Shakey was named after Young’s nickname among his closest peers, and McDonough writes as if he has been let in the inner circle, which with Neil, isn’t easy to do. But fortunately for the book, he also knows Young has created the lowest of lows, giving this book a very clear and balanced voice. Jimmy McDonough, the book’s biographer, has a definite dog in the fight with Shakey: he is a long-time fan of Neil and doesn’t believe any other artist can reach the highs Neil Young can reach. So it’s probably no surprise, I spent the last four months reading the goliath biography Shakey, one of the most in-depth and thorough biographies I have ever taken on. We even dedicated a week to top ten Neil Young albums. Maybe more than any artist, over our near two year span, we have heaped piles upon piles of praise on Neil Young, landing on ten of our top ten lists, including the top spot for best fall albums ( Harvest), best memorial song (“Needle and the Damage Done”), and even best solo career.
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There are twenty-two stories in this anthology, but I will do my best to share my thoughts on each one. After reading the short stories that precede or exist within the worlds of these series, I know that I have to get my hands on them as soon as possible ( The Narcomancer precedes the Dreamblood series, and Stone Hunger is set in the same world as the Broken Earth series). I haven’t read The City We Became yet either, although The City Born Great was a tantalising hint at the magic system, so I intend to read the Great Cities series as well, but I might start with the completed series first, because I know how engrossed I get in NK Jemisin’s work, and I don’t want to have to wait). I read The Inheritance Trilogy and loved it so much that I was scared to pick up any series that wasn’t complete, got distracted and have somehow managed to miss both the Dreamblood and Broken Earth series. This anthology reminded me how much of NK Jemisin’s work I have to catch up on. The main action is in the world of canals and barges with Maigret cycling up and down the canal in his efforts to discover who had murdered a woman found in a stable at Dizy alongside the canal from Epernay to Vitry-le-Francois. I was a little puzzled at first about what was going on but I wasn’t the only one as Maigret himself had to familiarise himself in a world that was very different from the one he knew. It’s a short book of 124 pages which didn’t take me very long to read. Lock 14 was originally published in 1931 as Le Charretier de la ‘Providence’ and translated as Maigret Meets a Milord in 1963. I used to enjoy the TV series Maigret with Rupert Davies in the title role and when I came across this book I thought it was time to renew my acquaintance. Meg Cabot (her last name rhymes with habit, as in “her books can be habit forming”) currently lives in Key West with her husband and various cats. Meg’s numerous other award-winning books include the Mediator series, the Heather Wells mystery series, and Avalon High, the later of which was made into a film for Disney Channel. Her Princess Diaries series has been published in more than 38 countries and was made into two hit films by Disney. Her 80+ books for both adults and tweens/teens have included multiple #1 New York Times bestsellers, selling over twenty-five million copies worldwide. Meg Cabot was born in Bloomington, Indiana during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign, but learned at an early age that a good storyteller can always give herself a happy ending. 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Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surrounding string theory to reveal a universe that consists of eleven dimensions, where the fabric of space tears and repairs itself, and all matter, from the smallest quarks to the most gargantuan supernovas, is generated by the vibrations of microscopically tiny loops of energy. The extensive book tour we’d planned fell into the black hole of those first strange and difficult weeks when no one knew yet what to do in place of in-person store events.Ĭoming out of that experience, and with all the difficulties and uncertainties of pandemic isolation and political drama, I needed to immerse myself as much as possible in things that made me happy. The novel had the unfortunate timing of hitting shelves on March 10, the same week the country shut down due to the pandemic. Many of you embraced it and supported it, and continue to do so. 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Miss Pickerell first appeared in a short story in 1950, and the story was expanded into Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars. She began writing in the 1940s, and her first children's book was published in 1947. She seems to have lived a peripatetic life - she got her degree in Library Science from the University of Washington in Seattle, and worked as a librarian in Hawaii, in Chicago, and in Florida among other places. (Particularly, I suppose, the first in the series, Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars, from 1951.) I never encountered these books as a child, so I thought a look would be interesting.Įllen MacGregor was born in 1906 in Baltimore. I remembered Miss Pickerell as a the heroine of a series of books that some people used to cite as early science fiction they read when they were kids. Well, I thought that when I found a copy of Miss Pickerell Goes to the Arctic for 50 cents (the same price it sold for from Scholastic in the 1970s!) at an estate sale last weekend. I thought it time to return to a subtheme of this blog - old children's books. Pickerell Goes to the Arctic, by Ellen MacGregor She finds a fellow wreck hunter in Liv Stone, an amateur local historian whose sparkling intelligence and guarded gray eyes make Violet ache in an exhilarating new way. Desperate to make amends, Violet embarks on a wildly ambitious mission: locate the Lyric, lain hidden in a watery grave for over a century. Shipped back to Lyric while Sam is in treatment, Violet is haunted by her family's missing piece - the lost shipwreck she and Sam dreamed of discovering when they were children. And, one beautiful summer day, brilliant, sensitive Sam attempts to take his own life. But wrecks seem to run in the family: Tall, funny, musical Violet can't stop partying with the wrong people. No, Fidelia swam to shore, fell in love, and founded Lyric, Maine, the town Violet and Sam returned to every summer. 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