![]() The target audience for this collection is middle grade kids. The Nixie of the Mill Pond gathers eight European fairy tales with a cautionary theme: Stories to teach, stories to protect, stories to warn. ![]() Usually at the very very center there is a kernel of truth (or more than a kernel sometimes) or at least an important moral lesson (stay away from weirdos, lock your doors, beware of dangerous people, use your brains in a bad situation, etc etc) So, when I saw this modern graphic novel re-telling of some classic fairy tales, I knew I had to read it!Ĭautionary Tales. Books, audio, YouTube videos, message boards, podcasts.I love those stories that pass from person to person and embrace the old and the new. Those are just the internet-era versions of folk lore and legends. I enjoy them all! And that life long love is why I enjoy the more modern versions too - urban legends, reddit scary tales, and creepy pasta stories. ![]() legends, folk lore, fairy tales, ghost stories, historical tales, morality stories. I love folklore and fairy tales! Ever since childhood I have been drawn to stories passed down from past generations. ![]()
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He was reaching for something, he heard the piping so he checked himself in order to stretch down and fish the receiver off the desk and say, “Woodrow.” Or maybe, “Woodrow here.” And he certainly barked his name a bit, he had that memory for sure, of his voice sounding like someone else’s, and sounding stroppy: “Woodrow here,” his own perfectly decent name, but without the softening of his nickname Sandy, and snapped out as if he hated it, because the High Commissioner’s usual prayer meeting was slated to start in thirty minutes prompt, with Woodrow, as Head of Chancery, playing in-house moderator to a bunch of special-interest prima donnas, each of whom wanted sole possession of the High Commissioner’s heart and mind. ![]() He was standing and the internal phone was piping. ![]() Sandy Woodrow took it like a bullet, jaw rigid, chest out, smack through his divided English heart. 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The novel is written in the form of an extended anxiety dream: manifold impediments spring up to delay his arrival at the concert hall at one point he realises he hasn't practised the pieces he intends to play. ![]() I n Kazuo Ishiguro's 1995 novel The Unconsoled, Ryder, a pianist, is due to give an important concert in a foreign city. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rabbit and the tug-of-war / Michael Thompson and Jacob Warrenfeltz - Moshup's bridge / Jonathan Perry, Chris Piers, and Scott White - Rabbit's Choctaw tail tale / Tim Tingle and Pat Lewis - The wolf and the mink / Elaine Grinnell and Michelle Silva - The dangerous beaver / Mary Eyley and Jim Coon - Giddy up, Wolfie / Greg Rodgers and Mike Short - How the alligator Got his brown, scaly skin / Joyce Bear and Megan Baehr - The Yehasuri : the little wild Indians / Beckee Garris and Andrew Cohen - Waynaboozhoo and the geese / Dan Jones and Michael Auger - When Coyote decided to get married / Eirik Thorsgard and Rand Arrington - Puapualenalena, wizard-dog of the Waipi'o Valley / Thomas Cummings, Jr. ![]() Coyote and the pebbles / Dayton Edmonds and Micah Farritor - Raven the trickster / John Active and Jason Copland - Azban and the crayfish / James Bruchac, Joseph Bruchac, and Matt Dembicki - Trickster and the Great Chief / David Smith and Jerry Carr - Horned Toad Lady and Coyote / Eldrena Douma and Roy Boney, Jr. ![]() ![]() ![]() A cultural examination that is as revelatory as it is relevant, Hype pulls back the curtain on the manipulation game behind the never-ending scam season-and how we as consumers can stop getting played. 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What more could you want?” -Cat Marnell, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Murder Your Lifeįrom former Vice journalist and executive producer of hit Netflix documentary Fyre comes an eye-opening look at the con artists, grifters and snake oil salesmen of the digital age-and why we can’t stop falling for them. "Hype is the best kind of nonfiction: juicy, sharp, savage and wildly entertaining, with a celebrity behaving badly on every page. