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As You Wake Break the Shell by Becky Chambers

As You Wake Break the Shell by Becky Chambers

Published by Jenni Sidey

Open the contents page before you read a word of story. Chapter 1 sits next to Chapter 764, Chapter 2 next to Chapter 765, and the whole list is divided into sections titled T-Minus 7, T-Minus 6 and so on, down to Liftoff and Main Engine Cutoff. Somewhere near the end there is a chapter whose number is simply a blank line. As You Wake, Break the Shell by Becky Chambers tells you its shape before it tells you anything else: two lives, fifteen years apart, counting down to a single event the book refuses to name until it arrives. How It Works The low-numbered chapters take place on Fortune, a colony world that is trying very hard to kill everyone on it. Four volcanoes rain ash on a city of tethered rafts floating in a crater lake, the rain burns skin, and nobody goes outdoors without a mask and barrier suit. Cora is a quarry runner, one of the pilots who ride domesticated space creatures called rorquals out to the moons to haul back …

When I wake up with stiff joints, I do this five-minute mobility flow

When I wake up with stiff joints, I do this five-minute mobility flow

Published by Jenni Sidey

For the past few months, I’ve been waking up with stiff joints. I don’t know whether this is just one of the many perimenopause symptoms I have to get used to or simply a sign of getting older (I’m fast approaching 50). Either way, I usually feel better once I start moving, so I created a quick mobility flow to do before beginning my day. It takes just five minutes and you can even do it in your pajamas. I also find it a relaxing way to wind down, so I’ve started doing it before bed, too. Mobility exercises can be particularly helpful in the morning, after your body has spent hours relatively still during sleep. Gently moving your joints through a comfortable range of motion warms the surrounding muscles and connective tissues, encourages circulation and helps distribute synovial fluid which lubricates your joints. This can help your body feel looser and your movements more comfortable and coordinated. Latest Videos FromFit&Well In the mobility flow below, you’ll perform six moves, one after another. Complete the …

In the Wake of the Ruined by Kalie Cassidy

In the Wake of the Ruined by Kalie Cassidy

Published by Jenni Sidey

Kalie Cassidy’s debut, In the Veins of the Drowning, ended with Imogen Nel bleeding on a beach with a dead king’s crown looped around her arm like a shackle. “In the Wake of the Ruined” opens exactly there, in the sand, with her crawling. That image is the whole book in miniature: a woman who has finally won something and can barely carry it. In the Wake of the Ruined by Kalie Cassidy is the closing half of The Siren Mage duet, and it arrives with the specific pressures of a finale. It has to pay off a corrupted god-bond, a stalled romance, a stolen friend, a hostile council, and a wedding nobody in the book actually wants. It manages most of that with real force. And it also sags in the middle in ways worth naming honestly. Who this book is for Readers who want their fantasy romance to hurt before it heals Anyone who likes magic systems with a literal price list attached Fans of morally grey heroines who are genuinely frightening, not …