The book's probably closer to middle grade than YA, which means-holy moly hurray-that Moxie has the occasional crush but there's no focus whatsoever on boys and dates and love triangles. What I like, though, is how understated the reaction is. Really, even if the obvious hadn't happened, well, the obvious would have happened. Helped out Johnny Depp at a crucial moment. Been asked to play a drum solo on a hot band's upcoming album. Crewed an ocean sloop (as the assistant to the swabber.) to help save sea cows. She's not sure yet who she wants to be, so she creates a number of characters.but those characters have all done things that are, shall we say, a little unlikely for your average thirteen-year-old. Well, several, actually, but the first one's a biggie: She lies. At boarding school, though, she's a blank slate, and she's determined that her name will not be the most interesting thing about her.īut Moxie makes a mistake. It's off to boarding school for Moxie, and it's an opportunity that she's determined not to let slide-up until now, she's been in school with people she's known her entire life. When I went to boarding school, pretty much my entire frame of reference was the Chalet School series.which, believe you me, did not turn out to be much like modern-day, non-Alps-y, reality.Īnyway. Except that everything I knew about boarding school came from Harry Potter books. Nope, I was just a regular girl going to a regular boarding school.
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7/6/2023 0 Comments Agatha christie books n or mThe pair have been feeling very much out of things for a while, yet know they still have a lot to offer, are desperate to do something to help the war effort. They have been married for a long time, have two grown up children, and have, in the past undertaken work of a secretive nature for ‘Mr Carter’ the former chief of Intelligence. N or M? takes place in the spring of 1940, Tommy and Tuppence who original readers first encountered as bright young things, trying to shake off the horrors of the First World War, are now middle aged in the early months of another war. Admittedly I have seen some poor reviews of that last novel – so perhaps I shouldn’t be in too much of a hurry to read it. A few months ago, I read By the Pricking of My Thumbs which takes place a few years after this one, an excellent mystery – and I have had the final novel Postern of Fate for years but have never read it. It appears I have read the Tommy and Tuppence novels in completely the wrong order – but I don’t suppose that matters. With Poirot’s ridiculous fastidiousness, ‘little grey cells’ boastful confidence, and Miss Marple’s old lady nosiness (all of which I still love) there is something about Tommy and Tuppence that is a breath of fresh air. Agatha Christie unfortunately only wrote four full length novels and a collection of short stories about Tommy and Tuppence – which is a crying shame. I’ve read Agatha Christie on and off since I was about eleven – but it was more recently that I discovered a particular fondness for Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper, includes a preface and annotations by Henry N. One of the bards more complex plays, "Antony and Cleopatra" is a work which defies simple classification. What follows is a brilliant depiction of the intrigue surrounding the struggle for power in ancient Rome and the conflict in which Mark Antony finds himself embroiled, between his duties as leader and his passionate desire for the enchanting Cleopatra. When the word that his wife has died and that Pompey is raising an army to challenge the authority of the triumvirate, Mark Antony returns to Rome to help manage the situation. At the outset of the play Mark Antony is part of the ruling Second Triumvirate of Rome and is living in Egypt engaged in an affair with the beautiful Egyptian Queen, Cleopatra. Based upon the historical accounts contained within Plutarch's "Lives", this dramatic tragedy follows the relationship between Mark Antony and Cleopatra from the time of the Sicilian revolt up until Cleopatra's suicide. First published in the Folio of 1623, William Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" is the historical drama based on the lives of its title characters. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Warrior cats audio bookI can't think about cats without flinching. They're are the living creatures I dread the most after roaches. The first thing you need to know about me is that I hate cats. I won't be replying to any comment in here, I don't care why you love this (write your own review for that) and I won't read the rest of this series. Of course, there are reviews with more trolls, but this is as much as I can endure.Īnd for you, ignorants who can't accept other people's opinions (better known as "trolls"), why don't you go read one of the many thousands of 5 star reviews instead of coming to criticize an opinion that's obviously different to yours? Don't you understand it's pointless? I'm not going to stop hating this book if you tell me "I'm wrong." In fact, if anything, your words only make me feel nauseas when I think of this piece of garbage.Īnd that's my final word. The level of trolls it has gotten has reached levels I cannot stand anymore. I'm disabling the notifications, so if someone comments in it, I'm not gonna now. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Goldilocks three dinosaursMo Willems – perhaps best known for his popular picture book Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! – has taken on the classic tale of Goldilocks in a picture book aimed at pre-school children. I’m not entirely sure how this fashion came about, or whether it’s the literary equivalent of the cover version, but from my limited experience of them, I think it takes an awfully good writer to pull it off. If it’s not another bloomin’ adaptation of Austen, it’s ancient myths being brought up to date. Retelling classic stories appears to be a very modern preoccupation. Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems Moreover, Gilbert-Santamaria said, many have argued that Cervantes invented the novel in Don Quixote. Thus, Cervantes’ protagonist goes crazy and thinks he’s a knight involved in adventures right out of that tradition. Foremost among these is the chivalric tradition. Cervantes, he said, was writing a book that simultaneously imitates and makes fun of a number of literary traditions. Many of us know Don Quixote from the musical Man of La Mancha, but Gilbert-Santamaria says that story bears only a surface resemblance to the original. You can almost open the book at random and read a story that’s maybe 20 pages long and you’ll get a good feel for the book.” “The book really looks intimidating,” said Donald Gilbert-Santamaria, the Spanish and Portuguese Studies professor who is coordinating the program. Starting with students reading from the book and ending with a guitar concert, the program promises to show participants why the story has endured so long. That’s why the Spanish and Portuguese Studies Division of the UW’s Romance Languages Department is staging an extended celebration of Don Quixote Dec. Of course, it is more than 1,000 pages long, not to mention being very old. Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote is one of those books that everybody has heard of but almost nobody has read. The image on the poster for the Don Quixote event comes from an illustrated 19th century edition of the book featuring engravings by Gustave Doré. In her Pulitzer-winning 2005 novel Gilead, her character Reverend John Ames works out a limited number of themes-grace, forgiveness, fatherhood-with a slowness that reflects the 1950s small-town Iowa that surrounds him. Much of what makes Robinson’s nonfiction a challenge to digest can be understood in terms of its profound stylistic difference from her fiction. It is that same range and eloquence that makes When I Was a Child I Read Books move sporadically between being deeply insightful and irrefutably maddening, sometimes on the very same page. Reading Robinson feels like sitting down for a conversation with one’s most widely read and psychologically insightful friend, a person whose wit is surpassed only by the lucidity of her language. Robinson’s nonfiction guides readers through fields as disparate as cosmology, evolutionary psychology, economics and modern biblical criticism-all the while identifying the theological thread that holds them together. To those who fear that Christian cultural engagement is in a state of intellectual poverty, I suggest looking to the work of Marilynne Robinson for reason to hope. 7/5/2023 0 Comments The kindest lie bookHere, Johnson’s lens widens to address the increasing racial divide following Obama’s election, and she dramatizes it through a friendship forged between Ruth and an 11-year-old white boy named Midnight, whose abusive father also lost his job. With the auto plant that employed her brother, Eli, and her grandfather now closed, the town is reeling. Still, Ruth returns to Ganton, determined to find her son before she starts a family with Xavier. Her grandmother, Mama, who raised her, encouraged Ruth to give up her son to fulfill her dreams, and now, after Ruth asks for help in finding him, Mama tells Ruth not to go digging up the past. However, her marriage hits a rocky spot when, during a talk with her husband, Xavier, about having children, she reveals she had a son at age 17. Ruth Tuttle, 29, feels like she’s made it: she’s married to a Pepsi exec and thriving in her own career as a chemical engineer. Johnson’s sharp debut takes a deep dive into the life of a Black Chicago woman after the 2008 presidential election. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Dark matter a ghost story“Brilliant… fabulously grim… a perfectly frightening ghost story” The strangeness that humans can suffer from when exposed to the Arctic wilderness is brilliantly exploited in this period piece.” The novel ends in tragedy that is as haunting as anything else in this deeply affecting tale of mental and physical isolation.” “Paver records terror with compassion, convincing the reader that he believes everything he records while leaving open the possibility that his isolation – and the class barrier he feels so acutely – has made him peculiarly susceptible to emotional disturbance. Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black, The Times The wastes of the Arctic night are devoid of humanity, warmth and company, the very home of hopelessness loneliness and threat, and their atmosphere clings to the inner walls of the mind.” “A magn ificent contemporary ghost story, packing a powerful charge of unease and mounting fear. In a world of CGI-induced chills, a good old-fashioned ghost story can still clutch at the heart!” Mission accomplished: at last, a story that makes you check you’ve locked all the doors, and leaves you very thankful indeed for the electric light. “Paver has created a tale of terror and beauty and wonder. Two-thirds through, I found myself suddenly afraid to look out of the windows, so I’ll call it a success!” “The ultimate test of a good ghost story is, surely, whether you feel panicked reading it in bed at midnight. The novel virtually defines a new genre: literary creepy. “Dark Matter is brilliant! 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