We know he must change, the grist to creating an unforgettable story.Įnter Rachel Wade. As readers, we’re drawn to his seductiveness, his imperious confidence, but we’re also repelled how shallow and self-serving he is. Gaffney, for not sugar-coating this character. Once he loses his youth and looks, this is a man who won’t have much to offer other than money.īravo, Ms. If he were to stay on this particular trajectory, we could only assume he’ll go to seed, done in by his boredom, sexual appetites and contempt for his fellow man. He’s not into noblesse oblige, he’s into satisfying his own whims. Sebastian is a rake, headed toward thirty with no real accomplishments other than attaining his future title. Paragraphs so vivid, that it seemed like a cinema screen unfolding in front of me. Readers who love a bona fide dark hero and self-doubting yet steadfast heroine should love this story. “To Have and To Hold” is an apt title, in that Sebastian, the male lead, initially “has” the heroine sexually, and throughout the course of the book, learns to really “hold” her. To Have and To Hold Patricia Gaffney 9780451207852 Books Download As PDF : To Have and To Hold Patricia Gaffney 9780451207852 Books To Have and To Hold Patricia Gaffney 9780451207852 Books
0 Comments
"We must think of something to help Sky! Oh, I know! Let's ask Bertram for his advice!" Rescuing Sky also involved getting some help from some friendly crabs, but I was bothered because the crabs really didn't do anything that the girls couldn't have done themselves.įinally, when the other Rainbow Fairies see that Sky is weak and needs help, instead of putting their heads together to figure out a way to help Sky themselves, Ruby the Red Fairy says: Kirsty: "I know! Why don't we look in our magic bags?" Rachel: "Poor Sky! We have to rescue her! But how can we melt all that ice?" Rachel and Kirsty spent all of no time trying to come up with a way to rescue Sky by themselves, which was all the more disappointing because they did manage to melt ice to rescue Fern. When the girls find Sky the Blue Fairy, she is trapped in ice that was created by the close proximity of Jack Frost's goblins. In this book, there were just too many instances of the girls and the fairies not stepping up to challenges. After Isabelle gets over this fairy phase, I think I should look for some books with more empowered girls in it. I think I might be far enough removed from being a silly 11-year old that the victories and vicissitudes Penrod experienced didn't affect me so much. I think I was too close to being ridiculous in my first loves myself and didn't much like reading about someone else's being similarly ridiculous. Many years ago, also at my dad's urging, I read Tarkinton's Seventeen, and didn't particularly like it. I may well look into snagging the second Penrod book, Penrod and Sam. I expect much of it will be foreign to today's video-game boys, but us geezers who remember Eisenhower, and whose fathers were more-or-less contemporaries of Penrod, can feel some vague sense of familiarity. He has the kinds of adventures, one presumes, that boys had back then. Penrod is an 11-year old boy, living in the midwest a hundred years ago. This is another of those books my dad said he read as a kid. While the film version makes it clear that the spirit of the Hessian rider is real, Irving’s story is a little less clear. Although not particularly faithful to the source material, Sleepy Hollow nevertheless manages to evoke the gothic spirit of Irving’s tale. Not the least of which is turning Ichabod Crane into a bumbling detective recently come to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of beheadings. The film takes a great deal of liberties with the story. Tim Burton’s 1999 film version entitled Sleepy Hollow, starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci, is one of the more recent adaptations. After a grand party at the Van Tassel farm, where Ichabod has been turned down by Katrina, Ichabod first comes face to face with the avenging spirit of the headless Hessian rider, a local restless spirit. Competing with Crane for Katrina’s hand is Brom Bones, a popular local boy. Irving’s original story tells of the bumbling and superstitious schoolteacher Ichabod Crane who is determined to win the hand of Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter of a wealthy farmer. First published in 1819, the legend of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman has remained a popular ghost story to this day with several adaptations to film, television, and theatre over the years. Haunting spirits, pumpkins, and a headless horseman! Washington Irving’s gothic story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, is ripe with autumnal imagery. All females across the nation were eliminated from the workforce. Her life shifted seemingly overnight when she was removed from her lab and escorted out of the building, never to return again. Jean McClellan spent most of her career developing a cure for aphasia. Can you imagine a time when women aren't allowed to speak more than 100 words per day? What if excessive communication results in increasingly painful shocks, training females to remain silent? Can the world continue to run if the power of speech is taken away from half the population?Ĭhristina Dalcher brings this scenario to life in her debut novel "Vox." Fueled by the disorder and turbulence of America's current political climate, Dalcher creates a world in the not-so-distant future, that introduces a new president, a charismatic reverend, and a Pure Woman movement built to remind females that they are to be seen and not heard.ĭr. Instead, he would be Jude the Very Obscure, a professor of German metaphysics and the protagonist of the first campus novel. Poor Jude would not then have had to kill pigs, live in sin or spawn suicidal children. Thomas Hardy, too, could have let Jude the Obscure get into Christminster. Then we'd be spared the Aristotelian ruminations, the undergraduate theories, the boring persecution complex. After all, how many books couldn't benefit from an edit? Does War and Peace really need to clock in at 1,408 pages? And Ulysses often tops the charts as the most unread book – so get rid of Stephen Dedalus. And any process that saves the reader 7,000 Archer-words must be worthwhile.