![]() I really like this book and really recommend it. Aunt Etta and Aunt Coral arrive back at the island, having successfully kidnapped their helper and are quickly followed by Aunt Myrtle, who accidently kidnapped a totally unsuitable, horrible monster of a boy. The aunts are ready to give up when they discover Minette and Fabio, two children who are clever, hard workers, and, most especially, underappreciated at home. They quickly learn that most children are horrible, nasty, selfish creatures who don't know how to work at all. So the aunts set of to mainland England and start sorting through children. The aunts decide that the only way is to resort to kidnapping. There is only one problem, the aunts don't have any children to train. What they really need are a few special children who can keep a secret - a secret as big as a magical island. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, they know that they cannot trust other adults to take care of the island and the only way is to train some trustworthy children that can keep a secret as big as the secret island. Aunt Etta, Aunt Coral, and Aunt Myrtle need help caring for the mermaids, selkies, and other creatures who live on thier hidden island and they know that adults cant be trusted. Aunt Etta, Aunt Coral and Aunt Myrtle are getting old and can not help with all of the magical creatures of the island like mermaids, selkies, and boobries because take a lot of work. ![]()
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5/20/2023 0 Comments Waking gods series![]() ![]() The premise follows our main character, Dr. It’s an adult science-fiction trilogy and though I don’t read much sci-fi, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this one! The books are: Sleeping Giants, Waking Gods and Only Human. I read the Themis Files series by Sylvain Neuvel over the past three months, one book each month. But once the pieces of the puzzle are in place, will the result be an instrument of lasting peace or a weapon of mass destruction? What’s clear is that Rose and her compatriots are on the edge of unravelling history’s most perplexing discovery-and finally figuring out what it portends for humanity. ![]() And along with her colleagues, she is being interviewed by a nameless interrogator whose power and purview are as enigmatic as the relic they seek. Rose Franklin is now a highly trained physicist leading a top-secret team to crack the hand’s code. Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved – the object’s origins, architects, and purpose unknown.īut some can never stop searching for answers. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand. She wakes up at the bottom of a square-shaped hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. Title: Themis Files (Sleeping Giants, Waking Gods, Only Humans)Ī girl named Rose is riding her new bike near home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() With unprecedented access to all of Christie's letters, papers, and notebooks, as well as fresh and insightful interviews with her grandson, daughter, son-in-law and their living relations, Thompson is able to unravel not only the detailed workings of Christie's detective fiction, but the truth behind this mysterious woman. Agatha Christie is as mysterious as the stories she penned, and writing about her is a detection job in itself. But who was the woman behind these mystifying, yet eternally pleasing, puzzlers? Thompson reveals the Edwardian world in which Christie grew up, explores her relationships, including those with her two husbands and daughter, and investigates the many mysteries still surrounding Christie's life, most notably, her eleven-day disappearance in 1926. Arguably the greatest crime writer in the world, Christie's books still sell over four million copies each year-more than thirty years after her death-and it shows no signs of slowing. A brilliant and award winning biographer, Laura Thompson now turns her sharp eye to Agatha Christie. It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. Agatha Christie’s work has never gone out of style, nor out of print, in the four decades since her. ![]() It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. Book review Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life by Laura Thompson Pegasus, 544 pp., 35. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments The marrow thieves pages![]() ![]() ![]() So in this world, Indigenous people are hiding, heading north to where they can find a safer space. The problem? The Indigenous person does not survive the process. Then it's discovered that a 'vaccine' of sorts can be created from the bone marrow of Indigenous people, where the ability to dream is encoded. ![]() People are unhappy, unable to function well, and they really, really want to dream again. Most people have lost the ability to dream - not metaphorically, but real, night time dream - and the result is not great. The population has been drastically reduced, and life is difficult. It's an Indigenous dystopian novel it's set sometime in the future, a time in which catastrophic climate events have altered the shape of the world. This is a YA novel that I've heard a lot about, so when it came into my library I snagged it. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Urban italian by andrew carmellini![]() ![]() ![]() I like to use both cherry tomatoes and larger sizes: the cherries for garnish on top, the big guys inside the risotto itself. Here in New York, we get all different sorts of great tomatoes at the Greenmarkets, including some amazing heirlooms. This is one recipe that really depends on the season: you definitely want to do this in midsummer, when the tomatoes are at their ripest and most flavorful. ![]() But complicated isn’t always better, and I’ve finally figured out, in my old age, that the simpler version I was cooking at home is actually more delicious. When I won Food & Wine’s Best Chef 2000, the magazine featured a very complicated version of this recipe. I’ve been doing variations on this dish for the past ten years–sometimes getting really crazy, cooking the tomatoes for one dish five different ways. