![]() ![]() Haunted by an inability to remember her early childhood, she moves restlessly from city to city, abandoning lovers along the way, possibly still followed by a private detective who has pursued her for years. In adulthood, she finds it impossible to stop. ![]() She spends her childhood and adolescence traveling constantly and changing identities. Lilia Albert has been leaving people behind her entire life. Mandel's characters will resonate with you long after the final page is turned. ![]() John Mandel casts a powerful spell that captures the reader in a gritty, youthful world - charged with an atmosphere of mystery, promise and foreboding - where small revelations continuously change our understanding of the truth and lead to desperate consequences. Last Night in Montreal is a story of love, amnesia, compulsive travel, the depths and the limits of family bonds, and the nature of obsession. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments The 100 by Kass Morgan![]() ![]() I learned that the show was based on three books. 100 juvenile delinquents are sent to earth wearing life monitoring bracelets to determine if the earth is ready for its spacebound children to return. Air is precious, which is why criminals over the after of 18 are punished with immediate death by “floating” out into the cold, cold vacuum of space. ![]() Lost meets Battlestar Galactica is the easiest way to describe the show (it even features actors from both, which made me overlook my initial frustrations), with an excellent concept at its base: three generations after a nuclear winter, the survivors of the cataclysm have found that their orbital home, the Ark, is dying. ![]() It also focused prominently on the adults above, and later below, and how they all deal with this new world together–or apart. Moreover, it wasn’t just about the kids on the ground. It started out proving my fears to be reasonably well founded, but, as the story of 100 young adults sent to a ruined earth to see if it was survivable progressed, the kids started to put their big boy and girl pants on. I didn’t bother with CW’s The 100 because I am a YA snob and didn’t want to watch a show that reduced young adults to the sum of their private parts with a dash of Lord of the Flies drama, but reviews from reliable sources prompted me to change my mind. Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (September 2013) ![]() Genre: Science fiction, post-apocalyptic, young adult, romance “Although the astronomical event of a lifetime was playing out right before his eyes, he was looking only at her.” ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Van gogh ingo f walther![]() ![]() I found a few highly-rated biographies, but most were over 500 pages. What contributed to his unique personality? What was the deal with him cutting off his ear? Why did he shoot himself?Īs is typical for me, I did a bit of searching to find some books to read to learn more. Having recently visited the LUME van Gogh exhibit at Newfields art museum, my interest was piqued about Vincent van Gogh. While he could, sought to comfort people trough his paintings and he's doing it until now. Vincent looked for love in a world who it couldn't give him back, he was underestimated in life but raised when passed away just like he thought. ![]() I have a lot of things to say about his life but I don't think I could be able to expose in a correctly way so I rather to keep it to myself. Impresionism and post-impresionism are my favorite artistic trends and here is one of those painters which always caught my attention. My intention isn't romanticize his tragic life or how depression consumed him, I just wanna express those feelings of melancholy, sadness and nostalgia this reading caused in me. Van Gogh just emmaned pure talent, he painted with so much pasion that his feelings it could see reflected in his works. Can you imagine how sad is that? My heart is broken in two pieces though. He saw only one way out." This man died thinking he failed in life. "Van Gogh had failed in every aspect of his life. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Ptsd by guillaume singelin![]() ![]() So while it’s easy for those of us familiar with, and those of us living with PTSD (particularly those of us who received it from war), it’s not the same wars and not the same places. Coming from a multicultural background it was also important for him that setting be multicultural too. ![]() In his author’s note he states that, while he was initially working on this during his time in Tokyo and was very inspired by the city, the world the characters live in is totally fictional as is the war they were returning from. First I think it’s really important to note that Guillaume Singelin is not portraying any war that we know of and is not depicting real cities that we know. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They wrote a magazine story on the crash and the survivors which was later short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. In 1986, he and two other reporters spent several months interviewing survivors of a major airline crash. In Fort Lauderdale he wrote about police and crime during the height of the murder and violence wave that rolled over South Florida during the so-called cocaine wars. Once he decided on this direction he chose a major in journalism and a minor in creative writing - a curriculum in which one of his teachers was novelist Harry Crews.Īfter graduating in 1980, Connelly worked at newspapers in Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, primarily specializing in the crime beat. 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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments The time machine hg![]() Production notes: This ebook of The Time Machine was published by Global Grey in 2019. ![]() This book has 88 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1895. The Time Machine had been adapted into three films, two television versions, and many comic books, as well as being a huge influence in the genre of science fiction. However, he soon realised that it was more like that of 'Ranchers/Livestock'. Search all of SparkNotesSearch Suggestions Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. He originally believed that they shared a kind of 'Lord/Servant' relationship. The Time Machine: Full Text SparkNotes Read the full text of The Time Machine in its entirety, completely free. 802,701, where he finds that the state of the human race has changed considerably, and where he discovered two distinct peoples the Eloi, and, the Morlocks. He returns the following week with a tale of how he has used it and where it took him. The story starts with a narrator telling his dinner guests about the Time Traveller's machine and how it allowed him to travel through the fourth dimension, and how he has built such a machine himself. ![]() The sci-fi novel that actually gave us the term: 'time machine'. WellsĪvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook formats. ![]() ![]() Buy the entire collection (over 2,400 ebooks) for only £15. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments The light fantastic book![]() It is the light by which darkness can be seen, and therefore is always available, everywhere. Meta-light is almost an idea rather than a phenomenon. For the sake of discussion they could be calledĬommon light, meta-light, dark light and ‘the light fantastic’. ![]() Pratchett, in the Discworld Companion notes that this is not to be confused with Octarine (which is the " Colour of Magic") and splits from ordinary light.Īs far as can be determined, there are now four distinct types of It was a rather disappointing purple colour. The Octavo filled the room with a dull, sullen light, which wasn’t strictly light at all but the opposite of light darkness isn’t the opposite of light, it is simply its absence, and what was radiating from the book was the light that lies on the far side of darkness, the light fantastic. ![]() ![]() In-universe the "light fantastic" is an actual, factual thing. ![]() ![]() ![]() The illustrations in this The Book of Kells guide include striking reproductions of complete pages, and details that reveal the astounding intricacy and richness of the decoration. Therefore, fascinating insights are provided into one of the greatest surviving examples of medieval art. The Book of Kells is written by the former Keeper of Manuscripts at the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, where the Book of Kells is on permanent display. ![]() ![]() Written by Bernard Meehan, The Book of Kells contains 98 illustrations of the beautifully decorated manuscript of the four Gospels. The Book of Kells, is an illustrated introduction to the original manuscript that dates back from about 800 CE. Beautiful imagery of the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin. ![]() ![]() New social structures and tribal connections spring up across America, as the previous social structures begin to dissolve. We looked it over for a minute (both of us had once been avid mini golfers), then continued toward the door. ![]() The astroturf had completely rotted away in places. There was an ancient miniature golf course choked in weeds alongside the bowling alley. That we're homeless." "I know." "I mean, we have college degrees," he said. "It's so hard to believe," Colin said as we crossed the steaming, empty parking lot toward the bowling alley. This is how our world ends with a whimper instead of a bang. ![]() What happens when resources become scarce and society starts to crumble? As the competition for resources pulls America's previously stable society apart, the "New Normal" is a Soft Apocalypse. ![]() |