![]() ![]() Readers of any age will enjoy this series, but tweens and teens will get the biggest kick out it." It can be funny, serious, and poignant, but it is always entertaining. It takes its time in introducing the world before jumping headlong into it. "Courtney Crumrin is a fun series, cover to cover. Mom and Dad don't notice them, but Uncle Aloysius calls them the Night Things. They climb up on the bed and watch Courtney while she sleeps. They crawl about the house, just out of sight. Courtney is now an outcast among her rich, snobby classmates.Īnd if that weren't bad enough, the musty, decrepit old mansion that she now calls home is occupied by stranger creatures than just her parents or Uncle Aloysius. Having run out of credit cards, her parents are moving to the wealthy suburb of Hillsborough, to live rent-free with their creepy old uncle Aloysius. ![]() " Courtney Crumrin is a fun series, cover to cover." - School Library JournalĬourtney Crumrin grumbles about everything, but now she's really got something to grumble over. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Soo this is my upcoming rant about s1 and if y'all don't mind, imma just rant about anthony + siena a little bit here because their scenes were PAINFUL af and i just gotta let it out of my chest ya know? kate is just so- *chef's kiss* and the enemies to lovers trope- *chef's kiss x2* but first, imma have to talk about the book and then i'll quickly rant my feelings out about anthonysiena cuz y'all are my therapists and ranting is therapy so > just reading this after suffering through the anthony + siena scenes in the show.Īfter watching episode 1 i ran so fast to goodreads and started stalking everyone's books and me always being curious af and wanting to know if siena's gonna be a problem and me being weirdly attracted to anthony's sideburns, i read this aaand i loved it. what are y'all doing with this love triangle and edwina bs pls i can't handle this (overall thoughts about season 2 will be at the end of this review but i wanna talk about the book first)ĭon't mind me. ![]() Update after watching s2: kanthony gave me the biggest blue balls and gave me the worst (or best?) edging i've ever experienced in my entire lifeīut netflix. ![]() ![]() ![]() Its sports are of little interest to us and the last television series it made that we watched with avidity was Skippy. ![]() Its population, just over 18 million, is small by world standards-China grows by a larger amount each year-and its place in the world economy is consequently peripheral as an economic entity, it ranks about level with Illinois. Australia is after all mostly empty and a long way away. The fact is, of course, we pay shamefully scant attention to our dear cousins Down Under-not entirely without reason, of course. This seemed doubly astounding to me-first that Australia could just lose a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of this had never reached me. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again. On my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century, wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister, Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into the surf and vanished. ![]() My thinking is that there ought to be one person outside Australia who knows.īut then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. I am forever doing this with the Australian prime minister-committing the name to memory, forgetting it (generally more or less instantly), then feeling terribly guilty. ![]() Flying into Australia, I realized with a sigh that I had forgotten again who their prime minister is. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then one day I had the thought of magic also being a physical thing, something people could hold and touch and see. I liked that idea – magic being a skill someone could master, a thing that they could learn. ![]() And the idea that, with enough practice, anybody could learn a little magic. I found it so fascinating how they could be fast enough that you might not even see them doing something right in front of you. I’ve always loved magic and watching magicians on TV, seeing their elaborate performances and the way they could captivate an audience. Into the Crooked Place was one of those books that came to me slowly over the years. And you KNOW how we feel about a slow burn.īut seriously, if you haven't started reading our March Book Club pick, what are you doing?! If you still need convincing, check out this awesome behind-the-scenes look at the book with author Alexandra Christo. ![]() There's dark magic, morally gray characters, and not one but TWO will-they-won't-they romances. For the past month, the Fierce Reads team has been utterly absorbed in Alexandra Christo's gritty fantasy Into the Crooked Place. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although I didn’t write it intentionally as a thriller, I think there’s a certain darkness and tension that occurs quite naturally in my writing when I’m dealing with family, motherhood and the domestic, and it’s certainly emotional. The whole novel is one big reversal in a way, and the question being asked is, what if the person you most trusted turned out to be the most dangerous of all? It’s been described as an ‘emotional thriller’. It’s a story of an obsession that arrives obliquely, entirely unexpectedly, and it’s about what happens when that obsession goes wrong. So, The Seduction is quite an intense story about motherhood and about being a daughter. ![]() She took the time to answer some questions for us. ![]() Joanna Briscoe is the author of several novels, including Sleep With Me and The Seduction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But the slums boil over with a rage that all the money in the world cannot control. The age of the machine dawns, but the age of magic refuses to die. But King Jezal's son, the feckless Prince Orso, is a man who specializes in disappointments. Savine dan Glokta - socialite, investor, and daughter of the most feared man in the Union - plans to claw her way to the top of the slag-heap of society by any means necessary. But old scores run deep as ever. On the blood-soaked borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock struggles to win fame on the battlefield, and defeat the marauding armies of Stour Nightfall. The New York Times bestselling first book in Joe Abercrombie's The Age of Madness Trilogy where the age of the machine dawns, but the age of magic refuses to die. The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new opportunities. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But since it’s light-years away from Earth, on a star surrounded by souvenir booths, finding out what it is will mean hitching a ride to the far reaches of space aboard a UFO with a giant robot. Fortunately, He left behind a Final Message of explanation. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth’s dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on. Adams’s writing teeters on the fringe of inspired lunacy.”-United Press Internationalīack on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. ![]() Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series! ![]() ![]() ![]() But how can she find something that’s been missing for centuries and might be protected by a mysterious singing ghost, known as the “Conductor?” If Emma fails, she’ll let down generations of her extraordinary ancestors…including her mother. ![]() But when Emma’s dream finally arrives, it points her toward an impossible task - finding a legendary treasure that’s supposedly hidden near her town’s historic cemetery. Right before her mother died, Emma promised that she’d do whatever it took fulfill her destiny, and she doesn’t want let her mother down. Her ancestors include Revolutionary War spies, brilliant scientists, and famous country music singers - every single one of which learned of their extraordinary destiny through a dream.įor Emma, her own destiny dream can’t come soon enough. ![]() It is a known fact for me, at least.”īook Jacket Synopsis: Everyone in Emma’s family is special. Opening: “It is a known fact that the most extraordinary moments in a person’s life come disguised as ordinary. Themes: Ancestors, Family Relationships, Friendships, Magic, Community, Cleft Palate ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When he wakes and has no memory of his identity or past, she takes the only precaution that will keep her and her grandmother safe she destroys the evidence of his past life. When Violet stumbles upon an unconscious and injured Kingsman in the woods, despite the consequences, she is compelled to take care of the injured man. The despair and fear that has taken over their lives has ruled out any level of hope. Taxes are bleeding the people dry and without the money or goods to pay, they have been forced into penal servitude and imprisonment by the Kingsmen, who show no mercy. ![]() ![]() Unlike the kindly king before him, the new ruler is overbearing, frightening and tyrannical in his rule. With the new regent on the throne till the prince comes of age, the country has been thrown into a turmoil. She follows the rules, stays out of trouble and does her best to remain out of sight from the dreaded and overbearing Kingsmen. Violet lives her quiet life in her sleepy village, trying to remain as dead to the politics that are threatening their world as possible. Isn’t it gorgeous? The golden light, the font, the cloak, the everything. XD)įirst, we need to talk about the cover. (For other more voracious readers I know this is nothing, but check my Good Reads to see how often it is I actually finish a book. Welcome to my review of one of my new favorite books!!!!! I don’t habitually binge-read anymore, but I tore through this one in about a week. ![]() ![]() The only way to succeed at anything is to manage true risk, which includes the chance of loss. While most commentators say that the last financial crisis proved it's time to follow risk-minimizing techniques, they're wrong. Red-Blooded Risk examines this approach and offers valuable advice for the calculated risk-takers who need precise quantitative guidance that will help separate them from the rest of the pack. The same practical techniques are still used today by risk-takers in finance as well as many other fields. This is the secret that lets tiny quantitative edges create hedge fund billionaires, and defines the powerful modern global derivatives economy. ![]() ![]() An innovative guide that identifies what distinguishes the best financial risk takers from the rest From 1987 to 1992, a small group of Wall Street quants invented an entirely new way of managing risk to maximize success: risk management for risk-takers. ![]() |