In a glass grimmly6/12/2023 ![]() Agent: Sarah Burnes, the Gernert Company. Technically polished, and with more original content, this romp has lost none of the edge of its predecessor. ![]() Gidwitz can do nuance, too, as Jill’s perilous encounter with a sympathetic mermaid demonstrates. Publication date 2012 Topics Fairy tales, Characters in literature - Fiction, Frogs - Fiction, Cousins - Fiction, Adventure and adventurers - Fiction, Humorous stories, JUVENILE FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Adaptations, JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories, JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure. When Jill rescues Jack atop the beanstalk by accepting the giants’ eating challenge, even the Monty Python gang might cringe at the results-it’s the phrase “no guts, no glory” brought to Technicolor life. The protagonists in this installment are Jack, Jill, and a talking frog, whose adventures begin separately in reworkings of “The Frog Prince” and “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” before the three join forces in “Jack and the Bean-stalk.” Parental cruelties are more ordinary this time-mockery, neglect, and recrimination-but what the children find in their quest for the Seeing Glass is horrifying enough to compensate for any perceived softness at the outset. Translation: this second foray is even more enjoyable than the author’s acclaimed debut. The grossness quotient has gone up in Gidwitz’s companion to A Tale Dark and Grimm, his grisly reimagining of classic fairy tales. ![]()
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The scarlet letter barnes and noble6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. America’s first psychological novel, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is a dark tale of love, crime, and revenge set in colonial New England. Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectationsĪll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications some include illustrations of historical interest.Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work.Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events. ![]() New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars.Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. ![]() Dirty Hippies by Scott Paulsen6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() His bibliography and footnotes are extensive and impressive, making the reader aware that this is not just another book to get his share of the Beatles’ pie! The author starts with the story that I had never heard of in all my reading, that occurred at the early days of the Fab Fours history when they were introduced to ingesting the Benzedrine strip inside a nasal inhaler in June 1960 by Royston Ellis. ![]() Riding So High – The Beatles and Drugs is his first book. ![]() Formerly a senior online producer at the BBC, he is a music lover and founder of the Beatles Bible website (quite as popular as Jesus…”). Joe Goodden is a journalist, blogger and paperback writer living in south Wales. Despite all this, I tried to go into this book with an open mind and will try to write the fairest review I can. I know it happened because between their interviews, busts and lyrics, there really is no way to not know. This time the author himself posted about it, so there was no expectations on my part from a glowing reader’s review.Īs most of you regular readers may know by now, I’m not a fan of the Beatles’ drug use. Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs by Joe Gooddenis another book I came across on the Facebook group ‘Beatles Book Collectors’. ![]() The burrowers beneath by brian lumley6/12/2023 ![]() Caso contrario no hay de donde agarrarlo. Recomendable para los que estén empapados. Recurre a un camino bastante fácil y evidente. Pero como historia en si no tiene demasiado ingenio, ni peso propio. fingiendo su veracidad y enlazando a modo de pastiche.Ĭomo tributo y "Fan Service" se disfruta mucho. ![]() ![]() Una completa inmersión y repaso a gran escala por los mitos y gran parte del circulo. Lo que me pide que crea es que el mito del Ciclo de Cthulhu es nada menos que un hecho prehistórico…, ¡lo que significa que las mismas bases de nuestra esfera de existencia están construidas sobre una magia alienígena! Si ése fuera el caso, entonces lo «oculto» es normal, y el Bien salió del Mal, ¡en oposición a la mitología cristiana!" "Sé que hay acontecimientos extramundanos, y yo mismo he probado unas cuantas experiencias que únicamente pueden ser explicadas como «sobrenaturales», pero siempre han sido la excepción. Sí, todas las cosas viven para siempre, aunque a veces duermen y son olvidadas." ![]() "Aquello que está vivo ha conocido la muerte, y aquello que está muerto jamás podrá morir, porque, en el Círculo del Espíritu, la vida y la muerte no son nada. ![]() Royal holiday book6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() When flirtatious banter turns into a kiss under the mistletoe, things snowball into a full-on fling.