Posts Tagged ‘Books’

Pygmy - Chuck Palahniuk

Pygmy - Chuck Palahniuk

Last Thursday Chuck Palahniuk visited Burnaby, BC during his Pygmy tour and I was front row not quite centre for the whole thing! Thanks to Kim for getting up silly early the previous Saturday and standing in line to get the wristbands needed to go to this wondrous event and to Chuck himself for being awesome to his fans!

The event began with a signing of his new release Pygmy. My copy says “To Total Best Comrade Bree” while Kim’s is so much cooler and says “To Most Beautiful Devil Agent Kim”. If you’re curious, the language of the messages mirrors the language used in the book – more on that in a bit. It was while watching Mr. Palahniuk sign approx. 400 books that I realized being awesome requires fantastic wrist muscles.
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Child of the Morning by Pauline Gedge

Child of the Morning

Child of the Morning

Hatshepsut was considered a child of the gods, and not only because she was the daughter of the Pharaoh. She fated to be strong, intelligent and a leader. Unfortunately, she was born the wrong gender. She lived in a world where only men could learn, fight and rule, but she was determined to prove that even as a woman, she was the true ruler of Egypt. It is with this determination and the love given and recieved by her followers that Hatshepsut was to become Egypt’s one and only female Pharoah.

Child of the Morning is a brilliant piece of historical fiction that transports the reader to Egypt’s magnificent 18th dynasty and brings to life one of the most (more…)