![]() Mathilde, born to a low-class, with no money for a dowry, is married to Monsieur Loisel, a clerk! It is a hands-down blockbuster 5-star read for me! □ “The Necklace” is a remarkably compelling story teaching the readers lessons on appearance vs reality, avarice and it’s evil-outcome, beauty and the mirage, covetousness for material possessions and the ephemeral superficial delight that comes along! ![]() Whatever may be your answer, do read this short story baring the avaricious and mercenary female, Mathilde, and bringing her face-to-face with her own shallowness, but alas, she fails to learn, becoming more penurious than what she was, both materialistically and morally! ![]() Are you willing to dwindle away your invaluable life for coveting expensive, precious, materialistic possessions? ![]()
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![]() Printz Honor Book, Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner, and LA Times Book Prize for YA Literature winner-and DODGER (HarperCollins, 2012), for which he won his second Michael L. These include the books of the BROMELIAD TRILOGY (HarperCollins, 2003), as well as THE WEE FREE MEN (HarperCollins, 2003), A HAT FULL OF SKY (HarperCollins, 2004), WINTERSMITH (HarperCollins, 2006), I SHALL WEAR MIDNIGHT (HarperCollins, 2010), NATION (HarperCollins, 2008)-a Michael L. In addition to his phenomenal-and phenomenally popular-Discworld series for adults, Terry is the multi-award-winning author several children's books. ![]() His books have sold more than 85 million copies worldwide. He wrote his first published story when he was 13 and his first novel, THE CARPET PEOPLE, when he was 17. ![]() Sir Terry Pratchett, the author of more than three dozen novels, is one of the world's best-selling and best-loved novelists writing in the English language. ![]() ![]() What stuck in Wytches #1 was the strange, nightmarish moments burbling in around the fringes. We don’t yet know what the witches are, or what the rules are in this world, and the experience is much the better for it. He confidently sketches out a family dealing with a recently traumatic event, trying to make a new start, but doesn’t dwell on the details. Snyder’s script is heavy on atmospherics and imagery, built around a straighforward story. ![]() And, y’know, the woods maybe haunted by witches which devour people through trees, so that could be a problem. Father Charles is a successful creator of children’s books, but his agent is unsure about his next project. Daughter Sail is starting off at a new school and has a history of being bullied. ![]() There are some normal anxieties coloring the story. ![]() Wytches #1 is the new horror offering from the team of Scott Snyder and Jock, who worked together so well in the pages of Detective Comics. Can they replicate their success when the horror world only loves vampires and zombies?Īs a first issue, Wytches is light on plot, economically doling out dribs and drabs of backstory, introducing the Rooks family as they settle down in a new home in New Hampshire. ![]() ![]() ![]() When their story begins in Shiver (reviewed here) Grace is 17 and Sam is 18, but they have been in love for many years. ![]() Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won’t settle for less.” “Many, many readers have written me asking wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace’s relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Theirs was a love at first sight from when they were just kids, and there is no uncertainty, no misgivings, no rivals, just them. But most of all, this trilogy centers around the steadfast love between Sam and Grace, who, on the verge of adulthood, find their true natures through their love for one another. ![]() This is a very appealing trilogy (known collectively as “The Wolves of Mercy Falls”) that is truly more about love than anything else: the unquestioning love the boy Sam has for his adoptive father Beck and Beck’s fierce love for Sam, juxtaposed with the uneven and sporadic parental love experienced by the girl Grace, and how alone she has always felt because of it. ![]() I could relate to the difficulty of saying good-bye to some of the characters…. “It’s a little odd to be saying good-bye to a world I’ve lived in for almost four years…” I was successful in not crying all the way until the end of this book, in spite of quite a bit of provocation to do so, but I lost the fight when I read the “Author’s Note” after the last page, which begins: ![]() ![]() ![]() Aided by his adjunct and old friend, Detective Roderick Ratzi, he follows the trail of carnage to Paris. LeBrock, still racked by remorse for his failure to prevent the death of 'the Divine Sarah' and working outside the law after resigning his post following a blazing row with his superior officer, embarks on a quest to redeem himself by tracking down Mastock and bringing to an end his horrific murder spree. The Badger is back! Set three weeks after the finale of Grandville, Grandville Mon Amour pits Detective Inspector Archie LeBrock of Scotland Yard against an old adversary and ruthless urban guerrilla, Edward 'Mad Dog' Mastock, - a psychotic serial killer whose shocking escape from his execution by guillotine at the Tower of London begins this fast-paced, Hitchcockian steampunk thriller. ![]() ![]() ![]() The combination produces a raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or grief. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with the colour blue, she ends up facing down both the painful end of an affair and the grievous injury of a dear friend. ![]() Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia Laingīluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen and Andy Warhol. ![]() ![]() Residents of the town are seemingly subjected to various supernatural and mysterious occurrences. ![]() before the country was discovered by Master Hendrik Hudson." Some residents say this town was bewitched during the early days of the Dutch settlement, while others claim that the mysterious atmosphere was caused by an old Native American chief, the "wizard of his tribe. Sleepy Hollow is renowned for its ghosts and the haunting atmosphere that pervades the imaginations of its inhabitants and visitors. ![]() ![]() The story is set in 1790 in the countryside around the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town (historical Tarrytown, New York), in a secluded glen known as Sleepy Hollow. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was first published in 1819.Īlong with Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during Halloween because of a character known as the Headless Horseman believed to be a Hessian soldier who was decapitated by a cannonball in battle. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a gothic story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories titled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories, Washington Irving, Geoffrey Crayon (Pseudonym), William L. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s her late brother’s final dare that has Sam enrolling at Denmark Military Academy. Believe me, this friend has never lived this down! I hated college, wanted to join the military, and my friend said, “Hey, I’ll give you $25 bucks if you last a year at military school.” Here’s a not-so-secret secret: I survived the year, but never got my $25. The truth is, I don’t think there was a return dare. ![]() Man, I wish I had some epic dare to give back, like swimming with sharks with fish strapped to your body or something like that. Can you tell us what you dared the other person to do in return? ![]() Like Sam, you ended up at a military school on a dare. I think it's fairly obvious from my gushing this week and last that Rites of Passage has my highest recommendation, so I hope everyone picks up a copy next Tuesday when it releases! Protagonist Sam proved herself to be stronger than those around her mentally when she simply couldn't be so physically, and I may or may not have hugged the book to my chest and imagined she might take some comfort from it. As you guys already know, this book is one that made me rage and cry and want to scream at the top of my lungs at the unfairness of it all, but I loved every single second of it. I couldn't be more excited today to welcome author Joy Hensley to the blog to answer a few questions about her debut YA novel, Rites of Passage. ![]() |