![]() ![]() ![]() Crowell –The gang’s asshole math teacher who really has it out for Lenny. Spencer – An old friend who returns to Shadyside and initiates the Night Games.īryan – Diane’s ex-boyfriend who’s somewhat stalking her. Jordan – Cassie’s boyfriend who’s constantly fighting with her. Crowell.Ĭassie – The best friend who’s also a bit wary of the Night Games. ![]() Lenny – Diane’s hot-tempered boyfriend who can’t stand Mr. I wonder what she’s staring at with such surprise? Let’s find out ! Recapĭiane – Our heroine who’s not that keen on the Night Games. Ooky spooky! It looks like the guy is trying to pull her through the bars, but that gap is way to thin for a person to fit through lol. It sounds like a good read, but I have been tricked before! I like the photo-realism of the cover, and at first glance I thought they were in a greenhouse, but then I realised they’re in the Fear Street Cemetery. This is a book I’ve heard absolutely nothing about, so I’m not sure what to expect. Now Diane and her friends are in too deep.įirst impressions: I wonder if Diane and her friends called themselves the Night People? It sounds like they get up to a lot more fun than sitting in a bar drinking every night. Every night they come up with a new prank to play.īut then Diane’s boyfriend, Lenny, wants revenge on a teacher, and the pranks turn to murder. ![]() Summary: Diane loves sneaking out in the middle of the night. Tagline: Night time is the right time… for trouble. ![]()
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![]() Prefaced by an African proverb, each section of the book marks a stage in the narrator's assimilation, eloquently conveying how his initial confusion fades as survival skills improve and friendships take root. An onslaught of new sensations greets Kek ("This cold is like claws on my skin," he laments), and ordinary sights unexpectedly fill him with longing (a lone cow in a field reminds him of his father's herd when he looks in his aunt's face, "I see my mother's eyes/ looking back at me"). The boy has traveled by "flying boat" to Minnesota in winter to live with relatives who fled earlier. ![]() ![]() After witnessing the murders of his father and brother, then getting separated from his mother in an African camp, Kek alone believes that his mother has somehow survived. In her first stand-alone book, Applegate (the Animorphs series) effectively uses free verse to capture a Sudanese refugee's impressions of America and his slow adjustment. ![]() ![]() ![]() I finally was able to run down a copy of Wagner’s In a Lonely Place, via Interlibrary Loan. ![]() ![]() Klein's Dark Gods are all serious contenders as well. *Ramsey Campbell's Dark Companions, Lisa Tuttle's A Nest of Nightmares, and T.E.D. I encourage every fan of weird and horror fiction to give it a go. This book can be hard to come by for a reasonable price these days, at least online (I semi-frequently come across it for cheap while out book-hunting), so thankfully Valancourt is planning to reprint it in the near future. The aforementioned tales are the standouts for me, but the rest are very near the same quality. And "Where the Summer Ends" somehow makes something as innocuous as kudzu seem ominous and threatening. ![]() It's a toss-up for me between this - Karl Wagner's first horror collection - and Ligotti's Songs of a Dead Dreamer for favorite 80s horror collection.* "Sticks" just may be the scariest story I've ever read, with its Lovecraftian cosmic horrors and creepy stick lattices in the woods later made famous in The Blair Witch Project, while the surreal and nightmarish imagery of the King in Yellow-inspired "River of Night's Dreaming" never fails to give me a feeling of both dread and awe, no matter how many times I revisit it. ![]() ![]() ![]() It contributes to the opening of the imagination that is surely one of the main pleasures of reading such a work. " - London Review of Books “The kind of absorption offered by Green’s translation seems particularly relevant to the reading of a poem from an alien culture and period. ![]() Speeches in his version are vigorous and direct. a superb choice." - The Weekly Standard "Green brings to the poem the rhetorical directness and historical expertise which worked so well in his translation of The Iliad. ![]() Both Wilson and Green capture the spirit of the Odyssey, but word-for-word, Green also captures a feel for the Homeric language, an experience closer to the original." - Library Journal "Green's intelligent translation is. Reviews "Comparisons to Wilson's recent translation are inevitable. ![]() ![]() ![]() Admittedly, I cracked the spine on The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows with more than a little trepidation, fearful that there was no way I would enjoy beekeeping as much as astronomy, but the truth is that Penelope’s passion had me absolutely fascinated. Like The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics before it, this second Feminine Pursuits novel is the very definition of a slow-burn romance, full of friendship and flirting, questioning and queerness, and as much social tension as sexual. ![]() I adored Agatha and Penelope so much, I would have resented Olivia Waite for forcing us to bid them adieu if I didn’t love her so much for introducing us in the first place. ![]() The worst thing about a slow-burn romance is not the frustrated longing for that first kiss, but the melancholy certainty that such a lovely, delightful, heartwarming