7/5/2023 0 Comments Cirque du freak![]() Crepsley has his own stunt in the show-his act with his pet spider, Madam Octa. Tall, allows Darren to room with Evra, the snake boy, and help with Evra’s chores. The Cirque Du Freak is a traveling freak show, with people like a snake boy, the wolf-man, Cormac Limbs (a man who can re-grow his limbs!), the Little People, and more! Upon arriving, the leader, Mr. Crepsley decides to help Darren out and bring him to the Cirque Du Freak, where there are kids his age. With this dark, fate-determining choice looming over him and limited time, Darren will soon face the hardest choice of his life.ĭarren does not hang out with kids his age because he does not want other to know what he is, and he does not want to accidentally hurt them. Darren, sickened by this thought, refuses-after all, he still is half-human himself. ![]() Crepsley, the vampire who transformed Darren and who is also his vampire guardian now, informs Darren that he must soon drink human blood if he wishes to survive. So far, he has been drinking animal blood, but Mr. But one fact still bothers him-he must drink blood to survive. Now he has incredible strength and sharper senses. ![]() ![]() After being turned into a half vampire to save his friend, Darren Shan must cope with his new life. ![]()
0 Comments
7/4/2023 0 Comments Griffin black like me![]() The next day, Griffin visits the dermatologist who administers the treatment. Before he begins the procedure, he has dinner at a nice restaurant that he can return to later as a black man to compare his treatment before and after. He begins his journey in New Orleans, where a doctor is willing to help him darken his skin. He plans to keep track of his observations in a diary. Griffin decides to keep his name and his identity while he travels, only changing the color of his skin. ![]() Griffin warns his wife that he may suffer repercussions for his investigation, but she is supportive of his plan. Griffin turns to his friend, businessman George Levitan, who helps him come up with a plan to darken his skin using an anti-vitiligo drug. However, he realizes that he can never really understand what it is like to be black without experiencing it himself. Griffin, a white native of Mansfield, Texas, feels shocked and saddened by the treatment of African-Americans in the Deep South. ![]() ![]() In 1964, the book was made into a movie starring James Whitmore. ![]() Journalist John Howard Griffin’s nonfiction book Black Like Me (1961) explores racism and racial segregation under Jim Crowe laws in Louisiana, Georgia, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Julia cooke come fly the world![]() ![]() ![]() In 1979 I became a flight attendant for Pan Am, The ten years that I spent traveling the world were perhaps the most exciting of my life, and by far the greatest learning experience I have every had. ![]() Finally, with Operation Babylift-the dramatic evacuation of two thousand children during the fall of Saigon-the book’s special cast of stewardesses unites to play an extraordinary role on the world stage. Cooke’s intimate storytelling weaves together the real-life stories of a memorable cast of characters, from small-town girl Lynne Totten, a science major who decided life in a lab was not for her, to Hazel Bowie, one of the relatively few Black stewardesses of the era, as they embraced the liberation of their new jet-set life.Ĭooke brings to light the story of Pan Am stewardesses’ role in the Vietnam War, as the airline added runs from Saigon to Hong Kong for planeloads of weary young soldiers straight from the battlefields who were off for five days of R&R, and then flown back to war. ![]() Required to have a college degree, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 19 also had to be between 5′3″ and 5′9", between 105 and 140 pounds, and under twenty-six years old at the time of hire. Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted up ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Delirium oliver lauren![]() HANA adds nuance to the life-changing summer before best friends Lena and Hana are to be cured - a moment when the girls' paths diverge and their futures are altered forever.ĪNNABEL untangles the mysteries surrounding Lena's mother, detailing her journey from teenage runaway to prisoner of the state. These four short stories are now available in one beautiful paperback edition and include an exclusive sneak peek at Lauren Oliver's brand new novel Replica - coming soon!Īll the stories expand upon and enrich the Delirium world, illuminating events and characters through different perspectives. ![]() The perfect companion to Lauren Oliver's New York Times bestselling Delirium trilogy about forbidden love, revolution and the power to choose. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Morgan llywelyn bard![]() ![]() ![]() The clan has grown in times of prosperity, and food and resources are becoming scarcer. These conditions are a sign of the times. Furthermore, the Gaelicians have little of value with which to trade, and the Phoenician's storm-battered wares are less than admirable. ![]() The sighting of a Phoenician's merchant ship is cause for great initial excitement and anticipation which is shattered when one of Amergin's brothers breaks the rules of hospitality. They are the Gaelicians, living on the northern coast of Iberia - today, Spain - and it has been many years since they were visited by the Sea People, the traders of Tyre and Carthage. He is also responsible for recording the new deeds and accomplishments of his tribe in words and music. ![]() But where Colptha's role is that of sacrificer, Amergin is a bard, his music and his memory serving to pass on the history of his people. Morgan Llywelyn combines elements of Celtic mythology and history into her interpretation of the migration of a tribe of Celts to Ireland in her novel Bard, subtitled "The Odyssey of the Irish."Īmergin, one of the six sons of the chieftain Milesios, has never been like his four warrior brothers like his brother Colptha, he has become a druid. Rambles.NET: Morgan Llywelyn, Bard Morgan Llywelyn, ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The To a Dreamer Poem was nice, if short but the main reason for this post is that I did want to say something about the Kadath story.