Starsight goodreads5/23/2023 ![]() "With this action-packed trilogy opener, Sanderson offers up a resourceful, fearless heroine and a memorable cast."- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review ![]() " nonstop, highflying opener." - Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review Everything Spensa has been taught about her world is a lie.īut Spensa also discovered a few other things about herself-and she'll travel to the end of the galaxy to save humankind if she needs to. When she made it outside the protective shell of her planet, she heard the stars-and it was terrifying. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could happen to her. Spensa is sure there's more to the story. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them. The rumors of his cowardice are true-he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The sequel to the New York Times bestseller Skyward !įrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, Words of Radiance, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive comes the second book in an epic series about a girl with a secret in a dangerous world at war for humanity's future.Īll her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. ![]()
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The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() The stamp honoring the 100th anniversary of his birth and having won Pulitzer Prizes for two plays, and one novel. ![]() Stamp is part of the Literary Art Series. The image shown today is of the Thornton Wilder 1997 Stamp. I’m going to have to find out if he includes from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar the famous three words of “Et tu, Brute?” Thornton Wilder U.S. This novel is one I’m ordering and will be making the time to read it. The novel deals with the characters and events leading to, and culminating in, the assassination of Julius Caesar.” It is, in the author’s words, ‘a fantasia on certain events and persons of the last days of the Roman republic… Historical reconstruction is not among the primary aims of this work’. And from Wikipedia – “ The Ides of March is an epistolary novel by Thornton Wilder that was published in 1948. ![]() The Ides of March Thornton Wilder bookĪt the Thornton Wilder Society website their coverage of The Ides of March novel by Thornton Wilder Plot Summary includes sharing how the documents are arranged into four books. The book published in 1948 uses imagined letters and documents putting together his epistolary novel set in Julius Caesar’s Rome. In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by Shakespeare in Act I, Scene 2 it contains the famous quote with the Soothsayer: This is the same Thornton Wilder whose three-act play of everyday life in American small town Grover’s Corners I recall reading in High School. The Thornton Wilder 1997 Stamp along his book, The Ides of March is today’s March 15th blog post. ![]() Without merit by colleen hoover5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Merit’s misery and sadness are palpable and authentic to the reader, and my heart ached for her as she embarked on a path of self-discovery and self-love. It’s the narrative of a depressed adolescent, and author Colleen Hoover emphasizes the value of family, communication, and self-love. However, her family does not wish to live in a world without merit, and this tale is full of humor and optimism for our protagonist. Merit tries to resolves to take matters into her own hands, and things swiftly spiral downward. Merit’s family and friends gradually start nudging her and hinting she might be depressed, but she refuses to acknowledge she is the one who needs therapy. Even though Merit isn’t aware of it, the reader gradually learns that she is depressed. It is not a regular tale with depth and complexities, it’s more. ![]() To layers and depth of depression and secrets The only bright spot in her life at the moment is an intriguing boy named Sagan, who is off-limits because he is dating Merit’s twin. Merit progressively stops coming to school, begins sleeping throughout the day, and becomes increasingly enraged by her family’s circumstances. She is depressed about her life, acting as if she isn’t a member of her own family, and believing that no one would notice if she didn’t exist. Merit is a feisty, quick-witted adolescent who observes her family from the outside while keeping all of their secrets hidden. A post shared by Colleen Hoover Merit’s depression ![]() Rotten by John Lydon5/22/2023 ![]() Other luminaries include Ad-Rock (Beastie Boys) and Moby. ![]() Hear from Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) about the odyssey he went through when he auditioned to play bass in Public Image Ltd, and when offered the job faced a hard choice whether to stay in the Chili Peppers or not. The infamous Ritz PiL show that turned into a riot. Raise the volume to the max, turn up the bass and get ready to witness a ferocious life chronicled by current and former band members as well as luminaries like Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) as he recounts what he calls, “One of the best gigs I ever saw”. ![]() Through personnel and stylistic changes as well as adhering to radical ideals of artistic integrity, John has not only redefined music but the true meaning of originality. (PiL), where he and the band continue to make exceptional records and tour the world. ![]() After the breakup of the Sex Pistols, John formed Public Image Ltd. Johnny Rotten forever changed music and culture in general. ![]() Dean koontz time travel5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() The warning I have about Koontz books: Beware of picking one up, because you can’t put it down. The protagonists are always regular guys, living in suburban Orange County, California, and weird stuff happens to them. The villains are relentless, brutal, creepy, eerie or scary. All his books start out with a bang on the first page, something bad starts happening to the protagonist right away, and it just gets worse, page after page. ![]() He is a master story-teller and suspense builder. ![]() I read a number of Koontz books some twenty years ago. Today Koontz is the 5th highest paid writer in the world, tied with Grisham, making over $25 million a year from writing. Early on his books were science fiction, but soon he went into supernatural and horror fiction. He was so prolific that he used more than ten pseudonyms, writing as many as eight books a year, in different genres. Dean Koontz published his first novel at the age of 23. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Verbally there is very general agreement for both the general run of men and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness, and identify living well and doing well with being happy but with regard to what happiness is they differ, and the many do not give the same account as the wise. ![]() state, in view of the fact that all knowledge and every pursuit aims at some good, what it is that we say political science aims at and what is the highest of all goods achievable by action. He thinks there is at least a little value in each of the popular conceptions.] ( eudaimonia) found among his fellow Greeks. [In chapters 4 and 5, Aristotle describes the variety of conceptions of happiness August 6, 2002īoldface emphasis and bracketed comments are my additions.- JG Ross Excerpt reproduced here for educational purposes only. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics I, 1 Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethicsīook I, chapters 4-7 (excerpts) Translated by W. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Howard is a smart guy and a professional freelance writer, but his intellect is microscopic in comparison to his younger brother’s. The Stephen King short was originally published in 1986, running in an issue of the science-fiction centric Omni Magazine, but it found a much bigger audience when it was reprinted in the 1993 collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes (opens in new tab) – featured as the second entry after “Dolan’s Cadillac.” It’s a first person narrative that reads as stream of consciousness, with protagonist Howard Fornoy writing the story in the final minutes of his life so that there is a record explaining how it was that the human race became extinct. Instead of everyone dying screaming, everybody dies calm and confused. “The End Of The Whole Mess” is a different kind of apocalypse story. ![]() Julia's Story by Ruth Elwin Harris5/22/2023 ![]() "You can have all the bright colours you want after." "It's only for a little while, wearing black," she said gently. She put her head down on the soft, smooth surface of the table and wept.Īnnie pulled up a stool. Now there was nothing left even her favourite dress had gone. Her lips trembled as the dress disappeared into the dye. It was no good, she should have known it would be no good. "I won't, I won't!" But her voice wavered as she struggled to hold the material. Let me have it now, there's a good girl." "Oh, Miss Sarah," Annie said, "you can't wear yellow - not at a time like this. Please, please, let me keep my yellow dress." "Not my yellow dress!" She fell off the stool, grabbed Annie's arm. ![]() One by one, the happy colours became the dreary black of night until only one garment remained. ![]() She knew it was here, in the kitchen, shivering on a stool, while Annie, like a witch at her cauldron, took the brightly coloured garments from a pile on the table and dropped them one by one into the bubbling copper on the range. She could not pretend tonight that her body was lying in bed upstairs. ![]() One step outside the safe circle of lamplight and she would be trapped, caught in shadowy arms, carried away.Įven in her most terrible dreams she knew that in some way, at some time, there would be an awakening. They lurked in the shadows, all the evil spirits of every fairy story that she had ever read, ghouls, goblins, imps, crowding round the edges of the room, waiting for her to move into the darkness. ![]() The Empty Glass by J.I. Baker5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() With vivid descriptions, palpable atmosphere, and unforgettable characters, debut novelist Valerie Fraser Luesse breathes life into the rural South of the 1960s-a place where ordinary people struggle to find their footing in a social landscape that is shifting beneath their feet. What they discover together will change the small Southern town of Glory, Alabama-forever. ![]() His quest will lead him into parts of town that he knows only through rumors and introduce him to a girl who will change his life. So when Isaac suddenly goes missing, Pete is determined to find out what happened-no matter what it costs him. Though their worlds are as different as black and white, friendship knows no color. When Pete McLean loses his father in the summer of 1962, his friend Isaac is one of the few people he can lean on. ![]() But from Pete's point of view, Isaac's luck had all run out. ![]() Nitter pitter5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Through the years, she has created a wide variety of artwork from animal portraits to wildlife paintings and has illustrated over 75 children’s books, and is published worldwide. She has loved art and animals all her life and has been drawing ever since she could hold a pencil. Robin James is a gifted illustrator and a native of the Pacific Northwest. The winner of the Coors Lumen Award for family values and multiple Children’s Choice Awards, he lives in Austin, TX. Since then, he has written more than 300 books, some under his own name and others using pseudonyms, ranging from picture books to young adult thrillers. Based on the true story of Stephen s horse, Nitter Pitter, who would. Cosgrove went on to create four titles that became the foundation of his best-selling Serendipity series, which has sold over 80 million copies worldwide. Although Nitter Pitter is the best-looking horse on Serendipity Island, he must learn there is more to life than his appearance. ![]() Consequently, he decided to write his own stories. His writing career began in 1973 when, while shopping at bookstores for his three-year-old daughter, he was frustrated by the lack of fun-to-read picture books that also convey positive values. Nitter Pitter de Stephen Cosgrove - English books - commander la livre de la catégorie Enfants et adolescents sans frais de port et bon marché - Ex Libris boutique en ligne. Stephen Cosgrove is one of the best-selling children’s book authors of all time. ![]() |