![]() ![]() The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are destined to remain pieces of folklore for as long as children want to read Robert Louis Stevenson’s most famous book. Treasure Island has enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for decades. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.Ĭlimb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. ![]() ![]() Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In 1870 she attended the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary but left a year later. As a teenager, she began writing stories and verse for children to help support her family and was quickly successful. Her father worked as a carpenter and house builder before the post-American Civil War depression affected his ability to provide for his family. When she was a young girl, her family moved to Brattleboro, Vermont and she attended the West Brattleboro Seminary in West Brattleboro, Vermont. Born Mary Eleanor Wilkins, the 2nd child to orthodox Congregationalists, she had a very strict childhood. ![]() Her books dealt mostly with life in New England and are among the best of their kind. She is best remembered for her two collections of stories, "A Humble Romance and Other Stories" (1887) and "A New England Nun and Other Stories" (1891). ![]() ![]() That’s not your usual meet-cute.īut Raven’s got this one side that she’s really invested in, and then this other side that’s really a fresh and new option that she’s intentionally denying herself, because she’s got this shot on something she’s been wanting a really long time. I mean, Raven started off her relationship with Sunshine by being mugged by her and getting into a fistfight in the middle of the street. It ends up being a pretty interesting triangle that she didn’t expect. ![]() Especially since she’s often at odds with Ximena about the pirate side of things. ![]() She’s a rogue and a pirate at heart, unlike Ximena, which appeals to Raven a great deal. She sort of lost her for awhile, but now has gotten her back and is determined that this is where she wants to go: Ximena is who she’s interested in being with.īut at the same time, she’s had this thing with Sunshine pop up that she didn’t expect. She’s had somewhere between a crush and infatuation with her since they were both young. MS: Getting back to this love triangle that you’ve been building, what are Raven’s feelings about that scenario? ![]() ![]() ![]() The books were wickedly clever, full of family secrets, false identities, forbidden liaisons, monstrous cruelties and plenty of bizarre–and often surprisingly gruesome–murders. ![]() Which is to say that Kosuke is a nice guy a humble man, a bit of a loner, perhaps, and not always the best dressed, but an ace detective, a fitting sleuth who dives deep into his cases. Auguste Dupin and Sherlock Holmes, albeit without the raging ego or irritatingly smug sense of superiority. Yokomizo was a master of the impossible crime mystery, often refereed to as the “Japanese John Dickson Carr” for his inventive puzzle plots, and his detective, while no wimp, was definitely more along the lines of such masters of deduction as C. It won the inaugural Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 1948, and was filmed as Death at an Old Mansion in 1976, and remains, at this writing, one of only a few of Yokomizo’s mysteries to be translated into English. It’s a brainstomper of a locked room murder, taking place in a huge family mansion surrounded by thick snow, which many people regard as one of the best Japanese detective novels of all time. ![]() Arguably the most beloved Japanese detective of all time, Seishi Yokomizo’s K ŌSUKE KINDAICHI first appeared in The Honjin Murders, which was serialized in the magazine Housekifrom April to December 1946. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fool Moon (nice pun, BTW) is about Harry's search to discover the source of a recent spate of killings, presumably by a werewolf. Although there is still some hackneyed detective-genre prose to make me cringe at times, I am won over by Jim Butcher's talent for painting these characters, creating an intriguing paranormal universe, and some twisty-turny storylines that keep you guessing. I found the writing style of this second Dresden book to be decidedly improved from the first (Storm Front). Harry Dresden, a wizard/detective in Chicago, is a very quirky, compelling main character who gets himself in one unbelievable predicament after another. I was looking for another engaging series to try after reading all of Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse books and found Jim Butcher's books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This mostly comes from the way Max behaves, especially in crime settings. While Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips riff on crime fiction tropes in their usual manner and add a dollop of the “one last job” story, I would consider Pulp to be a straight Western even though it’s predominantly set in New York. Brubaker and Phillips with amazing spot reds from colorist Jacob Phillips blur fact and fiction and show and steadily build up that Winters’ character, the Red River Kid, is a barely fictionalized version of his younger self. Set in New York in 1939 with occasional flashbacks to the turn of the 20th century, Pulp chronicles the last days of Max Winters, an Old West gun fighter and outlaw turned writer of pulp Westerns for the fictional magazine Six Gun Western. ![]() And their new Image Comics graphic novella, Pulp, is no exception. Thanks to their work on titles like Criminal, The Fade Out, Kill or Be Killed, and many others, writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Philips’ collaborations have been some of my favorite comics to seek out on the stands. But you can take what you can get ’cause there ain’t no glory in the west.” -from “No Glory in the West” by Orville Peck People’s History of the Marvel Universe. