![]() He drops out of school to focus on coding full-time, and soon develops his game that will change the world: Mastery. He then has a life-changing experience at the Stanford wild terrarium, receiving a bolt of inspiration from the trees around him and seeing a vision of the kind of game he is destined to build. A prodigy at coding, Neelay is accepted two years early to Stanford and soon starts building games and releasing them for free. As a child, Neelay falls from a tree and breaks his back, becoming paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of his life. Neelay grows up in the Silicon Valley and quickly becomes fascinated with computers and coding through his father, Babul, who works at an early computing company. A child of Indian immigrants, Neelay is a coding genius who creates a series of world-building computer games called Mastery. ![]()
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![]() To finally build something that will last, Viv will need some new partners, and a different kind of resolve.Ī hot cup of fantasy, slice-of-life with a dollop of romantic froth.Ī Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books. Old frenemies and Thune's shady underbelly may just upset her plans. However, her dreams of a fresh start filling mugs instead of swinging swords are hardly a sure bet. ![]() A forgotten legend, a fabled artifact, and an unreasonable amount of hope lead her to the streets of Thune, where she plans to open the first coffee shop the city has ever seen. I really would prefer to not support Amazon at all, so while I might buy the paperback of Legends & Lattes I found, not from Amazon, I kind of stuck when it comes to Tuyo. Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv, the orc barbarian, cashes out of the warrior's life with one final score. Im here because I would really like to read a couple of books that are only available as an eBook on Kindle Unlimited (Legends & Lattes and Tuyo off the top of my head). ![]() The much-beloved BookTok sensation, Travis Baldree's Legends & Lattes is novel of high fantasy and low stakes.Ĭome take a load off at Viv's cafe, the first & only coffee shop in Thune. ![]() "Even nonfantasy listeners will enjoy hanging out at the intersection of coffeehouse culture and Dungeons & Dragons, and hope that Baldree fails to shake his new writing habit." - The Seattle Times ![]() ![]() ![]() Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of her parents while she was still a child convinced her that human fear is more potent than any witchcraft. When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it’s an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. Diana and Matthew – the forbidden love at the heart of it. A manuscript which holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future. In case you haven’t read them before, here’s the blurb for the first book: Goodreads Blurb: A Discovery of Witchesįall under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the stunning first volume of the No.1 internationally bestsellling ALL SOULS trilogy.Ī world of witches, daemons and vampires. All three books in the series are around 620 pages so they are thick and it was quite hard to get through them especially as I went through quite a hard time in January, and when reading thick books and reading slowly, it feels like you’re reading the same book for forever.įinally, I finished the last book this week and I’m now happily going to give you a short series review. ![]() ![]() I’ve had the first book on my shelves for so long – I think I bought it around the time the TV show was announced! And at the end of last year, I finally decided to pick it up because I was in a really ‘witchy’ book mood. If you read my Jan wrap-up, as you might be aware I’ve been trying to get through the All Souls Trilogy that began with A Discovery of Witches. ![]() ![]() ![]() A thorn in the side of the priests and nobles who shape his fate, this Saxon raised by Vikings is torn between the life he loves and those he has sworn to serve. Uhtred of Bebbanburg’s mind is as sharp as his sword. Now Uhtred must fight a battle which will shape history – and confront the Viking with the banner of the white horse … Still, when pious King Alfred flees to a watery refuge, it is the pagan warrior he relies on. Now Uhtred must fight a battle which will shape history and. ![]() But when he is accused of massacring Christians, he finds lies can be as deadly as steel. Still, when pious King Alfred flees to a watery refuge, it is the pagan warrior he relies on. Skeptical of a treaty between the Vikings and Wessex, Uhtred takes his talent for mayhem to Cornwall, gaining treasure and a mysterious woman on the way. When peace is torn apart by bloody Danish steel, Uhtred must fight to save a king who distrusts him. Now it is struggling for its very existence. A hero will be forged from this broken land.Īs seen on Netflix and BBC around the world. Wessex, led by the pious King Alfred, is the last Saxon stronghold against the savage strength of the Vikings. 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Dean of Leicester, David Monteith, spoke to the BBC.ĭAVID MONTEITH: We can't undo the history, but we can make new history. SHAPIRO: Reenactors in period costume marched through the city streets with a funeral cortege yesterday. Now, 530 years later, the city of Leicester is giving him the royal treatment. His body was hauled into the city mutilated and slung crudely over a horse, then quickly buried. SHAPIRO: Richard III was the last English king killed in battle. RICHARD BUCKLEY: The individual exhumed at Greyfriars in September 2012 is, indeed, Richard III, the last Plantagenet king of England. Archaeologist Richard Buckley from the University of Leicester made the announcement. SHAPIRO: Meanwhile, the man himself faded into history until researchers unearthed a skeleton in a parking lot three years ago. IAN MCKELLEN: (As Richard III) Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious sun. LAURENCE OLIVIER: (As Richard III) My kingdom for a horse. ![]() ![]() NPR's Ari Shapiro reports from London.ĪRI SHAPIRO, BYLINE: Every great Shakespearean actor has sunk his teeth into the notorious hunchbacked king, from Laurence Olivier. They wanted to see the coffin of Richard III, the king who provided the basis for one of Shakespeare's most famous villains. In England, hundreds of people lined up outside of Leicester Cathedral this morning. ![]() ![]() Using the knowledge he gained while working for Orochimaru, Kabuto became strong enough to defeat nearly any foe in a direct encounter. ![]()
![]() ![]() Oji is born on the day of their grandmother’s death, and there is a sense in which her spirit inhabits the person they will become. At the same time, The Death of Vivek Oji is shot through with mythic elements. As readers, we encounter these lives almost like “a stack of photographs” being handed around at a wake (to use an image from the novel). On one level, this is a very directly told story of two people coming of age and grappling with sexualities that struggle to find expression. ![]() Emezi’s novel manages to balance an unflinching realism with something of the quality of a folktale or a myth. ![]() ![]() Akwaeke Emezi’s novel, The Death of Vivek Oji, opens with a chapter of only one sentence: “They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died.” From that first sentence, we are immersed in contemporary Nigeria in all of its complexity, where tight family and community bonds are woven into the submerged stories of gay, bisexual and transgender people, and where groups such as the ‘Nigerwives’ (foreign-born wives of Nigerian men) form one of the cultures that make up the mosaic of Nigerian society. ![]() |