![]() “Not since four English schoolchildren walked through a wardrobe and discovered the magical land of Narnia has the simple act of opening a door unlocked such a fantastic journey. ![]() ![]() “Inventive, scary, thrilling, and finally affirmative.”― Washington Post Book World Before long, the miraculous turns sinister, and Coraline must use her wits and courage to save herself―and the other trapped souls she finds along the way.įilled with enchantments and terrors alike, this winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker Awards is a dazzling feat of imagination from a modern literary master. Intrigued, she ventures deep into a mysterious mirror realm, a world eerily similar yet darkly different from her own. While exploring her new home, a young girl named Coraline unlocks a door to reveal a hidden passage. ![]() “One of the most truly frightening books ever written.”― New York Times From #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, a critically acclaimed novel for readers of all ages in which a young girl discovers a passage to a world eerily similar yet darkly different from her own―one of ten classic Gaiman works repackaged with elegant original watercolor art by acclaimed artist Henry Sene Yee ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() But I didn't like it, because I didn't think it was a true object-oriented language – OO features appeared to be add-on to the language. The object-oriented language seemed very promising. I knew Perl (Perl4, not Perl5), but I didn't like it really, because it had the smell of a toy language (it still has). I was talking with my colleague about the possibility of an object-oriented scripting language. ![]() In a 1999 post to the ruby-talk mailing list, he describes some of his early ideas about the language: Matsumoto has said that Ruby was conceived in 1993. Main article: History of Ruby Early concept According to the creator, Ruby was influenced by Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, BASIC, Java and Lisp. It supports multiple programming paradigms, including procedural, object-oriented, and functional programming. Ruby is dynamically typed and uses garbage collection and just-in-time compilation. It was developed in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan. In Ruby, everything is an object, including primitive data types. It was designed with an emphasis on programming productivity and simplicity. Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language which supports multiple programming paradigms. Ruby MRI, TruffleRuby, YARV, Rubinius, MagLev, JRuby, MacRuby, RubyMotion, Mruby, IronRubyĪda, Basic, C++, CLU, Dylan, Eiffel, Lisp, Lua, Perl, Python, Smalltalk Ĭlojure, CoffeeScript, Crystal, D, Elixir, Groovy, Julia, Mirah, Nu, Ring, Rust, Swift ![]() ![]() ![]() Our first narrator is one of these men, presumably a sober, decent citizen. The novella begins on a ship on the Thames, where a company of old sailors, all but one now respectable and professional Londoners, have gathered for a reunion. Instead, we have a frame narrator who records a story told to him by a friend, a febrile recitation of the impossible and the imponderable, of “an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention.” Heart of Darkness signals the end of the linear, realist novel, of the dispassionate fictional investigation of manners and morals, of the calm, steady, and progressive plotting of a life. Seemingly written for the survey course, it fits neatly inside every thematic slot into which academe has carved our cultural history.įirst, we can place the novella in the history of literature. Published in 1899, it bids farewell to one century and inaugurates another. ![]() ![]() It just happens, the sun becomes unstable – a bit like the moon exploding at the onset of Seveneves. While The Drowned World is often named as a climate change novel, maybe even the first one, it doesn’t fully fit the bill: in Ballard’s debut novel, climate change is not man-made. On the other hand, Ballard seems to encourage this interpretative method of searching for latent symbolism.īefore I will add my two cents to the debate – and I’ll keep it short – let me do the non-political part of the review. The arguments are interesting, but the reading might be reductive. ![]() In that review, BlackOxford develops a mostly symbolic reading of the text that accuses Ballard of racism. Each one of us is as old as the entire biological kingdom, and our bloodstreams are tributaries of the great sea of its total memory.”