7/4/2023 0 Comments The rings of power jrr tolkienUnlike the Peter Jackson trilogies and other prior adaptations, the series isn't directly adapting a single book of Tolkien's, but instead builds on lore or backstory from sources like the Appendices of The Lord of the Rings. The series follows an ensemble cast of characters as they confront the re-emergence of evil in Middle-earth. Tolkien, it covers that world's Second Age, thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Loosely based off the Arda/Middle-earth mythology of J. Payne and produced by Amazon Studios in collaboration with the Tolkien Estate, the Tolkien Trust, HarperCollins and New Line Cinema. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is a High Fantasy series created in 2022 by Patrick McKay and John D. We either move forward or we die with it."
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7/4/2023 0 Comments Nancy milford booksHer struggle with being both the carefree darling who charmed luminaries the world over and a hard-working woman with strong writing and ideas of her own led to collapse upon breakdown, eventually leaving her broken. Yet beyond the buoyantly boozy parties with New York elite, trips to Paris, and the paradise-like Riviera when it was still stretches of unexplored sand, lay an unhappiness that began consuming Zelda. Beautiful, sharply smart, and funny, Zelda embodied Scott Fitzgerald’s fantasy of a teenage vamp, seeping into his fiction and becoming the golden-girl wife to offset his literary celebrity. In Zelda (out today in a new edition from Harper Perennial), author Nancy Milford explores the fine line between living life as performance at the height of the wild 1920s and Zelda Fitzgerald’s later decline into drunken depression and mental illness. When I was in my twenties, I didn’t write anything at all. I wasn’t very ambitious about it, though I had a few teachers along the way who noticed my work and encouraged me. Every so often, in middle school and high school, I’d attempt a novel and get a few chapters in before giving up. I started writing more original stuff when I was ten, mostly short stories and poetry. The story earned me a place on the bulletin board of my classroom and a coveted gold star sticker, which promptly fell off when I spilled juice on it after bringing it home. My first short story was a re-imagining of Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, where the Wicked Queen dies a horrible death at the hands of an angry and vengeful Snow White. Like most writers, I started writing at a very young age. How did you get published in the first place? 7/4/2023 0 Comments Real world kirinoAs Natsuo Kirino brings us into the minds of the girls in the book I could not help but wonder "hum is that what my girls are thinking during those long silences?". I have three daughters, 11, 13 and 15 and at times my wife and I are quite bewildered by them, just as they are often frustrated by what they see as our purely capricious dictates. I could not help but react to this book in a very personal way. The girls relationship to the adult world they live in but are not yet a part of is dealt with very skillfully. (This is not a spoiler as it is on the back cover of the book.) The action of the book centers around the girls involvement with the boy, who is called "Worm". The boy has just beaten his mother to death. The novelĬenters around four teen age girls and male teenager neighbor of one of the girls. This is my third Japanese novel for the Challenge and in fact my third Japanese novel. Swati deals with how the book displays for us the developmental issues of teenagers Real World by Natsuo Kirino(2003, trans 2008, 208 pages) already been reviewed twice forĮmily focuses very well on the character development in Real World When Buffalo Bill’s newest victim washes up in the Elk River, Crawford invites Clarice to fingerprint the corpse. Clarice returns to Lecter for more information, but Lecter wants to discuss Buffalo Bill. Tracking down the lead, Clarice finds the preserved head of “Klaus”-a lover of Lecter’s former patient and victim-in a storage unit. Lecter refuses to complete her questionnaire, but when another inmate assaults Clarice, Lecter gives her a clue to follow. At the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Clarice meets the arrogant administrator Dr. As his personnel are busy working on the investigation of Buffalo Bill, Crawford asks Starling to help complete the FBI’s profiling database by interviewing imprisoned serial killer Dr. The book opens with Agent Jack Crawford pulling Clarice Starling out of training for a special assignment. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Tamryn tamer audiobookHerald of Shalia is a fun fantasy LitRPG by Tamryn Tamer and contains attention starved elves, beast-girl courtesans, foul language, twosomes threesomes and foursomes, and completely over the top love making. Although, to be fair, Frost was going to rain misfortune on anybody who attempted to harm his lovable new followers. Listening Length: 12 hours and 11 minutes Author: Tamryn Tamer Narrator: Amber Lee Connors, Kieran Flitton Whispersync for Voice Ready Release. Shalia, her followers, and now Frost himself were viewed by the world as bringers of misfortune and everybody hated them. Forbidden Arcana is a fun fantasy soft LitRPG (or Gamelit) by Tamryn Tamer and contains elven strippers, foul language, twosomes threesomes and foursomes, and completely over the top love making. If that wasn’t enough of a blessing, he was in a game world, he was high level, he had hundreds of ability points to spend, and the elves were practically throwing themselves at him. Shalia was the elves’ goddess and that made him her herald. Fortunately, it was the right name to know. He also remembered hair as white as starlight, eyes like amethysts, and the name Shalia. Sebastian Frost’s most recent memory was waking up in a field naked, in a body that wasn’t his own, in a world that definitely wasn’t his own, and three stunning pointy-eared women staring right at him. A village full of gorgeous elves desperate to be loved? There had to be a catch. Herald of Shalia 2 Audiobook Tamryn Tamer, (Dual Narrators: Amber Lee Connors and Kieran Flitton Herald of Shalia is a fun fantasy Light LitRPG/Gamelit by Tamryn Tamer and contains attention starved elves, demonic princesses, foul language. 