I doubt that I’m the only one who wanted to live in a dugout and eat vanity cakes (“because they are all puffed up, like vanity, with nothing solid inside”) after reading this book. My introduction to Wilder’s world was the fourth book in the series, ON THE BANKS OF PLUM, CREEK and it remains my favorite. To me, Wilder will always be the little girl who ran barefoot through fragrant prairie grasses with her sunbonnet dangling down her back. ), long-legged (“Snipes!”), and sometimes naughty (and excellent at revenge). But in my mind, there is no Laura Ingalls Wilder the grown-up writer, there is only Laura Ingalls: spritely (twinkly-eyed, like Pa), braided (blue bows only, please, except that once . . . Laura Ingalls Wilder would have turned 150 this year.
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She studied English Literature and Anthropology at New York University and also studied French Literature in Paris, France. Jennifer Clement is the President of PEN International and the first woman to be elected since the organization was founded in 1921. A poetic interpretation like no other, Widow Basquiat is an expression of the unrelenting power of addiction, obsession and love. In emotionally resonant prose, award-winning author Jennifer Clement tells the story of the passion that swept Suzanne and Jean-Michel into a short-lived, unforgettable affair. Thus began a tumultuous and passionate relationship that deeply influenced one of the most exceptional artists of our time. During the years before his death at the age of 27, he shared his life with his lover and muse, Suzanne Mallouk.Ī runaway from an unhappy home in Canada, Suzanne first met Jean-Michel in a bar on the Lower East Side in 1980. It was where Jean-Michel Basquiat became an avant-garde street artist and painter, swiftly achieving worldwide fame. A hotbed for hip hop, underground culture, and unmatched creative energy, it spawned some of the most significant art of the 20th century. New York City in the 1980s was a mesmerizing, wild place. The beautifully written, deeply affecting story of Jean-Michel Basquiat's partner, her past, and their life together The Bobs then proceed to explore the galaxy, finding new worlds and life, find out what happened to Earth while facing hostile probes and other threats. Despite some unexpected political turmoil, Bob manages to survive Earth and escape the Sol system intact, then begins creating more Bobs. He wakes up a hundred and thirteen years later as a digital copy of the original Bob, one of five replicants made from different people, all made in the hopes that one will be able to pilot a Von Neumann probe. 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Rob becomes attracted to Ryan Martinez and the two eventually start dating. Because of her past, she starts to believe that nothing good can happen to her and hesitates in matters of romance. Rob has been hurt numerous times by people in her past, including her alcoholic parents and her latest boyfriend Pete, whom stole money from her and her business. She is not a native of Little Bridge Island, but has lived there for some years. Roberta "Rob" James is a fitness instructor at a gym which she co-owns with her best friend, Jenna. Moody, intimately involved in the civil rights movement in the first half of 1960s, created an unforgettable image of the inequities and violence that characterized southern society. This startling depiction of what it was like to grow up a poor, southern African American captured the attention of Americans around the country, from all social classes and all backgrounds. Into this confusion, in 1968, Moody published her autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi. The civil rights movement itself was transforming, turning away from the nonviolence of Martin Luther King to a more militant stance epitomized by Malcolm X. Significant anti-discrimination legislation had been passed, but in the view of many civil rights activists, society had not changed enough. By the late 1960s, the civil rights movement had seen enormous successes along with tragic losses. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Although some stories, like Neil Gaiman’s “Observing the Formalities,” require a good deal of familiarity with the original yarns, the collection is largely accessible and very enjoyable. The experience ends in blood, horror, and with the sense that there is no happily ever after left for anyone. On the sinister side, Kelly Link finishes off the book with an absolutely bone-chilling offering called “The Cinderella Game,” in which Peter babysits his new stepsister. Giant tells all to a newspaper reporter about that infamous rascal Jack, who scrambled up the beanstalk and ended up killing Mr. Beagle’s “Up the Down Beanstalk: A Wife Remembers,” in which Mrs. A standout on the humorous side is Peter S. As always with such endeavors, it’s a mixed bag of funny, quirky, and downright creepy entries. Trolls'-Eye View is different in that the diverse group of talented authors expertly weave compelling new tales that examine the often misunderstood villains. In this follow-up to Datlow and Windling’s A Wolf at the Door (2000) and Swan Sister (2003), the duo again amass an anthology of fairy-tale retellings, only this time they keep focus upon the backstories of well-known villains. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's two previous collections, A Wolf at the Door, and Swan Sister, retell familiar fairy tales in new ways. The BookĪrkay Tilghman's The Secret History of the Necronomicon (Subtitled "From Egypt to Alhazred") is a short chronology of the origins and evolution of the Necronomicon (or "Book of Dead Names") that occupies a central place in HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos, a well-crafted metafictional history which takes the idea that Lovecraft was writing about a real book - and thus an at least somewhat more real mythos - when he began peppering his work with references to it as its central theme. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it all centers on HP Lovecraft, Abdul Alhazred, and the fake book the former made up and credited to the latter. It isn't, because it's also an account of one of the strangest experiences I've ever had as a gaming/fiction/weird history blogger. It is, because I'm going to tell you about a book I read. Linnet Doyle is an American heiress who buys an estate in England. I wondered if reading the book would have been different on my Kindle, without the “back of the book” summary. Actually, the back of the book gave me a little too much information – the victim, the suspects, the cause of death. You know the murder’s coming, but you don’t know when. With this book, Christie takes the time to introduce all her characters first, so you get to know the victim. Most mysteries start with the murder, Law & Order style: dead body found, clues gathered, etc. I don’t know if Death on the Nile is one of Christie’s best, but it was a perfect plane read and reminded me why I love her books (and classic mystery novels in general). I was in a used bookstore recently and needed a good airplane book. It’s been a long time since I’ve picked up an Agatha Christie novel. It is often said that those we hate most are those who are most similar to us, and there are indeed many similarities and cross-overs between the two clubs. Although the clubs have a geographical rivalry – being just a half-marathon, or 13 miles – apart, there is much more to the relationship than mere proximity issues. Liverpool and Manchester United spring to mind here, as to a lesser extent do Southampton and Portsmouth, Crystal Palace and Brighton and Hove Albion, and Norwich City and Ipswich Town.Īnother such localised rivalry – but one with a few twists almost unique to it – is the almost-sibling type coming together between Derby County and Nottingham Forest. There are many intense rivalries in football and although the large majority of them tend to be between clubs of the same city or town, there are some exceptions. |