As a Harvard undergrad, Becky Cooper had heard rumors about an ambitious female grad student in anthropology who had an affair with a professor, and who had then been murdered in 1969. The killer was never found. Forty years later, Cooper begins an investigation herself, slowly and steadily becoming more and more obsessed with the case. Even as Cooper reveals a complicated list of suspects that expands rather than narrows through the book's unfolding, We Keep the Dead Close implicates the institution of Harvard as a whole and the ways its centuries of elitism and discrimination have caused many kinds of violence.
With the end of the fifth season, the plot has reached the most recent novel in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, A Dance with Dragons. Season 6 director Jeremy Podeswa said in August 2015, "Right now in season six, what we're shooting currently isn't based on anything in the book. It's fully based on discussions the writers have had with George Martin, because the series has now surpassed the books in terms of what's available."[99] Actress Natalie Dormer, who plays Margaery Tyrell, later added that the show's writers "know where it's got to go and what [George Martin]'s intentions for the characters are. But they are just filling in the gaps."[100]
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The Orlando Sentinel eulogized the show for "playing by its own rules", and not "pander for fans' affection and take easy storytelling routes" like other shows.[138] Slate gave the premiere a positive review and stated, "Game of Thrones is finally off book, having lapped George R.R. Martin's slowly gestating A Song of Ice and Fire series. Finally, it seemed, anything could happen."[139] Matt Zoller Seitz of Vulture gave the premiere positive review and stated, "The world the characters inhabit is still a hugely dangerous one, but at no point did I feel as though the writers were showing us beautiful butterflies in preparation of pulling their wings off."[140] Entertainment Weekly gave the premiere a score of 'B' and stated, "Few shows on television look better than this one, but it's coming up on great-drama retirement age. Game of Thrones is getting older. But it's not dead, yet."[141] NPR praised the season for "reaching new heights", and "setting up its endgame in spectacular, meticulous fashion".[142]
If you want to experiment with book sizes and the way they might impact your typesetting choices, the Reedsy Book Editor allows you to do so for free. The Editor also provides four popular trim sizes for formatting (4.25 x 6.87 in, 5 x 8 in, 5.5 x 8.5 in, 6 x 9 in).
Love the iPhone comparison in this article, it's a great way of thinking about it. If anyone's interested in seeing the different sizes/shapes suited to specific subtypes of children's books, there's a great guide over at -to-write-a-childrens-book/.
Hi Brooke, great to have you as a reader. It depends on what standard book size you pick in the end, but typically gutter margins will range from .5"-.875" while outside margins range from .5" to .75". Here's an additional resource from CreateSpace on recommended margin sizes that you might find helpful: , it depends on what you personally feel allows for the best reading experience :) So our best recommendation is to experiment with it!
Here's a question you probably haven't seen before. I am getting ready to publish a paperback through Ingram Spark and Amazon in the German language. I will go with a 5.5X 8.5 format, which is closest to the 14.8 cm X 21 cm standard German size. There will be no problem with Amazon; but there may be with Ingram. When the book is printed in Germany by Ingram's affiliate, it will be printed as a 14.8 cmX 21 cm. Since 14.8 cm is larger than 5.5 inches, and 21 cm is smaller than 8.5 inches, won't there be a distortion in the print. I can envisage the font being wider and shorter in the German edition. Am I correct? And, if so, how would you suggest I proceed? If I ask for a size other than standard, there could be a sizable upcharge.
Family Feud is a type of question game, and the questions are similar to coworker feud and trivia prompts. You can do the activity as part of a virtual game night, online happy hour or virtual team building exercise.
