5/28/2023 0 Comments Lady susan by jane austen![]() Six years before, Lady Susan tried to prevent Charles from marrying Catherine, and Catherine hasn’t forgiven her. ![]() Meanwhile, corresponding with her mother Lady De Courcy and brother Reginald De Courcy, Catherine notes that Lady Susan has a bad reputation-only Reginald, hoping to be amused, is excited about her visit. In the wake of the chaos she caused, Lady Susan had to leave, and she now plans to drop Frederica off at boarding school en route to Churchill. However, Sir James was already engaged to Mr. Manwaring and a man named Sir James Martin, intending to secure Sir James as a husband for her daughter, Frederica. She reveals in a different letter to her friend, Alicia Johnson, that this isn’t by choice-she was previously staying with a married man, Mr. ![]() In a letter, the poor, recently widowed Lady Susan Vernon invites herself to stay at Churchill, the estate of her brother-in-law, Charles Vernon, and her sister-in-law, Catherine Vernon. ![]()
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5/28/2023 0 Comments Heart of darkness the horror![]() And to its early readers, the book’s portrayal of Congo as a “heart of darkness” that drove white men mad also seemed to tell a true story. As a matter of biographical fact, none of Conrad’s other works of fiction could be so closely pegged to contemporary records of his experience. ![]() Heart of Darkness also looked in some ways like a clear passage from truth into fiction. It appeared on the face of it to be the quintessential river story, running from here to there: a journey from Europe to Africa, overlaid by metaphorical journeys from present to past, light to dark, civilization to savagery, sanity to madness. ![]() Heart of Darkness was published in the literary periodical Blackwood’s Magazine in 1899, and in book form in 1902. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Madagascar by Golriz Golkar![]() ![]() The plot is childishly simple naturally but it works OK, it actually gets a little twisted once Alex the lion goes savage when his animal instinct kicks in. ![]() The film slides from slightly emotional to sensible to most of the time outright off the wall. You then have the set up that the animals can all talk to each but not to humans, yet they can perform human acts without question. But there is a kind of Tex Avery/Chuck Jones feel to the main characters that is quite nice but also someone childish compared to the backgrounds and vista's we see. Always one step behind the mighty Pixar this feature seemed to be an attempt to try and combat the ever increasing list of Pixar classics that just kept on coming.Ī curious blend of ideas really, the whole film is made to look quite sensible in terms of how things should look in reality. Rating: PG (Mild Language|Crude Humor|Some Thematic Elements)ĭreamworks hit back with an animated tale about lovable zoo animals trying to escape to the wild. Not content to leave well enough alone, Marty lets his curiosity get the better of him and makes his escape - with the help of some prodigious penguins - to explore the world. He and his best friends - Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo - have spent their whole lives in blissful captivity before an admiring public and with regular meals provided for them. ![]() Alex the lion is the king of the urban jungle, the main attraction at New York's Central Park Zoo. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments A deadly education book series![]() ![]() El's bad attitude and her incessant info-dumping make Novik's protagonist hard to like, and the lack of chemistry between the two main characters leaves the central romantic pairing feeling forced. With graduation fast approaching, El hatches a plan to pretend to be Orion's girlfriend in order to secure some allies for the deadly fight that lies ahead, but she can't stop being mean to the people she needs the most. No one gave Orion Lake that memo, however, so he's spent the better part of the school year trying to save El from every monster that comes along, much to her chagrin. And, as a spell-caster with a natural affinity for using other people's life forces to power destructive magic, maybe she does. ![]() The only time she ever met her father's family, they tried to kill her, claiming she posed an existential threat to every other wizard. Not that anyone would want to be her friend, anyway. Now a student herself at the nebulous, ever shifting magic school, which is populated with fearsome creatures, she has made not making friends into an art form. Her father died during the school's infamous graduation ceremony, in which senior students run through a gauntlet of magic-eating monsters, just to make sure her pregnant mother made it out alive. ![]() Galadriel "El" Higgins knows how dangerous the Scholomance is. A loosely connected group of young magicians fight horrendous creatures to ensure their own survival. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments The Boiler Plot by Emily McDaid![]() ![]() I am uploading an example of a book cover that I love. Finally, I want to point out that probably 95% of my sales will be through Amazon Kindle so I really want this cover to POP on Amazon. Big Ben does not have to the London icon, it could be a Tube sign or some other typically London image.ĥ. In terms of fonts, one that I really like is Franchise but it doesn't have to be used.Ĥ. The book cover will replace the 'too old' picture on the website.Ģ. I'd hope that the winning designer would also give me color codes so I could match colors on my website to the colors in the book design. But the caveat is, the website has a photo which is not ideal because it looks too "old" - and this book is very contemporary, set in 2008 and about modern web technology. It's imperative that you read the description of the book on my website so you know what the book is about. Books, THE BOILER PLOT and TETHERBIRD, are available on Amazon. I love art deco and I wouldn't complain if it looked cartoonish, almost Katz- or Lichtentstein-esque.