5/24/2023 0 Comments Sam and percy every summer after![]() ![]() ![]() They'll coach each other through their own research processes along the way, and they definitely, definitely will not catch feelings. After getting to know each other a little better, they decide to strike a deal: January will attempt to write something a little more serious while Augustus will explore the world of happy endings. Her neighbor, Augustus, is a grumpy writer dealing with his own mental blocks when it comes to life and love. January has recently lost her father and has come to his beach house to attempt to find closure. Those who enjoyed the relationship between Laurel and Cleveland in The Summer I Turned Pretty TV series will absolutely love the dynamic between January and Augustus in Beach Read. Both Augustus and January are writers - literary fiction and romance, respectively - and over the summer, they struggle with their current works-in-progress. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments A Letter of Mary by Laurie R. King![]() Fans will find all of King's accustomed literacy and empathy on display. ![]() Plotting has never been King's strong suit (as it never was Conan Doyle's), but, here, her episodic story-Russell and Holmes going as spies into the houses of suspects whose personalities pale before the richness of the inspectors' before allowing Holmes to produce one of his most gratuitous final coups-is surprisingly unworthy of her richly suggestive premise. ![]() What would the Church say to the possibility of a woman having been a full-fledged apostle? What might the letter do for our understanding of Mary Magdalene? And what to make of the persistently unvoiced parallels between Russell and her storied progenitor? Soon after leaving Russell and Holmes, Dorothy Ruskin is killed in a traffic accident her hosts prove was murder as they fall into a scramble for Miss Ruskin's meager possessions-and into a long, keen disappointment for fans of King's distinctively feminist Sherlockian pastiches (A Monstrous Regiment of Women, 1995, etc.). ![]() ![]() Oxford theologian Mary Russell, now living quietly in Sussex with her husband Sherlock Holmes, is thunderstruck with the explosive potential of a document her old acquaintance, amateur archeologist Dorothy Ruskin, brings her from a dig in Palestine: a letter from one Mariam of Magdala identifying herself as an apostle of Jesus. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Jasper rabbit creepy underwear![]() ![]() When Jasper's afraid of the dark, Brown gives us a full spread that's completely black, followed by one that's all black except for two wide, frightened eyes. ![]() ![]() Jasper Rabbit is not a little bunny anymore. He renders the underwear in a garish green, the fluorescent color of nuclear waste, and for maximum effect, juxtaposes it against black backgrounds. 35 6.4K views 2 years ago Creepy Pair Of Underwear by Aaron Reynolds, with read aloud preformed by simply storytime. Jasper Rabbit may think hes big and brave, but when he discovers that his new pair of underwear glows in the dark, he realizes he may not be as brave as he. Peter Brown's art is the perfect pairing. ![]() For instance, when Jasper cuts up the underwear with his mom's scissors, Jasper thinks, "She didn't like him using them, but this was an underwear emergency." And when he digs a hole to bury the underpants, the hole is "100% underwear-proof." All of which helps highlight his shaky insistence, "A grown rabbit couldn't be terrified of his underpants." Creepy Pair of Underwear! has a really clever premise - an ominous, indestructible pair of underwear straight out of a horror film - and author Aaron Reynolds tells the story with text that's hilariously dry and deadpan. There's lots of silly, spooky fun in this story about a pair of underwear with a "ghoulish, greenish glow" that slyly plays on kids' conflicted feelings about their big-kid underwear. Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales (Boxed Set): Creepy Carrots Creepy Pair of Underwear Creepy Crayon by Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illustrator) Hardcover (Boxed Set) 56. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Looking to score fiona davenport![]() ![]() After a rocky introduction to Molly's family, Scratch and Molly form a tentative friendship. Scratch curses Molly in an attempt to scare her away however, this backfires, forever binding him to her. In the Human Realm, 13-year-old optimist Molly McGee arrives in her new hometown of Brighton, only to discover that her new house is already occupied by a grumpy ghost named Scratch. ![]() On August 31, 2021, more than a month before it premiered, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on April 1, 2023. A sneak peek of the show's theme song was first shown on May 1, 2021, during the network's "Halfway to Halloween" event, followed by the show's premiere on October 1, 2021. The Ghost and Molly McGee is an American animated supernatural comedy television series created by Bill Motz and Bob Roth for Disney Channel. ![]() ![]() And that's what Deb Ball is, you're coming out and being seen as an adult." 