![]() It took nearly 100 pages for Beauty to reach the Beast's castle, and then even more time to build a connection between the unlikely pair. However, I also quickly discovered that McKinley's stories cannot be rushed. ![]() What I discovered was a lushly drawn setting and strong characters, woven into a story that truly felt timeless. īeauty is the first book I've read by Robin McKinley, but friends have been raving about her stories for a long time. Wanting more of this unlikely but beloved couple, I was eager to pick up Beauty, Robin McKinley's retelling. Unlike many fairytales, Beauty and the Beast's relationship is not based on insta-love or physical beauty, and it takes time to develop trust between them, let alone love. ![]() My favorite growing up was always The Little Mermaid, but recently I've fallen more and more in love with the tale of Beauty and the Beast. As my daughter discovers Disney animated movies, we've been revisiting fairytales in our household. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() But unlike Paris, it is half Oriental, looking as much like Istanbul or Cairo as like Paris, Brussels, or Vienna. ![]() Like nineteenth-century Paris, Bucharest has a subterranean life, full of mysteries. A foreigner has to spend many years here to get the zest of the city and to get to love its inhabitants. Otherwise, Bucharest might seem overwhelmingly intricate, like a spider web or a labyrinth, it might look unsettling and dangerous. Even more, you have to be born by it and look like it. You have to be born here to understand and feel it. If each city is like a game of chess, the day when I have learned the rules, I shall finally possess my empire, even if I shall never succeed in knowing all the cities it contains.Ĭan you describe the mood of Bucharest as you feel/see it?īucharest is like the Basque language: you can learn it only from your mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Emile is scarcely a detailed parenting guide but it does contain some specific advice on raising children. He employs the novelistic device of Emile and his tutor to illustrate how such an ideal citizen might be educated. Rousseau seeks to describe a system of education that would enable the natural man he identifies in The Social Contract (1762) to survive corrupt society. Its opening sentence: "Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the Author of things everything degenerates in the hands of man". The work tackles fundamental political and philosophical questions about the relationship between the individual and society-how, in particular, the individual might retain what Rousseau saw as innate human goodness while remaining part of a corrupting collectivity. During the French Revolution, Emile served as the inspiration for what became a new national system of education. Due to a section of the book entitled "Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar", Emile was banned in Paris and Geneva and was publicly burned in 1762, the year of its first publication. Emile, or On Education ( French: Émile, ou De l’éducation) is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the "best and most important" of all his writings. ![]() ![]() ![]() While this book definitely had strong settings and a good backdrop of cultural traditions, it wasn't as engaging or as complex as I wanted it to be. I find it fascinating to read about other places and cultures. This is the type of story I usually end up liking. ![]() ![]() And a life, like a beautiful tapestry, comes together for Koly- one stitch at a time. Her only choice seems to be to shed her name and her future and join the hopeless hordes who chant for food.Įven then, cast out in a current of time-worn tradition, this rare young woman sets out to forge her own exceptional future. In the wake of her marriage, however, Koly's life takes an unexpected turn, and she finds herself alone in a strange city of white-sari-clad windows. On her wedding day, Koly's fate is sealed. According to tradition, though, she has no choice. When she discovers that the husband her parents have chosen for her is sickly boy with wicked parents, Koly wishes she could flee. Like many girls her age in India, thirteen-year-old Koly is getting married. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I’m sorry,” I say, glancing down at the notes before me. I look back at the girl, taking in her expression, her eyes. Wooden beads with a silver charm in the shape of a cross, dangling like a rosary. I notice a bracelet on her wrist, an attempt to cover the nastiest scar, a deep, jagged purple. Her fingers are clenched in her lap, thin, shiny slits barely visible against the otherwise perfect skin of her hands. I look up at the patient before me, stiff as a wooden plank strapped to my oversized leather recliner. I reach for my glass of water, take a sip. The little pinwheel on my weather app was solid red. ![]() None of them looked sick, but the common cold can be contagious before ever showing any symptoms. Have I been around a sick person lately? Someone with a cold? There’s no way to be sure, really. I push my tongue back into my throat and attempt to scratch. The tip of a feather being trailed along the inside of my esophagus, top to bottom. ![]() ![]() Mercedes is sincerely one of the best that we've seen, and hopefully it will start to get more of the attention that it deserves while living on Peacock (though I'm not exactly going to hold out hope that we will someday see a wholly-original Season 4 get made). Though Stephen King obviously has a long history of seeing his books/short stories adapted for television, Mr. ![]() That being said, one of the stranger things is that while Season 1 is naturally based on the first book in the trilogy, Season 2 is based on the third, and Season 3 is based on the second. Mercedes, but a lot of them turn out to be incredibly beneficial to the story (especially in the first run of episodes). There are some significant changes made from the source material for Mr. ![]() Kelley, Bill Hodges is played by the always-spectacular Brendan Gleeson, and putting on a sick and devilish performance as Brady Hartsfield is Picard's Harry Treadaway. In the adaptation, which was created by TV veteran David E. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Beginning my Sarah Moss discovery, which I’ve been longing to embark upon on reading Rohan Maitzen’s reviews of her other books, which sound as intriguing as they are wide-ranging. The book was Sarah Moss’s new novel, Ghost Wall, which only just came out (super exciting-I tend to be either six months or decades behind on all the newest things) and I’d read the review in the Toronto Star that morning. ![]() Something more uplifting than Did You Ever Have a Family, was my premise, though I wasn’t exactly successful on that front, but then a book need not be uplifting when it is brilliant, original and completely affecting. ![]() And when I finished reading Did You Ever Have a Family, by Bill Clegg, on Saturday morning (acquired from a Little Free Library has been sitting on my shelf for months is so incredible but also very sad) and we had no further plans for the day, I decided that what I really, really needed was a bookshop venture, and my family was kind enough to accompany me, obviously with the promise of snacks.Īnd what a wonderful thing, for me at least, although probably not my family, to arrive at the bookshop without an idea of what I was looking for. Which I’ve been pretty successful at with a huge tower of reading completed over the holidays, and also a clear-out of more than a few books that I decided to finally accept that I would never read. I’ve been avoiding bookshops lately ( except for a trip to Type Books’ new location in The Junction in December!) with a focus on reducing the overwhelming number of books on my to-be-read shelf. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of the best known are the 1920 version starring Mary Pickford, and Disney's 1960 version starring child actress Hayley Mills, who won a special Oscar for the role. Pollyanna has been adapted for film several times. Despite the current common use of the term to mean "excessively cheerful", Pollyanna and her father played the glad game as a method of coping with the real difficulties and sorrows that, along with luck and joy, shape every life. Due to the book's fame, "Pollyanna" has become a byword for someone who, like the title character, has an unfailingly optimistic outlook a subconscious bias towards the positive is often described as the Pollyanna principle. ![]() ![]() Further sequels followed, including Pollyanna Plays the Game by Colleen L. Eleven more Pollyanna sequels, known as "Glad Books", were later published, most of them written by Elizabeth Borton or Harriet Lummis Smith. The book's success led to Porter soon writing a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). Porter, considered a classic of children's literature. Pollyanna is a 1913 novel by American author. ![]() ![]() I knew that I had to find out what all the fuss is about Amanda Hocking so I downloaded Hollowland, a story about a young girl trying to survive the zombie apocalypse. ![]() A million sales later Hocking has become a multi-millionaire being courted by every major publishing house in the industry. The response was unprecedented, Hocking's books rocketed up every chart around the globe as the sales started rolling in. She is a 26 year old author who wrote a bunch of books while working as a caregiver and then self-published ten of those books as e-books in quick succession. If you do not already know the name then be prepared to find out very soon as it seems she is about to become a household name with some massive deals currently in the works. Nineteen-year-old Remy King is on a mission to get across the wasteland left of America, and nothing will stand in her way - not violent marauders, a spoiled rock star, or an army of flesh-eating zombies.Īmanda Hocking. "This is the way the world ends not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door." ![]() ![]() ![]() The Long-Shining Waters is the story of these three women, separated by years and circumstance but connected across time by a shared geography: the inland sea. And in 2000, when Nora, a seasoned bar owner, loses her job and is faced with an open-ended future, she is drawn reluctantly into a road trip around the great lake. ![]() Berit is unable to conceive, and the lake anchors her isolated life and tests the limits of her endurance and spirit. In 1902, Berit and Gunnar, a Norwegian fishing couple, also live on the lake. ![]() As she struggles to understand "what she is shown at night," her psyche and her world edge toward irreversible change. MILKWEED NATIONAL FICTION PRIZE WINNER INDIE HEARTLAND BESTSELLER ONE BOOK SOUTH DAKOTA SELECTION MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD FINALIST MIDWEST BOOKSELLERS BOOK AWARD FINALIST Grey Rabbit, an Ojibwe woman living by Lake Superior in 1622, is a mother and wife whose dream-life has taken on fearful dimensions. ![]() |