Īt times monotonous with turgid, fabricated prose and at other times (though not often) surprisingly poetic, the Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath's most interesting achievement is that it seems to rather explicitly tie together several stories in Lovecraft's oeuvre, mostly just by name-dropping, but in some cases reintroducing characters from other short stories. ![]() I also read the To a Dreamer poem and the rather extensive, and increasingly list-like the further that you get, Afterword: A gentleman of Providence. Last year somewhere I read the first, and earlier today, I finished the latter. The bulk of what was in those pages were the Curious case of Charles Dexter Ward which I was reasonably sure I had read before (but needed to re-read anyway because damn my compulsions, and good that I did at any rate because it's indeed a good one) and together with the Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, which I hadn't yet and which seemed incredibly dull reading, I held off for the longest time. Mostly because, for the longest time, I didn't care to read the last 200 pages on account of I didn't have much interest in actually doing so. It was a read that might've taken me as long as 6 years, I'm guessing. Alright, I finished the 880 page Necronomicon. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments The night land![]() ![]() ![]() They have rocket systems, mortars and artillery. Photograph: Nacho Doce/Reutersĭmytro Pletenhuk, a military spokesperson in the city, says: “The Russians have every kind of weapon. Describing the latest fighting around Kherson city port in recent days, the Institute for the Study of War, a US thinktank, says: “The extent and intent of these Ukrainian positions remain unclear, and ISW does not currently assess that Ukrainian activities in and across the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast constitute a counteroffensive effort.”Ī sign warns of mines along the bank of the Dnipro River at Kherson in Ukraine. What the fighting on the Dnipro portends is also opaque, despite media attention after claims Ukrainian forces have established positions on the far bank seen by some as a sign the Kherson area could be the focus of Ukrainian efforts. In this lethal game of cat and mouse, both sides frequently carry out raids from the boats, which are visible to drones and vulnerable to gunfire, artillery and mines. Here, combatants have moved in ribs (rigid inflatable boats) with powerful engines. ![]() What is clear is that fighting for the Dnipro delta’s islands, marshes and inlets has been very different from the gruelling battles on the eastern front. A resident takes cover on Wednesday in Kherson, Ukraine, after a Russian airstrike on a train station. ![]() ![]() ![]() Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, so that I am black and blue all over my body. ![]() "I have scarcely closed my eyes all night. ![]() In the morning she was asked how she had slept. On this the princess had to lie all night. But she said nothing, went into the bed-room, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and laid a pea on the bottom then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the mattresses. "Well, we'll soon find that out," thought the old queen. And yet she said that she was a real princess. ![]() The water ran down from her hair and clothes it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. But, good gracious! what a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. It was a princess standing out there in front of the gate. Suddenly a knocking was heard at the city gate, and the old king went to open it. One evening a terrible storm came on there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. So he came home again and was sad, for he would have liked very much to have a real princess. There was always something about them that was not as it should be. There were princesses enough, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones. He travelled all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess but she woul have to be a real princess. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's unpredictable, exciting, and occasionally combustible. With every fake date, Anna's feelings are starting to become dizzyingly real. There's more to Marco than meets the eye. If the experiment in attraction works, a jealous Craig will swoop in and give Anna her happily ever after-if it weren't for one hitch in the plan. All Anna and Marco have to do is pretend they're falling in love and let the rumors begin. Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. The makeup mogul knows Craig for the ridiculously competitive rival he is. Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. How can Anna Ellis, a geeky, brilliant, and hopelessly smitten cosmetic chemist possibly win over Craig Kimball, the man of her dreams-who also happens to be her boss? The answer is Craig's empathetic (and handsome) CEO half brother, Marco. ![]() Summary True love requires a little research and development in a funny, heart-racing romance by Sariah Wilson, the bestselling author of The Paid Bridesmaid. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite accusing critics of Christianity and the Bible of bringing their "anti-supernatural bias" to the table, making them unfit critics, Josh McDowell has based all of his so-called "evidence" on the presupposition that the Bible is true and that the Christian god is real. The entire thing can be summed up with the old Sunday school song: "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so."Īlthough the book is titled "Evidence That Demands a Verdict," the verdict was made even before the book was written. ![]() "Evidence That Demands a Verdict" by Josh McDowell is, if I may be blunt, one of the biggest pieces of intellectually dishonest, self-serving tripe that I have ever read. As an atheist, it is both hilarious and frustrating. If I were a Christian, I would be insulted and embarrassed by the contents and presentation of this book. ![]() |