![]() ![]() Is this the same man they heard? And if he is, where is the woman? From this charged beginning, master storyteller Peter Heller unspools a headlong, heart-pounding story of desperate wilderness survival. One night, with the fire advancing, they hear a man and woman arguing on the fog-shrouded riverbank the next day, a man appears on the river, paddling alone. But a wildfire making its way across the forest adds unexpected urgency to the journey. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of leisurely paddling and picking blueberries, and nights of stargazing and reading paperback Westerns. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Wynn and Jack have been best friends since college orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. It truly was terrifying and unutterably beautiful."- The Denver Post ![]() "A fiery tour de force … I could not put this book down. From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars comes the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip-a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Wilde also remained politically steadfast, determined that his writings should inspire improvements to Victorian England’s grotesque regimes of punishment. As Frankel shows, Wilde experienced prison conditions designed to break even the toughest spirit, and yet his writings from this period display an imaginative and verbal brilliance left largely intact. ![]() In The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel collects these and other prison writings, accompanied by historical illustrations and his rich facing-page annotations. Behind bars and in the period immediately after his release, Wilde wrote two of his most powerful works-the long autobiographical letter De Profundis and an expansive best-selling poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol. As cries of “shame” emanated from the gallery, the convicted aesthete was roundly silenced.īut he did not remain so. The lord in question, High Court justice Sir Alfred Wills, sent Wilde to the cells, sentenced to two years in prison with hard labor for the crime of “gross indecency” with other men. “And I? May I say nothing, my lord?” With these words, Oscar Wilde’s courtroom trials came to a close. ![]() ![]() ![]() The system as a whole is seen as more important than the individual. ![]() However, after the Industrial Revolution came an obsession with efficiency and multitasking over deep thinking. For example, it used to be that a person’s intelligence was measured by their ability to sit quietly and solve complex problems (the literary mind). In his book, Carr discusses how the Internet has changed our definition of intelligence. ![]() However, these benefits come at a cost: We are trading in valuable skills for a type of intelligence that is adapting us to computers instead of vice versa. In today’s digital age, we have more access to information than ever before and feel like we’re more connected with each other. Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows examines the effects of technology on our minds. 1-Page Summary of The Shallows Overall Summary ![]() ![]() ![]() Pages of actual Dickens works, interspersed with a few pages of Slater and others fill theįirst 30-odd pages with assorted introductory materials. Michael Slater", who seems to further describe himself as a The volume as a whole is "Edited with an introduction by More specifically, that slender tale occupies 92 pages of the book,Īgainst 112 for "The Haunted Man and the Ghost'sīargain"-but the former is better known by far than the latter, Being a Ghost Story ofĬhristmas."-nowadays simply called, "A Christmas Carol". Restatement of his famed 1843 work whose full original name was, "AĬhristmas Carol. Of his Christmas writings, less than one-third is a This book is in some small part biographical material on Charlesĭickens himself. Retrieved from Ī Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings APA style: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings.A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings." Retrieved from MLA style: "A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings." The Free Library. ![]() ![]() Anne Elliot (played by Dakota Johnson), Austen’s most retiring and internal heroine, spends much of the movie chatting to the camera, even giving sarcastic glances and eye rolls in the middle of the action. But though the film has the same basic plot as Austen’s novel (her last completed book, published in 1817), it’s also filled with self-aware flourishes that have drawn comparison to present-day British comedies like Fleabag. It’s replete with tasteful gowns, dashing military uniforms, and the like. Aesthetically, it’s straightforward enough, a period-appropriate costume drama set in early-19th-century England. These remain, to me, the twin poles of what can be done with Austen’s vivid body of work: a faithful reproduction that draws directly from the author’s clever dialogue and rich characterization, and an arch, modern masterpiece that captures her comedic spirit.Ĭarrie Cracknell’s Persuasion, which debuts today on Netflix, tries to take both approaches at the same time, and the results are downright bizarre. That same year also saw the release of Amy Heckerling’s Clueless, a loose take on Austen’s Emma that transposed its action onto the spoiled teenagers of Beverly Hills. ![]() That year, the BBC aired Andrew Davies’s Pride and Prejudice starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle, a pitch-perfect, six-episode version of Austen’s novel that remains one of the best miniseries in the broadcaster’s history. ![]() ![]() The banner year for onscreen Jane Austen adaptations will always be 1995. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trying to take a step away from that a second and view what the novel did as a whole, I can't say I enjoyed the story. and stream of consciousness, for me, is rarely any of those things.īut that's just my tastes for the style. I want an author to organize language into a structure that is interesting, compelling, thought-provoking. I have my own mind that plagues me with this randomness I don't need to read it in someone else's perspective. Honestly, I can think of little more boring than suffering through every thought, feeling and instinct that passes through the human mind. ![]() He drops us into scenes and scenarios without any explanation I genuinely felt like Faulkner wanted to deliberately confuse his readers about characters and ideas he could have easily portrayed in a more accessible way. And Faulkner takes it to a whole new level. I don't mind working at a book if it's hard-going, but this style of narration makes it difficult for me, personally, to ever settle into the rhythm of the book. The first problem is my lack of enthusiasm for stream of consciousness narratives. ![]() I think, deep down, I always sensed Faulkner just wasn't for me. ![]() But when I've felt in the mood for a classic or something "literary", I've always passed him up for other authors, even those with 1000+ page monsters. His books always appear on lists of "best books of all time" and "books you should read before you die". I've been working up to a William Faulkner book for years. ![]() ![]() Omar El Akkad’s American War begins with the narrator introducing us to six-year-old Sarat Chestnut, born amid this national chaos in the remains of Louisiana. With an urge to end the last remnants of resistance as quickly as possible, the North retaliates with equal hate and ferocity. Fracturing, the South becomes desperate, fueled by hatred. Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi form a core of secession, Texas becomes reabsorbed by Mexico, and South Carolina suffers as ground zero in the release of a plague engineered by the North, leaving the state quarantined. Yet, the issues are more complex beyond any single cause. While the issue of slavery drove the original Civil War, southern state refusal to accept a federal ban on fossil fuels stokes the fires of the second. Amid these changes, the Second American Civil War breaks out. Climate change has altered the coasts of the United States, wiping out much of Florida and Louisiana. ![]() It is approximately half a century in our future. ![]() ![]() ![]() By the end, I was left breathless from what turned out to be a stunning stand-alone novel. The further I got into the story–and just like wine and cheese–the better it got. I don’t give up so easily anyway, so I was happy to keep plugging along. Having read The Darkest Minds series and Bracken’s Star Wars novel, I knew she was a fantastic writer. The problem came from the next 4 chapters which really failed to wow me.īefore I even began Lore, the folks over at YA Fantasy Addicts had encouraged me that Lore was an awesome book. It allows me to quickly dive into the action. The first chapter was decent as it gave me a fight scene. Lore starts off the way I feel most books do… I’m pleased to say that Lore was a great way to kick off the new year. I had been out of touch with YA Fantasy for a few months as I absorbed myself in Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere when I discovered that Alexandra Bracken had a new book coming out.įrom the point that I learned about Lore until publication was about three weeks, so my wait wasn’t very long at all. ![]() I’ll let you mull that one over for a bit, but I imagine it’s not too difficult of a comparison. ![]() What do wine, cheese, and Lore by Alexandra Bracken have in common? ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading Level: 4.3 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5Ĭustomers who bought this item also bought. Catwings is a series of four American childrens picture books written by Ursula K. Physical Information: 0.2" H x 4.8" W x 6.8" (0.13 lbs) 39 pagesįeatures: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - General WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & EditionsĪnnotation: Now available individually in new digest-sized paperback editions, the first four books in Le Guin's magical series chronicle four young cats with wings who leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live.Ĭlick for more in this series: Catwings (Paperback) ![]() ![]() ![]() Poirot has aged and the world has changed quickly around him. In the midst of this we find Hercule Poirot and his little grey cells. This time it is the 1930s a divided country where suspicion and hatred are on the rise, and the gap between wealth and poverty is great and growing greater. ![]() In her fourth Agatha Christie adaptation in conjunction with Agatha Christie Limited and Mammoth Screen, BAFTA nominated writer Sarah Phelps continues to explore the 20th century through the work of Britain’s greatest crime writer. If Poirot is to match his most cunning nemesis everything about him will be called into question his authority, his integrity, his past, his identity. ![]() As Poirot attempts to investigate he is thwarted on every front by a police force that no longer trusts him, a public that no longer adores him, and an enemy determined to outsmart him. They strike in a methodical pattern and leave a copy of the ABC railway guide at the scene of each of murder. The year is 1933 and a killer stalks Britain, known only as A.B.C. Widely regarded as one of Agatha Christie’s best mysteries, The ABC Murders is one of the most surprising and unusual appearances by literature’s most famous detective. Poirot returns in a new adaptation of one of his most exhilarating cases. ![]() |