Back to Blog
The one nora roberts7/8/2023 Fred, her young colleague, possessed of burgeoning abilities and an optimism that seems out of place in this bleak landscape. Arlys, a journalist who has lost her audience but uses pen and paper to record the truth. Chuck, a tech genius trying to hack his way through a world gone offline. At the same time, other travelers are heading west too, into a new frontier. Some of it is unimaginably evil, and it can lurk anywhere, around a corner, in fetid tunnels beneath the river?or in the ones you know and love the most.Īs word spreads that neither the immune nor the gifted are safe from the authorities who patrol the ravaged streets, and with nothing left to count on but each other, Lana and Max make their way out of a wrecked New York City. Some of it is good, like the witchcraft worked by Lana Bingham, practicing in the loft apartment she shares with her lover, Max. And as the power of science and technology receded, magic rose up in its place. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. The electrical grid sputtered law and government collapsed?and more than half of the world’s population was decimated. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. A stunning new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author?an epic of hope and horror, chaos and magic, and a journey that will unite a desperate group of people to fight the battle of their lives…
0 Comments
Read More
Back to Blog
Kallocain by Karin Boye7/8/2023 Han har skapat en sanningsdrog som tvingar personen att säga precis som det är utan några lögner eller hemligheter. Leo Kall är en kemist i Kemistaden 4 som arbetar för att förbättra effektiveten när det gäller att hitta och sålla ut Världstatens illojala eller fientliga invånare. One of the ideas that struck deepest for me is how increased state security doesn't make people feel safer or bring them together but rather increases their fear and separates them by making them fear each other. Lot of things to think about, lot of angles. The ending made little sense to me given the character development but perhaps there was a point in that. Its quite a complicated tale and maybe a little is being lost in translation at times as some elements can be hard to follow. This cognitive dissonance is just one of the confused or complex elements of the story. Its main character is a strange sort of combination of the protagonists of We and 1984, in that like the guy from We he's quite happy as part of a dystopia but also like Winston Smith he's terrified of everything. So this is a philosophical dystopia kinda half-way between and 1984.
Back to Blog
The giving tree book7/8/2023 The Charlotte Dean Mysteries are linked to the River's End series by Charlotte. Set amongst Victoria's beautiful Macedon Ranges featuring a quirky cast of characters and a dash of danger, it's small town mystery with a unique Australian twist. The Charlotte Dean Mysteries is a new series of mysteries from the author of The Stationmaster's Cottage. With days before Christmas, can Charlotte solve the mystery of the missing cards and exonerate the accused local, or will the person behind all the crime in town finally take their revenge on her? Meanwhile, Trev has a new constable to train and can't seem to find the right moment to propose to the woman he loves.Īs the thefts devastate the town and shoppers avoid Kingfisher Falls, Charlotte faces a big decision when news about her past casts doubt on her future. And they are quick to blame a recently returned, down-on-their-luck local when some of the gift cards go missing. After the success last year of the bookshop's 'Giving Box', she's roped eleven other traders into joining her 'Giving Tree' project.īut somebody wants the project to fail. Christmas is a time of giving but one person wants to take it all away.Ĭhristmas is almost here and Charlotte has every intention of making it the best one ever for the residents and shops of Kingfisher Falls.
Back to Blog
Need joelle7/8/2023 Instead, it’s an email from NEED and it asks her what she needs. She thinks that maybe Nate has finally gotten over Kaylee and has taken an interest in her. The have a close friendship but it isn’t hinted as to whether its ever gone farther than friendships. Kaylee knows that if Nate ever found a serious girlfriend, things would be over between her and him. He signs up on the NEED website and says he needs an “A” on his final. Since Kaylee’s mom took Jake to the hospital for his checkup, it’s just her and Nate at her house. All he had to do was have 5 friends join the website and he got the phone for free. Nate’s brother, Jake, broke his iPhone 3 times and since he knew that his dad wouldn’t buy him a new phone, he got one on the website. Kaylee and Nate are sitting in class when Nate shows her the NEED Jake got a new phone. There will be spoilers so if you don’t want to know details I suggest you skip to my notes with the book. This book was published in 2006 and I picked it up from my local library. I am hoping to buy this book myself and use it in my classroom library for my students. What made me pick this book up initially was the idea of a strange website compelling people to commit out of norms tasks for things they thought they needed. Good morning everyone! As always you can follow my goodreads account to see what I’m reading.
Back to Blog
Death of a salesman book7/8/2023 In 1999, New Yorker drama critic John Lahr said that with 11 million copies sold, it was "probably the most successful modern play ever published." Background It has been adapted for the cinema on ten occasions, including a 1951 version by screenwriter Stanley Roberts, starring Fredric March. Since its premiere, the play has been revived on Broadway five times, winning three Tony Awards for Best Revival. It is considered by some critics to be one of the greatest plays of the 20th century. It won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. The play addresses a variety of themes, such as the American Dream, the anatomy of truth, and infidelity. It is a two-act tragedy set in late 1940s Brooklyn told through a montage of memories, dreams, and arguments of the protagonist Willy Loman, a travelling salesman who is despondent with his life, and appears to be slipping into senility. The play premiered on Broadway in February 1949, running for 742 performances. Late 1940s Willy Loman's house New York City and Barnaby River Bostonĭeath of a Salesman is a 1949 stage play written by American playwright Arthur Miller.
