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ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio is the largest membership association for the amateur radio hobby and service in the US. For over 100 years, we have been the primary source of information about amateur radio, offering a variety of benefits and services to our members, as well as the larger amateur radio community. We publish books on amateur radio, as well as four magazines covering a variety of radio communication interests. In addition, we provide technical advice and assistance to amateur radio enthusiasts, support several education programs, and sponsor a variety of operating events.
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I was only half listening to the radio, (whilst trying to clean the kitchen and having my 6yo talk at me), but a book they reviewed sounded of interest. So, from what I caught, the plot went something like this: 50 year old man, recently diagnosed with aspergers falls in love with Buffy the Vampire Slayer on TV. He writes to her and decides he wants to meet her. An adventure follows. Sounds utterly bizarre when I write it down! Any ideas?
I was listening too! Think it was calked "Dear Miss Lowndes" or something very similar.
Dear Miss Landau by James Christie sounds a likely candidate.
Yes, that's definitely the one.
Thanks so much! Will definitely get it. Anyone read it?
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In many ways, Eugenie Montague’s “Swallow the Ghost” feels like three separate novels. That’s what makes her debut novel so imaginative — and also so frustrating.
The story’s center is Jane Murphy, who works at a New York social media startup on an internet novel that’s become a viral hit through social media posts where elaborate backstories about its characters are formed.
But Murphy’s story and a tragic event are told through three interlocking sections. The first focuses on Jane. The second focuses on Jesse, a former journalist working as an investigator for a law firm. The third focuses on Jeremy, the pretentious, Kafka-quoting novelist and sometimes boyfriend of Jane’s.
The writing style and genre shifts with each section, but Montague’s novel at its heart explores memory in the digital era. It’s a promising concept but feels uneven.
Montague’s novel is filled with beautiful prose that’s hard to forget, and poses intriguing questions about how someone is remembered. The interactions between Jesse and his mother, who he cares for and who has dementia, are some of the most simply heartbreaking moments in the novel.
But there are other portions of the novel that meander, especially the final section of the book that is framed as a transcript of a conversation with Jeremy at a bookstore event. The conversation reveals more about Jane and also about the questions the novel poses, but it also slows down the momentum of the prior section focused on Jesse and the mystery he was investigating.
Though the approach falls short at times, it’s an ambitious one that leaves readers much to think about and introduces Montague as an inventive new voice.
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There’s something about the shadowy moral recesses of crime and suspense fiction that makes those genres especially appealing as temperatures soar.
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I’m beginning my recommendations with two distinctive novels that appeared this spring. Gary Phillips introduced the character of LA crime photographer and occasional private eye Harry Ingram in the 2022 novel, One-Shot Harry . The second novel of this evocative historical series is called Ash Dark as Night and it opens in August 1965 during the Watts riots. Harry, who’s one of two African American freelancers covering the riots, has looped his trademark Speed Graphic camera around his neck and headed into the streets.
We’re told that Harry’s situation is, of course, riskier than that of his white counterparts: “[M]aybe one of these fellas might well get a brick upside their head from a participant, but were less likely to be jacked-up by the law. Ingram realized either side might turn on him.” Indeed, when Harry captures the death of an unarmed Black activist at the hands of the LAPD, the photo makes him famous, as well as a target.
This novel is steeped in period details like snap-brim hats and ragtop Chevy Bel Air convertibles, along with walk-ons by real life figures like pioneering African American TV journalist Louis E. Lomax. But it’s Harry’s clear-eyed take on the fallen world around him that makes this series so powerful.
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You might think a mystery about an inked-up lesbian Punk musician-turned-nun is a little far-fetched; but New Orleans, the setting of the Sister Holiday series, is the city of far-fetched phenomenon, both sacred and profane. Margot Douaihy’s second book in this queer cozy series is called Blessed Water and it finds the 34-year-old Sister Holiday up to her neck in murky flood waters and priests with secrets. Douaihy’s writing style — pure hard-boiled Patti Smith -- contains all the contradictions that torment Sister Holiday in her bumpy journey of faith. Here she is in the Prologue recalling how she survived swallowing a glass rosary bead:
After my prayers for clarity, for forgiveness, for a cigarette, ... deep inside the wet cave of my body was an unmistakable tickle. ... The bead fought my stomach acid for hours, leaching its blessing or poison or unmet wish. Anything hidden always finds a way to escape, no matter its careful sealing.
