![]() I liked the unique take on the story as a whole. A cute, quick read, but not as good as the first one in this “series”. Prepare for an adventure of Gothic proportions, in which all is not as it seems, a certain gentleman is hiding more than skeletons in his closets, and one orphan Jane Eyre, aspiring author Charlotte Brontë, and supernatural investigator Alexander Blackwood are about to be drawn together on the most epic ghost hunt this side of Wuthering Heights. Despite their significant age gap (!) and his uneven temper (!!), they fall in love-and, Reader, she marries him. After a miserable childhood, penniless orphan Jane Eyre embarks on a new life as a governess at Thornfield Hall. Image & Other Reviews on: Goodreads BOOK SUMMARY: ![]() ![]() Audience: YA, no language, a kiss scene, minor violenceĪuthor: Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows, & Brodi Ashton ![]()
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Human Croquet, Emotionally Weird and Started Early, Took My Dog – the titles would be the best thing about her novels, if the novels didn’t happen to be very, very good. TS Eliot said that Nathaniel Hawthorne “had even the minor token of literary genius, the genius for titles”, and the same is true of Kate Atkinson. ![]() ![]() ![]() They took us with our white silk kimonos twisted up high over our heads and we were sure we were about to die. "They took us by the elbows and said quietly, 'It's time.' They took us before we were ready and the bleeding did not stop for three days. Occasionally a single voice will break through and the effect is startlingly good. Otsuka makes no distinction between them, relying on the rhythm of her words to pull the reader along. Some of the women's experiences are harrowing, some stilted, some humorous. In a devastating chapter entitled "First Night", Otsuka recounts the physical consummation of these new relationships. The reality that confronts the women deals a blow from which they never fully recover. When they arrive, they are disillusioned by "the crowd of men in knit caps and shabby black coats waiting for us down below on the dock… the photographs we had been sent were 20 years old." The opening chapter sets the scene on the boat as the women make their crossing to America, clutching photos of the handsome young men they believe to be their new husbands. ![]() ![]() ![]() What followed was nearly half a decade behind bars. In January of 2000, as an acute methamphetamine addiction devoured any vestige of Hosoi's career in skateboarding, federal agents arrested him at Honolulu International Airport with 600 grams of crystal meth in his hip-bag. These days, the 44-year-old pastor, husband, father, and two-time X Games Skateboard Park Legends gold medalist believes just the opposite: It was prison. Or at least that's what Hosoi believed at the time. ![]() For a young skateboarder pulling down 25 grand a month, lapping the planet to ride contests and demos, and living in an historic estate off Sunset Boulevard, life was filled with limitless freedom. ![]() It's all there: the endless partying the cocksure womanizing the ostentatious displays of wealth. Looking back on his life as one of the top skateboarders in history, Christian Hosoi paints a picture of wild popularity and extravagance in his memoir, "Hosoi," released today by HarperCollins Publishers. ![]() You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her deft handling of a reluctant princess resulted in a Newbery Honor Book citation for This author envisioned the uniquely magical world of Bayern in It may be the twenty-first century, but in the evocative literary landscape created by author Shannon Hale, the world is populated by a kindhearted princess who can communicate with animals, a forest maiden who knows the language of fire, and an unassuming spy who helps keep the peace between two kingdoms. The creator of kindhearted princesses and magical worlds talks about the inspirations and challenges in her writing. 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A definite beach book, but not so trashy that you'd feel guilty reading it in public. You will definitely lose sleep when you obsessively stay up all night reading "just one more chapter." It's just addicting. You might throw your copy against a wall in frustration over a character's actions. Sidney Sheldon is a surprisingly talented writer, and the plot twists are many and dramatic. "How can you possibly rate this soap opera of a novel as highly as The Bell Jar?! You have lost all credibility now that you've included pseudo-romance novels on your goodreads list!"Īll I can say is, this book is the literary equivalent of crack. ![]() ![]() ![]() For she is determined not to ever have to keep the account books any longer, not to have to figure out how to provide for her family. She has a list of prerequisites, including that he must be wealthy, English and amiable. ![]() They are almost married, after all! Annabel Essex has one thing on her mind.marriage, but not just any marriage. ![]() So what cruel twist of fate put her in a carriage on her way to Scotland with just that impoverished earl and all the world thinking they're man and wife? Sleeping in the same bed? Not to mention the game of words started by the earl - in which the prize is a kiss. Isn't she lucky? She's found just the man! And her chosen spouse is nothing like the impoverished Scottish Earl of Ardmore, who has nothing but his gorgeous eyes, his brain - and his kisses - to recommend him. Good-looking would be nice, but not necessary. London is the center of the civilized world, and Annabel has a passion for silk and hot water. She's had enough of leaky roofs and thread-worn clothing. The RULES OF MARRIAGE.according to Miss Annabel Essex ![]() The second book in James's Four Sisters series after Much Ado About You! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And the other reason is that there's no cruelty in the man. One reason for this is that Vonnegut's inexplicables are admirably plain, homely, abundant, up front there's no epistemological complication, few philosophical conundrums, just the improbable mess of any probable human week. I know that on some days this very odd writer is good medicine, whatever one's age: on the day when, for instance, you hear that the shelling hasn't stopped, or that the liveliest young mind in your acquaintance can't find work, or that it's been decided, in the newspapers, that the operations mutilating a loved one are no longer regarded as correct procedures. In a long and lavish review of Deadeye Dick for The New York Times - one marked, appropriately enough, by a retrospective mood - Benjamin DeMott addresses Vonnegut's detractors and offers a lovely summation of what marvelous gifts he offers to readers of all kinds, along with a prediction of how their (and perhaps your) appreciation for his work might evolve in time: ![]() ![]() ![]() Mann’s fondness for bears defies century, as he waxes equally eloquent about J.E.B. For those unfamiliar with Mann’s oeuvre, there are three things to remember:Īll three of these topics emerge repeatedly (as do others, of course), and not in isolation. Readers of Mann will know that he is no stranger to this bloody conflict: in 2012 he published Purgatory, a novel about a star-crossed romance between Privates Campbell and Conrad, soldiers for the Confederacy and the Union, respectively in 2014, he completed the story of their romance (and trek to West Virginia at war’s end) in Salvation, winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Romance. ![]() In time for the sesquicentennial of the ending of the American Civil War, Jeff Mann has given us Rebels, a volume of poetry inspired by those four bloody years, seen through a queer lens. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Apollo - stunned by the realization that there are things mortals understand better than he does - has arranged to live a human life, and has come to the City as one of the children. The teacher Maia was once Ethel, a young Victorian lady of much learning and few prospects, who prayed to Pallas Athene in an unguarded moment during a trip to Rome - and, in an instant, found herself in the Just City with grey-eyed Athene standing unmistakably before her. The student Simmea, born an Egyptian farmer's daughter sometime between 5 A.D, is a brilliant child, eager for knowledge, ready to strive to be her best self. ![]() Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community, populated by over ten thousand children and a few hundred adult teachers from all eras of history, along with some handy robots from the far human future - all set down together on a Mediterranean island in the distant past. ![]() |