Which brings me to the two people endangering that feud with their “reluctant” fraternization, Charlotte and Alex. Watching the flamboyant pirates and uptight-but-just-as-bloodthirsty witches bend over backwards to keep the feud going even as they work together, all while exchanging the most delicious backhanded compliments, had me laughing out loud… and rooting for the feud to never end because it really is too fun to give up for anything. They like their feuding, darn it, and no youngsters will get in the way of it! Nor will silly little facts, like how witches and pirates are basically the same, except for the fact that witches do their magic in secrecy (or would, if witches existed *wink wink wink*) and pirates fly their houses around and land wherever they want, even if another house happens to be there already. The feud and the respective sides’ commitment to it is probably my favorite thing about this book. When the worst pirate of the lot makes off with it, a pirate and a witch join forces to steal it back… and their respective criminal communities join forces to separate them, lest they actually overcome their differences and thus put generations of (gleefully) bitter feuding to waste. When the lost amulet of Black Beryl, the first witch, resurfaces, every witch and pirate in London vies for the (dis)honor of stealing it - and keeping it.
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Here, the Gunslinger Roland presents a tale to his ka-tet (mid-world terminology for his crew) about a younger Roland who had just received his guns and the esteemed title of Gunslinger. Instead of that book, I decided to re-experience this narrative as an older, wiser and uglier person. A train that challenged it’s passengers to riddles? It was amazing. I remember adoring those times and they remain one of my most beloved memories. When I was a wide-eyed 9-year-old, my grandfather read Stephen King’s Wizard and Glass to me, the book that chronologically precedes this entry. This review features one major spoiler for the series yet is referenced in the novel’s forward by King himself and a few minor spoilers. In similar fashion to the Russian doll-esque tale featured in The Wind Through the Keyhole, there is a story within a story with reference to my experiences too. Looking back, it is by no means my favourite fantasy series however it opened the door for me to this wonderful genre that I’ve loved for 7-years. The first fantasy series that I ever read was Stephen King’s epic The Dark Tower. Each Habit is geared to reach teenagers in an approachable, age-appropriate way, making the book engaging. What I really like about this book is captured by that of a Growth Mindset. I hope they are open to it because the results, when practiced only set a person on the road to a healthy, happy and balanced life. I would love to know what today's teens think of the 7 Habits and their application to their lives. Having read the original edition several years ago, I was pleased with the updates and the author's sensitive and accurate handling of new issues facing our youth. Perhaps in trying to relate to teens, the author has used modern day colloquialism and incorrect grammar, or perhaps the editor did not catch common errors that have become the norm in America. It would be an ideal read for every teen and has been used as a textbook in high schools. The author does not shy away from the potential pitfalls of teenhood, but offers candor and humor in his conversational tone, even sharing his own personal challenges as a teen. Written for teens, it provides logical, practical and doable advice for living a healthy, well-rounded and happier adolescence. Set in Castle Rock and somewhat of an epilogue for Needful Things. "It Grows on You": A house seems to take on a life of its own as new wings are added.A gambling addict kidnaps a young boy in order to pay off his debts. "Popsy": Linked to the previous story."The Night Flier": A journalist goes in search of a serial killer who has apparently been committing the murders flying between airports.A schoolteacher discovers that her class has been taken over by monsters. "Suffer the Little Children": Oldest story in the collection (1972).A genius discovers the cure to humanity's aggressive tendencies - but at a price. "The End of the Whole Mess": In the form of a journal."Dolan's Cadillac": A schoolteacher plans an extravagant revenge on the mob boss who killed his wife.It contains many stories that appeared in magazines before, and some previously unpublished ones. Nightmares & Dreamscapes is Stephen King's third collection of short stories, published in 1993. