5/13/2023 0 Comments The invisible man wells![]() ![]() Wells’ writing was outstandingly effective during this period, and – had they not often explored subjects of horror, fantasy, and science fiction – they would have attracted academic attention for the skill which he demonstrated at prose, theme, and characterization. The man is driven to the brink of madness, and comits arson in a desperate bid to free himself from an enemy that he cannot see. Chillingly, the creature only makes its appearance known by drinking standing water, and by kneeling on its victim’s chest during his sleep. Twenty years later, Guy de Maupassant wrote a similar story, “The Horla,” about an invisible alien entity which latches onto a hapless man, leeching his strength with its vampiric power without ever being seen. The beast ultimately starves to death, and when a plaster cast is made of the corpse, an unearthly monster’s visage is revealed. Horrorstruck, they tie it to the bed and wait for it to surrender. Yet he has a hold on something, and his friends quickly verify this. Wrestling in the darkness, he is quickly aided by friends who turn up the gas to reveal – nothing. ![]() Most famously, Fitz-James O’Brien wrote “What Was It? A Mystery” in which a man is falling to sleep on his bed when a creature lands on top of him. ![]() Less magical stories made their way into modern literature, usually with more of an aura of horror. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Pillars of the earth![]() ![]() He didn't much care for genre, but this series really caught his attention, in part I think due to the historical aspect of the books - but also because they are just damned fine novels. Historical fiction became his real love and he began devouring books from authors such as Paul Doherty, Rory Clements, Peter Tremane, Ariana Franklin and others. I like to think I played some part in his re-awakened literary thirst, some of the first books he read were Mike Shevdon's Courts of the Feyre series that I lent him. Though my Mother and I have always been voracious readers. Previous to that he hadn't read much for the last few decades outside of Haynes manuals and instruction leaflets (always as a last resort). ![]() ![]() Some years ago, my father started reading again. Fair warning, this isn't going to be a normal review, it's the first one I've written post-covid and is much more personal than usual. ![]() ![]() ![]() Saying, ‘Don’t wish your life away, don’t wish your life away.’ But the story wasn’t based on anything except that there were a Thought, ‘OK, well how long is it to Christmas?’ I mean, you’re constantly saying that. Think, ‘Oh, how long is it to Thanksgiving?’ (in America - in England it was Bonfire Night). Every kid does that - you finish your summer holidays and "Even as a kid, I was aware that I lived from holiday to holiday. So, yeah, there’s something of Harvey in me. I also wanted to give Harvey some of my imaginative energy. Where I was brought up, and I wanted to reflect that in Harvey. Lot of reading, but even reading can’t take you away all the time, away from the grey reality of life in Liverpool in the ’50s, which is So there was a lot of downtime, time where you were just waiting. Now, but as a kid I didn’t have those diversions. "I think we, all of us, as children feel bored a lot of the time, waiting for adults to do whatever adults do. Shapes for the things that were running round my head." I think I’ve spent the years since being that 10 year old kid finding formats, finding "Harvey Swick is very much the 10 year old that I was: a very angry little kid who had very strange dark imaginings that he He's a 10-year old boy who thinks a lot like Clive did at the age of 10! ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments A celtic witch debora geary![]() ![]() A beautiful, talented Irish fiddler has come to town and she's in the middle of a welter of changes too. ![]() He has a lot to lose, now, and he's very protective of his loved ones. After finding some peace with the tragedy in his past and discovering his ability to love his adopted infant daughter Morgan in A Nomadic Witch, this time Marcus discovers romance and has to figure out how much he can risk for it. ![]() They do it out of love for him, but sometimes they lose sight of all his good qualities and just see him as a comic curmudgeon, a foil to set off their own good qualities. Poor Marcus has had to put up with a lot over the course of this series, with interfering witches galore monitoring him, coaxing him, teasing him and goading him. This is the second novel focusing on Marcus, and it brings his character to a really good place. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. ![]() Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. ![]() As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. ![]() Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Although she writes under the pen name J.K. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats![]() Urn:isbn:0590733249 Republisher_date 20120825154201 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120822225937 Scanner . The Snowy Day a book by Ezra Jack Keats 25,244,088.54 raised for local bookstores The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats (Author) FORMAT Board Books 8.99 8.36 Paperback 7.99 7.43 Hardcover 18.99 17. The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats 3.7 (42) Paperback (REV) 7.99 Hardcover 10.99 Paperback 7.99 eBook 7.99 Audiobook 0.00 Board Book 13. The neighborhood they live in looks like the streets where Ezra grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Many of Ezra’s stories are about a group of friends growing up in the city. He won the 1963 Caldecott Medal for illustrating The Snowy Day, which he also wrote. ![]() Urn:lcp:snowyday00keat_2:lcpdf:b0c67b0b-b8be-4b92-a06a-53460c3eae9b Ezra Jack Keats was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:14:48 Boxid IA153801 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition Board bk. