5/22/2023 0 Comments 20th century ghosts best stories![]() ![]() But it was also somewhat predictable, which left the ending feeling kind of lackluster.Īnother cover made to specifically match this story. MY SUPER-SHORT REVIEW: Any child kidnapping story is super creepy to me, and seeing this one done so realistically definitely hit a nerve. When the phone rings, John is surprised at who’s on the other end. On the wall is a old, rotary-style black telephone who wires are cut. SUPER-SHORT, SPOILER-FREE PLOTLINE: Thirteen-year-old John is kidnapped & is brought to a basement with a home-made prison cell. ![]() MY SUPER-SHORT REVIEW: Reads like a typical “battered child” story. ![]() SUPER-SHORT, SPOILER-FREE PLOTLINE: A boy with a less-than-awesome dad who is obsessed with baseball. A fun idea, though, with some cute references to the original Stoker text, so not a true clunker. MY SUPER-SHORT REVIEW: Left me feeling wanting, like there was more to this story which was never quite written down. It is in the years after his dealings with Dracula & he is now trying to teach his sons about the dangers (and truth!) of vampires. SUPER-SHORT, SPOILER-FREE PLOTLINE: Abraham = Abraham Van Helsing. This one feels like a movie waiting to happen. ![]()
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5/22/2023 0 Comments Dellawisps![]() ![]() Her upbringing was so different from my own that I would have actually liked to read more about her life that didn’t revolve around her mom, as almost all of the stories in this book do. If you remove her mom from the picture, Fanny is a very well educated, west coast born-and-raised millennial from an affluent family. I don’t think anyone outside of these two categories would have an interest in or appreciate this book. I get why people wouldn’t like this book and I feel it is for a very narrow audience: firstly for Fanny’s family and friends, secondly for anyone with an interest in her mom, Alice Waters. The audiobook is read by Fanny and she does a wonderful job) about someone’s life that is so different from my own. I did enjoy reading it and it was interesting reading (okay, listening. I was given a copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.Īlways Home: A Daughter’s Recipes & Stories by Fanny Singer 4/5 Stars It is left open enough for another book but I think an epilogue would be a better fit. I think this would have been a great book to do multiple points of view in and would have liked to see more from Eden and Bell. There are a few things at the end that are conveniently, magically “fixed” that seemed like an easy way out for the author. I didn’t love Holly, Wendy’s granddaughter, or her mother, Jane, but I did like the uniqueness of the rest of the characters and story. I love a modern retelling of a classic tale, especially if it is made more real or gritty. ![]() Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan by Liz Michalski 4/5 Stars ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Wolfgang amadeus mozart piano![]() ![]() Mozart always learned voraciously from others, and developed a brilliance and maturity of style that encompassed the light and graceful along with the dark and passionate-the whole informed by a vision of humanity "redeemed through art, forgiven, and reconciled with nature and the absolute". ![]() He was survived by his wife Constanze and two sons. ![]() The circumstances of his early death have been much mythologized. The final years in Vienna yielded many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and the Requiem. Visiting Vienna in 1781 he was dismissed from his Salzburg position and chose to stay in the capital, where over the rest of life he achieved fame but little financial security. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always composing abundantly. Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers. He composed over six hundred works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Dc mythology![]() ![]() ![]() Rama was exiled from Ayodhya in India, while Beowulf slew Grendel and Grendel’s mother in Scandinavia. Fionn mac Cumhaill built the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland, and Gilgamesh defeated Humbaba in Mesopotamia. ![]() Superheroes have existed for as long as stories, before writing and across every culture from which we can find evidence. The answer to the second question is more brief than the first. So the question this poses is: why are we so drawn to superhero stories? And since when? Studios keep making these films because they know audiences will flock to see them, even if the heroes include a raccoon and a tree. For every Iron Man, or Avengers, there have been a couple of less-than Fantastic Fours and enough dubious Hulks to smash the sternest spirit. Over the past few years, even the most ardent comic book nerd might have wondered if there were too many superhero movies playing in the local multiplex. ![]() ![]() ![]() When it comes to competing, I’m all in, and nothing will get between me and the W. Tormenting Jacobs at the same time will just be a bonus.Įven if I’m getting confusing feelings toward him, I won’t let it hold me back. I’m going to win these stupid challenges easily and spend my senior year as hockey king on this campus. I like pushing his buttons, but the guy needs to loosen up. I have no idea why Christopher Jacobs hates me, and I can’t say I care. Challenges that are throwing me and Beck together. ![]() Challenges that have nothing to do with hockey. The captain spot is going to a team vote, and the team thinks that what we need are a bunch of challenges to prove our worth. Yet, the coaches see something in him I obviously can’t, and they refuse to choose between us. TJ Beckett.