Back to Blog
Sontag susan on photography7/7/2023 But there is no arguing the fact that it is ubiquitous, and that this in itself is a significant phenomenon. This popularity is by no means a point in the book’s favour, especially among more academically inclined critics, or even those sick of its increasingly dated ubiquity. It’s difficult to name any other piece of sustained writing on the subject of photography that has gained the same kind of audience, whatever else might be said about its influence one way or another. And, in many respects, the book is nearly unique. Sontag’s writing has a sureness of tone, a certainty, that seems to have guaranteed its lasting authority. This longevity might seem unlikely, but in fact, some of the reasons for the book’s popularity aren’t hard to grasp. In much the same way, it has long been a familiar touchstone used to bolster any number of middle-brow articles on the subject, especially those aimed at a non-specialist audience. It’s probably a source of bemusement for some that Susan Sontag’s venerable 1977 book On Photography still serves as an entry point into the nebulous world of photographic theory for a great many readers. Henri Cartier-Bresson, Susan Sontag, 1972.
Back to Blog
Tabi po 1 mervin malonzo7/7/2023 There are also some stories said that the Aswangs are the ones who eat the baby while the mother is having a pregnancy. If I remember the tales correctly, there are stories that Aswangs are one of those beings who eat human flesh. It could be a shapeshifter or a witch or something scary that you wouldn’t expect. I would have never imagined, really reading, a book about supernatural – or in this case, books (or comics) about the native monsters in the Philippines called “Aswang”.Īswang depicts many forms in the Philippines. Tabi Po Isyu 1 by Mervin Malonzo is a beautifully crafted book that ignites provoking thoughts after reading a series of pages. Isang gutom na mapapawi lamang ng laman…at dugo. Ang tanging alaala lang niya ay isang imahe ng babae na nakikita niya sa kanyang panaginip, at ang tanging nararamdaman niya ay isang matinding gutom na mabilis na namumuo sa kanyang walang pusod na sikmura. Isang lalake ang bigla na lamang nagising sa loob ng isang puno sa gitna ng kagubatan na walang alaala kung sino siya at saan siya nagmula. ★ National Book Awardee for Graphic Literature (Filipino) ★
Back to Blog
The voyage out by virginia woolf7/7/2023 As she begins to understand her place in the world, she finds the happiness of love, but also sees its brute power. The novel explores these issues more personally, through the character of Rachel Vinrace, a young woman whose voyage out to South America opens up powerful encounters with her fellow-travellers, men and women. This is both an acute analysis and a spirited rallying cry it remains surprisingly resonant and relevant in the 21st century. Woolf's prescription is clear: if a woman is to find creative expression equal to a man's, she must have an independent income, and a room of her own. The essay lays bare the woman artist's struggle for a voice, since throughout history she has been denied the social and economic independence assumed by men. Both focus on the place of women within the power structures of modern society. 'A Room of One's Own' (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and perhaps Virginia Woolf's best known work 'The Voyage Out' (1915) is highly significant as her first novel.
Back to Blog
To kill a mockingbird hardcover7/7/2023 Published last year, the novel was actually written before Lee’s acclaimed debut, with her decision to release it after decades of silence greeted with controversy, although allegations of elder abuse against the writer were subsequently declared unfounded. Lee died at the age of 89 on 19 February, leaving behind her the 1961 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the Pulitzer prize-winning story of lawyer Atticus Finch’s courtroom battle to save a black man accused of rape by a white woman, and its sequel Go Set a Watchman. “The disappearance of the iconic mass-market edition is very disappointing to us, especially as we understand this could force a difficult situation for schools and teachers with tight budgets who cannot afford the larger, higher priced paperback edition that will remain in the market,” said the email from Hachette, which also claimed that “more than two-thirds of the 30m copies sold worldwide since publication have been Hachette’s low-priced edition”. The Hachette edition retails for $8.99, compared to the $14.99 and $16.99 larger trade paperback editions sold by HarperCollins, and has sold over 55,000 copies since the start of the year, more than double the sales of the trade paperback editions, the New Republic reported. According to emails obtained by the New Republic, Hachette, the US publisher of the mass-market edition of To Kill a Mockingbird, informed booksellers across America on 4 March that Lee’s estate would no longer allow publication of the mass-market paperback of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Back to Blog
Legion by brandon sanderson7/7/2023 Many of the author’s novels take place in a shared universe and tell stories of the people and civilizations of that universe’s planets. Think the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but for Brandon Sanderson’s fantasy books. We’ve avoided spoilers, but if you want to go in as blind as a bat, just read the headers!Īnd now, at long last, The Quill To Live’s recommended Cosmere reading order.The two Wild Card picks can go anywhere in your reading order (with one caveat).You won’t find non-Cosmere works like Skyward or Alcatraz & The Evil Librarians here. Today, one and a half Brandon Sanderson experts (Andrew and Cole, respectively) shoulder the Herculean task of telling YOU the ideal Brandon Sanderson reading order. Come one, come all to the Cosmere! That’s right folks, after years of Brandon Sanderson reviews and discussions, we’re finally laying down the law. |