The day of the triffids by john wyndham5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() "So you're the risqué Josella," I exclaimed. "I once wrote a book called Sex Is My Adventure." "How exciting! We're both sighted! I'm Josella Playton." The name seemed familiar, yet I couldn't quite place her. I biffed the cad who was harassing her and sent him packing. Having eyes was a grim business, but I concluded the women were probably happy to let the men take charge and continued up an alley where I heard an upper-class woman plaintively calling for help. On reaching Piccadilly Circus I encountered 50 blind wretches abusing some women. Perhaps those walking, talking triffids which we had grown from a few seeds donated by a Soviet defector, yet which had mysteriously taken over the world, were to blame for the pickle we found ourselves in. "How very distressing," I replied, not wondering if his wife had not perhaps been a little hasty as at that time she had no way of knowing if the blindness was but temporary.Īs I proceeded carefully towards central London, incurious that the sudden blindness had somehow also managed to largely depopulate the city, I reflected on my career as a biologist. ![]()
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Blood red road5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Some more diction was how Young didnt always use proper grammar. ![]() For example, she misspelled words on purpose: And so on. From the very first page, you can tell that Moira Young used strong Diction. Exuberant, exciting and charged with emotion… If a better book for teenagers is published this year, I’ll be surprised.” The Times “Has an elemental power, unfolding across achingly barren landscapes, full of blistering hotwinds and swirling clouds of orange dust. Literary Analysis- Blood Red Road Diction/ Dialect: The easiest literary element to see in Blood Red Road is Diction. Every step of Saba’s journey sizzles with danger in this futuristic thriller, which beats with a powerful, red-blooded heart. ![]() How will Saba find him in a wild, scorching and lawless land? Racing across the cruel dustlands to find him, she can spare no one. But when her twin is snatched by black-robed riders, red rage fills her soul. Nothing will separate them… Raised in isolated Silverlake, Saba is ignorant of the harsh and violent world beyond her home. “I ain’t afeared of nuthin.” Saba’s twin is golden. Winner of the Costa Children’s Book Award 2011. ![]() The golem and the jinni book review5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrative jumps between Chava and Ahmad, and between their different communities. At first, I wondered why Wecker was spending so much time on why and how Chava and Ahmad came to exist, and how they end up in New York, but as the story continues the connections get tighter and more tangled, and it all makes glorious, necessary sense. Chava (the golem) and Ahmad (the jinni) both have deep backstories, with chapters at the beginning suddenly coming to us from new characters' perspectives, or from distant locations or times. This basic storyline takes place against a rich backdrop of supporting characters, all complex and fascinating on their own. These two misfits have to figure out a way to survive in their new and unexpected surroundings, and the story circles around until they meet and their lives begin to intertwine. The other is a Jinni, a creature of fire imprisoned in a brass container 1000 years ago, from which the jinni is freed accidentally by the local Little Syria tinsmith as he tries to remove a few dents and scratches. Unfortunately that master has died at sea and she is now an uncomfortable free agent. The premise: it's 1899 in New York, and two new immigrants are stranger than any official could have imagined: one is a Golem, a woman made of clay to serve one master. I'm so glad I did, as it was a wonderfully entertaining, creative read. This is a book that I picked up solely because of the blog buzz around it. ![]() Howliday Inn by James Howe5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Then there are Felony and Miss Demeanor, sinister sisters in crime who pride themselves as cat burglars, and The Weasel who tries almost too hard to make a good impression.Ĭhester is certain that nothing bodes well and he is right. And Bob and Linda, a pair of yuppie puppies from fashionable Upper Centerville who have been left at Chateau Bow-Wow with a more than adequate supply of gourmet treats, also seem to have been left with a more than adequate supply of worries. There's Hamlet, the Great Dane, whose sadness grows deeper with his certainty that his beloved master Archie will never return to pick him up. The three are greeted by a whole new group of temporary residents. Indeed they are not, as the very next day, with the sun shining bright and clear, the Monroes finally leave for their vacation, dropping Chester, Harold, and Howie off at the scene of some previous harrowing experiences - Chateau Bow-Wow, the boarding kennel that Chester so aptly had dubbed "Howliday Inn."Īnd this visit promises to be no less harrowing than the last one. Chester, who has been reading avidly about the paranormal, predicts that they will soon be traveling someplace, and chances are they are not going to like it. First there is the omen: A relentless rain stops suddenly at 3:00 am and Chester shows Harold and Howie a cat carrier, open and waiting, by the front door. ![]() Development and freedom5/29/2023 ![]() Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 1 Insights on Amartya Sen's Development as Freedom Contents ![]() ![]() Political liberty and civil freedoms are also important on their own, and do not have to be justified indirectly in terms of their effects on the economy. #4 Economic development has many dimensions, including economic security. For example, many people in third world countries lack basic opportunities of health care, or functional education, or gainful employment, or economic and social security. #3 There are many ways in which people are deprived of their freedom. Development must be more concerned with enhancing the lives we lead and the freedoms we enjoy. But this relation is not exclusive or uniform, since the impact of wealth on our lives varies with other influences. #2 The usefulness of wealth is in the things it allows us to do. The issue is not the ability to live forever on which Maitreyee concentrated, but the capability to live a good life while you are alive. #1 There is a connection between opulence and achievements, but the link may or may not be strong and depend on many other circumstances. ![]() Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. ![]() ![]() But when the crowd of potential grooms is steadily culled, what if William is the last bachelor standing? William has been recruited to keep an eye on the royal matchmaker for the Weslorian prime minister, tasked to ensure the princess is matched with a man of quality…and one who will be sympathetic to the prime minister’s views.