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LitStack Review: The Last Mortal Bond by Brian Staveley

The Last Mortal Bond Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, Book 3 Brian Staveley Tor Books Release Date: March 15, 2016 ISBN 978-0-7653-3642-2 With The Last Mortal Bond, author Brian Staveley closes the story of Adare, Kaden and Valyn, the three offspring of Sanlitun Malkeenian, former Emperor of the Annurian Empire. Throughout the massive volumes of [….]

LitStack Review: The Providence of Fire by Brian Staveley

The Providence of Fire Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, Book II Brian Staveley Tor Books Release Date: December 8, 2015 ISBN 978-0-7653-3641-5 Brian Staveley seems like such a nice young man. Former teacher, editor at a small press specializing in poetry, he lives in Vermont and “divides his time between running trails, splitting wood, writing, [….]

Birthdays

On this day, January 21, in 1895, Japanese author, social critic and feminist Itō Noe was born in Fukuoka, Japan. While editor-in-chief of the feminist magazine Seitō, she placed great emphasis on addressing societal problems which garnered severe government pushback and censorship. Her anarchist views on challenging arranged marriages, promoting free love and legalizing abortion (and later prostitution) threatened societal norms, and in 1923 she, her longtime partner, and his 6-year-old nephew were arrested, strangled to death, and thrown into an abandoned well by a squad of military police, sparking shock and anger throughout Japan; she was 28 years old.

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