Animorphs the message5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() She is truly afraid of being responsible for this mission and for her friends, and her struggles to come to terms with her decision are realistic and engaging. Danger mounts as they enter the ocean as dolphins to start their search, and Cassie suddenly understands what it means to be a leader. With Jake's encouragement, she decides that they must try to rescue the alien before it is killed by the Yeerk's leader. Then Cassie starts hearing strange and disturbing messages in her dreams and realizes that she is receiving a distress call from a stranded Andalite. ![]() This power has helped them to survive and keeps the evil Yeerk invaders at bay. This addition to the popular sci-fi/fantasy series continues the adventures of five young people who have acquired the power to morph into animal forms from their alien friends, the Andalites. ![]()
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The heptameron marguerite de navarre5/21/2023 ![]() Not to be missed is the framing tale of the ten travelers. What we overhear (along with the monks hosting our traveling party) are 72 stories (the book was never finished) of bawd, debauchery, faithlessness and faithfulness, lust, rape, love, women and men, cuckoldry, decrepit and unruly monks and priests, honour and chastity, and in general The Great Battle of the Sexes, Sixteenth Century Edition. They agree to a few ground rules for their storytelling-the stories must be true (identities of guilty parties tend to be protected, but we know who they really are wink, wink, nudge, nudge) and the stories must not be derived from professional tellers of tales. The bridge will take ten days to rebuild, and they agree that each of them will tell one story each day. ![]() ![]() While they await its rebuilding, they entertain themselves by telling stories. ![]() Ten travelers, five women and five men, are delayed in their travels when a rainstorm washes out a bridge. As it is, we owe her even more for her assemblage of a treasury of bawdy tales a cycle which is consciously modeled upon Boccaccio’s Decameron. Even had Marguerite de Navarre not written The Heptameron, the world of letters would be deeply indebted to her for her patronage of Rabelais and his genius novels about the giants Gargantua and Pantagruel. ![]() I would prefer not to melville5/21/2023 ![]() It is never said aggressively or impertinently. It is never “no”, never “will not”, never even an outright refusal. ![]() He tries to garner the slightest biographical scraps: “Will you tell me, Bartleby, where you were born?” To which the answer is, of course: “I would prefer not to.” ![]() The narrator, who prides himself on knowing about Astor on prudence, Edwards on will and Priestley on necessity, cajoles, offers alternative employment, even a room in his own house. He says – and it is almost the only thing he ever says in the story: “I would prefer not to.” He instead prefers, if anything, to look at the blank brick wall that is the entire view from his window.įrustrated, Turkey and Nippers threaten to blacken his eye. He works “silently, palely, mechanically”, and on the third day of his employment is asked to proofread a document. Business is doing so well that the narrator takes on Bartleby, described as “pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn”. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Panchaali is swept into their quest to reclaim their birthright, remaining at the brothers’ sides through years of exile and a terrible civil war. The novel traces Panchaali’s life, beginning with her magical birth in fire as the daughter of a king before following her spirited balancing act as a woman with five husbands who have been cheated out of their father’s kingdom. Through her narrator Panchaali, the wife of the legendary five Pandavas brothers, Divakaruni gives us a rare feminist interpretation of an epic story. Relevant to today’s war-torn world, The Palace of Illusions takes us back to the time of the Indian epic The Mahabharat-a time that is half-history, half-myth, and wholly magical. ![]() Twisted Tales by Bruce Jones5/21/2023 ![]() The target of a deadly family curse that spans generations, Rosario must battle everything she knows about her past to save herself and her soul in a desperate attempt to break the evil. Trapped in the apartment by a heavy snowstorm and surrounded by unfriendly neighbors, Rosario is attacked by menacing supernatural forces that have possessed her grandmother’s corpse. When her estranged grandmother suddenly dies, Rosario has to spend the night with the body while waiting for the ambulance to arrive. Latido Films Launch Genre Award at Cannes' Fantastic Pavilionįantastic Pavilion to Launch at the Cannes Film Market (EXCLUSIVE) ![]() ![]() Toubia, whose credits include the Freeform fantasy series “Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments” and Gloria Calderón Kellett’s new Amazon Studios series “With Love,” stars as Rosario, a successful Wall Street broker forced to confront an unthinkable and otherworldly evil.