![]() ![]() In 1990, she was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. ![]() Her children's novel "The Search for Grissi" received the Carl Sandburg Literary Arts Award in 1985, and she also was nominated to the Young Hoosier Book Award. Craig, and Meredith Hill gothic novels as Mary Craig romance novels as Alexis Hill, Mary Shura Craig and Mary S. ![]() Since 1960, she wrote over 50 books of various genres: children's adventures and teen-romances as Mary Francis Shura, M. Craig, they had a daughter Alice Barrett Craig (Stout), before their divorce. On 8 December 1961, she married Raymond C. They had two children: Marianne Francis Shura (Spraguc) and Daniel Charles Shura. On 24 October 1943, she married Daniel Charles Shura, who died in 1959. When she was very young, her family moved to the Pacific Northwest, where she raised. Mary Francis Young was born on 23 February 1923 in Pratt, Kansas, the daughter of Jack Fant and Mary Francis (Milstead) Young. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Although maybe I'm biased because I'm a monster sympathiser. We pretty much only see him as the monster that everyone believes him to be, when he is just a lonely child. This adaptation is very much a summary, and the monster's true development is completely neglected. I found Ito's ending just as enjoyable as Shelley's, so I wouldn't say this is a bad thing. That said, it does a good job of summarizing the first half of the book, but then the second half starts to change somewhat significantly. Ito's artwork is captivating and complicated, and it really adds to the story of Frankenstein. ![]() ![]() This is also my first Junji Ito work that I've ever read, so I can initially say that the art style is incredible. The main reason I'm writing this review is because in the majority of the reviews I've seen, no one has read the original book. ![]() ![]() That is precisely the question that the author and investigative journalist Julia Angwin tries to answer in her new book Dragnet Nation, which chronicles (amongst other things) Angwin’s attempts and frustrations with trying to defend her privacy and fight surveillance. Granted “suspects” has become largely interchangeable with “everybody” – and the snooping governmental agent has found a new partner in the hoodie wearing tech firm. It’s a rather sad commentary that today when somebody says “you’re being watched” the standard reply is some variation of “yes, I know.” Though, the suit wearing g-men and their army of acolytes have stopped trailing suspects and instead have found it more efficient (and that it requires less walking) to simply tap into the rich data streams that people are merrily creating. You’re Caught in the Net! – A review of Julia Angwin’s “Dragnet Nation”Ī few decades ago if somebody told you “you’re being watched!” You might have dismissed them as paranoid, mildly unhinged, or perhaps you would have entertained the possibility that you had somehow become enmeshed in a web of international intrigue (cue the surf guitar!). ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately I thought the ending let the book down – without any spoilers, I felt the climax didn’t quite live up to the sense of anticipation and tension that the author had so carefully built throughout. As winter comes and the snow starts to fall, Georgie is trapped in the cottage and alone…įor the most part, I thought this was a first-rate slow-burn psychological thriller that kept me hooked and on edge. ![]() Once Georgie gets to Dartmoor, the tension starts to ratchet up, while the reader is left to wonder whether the scary events are really happening or are all part of Georgie’s guilt-ridden mind. For the first half of the book, White cuts between the present and the past, letting us see the events that have brought Georgie to this place and this state of mind. White handles prose with originality and control, and in Georgie she creates a completely believable character, flawed, yes, but with an underlying strength of character that is crumbling under the guilt of the child’s death. So when she unexpectedly inherits a cottage in a tiny hamlet on Dartmoor it seems an ideal place to escape to for a few months – until she meets the strange and mostly unfriendly neighbours, that is. Georgie needs to get away from London to escape the publicity around the killing of a child while she was the social worker responsible for little Angie’s case. ![]() |