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I read a lot of thrillers, and I enjoyed this more than most. It would be tempting to say that this is the best of the four books. Sean Duffy’s maverick character is clear from the outset. As in the later books, fiction and fact are intermingled such that Gerry Adams makes an appearance. The plot is more complex than the subsequent books and, the outcome is well concealed. Then there’s the interplay of the IRA, Sein Fein, and the UVF in this distorted reality. An extract of Mimi’s aria from La Boheme and other cryptic clues could suggest a homophobic serial killer. Is this a paramilitary execution of an informer? The post-mortem may point in another direction, as the hand is from someone else. A body is found with a hand sawn off and a hand placed on the chest. Helicopters everywhere: their spotlights finding one another like lovers in the Afterlife”. The scarlet whoosh of Molotovs intersecting with exacting surfaces. A distant yelling like that of men below decks in a torpedoed prison ship. ![]() Phosphorescence from the barrels of plastic bullet guns. In contrast to the constant rain and grim aspects of life, the first chapter opens poetically “Arcs of gasoline fire under the crescent moon. Not only that, he lives in a Protestant community with a local paramilitary as a nearby neighbour. Sean Duffy newly promoted to Detective Sergeant is a rarity, a Catholic policeman in the RUC. Belfast 1981: H Block and the dirty protest, Bobby Sands has died on hunger strike, riots and, the daily check of wheel arches for bombs. This is the first of four Sean Duffy books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The writing is powerful, the characterisation very good. There are many flashbacks, too, to their childhood and teens - particularly Paige’s as she grew up feeling the loss of her mother and going through several traumatic experiences. The first two-thirds of the book then take us back in time, so we see how Paige and Nicholas met and how their romance blossomed despite parental opposition. She now wants to return but Nicholas won’t let her in so she’s camping in the garden. The prologue of the book gets right to the heart of the story: Paige has abandoned her husband and young baby Max, although we don’t know why. Paige, by contrast, grew up with a father who loved her but never had any money her mother, whom she adored, walked out when Paige was five, and never returned. Nicholas grew up in a privileged home with two loving parents and all he could want materially. It features a young couple from very different backgrounds. ‘Harvesting the Heart’ is one of Picoult’s earlier novels, first published in 1993 although it was then re-published about three years ago. I was given this particular one for Christmas 2012 but have only just recently read it. Nevertheless I’ve gradually added a few more to my wishlist and have been pleased to be given them. I found two of them very thought-provoking and well-written although I didn’t much enjoy the third one I tried. I’ve read only a few novels by Jodi Picoult though somehow I feel as if I’ve read more. ![]() ![]() He has an executive role as a CEO in a Research Institute located in Copenhagen. Meik Wiking is an author born in Denmark in 1978. We recommended it to all workaholics and other people who are suffering from depression. “ The Little Book of Hygge ” is a one-of-a-kind book that gives a slight portion of the Danish way of life. ![]() Don’t be afraid to get out of the comfort zone in order to discover the meaning of “living the life.” One cannot grow, without identifying its weakness. Who Should Read “The Little Book of Hygge”? And Why? ![]() In our MicroBook, we summarize the essential elements which act against unhappiness and anxiety. No, this is not the Vikings era, but it sure does bring something extraordinary.ĭon’t worry, this won’t be another history lesson, but an insightful journey spiced with the taste of Danish Life. ![]() ![]() ![]() She does not follow any particular theory but rather assimilates all. ![]() In this study the researcher has tried to prove that Virginia Woolf’s concept of reality arises out of her private experience that defies any empirical analysis. Its very basis is formed on the combination of past, present and future. Human life does not move on a plain and linear way. Virginia Woolf tries to find reality in a paradoxical way that the underlying principle in chaos is order. This vision of reality has been applied to the issue of how this reality is reflected in spatial terms. Reality, for Virginia Woolf, is composed of multiplicity, of ‘the incessant shower of the atoms’ that makes up a multifaceted phenomenon. ![]() This study examines Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece To the Lighthouse(1927) from the perspective of her unique vision of reality. ![]() |