Lucky Fools by Coert Voorhees6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Loved what he has to say - all sisters twenty percent off? Absolutely. I really liked David's character, he's hilarious and has sort of an inflated head - but don't we all - and he just had me glued to the book as he's trying to figure out what exactly he wants, whether its girls or colleges or his acting career. ![]() I was laughing, I was floored, at times I was just as confused as David was. It helps too that this is the rare book that got a range of responses from me. As the summary says, dangerously insightful. But more than that, this isn't some light fluff read about a guy's high school hijinks trying to climb his way to the top, get into the acting school of his choice, it's about meeting other people's expectations, discovering things about yourself, and figuring out what you want in life. First of all, a contemporary for guys? Hell yes. I really had to think about this one, at times I wasn't quite sure what I'd just read, but I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed Lucky Fools. ![]()
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Stuntboy book 26/30/2023 ![]() ![]() They’re trying to hide it by repeatedly telling Portico to go check on a neighbor “in the meantime.” But Portico knows “meantime” means his parents are heading into the Mean Time which means they’re about to get into it, and well, Portico’s superhero responsibility is to save them, too-as soon as he figures out how. In fact, he’s the only reason the cat, New Name Every Day, has nine lives.Īll this is swell except for Portico’s other secret, his not-so-super secret. And behind those fifty doors live a bunch of different people who Stuntboy saves all the time. ![]() But a building with fifty doors just in the hallways is definitely a castle. His mom calls where they live an apartment building. He lives in the biggest house on the block, maybe in the whole city, which basically makes it a castle. No one in his civilian life knows he’s actually…Stuntboy!īut his regular Portico identity is pretty cool, too. ![]() Portico Reeves’s superpower is making sure all the other superheroes-like his parents and two best friends-stay super. ![]() A Schneider Family Award Honor Book for Middle Gradeįrom Newbery Medal honoree and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a hilarious, hopeful, and action-packed middle grade novel about the greatest young superhero you’ve never heard of, filled with illustrations by Raúl the Third! ![]() Forever free joy adamson6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() He later moved to the East African nation and joined its game department in 1938. The government stopped the practice in 1980 after a mauling incident in Kora.Īdamson, whose shoulder-length hair and goatee gave him a lion-like appearance, kept a modest camp in Kora and lived off a pension, interest from a trust fund set up by his wife and donations from supporters.Īdamson was born in India in 1906 and first visited Kenya in 1924. ![]() Following the lionesss death, the author describes how the three cubs, whose lives were threatened, are released into. In the sequel to 'Born Free' and 'Living Free', Joy Adamson concludes the story of Elsa. We have new and used copies available, in 3 editions - starting at 1.45. That book and its sequels, “Living Free” and “Forever Free,” described the Adamsons’ unique and controversial practice of taking lions born in captivity and teaching them to survive on their own before freeing them. Buy Forever Free by Joy Adamson online at Alibris. ![]() One, which they named Elsa, became the central character of “Born Free.” Adamson served as technical director for a film adaptation. In 1956, her husband brought home three motherless lion cubs. Adamson refused any additional protection, however, and did not want to be removed from Kora, where he felt well protected by his 16 lions and more than half a dozen assistants, Leakey said.Īdamson was game warden of Kenya’s northern Frontier District in 1944 when he married Joy, an Austrian-born artist whose books later thrust him into fame.Īfter living apart from her husband, Joy moved to the game reserve in the late 1960s to work with leopards. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The letter was reprinted in the collection “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”. Hemingway commented on the lack of intentional symbolism in “The Old Man and the Sea”. Quote Investigator: In September 1952 Ernest Hemingway sent a letter to Renaissance art specialist Bernard Berenson. Would you please help me to find a citation? He stated that “the old man is an old man”. Yet, Hemingway himself apparently believed that there were no symbols in his fable. Unsurprisingly, the story has been transformed into a cornucopia for symbol generation. Beleaguered high school students have been coerced into composing essays about the tale. Ernest Hemingway? Bernard Berenson? Apocryphal?ĭear Quote Investigator: Ernest Hemingway’s classic novella “The Old Man and the Sea” has been exhaustively analyzed by critics and commentators. ![]() Neuromancer cliff notes6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() The prognostication in Neuromancer that rings most true today is the novel’s idea of a World Wide Web. Neuromancer also gave rise to a whole new genre in literature: cyberpunk. The novel is widely credited with popularizing the term “Cyberspace,” with presenting a thoroughly developed idea of virtual reality, and with introducing the idea of the World Wide Web. Neuromancer Wiki page, which includes a handy character index and a glossary of terms. If you haven’t already read Neuromancer, consult the (nicely done) plot summary on the In exchange for curing Case’s nervous system, they want him to help them infiltrate the core of a huge and powerful AI (artificial intelligence) called Wintermute. Alone and suicidal, Case is scooped off the street and given a second chance by a