Īt times, I read up on books while reading them, and this time my explorations of other reviews significantly colored my reading, in particular the review of BlackOxford on Goodreads. ![]() ![]() “The brief span of an individual life is misleading. ![]() ![]() An amusing, entertaining story children will love to read themselves or have read to them. He takes his favorite animals with him (as well as the crocodile, who wants to return to his homeland) and sets off on an extraordinary adventure. He loves animals so much that his busy house in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh is full of every creature imaginable - from parrots to pigs, monkeys to dogs and many more. ![]() Dolittle has such compassion for animals that this can't stop him from getting to Africa. Will the doctor come to help? Though he has no money, Dr. There is a terrible sickness spreading among the monkeys in Africa. Quite out of the blue, a sparrow comes with a message. When he acquires a crocodile, his business again comes to a screeching halt and his money dwindles to the point where the animals know he can not keep feeding them. ![]() Soon even wild animals are showing up at his door for help, and Dr. He soon becomes an animal doctor instead, and he becomes quite rich again as word spreads of amazing success. Dolittle to speak her language, and eventually he can communicate with all animals. His parrot, Polynesia, who can speak English, teaches Dr. He does not really care, for he isn't worried about money and he likes animals better anyway. Dr Dolittle is a shy and kindly man with many pets. ![]() ![]() Once well-visited, well-liked, and well-off, Doctor Dolittle begins to lose patients as a result of his many pets. Doctor Dolittle learns to talk to the animals and turns to treating animals rather than people. ![]() ![]() Laurel writes letters about music, love, friendships, her absent mum, her dead sister, to people like Amy Winehouse, Judy Garland, and John Keats. And even though Laurel never hands the letter in to her teacher, she finds she can’t stop writing. Laurel starts with a letter to Kurt Cobain, because May loved him. Laurel hopes to make a fresh start and outrun her sister’s shadow when she starts High School, but when Laurel’s handed an assignment in her English class–write a letter to a dead person–she finds her sister, May, is still haunting her, even though Laurel’s not writing to her. It’s hard to live in the shadow of your big sister, especially when your sister is dead. ![]() What to expect: Siblings, Loss, High School ![]() Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux (April 1, 2014) The Children’s Book Review | JLove Letters to the Dead ![]() ![]() Only Ichabod Crane, a squeamish, yet sensible officer of the law can crack the mystery that plagues Sleepy Hollow - if he can avoid losing his head. The village is haunted by a terrible specter: the Headless Horseman. There’s a little town upstate, a close-knit community - mainly Dutch - called Sleepy Hollow. If you enjoy the podcast, please consider leaving a rating or review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen! ![]() Learn more, view sources and inspiration, and sign up for e-mail updates at Check out Sleep & Sorcery, Laurel’s podcast for fantasy and folklore-inspired bedtime stories. Greek mythology, Roman family law, masculinity, and patriarchy are at play.Ĭheck out our merch store for Midnight Myth, Boomerangerang, Sleep & Sorcery and Wheel of Ka tees and totes! In our exploration of The Royal Tenenbaums, we’ll uncover mythological and historical connections hidden in the pastiche. This is the start of our mini-series on the works of Wes Anderson, everyone’s favorite symmetry-obsessed, pastel-painted auteur. What will happen when we get everyone back under one roof? ![]() A decade of failure has brought us here, the Tenenbaum children scattered across New York and the seas, and their father, Royal, at last estranged. Join us, if you like, in the perfectly imperfect house on Archer Avenue, where lived the once-great Tenenbaums, a family of geniuses. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shot using stop-motion photography, and incorporating hand-drawn illustrations, the goal is to recreate the gritty and raw energy Snoop Dogg brings to the brand, along with artist Carson Ting's unique creation. Kindred Spirits (with Ellen Porath) (1991) Ravenloft novels. Anthony wrote a number of novels based on Dungeons & Dragons published worlds. For anyone whos ever felt they just had to get something off their chest, Chip Reid may have found the perfect place to do it. This collaboration with Chairman Ting Industries for Mark Anthony Wine and Spirits is to celebrate the launch of 19 Crimes wine in Canada. Mark Anthony is an American author who lives and writes in Colorado. ![]() ![]() an alternate cover edition can be found hereMagic and Murder Wh. 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I had just read other books similar to Beneath a Scarlet Sky and The Tuscan Child, which also both deal with World War II, so I decided on In Farleigh Field. I chose In Farleigh Field quite randomly. You might recognize some of the other titles: The Tuscan Child, The Ragged Edge of the Night, Beneath a Scarlet Sky, What the Wind Knows.all put out by Lake Union. ![]() However, as someone who likes to keep abreast of the industry, I’ve been wanting to read a book that Lake Union has produced. Readers are meant to enjoy books and not know how the sausage is made, so to speak. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, it’s fine. It’s called Lake Union and it’s been putting out some hits. Just like Penguin, Random House, and the others. In Farleigh Fieldĭid you know that Amazon has it’s own publishing house now? That’s right. In Farleigh Field has been floating around as a potential read for me for quite a while. *If you are new here, WELCOME! For In Farleigh Field, I provide your book club with a brief summary, a recipe, and discussion questions in that order! In Farleigh Field Book Club Questions and Recipe ![]() |