Īs William and Justine are forced to scrutinise an endless parade of England’s best bachelors, they become friends. ![]() Justine’s also in the market for a proper husband - one fit to marry the future queen of Wesloria.īecause he knows simply everyone, William, Lord Douglas (the notoriously rakish heir to the Duke of Hamilton seat in Scotland, and decidedly not husband material), is on hand as an escort of sorts. When Crown Princess Justine of Wesloria is sent to England to learn the ropes of royalty, she falls under the tutelage of none other than Queen Victoria herself. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Julia London opens her sparkling, witty, sexy new series, A Royal Match, with a young future queen in the market for a husband, and the charming - and opinionated - Scottish lord tasked to introduce her to the ton’s most eligible bachelors. ![]() Clarity and connection yung pueblo5/28/2023 ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. To be read on its own or as a complement to Inward. In his characteristically spare, poetic style, he guides readers through the excavation and release of the past that is required for growth. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. 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We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() The [Un]popular Vote by Jasper Sanchez5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a novel that every teen needs." -Kacen Callender, author of Felix Ever After "Charming, stunning, and unapologetically queer. But with an investigative journalist digging into his past, a father trying to silence him, and the bully frontrunner standing in his way, Mark will have to decide which matters most: perception or truth, when both are just as dangerous. ![]() Soon Mark feels emboldened to engage with voters-and even start a new romance. Still, thanks to Scandal and The West Wing, they know where to start: from campaign stops to voter polling to a fashion makeover. He didn't grow up in this town, and his few friends are all nerds. But when he sees a manipulatively charming candidate for student body president inflame dangerous rhetoric, Mark risks his low profile to become a political challenger. Red, White, & Royal Blue meets The West Wing in Jasper Sanchez’s electric and insightful ownvoices YA debut, chronicling a transmasculine student’s foray into a no-holds-barred student body president election against the wishes of his politician father. Mark has promised to keep his past hidden and pretend to be the cis guy everyone assumes he is. Everything Mark knows about politics, he learned from his father, the Congressman who still pretends he has a daughter and not a son. Red, White, & Royal Blue meets The West Wing in Jasper Sanchez's electric and insightful #ownvoices YA debut, chronicling a transmasculine student's foray into a no-holds-barred student body president election against the wishes of his politician father. ![]() The runaway king series5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() As Jaron’s past catches up with him, he wonders which of his assumed identities he will have to maintain in order to survive. Instead, Jaron puts his own plan into play, which involves sneaking across the border and tracking down the pirates who are trying to complete the unfinished task and collect on the spoils of war. When a failed assassination attempt convinces his advisers to hand over a captured traitor in the hopes of placating the group, Jaron fears they will relieve him of his crown in order to send him into hiding. Newly crowned King Jaron is convinced that the neighboring community of Avenia is set to attack and claim their land, but none of his advisers will listen to the mad king who just resumed the throne after his presumed death at the hands of pirates years ago. Publisher/Date: Scholastic Audiobooks, c2013. Series: Ascendance Trilogy #2 (sequel to The False Prince) ![]() Gaskell north and south sparknotes5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Hale’s reasoning is found during his discussion with Margaret and Higgins, when he states that “your Union in itself would be beautiful, glorious, -it would be Christianity in itself-if it were but for an end which affected the good of all, instead of that of merely one class as opposed to another” (229). Hale’s decision to leave the church due to “painful, miserable doubts” (35) 2 concerning church doctrine constitutes the one event in the novel in which a sympathetic character directly chooses to avoid discourse on a dichotomous relationship: unlike characters confronting issues of labor relations or personal integrity, he refuses to foster discussion or challenge authority figures on these unspecified religious issues.Ī key insight into Mr. However, it also addresses a change of values and reasoning that otherwise would be left hanging by the death of Mr. Thornton manifests the confluence of her compassion and her business sense, binds these seemingly dichotomous elements together. The ending of the novel, in which a proposal to loan money to a newly benevolent Mr. 1 In almost all cases, Margaret does not so much choose sides as acknowledge mutually dependent and beneficial relationships. Thornton, and even between her conflicting views of her own intelligence. ![]() ![]() North and South is a novel defined by the resolution of binary conflicts: heroine Margaret Hale is presented with a number of divisions of sympathy, between industrialists and the working class, between conflicting views of Mr. ![]() |