5/24/2023 0 Comments Owly the way homeEqually noteworthy are the expressive drawings and universal lessons of persistence, kindness, and loyalty." - People"Delightfully sweet. A simple but by no means simplistic tale emphasizing the universality of kindness." - Kirkus Reviews "As always, Owly is a steadfast and indispensable friend to everyone he meets, including young readers in search of warmhearted adventure." - School Library Journal"Runton's illustrations glow with vivid and lustrous color, the characters all delightfully expressive." - Publishers Weekly"A cute little tale." - School Library Connection Praise for the Owly series: "Appeals to all ages. Praise for Owly: The Way Home :"Runton's evocative characters are nothing short of huggably adorable and affirm the importance of compassion and empathy against perceived stereotypes.
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Madame bovary("If my book is good," Flaubert wrote to his mistress Louise Colet, "it will gently caress many a feminine wound: More than one woman will smile as she recognizes herself in it.") How a 30-year-old bachelor-one who led a mostly hermetic existence with his widowed mother in provincial Rouen in nineteenth-century France, agonized over every word, and read his work-in-progress aloud to himself as well as to a small audience of attentive male friends-came to invent a woman who is recognizably one of us, whose every gesture and passing thought strikes us as quintessentially female, is among the great artistic mysteries, a literary act of gender-bending if ever there was one. She is every woman who has felt that prosaic reality isn't quite what she bargained for, that marriage is a letdown, and that her specialness goes unappreciated. Madame Bovary," the writer Gustave Flaubert famously said of his most indelible creation, Emma Bovary, the very desperate housewife of Yonville, " c'est moi." The truth is that Emma, with her visions of a grander life and resplendent passions, is me, as well-and you, too, no doubt. Then, the worst happened and Maggie’s life imploded while her fiancee was good as rain after the crash. When in the beginning of the story her fiancée guilt tricked her into climbing into that small and fragile plane he intended to pilot, I was sweating already! This is something irrational and paralyzing and I can guarantee you that Katherine Center wrote exactly what I felt at the idea of climbing into a plane. Sorry but…not sorry for that.įirst, I connected with Maggie on a profound level. That book has so much wisdom, so many inspirational quotes that you’ll find a few in this review. I truly breezed through that book, swept off my feet by Therese Plummer outstanding performance of bringing Margaret or “Maggie’s” live to live. This is my third book by that author and she has become a one-click for me. In the hospital and forced to face the possibility that nothing will ever be the same again, Margaret must figure out how to move forward on her own terms while facing long-held family secrets, devastating heartbreak, and the idea that love might find her in the last place she would ever expect.ĥ stars and exceptional narrator (Therese Plummer) Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she worked for is taken away in one tumultuous moment. Margaret Jacobsen has a bright future ahead of her: a fiancé she adores, her dream job, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Metro 2033 novel englishThe basis of two bestselling computer games Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light, the Metro books have put Dmitry Glukhovsky in the vanguard of Russian speculative fiction. It would take three unlikely heroes to face this menace. A new horrible threat looms that can eradicate the remains of humanity and end our era. And then all can be ruined in matter of days. Stations become city-states that wage trade and war on each other. So they rebuild a strange and grotesque civilization in the tunnels and at the stations of the subway. There's no hope for humans to return to the surface of Earth, to repopulate the forsaken cities, and to become once again the masters of the world they used to be. As the entire civilization was wiped out by atomic bombs and the surface of the planet is polluted with neclear fallout, the only place suitable for men to live are shelters and bunkers, the largest of which is the subway system of Moscow, aka the Metro. The long-awaited sequel to the cult bestseller Metro 2033, the second volume in the Metro trilogy, Metro 2034 continues the story of survival and struggle that unfolds in the mazes of the Moscow subway after WWIII. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Splendid book julia quinn“Don’t be so dramatic,” her father replied. In Julia Quinn's witty, delightful debut, one scandalous Season will change two lives forever.Įmma Dunster’s violet eyes were wide open with shock and dismay. But true love tends to blossom just when one least expects it, and passion can melt even the most stubborn of hearts. She never dreamed she’d find herself in the arms of a dangerously handsome duke… or that he’d be quite so upset when he discovered her true identity. When she slipped out of her cousins’ home, dressed as a kitchen maid, all she wanted was one last taste of anonymity before her debut. But she’s a servant, completely unsuitable for a highborn duke-unless, perhaps, she’s not quite what she seems…Īmerican heiress Emma Dunster might be surrounded by Englishmen, but that doesn’t mean she intends to marry one-even if she has agreed to participate in one London Season. She’s everything Alex never thought a woman could be-smart and funny, principled and brave. That is until a redheaded American throws herself in front of a carriage to save his young nephew’s life. And two, he has no plans to marry anytime soon… There are two things everyone knows about Alexander Ridgeley. