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6/30/2023 0 Comments Grendel gardner![]() ![]() Throughout the trackless philosophic speculation, the dialogue is witty and often has a highly contemporary tilt: "The whole shit-ass scene was his idea, not mine," says Grendel, disgusted by a sacrificial hero. After the true hero arrives sprouting fiery wings, to deal the death blow, he shows Grendel the reality of both destruction and rebirth. And Grendel continues to observe the illusions of bards, kings, heroes, and soldiers, occasionally eating one. ![]() He hears an old priest put in a word for God as unity of discords, where nothing is lost. Itc listens to a wheezing bore with scales and coils, a pedantic Lucifer, declaim on the relentless complexity of cosmic accident. ![]() But Grendel, the essence of primal violence, is also a learning creature. As in the original, Grendel is a bewildering combination of amorphous threats and grisly specifics - he bellows in the wilds and crunches through hapless inhabitants of the meadhall. Here he has used as a means of discovering man's unsavory ways that muzziest of monsters, Grendel, from the Beowulf chronicle. As in Resurrection (1966) and The Wreckage of Agathon (1970) Gardner demonstrates his agility at juggling metaphysical notions while telling a diverting tale. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Dead until dark book series![]() ![]() Also relevant to plot development is the fact that vampire blood is an addictive and illegal drug which accelerates healing, increases strength, improves the libido, and make the person who drinks it better-looking. This "Great Revelation" was an internationally televised event in which vampires expressed the desire for peaceful coexistence with humans. ![]() However, in the world of the novel, vampires (and other supernatural creatures) are a reality.Īt some point in the recent past, Sookie tells us, the invention of synthetic blood, called Tru Blood, has made it unnecessary for vampires to feed on humans for sustenance, thus allowing the world's previously underground vampire community to reveal its existence to humans. The series began with Dead Until Dark in 2001 with a new installment being published every year. It is set at approximately the same time as the book's publication. Dead Until Dark, published in 2001, is the first novel in Charlaine Harris' series The Southern Vampire Mysteries or Sookie Stackhouse #1ĭead Until Dark, like the rest of the series to which it belongs, is narrated by Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress from the small fictional Louisiana town of Bon Temps, not far from the non-fictional town of Shreveport. ![]() ![]() Ammianus himself was present in the city until a day before its fall. The walls of Amida, built by Constantius II before the Siege of Amida of 359. Ammianus campaigned in the East twice under Ursicinus. ![]() He entered the army at an early age, when Constantius II was emperor of the East, and was sent to serve under Ursicinus, governor of Nisibis in Mesopotamia, and magister militum. Consensus is that Ammianus probably came from a curial family, but it is also possible that he was the son of a comes Orientis of the same family name. ![]() He professes to have been "a former soldier and a Greek" ( miles quondam et graecus), and his enrollment among the elite protectores domestici (household guards) shows that he was of middle class or higher birth. He served in Gaul (Julian) and in the east (twice for Constantius, once under Julian). ![]() Īmmianus served as an officer in the army of the emperors Constantius II and Julian. ![]() The surviving books of his history cover the years 353 to 378. His native language is unknown but he likely knew Greek as well as Latin. Bust of Emperor Constantius II from Syria.Īmmianus was born in the East Mediterranean, possibly in Syria or Phoenicia, around 330. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments All her little secrets review![]() ![]() A proponent of family-oriented media, Treu wanted to make a grounded and character-driven film with a positive message, something he felt contemporary Hollywood was lacking. The film is the second collaboration between Treu and writer Jessica Barondes, having previously teamed up for Disney Channel's Wish Upon a Star (1996). Emily soon finds herself unraveling under the weight of all the secrets, including one of her own. ![]() Complicating Emily's life are her soon-to-be-born sibling and the two teenage brothers (Angarano and Gallagher) who move in next door. ![]() The film follows Emily (played by Wood), a 14-year-old aspiring violinist who runs a secret-keeping booth in her neighborhood, offering the other children advice when they confess their secrets to her. It was produced by TriStar Pictures and stars Evan Rachel Wood, Michael Angarano, and David Gallagher. Little Secrets is a 2001 American comedy-drama family film directed by Blair Treu. ![]() ![]() As a long time fan of Lisa’s, right from buying Ralph’s Party on publication, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on her latest. I actually screamed when I saw the email from NetGalley offering me the chance to read and review this book. 'I predict another number one.' ERIN KELLY, author of He Said, She Said ![]() Totally enthralling.' HARRIET TYCE, author of Blood Orange 'Lisa has certainly done it again with another first class mystery. Lisa Jewell's latest thriller is her best yet. At 4.30am Kim awakens to discover that Tallulah has not come home.