story must come to an end. Title: The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows ![]() ![]() And the situations read well: how to deal with jealous girls and crazy boys. ![]() The book is short so it isn’t a chore for young girls to read. So the book wasn’t so much about preparing for peer pressure in middle school as it was an opportunity to see what might happen if a girl makes a poor or wise choice (in other words, not sacrificing the future for short term gains). Although situations such as peer pressure can’t really be defined within the pages of a book (they are really experience-only feelings), the consequences of the choices made when under those situations can be written down effectively (thus giving my daughter more armor and ammunition to make better choices and think through situations when they occur in the future). We approached the book as a challenge – to see if she was ready for middle school next year and to check out what choices she’d make and if they were good ones (though several choices have neither ‘good’ nor ‘bad’ consequences, which is nice). I gave this to my 11 year old and she really enjoyed it, her one comment at the end was that it was too short and she wished there were more challenges. ![]() ![]() In it, life lessons and consequences are explored through the choices girls make as they read the stories. Surviving Middle School is an engaging “choose your own adventure” type of book for young girls. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I teetered close to the edge with this one. Silence gave me a level of respite with some fun romance and brilliant dialogue but I was frustrated by the lack of progress in the storyline. Crescendo made me furious at the inconsistencies in the storyline but admiring the author’s flair for setting a dark, eerie mood. Hush Hush had me simultaneously ripping by hair out at the central abusive romantic relationship while secretly crushing on the smoldering love interest. It’s safe to say my relationship with this series has not been smooth sailing. (To read my review of the previous book from the Hush Hush series, Silence click here.) Overall Impression: 464 pages of wasted time! ![]() ![]() ![]() “I didn’t think we’d ever do it.”One tattoo shop is offering a promotion for the Maple Leaf logo. For the largest city in hockey-obsessed Canada, the two-decade string of playoff futility was at turns darkly comic and tragic but always a subject of deep civic angst.Yesterday’s game was like the first sunny, balmy day after a dark Canadian winter. ![]() ![]() Instead, it was only the first game of Round 2 of the playoffs – the quarterfinals.So why all the fuss? It was the first time in 19 years that the Maple Leafs made it even this far. But the crowd was exultant, their faces smeared blue as they cheered on their Maple Leafs amid the high-rises of downtown Toronto.The unknowing would be forgiven for thinking Tuesday night’s game was to clinch hockey’s famous Stanley Cup. It was unseasonably cold, with a miserable rain that hadn’t let up for days. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is epigenetics and it's the fastest-moving field in biology today. How is it that, despite each cell in your body carrying exactly the same DNA, you don't have teeth growing out of your eyeballs or toenails on your liver? How is it that identical twins share exactly the same DNA and yet can exhibit dramatic differences in the way that they live and grow? It turns out that cells read the genetic code in DNA more like a script to be interpreted than a mould that replicates the same result each time. The cutting-edge of biology, however, is telling us that we still don't even know all of the questions. ![]() It seemed it was only a matter of time until we had all the answers to the secrets of life on this planet. The Human Genome Project finished sequencing human DNA. 'A book that would have had Darwin swooning - anyone seriously interested in who we are and how we function should read this.' Guardian At the beginning of this century enormous progress had been made in genetics. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can practically imagine Draco reading this history of his pureblood family aloud with a smirk. But it ended early when she refused to adopt his last name: Higglebottom. In this report on Guantánamo Bay - er, Azkaban - Rowling describes how the Ministry turns a blind eye to the prison, leaving it to the “continually breeding dementors.”īefore she fell prey to cooking sherry, the great-great granddaughter of the Seer Cassandra was married. Plus, it’s set against a backdrop of her office with the pink decorative kitten plates. This character study explains more about the evil yet “ineffably twee” professor and why she joined Voldemort. Snarky Rita Skeeter is back for an update on the wizards, now “no longer the fresh-faced teenagers they were in their heyday.” Spoiler alert: Harry’s going grey, and Ron’s ginger mane is starting to thin. Gossip Column: Dumbledore’s Army Reunites at the Quidditch World Cup Final Rowling releases another feature on Pottermore tomorrow, catch up on these highlights of the material she’s already unveiled. Rowling has hidden new updates to the wizarding world on Pottermore, her website that explains and enriches the history, technology, and lineages of the characters we’ve come to love. Before J.K. The Harry Potter universe didn’t end with the publication of the Deathly Hallows in 2007. ![]() |