![]() ![]() In six preposterous tales, Robert McCloskey takes a good look at the face of mid-western America with humorous and affectionate eyes. While Centerburg is not exactly nosey, precious little happens that the good citizens do not know. ![]() They include Aunt Aggy and Uncle Ulysses, the Sheriff and the boys, Miss Terwilliger, Miss Naomi Enders, great-great-great granddaughter of Ezekiel Enders who founded Centerburg and who owned the precious formula for making Cough Syrup and Elixir of Life Compound. ![]() HOMER PRICE lives two miles out of Centerburg, where Route 56 meets 56A, but most of his friends and relatives live in town. ![]()
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![]() Each book feels like you’ve read 3 or 4 separate books. They’re not seperate stories, it’s one long saga. None of the first three books has an ending that is in any way satisfying. I have enjoyed this “series” of books, however, calling it a series is a bit misleading. Review #4 Audio City of Golden Shadow narrated by George Newbern ![]() Do yourself a favor and read ANYTHING else. I’m all about world/character building but by the end I was literally saying out loud “get to the point already”. Good novels will make you want to go re-read them after a time and enjoy the journey all over again, you couldn’t pay me to read these novels again. During the fourth book I had to literally force myself to continue to the end as I grew so tired of the author’s writing style of dragging things painfully out. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of the content/banter/information is truly nonsense and unnecessary. The story is overly confusing and not in a good “aha, so that’s what all that meant” kind of way. EVERY random thought/observation/action is quickly followed up by a metaphor of some kind or some character’s introspection. I don’t mind reading lengthy novels if the story is moving forward or the conversations/information has a point to it (I only had issues with one of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series where nothing truly happened), however, these four novels have a ridiculous amount of filler/nonsense to them. ![]() ![]() Rose has invited a new friend on board the TARDIS, against the Doctor’s better judgement. As windows open between worlds, stories and storyteller meet, and Rose comes face to face with Emily Brontë. The TARDIS arrives amid a strange civil war, with prisons made of glass and cities stalked by terrifying beasts. Now she wanders the moors of her childhood alone, remembering those tales. The Doctor has come to Galen - but is he looking for peace or something else entirely?ġ.2 The Window on the Moor by Una McCormackĮmily and her sisters once told each other fables of warring kingdoms: wicked princes, noble dukes, and their battling armies. But when death disrupts the diplomacy, Cosmic Nine news reporter Adriana Jarsdel uncovers a different story. ![]() ![]() The renowned ‘planet of peace’ seems the ideal venue for talks between two warring races. ![]() Galen is a place where people come to heal. Four new stories from the Ninth Doctor’s era, narrated by Nicholas Briggs. ![]() ![]() ![]() During the summer Chobi gets a girlfriend, Mimi. Chobi falls in love with his owner because of her kindness and beauty. On a rainy Spring day, She finds Chobi outside and brings him home with her. The story occurs over the span of a year. The stories are rather simple, but they’re sure to satisfy readers looking for a quick pick-me-up. She and Her Cat (, Kanojo to Kanojo no Nekoi) is a five minute original video animation created by Makoto Shinkai in 1999. ![]() While some of the human characters’ backstories feel slightly rushed, the author’s earnest depictions of the friendships between people and felines produces genuine wonder. “Slumber and Sky” follows a manga artist who falls into a deep depression when her childhood best friend suddenly dies the day after they have an explosive argument, but she finds the strength to move forward with the help of Mimi’s kitten, Cookie. In “Sea of Words,” a young admin worker is afraid to ask the man she’s dating about the status of their relationship, and finds comfort from a cat named Chobi, who calls her his “girlfriend.” In “First Blossoming,” Chobi’s cat friend Mimi befriends an art student who decides to drop out of school and work at a design office, but faces immense obstacles in pursuing her dream to be a painter. Filmmaker and writer Shinkai ( Your Name) conceives a whimsical and moving linked collection about a group of cats who help their owners find the strength they are unable to see in themselves. ![]() ![]() Written with verve, this book captures the sense of erotic excitement that Paris continues to inspire."-Marilyn Yalom, author of How the French Invented Love and The Social Sex "Renate Stendhal's daring new book throbs with the pulse of Paris in the 1970s. ![]() No matter what age, you'll be young and in love again when you reach the last page. Is sexual obsession a way to avoid the risk of love?įilled with sensuality, style, romance, and suspense, Stendhal plays with the concept of memoir as a genre and transports the reader to another time and place. There are mysteries with and without clues. At the same time, she finds herself in the crosshairs of an alluring stranger who seems to appear everywhere and nowhere at once. She walks Paris at night dressed as a boy, has friends and lovers among artists and writers, and falls under the spell of the mercurial actress Claude, who has all of Paris talking. From Paris's famous opera house to its gossip-rich salons, KISS ME AGAIN, PARIS celebrates youth at the end of the 1970s, when women were in fashion and every woman, gay or straight, fell in love with women.