![]() ![]() Alice, 16, is a budding mystery writer (whose future fame will equal Agatha Christie’s), but in 1933 she’s nursing a teenage crush on Ben, an impecunious gardener. Meanwhile, their children, Deborah, Alice and Clemmie, frolic on the grounds, oblivious to their parents’ difficulties. ![]() But when Anthony goes to war, he returns shell-shocked and prone to unpredictable outbursts. ![]() The story ricochets among 2003, 1911, and 1933 as we learn that Eleanor deShiel, who inspired a children’s book reminiscent of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, became the chatelaine of Loeanneth thanks to a Downton Abbey– esque plot twist in which, due to the Titanic disaster, new husband Anthony Edevane inherits enough money to reclaim her birthright from creditors. She retreats to her grandfather’s house in Cornwall, and there, while jogging, she happens upon the ruin of what locals inform her is Loeanneth, the ancestral lakeside manse of the deShiel family. In 2003, Sadie is put on administrative leave from her post with the London police force for getting too involved in a child-abandonment case. A suspected kidnapping, a once-proud manor house, and a disgraced police officer all figure in Morton’s latest multigenerational Cornish saga. ![]()
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Will is good natured and naïve Jim is surly and withdrawn. More horror than fantasy, it tells the story of Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade, two friends born just minutes apart, the former on Halloween, the latter on All Saint's Day. Ray Bradbury is perhaps most famous for stories about burning books and killing butterflies in primordial jungles, but Something Wicked This Way Comes is very different. After all, what can be said now that forty years of precedent hasn't already covered? Ray Bradbury's dark tale of gothic intrigue set against a background of nostalgic American life was first published over four decades ago, and since then has re-emerged countless times, most notably as a 1983 Disney movie and now as this, the latest in the excellent Fantasy Masterworks series. ![]() It's always hard reviewing something that has the word "classic" firmly attached to it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story quilts served as vehicles for merging together the narrative components of her family’s oratory tradition with the historical content of the African-American experience from various female perspectives. ![]() Through the mediums of sculpture and painting on fabrics, Ringgold wilfully revolted against the mainstream advents of art, making haunting figurines of masks and bodies that expressed the horrific nature of racial oppression in America, especially vis-à-vis stories of drug abuse, physical violence, and female oppression.īeginning in the 1980s, Ringgold began to create her notorious ‘story quilts’, for which she gained international recognition. ![]() Faith Ringgold has been instrumental in weaving African-American lives and artworks into the fabric of the Western art historical canon. During the late 1960s and 1970s Ringgold served as a key leader in the activist movements protesting in proto-feminist artist campaigns and producing works that promoted Black Power in order to redefine and reclaim her African-American identity.īy the 1970s and beyond, much of Ringgold’s work was inspired by the non-Western traditions of African mask making and Tibetan thangkas, whereby she began to explore the medium of fabric to create three-dimensional forms and enliven her figures. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Shall I issue the general evacuation order?” ![]() “It’s going to be a hard one, sir.” The man fidgeted, drawing the collar of his jacket tighter around his neck. “You’re saying we should pack up and drive back to Mantell?” They’re advising all surface teams to return to the nearest base.” “Cuvier’s just issued a severe weather advisory for the whole North Nekhebet landmass. The man’s voice was muffled behind his breather mask. “Confirmation, sir,” said one of his team, emerging from the crouched form of the first crawler. But it would take only one good dustfall-one good razorstorm-to fill the shafts almost to the surface. ![]() A million years of stratified geological history pressed against the sheets. ![]() The shafts went down tens of metres, walled by transparent cofferdams spun from hyperdiamond. The archaeological dig was an array of deep square shafts separated by baulks of sheer-sided soil: the classical Wheeler box-grid. Sylveste stood on the edge of the excavation and wondered if any of his labours would survive the night. ONE Mantell Sector, North Nekhebet, Resurgam, Delta Pavonis system, 2551 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A master of the story cycle form which Sherwood Anderson put his stamp on with Winesburg, Ohio, Strout has at this point pretty much out-Winesburged him with her cumulative, time-lapse portrait of the people of Crosby, Maine. In book after book, from Amy and Isabelle to Anything is Possible, she's plumbed the heartaches and headaches of her characters, capturing their regrets, their moments of grace, and their flawed humanity with clear-eyed compassion. Well, that Elizabeth Strout! She continues to amaze (if no longer surprise) me. Explaining the genesis of her sequel, Strout has written, "That Olive! She continues to surprise me, continues to enrage me, continues to sadden me, and continues to make me love her." Like a base coat of paint, it adds depth and helps the finish colors pop. You don't have to have read Olive Kitteridge to appreciate Olive, Again, but you'll probably want to. Ten years after Elizabeth Strout won a Pulitzer Prize for her eponymous collection of linked stories about Olive Kitteridge, a difficult but endearing, retired but not retiring middle school math teacher, she returns to coastal Maine with an update - which is just as wonderful as the original. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Olive, Again Author Elizabeth Strout ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dresden deduces that Michael Carpenter and Murphy will be attacked next but arrives too late, managing to scare the Nightmare away only after he's already hurt Murphy and arriving again too late to stop the demon from kidnapping Michael Carpenter's wife Charity. Awakening, he finds out that the Nightmare's dream attack was potent-he's been drained of much of his magic. Helping Murphy and Father Forthill with the hunted Lydia, Dresden is attacked by vampires and sent into a narcotic slumber, dreaming of being attacked by a demon called the Nightmare, who appears to be allied with Kravos, a sorcerer he, Murphy, and Michael Carpenter arrested after the events of Fool Moon. He's politically required to go, but forbids Rodriguez to follow, despite her reporter's curiosity. Set a year after the events of Fool Moon, Dresden and his friend Michael Carpenter do some ghost hunting and then are nearly captured by his overprotective faerie godmother the Leanansidhe, escaping only to be arrested by the Chicago police.ĭresden is bailed out by his girlfriend Susan Rodriguez, and receives an official invitation to represent the White Council at a Red Court vampire party. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There is just the right amount of focus on Zane’s addictions, his efforts to get and stay clean, and Ty’s efforts to support him without enabling. Zane’s wife passed away while he was away on an assignment, and he’s been an alcoholic, drug-addicted mess ever since. He has gotten in trouble in the past, and is putting on a front to convince himself and the SAIC that he’s worthy of better assignments. I’m not really going to go into much of the cases they are assigned, except when it helps to show examples.Īs buttoned up as Zane is, it’s all a front. He is buttoned up, he’s a “yes, sir” man, and hates everything Ty seems to stand for on sight. Ty looks unkempt, has a laissez-faire attitude, and talks back. Ty and Zane are FBI agents who are partnered up, albeit very unhappily. I was so pulled into this series that the second I finished one book, I immediately went and bought the next one. I finally bit the bullet last week, and oh, how I’m glad I did. It’s been on my TBR list for a couple years now. And every time I read a review of a book in the series, I’m always intrigued. I have been hearing wonderful things about this series for a few years now. ![]() ![]() ![]() The technological advances – the telephone, the lightbulb, x-rays, etc – were breathtaking in their ingenuity as well as their potential impact on every day life. This period in American industry is remarkable. ![]() The Last Days of Night actually a very interesting and well crafted story. Based on that description, you might be thinking *yawn*, but stay with me! The Last Days of Night is a novel based on the battle between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse to establish some of the standards for the emerging electricity infrastructure during the late 1880’s. ![]() (This in no way affects the honesty of my reviews!) All commissions will be donated to the ALS Association. As an Amazon Associate I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. This post may contain Amazon Affiliate links. ![]() ![]() The play debuted in London on 27 December 1904 with Nina Boucicault, daughter of playwright Dion Boucicault, in the title role. Barrie continued to revise the play for years after its debut until publication of the play script in 1928. The play and novel were inspired by Barries friendship with the Llewelyn Davies family. The Peter Pan stories also involve the characters Wendy Darling and her two brothers, Peters fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, and the pirate Captain Hook. Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous yet innocent little boy who can fly, and has many adventures on the island of Neverland that is inhabited by mermaids, fairies, Native Americans and pirates. ![]() Barries most famous work, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel. ![]() Book Synopsis Now published by Wisehouse Classics, this is the unabridged Anniversary Edition of the original 1911 published novel Peter and Wendy (or Peter Pan) with the original therteen illustrations by F. ![]() About the Book Now published by Wisehouse Classics, this is the unabridged Anniversary Edition of the original 1911 published novel Peter and Wendy (or Peter Pan) with the original therteen illustrations by F. ![]() |