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The souls of black folk isbn![]() ![]() Kelley, author of Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times She deftly combines several disciplines to produce an elegant, erudite, sophisticated, beautifully-crafted meditation on Du Bois' view of the dawn of the 20th century from the vantage point of the 21st century."-Robin D. "This book establishes Stephanie Shaw as one of the leading Du Bois scholars of her generation. and African American History.”- Louisiana History “An enhanced comprehension of one of the seminal works of both U.S. Place itself at the forefront of contemporary Du Bois scholarship.”- Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians ![]() ![]() “Offers a deeper examination into the philosophical, religious, and intellectual aims that unfortunately have received only minimal attention in scholarship past. “Opens up new vistas on how to rescue teleology from the tight grip of postmodern despair while avoiding the ghosts of nineteenth-century essentialisms.”- Journal of American History Upper-division undergraduates and above."- Choice "A must-read for Hegel fans who also love Du Bois. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Katie receives encouraging messages from friends about being thin and healthy, especially when she swears off all junk food for Lent. She’s receiving another education at school, both in the hallways and in sex ed (“I’d learned that sex made you pregnant… and later that it made you a slut.”). ![]() ![]() Her mom shut down her curiosity about sex and interrupted her one night as she was masturbating by knocking on the door and asking why she was being so quiet. When she tells them about bullying at school, her dad tells her to laugh it off.Īt school and at home, Katie received conflicting messages about her body. For example, when Katie runs to them concerned about monsters getting her in the dark, her parents tell her nothing is there. Her parents appear loving, but they have their missteps, which invalidate and distance Katie. Katie was an emotionally sensitive child, diligent worker, and a reluctant eater who developed rituals to help her feel in control of her fears. ![]() Katie begins her story in her childhood, as the older sister in a two-parent middle class household in England. Not only is the story relevant and important for teen readers, but it also shows artistic distinction as a graphic novel. Lighter Than My Shadow is a memoir of the author’s struggles and healing process with perfectionism, eating disorders, and sexual abuse. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Scars by cheryl rainfield![]() ![]() Ritual abuse often includes, within rituals: frequent and painful rape gang rape forced impregnation forced abortions forced child pornography forced child prostitution torture dismemberment or witnessing dismemberment electroshock confinement (especially in cages, coffins, and pits) human and animal murder and sacrifice (being forced to witness murder, participate in murder, or be threatened with death) cannibalism mind control and cult conditioning techniques to increase the effectiveness of mind control (starvation thirst isolation drugs physical pain and torture exhaustion rape constant assault of the senses) forced ingestion of substances such as urine, blood, feces, vomit, and flesh and the constant threat of death, torture, and rape. Ritual abuse is perpetrated to gain complete control over the victim, and to gain power and money. The abuse is used to harm, manipulate, control, and indoctrinate the victim, and ensure her long-term silence, co-operation, and participation. ![]() ![]() Ritual abuse is frequent, prolonged, and systematic physical, sexual, and psychological torture used to control children and adults that uses mind control, calculated torture, rituals, and an ideology within an organized secret group setting. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Westerfeld pretties![]() ![]() Now she has to choose between fighting to forget what she knows and fighting for her life-because the authorities don't intend to let anyone with this information survive. Reading it, Tally remembers what's wrong with pretty life, and the fun stops cold. Then a message from Tally's ugly past arrives. Pretties book by Scott Westerfeld Get Promo Code & Details Teen & Young Adult Books > Teen Sci-Fi Books ISBN: 0544336267 The Giver: A Newbery Award Winner (Giver Quartet, 1) (Book 1 in the The Giver Series) by Scott Westerfeld See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover - Paperback 4.19 - 12. But beneath all the fun-the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom-is a nagging sense that something's wrong. ![]() Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she's completely popular. ![]() The second installment of Scott Westerfeld's New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies series-a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend. ![]() |