![]() ![]() I thought this was OK, but it didn't blow me away as much as "Next in Line" and some of the other stories I really enjoyed. ![]() I won't say much more because I don't want to spoil other readers. "Skeleton" (3.5 stars)- I am still curious about the doctor. It didn't really fit the mood of the rest of the stories. The ending was messed up too, and I ended up hating he husband. ![]() This story of a married couple visiting a small town and the terror the wife starts to feel as she realizes how morbid the whole town is was creepy. "The Next in Line" (5 stars)- Loved it from beginning to end. I thought Bradbury was going one way with the story and it kind of fizzled for me. "The Dwarf" (3 stars)- I liked it okay, but was actually disappointed in the ending. I ended up giving it four stars because the illustrations that are in here pushed the book to a different level. Some stories didn't hit the mark with me though. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I wish I were kidding.Īllegedly the man the ex-boyfriend targeted was the father of the killer who shot his wife during a mass shooting. The soap opera story line about their past together was over the top with tragedy (battered mothers, abusive fathers, cancer, cheating lovers, car accidents, psychiatric hospitals, blackmailers, mass shootings). The Ex giv es us Olivia Randall, the quite enjoyable, tough-woman attorney, who sees that her ex-boyfriend of 20 years ago has been arrested for the murder of 3 people and of course, feels compelled to take his case. nothing happened that you could not predict, the other characters remained cardboard at best and the ending suffered from obviousness. And the pose was easy to sweep through, if not exactly gripping.īut then…. ![]() The main character is quite appealing (a tough hard-boiled NY City criminal defense attorney with a touch of humor about herself). Often the reviews gush over mystery novels that I find less than “a mystery.” Sorry to say that this too is an example of over-hype. Since I had heard such great things about this book, I started it with apprehension. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They have sold over 2 million copies in the United States alone. They have appeared on Best Seller Lists such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Barnes and Noble, IndyBound, and Bookscan. Her books have been published in over 20 countries. She is currently working on a new Trilogy called “Embassy Row.” The first novel in that series, “All Fall Down,” will be released in January of 2015. Her next series was the “Heist Society” Trilogy. Her breakout Young Adult novel was “I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You.” Since then, she has gone on to write five more novels in the “Gallagher Girls” series. She then worked in agriculture for several years before writing her first novel, “Cheating at Solitaire,” a book for adults. She was active in numerous high-school organizations before attending Oklahoma State University, and the Cornell University. Her boarding school settings are the perfect venue for the fun, flirty, books teens crave.Īlly was born and raised in Oklahoma by a teacher mom, and farmer/rancher father. Her fast-paced, high-energy novels delight readers of all ages. Ally Carter is one of the most successful writers of Young Adult literature today. ![]() ![]() In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig’s enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?Ī dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time. ![]() ![]() To see how things would be if you had made other choices. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. ![]() Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism, Mental Health, Books About Booksīuy on Amazon: Barnes & Noble, Book Depositoryīetween life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. ![]() ![]() ![]() Liking him is a good sign at age fifteen, a bad one by age twenty.įor many readers, Hesse’s novels are among the first serious fiction they encounter-a literary gateway drug. In America today, Hesse is usually regarded by highbrows as a writer for adolescents. ![]() The great German modernists who were his contemporaries mostly disdained him: “A little man,” according to the poet Gottfried Benn “He displays the foibles of a greater writer than he actually is,” the novelist Robert Musil said. ![]() Ever since he published his first novel, in 1904, Hesse has been one of those odd writers who manage to be at the same time canonical-in 1946, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature-and almost perpetually unfashionable among critics. “It has to be said, there are no points to be won from liking Hesse nowadays.” This rueful assessment of the novelist Hermann Hesse, quoted in the opening pages of Gunnar Decker’s new biography, “Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow” (Harvard), appeared in an obituary in 1962 but it could just as well have been pronounced yesterday, or a hundred years ago. ![]() ![]() Dutch artwork from the time often depicts people playing ‘colf.’ It was a long game, just like modern golf is, and was played in streets and courtyards. ![]() These two games were called chole and jeu de mail. This game was originally called ‘colf’ and was a mix of two games that had been imported into Holland. The person who managed to get the ball to the target in the fewest number of shots was the winner. In that early game, a person would use a stick to hit a leather ball toward a target. However, the most likely place where the modern game of golf originated is either Holland or Scotland.