7/4/2023 0 Comments Time riders the eternal war![]() When Maddy mistakenly opens a time window where and when she shouldn't have Liam is marooned sixty-five million years ago in the hunting ground of a deadly - and until now - undiscovered species of predator. Its purpose - to prevent time travel destroying history. But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no-one knows exists. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912. To stop time travel from destroying the world. That's why the TimeRiders exist: to protect us. ![]() Because time travel is here and there are those who would go back in time and change the past. They are recruited by an agency that no one knows exists with only one purpose - to fix broken history. Yet moments before death someone mysteriously appeared and said 'Take my hand. ![]() Time Riders Collection Alex Scarrow 9 Books Set Pack (TimeRiders Day of the Predator Doomsday Code Eternal War Gates of Rome City of Shadows Pirate Kings Mayan Prophecy Infinity Cage) time riders alex scarrow ![]()
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7/4/2023 0 Comments Ravenous by ray garton![]() ![]() After he found various Snedekers' stories to be contradictory, Garton says the Warrens told him "Everybody who comes to us is crazy. In the early 1990s, he was hired by Ed and Lorraine Warren to write a book about Carmen Snedeker, her ill son, and their family's house (allegedly a former funeral home) that was infested with anal-rapist demons. Beginning with seeing 13 Ghosts, the genre was an outlet that took his then-lifelong fear "and made it fun." In 2009, he explained that horror was not his intention when beginning writing, rather "that's just what came out". He further credited child abuse and church-induced eschatological fears with inspiring his interest in horror fiction. Lovecraft, Bela Lugosi, and Edgar Allan Poe. Growing up, Garton's media influences included Bob Wilkins' Creature Features, Dark Shadows, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Boris Karloff, Stephen King, H. In the 1980s, Garton worked for Pinnacle Books in New York City. Garton was first published before age 22. ![]() Raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, he had left by adulthood, calling it a "pseudo- Christian cult." Garton married his wife, Dawn, around 1989. ![]() Garton grew up in Anderson, California, where he only attended religious schools. He was adopted by Pat and Ray Garton, the latter being a World War II veteran. is an American author of horror fiction for adults and young adults. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Catfish and the mandala![]() ![]() He blames himself for his sister's untimely death. When his post-operated transsexual sister had committed suicide, Pham found it hard to have peace of mind. Just like Andrew Pham who had been a successful engineer in California, found nothing but emptiness alone even as, according to the norms of the society, he had been victorious against the battle of the foreign land he used to know twenty years ago. His identity as a Viet-kieu - a Vietnamese who now lives in a foreign land like the United States (Martin, 2000), had brought him as much challenge as he had ever thought of.At a certain point in someone else's life, there comes a point when, even if the situation tells you that you have been the luckiest man in the world, there is only emptiness felt. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Sylvie and bruno concluded![]() ![]() However, due to its length, it was divided into two volumes, published in 18. Much of the rest of the novel he compiled from notes of ideas and dialogue which he had collected over the years (and which he called " litterature" in the introduction to the first volume).Ĭarroll initially intended for the novel to be published in one volume. Some years later, in 1873 or 1874, Carroll had the idea to use these as the core for a longer story. Two short pieces, "Fairy Sylvie" and "Bruno's Revenge", originally appeared in Aunt Judy's Magazine in 1867. While the latter plot is a fairy tale with many nonsense elements and poems, similar to Carroll's Alice books, the story set in Victorian Britain is a social novel, with its characters discussing various concepts and aspects of religion, society, philosophy and morality. The novel has two main plots: one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fantasy world of Fairyland. Both volumes were illustrated by Harry Furniss. Sylvie and Bruno, first published in 1889, and its second volume Sylvie and Bruno Concluded published in 1893, form the last novel by Lewis Carroll published during his lifetime. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments The Forgotten by Collie James![]() This can be identified with the opening train heist. Throughout the film, Dominik appears to be commenting on the counterintuitive nature of pristine cinematography. In a flash, Ford and the audience's tempted romanticism of James are muddied. From the perspective of Robert Ford, shots depicting Jesse James and his crew in a pivotal moment are blurred and create a foggy vision of the crime and mayhem started by the gang. Magnificently captured by iconic cinematographer Roger Deakins, the film feeds into the aesthetic awe of Western vistas but is soon quickly folded in on itself. The film consists of a post-modern visual language. The Assassination of Jesse James upends the lore of Western Americana to a whole new level. ![]() ![]() Revisionist Westerns, dominantly identified by Eastwood's deconstruction of the genre with Unforgiven, are expected to soberly unveil the truth behind the mystique of these stories. Andrew Dominik's film is confrontational about the mythos of Western ideology with its audience. