![]() ![]() ![]() Impossible to put down and impossible to stop thinking about, this book is more than special-it is vital. A necessary book for readers of all ages. Heartbreaking and ultimately empowering, this book should be read by every kid as well as the adults who care about them.” - Anne Ursu, author of Breadcrumbs and The Real Boy ![]() ![]() But just like the adults in her life, and God, and her friends, the magic Lydia deeply believes in eventually loses its power to keep her safe.Īnd as seventh grade begins, Lydia wonders: Is there a secret to figuring out how to be a girl in the world? Lydia hopes to find a little bit of magic in their new home. Then her mom surprises her by buying a dilapidated house in their neighborhood. Even more confusing is when Jeremy hovers too close and hugs a little too long. Her cousin and friends think she should be flattered, but the boys-and sometimes her mom’s boyfriend, Jeremy-make Lydia uncomfortable and confused. Lydia hasn’t felt comfortable in her own skin since the boys at her school started commenting on the way she looks in her uniform. Perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead, Laurel Snyder, or Ali Benjamin! From the critically acclaimed author of the ALA Notable and Charlotte Huck Honor Book Forever, or a Long, Long Time comes a poignant coming-of-age novel about the complicated parts of growing up, finding your voice, and claiming your space. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Content:ĭominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements: However, DOCTOR SLEEP has a strong, abhorrent occult worldview and contains strong foul language, disturbing violence and two scenes with extreme nudity. For example, self-sacrifice occurs, people are encouraged to help other people, and the Serenity Prayer is partly recited. DOCTOR SLEEP has some positive moral, redemptive content. As the teenage girl, Ryliegh Curran also turns in a terrific performance. As Danny, Ewan McGregor creates a sympathetic hero. Danny must use them to help a teenage girl with psychic powers defeat the evil cult.ĭOCTOR SLEEP has a strong, suspenseful plot structure. Consequently, his psychic powers have returned. An alcoholic, Danny’s been sober for eight years. Danny’s mentor, a dead man who’s now a ghost, helps Danny stave off the ghosts of the Overlook Hotel. The opening reveals an evil cult with psychic powers is preying on children with similar powers. ![]() DOCTOR SLEEP is a horror sequel to THE SHINING, both Stephen King’s original book and Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 movie starring Jack Nicholson. ![]() ![]() ![]() And with her we experience the mental hospital where, held against her will, she is faceless, invisible to the attendants, social workers, doctors. ![]() With her we experience the New York where Latinos live today without money or hope of it where food, cleanliness, order, and peacefulness are Sunday luxuries where life-force translates as violence. A Chicana in New York City, she is in her mid-thirties, once beautiful, now worn and disheveled, once a college girl, now a pickpocket, both loving mother and “child abuser” (her child taken from her), a mourning widow (unmarried), a heroically sane woman labeled insane. ![]() The woman “on the edge of time” is Consuelo (Connie) Ramos. ![]() With a power and truth that rock us - and through the medium of a woman who becomes vitally alive, important, and dear to us - Marge Piercy moves between a revelation of our present society and a startling twin projection of the possible future. ![]() ![]() ![]() As an informant, he claimed that he offered non-detrimental information on the political views of many of his close friends. He also claimed that he had been persecuted, and physically abused by the same Securitate as a member of the Jassy Group of anti-communist intellectuals, which included Dan Petrescu, Liviu Antonesei, Luca Pițu and others. In a 2006 open letter published in the Bucharest-based 22 review, Antohi admitted to having collaborated with the Securitate, the secret police in Communist Romania, during the 1970s and the 1980s. ![]() In 2018, he became a member of the Academia Europaea. Antohi was part of the Presidential Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania at the bequest of its chair, Vladimir Tismăneanu, before resigning in May 2006. Institute for Historical Studies, where he pursued many scholarly activities. He taught history at the University of Michigan, at the University of Bucharest, and at the Central European University of Budapest (since 1995). He received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Iași and a DEA from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Sorin Antohi (born 20 August 1957) is a Romanian historian, essayist, and journalist.