Ī game very similar to golf was played by the Dutch in the 13th century CE. These classic games were common with people all over the world, for many centuries. It is one of many games, like hockey or bandy, that originated with simple stick and ball games. The origin place of golf could be anywhere from China to Laos to the Netherlands to ancient Egypt or Rome. Who invented golf and When and Where Was Golf Invented? The Golfers by Charles Lees ![]() ![]() ![]() Malcolm X also expressed pride in some of the Nation's social welfare achievements, such as its free drug rehabilitation program. and the mainstream civil rights movement for its emphasis on nonviolence and racial integration. He was the public face of the organization for 12 years, advocating Black empowerment and separation of Black and White Americans, and criticizing Martin Luther King Jr. In prison he joined the Nation of Islam (adopting the name Malcolm X to symbolize his unknown African ancestral surname while discarding "the White slavemaster name of 'Little'"), and after his parole in 1952 quickly became one of the organization's most influential leaders. ![]() He committed various crimes, being sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1946 for larceny and burglary. ![]() Malcolm spent his adolescence living in a series of foster homes or with relatives after his father's death and his mother's hospitalization. A posthumous autobiography, on which he collaborated with Alex Haley, was published in 1965. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam until 1964, he was a vocal advocate for Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the Black community. Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, later el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz – February 21, 1965) was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. 6, including Attallah, Qubilah, and Ilyasah ![]() ![]() ![]() All of this is somehow relatively convincing and exciting for most of the movie, despite unfortunate and generic effects such as slow-motion fight scenes and incoherent action shots. Through a backstory, told in misty flashbacks courtesy of his brave wife Jane (Margot Robbie), the whole remarkable story of this man of extremes comes together, leading the audience into a new African adventure involving the Congo, Belgium’s King Leopold, imperialism, diamonds, native tribes, slavery, leopards, elephants, lions, hippos and, of course, the family of apes that raised the ape man. His heroism is rooted in his incredible past as an extraordinary lord of the jungle. Powered in the lead by the silent, icy stare of the title character, well played by Stockholm native Alexander Skarsgård ( The Giver), whose Tarzan insists on going by his proper name John Clayton, the newest version takes the British aristocrat as a man of honor, integrity and the best of Western civilization. It’s not a great picture, but it has moments of wonder, historical basis and loads of exciting entertainment. This is an underdeveloped epic set in 1890 and much of it is good. So does The Legend of Tarzan, if not always successfully and with a few cringe-worthy lines and a leap of faith into the third act. movie is loosely based, I know from the character’s vast cultural history that they explore civilized and primitive man and nature through great, exotic adventures. Though I’ve never read the Tarzan stories written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, upon which the new Warner Bros. ![]() ![]() Once again, Henley crafts a romance with well-researched history and a full menu of characters, both real and fictional, woven in seamlessly as only a master storyteller can do it. Virginia Henley is the author of sixteen romantic novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Seduced and Desired and the national bestseller A Woman. Henley weaves a wonderful story of these two coming to love and trust each other as the winds of war between Scotland and England swirl about them. Lynx was a hardened warrior who didn't trust women Jane was an innocent young woman afraid of men. This is a superbly crafted tale of two people who married for the creation of a child, but discover both passion and an enduring love. ![]() While Jane wanted no man, when her father told her he had agreed to handfast her to the new lord she had no choice. When Lynx became Edward's Governor of Dumfries castle, he decided it was a perfect time to sire an heir, and asked his castle steward, Jock Leslie, to allow him to handfast with the steward's youngest daughter. It's the story of Lynx de Warenne, English knight, heir to the Earl of Surrey and Edward Plantagenet's most prized warrior, and Jane Leslie, a Scottish lass with a kind heart and special healing powers. ![]() It is meticulous, fast-paced and tells an endearing story set in Scotland in the 13th century. This book won the Maggie Award from the Georgia Romance Authors for Excellence in Writing, and I'm not surprised. ![]() ![]() ![]() Toward a destination that is by darkness hid. All the voices strive to learn Achan and Vrell's true identities-and a different kind of voice is calling them both. By Darkness Hid 2010 Christy Award - Visionary Captives 2014 INSPYs the Bloggers Award for Excellence in Faith-Driven. While Achan learns to use his new ability, Vrell struggles to shut hers down. But Vrell feels called to help a young squire who recently discovered his bloodvoicing gift, even if doing so requires her to work with those who could destroy her. She masquerades as a boy to avoid capture by the powerful forces that seek to exploit her. But his new skills with the sword do not prepare him for the battle raging between the voices in his head. ![]() When an enigmatic knight offers to train Achan for the Kingsguard, he readily accepts. He is consigned to the kitchens of a lord and forced to swallow a foul potion every day. ![]() One of the newly "gifted" wish it had never come.Īchan had been a slave all his life. On the side that still sees the sun, two young people struggle to understand the mind-communication abilities thrust upon them. Half of Er'Rets is locked beneath an impenetrable shroud. ![]() |