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Losing Hope is its sequel, written entirely from Holder’s point of view, but following the same storyline. The story of Sky and Holder is not something that you ever forget – its uniqueness lies in the deep emotions that it makes us feel and in its inimitable writing style. It touched me so profoundly and so irrevocably that I walked away a different reader. Hopeless was hands down one of the best books I have ever read. Well, fast forward “a few” years and I have found the equivalent of those childhood toy store expeditions. I never knew what toy I would pick, the anticipation was half the fun, but I always knew I would be returning home with a huge grin on my face. Those day trips were some of the happiest moments in my life because I could always take that joy for granted. When I was a little girl, every single year on my birthday, my parents would take me to my favourite toy store which happened to be in a city a few hours away from ours.
(Sorry I think I still have issues regarding the Harry Potter epilogue.) The kind of ending that will leave me more satisfied than a novel with a detail ridden, thread tying epilogue. A situation where everything isn’t necessary detailed and there is still room for some imagination. I predict this will be an ending I am satisfied with. I was also a little pole axed to see that the podcast gets a surprising amount of downloads, why you’d want to hear an Australian detailing her random thoughts, I’m not really that sure? It did start me thinking though, should I continue with the podcast or just stick with the blog? I have some regular responders and from all appearances, some regular readers too. This has been a great endeavour for me, sharing my love of a good book and a talented author. As I was re-reading my past entries (and gasping over my shocking editing), I found myself amazed. This is my last chapter response for the Lock and Key blog series. If Antoinette Portis’s Not a Box and Emily Gravett’s Monkey and Me had a love child, it might just be this book. The book is Magic Box (Disney-Hyperion, June 2009) by Katie Cleminson, and I think BOTH are worthy of a gold star. But one in particular has really knocked my socks off, in part because it’s rare to see a picture book so well-executed by a first-time author/illustrator. In the shuffle of the hundreds (literally) of picture books I’ve read in past few weeks, there have been a number of stand-outs. I’ve been staying up late reading f&g’s, preparing for sales rep appointments which have been taking up the bulk of Lorna’s and my at-work hours these days. Vivi’s eyes and the lightly furred points of her ears were, to Jude, not so much more strange than being the mirror version of another person.Īnd if sometimes she noticed the way the neighborhood kids avoided Vivi or the way their parents talked about her in low, worried voices, Jude didn’t think it was anything important. Vivi was different from other big sisters, but since seven-year-old Jude and Taryn were identical, with the same shaggy brown hair and heart-shaped faces, they were different, too. She laughed when it seemed as if the mouse was about to get eaten. And on the other end of the sofa, their older sister, Vivienne, stared at the television screen, her eerie, split-pupiled gaze fixed on the cartoon mouse as it ran from the cartoon cat. Her twin sister, Taryn, napped on the couch, curled around a blanket, thumb in her fruit-punch-stained mouth. Inside the house, Jude sat on the living room rug and ate fish sticks, soggy from the microwave and dragged through a sludge of ketchup. The man walked to the door and lifted his fist to knock. He simply appeared, as if stepping between one shadow and the next. No neighbor had seen him strolling along the sidewalk. He hadn’t parked a car, nor had he come by taxi. On a drowsy Sunday afternoon, a man in a long dark coat hesitated in front of a house on a tree-lined street. Mikita Brottman offers an enlightening view to an often. Agent: Betsy Lerner, Dunow, Carlson & Lerner. Hyena investigates this fascinating animal throughout history. Mikita Brottman, PhD, is an Oxford-educated scholar, author. Though this is certainly a book for a niche audience, avid dog lovers will relish the digressions into literature and history, as well as the assurance that the love between dog and human can be as deep as any other kind of love. Mikita Brottman, author of The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading. In her paeans to her pet, Brottman evokes the joys of dog ownership. These mini-profiles bleed into meditations on the eponymous Grisby, the author’s own French bulldog and the apple of her eye. Fictional dogs appear as well, like Jip, the naughty spaniel from Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, as well as the dogs of authors such as Anton Chekhov and poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Dog luminaries include Señor Xolotl, the Mexican hairless dog of Frida Kahlo, who once peed on one of Diego Rivera’s watercolors Lump, a dachshund immortalized by Picasso Peritas, the so-called favorite dog of Alexander the Great. Examines the bond between human and dog in this “leisurely stroll” through the history of notable dogs and their owners. If you want a book that will entertain, frighten, and shock you look no further. Given, he is nowhere near Poe, but who is? He is far ahead of his time (late 18th century) in psychological exploration and X-files-esque ponderings. This man should definitely be read more and given more credit as the grand-father of gothic writing. However, as far as pure entertainment value, and heart stopping plot twists he is second to none. He had to hurry his output to keep up with his grumbling stomach. He was a professional author from a time when, even if you were a best seller, it only paid just enough to get by. Given, he may not have written the most perfectly structured novel in history, but give the guy a break. I read this book when I was an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin Madison, and was amazed at the creative genius this man had, as well as the destructive power of critical dismissal. I am impressed with the reviews on this site because they are so deservedly glowing. An amazing book by an amazingly creative author. That's because they're searching for something more: knowledge and power. And whereas teams on The Amazing Race are racing for a million dollars, teams searching for the 39 clues have to give up a million dollars. The 39 Clues takes that love of worldwide adventure, adds a pinch of National Treasurethrown in for flavor, and stirs it all up into a fast-paced page-turner that millions of readers have already sunk their teeth into. Something about that sense of adventure, the never knowing where you'll end up or how you'll get there, the wacky people that you meet, and the even wackier foods that you eat-it's all just fun. The Maze of Bones (The 39 Clues) Introductionįrom Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne to Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?to The Amazing Race, people have always loved not only traveling around the world, but watching others do it, too. For example, many of us have abusive relatives in our family histories. Yet, as Stark notes, we can’t just move on from some stories about God, just as we can’t just move on from certain stories in our family history. And, I think that there are a lot of dead-end visions of God that the reader should reject and move on. A lot of stuff in the Bible, however, is material that us intended to be provocative and disconcerting! It is a book that can be used to awaken a moral conscience and inspire selfless love. One of my profs in school said it best: my biggest problem with the Bible is God! Of course the problem is made worse when people read the Bible as an inerrant handbook to the Absolute Truth about God, the World and Everything Else the Bible Talks about. A great book that analyses the various images of God presented in the Bible is Thom Stark’s, The Human Faces of God. |