![]() ![]() ![]() I liked the slight twist in Fairest of All, but I felt that there was too much changed in this one. The fairy godmother was a little strange, too. There were even some comments that Abby made about her seeming mean, and I totally agreed. But for some reason, I just didn’t really like Cinderella. They follow her home, and that’s where the story starts to change from the original fairy tale.Ībby and Jonah were amusing as usual. This time, the siblings are brought into Cinderella’s story, right in the middle of the ball. When the mirror finally does work, it is under amusing circumstances. They try several times, with nothing happening. This book starts with Abby and Jonah actually trying to get through the mirror again. ![]() For some reason, I didn’t like it quite as much as Fairest of All, but I still thought it was pretty good. This review was originally posted on my blogĪnother cute retelling of a fairy tale by Sarah Mlynowski. ![]()
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If We Were Villains is the story of a tightly knit group of seven lyric-mad Shakespearean thespians who seem to prefer each other’s company to anyone else’s, thereby offending the rest of the world. If you still want to know more about this book, I assume you're a masochist. You are literally a bound bundle of dead tree. That ending grabbed an invisible dagger and twisted it between my ribs. ![]() I tore through it, but I feel like it tore through me. I hate this book so much I can't bear it. Reader, when you read the synopsis for this book, you will likely hear a voice saying, “Oh, this sounds interesting! Let's do it.” And I’m here to tell you right now-that’s the devil talking.ĭon't let my five-star rating fool you. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By reflecting the ambiguity and density of the original, Hinton continues to create compelling English poems that alter our conception of Chinese poetry. ![]() David Hinton's translation of Li Po's poems is no less an achievement than his critically acclaimed The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, also published by New Directions. Legendary friends in eighth-century T'ang China, Li Po and Tu Fu are traditionally celebrated as the two greatest poets in the Chinese canon. He wrote 1200 years ago, half a world away, but in his poems we see our world transformed. However ethereal in spirit, his poems remain grounded in the everyday experience we all share. There is a set-phrase in Chinese referring to the phenomenon of Li Po: "Winds of the immortals, bones of the Tao." 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A delightful novel about surprising friendships, community, and the way small acts of kindness can change a life, from the bestselling author of The Story of Arthur Truluv ![]() ![]() Gantos has a relaxed style and writes very enjoyably, peppering the pages with good jokes and eccentric characters, but it soon becomes clear that this isn't simply his reminiscence of a charming childhood the real hero of the novel isn't Jack himself, but his home town and its values. ![]() There's a simple reason, she explains, why Jack has never heard of them: "Schools don't teach the history of social reformers who were real American heroes and fought for workers' rights and justice." 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Jack is an ordinary kid who makes the mistake of borrowing one of his dad's souvenirs, a rifle looted from the Japanese, and doesn't realise it's loaded. ![]() The novel initially appears to be a fairly straightforward description of an American childhood in the early 60s. ![]() ![]() ![]() OL468122W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.61 Pages 435 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0340824468 ![]() Comment Removing Scanfee from Billable Books scanned before June 2011 which appear to have manually set scanfees Donor ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:46:28 Boxid IA138318 Boxid_2 CH124201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Waterville, Me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Our first proper look at the new season debuted at the show’s Comic Con at Home virtual panel in July. One advantage of completing principal photography on the season is being able to assemble a His Dark Materials season 2 trailer. 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Faced with the looming abyss of a disembodied life online, Gerald enlists his co-worker Pradeep to help him escape, and to find out what happened to his body. ![]() His colleagues assume it's an elaborate gag to exploit the new work-from home policy, but now that Gerald's productivity is through the roof, his bosses are only too happy to let him work from. Gerald, a mid-level employee of a New York-based public relations firm has been uploaded into the company's internal Slack channels-at least his consciousness has. An absurd, hilarious romp through the haunted house of late-stage capitalism.-Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack messages, this irresistible, relatable satire of both virtual work and contemporary life is The Office for a new world. 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The next morning Maureen finds Brady's body in her living room, his throat cut. ![]() Bored with her job at a theater ticket office and depressed because her affair with one of the hospital's doctors, Douglas Brady, is over, Maureen and a friend get drunk. Eight months after spending almost half a year in a Glasgow psychiatric hospital devoted to treating sex abuse victims, Maureen O'Donnell is desperately trying to hold together her shattered life. From its opening pages, this winner of the 1998 John Creasy Memorial Award for best first crime novel pulls readers inexorably into the tortured world of sexual abuse victims and their struggle to survive as whole people. ![]() |