Īuthor Renate Stendhal ekes out a living as a cultural journalist in Europe's most cultured city. Winner of a 2016 WNBA Award, juried by Deirdre Bair. ![]() Nominated for a 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir. Winner of the 2018 International Book Award in the LGBTQ Non-Fiction category. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I just thought the ideas in this book were great. She begins to question everything around her and doesn’t know who to trust. But along the way she starts remembering things, presumably from her old life, even though that shouldn’t be possible. So this story is basically about Kyla being Slated and given a new adopted home. This is to prevent the criminals from reverting back to their old, violent ways. ![]() If they get too sad or too angry, their Levo device knocks them out and can even kill them. This device monitors their emotions and their happiness levels. They start over from scratch, relearn the basics, and most importantly, they are equipped with a “Levo” device. Their memories and personalities are erased and they are given a clean slate. Rather than being put to death or imprisoned for life, they can be “rehabilitated” by being Slated. It takes place in futuristic England where young teenage criminals are given a second chance. ![]() Slated has one of the coolest stories to it. Who can she trust in her search for the truth? Someone is lying to her, and nothing is as it seems. But echoes of the past whisper in Kyla's mind. The government claims she was a terrorist, and that they are giving her a second chance - as long as she plays by their rules. Genre: Dystopian, Mystery, Science Fiction Published by: Orchard Books on May 3, 2012 ![]() ![]() I mean this man is so brilliant I'm starting to turn into a dithering fanboy when reading his books. Coetzee said of Borges: "He, more than anyone, renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish American novelists." His work was translated and published widely in the United States and in Europe. In 1961, he came to international attention when he received the first International Publishers' Prize Prix Formentor. In 1955, he was appointed director of the National Public Library (Biblioteca Nacional) and professor of Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. He was a target of political persecution during the Peron regime, and supported the military juntas that overthrew it.ĭue to a hereditary condition, Borges became blind in his late fifties. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in Surrealist literary journals. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1914, his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school and traveled to Spain. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo, usually referred to as Jorge Luis Borges (Spanish pronunciation: ), was an Argentine writer and poet born in Buenos Aires. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book closes on that somber and poignant note. There was scarcely a cloud in sight through this period until, in 1958, he was drafted into the army and his mother died shortly thereafter. These were the years of his improbable self-invention and unprecedented triumphs, when it seemed that everything that Elvis tried succeeded wildly. This volume tracks the first twenty-four years of Elvis' life, covering his childhood, the stunning first recordings at Sun Records ("That's All Right," "Mystery Train"), and the early RCA hits ("Heartbreak Hotel," "Hound Dog," "Don't Be Cruel"). Based on hundreds of interviews and nearly a decade of research, it traces the evolution not just of the man but of the music and of the culture he left utterly transformed, creating a completely fresh portrait of Elvis and his world. Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley is the first biography to go past that myth and present an Elvis beyond the legend. From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Louis Wu, Speaker for animals, and Hindmost (the former Puppeteer leader) return to the Ringworld and discover that the Ringworld was built by protectors – the adult form to which humans are larva. Most particularly, in response to the MIT students who chanted “The Ringworld is unstable”, Niven made restoring the stability of the Ringworld a major plot point. Niven wrote the Ringworld Engineers, partially in response to people who kept finding problems with the science in the first book. They have various adventures exploring the Ring before figuring out a way around the meteor defenses to get their ship home (except for Teela Brown who stays behind.) ![]() In the original Ringworld, Louis Wu and his companions (the ferocious kzin Speaker to Animals, the cowardly Pierson’s Puppeteer, and the lucky human Teela Brown) crash on the giant Ringworld – essentially all the planets in a solar system forged into one giant ring. ![]() Unfortunately, it depends on the reader having an understanding of the previous books, asĬhildren opens pretty much where Throne left off. Ringworld's Children never rises to the heights of Ringworld or even Engineers, it is much better than Throne. Ringworld is of course a classic in the field, the Ringworld Engineers is a very good sequel but not up the standards of the first book, and the Ringworld Throne, well, the less said the better. 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