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![]() ![]() Is the dystopian world of Fahrenheit 451 alarming close to ours then? It is if people are going to read this comic book as a means of gaining a shortcut of the novel. … Classics cut … to fill a two-minute book column.” There is a particular quote from the novel that says this: “"Books cut shorter. And the irony of this adaption! Fahrenheit 451 states that one of the causes for the decline of books is that books were being abridged to comic books. It was very faithful to the book, and the art was wonderful. The comic book version was more than what I expected. It wasn’t what I planned, but it's what I took out of the shelf and I thought, “Hey, what not?” And instead of picking up the actual book, I picked up the recently published graphic adaptation. Ver read a book only a while ago and then had a sudden urge to read it again? Fahrenheit 451 is one of my examples. ![]() ![]() ![]() “The Horror at Red Hook” and “He” reveal the fascination and revulsion Lovecraft felt for New York City “Pickman’s Model” uncovers the frightening secret behind an artist’s work “The Rats in the Walls” is a terrifying descent into atavistic horror and “The Colour Out of Space” explores the eerie impact of a meteorite on a remote Massachusetts valley. ![]() Early stories such as “The Outsider,” “The Music of Erich Zann,” “Herbert West–Reanimator,” and “The Lurking Fear” demonstrate Lovecraft’s uncanny ability to blur the distinction between reality and nightmare, sanity and madness, the human and non-human. In this Library of America volume, the best-selling novelist Peter Straub brings together the very best of Lovecraft’s fiction in a treasury guaranteed to bring fright and delight both to longtime fans and to readers new to his work. Lovecraft adapted the conventions of horror stories and science fiction to express an intensely personal vision, cosmic in its ramifications and fearsome in its shuddering view of human destiny. A twentieth-century successor to Edgar Allan Poe as the master of “weird fiction,” Howard Phillips Lovecraft once wrote, “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” In the novellas and stories he published in such pulp magazines as Weird Tales and Astounding Stories-and in the work that remained unpublished until after his death, including some of his best writing-H. ![]() ![]() ![]() We always wanted to know what came after. When we found out that Lucy Christopher was publishing Release a companion novel ten years later, we were beyond excited. It was a book that completely broke us emotionally, where we experienced such problematic emotional reactions to the story of Gem and Ty. ![]() Incredibly beautifully written and compelling, it tells the story of sixteen years old Gemma Toombs who was kidnapped and held by her stalker, Tyler McFarlane, in a remote desert in Australia. Stolen by Lucy Christopher is one of our all-time favourite psychological suspense thrillers. But it was always more complicated, wasn’t it?’ ![]() ‘To everyone else, we only had one story: you, the evil kidnapper, and me, the helpless victim. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this story, modern Australia gets ‘zooflu’, a fast-spreading virus, easily diagnosed by pink eyeballs. Same old Jean with her impulsive, destructive behaviour. ![]() But somehow, and I’m not sure how, by about half way through the book I’m totally on her side. Jean works as a guide in a wildlife sanctuary in Northern Australia run by her daughter-in-law (the son’s legged it), not bright enough to pass her ranger qualifications so she drives the train, cracks bad jokes for the tourists, imagining what the animals would say if they could talk back to her. Jean’s love for her six-year-old granddaughter is her one redeeming feature, though I wouldn’t trust her to look after any child of mine. He’s ‘hairy and stringy, skin stretched over his big belly’ with a jealous boyfriend on the side. Her colleague Andy is one, she calls him when she wants booze or sex. She’s a rough bit of work: a hard drinking, chain smoking, promiscuous, internet-troll of a grandmother who makes bad choices. ![]() Don’t read the blurb about ‘talking animals’-this is not Dr Dolittle- read the excited hype from right across the review spectrum and watch the awards list grow. And me someone who has avoided fantasy for decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reader Advisory: This book features the recreational use of illicit substances, and non-explicit references to childhood abuse and trauma. ![]() In this contest where even knives and guns are fair game, sex may prove the most dangerous weapon of all. With five hundred grand up for grabs at the end of the battle royal, the stakes are high and the tension blazing.Ĭould the seemingly mild-mannered nice guy win it all? The cutthroat alpha female? The strongest or the smartest, the idealist or the cynic? It's anyone's guess as teams are undercut by alliances, loyalties tendered and tested, and passions enflamed by both affection and animosity. Welcome to The Ant Farm, a social study in the wilds of interior Alaska, documenting the dynamics between a dozen competitors as they take part in a series of physical and psychological face-offs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It took four years in the making, or 7 days per page. Sanjay Patel also talked a bit about the making of this book. The vector style drawings (known for straight lines and smooth curves) are unique, especially when used to tell mythical tales, and work very well in this case. Each page is filled with scenes of glorious colours - nothing less for this colourful tale. ![]() The story is well paced and laden with beautiful illustrations. For someone like me who knows nothing about any Hindu stories, I felt like I know a lot more after reading this book. The story is fascinating and gets increasingly so towards the end, with lots of nice surprises. Adapted and written in a lighter prose, the book is inviting to any readers who want learn more about the tale. Sanjay Patel's take on the classic Sanskrit epic is refreshing and engaging. ![]() ![]() ![]() I pulled my mom's fifteen- year-old Ford truck over onto the sandy grass so that I wouldn't be blocking anyone in. Fallen Too Far was no exception, because it now tops the list as my all-time favorite Abbi Glines book." Fallen Too Far: A Rosemary Beach Novel (The Rosemary Beach Series Book 1) - Kindle edition by Glines, Abbi. ![]() Rush's eyes never left … Everyone in Rosemary Beach … But now… not so easy. Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2017. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rachel points to their parents' "perfect" marriage as a shining example. Second chances aren't in Rachel's nature, but the desire for an intact family has her rethinking her stance on adultery, much to Jenny's surprise. Her idyllic marriage has just fallen to pieces in spectacular fashion after she discovers her husband sexting with one of his colleagues. Her timing couldn't be more perfect, since Rachel will need her younger sister. Sensing this, well, relationship isn't helping her move on, Jenny trades the Manhattan skyline for her hometown up the Hudson, where she'll be able to bask in her sister Rachel's picture-perfect family life.and hopefully make one of her own. In fact Owen's new wife may-inexplicably-be Jenny's new best friend. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wedding-dress designer Jenny Tate understands the happily ever after business, yet somehow she's still involved in her ex-husband's life. Sisterhood in all its drama, hilarity, and tears is at the heart of New York Times best-selling author Kristan Higgins' thoroughly captivating new novel, featuring the wit and romance that listeners have come to expect from the much-loved creator of the Blue Heron series. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was shortlisted for the Easons Irish Novel of the Year, the Trillium Book Award, the Stonewall Book Awards Barbara Gittings Literature Award, a Goodreads Choice Award for historical fiction, and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize for Canadian fiction and the Polari Prize. On publication it became a #1 bestseller in Ireland and Canada - staying on Canadian bestseller lists for eight months - and made the New York Times list as well as the Sunday Times list (UK) as well. The Pull of the Stars is Donoghue’s thirteenth novel (and seventeenth book of fiction). With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other’s lives in unexpected ways. ![]() Into Julia’s regimented world step two outsiders-Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love. The Pull of the Stars (New York: Little Brown Toronto: HarperCollins Canada London: Picador, 2020).ĭublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. ![]() |