![]() ![]() All this time, I have not known how to thank her, and all this time our Family has been giving her what she most needed without knowing it. Her confession has left me in a state I cannot put a name to-both sickened and gladdened. Loyalty is not a fine enough word for the devotion Hannah has shown to us. She's raised the girls right along with Peg. ![]() The March's can't afford to pay Hannah what she deserves, but Hannah honestly feels like the March's are more family to her than she's ever had. Hannah is an Irish woman hired to help clean and cook around the house. Her husband is off at war, and it's up to her to keep her family alive. Every day she writes in her diary, and her entries are sometimes heartbreaking. She finds joy in helping those around her. ![]() In the book, Marmee (Peg March) is a mother of 4 daughters: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. Little Women is one of my favorite books, and I loved the movie, too (both versions bring me joy). ![]()
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Think Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King meet Guillermo del Toro as channeled by Klaus Kinski. An inventive-if brooding, strange and creepy-adventure in literary terror. ![]() ![]() ![]() She captured the voice I was trying to create in one of my chapters, making it stronger and more active. I really liked the suggestions she made to my book. I had previously worked with three other editors and they were not as responsive or collaborative as Michelle. There’s no doubt I’ll be working with Michelle for as long as she keeps me!” Kay Cove | Paint Me Perfect I couldn’t have asked for a better editor and mentor as a brand-new romance author. And man, oh man, is she patient, supportive, and kind! Her critique is layered between praise and she takes the time to recognize strengths while also navigating through the weaknesses. I learn something new each and every time and I’m a better writer every day because of Michelle. All of our conversations are like Christmas to me. Her feedback always coaxes out more of my creativity because she doesn’t just deliver the edits, she takes the time to explain how and why. ![]() She worked so carefully to protect my voice in the editing process. But even more than a fantastic editor, Michelle is a superb story strategist. Her expert insight into romance writing paired with her keen attention to detail makes her among the absolute best in my opinion. Don’t get me wrong, she’s in a class of her own when it comes to editing. “It’s impossible to describe Michelle as simply an editor. ![]() ![]() ![]() This new series will feature an ALL NEW line-up of incredible villains, with iconic monsters as you’ve never seen them before, whose antics are destined to make them every bit as beloved as Slappy. Stine comes a fresh new vision for the fan-favorite brand. “From the delightfully twisted mind of R.L. ![]() “A brand new Goosebumps series is coming―prepare to be scared like never before!” Ever.” (click-bait isn’t reserved only for websites, it seems), Goosebumps: House of Shivers #1 will launch on September 19, 2023, BD has learned. ![]() Stine is launching Goosebumps: House of Shivers! In the wake of the original wave of books in the 1990s, the Goosebumps franchise has consistently spit out various different lines, including “HorrorLand,” “Hall of Horrors” and “SlappyWorld.” Up next, author R.L. ![]() ![]() Nowadays, of course, the choice of the location of the tale seems all the more poignant, given what happened in Tibet some years after the book was published, with the Chinese invasion of 1949, and the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. ![]() And Tibet in the 1930s was still a land of mystery, one of the last unmapped places, a forbidden and insular country. In the increasingly pessimistic 1930s, when Western civilisation seemed bent on a path to self-destruction - and when, as Carl Jung put it, 'the smell of burning was in the air' - the story of a kind of earthly paradise had an irresistible appeal. These days, the name is part of the language, used everywhere from Nepali airlines and Chinese hotel chains to holiday cottages in Florida and Torquay. And when the novel was turned into a Hollywood movie by Frank Capra, it was an instant success. The book enjoyed great popularity, and even the retreat of the US president at Camp David was called Shangri-La, after the paradise described in it. All the wisdom of the human race is contained in this place, in the cultural treasures stored, and in the minds of the people who have gathered here in the face of an imminent catastrophe. Set in the troubled years before World War Two, the book tells of a community in a lamasery (a monastery for Tibetan lamas), in the lost Tibetan valley of Shangri-La, cut off from the world and from time. The story of Shangri-La itself is a modern one, told by the English novelist James Hilton in his novel Lost Horizon (1933). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They may find them slow, long and with a lot of talk. Not everybody will find the 70s-80s Dickens serial adaptations their cup of tea. Both are well-made, tell the story extremely well indeed and brilliantly written and acted, the 2005 adaptation's characterisation is a little richer but this adaptation is a little more atmospheric. It is a mammoth book, and one of Dickens' least accessible(from first-time personal experience, the law stuff took its time to get completely). ![]() The book is compelling, atmospheric and rich in characterisation. ![]() And not just as adaptations, but also on their own as well, which is every bit as important. From a personal point of view, there is no real preference as both adaptations are outstanding in their own way. There will always be inevitable comparisons to which adaptation of 'Bleak House' people prefer, this or 2005. Regardless of how they fare as adaptations or how faithful they are to the source material, there are many (too numerous to list) that are good or more as standalones. Have always had a lot of love and respect for period dramas/adaptations. ![]() ![]() What kept me rivetted was Heath’s weaving of a tale about the need to be recognized, acknowledged, loved, and validated, a journey both hero and heroine take in their unique ways, about what family means, and where we can meet on a plane of forgiveness and reconciliation. The similarities to Kleypas saw me through the premise’s set-up. ![]() Beyond Scandal and Desire‘s cross-class promise, its ingenue heroine who’s too smart to stay that way and guttersnipe-made-good hero kept me reading through a slow, though evident of a sure writing hand, first third. Ostensibly, Lorraine Heath’s Beyond Scandal and Desire has echoes of Kleypas’s romance classic, but in many other ways, it is an entirely different beast, unique to Heath’s vision. I adored Sarah and Derek, the casino setting, the pesky, bespectacled heroine and hardened with a secret heart of gold hero. ![]() One of the first romance novels I read when I returned to the genre and combed through best-of lists for titles to throw money at was Lisa Kleypas’s Dreaming Of You. ![]() ![]() It was his Red Mars Trilogy, however, that moved Robinson to the top tier of SF writers. The series, and Robinson, were a big hit, and the novel soon turned into a trilogy, with sequels The Gold Coast and Pacific Edge filling out his "Three Californias" sequence. His first novel, The Wild Shore (published the same year as his dissertation) was personally selected by legendary SF editor Terry Carr as the lead for a new series of noteworthy first novels that Carr was preparing for Ace books. Robinson came as close as you could get to having a PhD in Science Fiction: his doctoral dissertation in English was on the novels of Philip K. Ecology and sustainability are common recurring elements in his work. His books combine strong science with powerful social themes. ![]() Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American Science Fiction writer, best known for his Red Mars Trilogy. ![]() ![]() There’s a diner (people who are just passing through tend not to linger). There’s a pawnshop (someone lives in the basement and is seen only at night). It’s a pretty standard dried-up western town. Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road. ![]() It did take a little bit to get into at first, but once it got going, it was hard to put down. I had really invested emotionally myself into the series…they way she ended it just was a afterthought and thrown together. Sara: I just finished Midnight Crossing by Charlaine Harris! I loved it and I can’t wait for the next book in the series!Īmy: Is it really good? I am gun shy after how she ended the Sookie series. ![]() Since it’s Halloween month □ I thought, what better than to pull out an old favorite, that has something new for us! Look at the new series “Sookie Stackhouse/Trueblood” author, Charlaine Harris is working on! Sara highly recommends it! ![]() |