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'd been waffling about trying out this series for a while, but when I saw it in the bookstore, it grabbed hold of my magpie, shine-loving heart, and I bought it. ![]() ![]() My paperback version is the extra special version, so it's got shiny bits around the orb and along the edge. That bright green color, her hair, the glass orb, the lettering all of it is stunning. In which I first judge a book by its cover: But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to follow. The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate. If you loved this book, I totally get why, but most of it just didn't do it for me.Ĭassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. Rating: After a reeeeeeally slow start, blah characters, and derivative world-building, I finally started to get what all the fuss is about. ![]() ![]() “The contrast of what is right and what is wrong within Black’s own conscience added even more to this mystery. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Award, a 2016 winner of the CIPA EVVY Award for. When the loose ends are eventually tied and revelations ensue, Koch still manages to add a surprise or two.” -Jake Bishop, Hollywood Book Review (And Come Day’s End: A Michael McKaybees Mystery) Little by little he then provides just enough information to keep them guessing as to who’s pulling the strings and why. From the beginning, he pulls readers in with intense scenes of suspense. First and foremost he’s constructed an intriguingly complex plot. ![]() “Koch is an author who has his priorities in order. ![]() Marlowe simply cannot accept the official verdict, and as anguish and rage replace the love he once felt, he is driven by a madness that forces him to question his own integrity while he hunts an elusive killer. Then comes the brutal announcement that his pregnant fiancée has committed suicide. ![]() ![]() But he begins to believe otherwise when a woman falls for him-and he her. Marlowe Black-a tough, cynical, WWII decorated combat veteran, ex-New York City cop, and licensed PI-believes he’ll never live a life like other men, as his work, and his personality, compel him to walk a path at the edge of society. ![]() ![]() Unbeknownst to her, she is able to talk life into objects. As the eldest, Sophie is resigned to a dull future running the family hat shop. Plot summary ġ8-year-old Sophie Hatter is the eldest of three sisters living in Market Chipping, a town in the magical kingdom of Ingary, where fairytale tropes are accepted ways of life, including that the eldest of three will never be successful. He had "asked me to write a book titled The Moving Castle". įor the idea Jones "very much" thanked "a boy in a school I was visiting", whose name she had noted but lost and forgot. WorldCat reports that Howl's Moving Castle is the author's work most widely held in participating libraries, followed by its first sequel Castle in the Air. This series also includes Castle in the Air, published in 1990, and House of Many Ways, published in 2008. Howl's Moving Castle is the first novel in the series of books called the Howl Series. It was adapted into a critically acclaimed 2004 animated film of the same name, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. ![]() ![]() It was a runner-up for the annual Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and won the Phoenix Award twenty years later. Howl's Moving Castle is a fantasy novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones, first published in 1986 by Greenwillow Books of New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() ostensibly steps away from the Snyderverse. Not only will Black Adam end that drought, but it will also be one of the first opportunities to peek into a supposed new era of the DCEU as Warner Bros. (It’s all a little confusing, but The Batman exists in a universe of its own.) Compared to Marvel Studios’ frenetic release schedule, 14 months between DCEU releases seems like a long time. He rejoins a world where the modern-day gods known as superheroes are commonplace, as the film is set to introduce the Justice Society of America to the big screen, while also forging ties to Task Force X’s Amanda Waller and the rest of the DCEU.ĭirected by Jaume Collet-Serra, Black Adam marks the DCEU’s first major theatrical release since James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad premiered simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max in August 2021. Born with the same magic as Shazam (more on that later), he’s a living god, awakened for the first time in 5,000 years. More antihero than hero, Black Adam shows no reservations about killing his enemies, a line that some caped crusaders refuse to cross. ![]() |