![]() ![]() (Most of the songs have been recorded on albums by the British singer Peter Skellern, who can hit a note and the one below it and the one above it, and that's about it-and he makes them entertaining, too.) The plot: The king of Navarre (Alesandro Nivola) has declared that he and three of his comrades (Kenneth Branagh, Adrian Lester, Matthew Lillard) will withdraw from the world for three years of thought and study.ĭuring this time, they will reject all worldly pleasures, most particularly the company of women. ![]() The songs here are well within the abilities of the cast to sing them, and indeed several of them were originally sung on the screen by Fred Astaire, whose vocal range was as modest as his footwork was unlimited. ![]() Like Woody Allen's " Everyone Says I Love You," this is one of those movies where real people are so seized with the need to break into song that a lack of talent can't stop them. The cast is not especially known for being able to sing and dance (only the British Adrian Lester and the Broadway veteran Nathan Lane are pros in those departments), but that's part of the charm. ![]() The story pairs off four sets of lovers, supplies them with delightful songs and settings, and calls it a day. It's so escapist it escapes even from itself. What is left is winsome, charming, sweet and slight. ![]()
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This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Free Book Program, which is open to all readers and is completely free. ![]() ![]() As expected of Carrie Ryan, she always create such fantastic storyline and gripping plot twists. Because I just can’t get my hands of the pages. The cover and the description tricked me into thinking this is a paranormal book. Sharp and incisive, Daughter of Deep Silence by bestselling author Carrie Ryan is a deliciously smart revenge thriller that examines perceptions of identity, love, and the lengths to which one girl is willing to go when she thinks she has nothing to lose.Ī new page-turner of the month! For fans of Gone Girl and the popular TV shows Revenge , this is book absolutely amazing! ![]() Even if it means taking down the boy she loves and possibly losing herself in the process. Only Frances Mace knows the terrifying truth, and she’ll stop at nothing to avenge the murders of everyone she held dear. In the wake of the devastating destruction of the luxury yacht Persephone, just three souls remain to tell its story-and two of them are lying. Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers ![]() ![]() ![]() Early on in book, the Black Company gets recruited by agents of The Lady– who’s essentially a prettier version of Sauron, complete with Ringwraith-esque lieutenants and a big glaring magic eye in the middle of her doom-fortress. The ‘gimmick’ to the book, as it were, is that Cook writes from the perspective of the bad guy. ![]() The Black Company is about, well, The Black Company, a band of cutthroat mercenaries in a generic fantasy land. I’d heard mention of the Black Company series in passing a couple of times, however– and when Tor.com gave the first one away in ebook form (to promote the newest release, natch), I figured I’d give it a go. I’ve read Cook before– namely, a couple of his Garrett: PI books (detective noir in fantasyland, pretty much), way back before I started this blog. ![]() Instead, I’m gonna hammer out a couple of reviews of the books I read during the trip! So, uh, that’s good, right?Īnd to start, we have Glen Cook’s The Black Company. But don’t worry, I’m not going to bore you with vacation pictures (that’s what facebook is for). Not that you probably noticed, but I’ve been incommunicado for the last week and a half– that’s because I’ve been on vacation! Went traipsing around Colorado for a bit, which was super fun. ![]() Book Review: The Black Company by Glen Cook ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Does he really know the whole story of Shawn’s death? Read more She was killed by a stray bullet on the playground and wants to know what he’ll do if he misses.Īll the way up, Will is confronted by people connected to Shawn. ![]() Isn’t Buck in the elevator? Next, a girl from Will’s past steps in. He is even more surprised to learn that Buck is dead. He asks Will whether the gun is even loaded, and Will is surprised to find that a bullet is missing. When the doors slide open on another floor, Buck steps in. With his brother’s gun in the back waistband of his jeans, Will rides the elevator up to confront Buck, Shawn’s killer. Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds is the highly acclaimed novel of a boy, Will, who must decide whether to kill the man who murdered his brother, Shawn. Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s LiteratureĪn Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature ![]() ![]() ![]() Her writing is impeccable, creating imagery so tangible you feel yourself being sucked through the pages into the very setting of the characters. ![]() Once again Connilyn Cossette has proved herself as one of my absolute favorite authors of Biblical fiction. ![]() Ultimately, Eliora and Ronen are caught up in the battle for the soul of Israel and its future under the leadership of Samuel, the last judge before the era of the kings begins. He never expected that the Philistine girl he rescued years ago would now be part of the very family he’s tasked to deceive.