Īntohi was born in Târgu Ocna, Bacău County. ![]() ![]() ![]() Elizabeth Evans (Nina) and Lauren Fortgang (Inej) were brilliant and well cast to the characters. Now for the narrators.anytime it gets past 2 narrators I find it distracting. Yeah it felt a bit gratuitous on Leigh's part but I enjoyed it anyway. Ok.one tiny spoiler which made me VERY HAPPY is Kaz and the crew get help from some very special characters of the Grisha trilogy. Don't want to provide any spoilers but the journey to the end is worth it. ![]() Not my favorite style of writing but Leigh pulls it off well in both books. As with Six of Crows the book continues with each character providing their POV. It is the ending of the duology which could have easily been a trilogy.my selfish want as I love the world Leigh has built. Leigh Bardugo does not disappoint in Crooked Kingdom the sequel to Six of Crows. Storytelling at its finest! L.Bardugo is a master ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s comfortable talking with Robyn about his past life and name, and how he’s now living authentically as a man. ![]() John takes Robyn under his wing because he used to be the blacksmith’s wife and knows what it’s like to build a new life outside the eyes of Nottingham’s society. The first person Robyn meets in the woods is Little John, a giant, burly trans man who could beat the shit out of anyone. And these bandits? They’re on a mission to prevent the largest tax in England’s history from taking down everyone they know and love. We see how she goes from being a bow and arrow maker in Nottingham to the leader of a group of bandits in Sherwood Forest. ![]() Not like these ones, even if I did think about them every so often while reading Nottingham. That said, it’s specifically the queer rep that’s joyful and not much else, because this is a gritty adventure story where the only foxes in it are ones that get hunted. Have you ever said to yourself “I want to read a Robin Hood story, but full of lesbians and other queer people?” Well, good news! Because that’s exactly what Nottingham is! I couldn’t have come up with a more joyfully queer interpretation of it if I’d tried. Genre: Fantasy/Fairy Tale Romance, Historical: European, LGBTQIA, Romance, Science Fiction/FantasyĬW: self-harm, threat of sexual violence, passing reference to possible actual sexual violence against a young girl ![]() ![]() ![]() Skyla is available and open to messages on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and here on Goodreads, and you can also contact her via email Website: Facebook: Join my Minxes: Skyla Madi is a twenty-something international bestselling author of a mixed bag of hot romance! Other hobbies and passions include: - Drinking coffee - Reading romance - Eating cake - and writing for her husband's independent comic book series. Skyla Madi is a twenty-something international bestselling author of a mixed bag of hot romance! Though signed with Hawaiian based publishing companies, Limitless Publishing & Crave publishing, Skyla lives in sunny Queensland, Australia, where she spends most her time indoors writing with one hand and raising her three children with the other. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.Īssociations: Margaret Atwood was President of the Writers' Union of Canada from May 1981 to May 1982, and was President of International P.E.N., Canadian Centre (English Speaking) from 1984-1986. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth in the Massey series, appeared in 2008, and her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, in the autumn of 2009. ![]() Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. ![]() She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College. Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. ![]() ![]() ![]() Oryx is also the father of the dreaded Crota, a deadly Hive Prince who slew thousands of Guardians during the Great Disaster, Nokris, his estranged firstborn and herald of the Worm God Xol, as well as two Deathsingers and inventors of the Oversoul, twins Ir Anûk and Ir Halak.Įnraged at the death of Crota, Oryx traveled to the Sol System aboard his Dreadnaught seeking revenge but was defeated by the Guardian and escaped to his throne world. Of all the Hive gods, he alone held the power to bend other races to his will through the power to Take. Reborn in the Darkness itself through a wicked pact with the Worm Gods, Oryx is the founder of the Hive race alongside his sisters and fellow deities, Savathûn, the Witch Queen and Xivu Arath, God of War. ![]() ![]() Oryx, the Taken King, born Aurash and formerly known as Auryx (meaning "Long Thought" ), was the sovereign of the Osmium Throne, the God-King of the Hive, and the master of the Taken. Hear me, O waning stars, O tattered rags of Sky - I will stopper up this tearing gulf with vengeance." - Oryx Where once his tender tribute whetted burrowed mouths, now only hunger remains. " Where is my son? Where is Crota, your lord, your princely god, your godly prince? Tell me no lies! I feel his absence like a hole in my stomach. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This changed when I got an email from them, including an episode list. Maybe it’s the strong “NSFW!” marketing Netflix is pushing, but I wasn’t that interested in it from the get-go. 18 short science fiction films, from 6 to 20 minutes long each, exploring the themes in the anthology title. If you walk in any of the same circles as I, you’ve likely heard about Netflix’s new animated anthology, Love Death + Robots. Today we’ll be taking up way too much space to look into the short film, Beyond the Aquila Rift, and compare it to the 2005 short story of the same name by Alastair Reynolds. What did they change that worked? What did they not change that they could have? What made it tick? Time to take a deep dive and find out. So when I found out that a short story I enjoy was turned into a short film, I checked it out… and found myself in the middle. You’ve all heard it before: “The book was better!” countered by a smaller but no less vocal, “The book sucked, the film streamlined the story and made it so much better!” (Okay, a much smaller group there, but still.) Middle ground is hard to find, it seems. ![]() There’s a general narrative that goes around the internet when any adaptation, particularly book-to-film, drops. ![]() |
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