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Pucked helenaThat said, I do plan to go back and read those now)! So yes, I know this series, and it's always been light and sassy and kind of OTT on the humor. I have read Pucked (which I LOVED) and I did read Pucked Up (which I, unfortunately, didn't totally love and because of that I passed on Lily and Randy's books. I mean, I am no stranger to this standalone series. I was not expecting the deep, torturous, gut you, make you cry, emotions that Pucked Off had in it. And because of that this review is going to be long-winded and a little all over the place, so be prepared.įirst off, before I even begin to get into things, I want to say. My feelings are so HUGE, so MASSIVE, so ALL ENCOMPASSING they can barely be contained. And I'm here to tell you that I have MAJOR FEELINGS for this book. And then I had an immediate urge to go and re-rate other books I had read in the past because this story changes the way you see things. I mean, my first response after finishing was to release several breaths, close my eyes, and savor the moment, the journey, I had just gone on. One where I read something that affected me so deeply, I can't even form words to describe it. And I most certainly feel as though I just had a moment. I almost don't know where to start with this review. Overwhelmed by all I'm feeling, and all I'm thinking. I'm just ::: stares into space, grasping for words::: I'm overwhelmed. HOW DO I GET OVER THAT? Seriously, how on earth do I get over such a phenomenal story? 5/24/2023 0 Comments Ally carter embassy row series“There is nothing that happens in my books that technically couldn’t happen in real life,” Carter said, explaining what “unrealistic realistic fiction” means for her stories. “I write spy books because I do things like that.”Ĭarter, who writes what she calls “unrealistic realistic fiction” such as The Heist Society, Gallagher Girls and, most recently, Embassy Row series, says she can't explain exactly why she loves writing about spies and espionage - she's just always been drawn to stories like that. “I don’t do things like that because I write spy books,” Carter said in an interview. Anyone planning on kidnapping author Ally Carter can bet she won't make it easy for him or her.Īfter hearing once that taking different routes to and from frequented locations makes it harder for kidnappers to nab their victims, that’s exactly what Carter started doing. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Whit stillman love and friendshipAng Lee’s Sense and Sensibility remains the most gracious of Austens on film, but it’s no longer the funniest. Stillman, for his part, lets no opportunity for a laugh, however rueful, slip. But it’s Tom Bennett, so inspired and endearing as the most gormless of Austen suitors, who is the revelation here, finding exquisite possibilities for physical comedy amid all those impeccable words. Kate Beckinsale, an actress too few film-makers have thought to challenge over the years, turns out to be an optimum fit for Austen – all surface serenity masking Stanley-knife severity. Beneath its whipped-cream quippery, it shows a very real and ruthless understanding of why we pursue relationships – for a multitude of reasons quite apart from love, friendship or even a compromise of the two. A singularly literate comic voice in American cinema, he doesn’t work often enough as it is: we can ill afford to donate his gifts to someone else’s comedy of manners, right? Happily, I was wrong in Love & Friendship (Lionsgate, U), Austen’s brisk sense and Stillman’s wily sensibility make for about as perfect an arranged marriage as you could hope for.Ī quick, zesty take on Austen’s novella Lady Susan that adores and embellishes her language with equal care, Stillman’s film bridges the social and romantic politics of her era with ours. I admit my heart sank a little – only a little, mind you – when I first heard that Whit Stillman was making a Jane Austen adaptation. But as anyone who has read horror fiction in the past 70-odd years will tell you, it's a bad idea to try to leave behind the gruesome goings-on in your life by moving to an island named "Lovecraft." What begins as a study in coping with grief soon veers into creepy territory as the youngest Locke discovers a doorway with decidedly spectral qualities, along with a well that houses someone or something that desperately wants out and will use any means available to gain freedom, including summoning the teenage murderer who set events in motion in the first place. Novelist Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box, crafts a gripping account of the shattered Locke family's attempt to rebuild after the father/husband is murdered by a deranged high school student and the family subsequently moving in with the deceased father's brother at the family homestead in Maine. 5/23/2023 0 Comments Billy budd and other storiesIn the sorrowful tragedy of Billy Budd, Sailor the controlled rage of Benito Cereno and the tantalizing enigma of Bartleby, the Scrivener Melville reveals himself as a singular storyteller of tremendous range and compelling power. Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction. In the sorrowful tragedy of Billy Budd, Sailor the controlled rage of Benito Cereno and the tantalizing enigma of Bartleby, the Scrivener Melville reveals himself as a singular storyteller of tremendous range and compelling power.Ī new, definitive edition of Herman Melville’s virtuosic short stories-American classics wrought with scorching fury, grim humor, and profound beauty |