6/25/2023 0 Comments Here on earth by alice hoffmanYet returning to her hometown also brings her back to Hollis, March's former soul mate and lover. After nearly twenty years of living in California, March Murray, along with her fifteen-year-old daughter, Gwen, returns to the sleepy Massachusetts town where she grew up to attend the funeral of Judith Dale, the beloved housekeeper who raised her. more » bushes to achieve monstrous proportions, and love turns the air sweet and golden, melts butter, and makes everyone giddy." In Here on Earth, the darker, obsessive side of love is revealed in all of its power, and with all the havoc it wreaks. Fear brings whipping winds, a malevolent spirit causes lilac. In a review of Hoffman's previous novel, Practical Magic, Booklist wrote, "magic, fantasy, and full-tilt love-at-first-sight have figured in all of Hoffman's sexy, funny, and endearing novelsin Hoffman's universe, all boundaries between inner and outer realms are erased.
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6/25/2023 0 Comments Fated karen lynchThen there was the plot which, while intriguing, was totally predictable. All her melodramatic antics regarding Chris and how he'd hurt her in the past, how she could never trust him again, yada, yada, yada, kept grating on my nerves instead of making me sympathize with her. Insecure, lovestruck Beth, however, not so much. It was more of an accumulation of little things that didn't fully satisfy me. There wasn't one big salient issue that ruined the book for me. And still I'm feeling oddly sad right now. I mean, I ended up rating this one 3 stars. I guess it's the books you're most excited about that have the power to disappoint you the most. The only thing that comforts Maire (though it frustrates her as well) is the occasional visits of Fyel, the winged man who appeared to her earlier. Allemas changes his name several times during the course of this tale, indicative of his inconsistent and broken nature. He makes several strange demands of her ― for example, make a life-sized gingerbread house in the woods for a customer ― in between mistreating and neglecting her. Maire is taken and soon sold as a slave to a very odd and sinister man, Allemas, who finds out about her magical cooking abilities. He orders her to run for her life, but it’s too late: marauders on horseback are storming the village and killing or capturing everyone in sight. One day a pale, translucent man, with strange wings that look more like sunlit water than feathers, appears and talks to Maire briefly. And secondly, Maire has the magical gift of infusing her baked goods with feelings and abilities that will be absorbed by the person who eats her food: strength, love, mercy, patience … even, it seems, some magical abilities. First, other than her name, she has complete amnesia about everything in her life up to the time she appeared near the village four and a half years ago. Maire, a baker in the small village of Carmine, is notable for two unusual characteristics. Review first posted on Fantasy Literature: 6/24/2023 0 Comments The lorax the loraxEven deforestation specifically poses extreme threats ten million hectares of forest are deforested each year for agricultural land, the production of palm oil, and development for infrastructure. Seuss’ book The Lorax being in 1971, these issues are more prevalent now than ever. “I felt like if I stopped I would be letting all my followers down,” he tells me, “so I kept going for longer than I should have. Despite the original publication date of Dr. So… try not to be a prick? Maybe that’s the message? Or, perhaps, just log off and go outside for a bit?Īs Danny realised, there’s more to life than the internet and watching The Lorax every damn day. Maybe, just maybe, the world would be a better place if we remembered that.īut you know what? I’m not sure our brains are wired that way. I’d love to wrap this piece up neatly and say that maybe this should be a reminder that, almost always, there’s a real person at the other side of an online joke. This duality of knowing people are watching but not knowing any of the people is a strangely modern phenomenon - and one we’re ill equipped to deal with. Some learn to live with this state of being, others crumble and slink off into the night. What was the land of the Lorax like before the Once-ler arrived Did it seem like someplace youd like to live What parts of your own environment would you. Then, the pressure of having this large, faceless audience wears at the creator. A fun idea balloons into a project thousands of people follow. While not quite a tale as old as time, it is one as old as the internet. There’s plenty of motion and carnage to keep the reader’s attention. At Lexington, British officers were spun in circles by well-landed shots while American prisoners such as Ethan Allen languished in British camps and spies for both sides moved uneasily from line to line. As he writes of the Battle of Bunker Hill, for instance, “Charlestown burned and burned, painting the low clouds bright orange in what one diarist called ‘a sublime scene of military magnificence and ruin,’ ” even as snipers fired away and soldiers lay moaning in heaps on the ground. He doesn’t disappoint here, in the first of a promised trilogy on the Revolutionary War. The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian shifts his focus from modern battlefields to the conflict that founded the United States.Ītkinson ( The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945, 2013, etc.) is a longtime master of the set piece: Soldiers move into place, usually not quite understanding why, and are put into motion against each other to bloody result. 6/24/2023 0 Comments Ripple effect j bengtssonBut when his solo career flops, RJ retreats to a no-frills apartment where he can hide out from the world and lick his festering wounds. To stay up to date on future releases, be sure to sign up for her newsletter (link below). RIPPLE EFFECT DISASTER FLICK SERIES BOOK TWO Enemies to lovers tale with an earth-shaking twist When his mega-famous boy band AnyDayNow breaks up, international pop star RJ Contreras strikes out on his own. She loves hearing from readers so don't hesitate to reach out to her at any of these sites. She’s married to the Swedish boy she met as an exchange student her junior year in college and they have three children, a golden retriever, and two ragdoll cats. Jill resides in Ventura County, California. A native Californian, Jill’s novels are set under the glittering lights of the West Coast entertainment industry. Her heroines are strong, nurturing, and quirky while her heroes are what dreams are made of - gorgeous, committed, and in need of a little saving. She writes contemporary novels focused on love, humor, passion, and family. (Jill) Bengtsson is the bestselling author of the Cake Series. 