And Lettie-magical, comforting, wise beyond her years-promised to protect him, no matter what.įirst off, I just want to say I am proud of myself for not getting down in the lumps for finishing this book during work. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.įorty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. He hasn’t thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she’d claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Genre: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Magical Realism
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"The richness of colour and vibrancy of style have become the hallmarks of Scott's ambitious series." -YORKSHIRE EVENING POST "Scott has teased a few facts from the ancient record to create an absorbing story from history and myth." - Publishers Weekly "Scott can write about spear-throwing and sword cuts as though she had experienced them herself" - THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT "It arouses passion and takes the reader straight into the ancient world of Britain under Roman rule. From THE SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Manda Scott, this is the third magnificent instalment of the epic retelling of the life of Britain's great warrior queen. Anthea and Robin fall in love and team up as the ‘Messenger Girls’, protest artists raising awareness about water, LGBT and women’s rights. It turns out Girl Meets Boy is the story of two sisters, Anthea and Imogen, meeting Robin, the androgynous Iphis character. It’s such an obscure myth, too, and it was my first time reading anything by Ali Smith, so I was excited to see what she would do with it. According to Ovid, this was absolutely necessary for her to marry her true love, Ianthe, which is a shame for lesbian representation, but great for genderqueer retellings like Girl Meets Boy. Iphis is one of the happy ones, though, a delightfully queer and upbeat story about a girl raised as a boy who is eventually turned into a man. That’s also a fun read if you’re into Greco-Roman mythology, though some of the myths are grim. It first appeared in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a compendium of myths about transformation. I’ve got to say, I love the myth of Iphis. Trueman surveys the past, brings clarity to the present, and gives guidance for the future as Christians navigate the culture in humanity’s ever-changing quest for identity. In The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, Carl Trueman analyzes the development of the sexual revolution as a symptom-rather than the cause-of the human search for identity. From Augustine to Marx, various views and perspectives have contributed to the modern understanding of the self. Hodges Supreme Court decision in 2015, sexual identity has dominated both public discourse and cultural trends-yet no historical phenomenon is its own cause. Modern culture is obsessed with identity. is hard to overstate.” -Rod Dreher, from the Foreword The significance of T he Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self. “Carl Trueman explains modernity to the church, with depth, clarity, and force. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl Trueman Highly recommended."- School Library Journal A fun, fast-paced read for video game fans, adventurers, and fantasy readers. "Even reluctant readers are likely to find something to keep them engaged. and survive in real life.Īction-packed and unputdownable, Dragon Ops will thrill gamers and reluctant readers alike with high-tech adventure and electrifying twists and turns. With no cheat codes, guidebooks, save points, or do-overs, they'll need all their cunning and video-game hacks to beat the game. Set on a once-deserted island, our three beta players-classic gamer geek Ian his adventure-seeking sister, Lily and their too-cool-for-gaming cousin, Derek-have been lucky enough to score an invite to play before the fully immersive experience opens to the public.īut once inside, they find themselves trapped in a game taken over by a rogue AI dragon called Atreus, and suddenly the stakes go beyond the virtual world. Welcome to Dragon Ops, the world's first augmented-reality video-game theme park. From the beloved author of The Once and Future Geek comes this action-packed adventure set in a futuristic world filled with magic, monsters, and high-tech video gaming. Margaret is thrilled that things are starting to go super nice and she gets more excited when she becomes part of their secret girl’s club where they get to talk about anything like boys, getting their first period, bras, and similar. Like any other kid, she is anxious to start from scratch in her new home as she meets her first friends, Nancy, Gretchen and Janie and tries to simply fit in with them. Margaret is your typical kid that likes her long hair, the taste of tuna fish, the lovely and fresh smell of rain, and the color pink. Her name is, well you guessed it, Margaret and she has just moved from New York City to Farbook, New Jersey. Let’s dive into the fantasy mind of Judy with this phenomenal book about a girl that is just about to turn twelve. So, having cleared out the introduction to Blume, let’s find out what some of the best books from Judy Blume are. You will find her fictional stories and