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Barbara Kingsolver's modern reimagining of David Copperfield is a "powerful reworking" of Charles Dickens's most celebrated and personal novel, writes The Guardian, calling it "the book she was born to write". Set in Kingsolver's home region of Appalachia, it transposes Dickens's critique of the injustices of Victorian Britain to contemporary America, where Copperhead lives in near-destitution amid the US opioid crisis. "This serious subject matter belies the sheer fun that Kingsolver has with her endlessly inventive adaptation," writes the TLS, praising the novel's "sharp social observation and moments of great descriptive beauty." (RL)
When a whale washes up on the beach in Dorset near Cristabel Seagrave's home at Chilcombe estate, the 12-year-old claims it as her own. Benignly neglected by her step-parents, who are distracted by endless parties, she and her siblings find their own way to grow up and educate themselves. Then, as war approaches and their lives take different tracks, the siblings are drawn into the conflict. "Generous, filling, deeply satisfying, funny-sad, every page crammed with life and experience," is how the Sunday Times describes it. Quinn is "one of those writers who has her finger on humanity's pulse. An absolute treat of a book, to be read and reread". The Independent says: "This is a chunky novel to get lost in, full of pacy plotting and luscious language." (LB)
According to The Atlantic, Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger, published in 2022, along with its follow-up, Stella Maris, are "the richest and strongest work of McCarthy's career," and represent a genuine publishing event. The 89-year-old writer of No Country for Old Men (2005) and The Road (2006) is considered one of America's greatest living novelists, and these typically apocalyptic, bleak books could well be his last. The Passenger, writes The Irish Times, is "among McCarthy's most quietly reflective novels, recalling the moments of serenity amid scenes of devastation that made The Road so haunting." (RL)
Told in a series of vignettes, After Sappho reimagines the lives of a group of notable feminists, artists and writers of the past. Among them are Colette, Josephine Baker, Virginia Woolf and Sarah Bernhardt, each of them facing obstacles and battling for liberation and justice. According to the Irish Times, After Sappho "delivers on its own promise with great stylistic power and verve". The Guardian says:"[With] sentences crisply flat yet billowing easily into gorgeous lyricism... [After Sappho] is a book that's wholly seduced by seduction and that seduces in turn." (LB)
Douglas Stuart, the author of the Booker Prize-winning Shuggie Bain (2020), has won rapturous praise once again for his second novel, a heartbreaking queer love story between Protestant Mungo and Catholic James, who come together across the divided landscape of a Glasgow council estate in the post-Thatcher era. "Young Mungo is a suspense story wrapped around a novel of acute psychological observation. It's hard to imagine a more disquieting and powerful work of fiction will be published anytime soon about the perils of being different," says Maureen Corrigan, book critic of NPR's Fresh Air. "If the first novel announced Stuart as a novelist of great promise, this confirms him as a prodigious talent," writes Alex Preston in The Observer. (RL)
In Jennifer Egan's 2011 novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, Bix Bouton featured as a minor character. Now he is back as a tech visionary at the opening of The Candy House, as CEO of internet giant Mandala who is in search of his next "utopian vision". Bouton's invention, Own Your Unconscious, is the catalyst for the novel's exploration of the end of privacy in the digital age and how tech turns the world upside down. Meanwhile, the underlying temptation metaphor of Hansel and Gretel's "candy house" permeates the book. It is an "exhilarating, deeply pleasurable" novel, says Prospect, while The New York Times calls it "a spectacular palace built out of rabbit holes". (LB)
In her follow-up to 2015's Negroland, Margo Jefferson blends criticism and memoir, recalling personal experiences and family members she has lost, as well as jazz luminaries, artists and writers she admires. The veteran critic draws on a rich life full of cultural experience, as well as new thinking about the part race has played in her life, and addresses the core theme of black female identity. "Her approach is an almost poetic presentation of fragments of her experiences as they ricocheted off artists whose work and lives she has found meaningful," says The Washington Post. "It's an extraordinary reading experience - the first book I recall wanting to reread immediately after reaching the end." Or, as The Observer puts it: "It is impossible not to be stirred by her odes to fellow black American strivers of excellence." (LB)
Much of Nagamatsu's debut novel was completed before 2020, and its themes will strike readers with their prescience. Set in the near-future, a team of scientists in Siberia discover a mummified pre-historic female corpse they name "Annie", which holds a disease that sets off a catastrophic pandemic named "the Arctic Plague". Nagamatsu focuses on the human side of the crisis, leaping forward 6,000 years to reveal a society that has commercialised death, and the long-reaching legacy of past decisions. Expansive and genre-defying, it is told through discrete stories that slowly coalesce. "Like a Polaroid photograph, How High We Go in the Dark takes time to show its true colours. When they finally appear, the effect is all the more dazzling," writes the Guardian. It is, writes the New York Times, "a book of sorrow for the destruction we're bringing on ourselves. Yet the novel reminds us there's still hope in human connections, despite our sadness." (RL) 2ff7e9595c
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