![]() Lucinda’s godfather was the brother of Roots author Alex Haley. Ahead of Tuesday’s release of Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You, we ignore that advice and share a few of the book’s most raw and poignant memories and revelations. In its 250 pages, however, Williams’ book confirms that limits have not exactly been a hindrance. ![]() The pinnacle of Williams’ career was the landmark 1998 LP Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, which earned the singer-songwriter two Grammys and helped usher in the alt-country/Americana music movement - although she bristles at those limiting terms. Peppered with flirtatious encounters, doomed relationships with “poets on motorcycles” (including Ryan Adams), and a same-sex kiss on a dance floor, the memoir is also a loving tribute to the musical gifts her parents, partners, and friends bestowed on her, from folk singing in her youth to recording a series of critically lauded albums steeped in folk, blues, country, and rock. Those traumas include her mother’s mental illness, which created a volatile and often unpredictable environment for Williams and her two siblings, the eventual divorce of her parents, and her own battles with obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, and self-esteem issues. “Music was my therapy for the many traumas I suffered as a child,” Lucinda Williams writes in her new memoir, Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Quint’s studies to become a knight will bring many challenges, not the least of which will be the oncoming winter that promises intense cold throughout the city. Quint’s best friend, Maris, the daughter of the Most High Academe, has been sent to the Undertown to live with her uncle following the death of her father. Quint is a first-year student in the Knights Academy, and his father, Wind Jackal, is a renowned Sky Pirate. The eighth book in “The Edge Chronicles,” The Winter Knights takes the reader back to Sanctaphrax, where the Undertowners, the Leaguers and the Academes seem to endlessly compete for their share of the wealth from this planet that dangles in the sky, precariously balanced and weighted above the land of the Deepwoods. The Edge Chronicles 8: The Winter Knights The Edge Chronicles 9: Clash of the Sky Galleons ![]() ![]() ![]() These are just two examples of lots of sloppy writing. But "wall to ceiling bookcases" makes no sense at all. Infiltrating a military stronghold is the opposite easy to say, hard to do.Īnother instance of weird writing was when the main character wished she had "wall to ceiling bookcases." What the heck does that even mean? It's either wall to WALL bookcases, or FLOOR to ceiling bookcases. For instance, "tintinnabulation" means to ring bells. ? It's EASIER said than done! Harder said than done means that something is difficult to say but easy to do. No less than 4 times the author unironically used the phrase "harder said than done." Harder. But holy crap sometimes the writing was atrocious! Overall, I really liked the storyline, the plot, most of the characters, and even the soft-porn YA aspect of it. This series was much like Longfellow's "Little Girl": When it was good it was very, very good, and when it was bad it was horrid. ![]() ![]() After finishing all 5 books, I'm left with one question: Where the heck was Armentrout's editor, and how much did he get paid to edit this series? ![]() |