characters to be very memorable and that there is nothing out of the ordinary with what she writes about. What this means is that she isn’t afraid to write about topics that are considered taboo such as masturbation and teen sex, but when we put aside what some critics say, she has still managed to sell more than 82 million copies worldwide and get her content translated into 32 different languages. One thing we can surely say about Judy is that she isn’t afraid to speak her mind in order to make sure her stories live up their full potential. Once, I came home from work and my daughter, Chris, was running out of the house, her eyes huge. I ran across the cause in the bathroom, where the rod had fallen into the tub. My heart was racing, but I got up and checked the house. Let me see.one time I was awakened from a sound sleep by a loud noise. Not that I've ever had the occasion to hunt for killers or monsters hiding in my house, but close enough to show me what I would probably do. But, what would you do? I'm pretty sure I would open the door. We, the audience, go "Don't open that door stupid!"īut they always do. I mean, how many of us watch a horror movie and the classic scene comes up where the character is about to open a closet door, and we know there is something really creepy hiding inside. Have you ever wondered what you'd do if you were to find a monster in the closet? Or just run across a monster? Many varieties come to mind - the very scary alien from Aliens, the boogeyman, a werewolf, the list is endless.įor some reason I thought about this one day. Lewis sheds light on the eternally provocative subject of love. In this, one of his most popular books, C. I’m grateful that he put himself through that, and maybe he didn’t really have an obligation to sweat more to make this book better. Lewis wrote about the psychic and spiritual drain that Screwtape caused him, getting into the skin of a senior demon for the duration of its writing, and how he could never do that again to write a sequel despite many requests. And the material is important - it merits the best effort. It’s a good book, but you get the sense that it could have been much better. At times this book feels like it was tossed off by an unusually gifted journalist. Of course you might not say that, but let’s assume you might. You might say someone with his gifts has kind of an obligation to use them carefully and well for the greater good. It’s particularly frustrating when there are a lot of good ideas and connections that you know could be deepened with more reflection and care. But when he’s not at his best there can be too much wordplay and other cleverness combined with an over-certain pedagogy, or at least that’s how it comes off for me. He has an excellent mind overstuffed with knowledge of many fine things, he’s often insightful, and he’s able to write engagingly and accessibly while fleshing out a carefully conceived and detailed plan. At his best Lewis can be very good (Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity), but at other times he can be a bit frustrating. Yet all signs seem to indicate this time happiness might be within his grasp. He’s even less comfortable as the object of a notorious playboy’s affections. For the first time, the prospect isn’t terrifying.Īccustomed to escaping his demons by withdrawing into his imagination, Elijah isn’t used to having a happy herd of friends. The aftershocks of their one-night stand leave giant cracks in Baz’s carefully constructed armor. With loneliness bearing down on him, Baz hooks up-then opens up-with Elijah Prince, the guy Baz took a bullet for last year. But as the end of college draws near, his friends-his buffer zone-are preparing to move on, while his own life is at a crippling standstill. With the quiet help of his wealthy family, Sebastian “Baz” Acker has successfully kept his painful past at bay. Genres: Contemporary Romance, M/M Romance, New AdultĮven hot messes need a happily ever after. Published by Samhain Publishing on August 11, 2015 The novel sought to preserve values of French culture in a time period of great change, which resulted in the destruction of many French Gothic structures and threatened to trivialise the vibrancy of 15th-century France. Esmeralda, a beautiful, sixteen-year-old Romani dancer, is the romantic and sexual interest of many men including Captain Phoebus de Chateaupers poet Pierre Gringoire hunchbacked cathedral bell-ringer Quasimodo. The story is set in Paris in 1482 during the reign of Louis XI. The novel has been described as a key text in French literature and has been adapted for film over a dozen times, in addition to numerous television and stage adaptations, such as a 1923 silent film with Lon Chaney, a 1939 sound film with Charles Laughton, and a 1996 Disney animated film with Tom Hulce. 1482) is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris, lit. 'Our Lady of Paris', originally titled Notre-Dame de Paris. One of the great literary tragedies of all time, The Hunchback of Notre Dame features some of the most well-known characters in all of fiction - Quasimodo, the hideously deformed bellringer of Notre-Dame de Paris, his master the evil priest Claude Frollo, and Esmeralda, the beautiful gypsy condemned for a crime she did not commit. |