![]() ![]() With stunning prose and a captivating mixture of action, romance, and horror, The Unbound delves into a richly imagined world where no choice is easy and love and loss feel like two sides of the same coin. Can Mackenzie untangle the mystery before she herself unravels? And unless Mac can track down the real culprit, she’ll lose everything, not only her role as Keeper, but her memories, and even her life. ![]() She’s sure the Archive knows more than they are letting on, but before she can prove it, she becomes the prime suspect. ![]() Meanwhile, people are vanishing without a trace, and the only thing they seem to have in common is Mackenzie. ![]() She knows the past is past, knows it cannot hurt her, but it feels so real, and when her nightmares begin to creep into her waking hours, she starts to wonder if she’s really safe. But moving on isn’t easy - not when her dreams are haunted by what happened. Now, as she starts her junior year at Hyde School, she’s struggling to get her life back. Last summer, Mackenzie Bishop, a Keeper tasked with stopping violent Histories from escaping the Archive, almost lost her life to one. ![]()
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![]() Yet to her surprise, the white dupatta of the widow hides more than just their modesty – these are women who have spent their lives in the shadows of fathers, brothers and husbands being dutiful, raising children and going to temple, but whose inner lives are as rich and fruitful as their untold stories. ![]() ![]() When Nikki takes a creative writing job at her local temple, with visions of emancipating the women of the community she left behind as a self-important teenager, she’s shocked to discover a group of barely literate women who have no interest in her ideals. ‘Big-hearted, earthy and funny… A rattlingly good story’ Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ![]() ![]() ![]() This novel begins in the depths of a murky sinkhole in Mexico where an accident has required the saving help of NUMA-duo Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino. ![]() I really enjoyed this novel, because it scratched every itch for the adventure-enthusiast in me. ![]() This novel appears to have it all: a missing treasure situated where it ought not be an aquatic phenomenon that staggers the imagination a family-run crime syndicate bent on global domination of some sort and a unique assassin whose lust for murder becomes his own undoing. But when I think of a classic, mid-career Cussler novel, I think of Inca Gold. When I think of the time when Cussler first hit it big, I think of Raise the Titanic. When I think of Clive Cussler‘s earliest years, I think of the simplicity of The Mediterranean Caper. ![]() ![]() ![]() While happiness is fleeting, sadness has more permanent residue however, extreme sadness is as loose as happiness. To know what happens, or to live in a trance of lies and believe nothing has happened. This is the question I typically ask in my reviews because many books deal with it.
![]() ![]() ![]() In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.”ĩ. A show iwthout an audience is nothing, after all. He often values the reactions over the show itself. ![]() Genuine reactions, not mere polit applause. How does this quote apply to both the circus and the competition?Ĭhandresh relishes reactions. In what ways are Marco and Celia’s magic different? How are they similar? How does this reflect the differences and similarities in their personalities?Ĩ. What role does time play in this novel? What examples of time’s passing, or lack thereof, did you see?ħ. How did this add or detract from your reading experience? Why? How would this tale be told in chronological order change it?Ħ. The chapters follow a non-linear fashion. How do you see these themes portrayed? What are your personal beliefs around these themes? How do your personal beliefs change your interpretations of the characters?ĥ. This novel explores themes of destiny, fate, and free will. ![]() Did any of the characters speak to you? Did they seem real and believable? Who was your favorite character? Your least favorite?Ĥ. How is this explored in The Night Circus? Who in this novel is a dreamer? What is their punishment for being so? How do you as the reader feel connected to this quote?ģ. The novel opens with a quote from Oscar Wilde:Ī dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he seems the dawn before the rest of the world. What did you think of the story? Did you like it? Love it? Hate it? What made you lean that way?Ģ. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Netflix announced back in 2021 that a movie adaptation of Matilda will be joining its vast library in December 2022, but when exactly? The West End version of Matilda tells the story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with a “sharp mind and a vivid imagination, dares to take a stand to change her story with miraculous results.”īased on the book by beloved British novelist Roald Dahl, the musical won 47 international awards, and now a movie adaptation is coming to Netflix. But what do we really know about the movie so far? A movie adaptation of the beloved Roald Dahl character Matilda will be coming to Netflix in December, the streamer announced back in 2021. ![]() ![]() ![]() November 2015: Hotel Ruby by Suzanne Young.November 2014: A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray.November 2012: The Blessed by Tonya Hurley. ![]()
![]() “Debut author Tracey creates a compelling mix of mystery, magic, and star-crossed romance.” ―VOYA “Welcome to the town of Belle Dam, a mysterious place filled with intriguing characters, magic, and dangerous secrets.”―Karen Mahoney, author of The Iron Witch ![]() But when the truth about his family is revealed, Braden must pay a terrible price. Young women are disappearing from town, and as he investigates, Braden is forced to explore the dangerous unknown power within himself. While struggling to come to terms with his attraction to Trey, Catherine Lansing’s son who should be his mortal enemy, Braden senses a diabolical plan has been set in motion. ![]() When disturbing nightmares of Lucien’s return haunt him, Braden discovers that the simmering feud between Belle Dam’s two witch dynasties is fast approaching its explosive boiling point. After destroying the demon Lucien, Braden―son of Belle Dam’s most powerful warlock, Jason Thorpe―doesn’t need the power of his witch eyes to see that everything in his life is turning against him: friends, family, and even his visions. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Furthermore, informed by the work of Sherry Simon and others, I situate Ekke in relation to a tradition of multilingual writing in Quebec, and I address du Plessis’s own thoughts on the fraught history of Afrikaans as not only a language linked to the history of Apartheid but also a contemporary language threatened with erosion by the spread of English. My analysis examines the ways in which the multilingual nature of her poetry as well as its subject matter relating to language, art, and identity create a sustained interrogation of systems of meaning. ![]() As the back cover copy aptly states, Ekke “explores the multiplicity of self through language,” and, in Ekke and other writing, du Plessis offers a promising albeit not uncomplicated vision of the potentials of the multilingual self. Ekke is predominantly in English, but a significant portion of the work is in other languages, primarily Afrikaans. South African–Canadian poet Klara du Plessis explains that in Afrikaans Ekke, the title of her first full-length poetry collection, is an emphatic form of the first-person singular pronoun ek. ![]() ![]() Garcia continued, “Marcus Rosner is also so kind and talented, he is absolutely wonderful. “Beau Mirchoff and I had a lot of intense scenes together but he is such a generous performer to play against.” “All of the actors bring a piece of themselves to the characters,” she said. He is a jack of all trades, who is able to see the whole picture and he makes intelligent story decisions that propel and elevate the stories in ways that not many people can do,” she said. He is such an intelligent performer and he looks at it at all the angles. “Jake Foy and I are like two peas in a pod, he is amazing and such a sweetheart. It was just a really enjoyable and a beautiful experience for me.” “I can’t say more good things about these actors, they are incredible humans both on-screen and off-screen. ![]() “Also, working with this cast every day was a dream come true,” she said. ![]() |