7/3/2023 0 Comments Silo trilogyThis is what initially drives Juliette to begin her dogged pursuit of the truth she endures an immense loss whose pain is compounded by the lie she is told about what happened. That is basically all that should be discussed when it comes to the plot - over the ten episodes of this first season, darkness waits around every corner. It falls to the engineer Juliette, played by a spectacularly stoic Rebecca Ferguson, to find the truth when no one else will. However, rather than follow them while they begin to piece it together and challenge the rules that govern their lives, the series pulls away to take us on the journey of another. When they discover information that they aren’t supposed to, they come to doubt all of what they have been told. Allison ( Rashida Jones) works in IT while Holston ( David Oyelowo) is the sheriff of the entire silo. All of this is first seen through the eyes of a couple trying to have a child. If anyone were to even say they wanted to go see the outside world for themselves, they are subsequently forced to do so and abandoned to perish alone. Skepticism about this reality is baked in from the start - any discussion of the past is not just frowned upon, but heavily criminalized. Adapted from the book series of the same name by Hugh Howey, it places us in a dystopian future deep underground where thousands of residents are told that the world above is uninhabitable and going there means death. For the characters of the Apple TV+ series Silo, life is defined by immense uncertainty. Wilson appears to have all of this in mind with “Alif the Unseen,” which aspires to operate on many levels, both visible and invisible, at the same time. Vikram’s right, of course, although it’s also the case that we use different stories for different reasons: to console or challenge us, to support our worldviews or uproot the status quo. Vikram’s response? “One could say that of all stories, younger brother.” They’re really secret knowledge disguised as stories,” the novel’s protagonist, a dissident hacker who calls himself Alif, says to an outsider named Vikram the Vampire, who may or may not be a djinn or genie. “So the stories aren’t just stories, is what you’re saying. It would be tempting to call this a reaction to the Arab Spring, except the book was completed in early 2011, just before the protests began in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.īut no matter, for this is Wilson’s point throughout the novel, that stories channel something deeper, that narrative is the DNA, or the computer code, by which we dream reality (or the future) into being. Willow Wilson’s first novel, “Alif the Unseen,” which takes place in an unnamed Middle Eastern emirate at a time very much like the present, as a repressive security state finds itself challenged by a flowering of freedom in its streets. What is the power of stories? That’s the question at the heart of G. 7/3/2023 0 Comments Every last secret book summarySchool, and particularly her friendship with the Crazy Eights, exacerbates her OCD tendencies. With the summer swim season ending, Samantha prepares to say goodbye to “Summer Sam,” which is the way she refers to the side of herself that is as relaxed and carefree as she is when not at school. In the pool, she can be her true self, in which she is not consumed with OCD thoughts. Swimming means more to Samantha than just a sports activity. The primary narrative begins as summer is ending: Samantha is a swimmer, and she's in the pool during one of the final swimming sessions of the summer. She obsesses over the idea that she will take the scissors and cut Olivia’s hair off in one fell swoop. While Samantha is cutting roses, a dark thought begins to consume her. The Crazy Eights, the nickname for Samantha’s friend group, are the popular girls at school-they are admired, hated, and feared by the general student body. It's Valentine’s Day and Samantha’s group of friends are on a school spirit committee responsible for preparing roses that will be distributed at their high school. The scene shows the extent of Samantha’s mental illness, and how profoundly it affects her life. The novel opens with a brief vignette, set six months before the bulk of the narrative. 7/3/2023 0 Comments The hourglass throneNow, the rulers of New Atlantis must confront an enemy both new and ancient as the flow of time itself is drawn into the conflict. But he and Brand soon discover that the power behind the barrier holds a much more insidious, far-reaching threat to his family, to his people, and to the world. His relationship with his lover, Addam Saint Nicholas, raises additional political complications they must navigate. Claiming his father’s throne has irrevocably thrown him into the precarious world of political deception, and he must secure relationships with newfound allies in time to keep his growing found family safe. Though Rune and his lifelong bodyguard, Brand, are tasked with investigating the mysterious barrier, Rune is also busy settling into his new life at court. But who could have created such formidable magic.what do they want from the immortality clinic.and what remains of the dozens trapped inside? As Rune Saint John grapples with the challenges of assuming the Sun Throne, a powerful barrier appears around New Atlantis’ famed rejuvenation center. |