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Beads, Breasts, Bush, and Language Barriers at Beijing’s Panjiayuan Market[1]
[1: Wherever unavoidable, I will be translating Mandarin using the pinyin system, rather than Wade-Giles. Moreover, as I was in Beijing, and both of my primary sources (Pimsleur and Mark Frobose) use the ‘Pekingese’-accented Beijing dialect, which might be described as the pirate dialect of Mandarin Read more of this blog post »
Beads, Breasts, Bush, and Language Barriers at Beijing’s Panjiayuan Market[1]
[1: Wherever unavoidable, I will be translating Mandarin using the pinyin system, rather than Wade-Giles. Moreover, as I was in Beijing, and both of my primary sources (Pimsleur and Mark Frobose) use the ‘Pekingese’-accented Beijing dialect, which might be described as the pirate dialect of Mandarin Read more of this blog post »
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| Surprisingly poignant and heartfelt, this outlandish "true story" of a small-town boy moved to the big city and working at an adult store was a wild ride. Mark Collins, the self-insert for the author, comes to blows with a small-town cop after a nigh ...more | |
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| Shafted is a great follow-up to Dunked, a witty and engrossing suburban mystery that heightens the stakes and delves more into the flawed but outwardly seemingly perfect community of Serenity Acres. The novel begins with a scam and a scheme for murde ...more | |
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| Crystal Quast's 'Dinked' is a delicious, razor-sharp dissection of upper-middle-class suburban life. Set in the fictional town of Southpoint, Quast plunges readers into a world of perfectly manicured lawns and glittering facades, where every characte ...more | |
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| A riveting supernatural tale. Authors RW Duder and Damien Richard have set up an ambitious alt-history fantasy world. Set in colonial America at the end of the nineteenth century, this novella centres around a coven of witches, first persecuted in Ir ...more | |
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| A fresh new look at dystopian fiction. Christian Jerry Marchioni creates a world reminiscent of Orwell and Huxley, updated for modern day. Set in the not-too-distant future, the Utopia is a cohesive island society with no money and free services. The ...more | |
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| Picking up immediately where we left off in A Drowned Kingdom, PL Stuart throws us right back into the action. Prince Othrun is on a covert mission to secure his ally's throne, and along the way must disguise himself, hide from the usurper mage-queen ...more | |
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| A perfect homage to classic slasher films! RW Duder delivers a riveting tale - part horror, part police procedural, part supernatural thriller - of six-year-old Amy Walker, daughter of a ruthless serial killer who is, herself, transformed into an uns ...more | |
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I want to thank the author for providing an ARC copy. Lilith is a wild ride through a dystopian sci-fi world. The world is split between the HIVE (dystopian Asia) and Amirkha (a contraction of Amir Khan, applying to America). Democracy has been abolis ...more |
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