Īs Ronen’s attempts to charm Eliora lead them in unexpected directions, betrayal leaves Eliora with strained family ties and Ronen questioning his own loyalties. Ronen is a Levite musician determined to secret away the ark to a more fitting resting place, watched over by priests who would restore the Holy of Holies. There, the family she was adopted into has guarded the ark at the top of a mountain in seclusion. Links: Baker Book House | Amazon | Goodreads About the Book:Įight years ago, when the Philistines stole and then surrendered the ark of the covenant back to the Israelites, Eliora left her Philistine homeland to follow the ark to the community of Kiryat Yearim. Title: To Dwell Among Cedars (The Covenant House #1) ![]() ![]() I will weave a web of beautiful illusion to snare them, a glittering trap that drags them willingly with me into the magical, false, spellbinding world.īefore that, I will gather my strength. ![]() I will show them worlds that never existed, events that never happened. As I do every night, I will make people believe things that aren't true. ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Over the course of one eerie night, Virgil must decide whether to turn Arden in or set her free.and it will take all he has to see through the smoke and mirrors. ![]() Even handcuffed and alone, Arden is far from powerless-and what she reveals is as unbelievable as it is spellbinding. Is it a new version of the illusion, or an all-too-real murder? When Arden's husband is found lifeless beneath the stage later that night, the answer seems clear.īut when Virgil happens upon the fleeing magician and takes her into custody, she has a very different story to tell. One night in Waterloo, Iowa, with young policeman Virgil Holt watching from the audience, she swaps her trademark saw for a fire ax. The Amazing Arden is the most famous female illusionist of her day, renowned for her notorious trick of sawing a man in half on stage. Water for Elephants meets The Night Circus in The Magician's Lie, a debut novel in which the country's most notorious female illusionist stands accused of her husband's murder-and she has only one night to convince a small-town policeman of her innocence. ![]() ![]() The novel opens with a story, and a song is at the heart of it. She focuses on the people, their stories, and their songs. We’re in the early 1970s now, and industrial-scale fishing is well under way.Įmma Hooper doesn’t tell it like this. And what’s that heaving of the swell under the girl’s rowing boat? The whales coming, out of season? No, it’s one of those big ‘draggers’. Even in the earlier time-line, so far covering five years, the nets become less full every year. The later time-line has two threads itself, 1992, when there are only a handful of families left and 24 empty houses, and 1993 which, at first, has only covered a single event as the Connor family moves out too. It isn’t the fault of the hardworking men and women, living close to the edge, ‘in-boat’ for days and nights on end, or on the shore, worrying, making nets, doing all the things that wives do in these communities. These are little fishing communities in Newfoundland, and then they’re not, because there are no fish left. Emma Hooper is worrying away at two time-lines, one going from the late 1960s to the early 70s and the other the early 1990s. ![]() These are the little people being buffeted by global forces much bigger than they are. ![]() Life used to be that way, the narrative seems to be insisting, but even then we should have seen how it was all slipping away from us. The title is perfect for this novel’s mood of nostalgic wistfulness. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The list of SF writers who were in print before they could vote is impressive.” ![]() “John Brunner’s first novel when he was seventeen Theodore Sturgeon’s first story when he was twenty. “Isaac Asimov’s first story appeared when he was eighteen,” Delany noted. Delany took an inventory of the youthful prodigies of the genre. In the summer of 1967, shortly after he had finished writing Nova, Samuel R. Like math, like music, like gymnastics, science fiction is an endeavor that attracts the energy of the young. In the following guest column, cultural critic and Nation national affairs correspondent Jeet Heer explores the context from which Nova emerged and suggests some of the reasons for its classic status more than fifty years later.īy Jeet Heer First edition of Samuel R. Delany’s 1968 novel Nova in the two-volume anthology American Science Fiction: Eight Classic Novels of the 1960s, edited by Gary K. Library of America has just republished Samuel R. Delany: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Super- Nova ![]() ![]() ![]() Because Eliza understands what Hunter refuses to see that love is the greatest healer of all. But her healing spirit reaches farther, drawing her to his shattered family and to the intense, bitter man who needs her as much as she needs him. Eliza Flyte has inherited her father’s gift for gentling horses, and she agrees to tame Hunter’s Irish Thoroughbred. His only hope is the barefooted girl, who’s been brought up far removed from the social world of wealth and privilege. ![]() When his prized stallion arrives from Ireland crazed and unridable, Hunter is forced to seek out The Horsemaster’s Daughter. He’s been more successful at breeding Thoroughbred racehorses than in managing his crumbling estate and in caring for his grieving children. Once a privileged son of the South, Hunter Calhoun is now a widower shadowed by the scandal of his wife’s death. But would that be enough? A wild horse, a broken man, a family in ruins and a woman with the power to heal… ![]() |