FREE/BARGAIN - General and Historical Fiction, Literature - 2016

[Dngrsone]

For the record, I wasn't snoozing. I was actually working.

... for once.

[Froide]

Originally Posted by Dngrsone

For the record, I wasn't snoozing. I was actually working.

... for once.

It's just a figure of speech, like: "Slow, you blow."

[Dngrsone]

Originally Posted by Froide

It's just a figure of speech, like: "Slow, you blow."

I am aware, thank you.

On-topic, War Brides for $1.99 at Amazon.

[murg]

Originally Posted by Froide

It's just a figure of speech, like: "Slow, you blow."

Let's keep it PG here, please.

[Froide]

Originally Posted by murg

Let's keep it PG here, please.

It is PG, Murg. "Slow, you blow" is a commonly used expression that means: if you act too slowly, you'll "blow (i.e., miss) your chance" to avail yourself of an opportunity. It's synonymous with: "snooze, you lose". (See definition #8 and this example of its usage, in context.)

Apology accepted.

[phloxy]

The Distant Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell
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For Anna, the narrator of Bo Caldwell's richly lyrical and vivid first novel, growing up in the magical world of Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s creates a special bond between her and her father. He is the son of missionaries, a smuggler, and a millionaire who leads a charmed but secretive life. When the family flees to Los Angeles in the face of the Japanese occupation, he chooses to remain, believing his connections and luck will keep him safe.

He's wrong. He survives, only to again choose Shanghai over his family during the Second World War. Anna and her father reconnect late in his life, when she finally has a family of her own, but it is only when she discovers his extensive journals that she is able to fully understand him and the reasons for his absences. With the intensity and appeal of When We Were Orphans, also set in Shanghai at the same time, The Distant Land of My Father tells a moving and unforgettable story about a most unusual father-daughter relationship.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Froide

It is PG, Murg. "Slow, you blow" is a commonly used expression that means: if you act too slowly, you'll "blow (i.e., miss) your chance" to avail yourself of an opportunity. It's synonymous with: "snooze, you lose".
. . . .

I prefer the old expression, "ya snooze, ya lose." ha

[Froide]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I prefer the old expression, "ya snooze, ya lose." ha

Acknowledged (though I'm not sure one expression is any older than the other; they're often used in conjunctions with either, even though they're redundant, like the call and response greetings: "See you later, alligator" and "After awhile, crocodile").

[phloxy]

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
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In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.

[phloxy]

The Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker
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In one lifetime we have many chances to get it right

Grange Copeland, a deeply conflicted and struggling tenant farmer in the Deep South of the 1930s, leaves his family and everything he’s ever known to find happiness and respect in the cold cities of the North. This misadventure, his “second life,” proves a dismal failure that sends him back where he came from to confront his now-grown-up son’s disastrous relationships with his own family, including Grange’s granddaughter, Ruth Copeland, a child that Grange grows to love. Love becomes the substance of his third and final life. He spends it in devotion to Ruth, teaching and protecting her—though the cost of doing so is almost more than he can bear.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

[HarryT]

Daphne Du Maurier's "Jamaica Inn" is available for 99p on Amazon UK as a part of today's Kindle Daily Deal. A wonderful historical novel.

[piperclassique]

Thank you, Harry. My paper copy fell apart some time back!

[HarryT]

You're very welcome. It's a book I've been after for a while, but it's normally quite expensive (£5.99), so I was very happy to see it on sale. 83% off the normal Kindle price is a great deal.

[phloxy]

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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Sylvia Plath's shocking, realistic, and intensely emotional novel about a woman falling into the grip of insanity

Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palpably real, even rational—as accessible an experience as going to the movies. A deep penetration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche, The Bell Jar is an extraordinary accomplishment and a haunting American classic.

[phloxy]

God Loves Haiti by Dimitry Elias Léger
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A native of Haiti, Dimitry Elias Léger makes his remarkable debut with this story of romance, politics, and religion that traces the fates of three lovers in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the challenges they face readjusting to life after an earthquake devastates their city.

Reflecting the chaos of disaster and its aftermath, God Loves Haiti switches between time periods and locations, yet always moves closer to solving the driving mystery at its center: Will the artist Natasha Robert reunite with her one true love, the injured Alain Destiné, and live happily ever after? Warm and constantly surprising, told in the incandescent style of José Saramago and Roberto Bolaño, and reminiscent of Gabriel García Márquez’s hauntingly beautiful Love in The Time of Cholera, God Loves Haiti is an homage to a lost time and city, and the people who embody it.