įriends tell her that Tallulah was last seen heading to a pool party at a house in the woods nearby called Dark Place.Ģ018: walking in the woods behind the boarding school where her boyfriend has just started as a head-teacher, Sophie sees a sign nailed to a fence.Ī cold case. Midsummer 2017: teenage mum Tallulah heads out on a date, leaving her baby son at home with her mother, Kim.Īt 11pm she sends her mum a text message. "Mum, there's some people here from college, they asked me back to theirs. ![]() ![]() NOW AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER: the brand new twisting page turner from Lisa Jewell, bestselling author of THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS and INVISIBLE GIRL 'I love all Lisa's books, but The Night She Disappeared is by far her best thriller yet.' HARLAN COBEN ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Bob by Wendy Mass![]() ![]() It’s the zombie in a chicken suit inside the closet that lets her know she’s right. ![]() ![]() Now that she’s back, she can’t shake the feeling that she’s forgotten something very, very important. It’s been five years since Livy last visited her grandmother in Australia. And if you can get it to the other side of the board safely, it becomes a much more powerful piece, like a knight or a queen.” “ The pawn protects every other piece on the board,” Bob says, “even though it can’t make as many different moves. Her work has received the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award. Rebecca Stead is the New York Times bestselling author of When You Reach Me, winner of the Newberry Medal Liar & Spy First Light and Goodbye Stranger. Including the Schneider Family Book Award-winner A Mango-Shaped Space: Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life Every Soul a Star the Space Taxi series the Twice Upon a Time series and the Willow Falls series, which began with 11 Birthdays. Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead Illustrated by Nicholas GannonĪbout the authors: Wendy Mass is the New York Times bestselling author of the Candymakers series and many other novels for young readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What makes Flavia such a fun heroine? Through her first-person narration we enjoy her illuminating thought processes - which can take us from the brilliance of Sherlock Holmes to the schemes typical of a young girl seeking revenge on two older sisters who often belittle and torture her. ![]() After following Flavia through her first crime-solving adventure, with five more to come, I say, "Sign me up and bring them on!" Clues and red herrings abound in this classic whodunit, starring eleven-year-old heroine Flavia de Luceįlavia de Luce, an eleven-year-old British sleuth who very recently entered the literary scene, already has a fan club! I'm joining the quickly-growing group of readers who have fallen in love with this winning heroine, penned by septuagenarian debut novelist Alan Bradley. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Young mungo goodreads![]() ![]() His mother is waving good-bye from the window. When the book opens, Mungo is getting on a bus with two questionable-looking men, heading off on a fishing trip up north somewhere. Of course, that makes him a perfect target for Hamish and the other louts of Glasgow’s East End. “Where the freckles and the sallowness looked slightly grubby on her and Hamish, on Mungo it looked so creamy that you wanted to take a spoon to him.” He is also more appealingly attractive, the kind of lad that women want to mother. Mungo is the youngest of Maureen’s three kids, taller than both his violent older brother Hamish and his loving, caring sister, Jodie. Mungo is not Shuggie Bain, grown up, although Mungo’s mother is an alcoholic and they live in Glasgow. He had tried not to laugh when she had said it, but all he could picture was her heart walking around the living room in her chest and folding a white hanky in agitation.” He had been worrying her heart lately, which he knew because she had told him so. “Nothing he did seemed to make her happy. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments The price of salt movie![]() ![]() ![]() Carol, a film adaptation released in 2015, was nominated for six Academy Awards and nine British Academy Film Awards. Ī British radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast in 2014. ![]() It is also notable for being the only one of her novels with "a conventional 'happy ending '" and characters who had "more explicit sexual existences". The Price of Salt (later republished under the title Carol) is a 1952 romance novel by Patricia Highsmith, first published under the pseudonym "Claire Morgan." Highsmith-known as a suspense writer based on her psychological thriller Strangers on a Train-used an alias as she did not want to be tagged as "a lesbian-book writer", and she also used her own life references for characters and occurrences in the story.Īlthough Highsmith wrote over 22 novels and numerous short stories and had many sexual and romantic relationships with women, The Price of Salt is her only novel about an unequivocal lesbian relationship, and its relatively happy ending was unprecedented in lesbian literature. ![]() |