Īnd publishing-wise, he might just be on to something. Certainly, with sentences such as: "General Bradley kept sending him congratulatory notes and meaningless decorations to adorn his ever-expanding uniform, but they didn't help," he hasn't finally morphed into a stylist.Īll the same, he has added 24,700 words while knocking out 31,700 from the original manuscript. Two menambitious, powerful, ruthlessare locked in a relentless struggle to build an empire, fueled by their all-consuming hatred. In this innovative effort to wring yet more money from his back catalogue (think Beatles Remastered for books), Archer hasn't actually changed the plot, and though I once read Kane and Abel on a beach 25 years ago, I can't say I can spot the textual differences. "Was it worth it? I hope you'll think so."Īctually, it's hard to tell. "Last year I set about the task of rewriting Kane and Abel, some 30 years after its first publication," announces The World's Greatest Story-Teller (TM). Marvel and DC, though, both decided to release weekly anthologies in the British comic book format of a lot of short serialized stories. Team-up books and anthologies are not very good for that sort of thing. As the direct market became the primary way that people bought comic books, anthologies (and team-up books) fell by the wayside as people were more interested in seeing books that "counted" and that "mattered" to the continuity of the main heroes. The format used to be WIDELY popular, but that was back when comic books were sold on the newsstand market where fans were more willing to do impulse buying, so having a LOT of features was typically seen as being very appealing to the kid with a few dimes to spend on comic books. In 1988, Marvel and DC both tried out something that had not been attempted in quite a while in the comic book industry, which was a straight comic book anthology. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT COMIC LEGEND:īarry WIndsor-Smith's Weapon X was always going to be a Marvel Comics Presents feature STATUS: Peter's Square, and Piazza Navona with Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers, among others. The story of how this movie was created is told here through the voices of the filmmakers, who explain the challenges of re-creating exact replicas of some of the world's most exquisite sites, including the Sistine Chapel, St. Reuniting Academy Award® winners Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Tom Hanks, this suspense-filled movie, based on Dan Brown's ticking-bomb novel, sprints through crypts, catacombs, and cathedrals to decipher clues prophesying the mutilation of cardinals with mysterious symbols. Angels & Demons: The Illustrated Movie Companion is the only official book hailing the extraordinary filmmakers at the heart of this thought-provoking and totally unorthodox thriller. Once the breath/soul left the body, the person did not and would not exist anymore. That is why in the Old Testament we are told that at “death,” or in the “grave,” the “pit,” or “Sheol” - all used as synonyms - no one can worship God and God no longer remembers them. When God created Adam, he gathered “dust from the ground” and made it alive by breathing into it the “breath of life.” This “breath” did not exist as an independent entity (the “soul”) outside the body. The soul does not exist once the body dies. The Bible portrays the human as a creation of God that is one unified entity: an animated body. That is the view handed down to us not from the Bible but from ancient Greek thinking known best from the writings of Plato. Most Christians today view the soul as an immaterial essence inside the physical frame of the body once the body dies, the soul lives on, intact, forever. As a Jew of the 1st century, Jesus did not think the soul went anywhere after death. Jesus did not think a person’s soul would live on after death, either to experience bliss in the presence of God above or to be tormented in the fires of hell below. The great irony is that this is not at all what Jesus himself believed. They also believe that when they die, their own souls will go to heaven. Billions of Christians around the world believe that on Easter, Jesus was raised from the dead and taken up to heaven to live with God. It made perfect sense to me that you won’t be in the best of moods if you just find that you’re no longer dead. One thing that struck me was her crankiness just after she came back to life – like how she insisted Sand address her as “my lady”. It gave me a good idea of what Sand was like as a person and I knew that I wanted him to be able to escape.Īnd of course, I also enjoyed Perotte as a character. Basically, the first few chapters are about how he makes the castle inhabitable, and although that means the mystery of the castle takes a while to start, I actually really enjoyed reading it. Sand’s concern with staying alive is realistic and the way he ends up waking Perotte is pretty believable too. I liked this book from the first chapter. One day, the lady Perotte wakes up and the two of them have to figure out the secrets behind the castle and Lady Perotte’s death in order to find out how to escape. Everything in this castle is thorn but in order to survive, he starts to use his blacksmithing skills to mend things. He soon realises that he’s in the castle which has been torn into two and hidden behind thorns for years. The Castle Behind Thorns starts when Alexander wakes up in a fireplace. What I found was a French-inspired fantasy full of friendship and learning how to put broken things back together. I can’t quite remember how I found this book, but it was in my overdrive wishlist and I was looking for a fantasy to read so I decided to pick it. |