, has an amazing storyline that contains a powerful message which is incorporated throughout the whole book.
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Are Hanne's powers a gift from the old Norse gods, or a curse?
Her brother Stieg swears their powers are a gift from the old gods, but Hanne Hemstad knows she is truly cursed. It's not Stieg's fault that their father is dead, their mother has left, and their brother Knut has been accused of a crime he didn't commit.
No, the fault lies with Hanne and her inability to control her murderous "gift"--she is a Berserker. When someone she loves is threatened, she flies into a killing state. The siblings must leave Norway for the American frontier or risk being brought to justice.
Aided by a young cowboy who agrees to be their guide, Hanne and her siblings use their powers to survive the perilous trail, where blizzards, wild animals, and vicious bounty hunters await.
Will they be able to reach their uncle, the one man Hanne believes may be able to teach her how to control her drive to kill?
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Book Review – ‘Sky on Fire’ (#2 Monument 14) by Emmy Laybourne
Book Review – ‘Sky on Fire’ (#2 Monument 14) by Emmy Laybourne
The kids from the school bus go on a rough ride.
Genre: YA, Dystopia
No. of pages: 215
From Goodreads:
Trapped in a superstore by a series of escalating disasters, including a monster hailstorm and terrifying chemical weapons spill, brothers Dean and Alex learned how to survive and worked together with twelve other kids to build a refuge from the chaos. But then strangers appeared, destroying…
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Berserker by Emmy Laybourne
Her brother Stieg swears their powers are a gift from the old gods, but Hanne Hemstad knows she is truly cursed. It's not Stieg's fault that their father is dead, their mother has left, and their brother Knut has been accused of a crime he didn't commit.
No, the fault lies with Hanne and her inability to control her murderous "gift"--she is a Berserker. When someone she loves is threatened, she flies into a killing state. The siblings must leave Norway for the American frontier or risk being brought to justice.
Aided by a young cowboy who agrees to be their guide, Hanne and her siblings use their powers to survive the perilous trail, where blizzards, wild animals, and vicious bounty hunters await.
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Bokmål er komplisert
Yeah I still can’t decipher much Norwegian.
And by that I mean, Ransacker by Emmy Laybourne!
If you haven’t read the first book in the Beserker series, er, Beserker, then its sequel, Ransacker won’t make a lot of sense. So, maybe you should go read Beserker. Or you could read about it in the review that I wrote a while back! It’s got Henrik Ibsen references... Go ahead, I’ll wait.
It’s awesome, right?? OK, so: onto Ransacker!
So its two years after the events of Beserker and now we're focusing on now 16 year old Sissel. Sissel is sick and tired of being treated like a little weakling, with Hanne hovering over her all the time and everyone else making decisions that directly affect her without her input. The Hemstads and Owen, now engaged to Hanne, live in a timber house on a farm outside Carter Montana. Unfortunately, and I'm not sure if you guys are aware of this, but during the summer, the entire Western half of the United States catches fire. Like, all of it. Thanks, climate change! So a giant fire sweeps through the community, destroying the Hemstad's farm and all their crops - with no hope of enough income to afford to marry, Hanne and Owen take off to join a cattle drive, Knut goes off to work as a laborer on an unaffected farm, and Steig, now the local schoolteacher, and Sissel go to live in the town hotel, managed by the hunky 20-year old Isaiah McKray.
While the Hemstads are enjoying these relatively normal 19-century-Western-immigrant life problems, they have no idea they're under constant Pinkerton surveillance, led by Mr. Peavy and a kid he hired to pretend to be his son, James. The Pinkertons were hired by the evil Baron Fjelstad from the first book and he seems obsessed in knowing about Sissel. James's one job is to woo Sissel, be her suitor and get her to spill her secrets. But the thing is, of course, James actually likes Sissel and is a bit wary of the intentions of the Baron and the Pinkertons.
Poor James has zero idea about the whole Nytte thing, by the way.
At first it seems like Sissel has no Nytte, until a funeral after the fire when she starts to feel something in the Earth calling to her... turns out Sissel is a ransacker, a very rare nytte in which a person can sense metals and draw them to themselves. Like gold. Gold is good. Have I mentioned that Isaiah McKray also owns a gold mine outside of town? Yeah, he would very much like someone of Sissel's talent to work for him. And so would the Baron. Sissel has to keep her new gift a secret, but her family needs money and she can sense gold so...what could possibly go wrong?
Lots of things, as it turns out.
Beserker and Ransacker are both the sorts of book that I just start reading and then just breeze through - again, I’m a slow-ass reader, I take breaks, get distracted easily, have to work while at work and do housework while at home...I’m lucky if I can manage 1 book per week (maybe 2 if I have an audiobook on-hand), but with both Beserker and Ransacker, I’d start and then find myself having to drag myself away. Nooo, I don’t want to do dishes, I want to read more about magical 19th Century Norwegian immigrants! That’s way more fun than scrubbing bits of cat food off the cat dishes. You know who’s really good at getting the bits of dried cat food off the cat dishes? The dog. Why can’t he just do those dishes and don’t say it’s because he doesn’t have opposable thumbs...
I was going to have this review done sooner but I'm currently at ALA midwinter, drowning in all the books they just give out for free. FREE. The two sweetest words in the English language: free books. Either way: though it may not work as a standalone book, Ransacker is an excellent sequel, and gives a highly satisfying conclusion to the story of the Hemstads. I’m not sure if this series is meant to be a duology or a trilogy or what, but I do know that Ransacker delivers one hell of an ending. I cried. It was great.
RECOMMENDED FOR: Fans of Berserker, fans of YA Western Historical Fantasies.
NOT RECOMMENDED FOR: anyone who didn’t read the first book and has no idea what’s happening, highly distracted people at big library conferences where free books are just handed to you by the armful.
RATING: 4.75 / 5
TOTALLY UNBIASED WESTERN/YA/HISTORICAL/FANTASY FANGIRL RATING: 5,000,000,000,000,000,000 / 5
RELEASE DATE: 1/29/19 - so, uh, tomorrow. Hey, I’m busy, OK??
#ransacker#emmy laybourne#beserker#sequel#ya historical fiction#ya westerns#ya historical fantasy#book review#norse mythology#nytte#gold rush#young adult
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