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maura and Cecily, highlighting Cecily’s musical abilities Learning Latin underīackstory to Philippa’s life connections to outside world. Catherine’s backstory of religiousĬonversion, of her brother Mark who is now a bishop.īackstory to being received for temporary promise learning to sing with Dame Responsibility as Abbess struggles emotionally. ![]() Poverty, Chastity, Stability, Obedience paradox of giving completely leads one Of the Benedictine Order thru Novitiate formation: Enclosure, Self-Effacement, Voteįrance and back to England thru the storms of history, Protestant Reformation, Can she remain and become fully professed? Struggle. Sleepless and in turmoil, longing for Keith. Central theme expressed by Pilippa: “I wasn’t Sister Julian leaves, Dame Perpetua as Prioress expected Abbess. Dom Gervase backstory – beaten by a gang ofīoys. ![]() He, Himself, will know how to bestow you on others (Loc 1266). What thou wouldst be (Loc 1192) When you become God’s in the measure He wants, Central theme stated: Not what thou art but Dame Veronica’s paralysis over her sin and Solemn vows, leads to Abbess Hester’s stroke. Philippa’s last day at her job and theīackground of her career as a “controller.” She’s 42 years old. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Gora by rabindranath tagore![]() ![]() Binoy is a friendly and handsome young man. Gora's best friend is Binoybhushan aka Binoy. Despite not being handsome, Gora is considered attractive because of his heavy speech and high stature. Because of his physique, he is the head of his circle of friends. Gora is a young man with a well-built body, good stature, white complexion, and a heavy voice. The story mainly revolves around its protagonist, Gormohan alias 'Gora', a staunch Hindu Brahmin. Their emotional development is shown in the background of the social and political problems prevalent in India towards the end of the 19th-century. Gora consists of two parallel love stories of two pairs of lovers: Gora and Sucharita, Binoy and Lolita. Other themes include liberation, universalism, brotherhood, gender, feminism, caste, class, tradition versus modernity, urban elite versus rural peasants, colonial rule, nationalism and the Brahmo Samaj. It is rich in philosophical debate on politics and religion. It is the fifth in order of writing and the longest of Tagore’s twelve novels. Gora ( Bengali: গোরা) is a novel by Rabindranath Tagore, set in Calcutta (now Kolkata), in the 1880s during the British Raj. ![]() ![]() Since then I have been back to Cambridge to read the seven volumes of Reginald Skelton's Discovery Journals, and his sledging diaries, more times than I can keep track of but every time something new catches my attention. ![]() The archivist, Bob Headland, apologised for the terrible noise of the construction work, which he feared would frustrate any attempt to concentrate, but all I could hear was the sound of the Discovery's bows scrunching through the pack ice and the howl of the Antarctic wind as the ship fought to hold her own in the teeth of storm force Southerly squalls off Coulman Island. ![]() Directly outside the window in front of my desk was the building site which was to become the bright, airy Shackleton Memorial Library. By then into my fifties, seated in the library at the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) in Cambridge, I began reading the Antarctic journals of Reginald Skelton, not yet out of his twenties, who had been chosen as Scott's chief engineer on the Discovery Expedition. Forty two years after his death we had, in a sense, changed places and I was getting the full story. I was only ten when he died in 1956 and he never, as far as I can remember, told me anything about his time in the Antarctic. My memories of my grandfather are of an old, but still fit and upright, man who had a deep gravelly voice and chuckled a lot. ![]() ![]() Along Came a Spider focuses on Dr Detective Alex Cross and his attempts to discover the kidnapper of two wealthy individual’s children. I’ve read books in the Jack Reece, Scot Harvath, Jack Reacher and Court Gentry series’ so far and so decided to pick up another celebrated action thriller. ![]() Plot – 4/5Īs you all know – I love me an action thriller. There are some focuses on race and equality, there is an interesting storyline that I’ll try not to ruin and there’s a genuinely likeable main character. These links do not affect my final opinion of the product.Īlong Came a Spider focuses on the story of the kidnapping of two high-powered individuals’ children. This means if you choose to purchase Along Came a Spider via one of these links, I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you to support the blog. Please note that the article contains affiliate links. If you’re a fan of crime fiction or action books, you’ve likely heard of James Patterson and you’ve also likely heard of Alex Cross. ![]() ![]() Along Came a Spider is the first crime/action thriller in the critically and commercially acclaimed Alex Cross series. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Lost connections johann hari![]() ![]() Once he had uncovered nine real causes of depression and anxiety, they led him to scientists who are discovering seven very different solutions - ones that work. Hari's journey took him from a mind-blowing series of experiments in Baltimore, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin. In fact, they are largely caused by key problems with the way we live today. As an adult, trained in the social sciences, he began to investigate whether this was true - and he learned that almost everything we have been told about depression and anxiety is wrong.Īcross the world, Hari found social scientists who were uncovering evidence that depression and anxiety are not caused by a chemical imbalance in our brains. He was told that his problems were caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. What really causes depression and anxiety - and how can we really solve them? Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking antidepressants when he was a teenager. ![]() From the New York Times best-selling author of Chasing the Scream, a radically new way of thinking about depression and anxiety. ![]() |