Hogfather6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In the interest of knowledge, a wizard hurries up to interview him about what happened, only to be pulled away by Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully. Teatime - a very bad man, warped and bloodless (although he’s shed a great deal of other people’s blood) - pops up, stunned and speechless, in the midst of the wizards at the Unseen University. Near the end of his 1996 novel Hogfather, Mr. Terry Pratchett was someone in love with humanity, recognizing the human tendency to heroism and compassion as well as greed and cruelty.įor all his goofiness and childishness on his Discworld pages, he’s never not serious. ![]() He’s the impish, slightly knowing guide, leading his readers on journeys into the heart of a strange, strange place - humanity. He plays with language, he plays with characters, he plays with descriptions, he plays with footnotes, and he plays with the reader. His 41 Discworld fantasy novels are the height of playfulness. Terry Pratchett - who died in 2015 at the age of 66 from Alzheimer’s - played for keeps. ![]()
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![]() "My child, I will take you into hell by My Spirit, and I will show you many things which I want the world to know. The powers of darkness are real and My judgments are true. He said, " I am Jesus Christ, your Lord, and I wish to give you a revelation to prepare the saints for My return and to turn many to righteousness. It was a spectacular sight! And then the voice of the Lord began to speak to me. ![]() Lights flowed in billows, rolling and folding into one another and rolling over and out of each other. A brilliant light illuminated the room where I was praying, and a sweet and wonderful feeling came over me. His power and His glory filled the house. I had been praying in the Spirit for days when all at once I felt the very presence of God. In March 1976 while I was praying at home, I had a visit from the Lord Jesus Christ. ![]() Sarah j maas heir of fire series6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Not only is it in itself pretty huge (standing at over 550 pages!) but it's entire presence on me as a person was huge. The writing is so immersive that we become the story. ![]() We see her gasping for air and find that our chests are as tight as hers. We are introduced to a new character, Rowan, who becomes her best friend as well as our own. We hear of her regrets and we cry along with her, we hear of her deepest darkest feelings and it feels as if they are our own. ![]() How she was once a princess awaiting her time to be queen, trying her hardest to not ruin her family and how she was deeply in love with someone that is now dead. We learn more about her past as a slave and her life before she became an assassin. Instead of having her be a heroine that was unreachable and undeniably perfect, she was truly real and showed feelings and emotions so deep that they had me trying not to cry. Her faults were true and her feelings were relatable. Her development as a character played a huge role in the quality of the story as she wasn't the all knowing, all amazing character that I often find myself reading about. It was incredibly interesting to hear more about Celaena as a person and not just as a gorgeous assassin. This book is very different to the other two, it's less about romance and more about deep, raw emotions. ![]() Solenoid mircea cartarescu review6/28/2023 ![]() As anyone left stunned after an encounter with Borges’s “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” or Kafka’s “A Country Doctor” will testify, well-executed high-concept short fiction can be a powerful force. For how can one deny the case for narrative concision made by Kafka’s best stories or Borges’s corpus? The stories of the classic 20th-century dream weavers knock readers out of balance with everyday reality, only to hustle them, still dazed, out of the textual and back into the real world. Borges’s maxim expresses a kind of anxiety every reader must contend with before committing to such a mammoth text: is reading this going to be worth the effort? And, especially in the domain of surrealist literature, the question seems especially apropos. Romanian surrealist Mircea Cărtărescu is an avowed devotee of Borges, though his novel Solenoid - released in English in October by Deep Vellum Press (translated by Sean Cotter) - is a vast book, not just 500 pages, but significantly more. ![]() ![]() IN THE INTRODUCTION to the 1941 publication of his The Garden of Forking Paths, Jorge Luis Borges famously contends that “it is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books - setting out in five hundred pages an idea that can be perfectly related orally in five minutes.” ![]() Ruined series paula morris6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() When her dad gets a job contract in China for six months, he has no choice but to send Rebecca off to Louisiana to stay with his good friend Claudia and her daughter Aurelia, as they are the closest thing to family the Browns have. Rebecca and her father are inseparable – after the death of her mother when she was a child, she and her father are the only family each other has in the wide world. When Rebecca Brown lands in New Orleans, she realizes that she is a long, long way from her Central Park West apartment in New York City. Will Rebecca be able to right the wrongs of the past, or has everything been ruined beyond repair? There’s just one catch: Lisette is a ghost.Ī ghost with a deep, dark secret, and a serious score to settle.