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![]() ![]() I loved Out of the Silent Planet and rated it five stars so I was really looking forward to this second book in the trilogy. Hopefully it's not just Lewis running around screaming were all gonna die during WW2.Īlmost forgot bad science! this has a lot of it! The last in the series seems to be about the apocalypse. If you can stick through the constant lectures of the nature of good, evil, and freewill. After the extensive theological debate the action does pick up with a deadly showdown between Ransom and Weston so there's suspense. ![]() The Worldbuilding is undermined because Lewis' version of Venus is basically a watery Eden. So it's like a retailing of a retailing with side notes. but the story is very similar and Lewis' constantly eludes to that often. I stuck with it because i am apparently a masochist and determined to finish the series like i was the Narnia series knowing some entries and parts will be overly Christian and repetitive to themes I'm very familiar with. that's the interesting hook.īut soon you will realize that it's just a retailing of the garden of Eden and want to spit the hook. Ransom (fake name) to Venus to battle evil on behalf of all that is good. ![]() After breaking the fourth wall in out of the silent planet. Perelandra the second in C.S Lewis' space trilogy is mostly Christian theology in sci-fi guise. ![]() ![]() Tender, endearing, intriguing, heart wrenching and passionate, Confess is a soulful read. ![]() But in this case, the confession could be much more destructive than the actual sin… Review:Ī book that will break your heart and put it back together again, Confess is a modern romance title from social media sensation Colleen Hoover. All he would have to do to save their relationship is confess. ![]() The last thing Owen wants is to lose Auburn, but he can’t seem to convince her that truth is sometimes as subjective as art. The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything important to Auburn, and the only way to get her life back on track is to cut Owen out of it. But when she walks into a Dallas art studio in search of a job, she doesn’t expect to find a deep attraction to the enigmatic artist who works there, Owen Gentry.įor once, Auburn takes a risk and puts her heart in control, only to discover that Owen is keeping some major secrets from coming out. ![]() Her goals are in sight and there’s no room for mistakes. From the bestselling author of It Ends With Us, a novel about risking everything for love – and finding your heart somewhere between the truth and lies.Īuburn Reed has her entire life mapped out. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, that was the last time Evie heard from Leo.įast forward to 8 years later. The night before he had to leave, Leo kissed Evie for the first time and told her that he would write to her everyday and when Evie turned 18, they would make a life together. When Evie was 14 and Leo was 15, Leo got adopted and had to move to San Diego. ![]() Eventually they realized that they were in love. They are very protective of each other and would do anything for each other. They became friends and became each other’s rock amidst the flurry of foster parents, siblings, and influences. Leo and Evie met when they were in the same foster house when they were 11 and 10, respectively. Not at all the hardened and rebellious kind that usually arise from that kind of background. Despite her traumatic and troubled childhood, Evie grew up to be loving, caring, and sweet. But overall the story was great because the way Evie was described was so so beautiful. The big reveal at the end was sort of, somehow, kind of predictable (or at least I kinda suspected it). ![]() Unfortunately, it didn’t meet my expectations (I’m partially blaming myself for setting such a high bar). I am a big fan of Archer’s Voice and Grayson’s Chance so I had really high hopes for this book. ![]() ![]() Virginia is for lovers-and Storyton Hall is its best vacation spot for lovers of books. Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. 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Keep an eye on your inbox. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This last makes things feel a bit more constrained: when you’re on a Triangle Trade slave ship or getting caught up in the Mutiny on the Bounty, it’s fairly clear (at least, from an adult’s perspective) that you won’t be able to appreciably change history and that therefore your story is rather tightly determined. ![]() Although you’d be hard-pressed to call it educational, the historical content has a bit more actual research behind it - at least, enough that it doesn’t feel totally ad-libbed. Return to the Cave of Time, Choose Your Own Adventure #50, Edward Packard, 1985Ī book aimed at a slightly older audience than the original Cave of Time: the prose is rather more verbose, and the illustrations depict the protagonist as a gangly early-teen. Still, the company seems to have developed and abided by a structural house style, as it did with tone, content and motifs like the Cave. Part of this might have been the natural shape of divergence: Sugarcane Island and The Cave of Time are such strong examples of their type of CYOA that there wasn’t much room for variation in that direction. Montgomery (who I should look at separately at some point) in particular seems to have preferred more linear, constrained plots with lots of no-choice jumps. ![]() The Cave of Time was among the most beloved of the Choose Your Own Adventure books, but it wasn’t enormously typical of the series. ![]() ![]() ![]() "It's hard to imagine a novel more perfectly suited, in both form and content, to this literary moment" ( The New Yorker). ![]() "Think of Cormac McCarthy seesawing with Joan Didion. "Possibly the most captivating and thought-provoking post-apocalyptic novel you will ever read" ( The Independent London). A woman moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians until they encounter a violent prophet who threatens the tiny band's existence. "Equal parts page-turner and poem" ( Entertainment Weekly), the novel is set 20 years after a devastating flu pandemic destroys civilization as we know it. Clarke Award, was a finalist for the National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award, was an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and was named one of the best books of the year by more than a dozen publications. John Mandel's fourth novel, won the Arthur C. ![]() This title is no longer available for programming after the 2021-2022 grant year. ![]() ![]() ![]() The scene of the young Bechdel (Brooke Haynes) playing the “airplane game” with Bruce (Zubin Varla) and unwillingness of wearing a dress to the party suggest her tomboy personality. This musical is in the form of story-telling as the adult Bechdel (Kaisa Hammarlund) stays on the stage all the time narrating the memory of her family. The three Alisons do great jobs to present three stages of Alison. ![]() There is also a hidden third stage, where adult Bechdel starts memorizing her family tragedy and narrates it. ![]() The story is organized around the exploration of Bruce’s death and his secret homosexuality. After a few months of her revelation and two weeks of her parents’ divorce, Bechdel is told that Bruce is hit by a truck and died. When she goes to college, she finds out her homosexuality and meets her first girlfriend Joan. In the childhood, she lives in a small town in Pennsylvania with two younger brothers, her mother Helen who is an English teacher and her father Bruce who is a high school English teacher, a funeral director and a crazy artificer. In Fun Home, Bechdel describes two stages of her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stead piles up clues on the way to a moment of intense drama, after which it is pretty much impossible to stop reading until the last page. ![]() Most of all the novel is a thrilling puzzle. A hybrid of genres, it is a complex mystery, a work of historical fiction, a school story and one of friendship, with a leitmotif of time travel running through it. But don’t be deceived: In this taut novel, every word, every sentence, has meaning and substance. In this era of supersize children’s books, Rebecca Stead’s “When You Reach Me” looks positively svelte. 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