3) Taylor only appears in flashbacks in the book She added: "I think different cultures have many different ways of marking that moment of between, like, girlhood and adulthood. Talking to The Wrap about her decision to add it to the show, Jenny Han said: "The Deb Ball was a chance to really bring a rite of passage like a ceremonial rite of passage of growing up to life - to really see that visualized." The pivotal debutante ball that season 1 revolves around doesn't feature in the book at all. 2) The debutante ball isn't even in the book The series essentially fleshes out all the other characters and gives us some insight into how they are feeling as well as Belly. In other words, all the scenes that take place without Belly in the show, don't appear in the book. The Summer I Turned Pretty novel is told completely from Belly's perspective. ![]() The Summer I Turned Pretty: 21 differences between the show and the book.ġ) The book is just from Belly's perspective ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Brandon sanderson skyward book 2![]() ![]() What she learned turned her world upside down. When she made it outside the protective shell of her planet, she heard the stars - and it was terrifying. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could happen to her. Spensa is sure there's more to the story. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them. The rumors of his cowardice are true - he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. ![]() ![]() The sequel to the New York Times bestseller Skyward !įrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, Words of Radiance, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive comes the second book in an epic series about a girl with a secret in a dangerous world at war for humanity's future.Īll her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments A team of rivals![]() It was this capacity that enabled Lincoln as president to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union and winning the war. ![]() ![]() He won because he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was the result of a character that had been forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. Winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize and the inspiration for the Oscar Award winning–film Lincoln, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by Tony Kushner. One of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s modern classic about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, his unlikely presidency, and his cabinet of former political foes. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Long way down ritchie![]() ![]() ![]() All she seemed to do was smile broadly, talk about her "theories", say the most random of things, and want to have sex with Ryke. Now there would be nothing wrong with that if she hadn't been paired with Ryke, which made him seem extremely creepy.to a disturbing degree. She reads as someone who didn't mentally develop as fast as she should've. To say she is immature is an understatement. honestly, she was the most awful of all of them. Something about his brooding character, need to push himself, and his love for his family made him a really appealing and interesting character. But I told myself that I needed to finish the series, because I like finishing what I begin. I mean to the point that I was just going to stop reading it altogether multiple times along the way. Before I write this review I was to say that I absolutely loved the other books, I would rate them a 4 or a 5. I got into this series when the store was offering was offering the first book for free. ![]() ![]() or I really just don't feel like doing it myself. And unless I am sure the mortal can handle it. I vow that if I ever regain my godhood, I will never again send a poor mortal on a quest. Shouldn't there be a reward at the end of each completed task? Not just more deadly quests? Oh, the indignities and pain I have already suffered! Untold humiliation, impossible time limits, life-threatening danger. Despite all this, if I have a chance of prying her away from her villainous stepfather, I have to try.īut I'm new at this heroic-quest business, and my father, Zeus, stripped me of all my godly powers. ![]() And while I'm mortal, she can order me to do anything. She betrayed me to Nero back at Camp Half-Blood. Meg, my demigod master, is a cantankerous street urchin. But why would an ancient Roman emperor zero in on Indianapolis? And now that I have made it here (still in the embarrassing form of Lester Papadopoulos), where is Meg? ![]() Those were the orders my old enemy Nero had given to Meg McCaffrey. If you cannot bring him to me alive, kill him. Capture Apollo before he can find the next oracle. ![]() ![]() ![]() What I Think: Alligators Overhead begins as you meet Pete Riley, a 12-year-old who is always getting in trouble, but it isn't always his fault. He might stand a chance if his one friend, Weasel, sticks with him, but even then, they may not have what it takes. Now Pete must find his aunt and stop the war. Things only get worse when Pete’s guardian aunt and several of her close friends vanish while trying to restore order using outdated witchcraft. This time the trouble arrives when a legendary hundred-year-old mansion, materializes next door and the Ornofree alligators declare war to save their swamp from bulldozers. The town’s bad boy, Pete Riley, may only be twelve, but he’s up to his eyeballs in big trouble, and this time he isn’t the cause. unless you live at the edge of the Ornofree swamp in the backwater town of Hadleyville. Goodreads Summary: Alligators, witches and a spooky mansion aren't your average neighbors. ![]() |