Īs Rebecca learns more from her ghost friend - and as she slowly learns to trust Anton Grey - she also uncovers startling truths about her own history. Sweet, mysterious Lisette is eager to talk to Rebecca, and to show her the nooks and crannies of the city. Then one night, in Lafayette Cemetery, Rebecca makes a friend. Only gorgeous, unavailable Anton Grey seems to give Rebecca the time of day, but she wonders if he’s got a hidden agenda. And at the snooty prep school, the filthy-rich girls treat Rebecca like she’s invisible. She’s staying in a creepy old house with her aunt. ![]() Rebecca couldn’t feel more out of place in New Orleans, where she comes to spend the year while her dad is traveling. ![]() Cairo by G. Willow Wilson6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Based on the similarly named Meccan poet. Ta'abatta Sharran - A spirit inhabiting the city's ruins, appears as a bearded man wrapped in two great snakes. While in Cairo, Wilson was a freelance music critic for DigBoston (known as The.Kate - A somewhat naive American tourist and aspiring journalist.Jibreel - A dissident journalist often censored by the government.Shams - A centuries-old djinn, protector of a box containing East.Shaheed - A Lebanese-American would-be terrorist. ![]() ![]() Tova - An Israeli Army special forces soldier assigned to the border for her refusal to serve in the occupied territories. A stolen hookah, a spiritual underworld, and a genie on the run change the lives of five strangers forever in this modern fable set on the streets of the.Wilson is horrified, though her new family in Cairo is entirely unsurprised - after all, theyve been living under Mubarak government harassment is a normal state of affairs. The story is set in contemporary Cairo, and follows six characters as they are drawn into the intrigue surrounding a stolen hookah, a box containing East and the Under-Nile of legend. Wilsons friends from the States, once they connect with her in Cairo, are harassed and detained by the US government. Perker, and published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics. ![]() Feeling Happy by Amber Bullis6/28/2023 ![]() Emotions in children - Juvenile literature.Vibrant, full-colour photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they learn more about emotions.Įmotions in children - Juvenile literature ![]() Book Info Ages: 8-10 Read time: 5-20 mins AR LEVEL: 2. Social and emotional learning (SEL) concepts support growth mindset throughout, while Try This! and Grow with Goals activities at the end of the book further reinforce the content. Mindfulness in Nature Author: Amber Bullis, MLIS Start Reading In this book, early fluent readers will learn about mindfulness and discover how easily it can be applied to their daily lives and time in nature. ![]() In this book, readers will discover how to recognise happiness in themselves and others, how to best respond to it, and how to communicate about these feelings. What is happiness? - What happiness looks and feels like - Happiness in others. This edition is co-published by agreement between Jump! and World Book, Inc. Social and emotional learning (SEL) concepts support growth mindset throughout, while Try This and Grow with Goals activities at the end of the book further reinforce the content. ![]() We have new and used copies available, in 1 editions - starting at 51.13. 24 pages : colour illustrations, portraits 24 cm We all feel happy, angry, nervous, afraid, or sad sometimes. Feeling Happy Bullis, Amber, ''In this book, readers will discover how to recognize happiness in themselves and others, how to best respond to it, and how to communicate about these feelings. Buy Feeling Mad by Amber Mlis Bullis online at Alibris. ![]() My Heart Stood Still by Lynn Kurland6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Iolanthe is being chased by a ghostly Bad Other Man, Connor MacDougal. Then there’s also Duncan McLeod, no mention in the family tree. There’s also Ambrose, who seems to be a ghost matchmaker, and his name is in the family tree in this book too. Apparently he has the gift of seeing ghosts, inherited from… uh… his father Fulbert, whose name is on the family tree but there’s no mention of Fulbert’s wives or anything. He is shocked to find the castle teaming with ghosts. Anyway, he decides to head over the castle to do some R&R and maybe remodel the castle with his millions. He owns a castle in Scotland where his sister has some romantic experience there… I think. ![]() Life is so tough being a rich, beautiful, and comfortable dude. He has climbed Mount Everest, he has too much money, and he is bored. The story begins with Iolanthe being murdered by the man her father gave her to because she refuses to give up the secrets of her home.Ĭut to present day, where Thomas is brooding. My Heart Stood Still is a ghost love story between ghostly Iolanthe MacLeod and human Thomas MacKinnon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Only people with edit permissions on your site will have access. 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Note: To make a private draft, select Create as a private draft. ![]() ![]() ![]() Carabosse curses the princess to prick her finger on a spindle when she is fifteen or sixteen - and die. The seventh fairy chooses to wait until Carabosse has given her gift to give her own. She enters quietly and finds out that she cannot receive a golden casket to dine with like the other fairies, for the king had run out of them. ![]() In Perrault's version, Carabosse was not invited because she had not been seen in a long time - some had thought that she was dead. Over time the name Carabosse was applied to the wicked fairy in "Sleeping Beauty", and she is named as such in Tchaikovsky's famous ballet.Ĭarabosse was one of the fairies who lived in Sleeping Beauty's kingdom - in Perrault's version, she is the eighth fairy, and in the Grimms' version, she is the thirteenth. The name "Carabosse" comes from a similar character in a different fairytale - "The Princess Mayblossom" by Madame d'Aulnoy (who coined the term fairytale). She is named Maleficent in the 1959 Disney adaptation of the fairytale.Ĭarabosse is never given a proper name in either Charles Perrault's "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" or the Brothers Grimm's "Briar Rose". ![]() Carabosse is the name often ascribed to the wicked fairy godmother in the classic fairytale " Sleeping Beauty". ![]() |