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The Captive Maiden by Melanie Dickerson5/23/2023 Odette justifies her crime of poaching because she thinks the game is going to feed the poor, who are all but starving, both in the city and just outside its walls. When he meets the lovely and refined Odette at the festival and shares a connection during a dance, he has no idea she is the one who has been poaching the margrave’s game. Jorgen is the forester for the wealthy margrave, and must find and capture the poacher who has been killing and stealing the margrave’s game. Summary: “Swan Lake” meets Robin Hood when the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant by day becomes the region’s most notorious poacher by night, and falls in love with the forester. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. The details of the crime are slow to surface because Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. From one of the most revered novelists of our time, an exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family. More commonplace books might use this situation to extract sympathy for a plucky young chancer getting one over on the enemy. In a brief, tense scene, he convinces the soldiers that he is the owner of the splendid house and so finds himself living alongside them, desperate to conceal his true identity, but equally unwilling to escape back into the maelstrom of war. He has a bath, falls asleep and wakes up to find Nazis ringing the doorbell looking for a billet. The narrator turns out to be just as foul as the Nazis When his ragged battalion strays into a spa town, he finds himself alone in a large, luxurious house, which seems to offer a reprieve from the horror around him: a chance to pretend that “the war had never really taken place”. He is filthy, confused, frightened and fed up. The narrator is a partisan – but not the romantic hero of legend. If you only have the black and white collections, you have the essential mechanics of the stories but you are missing a lot of the fun that Watterson’s colouring adds to emotion and other narrative elements. The Sunday pages are where Watterson’s interplay between characters reaches its wackiest extents, where he can use an extended sequence of panels to really explore an idea. These strips feature lots of the nonsensical conversations, transformations, abrupt switches in style and changes of viewpoint that are the result of Calvin’s incredible imagination. Watterson relishes the freedom of complete pages that he can lay out any way he wants, to draw lavish, giant-sized, extravagantly coloured panels of alien worlds and gloopy multi-eyed alien bugs who stand between Spaceman Spiff and freedom. There is a special extra for this collection: the book begins with a new 10-page adventure for Calvin as Spaceman Spiff, ‘interplanetary explorer extraordinaire’. The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book presents just the Sunday pages, in colour. The first three volumes collecting Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes reprinted both daily and Sunday pages in black and white. Burnt offerings hamilton novel5/22/2023 pity party of one.Richard? Your table is ready at the Get-Over-It Cafe. It doesn't help improve his sparkling personality.Ĭalling for the party of one. He was always a whiny baby, and now he's a whiny baby who is bitter and angry. Richard really should have the nickname Dick because it fits him so well. I'm excited that it looks like they will be around for a while. In this book we get to meet some awesome new characters: Nathaniel the leopard, and Asher the vampire. Sociopaths have the best senses of humor. Some days I thought I was becoming a sociopath. The good news is that Anita keeps getting more and more bloodthirsty herself. The Vampire Council comes to town and they are some sadistic motherf*ckers! Torture, rape, and murder are their nice qualities, and Jean Claude and Anita have giant bulls-eyes on their backs. Captured by Erica Stevens5/22/2023 He has never had a blood slave before, and he doesn’t particularly want one now, he just knows that there is something special about her, and he needs to keep her safe, and keep her close.įrom completely opposite worlds, Arianna and Braith each represent everything that the other hates. Vampires were monsters, they destroyed humans, used them and abused them before tossing them away, but this creature was an enigma that she couldn’t even begin to fathom.”īraith has no idea why he claimed Arianna. “She began to shake, unable to understand this strange creature before her. Assuming she is to be abused and then killed, Arianna is shocked when Braith makes no demands on her, instead installing her within his rooms in the palace, and treating her well. To her horror, she is claimed by a powerful vampire, Braith, who just happens to be a Prince and next in line for the vampire throne. Daughter of the rebel leader, Arianna finds herself captured by vampires during a raid and taken to be either bled out and killed, or worse, taken as a blood slave to the highest bidder to be used in whatever way until her master tires of her. The only humans who don’t serve them are part of a resistance movement, based in the woods and continuing to fight for human freedom. Set 100 years after vampires became tired of living in the shadows and outed themselves in a bloody and brutal war against humans, vampires are now in charge, with the human race enslaved to them. YA paranormal dystopia – WIN! This is a fantastic start to a series that I know I am going to love! The arrival shaun5/22/2023 When I first saw Shaun Tan’s work, including this book as well as his wonderful essay Picture Books: Who are they for?, some small wheels started turning in my head. “The Story of the Giants” (from The Arrival by Shaun Tan) Illustrations of the ticket helper’s story from The Arrival by Shaun Tan “Dinner” (from The Arrival by Shaun Tan) “The Suitcase” (from The Arrival by Shaun Tan)Īlong the way he meets other immigrants, who share their own stories while helping him navigate, find work and understand the new customs. It’s an immigrant’s tale, following a man as he leaves his family in the dangers of his home country and travels to a new, peculiar world, where everything is foreign, from the indecipherable language to the strange foods that he doesn’t even know how to eat. “The Harbor” (from The Arrival by Shaun Tan) The soft, meticulous pencil drawings of this wordless graphic novel give a cinematic effect, like a silent movie – often I just open to a random page, and am instantly submerged in the story. Sometimes if I’m lucky enough to land by the bookshelf, I might remember to curl up with my favorite book, “ The Arrival” by Shaun Tan. Half the time I’m scouring news sites, trying to get a better grasp on our new reality, and the other half of the time I feel like covering my ears and huddling in the corner by myself. I don’t know how you guys have been in the last couple weeks, but I’ve been feeling confused and a bit lost. Red rising by pierce brown5/22/2023 I started this book with a feeling of excitement since I have owned it for quite some time. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies… even if it means he has to become one of them to do so. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society’s ruling class. Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity’s overlords struggle for power. Darrow-and Reds like him-are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet. Soon he discovers that humanity already reached the surface generations ago. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.īut Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Malicious acts can have positive consequences. In Munro's work, grace abounds, but it is strangely disguised: nothing can be predicted. Every one of these women is different, and that is the wonder of Alice Munro." -THE VILLAGE VOICE "Alice Munro is among the major writers of English fiction of our time. Munro does what most writers dream of doing and succeeds at it, page after page, story after story, collection after collection." -THE OREGONIAN "From a markedly finite number of essential components, Munro rather miraculously spins out countless permutations of desire and despair, attenuated hopes and cloudbursts of epiphany. "Munro stands as one of the living colossi of the modern short story, and her Chekhovian realism, her keen psychological insight, her instinctive feel for the emotional arithmetic of domestic life have indelibly stamped contemporary writing." -NEW YORK TIMES "In Alice Munro's hands, the smallest moments contain the central truths of a lifetime." -MACLEAN'S "Alice Munro has a strong claim to being the best fiction writer now working in North America." -NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "Captivating. |