īeck is irresponsible and immature, and I’ve hated him since the moment we met freshman year. ![]() There’s only one thing standing in my way. Title: Face Offs & Cheap Shots (CU Hockey #2)įor the last three years, I’ve lived and breathed hockey with one goal: team captain. ![]() ![]() This riveting tale of betrayal, retribution, love, and redemption, Kristen Harnisch’s debut novel immerses readers in the rich vineyard culture of both the Old and New Worlds, the burgeoning cities of late nineteenth-century America and a spirited heroine’s fight to determine her destiny. When she encounters Philippe in a Napa vineyard, they are instantly drawn to one another, but Sara knows he is the one man who could return her family's vineyard to her, or send her straight to the guillotine. Sara has travelled to California in hopes of making her own way in the winemaking world. When he receives word of his brother's death in France, he resolves to bring the killer to justice. Meanwhile, Philippe Lemieux has arrived in California with the ambition of owning the largest vineyard in Napa by 1900. But a violent tragedy compels Sara and her sister to flee to New York, forcing Sara to put aside her dream to follow in her father's footsteps as a master winemaker. ![]() When seventeen-year-old Sara Thibault's father is killed in a mudslide, her mother sells their vineyard to a rival family whose eldest son marries Sara's sister, Lydia. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Madame butterfly david henry hwang![]() His marriage has collapsed and his career is on hold, when Song appears in Paris. In 1966, Mao's Cultural Revolution begins, the Chinese Opera is closed, and Gallimard is sent back to Paris for his wrong prognosis about Vietnam. Gallimard assures the Ambassador that the Chinese will accept a US invasion of North Vietnam: ‘Orientals will always submit to a greater force.’ Meanwhile Song passes on military secrets to Comrade Chin, and when she pretends to be pregnant, asks Chin to provide a baby. ![]() He is promoted to vice-consul and charged with gathering information for the Americans. Her modesty will not allow him to see her naked, but she teaches him the ancient ways of making love. After meeting her again at the Chinese Opera, Gallimard and Song become lovers. In 1960, he was posted with his wife Helga to the French embassy in Beijing, where at a reception he meets the beautiful and sensitive performer Song Liling singing an aria from Puccini's Madame Butterfly, expressing the Western view of the ultimate devotion of the oriental woman. ![]() He remembers his adolescent youth and his search for the ideal woman. ![]() in 3 acts S: Aix-en-Provence, 1947 Beijing, 1960–6 Paris, 1968–70, 1986 C: 8m, 8fRené Gallimard, in his prison cell in 1986, looks back at the events that ended his marriage and diplomatic career. A: David Henry Hwang Pf: 1988, New York Pb: 1986 G: Trag. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The Beast and Me by D.S. Wrights![]() ![]() ![]() When talking about her novels, Dee explains that she loves to dive into the mindset of different characters, especially those of villains and anti-heroes. That was the reason why she chose to do all the work herself, apart from proofreading. Until she started writing fanfiction and readers encouraged her to publish The Beast And Me as an ebook in May 2014.ĭee worked at a publishing house at which she earned insight into the work, process, and production of publishing books. Dee speaks three languages fluently, English, German and Dutch, and some other rudimentary.Īlthough she started writing at an early age and two short stories were published during high school, one as a school project and one in a regional newsletter – Dee never dared of thinking to pursue a writing career. Her name is a pen name, and she describes writing as her passion and calling. ![]() “Dee” Wrights was born 29th March 1980 in Germany. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Feed matthew tobin anderson pdf![]() Link invites Violet to have fun with them, and they go to a club. The novel begins when Titus and his friends take a trip to the moon over spring break, which turns out to “suck.” While they’re partying on the moon, however, they meet Violet Durn, a pretty, strange young woman who has travelled to the moon all by herself. Titus of the novel, Titus, is a teenager from an upper-class family who spends his time horsing around with his friends Link Arwaker and Marty, going to School™ (corporations control the educational system, and use it to train kids to buy their products), and going on expensive vacations. Part 1: The Moon is in the House of Boringįeed takes place in a dystopian version of the United States of America in which the majority of the population uses a “ feed”-a surgically-implanted device that enables the user to communicate electronically with others, look up any information, access limitless hours of free entertainment, and exposes them to endless advertisements for products. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments The Near Witch by Victoria Schwab![]() ![]() When i saw this in my local library, i thought VS secretly released a new book that was somehow kept quiet. Part fairy tale, part love story, Victoria Schwab's debut novel is entirely original yet achingly familiar: a song you heard long ago, a whisper carried by the wind, and a dream you won't soon forget. Something tells her she can trust him.Īs the hunt for the children intensifies, so does Lexi's need to know-about the witch that just might be more than a bedtime story, about the wind that seems to speak through the walls at night, and about the history of this nameless boy. ![]() Still, he insists on helping Lexi search for them. The next night, the children of Near start disappearing from their beds, and the mysterious boy falls under suspicion. These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life.īut when an actual stranger-a boy who seems to fade like smoke-appears outside her home on the moor at night, she knows that at least one of these sayings is no longer true. The wind is lonely, and always looking for company.Īnd there are no strangers in the town of Near. If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. The Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children. ![]() |