Amen to that, Sister Holiday.
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The main character in Hansen Shi's excellent debut spy novel is an alienated young man named Michael Wang. He’s a first generation Chinese American a few years out of Princeton who’s hit the bamboo ceiling at General Motors in San Francisco, where he’s been working on technology for self-driving cars. Enter a femme fatale named Vivian who flatters Michael into believing that his brilliance will be recognized by her enigmatic boss in China. Once Michael settles into life in Beijing, however, he realizes he’s been tapped, not as a prodigy, but a patsy. The Expat wraps up too abruptly, but it’s also true that I wanted this moody espionage tale to go on longer.
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Liz Moore’s extraordinary new literary suspense novel reminds me of Donna Tartt ’s 1992 debut, The Secret History. There are superficial similarities: Both are thick intricate novels featuring young people isolated in enclosed worlds — in Tartt’s story, a Vermont college campus; in Moore’s, a summer camp in New York’s Adirondack mountains. But, the vital connection for me was a reading experience where I was so thoroughly submerged in a rich fictional world, that for hours I barely came up for air.
There’s a touch of Gothic excess about The God of the Woods, beginning with the premise that not one, but two children from the wealthy Van Laar family disappear from Camp Emerson in the Adirondacks 14 years apart. Moore’s story jumps around in time, chiefly from the 1950s into the '70s and features a host of characters from different social classes — campers, counselors, townspeople and local police — and the Van Laars themselves.
The precision of Moore’s writing never flags. Consider this reflection by Tracy, a 12-year-old camper who recalls that: “Her father once told her casually that she was built like a plum on toothpicks, and the phrase was at once so cruel and so poetic that it clicked into place around her like a harness.”
Moore’s previous book, Long Bright River , was a superb social novel about the opioid crisis in Philadelphia; The God of the Woods is something weirder and stranger and unforgettable.
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Thermoelectric materials are a highly promising category of energy conversion materials. In this paper, we present a multitude of approaches to enhance the efficacy of these materials. The review begins with an introduction to the fundamental concept of the thermoelectric figure of merit ( ZT ), a key parameter for assessing the performance of thermoelectric materials, as well as theories of electrical and thermal transport, which lay the groundwork for understanding and improving the performance of thermoelectric materials. Subsequently, this paper delves into several typical optimization strategies, including the enhancement of material performance through low-dimensionalization and quantum confinement effects, with detailed discussions on two-dimensional, one-dimensional, and zero-dimensional materials. The role of point defect engineering in modulating material properties and the significance of nano-composite materials in enhancing thermoelectric performance are also explored. Band engineering, an effective optimization technique, offers multiple possibilities for enhancing thermoelectric performance through the adjustment of carrier effective mass, utilization of resonance states, band degeneracy, band convergence, and bandgap tuning. Additionally, the application of phonon engineering in reducing thermal conductivity and improving thermoelectric conversion efficiency is highlighted. Discussions on special structures such as textures, single crystals, core–shell structures, and porous structures, as well as symmetry control strategies, highlight the importance of microstructural control in optimizing thermal conductivity. Consequently, the review explores the significance of the synergistic effects of different strategies, noting that an integrated application of these strategies can maximize the performance of thermoelectric materials. The use of materials genomics and machine learning in screening highly potential thermoelectric materials is also highlighted. Finally, the paper addresses the challenges and developments related to the stability, scalability, sustainability, and integration of thermoelectric materials with other systems. Overall, this article summarizes a series of optimization strategies for thermoelectric materials, providing valuable references and inspiration for researchers in the field, with the aim of further advancing the science of thermoelectric materials.
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