![]() ![]() And there are only 3 parts in the book so I had to sit through parts 1 (100 pages of exposition and setting up the camping trip) and 2 (100 pages of a mostly obnoxious group of teens making bad decisions) before getting to the good stuff I was so looking forward to. I didn't love having to wait until part 3 for the good stuff. I knew when I got to the parts with Zorie and Lennon alone together that it would be great it just took SO LONG to get there. The beginning was interminably slow, and I think at least half of the first 200 pages could have been done away with. One of the most frustrating things about Starry Eyes is that it took me forever to connect with this story. So I was expecting spectacular, and I got spectacular. ![]() I do think it suffered somewhat from my over-high expectations, but at time of reading, it had a 4.36 rating among my friends on Goodreads, which is even higher than the overall rating at 4.04. ![]() I have really complicated feelings about Starry Eyes. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Something I’ve always loved about these books is Schwab’s vivid descriptions of the destinations where Cassidy’s parents are filming, weaving her narratives around the food, culture, and history of a given city. But New Orleans history is full of pain, death, and magic…a dangerous combination for three friends who live on the border of this world and the next.īridge of Souls is sure to delight anyone who enjoyed the first two books in the series. It’s serious enough that Lara herself makes her way to Louisiana, determined to help Cassidy and locate the Society of the Black Cat, a secret organization of supernatural experts. And to make matters worse, her ghostly best friend, Jacob, is becoming far stronger than he ought to be, able to manipulate objects in the physical world.įellow in-betweener Lara would tell Cassidy that it’s time to send Jacob on, but Cassidy doesn’t even want to contemplate it – especially not when the ominous skeleton reappears in New Orleans. ![]() But though Cassidy is gaining confidence as an in-betweener (someone capable of traveling between our world and the Veil, and responsible for sending lingering ghosts “on”), she’s troubled by a vision she had in Paris of a skeleton – on this side of the Veil – watching her from a train platform. In this third installment of Victoria Schwab’s City of Ghosts series, Cassidy Blake finds herself in New Orleans, where her parents are filming segments about the city’s haunted history for their television show. ![]() ![]() ![]() To Mann, Vogt represents the position that humanity needs to restrain its current plunder of natural resources. Winner of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, Borlaug was an unassuming plant pathologist who cross-bred a hearty wheat species credited with saving millions from starvation. ![]() Norman Borlaug is the corresponding wizard. Vogt’s 1948 book, “The Road to Survival,” prefigured Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” and in Mann’s phrase was “the first modern we’re-all-going-to-hell” book. Mann’s prophet is William Vogt, an avatar of today’s environmental movement and onetime president of Planned Parenthood. In “The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World,” Mann once again produces a highly readable, historical tome. His best-selling books “1491” and “1493” both rediscover the “discovery” of the Americas and make important contributions to our collective self-knowledge. Mann specializes in deep, comprehensive looks at the past that better elucidate the present. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Shakespeare’s sonnets, the last two lines are often about Shakespeare himself in some way. The couplet in the end is the conclusion, and is used to sum up and close the sonnet. The first quatrain is sort of the “introduction” of the sonnet, while the two next quatrains are the body of the sonnet, where he elaborates the two first lines. The theme of the sonnet is definitely “true love” because of all his attempts to define it by describing what true love means, and why it is so important to human beings. In this sonnet, Shakespeare tries to define love by using comparisons, metaphors and personification. ![]() Sonnet 116 is, like the most of Shakespeare’s sonnets, about love. At that time, the literature and art was in bloom, and his works are clearly characterized by that era both as language and theme goes.Ī sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines, three quatrains and a couplet, in which the beat follows the iambic pentameter. Shakespeare lived in the Elizabethan era. ![]() William Shakespeare was an English writer and poet, and has written a lot of famous plays, amongst them Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet. Sonnet 116 was written by William Shakespeare and published in 1609. ![]() ![]() I’ve felt all of the emotions and I’m drained. This book has me EMOTIONAL, okay? I spent the first 25% of the book grinning like a fool, the next 50% nervous and just completely absorbed in the tension between Riley and Aiden, and the last 25% crying. I received an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review Only, I disappeared before he could act on it. The siren who calls to the darkest parts of him. Orpheus in the flesh, with his sad songs and strange obsessions. ![]() Her past sins should be the least of her worries.įrom the moment he saw me, I knew I’d ruin his life.Īlone at the bar, I dared the monster to come and play. ![]() The ghost she’s tried for years to escape.īut I never stopped trying, and now that I have, Sitting all alone at the bar, she looked like an angel.