5/21/2023 0 Comments The fault in our stars read![]() The whole book was simply beautiful and dealth with a tough subject in an incredible way. This is one of my favorite audiobooks and you could really feel the emotion in all the right spots. It gave te story a poetic flow and nice sound as the performer read it. I loved how witty he was.The writing style was excellent and fluid. As heartbreaking as this book was at points, I also found myself laughing pretty hard in places, mainly because of Augustus. Hazel was very strong, even though she was also very sick and Augustus could make anybody's day bright with his playful quips and positive attitude. The author did so well portraying what it is like to be a cancer patient, especially from the female point of view. This story was so beautiful, poignant and touching. Find this review and more at On The Shelf!This was my first time reading John Green and it definitely will not be the last. ![]()
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5/21/2023 0 Comments Elise kova goodreads![]()
5/21/2023 0 Comments The thirteenth tale novel![]() As the master storyteller nears death, Margaret has yet to understand why she is the one Vida chose to record her tale. And what a story it is, replete with madness incest a pair of twins who speak a private language a devastating fire a ghost that opens doors and closes books a baby abandoned on a doorstep in the rain a page torn from a turn-of-the-century edition of Jane Eyre a cake-baking gentle giant skeletons topiaries blind housekeepers and suicide. For decades, the author has wildly fabricated answers to personal questions in interviews. There, she hears a story no one else knows: who Vida Winter really is. ![]() It is the coincidence of twins in the life of Vida Winter, Britain’s most famous writer, that convinces Margaret to leave her post at her father’s rare-books store and travel to the dying writer’s Yorkshire estate. ![]() Margaret Lea grew up in a household of mourning, but she never knew why until the day she opened a box of papers underneath her parent’s bed and found the birth and death certificates of a twin sister of whom she never knew. ![]() A dying writer bids a young bookshop assistant to write her biography. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments A Biker's Vow by Carol Lynne![]() ![]() Akin to Zanjoe’s mentality, Zaijian would rather take the hate as a badge of honor, “'Pag naiinis sila o natutuwa sa ginagawa mo, parangang saya sa feeling kasi tama 'yung acting. But for him, causing a stir among audiences only means they’re being watched, “Siyempre, nakakatuwa na kahit saan ako magpunta, may nanonood ng The Broken Marriage Vow."īesides Zanjoe, Zaijian portraying the rebellious son Gio Ilustre has now become a focal point of ‘gigil.’ After all, Filipino viewers despise an arrogant, selfish, and disrespectful son. May naririnig ako na ‘Hoy! Manloloko ka! Sinungaling ka!’ 'Yung mga ganun,” he said in an episode of Star Magic Inside News. Haters would even call him names in public. Mean comments are nothing new to Zanjoe, playing the cheating husband David Ilustre. Here’s how they react to the intense ‘gigil’ and what viewers should watch for as the trending series opens a new chapter. Zanjoe Marudo and Zaijian Jaranilla have been receiving both hate and love because of their roles in The Broken Marriage Vow. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Salome oscar wilde book![]() ![]() Written in French toward the end of Wilde's career, the ornate prose of Salome marks the play as a transition in Wilde's writing away from the epigrammatic, comic wit of Wildean aestheticism toward a dense, abstracted style most commonly associated with the French Symbolist poetry of Rimbaud, Mallarme, and Baudelaire. While the New Testament depicts Salome as a pawn of her mother's plan to eliminate the prophet, Wilde re-imagines John's execution as the direct and deliberate result of Salome's unrequited sexual desire for him. Wilde's treatment of Salome extends this focus, portraying the Judaic princess as the main reason for the beheading of John the Baptist. While Salome is in fact a minor character in the biblical tale, she was the focus of fascination for many late 19th-century artists, who found in her character a unique vehicle for exploring the shifting significance of female sexuality. ![]() ![]() as recorded in the New Testament (Gospel of Mark 6:15-29 and Gospel of Matthew 14:1-12). Oscar Wilde's one-act play, Salome, is a loose interpretation of the account of the beheading of St. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments God is dead thus spoke zarathustra![]() The old hermit says, “Now I love God: human beings I do not love. He warns Zarathustra against helping mankind, saying that they would much rather have their burdens relieved instead of receiving knowledge. ![]() The old hermit Zarathustra encounters on his journey down the mountain has yet to hear the news that God is dead. By arguing for the death of God, Zarathustra dethrones God as the creator of value and despises the contempt these values have fostered in mankind. Zarathustra preaches this movement away from morals in his sermons on the overman, wherein he teaches his disciples how to become annihilators of the good and the noble. ![]() For Nietzsche, “God is dead” proclaims not that the Christian God has suffered a literal death but that the customs and traditions associated with Christianity no longer guide humankind. ![]() Zarathustra proclaims that “God is dead.” Nietzsche references this phrase in other works, specifically the Gay Science. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Jennifer nielsen mark of the thief![]() ![]() ![]() Though his determination to save his sister trumps other goals, even he can see that the magical amulet and his own new supernatural powers are highly desired by various political factions and may make him either a pawn or a game-changer. He does find it, and a frightening griffin guarding it, but decides to try to keep the treasure for himself. This defiance turns out to be a lucky trait when Nic is ordered to find an amulet that belonged to Julius Caesar and give it to a power-hungry general. Nic has never bowed to his role as a Roman slave: he pretty much only follows the orders that seem logical to him unless his little sister is at risk. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments The city of brass book![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For Dara tells Nahri an extraordinary tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire and rivers where the mythical marid sleep, past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises and mountains where the circling birds of prey are more than what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass - a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound. Certainly, she has power on the streets of eighteenth-century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent.īut she knows better than anyone that the trades she uses to get by-palm readings, zars, and a mysterious gift for healing-are all tricks, both the means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles and a reliable way to survive.īut when Nahri accidentally summons Dara, an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior, to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to reconsider her beliefs. An imaginative tale in which the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a clever and defiant young con artist with miraculous healing gifts. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments American psycho less than zero![]() ![]() Robert Mallory, who Bret is sure he has seen before, is handsome, comfortable with himself, and extremely alluring - but he's also a bit strange and enigmatic. However, that changes when a new student with a mysterious past arrives at Buckley. ![]() behind while floating aimlessly through the life of the wealthy and popular in L.A.'s best neighborhoods. Bret's life is about parties, working on his first novel, secret sex with men, and dreaming of leaving L.A. He hangs out with the cool crowd, has an attractive girlfriend, lives mostly alone and in his own world in his rich parents' house, and drives a Mercedes 450SL. Hermetic, paranoid, sleek, dark - and with brief explosions of the sex and violence that have characterized Ellis' oeuvre - The Shards is a stark reminder that the American Psycho author is a genre unto himself.īret is a 17-year-old senior at Buckley, a prestigious L.A. And his latest, The Shards, is a narrative that came to him in 1981 - more than four decades ago - when he was a 17-year-old high school senior. It's been a dozen years since Bret Easton Ellis published a novel. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Book phantastes![]() Castles, kingdoms, princesses, knights, dragons, quests etc. ![]() While these original fairy tales were much darker and used to impart harsh lessons, no one can deny the impact they have had on popular culture in the centuries since their release.įantasy novels are not bound by our rules of reality and can therefore take place at any time or location, however, most western fantasy novels are heavily influenced by European folklore and history. ![]() In these collections, readers were introduced to Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Rapunzel, Greta from “The Snow Queen”, etc. The 1800s saw the publication of the German-inspired fairy tale collections by The Brothers Grimm as well as the Scandinavian-inspired collections of Hans Christian Andersen. Greco-Roman, Egyptian, and Norse mythology are among the most popular and most recognizable collections of stories read on an international level. Some of the oldest works of classical fiction are fantastical stories passed on through the centuries and across international borders such as One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, and Journey to the West. Every culture around the world has their own myths and folklore that they use to impart lessons or carry on pieces of their history. The history of fantasy is as old as humanity itself. ![]() |