![]() ![]() I couldn’t put it down.” - Lauren Kate, New York Times bestselling author of FALLEN PRAISE FOR SHATTER ME: “Addictive, intense, and oozing with romance. Perfect for fans who have followed the series from the beginning and craved a matching set of books, and for new readers looking to check out the series.Īnd don’t miss Defy Me, the shocking fifth book in the Shatter Me series! ![]() It also includes the Destroy Me novella, which is told from Warner’s point of view, and a brand-new author’s note. ![]() The jacket of this new hardcover edition matches the beautiful artwork of the paperback edition. But when she’s reunited with the one person who ever cared about her, she finds a strength she never knew she had. Juliette has never fought for herself before. But The Reestablishment sees it as a gift, sees her as an opportunity. It feels like a curse, a burden that one person alone could never bear. No one knows why Juliette has such incredible power. One touch, and Juliette Ferrars can leave a fully grown man gasping for air. The irresistible first book in the gripping Shatter Me series, now featuring gorgeous jacket art to match the rest of the series, and including the Destroy Me novella! ![]()
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![]() Already we have left behind the concrete realities of the world in favour of abstract ideas (or ideals). And it is direct metaphor rather than simile: ‘“Hope” is the thing with feathers’.īut we might also note those quotation marks: Dickinson is talking about not hope but ‘hope’, the idea of hope, the way we talk about it rather than the reality. ![]() ![]() Like Dickinson, Brontë begins her poem by trying to define hope:īrontë’s is far more of a narrative poem with symbolic undertones (we’ve analysed it here), while Dickinson’s is lyrical, focusing on the central metaphor. ![]() We might also mention a poem by her namesake, Emily Brontë (1818-48). We can picture an eagle or a parrot or a crow, but a ‘thing with feathers’? No chance.ĭickinson’s is by no means the only notable poem about hope. ![]() ‘It is as though she begins each general enquiry’, Vendler notes, ‘with the general question, “What sort of thing is this?” and then goes on to categorize it more minutely’.īut there’s something counter-intuitive about a poet whose work is defined by its peculiar and sometimes idiosyncratic attention to detail – describing the snow falling from clouds as being sifted from leaden sieves, for instance, or her wonderfully acute observation of a cat hunting a bird – making such wide and varied use of ‘thing’, a word which is, to borrow Vendler’s adjective, ‘bloodless’. ![]() ![]() Rafał Mikołajczyk, author of the graphic novel adaptation, has achieved the unimaginable: he has brought his source to life in a new medium, remaining faithful to Lem in both letter and spirit. Lem uses this setting as a pretext for meditat- ing on fatalism, otherness, and the impossibility of true mutual understanding. On this barren world, the crew discover a population of microrobots programmed with one sole task: to annihilate all signs of life. ![]() It tells the story of the titular ship, which undertakes a rescue mission to an uncharted planet. This very fusion makes The Invincible so unique, for this is only superficially a novel about space warfare. ![]() ![]() His work combines the visionary imagination of science fiction with philosophical musings on human nature. Stanisław Lem is among Poland’s most cele- brated and world-renowned authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() Please see extended rules for appropriate alternative subreddits, like /r/suggestmeabook, /r/whatsthatbook, etc. ‘Should I read …?’, ‘What’s that book?’ posts, sales links, piracy, plagiarism, low quality book lists, unmarked spoilers (instructions for spoiler tags are in the sidebar), sensationalist headlines, novelty accounts, low effort content. 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Thread!.Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.New Release: The Wrong Good Deed by Caroline B. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If something that you perceive arouses in you a painful emotion, you may subconsciously suppress or deny your perception in order to avoid the unbearable pain, even though the practical results of ignoring your perception may prove ultimately disastrous. That’s because o f psychological denial: the only way of preserving one’s sanity while looking up every day at the dam is to deny the possibility that it could burst. Surprisingly, though, after you get to just a few miles below the dam, where fear of th e dam’s breaking is found to be the highest, the concern then falls off to zero as you approach closer to the dam! That is, the people living immediately under the dam, the ones most certain to be drowned in a dam burst, profess unconcern. When attitude pollsters ask people downstream of the dam how concerned they are about the dam’s bursting, it’s not surprising that fear of a dam burst is lowest far downstream, and increases among residents increasingly close to the dam. ![]() “ Consider a narrow river valley below a high dam, such that if the dam burst, the resulting flood of water would drown people for a considerable distance downstream. ![]() ![]() ![]() His love for the theatre may be traced back to his membership in L'Equipe, an Algerian theatre group, whose "collective creation" Révolte dans les Asturies (1934) was banned for political reasons. ![]() He also adapted plays by Calderon, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun. ![]() But his journalistic activities had been chiefly a response to the demands of the time in 1947 Camus retired from political journalism and, besides writing his fiction and essays, was very active in the theatre as producer and playwright (e.g., Caligula, 1944). The man and the times met: Camus joined the resistance movement during the occupation and after the liberation was a columnist for the newspaper Combat. Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectual circles of strongly revolutionary tendencies, with a deep interest in philosophy (only chance prevented him from pursuing a university career in that field), he came to France at the age of twenty-five. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. ![]() ![]() Of course, Lewis' take was much more plodding. It immediately reminded me of Burrough's John Carter books, an influential series of planetary adventures about a man marooned on an alien world. Thus I was pleasantly surprised by the opening of this book, which looked to be a more mature adventure with a more-or-less neutral narration. Of course, he's not taken seriously by Biblical scholars or theologians-I suspect this is because his Jesus is a cartoon lion and his God is a space alien.Īs Michael Moorcock pointed out, the prominent tone in both Tolkien and Lewis is condescension, and I admit my general impression of Lewis is that he's talking down to the audience in a sing-song voice as if we're disturbing his perusal of the morning paper. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is strange to me how often Lewis is mentioned as a leading Christian apologist, since his views on Christianity tend to be neither conventional nor well-constructed. ![]() ![]() When Wyoming, not yet a territory, was still subject to Dakota Territory laws, lawmakers took a minor step to protect at least some game animals. ![]() Twenty years later, it looked as if elk, deer and especially pronghorn antelope might face the same fate. What follows is an account of how the state came around to protecting its big game herds in ways that allowed them to thrive.īuffalo were gone from the Wyoming ranges by the mid-1880s. Early efforts by the Wyoming Legislature to stem the slaughter were largely ineffective. Twenty years later, a similar fate was facing deer, elk and especially antelope in Wyoming.īut people only slowly came to understand their own role in these disasters, and their minds, when it came to protecting big game, were slow to change. By the mid-1880s, herds that had once numbered in the millions on the Great Plains were almost completely wiped out. ![]() ![]() Most who know about the history of the American frontier are familiar with the demise of the buffalo. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Aiden Snow did a phenomenal job of encapsulating Mateo's inner wolf, Alpha, and his primal personality. I absolutely loved this book the first time I bought it and the audiobook just reminded me how much!Īiden Snow and Johanna Fairview have brought Juliette Cross's characters to life! I think I laughed even harder during this reread/listen of Mateo and Alpha antics and Evie's adorable comic book geek fan-girling. Evies sisters, their animals, and let's not forget Ruben(my other favorite scene stealer) round out this motley crew. All the background characters make you fall a little more in love with this book. Evie is super laid back comic loving girl. He goes to Evie (a witch) for help and haliarity ensues. He is a steel and metal artist (how hot is that.!?)that can't get any work done because his annoying wolf (so sexy) won't get out of his head. This is a very lighthearted paranormal which was just what I needed. ![]() I was literally at my desk laughing at this book. Juliette mixes humor with paranormal like no other author. There were 2 narrators and it was easy to differentiate the different voices for different characters. Let me start by saying I went into this audiobook hoping that the narrator did Alpha justice. ![]() ![]() When Ruth and Hal discover that Cally and their daughter are gone, a whole series of doubts and secrets is revealed, and the difference between right and wrong is no longer clear. The Surrogate is a thrilling, high-stakes debut centering on a vulnerable newborn and two women who will do almost anything to claim her as their daughter. The arrangement seems perfect for everyone.īut within a day of the baby's birth, Cally has a change of heart-and engineers a harrowing escape from the hospital with the newborn. The Surrogate: A Novel by Toni Halleen 3.6 (14) Paperback 17.99 Hardcover 23.49 Paperback 17.99 eBook 14.99 Audiobook 0.00 Large Print 29.99 Audio MP3 on CD 41. Their hope rests with Cally, a nineteen-year- old who wants to go to college-but doesn't have the cash. Ruth is a no-nonsense fortysomething journalist from the Midwest, desperate for a child with her new husband, Hal. ![]() I loved it!"-Patry Francis, bestselling author of All the Children Are Home I loved it-Patry Francis, bestselling author of All the Children Are HomeRuth is a no-nonsense fortysomething journalist from the Midwest, desperate for a. ![]() ![]() With a collection of vividly rendered characters, this twisty tale will leave you thinking about the true meaning of motherhood long after you turn the last page. "The Surrogate is a thrilling, high-stakes debut centering on a vulnerable newborn and two women who will do almost anything to claim her as their daughter. ![]() |