The Bar Code Tattoo is set in a dystopian future where the fears of right-wringers, left-wingers and centrists come to pass. Suzanne Weyn is a competent enough writer, but she doesn’t really stand out for me. Some aspects of it are Orwellian, others remind me of that documentary Food Inc. An interesting dystopian society, a decently paced plot and an okay cast of characters…yet there is nothing really exceptional about The Bar Code Tattoo. It’s not fantastic and it’s not terrible, but it falls somewhere in between. Much like Matched, it is an average book, but nothing more. Again, this prompts the question: Is it worth the hype? I’ve heard a lot of great and terrible things about this book in the YA community. There’s no option but to run…for her life. She becomes an outcast in her high school. It will become your identity.īut what if you say no? What if you don’t want to become a code? For Kayla, this one choice changes everything. (Cover picture courtesy of Random Buzzers.)
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Dr Cristina Diac is a senior researcher within the National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism of the Romanian Academy. Readalikes: Casting Spells is for people who like the Sookie Stackhouse books in theory, but find them too violent in practice. It has a resolved ending, but the characters will still call you back for the sequel. Many people love small town settings and Sugar Maple will satisfy those readers. Casting Spells is fast paced with lots of action and humor. It is character centered, has a shifting point of view between the male and female protagonists, and has eccentric and compelling secondary characters. A handsome Boston cop is sent to help solve the case, and sparks literally fly.Īppeal: Casting Spells is part crafting cozy and part supernatural romance with a touch of mystery. Case in point, someone is murdered in the town limits. She is also pushing 30 and has not produced a female heir. And the town makes a killing as a tourist destination.Ĭhloe runs the very popular knitting shop, but she so far, she has no powers. As long as a female descendant in the founder's line is still living in Sugar Maple, all of the witches, Fae, vampires, and pixies are safe outsiders come to visit and see them as regular people. Sugar Maple is a refuge for supernatural beings of all kinds. She is the half human, half sorceress ancestor to the town's founder. Chloe Hobbs is the unofficial mayor of Sugar Maple, VT. Case in point, Barbara Bretton's charming knitting, chick lit series which begins with Casting Spells. Supernatural elements are cropping up everywhere. He was particularly critical of William Scott Ament (1851–1909), who as a longtime agent of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) had extorted reparations from Chinese villages where Christians had been killed or their property destroyed. In his essays “To the Person Sitting in Darkness” and “To My Missionary Critics,” published in the North American Review for February and April 1901, respectively, Mark Twain expressly disparaged foreign missions in China in the aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion. Jointly edited by AKR’s son, Krishna, and scholar, Guillermo Rodriguez, this compilation of diaries from over five decades will interest poets, researchers and AKR aficionados. Would this mean wading through reams of leaden prose - or what modern-day lingo so succinctly terms TMI? Which made me approach his recently published diaries ( Hymns for the Drowning would probably rank among my top five volumes of mystical poetry in the world.Īlthough he died prematurely at the age of 64 in 1993, AKR’s work endures. Ramanujan (AKR) infuses living sap into Nammalvar. It takes an extraordinary poet to make a thousand years seem a mere heartbeat away. It takes an accomplished poet to make a long-dead poet relevant in translation. 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