6/30/2023 0 Comments The Tulip Touch by Anne FineThe Tulip Touch is narrated by Natalie and takes place over a few years, it tells the story of her friendship with another girl – Tulip. Truthfully I did not expect to care so much. To be so enraged by what happens and for there to be so many where I wished I do something. Much too far.Īnd deep inside, Natalie knows that Tulip won’t rest until she’s won the most dangerous game of all.Ģ00words (or less) review: Given that this book isn’t even 200 pages long I did not expect for Anne’s Fine to pull me into this story so completely. But as the games become increasingly wild and sinister, Natalie realizes that Tulip is going too far. Natalie finds Tulip exciting, and at first she doesn’t care that other people are so upset and unnerved by Tulip’s bizarre games, like Stinking Mackerel and Road of Bones. Synopsis: Nobody wants to be around Tulip, but her outlandish behaviour doesn’t matter to Natalie. How did I get the book? StorytellersInc Book Club
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6/30/2023 0 Comments The blood guard seriesAnd these protectors would have to do their work anonymously, because part of what makes these 36 people holy is that they are oblivious, completely unaware of their own holiness. Clearly, I thought, these special folks would need protection, to make sure they didn’t get run over while crossing the street or get knifed in an alley. It is thanks to them that God doesn’t wipe the earth clean with “the fire next time” that Ralph Stanley’s spiritual promised. And though I am a terrible scholar-the worst researcher-I did some reading and learned about something called the tzadikim nistarim, 36 holy people the Talmud says are living among us here on Earth. At one point, a character referred to another as a tzadik, one of the hidden righteous ones. CARTER ROY: The seed idea for The Blood Guard was suggested by a line of dialogue in a novel I read back in the ’90s…. 6/30/2023 0 Comments Rainwater by sandra brownIn Browns novel, the hero has no such illustrious (or nefarious) past he oversaw his fathers cotton empire prior to his cancer diagnosis. The similarities stop there: Bacalls characters son is a teenaged Ron Howard, who idolizes Waynes characters gunslinger past. As I read, I was reminded often of the classic western film The Shootist, which starred Lauren Bacall, as the proprietor of a boarding house, and an aging (and already ill himself) John Wayne, as a dying gunman who moves into the house to spend his final weeks of life. Brown tackles the 1930s unflinchingly, its toxic racism, and its dearth of knowledge about cancer treatment, autism, and more in a moving, subtle, and winsome way. The heroine is the mother of an almost-ten-year-old autistic son, and the titular hero is a man dying of metastatic bone cancer. The novel is set in Browns beloved Texas, but it is a novel of sweet, aching complexity. After reading the book, I understand what she meant. This novel is preceded by a preface in which the author explains that this book was written between her more usual novels blockbuster romantic suspense, that it simply couldnt go unwritten. |