shadowy group of people who have big (and scary) plans. ![]() But he stole from his employer, who took revenge by crippling Case’s nervous system with a mycotoxin, rendering him unable to hack. Neuromancer tells the story of Case, once a hot and high-paid cyberspace cowboy who could infiltrate and rip off corporate databases. ![]() That time i yeeted a love potion6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Though I have to say, having a gorgeous man show up and do all of your chores while telling you you're beautiful isn't the worst thing to happen to a girl. Now on top of it, I have to convince a werewolf that I'm not his fated mate, he's just drugged. Cheesemaker Brie has the worst luck in love, which is how she ends up falling for a lactose intolerant werewolf, in this raunchy, laugh-out-loud rom-com. Finally!' Amazon reviewĪnyone else ever thrown a drink at someone's head, only to miss entirely and hit a stranger behind them? Then have that stranger fall madly in love with you because it turned out that drink you threw was a love potion? No, just me? Well, damn.ĭealing with a pirate ship full of demons that just moved into town was hard enough. Finally, well written, funny, steamy (the sex scenes, whoa) fantasy romance with heroines who look like me. Her use of her literary preferences during the end of the story was genius. The female lead was fab as well being both strong and vulnerable in different ways. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo 'Kimberly Lemming is doing god's work, I swear. That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf (Mead Mishaps Book 2) Kindle Edition by Kimberly Lemming (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 4.6 4. I love all the interactions and the way the Demons don’t act like you think they will. ![]() The wisdom pyramid brett mccracken6/28/2023 ![]() “Brett McCracken’s The Wisdom Pyramid models the discernment he asks readers to practice. Joshua Ryan Butler , Pastor, Redemption Church, Tempe, Arizona author, The Skeletons in God’s Closet and The Pursuing God McCracken is like a doctor who not only diagnoses the source of our cultural malady with precision but also prescribes the cure: a change in how we consume knowledge that can promote healthy wisdom and love of God.” “One of the most important books I’ve read this year! What if you woke up to discover you’d been eating only Doritos and Oreos for a year? When it comes to our ‘information diet,’ The Wisdom Pyramid reveals most of us essentially have been consuming junk food-with an ensuing onslaught of personal and public health crises. Karen Swallow Prior, author, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis ![]() Wisdom, as this book reminds us, is right there in front of us if only we will turn our eyes upon it.” ![]() By turning to these sources, in proper order, the wise will find folly fading into the background, and the world will look like-and be-a different place. The Wisdom Pyramid lifts that fog away, revealing just how full God’s world is with goodness, truth, and beauty. ![]() “The foolishness of the world sometimes feels overwhelming. ![]() Dark Forces by Stephen King6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() (I recommend this hilarious essay about the experience of reading It.) Some of the contention has originated with King himself-in his aggressive acceptance speech upon winning the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, he admitted to early bitterness about literary writers and called readers of literary fiction “out of touch with their own culture.” To which Shirley Hazzard, winning the National Book Award for fiction that year, responded, essentially: slow your roll. Despite (or perhaps because of) his relentless success, there have been many conversations over the years about whether Stephen King is a “ great writer” or not. Stephen King-prolific writer, mega-bestseller, living author with the most film adaptations to his name, crowned king of horror but by no means limited to that genre-turns 70 today. ![]() ![]() ![]() degree in 1968 from the College of Wooster (Ohio) and his M.A. From the age of four to sixteen, he lived in India where his father worked with persons suffering from leprosy. Donaldson, a medical missionary, and Mary Ruth Reeder, a prosthetist. Donaldson was born in Cleveland on May 13, 1947, to James R. Donaldson's papers contain drafts of his novels, other writings by the author, writings about Donaldson, and audio-visual material.īiography: Stephen R. His most well known work is The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series. ![]() Donaldson is a prolific author in the science fiction/fantasy genre. Prepared by Kenton Daniels, 1996 Revised and updated by Craig Simpson, September 2008 Updated by Stephanie Tulley, September 2009 Last Updated: May 2020Ībstract: An alumnus of Kent State University, Stephen R. ![]() Cm stunich havoc series6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() This is a reverse harem novel, meaning the main character has more than one love interest. It has brief flashbacks of past bullying incidents as well as foul language and sexual scenes any sex featured is consensual. HAVOC AT PRESCOTT HIGH is a 105,000 word mature high school/new adult romance with enemies-to-lovers/love-hate themes. Those dirty, rotten boys are going to get revenge against everyone that’s wronged me-everyone but themselves. At their beck and call, in their beds, a part of their gang. I’ve made a pact with the Havoc Boys to get the vengeance I deserve. But senior year is going to be different. For an entire year, I endured their shit. The Havoc Boys rule the hellhole we call Prescott High. There's one word you don't utter at Prescott High, not unless you want them to own you. Title: Havoc at Prescott High (The Havoc Boys, #1) ![]() ![]() If you buy the book using that link, I will receive a small commission from the sale. This post contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book. ![]() |