ġ. Writer of mainstream suspense novels & social satire. My idea for a cover is this: a girl wearing a skirt/blouse (business/sexy, but not overtly sexy) in the shadow of Big Ben, which can look menacing, and she's surrounded by faceless shadows of figures of men looking fearful and confused. ![]() An ebook cover design, for a novel which is commercial suspense fiction / upmarket women's fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Neal's talents range from film directing (two short films he directed won him the coveted CINE Golden Eagle Awards) to writing music and stage plays – including book and lyrical contributions to “American Twistory,” which is currently playing in Boston. His books have received many awards from organizations such as the International Reading Association, and the American Library Association, as well as garnering a myriad of state and local awards across the country. As a full-time writer, he claims to be his own hardest task-master, always at work creating new stories to tell. In the years since, Neal has made his mark as a successful novelist, screenwriter, and television writer. Within a year of graduating, he had his first book deal, and was hired to write a movie script. After spending his junior and senior years of high school at the American School of Mexico City, Neal went on to UC Irvine, where he made his mark on the UCI swim team, and wrote a successful humor column. Award-winning author Neal Shusterman grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where he began writing at an early age. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments No Cats Allowed by Miranda James![]() Main Characters: Miss An’gel & Miss Dickce Ducote, Two Snoopy Sisters, Friends of Charlie & Diesel Harris, Mississippiĭead But Not Forgotten: Stories From the World of Sookie Stackhouse (edited by Charlaine Harris & Toni L.P. Main Character: Charlie Harris, Librarian, & Diesel, Well-Behaved Cat, Mississippi ![]() ![]() (aka Honor Hartman, Jimmie Ruth Evans, & Dean James)Ĭlick here for a post I’ve written about Miranda James’ Cat in the Stacks Mystery Series. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is the founder and trustee of The Kids Fund, a charitable and educational foundation. Other recognitions include the Library of Congress Living Legends Award and the 2004 National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. in education from New York University in 1961, which named her a Distinguished Alumna in 1996, the same year the American Library Association honored her with the Margaret A. She receives thousands of letters a year from readers of all ages who share their feelings and concerns with her. More than 80 million copies of her books have been sold, and her work has been translated into thirty-one languages. ![]() She has also written three novels for adults, Summer Sisters Smart Women and Wifey, all of them New York Times bestsellers. ![]() Adults as well as children will recognize such Blume titles as: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Blubber Just as Long as We're Together and the five book series about the irrepressible Fudge. She has spent her adult years in many places doing the same thing, only now she writes her stories down on paper. Judy Blume spent her childhood in Elizabeth, New Jersey, making up stories inside her head. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Tamora pierce immortals series![]() He also helps her to develop her second magical skill, the ability to sense the presence of the immortals, fabled creatures who have come to mortal lands after a long imprisonment.Īll these changes in Daine’s life bring her new human friends as well as animal ones: Tortall’s rulers, Alanna the Lioness, the heir to the throne of imperial Carthak, a pygmy marmoset, and the badger god. With that discovery she becomes the student–then friend and sometimes protector–of the great mage Numair. Hired by the Queen’s Riders to help with their horses, she learns her knack with animals is a rare magic which helps her to communicate with the animal kingdom. ![]() ![]() What she finds is magic in many forms, an ongoing war with creatures from legends and nightmares, a new home and, eventually, her unknown father. ![]() All the orphaned Daine wants when she comes to Tortall is a job. ![]() ![]() Walking away from everything he knows in Bergen, Karl Ove finds himself in Stockholm, where he waits for the next stretch of the road to reveal itself. Knausgaard breaks down lived experience into its elementary particles, revealing the wounds and epiphanies of a truly examined life. More real than reality.Ĭlick here to read The New Republic’s profile of Knausgaard & the My Struggle series.īook Two of the six-volume literary masterwork My Struggle flows with the same raw energy and candor that ignited the series’ unprecedented bestselling run in Scandinavia, a virulent controversy, and an avalanche of literary awards. The world simply opens up … Knausgaard will have the same status as Henrik Isben and Knut Hamsun.- Kristeligt Dagblad, Denmarkīetween Proust and the woods. “This deserves to be called perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times.”Ī rope round the neck, a knife in the heart. He wants to create great art, and he wants to fight the conformity and homogeneity of modern bourgeois existence.” ![]() Book Two sears the reader because Knausgaard is a passionate idealist and not just a tetchy complainer. ![]() strips away the literary tricks, bursts through language, explodes artifice. “My Struggle is an astonishing creation, in which Knausgaard invents a monstrous, tender, brutal, gentle, vain, humble, selfish, brilliant and banal man called Karl Ove Knausgaard, whose life he minutely documents.” ![]() |