Įurydice in human form her beauty eclipsed by demons. From the second I saw her, I knew she’d be my ruin. ![]() ![]() ![]() Paolini has mastered the art of the cliffhanger. It quickly became obvious to me once I started why my children were able to read such a long book so quickly. Since the book is 880 pages, I thought it might take me a while, even though my nine year old daughter got through it in two days, and my sons each took three. ![]() ![]() It was only after each of them had a go that I was able to get to my own reading. However, when the 4th book in the series arrived on my doorstep on the day of its release, I was almost as excited as my children, who began fighting immediately over who would read it first. Relucantly because I’m not a fantasy fan, and the idea of reading a lengthy series of books about dragons and a war did not appeal to me. I was brought to the series, reluctantly, by my three children who insisted. I had no intention of reading the Inheritance series or becoming a fan of Christopher Paolini. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() OL719866W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 90.82 Pages 198 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:070434081X Urn:lcp:potiki00grac:epub:39864b62-28d7-460b-9dda-ece68679bcb4 Extramarc Brown University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier potiki00grac Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3xs6rc3p Isbn 0824817060 Lccn 94045651 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL1119361M Openlibrary_edition Urn:lcp:potiki00grac:lcpdf:5f09cde7-327b-4702-8446-a5b8fb24c498 Patricia Graces classic novel is a work of spellbinding power in which the myths of older times are inextricably woven into the political realities of today. I recall Patricia Grace saying that she had to fight hard over this when her second novel Potiki was published in 1986. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:19:21 Boxid IA141810 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Honolulu Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition External-identifier Patricia Grace is one of New Zealands most prominent and celebrated authors and a figurehead of modern Indigenous literature. Patricia Grace is a major New Zealand novelist, short story writer and children’s writer, of Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa descent, and is affiliated to Ngati Porou by marriage. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As the title warns, these girls are no angels. In addition to some foul language, there is frank discussion of the group's partying, which include alcohol and drug use as well as promiscuity. Reading her felt like listening to a real teen telling her story, which baited me to keep turning the pages.īe advised that some content makes this novel most suitable for older teens. This narrator is expertly crafted, and ultimately believable. She shows us how ruthless high school girls can be to each other, and how the kindness of a few can make all the difference to one. She shows us how difficult her own family life is, due to her mother's rapidly deteriorating health. Anna takes us through the evolution of her relationships with both the BFF, Elise, and the boyfriend, Tate. Our narrator, Anna, takes us along on her journey as she goes from being a new-girl nobody, to basking in the attention of an ultimate BFF and a gorgeous boyfriend, to dealing with the life-changing death of that BFF. and know that this review will be as spoiler-free as possible. A great read will be ruined for you if you know too much about the outcome before you have a chance to discover it for yourself. ![]() If you are at all interested in reading this book, be VERY careful to avoid spoilers. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that there is also a great whodunit flavor to it as well. I thought I was in for a great YA contemporary when I picked Dangerous Girls up. ![]() ![]() ![]() V.Castro weaves urban legend, folklore, life experience and heartache in this personal journey beginning in south Texas: a bar where a devil dances the night away a street fight in a neighborhood that may not have been a fight after all a vengeful chola at the beginning of the apocalypse mind swapping in the not so far future satan who falls and finds herself in a brothel in Amsterdam the keys to Mictlan given to a woman after she dies during a pandemic. ![]() Castro weaves urban legend, folklore, life experience and heartache in this intimate anthology of modern horrors.įrom the lauded author of The Queen of the Cicadas (which picked up starred reviews from PW, Kirkus and Booklist who called her "a dynamic and innovative voice") comes a short story collection of nightmares, dreams, desire and visions focused on the Chicana experience. A short story collection of nightmares, dreams, desire and visions centered around the Chicana experience. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Or so he thought-for faced once more with his bitterest enemy, Mo Xi is left with more questions than answers. Description Remnants of Filth: Yuwu Novel Volume 1 was written by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou with illustrations by St.Noble-born Mo Xi is the foremost general of. Remnants of Filth or Yuwu is the second novel written by Meatbun Doesn’t Eat Meat, and is placed in the same universe as The Husky and His White Cat Shizun. The public clamors for his death, and no one yearns for vengeance more than Mo Xi. Remnants of Filth: YUWU Volume 1 will be out on April 18, 2023, and will be priced at 19.99. Now Gu Mang has been returned to the empire a ruined man, a shadow of the military genius he once was. His comrade, the lowborn Gu Mang, was Mo Xi’s brother-in-arms, best friend, and-secretly-his lover, until the day Gu Mang turned traitor and joined the ranks of their nation’s greatest enemy. Once he was one of two promising young commanders, twin stars of the empire. Noble-born Mo Xi is the foremost general of Chonghua, known for his ruthless temper and ascetic air. The wildly popular danmei/Boys' Love novel series from China set in the universe of The Husky and His White Cat Shizun! A historical fantasy epic about two war generals who were once close.until dark circumstances ripped them apart. ![]() |