īlue Finch Film Releasing Boards International Sales on Western Thriller 'Head Count' - Cannes Market (EXCLUSIVE) ![]() ![]() Emeraude Toubia is set to star in the high-concept horror film “Rosario,” the debut feature of director Felipe Vargas, who will shoot the pic in his native country of Colombia. ![]() Bring Back Our Girls by Joe Parkinson5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() "I went to a neurologist and they gave me a brain scan and I was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, and that was about two years ago. I had four surgeries back to back to back to back, it was incredible, I couldn't believe it, it was bad luck, but that's life. I said, 'You know I'm at the top of my game, after 15 years almost I'm going to call it quits,' and I felt great about that and then out of the blue the s*** hit the fan. Three and half years ago I was in the middle of a tour and I finally ended it with a show. He said in a video shared to Twitter: "Here's really what happened. The 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' actor has reflected on the "rocky time" he's had over the last three-and-a-half years, which included four consecutive surgeries on his back, shoulder, and hip, and being told he had the progressive condition two years ago after seeking help when he "started walking a little stiffly" and "shuffling" his feet. Richard Lewis is "finished" with stand-up comedy after being diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. ![]() Article 5 trilogy5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Several of her titles are included in junior high and high school reading curricula, and are used in reluctant reader programs nationwide. Her work has received star reviews, librarian recognitions, and been nominated for the Edgar Award and Anthony Award for best young adult mystery. As romance author Sierra Kincade, she has penned the erotic Body Work series and the Deep Connections trilogy (Berkley and Penguin/Random House). ![]() She has also co-written the magic-wielding, gladiator fantasies, Set Fire to the Gods and Rise Up from the Embers (Balzer and Bray/Harper), and the upcoming yōkai horror, Find Him Where You Left Him Dead (Tor Teen/MacMillan). Kristen Simmons is the critically-acclaimed young adult author of the dystopian Article 5 trilogy, The Deceivers boarding-school thriller series, and speculative fiction stand-alones, Pacifica, Metaltown, and The Glass Arrow (all with Tor Teen/Macmillan). ![]() My life next door book series5/20/2023 ![]() (They don’t go to school together as the Garrett children attend public school and Samantha attends a private school.) And, since her mother’s busy campaigning, Samantha’s able to spend time with Jase without her mother knowing. Naturally, like all boy next door novels, Samantha meets one of the neighbor boys, Jase. ![]() ![]() Samantha spends years fascinated by the Garrett family, with their roudy warmth that’s so different from her own family. Her mother is very concerned about appearances, and maintains a perfect house, which stands in stark contrast to the chaotic family of ten next door, the Garretts. She’s got a bit of a Sarah Palin thing going on, with high fashion, a youthful appearance, marketable rhetoric and daughters that fit her political image perfectly. Samantha’s mother is an up-and-coming state senator in Connecticut. However, while this wasn’t a perfect read for me, there were elements that stuck out to me as “doing it right” where a lot of other contemporary young adult fiction falters. ![]() Huntley Fitzpatrick’s debut novel, My Life Next Door, has been reviewed quite a bit, so I wasn’t planning on contributing my thoughts on this novel. ![]() Annie john book5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() "For I could not be sure," she reflects, "whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world." ![]() At the end of her school years, Annie decides to leave Antigua and her family, but not without a measure of sorrow, especially for the mother she once knew and never ceases to mourn. She begins to question the cultural assumptions of her island world at school she instinctively rebels against authority and most frighteningly, her mother, seeing Annie as a "young lady," ceases to be the source of unconditional adoration and takes on the new and unfamiliar guise of adversary. Looking back on her childhood, she reflects, "It was in such a paradise that I lived." When she turns twelve, however, Annie's life changes, in ways that are often mysterious to her. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother's benign shadow. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful presence, who is the very center of the little girl's existence. A classic coming-of-age story in the tradition of The Catcher in the Rye and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Kincaid's novel focuses on a universal, tragic, and often comic theme: the loss of childhood.Īn adored only child, Annie has until recently lived an idyllic life. Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. ![]() Musicofilia oliver sacks5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In one particularly poignant passage, emanating his usual gift for exposing the monumental through the minute, Dr. Vincent Millay to profess: “Without music I should wish to die.” Oliver Sacks by Wendy MacNaughton It was a relationship that once saved his life and culminated in his magnificent book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain ( public library) - an immensely insightful exploration of the physiological and psychological phenomena behind the all too common human impulse that once compelled the poet Edna St. Throughout his long career as a working scientist who bewitched the popular imagination with beautiful writing, he frequently turned to music as his storytelling muse. A science-storyteller like the late, great, sorely missed Oliver Sacks (July 9, 1933–August 30, 2015) comes about once a century, if we’re lucky. ![]() |