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Theodore rex by edmund morris![]() ![]() I know I may be biased on this front because I am really not very interested in reading about politics. I know he didn't lose that personality when he became President (those 8 years are the sole focus of this book), but it was buried under the tons of politics that were the real main character of Theodore Rex, not Teddy himself. What happened?!?!?įor me the biggest draw to these biographies of Theodore Roosevelt was the vibrant and eccentric personality of the man himself. ![]() ![]() It took me months to get through, just because I never wanted to pick it up, and at one point I wrote in my notes: "I cannot wait for this book to end." I almost NEVER say that, and it's all the sadder because of how enchanting the first book in the series was. Theodore Rex was so different from the first book in the series, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, and not in a good way. The whole reading experience was something like wax fruit: It looks shiny, juicy and delicious, and your mouth waters anticipating the sweet, tangy taste.but you bite into it and it's just waxy sawdust, a cruel shock to the taste buds and to the mind itself. ![]() I'll be honest, this book was incredibly disappointing and really hard for me to get through. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Policeman invited the assaulted to come with him to the Police Station with the object of him to declare what happened so they could solve the case, to which Ramirez denied rotundly. ![]() The ill-fated was bleeding abundantly by the nose, and questioned by the Policeman said he was the victim of an aggression by some people he didn’t know, just because he asked them for a cigarette. “Last night, approximately at twelve and a half, the Policeman number 451, that was on service in that zone, found between Escobedo and García streets, an individual named Ramirez almost in complete state of weakness. To find out the truth is a moralizing action. How to throw to the basket the beating events of the streets? You can find the complete story in Spanish, in this webpage: Now, English is my second language, so if anybody finds a huge and unforgivable spelling or grammar mistake, please tell me, so I can change it. ![]() So, I’ve decided to do it, and post the story in parts in this blog. After some time I decided that if I ever wanted her to read something about the Ecuadorian writer, I would have to translate it myself. ![]() I was looking, not long ago, for the story “Un hombre muerto a puntapiés” by Pablo Palacios in English for a friend of mine and I couldn’t find it on the web. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “ dazzling, thorny new essay collection.” -Samin Nosrat, The New York Times Every sentence is as sensuous as the first bite into a cold, juicy plum.” -Hillary Kelly, Vulture “ glorious mash-up of memoir, love note, and cookbook. 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![]() ![]() Obviously, I understand that all of the major components of Alexander Hamilton’s life couldn’t be thoroughly expressed in the show (but if Lin Manuel-Miranda did that, I’d be all for it). If I had one “disappointment” about Hamilton, it’s that I wish we had more time with Eliza. Q: If I enjoy Hamilton: An American Musical, how much will I like Alex and Eliza?Ī: You will LOVE Alex and Eliza. In honor of Fourth of July week coming to a close here in the US, here’s a spoiler-free Q & A all about Alex and Eliza. But when General Washington’s right-hand man, Colonel Alexander Hamilton, arrives with some bad news, Eliza’s mind turns to other matters, including some that include her heart. Peggy and Angelica are ready to dance and flirt the night away, but Eliza can’t help thinking how silly it is to be spending time at a ball when there are soldiers who need her. ![]() The Revolution isn’t stopping the Schuyler family, one of the wealthiest families in the young nation, from hosting a ball in honor of their daughters. Alex and Eliza tells the love story of how Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler met. ![]() Being the Hamilton fan that I am, I knew it was time to pick up Melissa de la Cruz’s young-adult novel Alex and Eliza. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Going Rogue by Sarah Palin![]() ![]() HarperCollins describes the autobiography as "her words, her life, and it's all there in full and fascinating detail". The part I am looking forward to least is some of the disagreements that took place within the campaign," he told NBC.įurther confirmation that Palin is not Barack Obama, who writes his own books, comes with the news that she used a ghostwriter, who is arguably even more controversial than Palin herself. "The part I"m looking forward to most is the part where it energised our campaign and her selection put us ahead in the polls. It has pushed Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown's latest novel from the top spot.īut at least one reader, Palin's former running mate, John McCain, will be waiting more with trepidation than excitement. HarperCollins is to print 1.5m copies but that looks likely to be just a first run with pre-orders already putting Going Rogue at the top of the bestseller list on Amazon's American website. Palin wrote the book in just four months and finished it so far ahead of schedule that the release date was brought forward from next spring to 17 November. ![]() Whether readers will feel the 400-plus pages are worth it remains to be seen. The former vice-presidential candidate has already done very nicely out of it with a reported $7m (£4.4m) advance for the book, called Going Rogue: An American Life - mistakenly called Going Rouge by one newsreader. ![]() |