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Red sorghum by mo yanAt first Yan's insistence on graphic and gruesome descriptions and his interest in bodily functions make the novel rough going. Mo Yan turns these events over and over, introducing each a fragment at a time and exploring their significance as they pass from one character's experience into another's memory. A few key episodes serve as recurrent motifs: murders counterpoint battlefield massacres women are raped by their saviors and by enemy soldiers the community leader punishes gamblers and thieves with floggings, while the Japanese flog a saboteur as a preamble to skinning him alive. The narrator, a young man from the provinces, relates the intertwined histories of the Sino-Japanese war of the 1930s and of his parents and grandparents. In the way that Chinese landscape painting reshapes the viewer's perspective by offering not one but many focal points, this singularly forceful contemporary Chinese novel reinvents the notion of chronology. Only fifteen years old and a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, Penelope embraces the challenge of her new position. Luckily, Miss Penelope Lumley is no ordinary governess. Of especially naught children, it is sometimes said “They must have been raised by wolves.”įound running wild in the forest of Ashton Place, the Incorrigibles are no ordinary children: Alexander, age ten or thereabouts, keeps his siblings in line with gentle nips Cassiopeia, perhaps four or five, has a bark that is (usually) worse than her bite and Beowulf, age somewhere-in-the-middle, is alarmingly adept at chasing squirrels. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Hitom himlen by Stina AronsonWhat becomes especially apparent is a striking ambivalence towards modernity, but also towards a more traditional, almost pre-modern, attitude to life prevailing in the severe Læstadianist village community described. The thematization of individual freedom versus determinism makes the work a counterpart to existentialism, the current philosophy of the time. The basis of this thematic analysis consists of entities like language, time, faith and individuality, all of which play an important part in Aronson’s writing. In the next step the modernist approach is linked to a discussion of modernity. These aspects, and the originality with which they are treated by Aronson, are put in relation to modernist æstheticism. This work forms the subject of the first part, with formal aspects like narrator construction, composition and genre as the starting-point. This thesis discusses the narrative art of the Swedish author Stina Aronson (1892-1956) with special emphasis on Hitom himlen (“This Side of Heaven”) from 1946. 2007 (Swedish) Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic) Abstract ĭen befriade sången. Four new Jasmine Toguchi books coming in '22 - '23! First up, BRAVE EXPLORER (10/18/22)! Available now: Jasmine Toguchi, Mochi Queen Jasmine Toguchi, Super Sleuth Jasmine Toguchi, Drummer Girl and Jasmine Toguchi, Flamingo Keeper (FSG/2). Kirkus Reviews gave JUST BE COOL JENNA SAKAI (an Amazon Editor's Choice Pick) a starred review and says it is ".complex as is delightful."Īlso the author of the chapter book series Jasmine Toguchi about a spunky Japanese American 8yo girl. KEEP IT TOGETHER KEIKO CARTER is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, a New England Book Award finalist, and a Project LIT 2020-21 Book Club selection. Author of the middle grade books: KEEP IT TOGETHER KEIKO CARTER and JUST BE COOL, JENNA SAKAI, SWEET AND SOUR, and the upcoming THIS IS HOW I ROLL (January 2023/Scholastic). 5/21/2023 0 Comments Innocent scott turow bookOne of the highlights of his legal career was the successful reversal of the murder conviction of a man who had spent 11 years behind bars–a case which Turow did pro bono. He served as Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago for nearly a decade, serving as lead prosecutor in a number of high-profile federal trials. Turow then taught creative writing at Stanford for three years, before attending the esteemed Harvard Law School, where he graduated with honors in 1978. He has also authored non-fiction books.īorn in Chicago, Illinois, he attended Amherst College, where he graduated with high honors, before receiving a fellowship to study at the Stanford University Creative Writing Center. Scott Turow is an American lawyer and New York Times bestselling author of legal thriller novels. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Awakened house of nightWhile Aphrodite got the food for Damien with Darius, the twins would pack Jack’s things and Stevie Rae would get Duch’s. The girls thought that it was best for Damien to eat something, just like Cameron and Duchess. The only comfort was that Zoey would be home soon. Aphrodite and Stevie Rae were furious about all the lies Neferet was telling, while poor Damien just couldn’t take it anymore, he was too hurt. Neferet acted as if Jack’s death had her sad too, and told them that Jack’s funeral would be done in the manner of a fully Changed vampire and that Zoey would be the one to lit his pyre. Aphrodite came into the room too and to Stevie Rae’s surprise, she hadn’t felt her either. Stevie Rae was giving Damien the good news that Zoey was coming back in about three hours and that they should go meet her at the airport when Neferet appeared out of nowhere. |