![]() ![]() I couldn't turn the pages fast enough."-Justin Cronin, The New York Times Book Review "A modern sci-fi masterpiece. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother-or even saving herself. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. ![]() Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. ![]() After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. "Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances."-Entertainment Weekly (Grade A) The Passage meets Ender's Game in an epic new series from award-winning author Rick Yancey. ![]()
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![]() Review: This book definitely showed me that I have HUGE gaps in knowledge in history, science, and math. Feynman, quantum electrodynamics, the fine art of the bongo drums, the outrageously obscure nation of Tuva, or the development and popularization of the field of physics in the United States need look no further than this rich and joyful work. Anyone who ever wanted to know more about Richard P. Ottaviani tackles the bad with the good, leaving the reader delighted by Feynman’s exuberant life and staggered at the loss humanity suffered with his death. Written by nonfiction comics mainstay Jim Ottaviani and brilliantly illustrated by First Second author Leland Myrick, Feynman tells the story of the great man’s life from his childhood in Long Island to his work on the Manhattan Project and the Challenger disaster. In this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents the larger-than-life exploits of Nobel-winning quantum physicist, adventurer, musician, world-class raconteur, and one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century: Richard Feynman. Goodreads Summary: Richard Feynman: physicist. Published August 30th, 2011 by First Second ![]() ![]() ![]() When I saw the news stories and yes, watched the video, I was utterly mortified and stunned. ![]() One merely needs to look around and watch former Disney Star, Miley Cyrus, twerk and make lewd gestures with a foam finger while grinding against a man, almost twice her age, as he sings about the blurred lines of sexual consent. While this introduction might sound drastic, much truth lies behind the questions. As I scroll through the magazines, listen to songs on the radio, and watch the programming targeted at girls in junior high and up, I cannot help but ask the question – Is the media trying to destroy feminism? Then take a look at how media portrays the face of feminism, promoting every negative stereotype out there. What is a feminist mother of four daughters to do these days? Look at our media and how girls and women are portrayed to our daughters, teens, and young adults. ![]() ![]() ![]() The movement of these lines forward and back on the page establishes a sense of lagging, observation, and following. It is primarily written in couplets, with the second line of each couplet being indented, until the final line, which exists alone on the line as a singleton. It should not be lost on readers that the poem entitled "Threshold" is the first poem in the collection, siphoned off from even the first section by a dividing paratext-it is an invitation to cross that same line with the speaker and participate in a shared performance of his recollections and emotions. "Threshold" is a stark, yet highly technical, poem that sets the stage strongly for the rest of the collection and establishes many of its major themes and dynamics. ![]() ![]() As the poem closes, this personalized speaker-a poetic externalization of Ocean's self, reflects that the "cost" of being caught listening to his father was to "lose / way back." Analysis As the poem recounts, however, young Ocean's father caught him spying one day to unknown consequence. It describes young Ocean's habit of watching his father shower through a keyhole and listening to him sing. ![]() The poem "Threshold" is the first poem in Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When she learns that Brett Parker cut short the family’s recent lakeside vacation, she wonders why. ![]() It’s clear that the killer is searching for something the Parkers had, and until she has this monster behind bars, Amanda fears that he may return for Zoe. With Zoe completely uncommunicative, Amanda must find another way to untangle what destroyed this seemingly perfect family. She opens it to find Zoe, mute and traumatized, but alive. She’s organizing a search for the child, when she notices something strange about the ottoman at the foot of the Parkers’ bed. Zoe is the same age as Amanda’s daughter was when she died, and Amanda can’t bear the thought of another little girl in danger. ![]() But there is no sign of their beloved six-year-old, Zoe. Brett and Angela Parker were shot three times each, leaving no hope of survival, and their tidy suburban home has been ransacked. When the bodies of a local family are discovered on a quiet street in the small town of Dumfries, Virginia, Detective Amanda Steele takes charge of the case. “Get up baby, we’re going to play hide and seek.” The little girl presses back into the dark space, holding her breath as she hears the shots ring out. Title: The Silent Witness (Detective Amanda Steele 3) by Carolyn Arnold ![]() ![]() ![]() Break the Cutie: Mena, having her old friends hate and bully her at school, her parents barely register her existence at home, and has to continuously lie to her parents so she can see her only friends.Affectionate Nickname: Kayla and Casey are called "K" and "C" by their mother respectively.Ambiguously Gay: In a later chapter, Mena wonders if Denny was actually even gay at all, but then adds if he was then who's business is it to anyone that bullied him.Possibly an even more dangerous example than most, because she legitimately thinks she has God on her side (or at least acts like it). Meanwhile, Mena starts to develop feelings for her lab partner, Casey Connor. Shepherd starts a unit on evolution, prompting the church kids to stage a protest in favor of Intelligent Design. Things get even more dramatic when her biology teacher, Ms. ![]() ![]() ![]() She faces bullying from her former church friends, especially her former best friend Teresa. The story follows high school freshman Mena Reece, who has just been excommunicated from her fundamentalist church. Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature is a 2007 young adult novel written by Robin Brande. ![]() ![]() I also have very limited experience with Shirley Jackson (only story I read from her was "The Lottery" a long time ago in school) and Stephen King (only other novel I read was "Needful Things"). The editions I read was Centipede Press's "Haunting of Hill House" which included an essay from Stephen King, and Cemetery Dance's "The Shining" which included the "Before the Play" and "After the Play" sections. Other Subreddits that might interest you:ĭisclaimer: I knew the basic plot outlines of each story, but did not see any movie or tv adaptation before reading the stories. ![]() Horror Award Nominees & Winners, 1975-2013 R/horrorlit's TOP 10 GREATEST NON-SUPERNATURAL HORROR NOVELS OF ALL TIME!!! R/horrorlit's TOP 10 GREATEST HORROR SHORT STORIES OF ALL TIME!!! R/horrorlit's TOP 10 GREATEST HORROR NOVELS OF ALL TIME!!!! If you would like to mask a potential spoiler, use the following format: (/spoiler)Īll times in ET (EST/EDT) unless otherwise noted. Spoiler tags are left to user discretion. Some rule violations may result in a temporary or permanent ban on the first strike. ![]() We do ask that you help us keep a high level of discourse by avoiding image-only posts, blog spam, surveys, plugging your own unpublished or self-published fiction, and linking to fundraisers or items for sale. No book is off-limits since horror is subjective. Here is your place to share your love or loathing for horror lit, but remember to be respectful.Ībusive comments and posts will get you banned but having a dissenting opinion is acceptable. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Morrow has created two likeable main characters who rely heavily on each other for character development throughout A Song Below Water. It’s already difficult enough for Tavia and Effie to make their way through high school trying to be normal teenagers when they are thrown into the mythical world that despises sirens causing Tavia to take special precautions to hide her true self. Morrow has written about the lives of Tavia and Effie as they navigate womanhood, racism, friendships, and family troubles all while being mythical creatures that live in Portland, Oregon amongst everyday people. This Young Adult novel is a fantasy lover’s dream that was published at the precipice of the Black Lives Matter movement. Morrow’s debut novel, A Song Below Water made a huge splash when it was released in June of this year. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this sense, objects have been repurposed as tools to chronicle the individual perspectives of the mass exodus. ![]() Malhotra hints at the amnesia surrounding some of these objects and equates it to the memories of the event. In her accounts, the same object may have a different retelling the association of the immigrant and the object is in transformation with the passing years and changing ownership. If we turn attention to the title, here, the remnants have been revisited as sites of memory, not as sites of history. This allows varied casts and classes to express their experiences. The selection is wide-ranging, from jewellery to kitchenware, and from a collection of poems to the stone plaque of a house. The book compiles the author's interpretation, interviews, and images of the nineteen objects selected for narration. ![]() The methodology employed is a non-linear one, cutting across time and geographic regions. Migratory objects have been looked at as things bearing specific altering attachments to their owner, and in many cases, the following generations it was passed down to. What is specific about Remnants of a Separation is that it retells the narrative of the objects that crossed the border in 1947, intertwining it with the lives of the immigrants who carried it and the socio-cultural relevance it held. ![]() We brought nothing.’ (p.17) is the first response of many, writes Aanchal Malhotra before objects and belongings with dormant memories surface, recalling the stories intertwined with the partition of India. ![]() ![]() ![]() Misery touches on several large themes: the state of possession by an evil being, the idea that art is an act in which the artist willingly becomes captive, the tortured condition of being a writer, and the fears attendant to becoming a "brand-name" bestselling author with legions of zealous fans. Annie Wilkes literally breathes life into him. ![]() He hates her, he fears her, he wants to kill her but all the same he needs her power. The manuscript fragments he produces tell of a great Bee Goddess, an African queen reminiscent of H. Thus, in the novel within a novel, the romance novel that his mad captor-nurse, Annie Wilkes, forces him to write, he goes to Africa-a mysterious continent that evokes for him the frightening, implacable solidity of a woman's (Annie's) body. Paul Sheldon, the hero of Misery, sees himself as a caged parrot who must return to Africa in order to be free. Each is about a writer faced with the dominating monster of his unpredictable muse. Each novel bristles with claustrophobia, stinging insects, and the threat of a lethal explosion. In Misery (1987), as in The Shining (1977), a writer is trapped in an evil house during a Colorado winter. ![]() |