6/23/2023 0 Comments Sue burke authorPax also has a population of large arthropod-like beings known as the Glassmakers intellectually and culturally, they are at least the equals of Homo sapiens, though their manners and outlooks are unsurprisingly quite different. (The colonists give names reminiscent of Earth species to all the life forms they discover, even though their biochemical makeup and descent are quite different). There are also a number of language-capable animal species too, including the predatory eagles and the scavenging bats. All the plant species on the planet are sentient to varying degrees they are often engaged in Darwinian struggles against one another as well as against the animals who feed on them. These include, most notably, intelligent plants. Human colonizers, fleeing an ecologically and politically ravaged Earth, arrive on Pax they must learn to get along with the native life forms. That book introduced us to Pax, a superhabitable Earth-like planet some fifty-six light years away. Sue Burke’s new science fiction novel Interference is the sequel to her previous book Semiosis. 6/23/2023 0 Comments Halting state bookFor me, what’s persuasive is also thinking of such humdrum day to day tasks as running for a bus at a bus stop, seeing its number and wanting to know if it goes where you need. In Stross’s world, there is a particular emphasis on the technology for law enforcement. Maybe it won’t be Google Glass itself (and of course the first mover often doesn’t become the dominant market player in new technology), but Stross’s picture of just how convenient such technology will be and how easily it’ll slip into how people live their lives is compelling. Although published back in 2007, it pictures a near-future world in which Google Glass type technology is so natural a part of life, that it’s hard to see how we won’t turn out like. If you’re scratching your head, well, you might still enjoy the book, but you’re certainly in for a whole lot more head scratching along the way.Ĭourtesy of Google Glass, there’s now another reason. Near the end of this book, one of the protagonists blurts, “They’re tunneling TCP/IP over AD&D!” And that line is a very good test for potentials readers, because if you understand it (and why it’s kind of funny), you might enjoy the book. There are many good reasons for reading Charles Stross’s sci-fi thriller Halting State, especially if you are a particular sort of person. 6/23/2023 0 Comments Sonnets from the portuguese 22Volta, (Italian: "turn") the turn in thought in a sonnet that is often indicated by such initial words as But, Yet, or And yet. Creates a dramatic effect by using enjambment to set off a phrase at the beginning of the sestets. This allusion evokes the original pastoral tradition from Sicily and implicitly allows a world of classical Italian paganism (and potential sexuality) Into the world of Victorian poetry. She utilities the classical Greek reference (allusion) to Theocratic whose poem suggested that every year of life brought new happiness with it. 'Once' also has fairytale associations 'once upon a time' which suggests that love for her Is a myth. The brevity of 'once' suggests that this kind of love Is fleeting. B uses past tense show how Joy escapes her- 'once' 'sung'. The distortion of iambic pentameter reflects the distorted and enharmonic patterns of her own life. The sextet's alternating near rhymes modulate from move' to 'strove' to 'love' reflecting gradual emotional and spiritual pavement as a result of discovering this unexpected love. The octet's strict rhyming pattern reflects how she feels her life has been static so far. She utilities the female voice instead of the traditional male voice. Analysis: Reworks the traditional sonnet sequence by transforming gender roles. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet 1 Theme: unexpectedness of love Falling in love with Robert and his returning of her love came as a great surprise to Elizabeth, considering past her circumstances. 6/22/2023 0 Comments My world margaret wise brownThe final color spread underscores the volume's universality, as well as the little rabbit's contentment: swinging from a tree branch as his parents sit nearby on the porch, he announces: "Your world./ My world./ I can swing/ Right over the world." The volume's words and pictures stretch the boundaries of its time-honored predecessor, affirming that there is, indeed, a warm and welcoming world beyond the great green room. He defines his world in terms of his parents: "Daddy's boy./ Mother's boy./ My boy is just a toy/ Bear." In alternating spreads, Hurd portrays simple, black-and-white images of items or pastimes (the child's toothbrush hanging on a hook next to his father's father and son fishing together) and full-color scenarios (recolored by Clement's son Thacher) spawned by those images (the boy brushes his teeth as one parent soaks in the tub and the other primps in front of a mirror the family gathers around the table to dine on freshly caught fish). Brown's minimal text has a dreamlike, impressionistic quality reminiscent of her earlier book, yet the narrative adheres to a child's sense of logic as the bunny strings together the items and activities that fill his day. Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illustrator) 3.45 avg rating 1,075 ratings published 1949 14 editions. Originally published in 1949 (two years after Goodnight Moon) and out of print for more than 30 years, this melodic companion narrated by the endearing rabbit child introduces those elements of his life that he holds most dear. Lowest Price All Copies My World: A Companion to Goodnight Moon by Brown, Margaret Wise. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. |