![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Their group includes the four kids and their pastor. My Opinion: In this YA book we find Will Peterson and three other young volunteers who go to Central America with their church group to help rebuild the wall of a one room schoolhouse for the members of a small,very poor village. My favorite scene involves a gun, a waterfall and a maneating reptile. ![]() I think the messages would have been more profoundly received without the heavy hand. The narrator himself becomes less shallow and more introspective as the story develops.Although I enjoyed the introspection, I think the "God" talk in the book was overdone. It stands to reason that he might just view his experiences, at least initially, via his media riddled and cliche laden worldview. I wonder if this isn't a purposeful tool used by the author to make the narrator more realistic.After all, the narrator is 16 years old. In the beginning the characters all seem a little cliche and two dimensional but they acquire at least a little depth as the story climaxes and rolls toward its conclusion. I think the characters are developed via the worldview and perspective of the teenager who is telling us his story. My first instinct was to feel this was a result of bad character development. The only character I really like or connect to in this story is the narrator. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Okay, Jean Claude, what do YOU want me to wear? I can handle that! I'll dress like a dominatrix pirate for him any day. He may dress-up everyone around him like gay pirate romance novel covers, but he also showers Anita with gifts and romantic notes. He even encourages Anita to try and make peace with Richard. On the other end of the spectrum is Jean Claude who is sweet, smart, and totally mature and confident. The only thing that annoys me more than Richard's jealous baby tantrums is the fact that Anita still finds him so "irresistible". pity party of one.Richard? Your table is ready at the Get-Over-It Cafe. It doesn't help improve his sparkling personality.Ĭalling for the party of one. He was always a whiny baby, and now he's a whiny baby who is bitter and angry. Richard really should have the nickname Dick because it fits him so well. ![]() ![]() I'm excited that it looks like they will be around for a while. ![]() In this book we get to meet some awesome new characters: Nathaniel the leopard, and Asher the vampire. Sociopaths have the best senses of humor. Some days I thought I was becoming a sociopath. The good news is that Anita keeps getting more and more bloodthirsty herself. The Vampire Council comes to town and they are some sadistic motherf*ckers! Torture, rape, and murder are their nice qualities, and Jean Claude and Anita have giant bulls-eyes on their backs. ![]() ![]() He holds aloft a master-crafted manreaper, taller even than Typhus himself, which features a host of unpleasant effects of corruption and wear it’s clearly a blade that has seen a lot of action. This is an appropriately large model, covered head to toe in rot, pitted Cataphractii armour, skulls, Nurgle icons and spikes – there’s even room for a Nurgling to hitch a ride, clinging to his waist. Billions have died and been returned to undeath, as the proliferating energies of Chaos distort and mutate this disease to ever-more terrifying vectors. For ten thousand years he has been a blight on Imperial worlds in the wake of Typhus’ fleet a virulent plague spreads, creating plague zombies whose bites carry the disease to new victims. ![]() That Typhus has been truly blessed by Nurgle is indisputable. ![]() From his ancient ship, the Terminus Est, Typhus spreads contagion and misery across the galaxy. Typhus, Lord of Mortarion’s First Plague Company and Host of the Destroyer Hive, is the most feared of all Plague Fleet commanders. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To complicate matters, someone in New York City is murdering Downworlder children. And Clary’s only chance to help her mother is to track down rogue Shadowhunter Valentine, who is probably insane, certainly evil-and also her father. But the Shadowhunting world isn’t ready to let her go-especially her handsome, infuriating, newfound brother, Jace. But what’s normal when you’re a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries? If Clary left the world of the Shadowhunters behind, it would mean more time with her best friend, Simon, who’s becoming more than a friend. Is love worth betraying everything? Plunge into the second adventure in the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and “prepare to be hooked” ( Entertainment Weekly)-now with a gorgeous new cover, a map, a new foreword, and exclusive bonus content! City of Ashes is a Shadowhunters novel.Ĭlary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You will never, ever question me about it, do you hear me?” I’d turn into the devil, a monster, and whatever weapon I have to be if it means I can protect you. I spent my whole life repressing my true nature, but I’d willingly embrace my demons for you. “Listen to me and listen to me well, Glyndon. Only this sentence is enough to tell you that this is my guilty pleasure so please leave me alone okay? we all know the magic of men written by women, so drop your brain somewhere before you start this book and enjoy… if this is what you consider enjoyment. It has become my escape recently, I used to read dragons and vampires to get away from this world but now I am reading psychotic college kids getting laid… hard… and often. This is the third review in a row, however, I cannot stop reading dark romance anymore. I am proud that I am actually being consistent with my posts recently and I wish to thrive in 2023! ![]() Oh hello hello! I am back with yet ANOTHER romance review and this is one of the darker ones I’ve read so far. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972.Īfter Tolkien's death, his son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion. Lewis, a co-member of the informal literary discussion group The Inklings. He then moved within the same university to become the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, and held these positions from 1945 until his retirement in 1959. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.įrom 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College, both at the University of Oxford. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL ( / ˈ r uː l ˈ t ɒ l k iː n/, ROOL TOL-keen 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. ![]() ![]() ![]() The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, "as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog". Jerome) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who would become a senior manager at Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom Jerome often took boating trips. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator Jerome K. ![]() One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers – the jokes have been praised as fresh and witty. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. ![]() ![]() Patch saves Nora from death multiple times because he realizes he has fallen in love with her. She finds herself drawn to him despite him initially trying to assassinate her, and despite her friends preferring that she date their friend Elliot, who is later revealed to be a pawn of the Nephilim Jules. Nora Grey meets Patch Cipriano in her biology class. ![]() The movie adaptation has cast Liana Liberato as Nora Grey and Wolfgang Novogratz as Patch Cipriano. įilm rights to the series have been purchased by LD Entertainment and book rights have been sold in 13 countries. ![]() The series was initially promoted as a trilogy, with later announcements stating that the series would comprise four books. The first book in the series, Hush, Hush, was released on Octothrough Simon & Schuster, with the final novel in the series, Finale, releasing on October 23, 2012. The Hush, Hush quartet is a series of four novels by Becca Fitzpatrick that follow teenager Nora Grey as she falls in love with the fallen angel Patch and discovers her own angelic heritage. ![]() ![]() ![]() To the question that retains its controversial power today-was the United States founded as a Christian nation?-Ingersoll answered an emphatic no. presidency had he been willing to mask his opposition to religion. When he died in 1899, even his religious enemies acknowledged that he might have aspired to the U.S. During the Gilded Age, which saw the dawn of America’s enduring culture wars, Robert Green Ingersoll was known as “the Great Agnostic.” The nation’s most famous orator, he raised his voice on behalf of Enlightenment reason, secularism, and the separation of church and state with a vigor unmatched since America’s revolutionary generation. ![]() ![]() ![]() The main arc of the episodic plot is the conflicted friendship between Grace and Eliza. Although prominent African Americans like Mary McLeod Bethune urge enlistment in the WACs to advance “the race,” the government reneges on its promise to not segregate the WACs. ![]() But as they enter training, even as relatively privileged officer candidates, they soon learn that racial and sex discrimination have followed them into the armed forces. Grace and Eliza meet as new recruits to the newly formed Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, where each hopes to alter her destiny. Eliza Jones is warring with her employer and father, the editor and publisher of a prominent Black newspaper, because he’s relegated her to covering the society beat. As the United States heads into World War II, two Black women in Harlem are dissatisfied with their career prospects.Īlthough she’s a brilliant pianist, Grace Steele freezes at her Juilliard audition and fears to confess her failure to her mother, who’s already distraught about son Tony’s disappearance in the Philippines. ![]() |