ĭespite a ticking timer on their holiday romance, they are completely fine with ending their short, steamy affair come New Year’s Day. And there are plenty of weekend days where I could decide to forget my to-do list, spend a few hours at. Life gets busy, with so many things that aren’t actually important but feel important. He is intrigued by Vivian the moment he meets her and finds himself making excuses just to spend time with her. Reese Witherspoon, Oprah and Roxane Gay LOVE her Readers love her Have you discovered New York Times bestseller and Reeses Book Club pick Jasmine. I need to stop waiting for special occasions in order to treat myself. Malcolm Hudson has worked for the Queen for years and has never given a personal, private tour-until now. She’s excited to spend the holidays taking in the magnificent British sights, but what she doesn’t expect is to become instantly attracted to a certain private secretary, his charming accent, and unyielding formality. Vivian Forest has been out of the country a grand total of one time, so when she gets the chance to tag along on her daughter Maddie’s work trip to England to style a royal family member, she can’t refuse. Book Description: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal and a “rising star in the romance genre” ( Entertainment Weekly) comes a dazzling novel about a spontaneous holiday vacation that turns into an unforgettable romance. ![]() Used: Good Condition (spine wear/marks). ![]() Dean r koontz intensity6/11/2023 ![]() as moment by moment, the terrifying threat of Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resource she has to save an endangered girl. At first, her sole aim is to get out alive - until, by chance, she learns the identity of Vess's next intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save. A self-proclaimed "homicidal adventurer," Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse or limits, to live with "intensity." Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit.Ĭhyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend's family. ![]() First love ivan sergeyevich turgenev6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() "Passion in all its forms always excited Turgenev, but he was happiest portraying its earliest intimations fulfilment made him uneasy. ![]() He is best when eschewing all fancy stuff and describing exactly what happened, as he does in First Love" - John Bayley, The New York Times Book Review ![]() It is a masterpiece that shows the curious literalism of Turgenev's talent. "(T)he tale that exploits most effectively Turgenev's gifts of pathos and humor, insight and self-awareness - the strengths of his own passivity, so to speak - is First Love.It is a gesture of artistic defiance to the urgencies of the age - which demanded of an artist as Russian as Turgenev to "lift the nation" - yet it remains an authentic attendance to those urgencies: the old order versus the new" - Hisham Matar, The Guardian "Ivan Turgenev's novella First Love is one of the most perfect things ever written.Also available in translations by Isaiah Berlin (1950) and Richard Freeborn (1999)Ī- : simple and very effective tale of young love.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author ![]() Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. ![]() Rats saw god6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Steve and his father have an estranged relationship: ![]() After the divorce, he moves with his dad, “that barely animate statue,” to Houston and his sister, Sarah, twelve at the time, moves to San Diego with her mom. I suppose I should have seen it coming, but the warning signs had been such a part of the status quo. When Mom and the astronaut called Sarah and me into our Cocoa Beach, Florida (see I Dream of Jeanie) dining room to tell us they were getting a divorce, I admit I was shocked. If he does that, DeMouy will make sure Steve graduates. DeMouy makes him an offer: write 100 typed pages – about anything. DeMouy tells him that at the end of the semester he’ll be one English credit short. The fact that he’s regularly stoned might also be a contributing factor, but in any case, Steve finds himself sitting in Mr. Rats Saw God is a Catcher in the Rye-esque coming of age novel about Steve York, a high school senior who ends up in his guidance counselor’s office trying to explain why he’s flunking out when his SAT scores are through the roof. Rob Thomas shares his name with the lead singer of Matchbox 20, and although they are both writers, this Rob Thomas is better known for his television show Veronica Mars than his hit songs. ![]() The hidden oracle by rick riordan6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() That’s the usual routine when gods are cast out–they must serve a master for a year and a day, give or take. Seriously?Īs if being transformed from Apollo the immortal sun god to Lester the mortal zero wasn’t bad enough, Zeus saddles him with a demigod master. His new mortal identity is an awkward teen named Lester Papadopoulos, complete with flab and acne. Not only did Zeus take away his immortality and his powers, he robbed him of his stunning good looks and perfect physique. His mind is a little fuzzy on that detail.īut he’s quite sure his punishment can’t possible fit his crime. ![]() His father Zeus has cast him out of Olympus as punishment for-well, Apollo isn’t one hundred percent sure what he did. But then…he’s not the god Apollo, not anymore. Screaming in terror and landing in a dumpster of slimy garbage is not how the god Apollo typically spends his time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Apart from the legends of Cleopatra, Dido and Lucretia, and images of graceful maidens dancing on urns, the evidence about the lives of women of the classical world-visual, archaeological, and written-has remained uncollected and uninterpreted. grave praises the virtues of Mnesarete, an Athenian woman who died young a great number of Roman wives were found guilty of poisoning their husbands, but was it accidental food poisoning, or disease, or something more sinister. Information about women is scattered throughout the fragmented mosaic of ancient history: the vivid poetry of Sappho survived antiquity on remnants of damaged papyrus the inscription on a beautiful fourth century B.C.E. ![]() |