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Amanda is currently developing Wordslut for television with FX, serving as creator, writer, and executive producer. Amanda's second book Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, about the language of "cults" from Scientology to SoulCycle, will be published by Harper Wave in June She holds a degree in linguistics from NYU and lives in Los Angeles with her partner, plants, and pets. Annabel Abbs is the award-winning author of The Joyce Girl, a fictionalised story of Lucia Joyce, daughter of James, and her relationship with Samuel Beckett.
It won the Impress Prize for New Writers and the Spotlight Novel Award, and was longlisted for the Bath Novel Award, the Caledonia Novel Award and the Waverton Good Read Award. The Joyce Girl was a Reader Pick in The Guardian and was one of ten books selected for presentation at the Berlin Film Festival, where it was given Five Stars by the Hollywood Reporter.
It is currently being adapted for stage and screen. Her second novel, Frieda, is a fictionalised story of Frieda Weekely, the German aristocrat who eloped with DH Lawrence and who was the inspiration for Lady Chatterley. It was a Times Book of the Year. Her non-fiction book, The Age-Well Project, explores the latest science of longevity and has been serialised in the Guardian and The Daily Mail. Her journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Irish Times, Tatler, The Author, Sydney Morning Herald, The Weekend Australian Review, Psychologies and Elle Magazine.
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She's all but given up on escaping the book review.com when a masked man appears one stifling summer morning and snatches her out of the cornfield. A week after her abduction, she's found alongside a highway in a bloodstained dress--alive--but her family treats her like she's tainted, book review.com, and there's little hope of finding her captor, who kept Sarabeth blindfolded in the dark the entire time, never uttering a word. One good thing arises from the horrific ordeal: a chance to leave the Ozarks and start a new life, book review.com.
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From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a story about a woman's journey to discover the father she never knew and a love she never thought possible. Rose has just turned forty when she gets a call from a lawyer asking her to come to Kyoto for the reading of her estranged father's will. And so for the first time in her life she finds herself in Japan, where Paul, her father's assistant, is waiting to greet her.
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MY REVIEW:. Cultish Cultish by Amanda Montell. Tuesday, October 5, Cult-ish by Amanda Montell- Feature and Review. The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media book review.com use language as the ultimate form of power.
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Labels: Amanda MontellCultsHarper Wavenonfiction. Sunday, October 3, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen by Annabel Abbs- Feature and Review. Before Mrs. Beeton and well before Julia Child, there was Eliza Acton, who changed the course of cookery writing forever.
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Labels: Annabel Abbsfeature and reviewfoodiehistorical fictionWilliam Morrow Paperbacks. Friday, October 1, FLASHBACK FRIDAY- Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts- Feature and Review.
ELIZABETH LETTS is an award winning and bestselling author of both fiction and non-fiction. The Perfect Horse was the winner of the PEN USA Award for Research Non-fiction and a 1 Wall Street Journal bestseller. The Eighty-Dollar Champion was a 1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the Daniel P Lenehan Award for Media Excellence from the United States Equestrian Foundation.
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Labels: Ballantine BooksElizabeth Lettsfeature and reviewhistorical fiction. Wednesday, September book review.com, What's Done in Darkness by Laura McHugh- Feature and Review. In this riveting new novel from Laura McHugh, blood ties and buried secrets draw a young woman back into the nightmare of her past to save a missing girl, book review.com, unaware of what awaits her in the darkness, book review.com.
Labels: Laura McHughnetgalleypsychological thrillerRandom House, book review.com. Sunday, September 26, A Single Rose by Muriel Barbery- Feature and Review. This is a poignant story, mingled with whimsy, and a wry sense of humor. That said, I loved the allusions and allegories, and the writing was fitting complemented the themes of the story. Overall, this a lovely story, a wondrous journey, and reawakening for Rose, with a hint of a more contented and fulfilled future.
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Labels: CulturalEdelweiss ARCEurpopafeature and reviewbook review.com, Muriel Barbery. Friday, September 24, FLASHBACK FRIDAY Social Creature by Tara Isabelia Burton- Feature and Review. Labels: Doubleday book review.com, feature and reviewpsychological thrillerTara Isabelia Burton. Tuesday, September 21, Songs in Ursa Major by Emma Brodie- Feature and Review. The year isbook review.com, and the Bayleen Island Folk Fest is abuzz with one name: Jesse Reid. Tall and soft-spoken, with eyes blue as stone-washed denim, Jesse Reid's intricate guitar riffs and supple baritone are poised to tip from fame to legend with this one headlining performance.
That is, until his motorcycle crashes on the way to the show. Jane Quinn is a Bayleen Island local whose music flows as naturally as her long blond hair. When she and her bandmates are asked to play in Jesse Reid's place at the festival, it almost doesn't seem real. But Jane plants her bare feet on the Main Stage and delivers the performance of a lifetime, book review.com, stopping Jesse's disappointed fans in their tracks: A star is born.
Jesse stays on the island to recover from his near-fatal accident and he strikes up a friendship with Jane, coaching her through the production of her first record. As Jane contends with the music industry's sexism, Jesse becomes her advocate, and what starts as a shared calling soon becomes a passionate love affair.
On tour with Jesse, Jane is so captivated by the giant stadiums, the late nights, the wild parties, and the media attention, that she is blind-sided when she stumbles on the dark secret beneath Jesse's music. With nowhere to turn, Jane must reckon with the shadows of her own past; what follows is the birth of one of most iconic albums of all time. Shot through with the lyrics, the icons, the lore, the adrenaline of the early 70s music book review.com, Songs in Ursa Major pulses with romantic book review.com and asks the question so many female artists must face: What are we willing to sacrifice for our dreams?
EMMA BRODIE has worked in book publishing for a decade, most recently as an executive editor at Little, Brown's Voracious imprint. She graduated from the Johns Hopkins University's Writing Seminars program, and is a longtime contributor to HuffPost and a faculty member at Catapult. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their dog, Freddie Mercury, book review.com.
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