![]() ![]() Brilliantly documenting both the dark and the light, "Good Faeries/Bad Faeries" presents a world of enchantment and magic that deeply compels the imagination. Froud followed Faeries with several art books, including Good Faeries/Bad. The faery kingdom, we find, is as subject to good and evil as the human realm. Faeries is a book written and illustrated by English artists Brian Froud and Alan Lee. In addition to such good faeries as Dream Weavers and Faery Godmothers, Brian introduces us to a host of less well behaved creatures- traditional bad faeries like Morgana le Fay, but also the Soul Shrinker and the Gloominous Doom. In this richly imagined new book, Brian reveals the secrets he has learned from the faeries- what their noses and shoes look like, what mischief and what gentle assistance they can give, what their souls and their dreams are like.Īs it turns out, faeries aren't all sweetness and light. ![]() That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc." In the long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller "Faeries", artist Brian Froud rescues pixies, gnomes, and other faeries from the isolation of the nursery and the distance of history, bringing them into the present day with vitality and imagination. ![]() "Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Jerome was born at Belsize House, 1 Caldmore Road, in Caldmore, Walsall, England. He continued to write fiction, non-fiction and plays over the next few decades, though never with the same level of success. He married in 1888, and the honeymoon was spent on a boat on the Thames he published Three Men in a Boat soon afterwards. In his twenties, he was able to publish some work, and success followed. Jerome was born in Walsall, England, and, although he was able to attend grammar school, his family suffered from poverty at times, as did he as a young man trying to earn a living in various occupations. ![]() Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat and several other novels. Jerome Klapka Jerome ( – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). Photograph of Jerome published in the 1890s ![]() ![]() Holmes has compared the style of the book to a different language as the books are written by three separate authors. After creating one storyline Holmes brought in Kate Cary to finish writing the book as Holmes went behind the scenes to edit and supervise the details. The series began in 2003 when HarperCollins requested Holmes to write a book on feral cats. The novel is written from the perspective of Fireheart (previously known as Rusty for a short time, then, for most of the book, Firepaw). ![]() He is trained to defend and hunt for the clan, becomes embroiled in a murder and betrayal within the clan, and, at the end of the book, receives his warrior name, Fireheart, after a battle with another clan. The story is about a young domestic cat named Rusty who leaves his human owners to join a group of forest-dwelling feral cats called ThunderClan, adopting a new name: Firepaw. ![]() The book has been published in paperback and e-book formats in twenty different languages. It is the first novel in the Warriors series. ![]() ![]() The novel was published by HarperCollins in Canada and the United States in January 2003, and in the United Kingdom in February 2003. Into the Wild is a fantasy novel about the lives of fictional cats, written by a team of authors using the pseudonym Erin Hunter. ![]() ![]() The author drew international acclaim for the work, which ultimately sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. Having previously written shorter fiction and screenplays, García Márquez sequestered himself away in his Mexico City home for an extended period of time to complete his novel Cien años de soledad, or One Hundred Years of Solitude, published in 1967. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude. His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism, which uses magical elements and events in order to explain real experiences. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. ![]() In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. ![]() ![]() García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sandra Boynton does a masterful job of pulling us into this frenetic hippo world. so they really are trying to hold it together rather than "playing with great delight." This suggests a class difference amongst hippos that is being ignored as the author exclaims that "ALL the hippos go berserk!" (emphasis mine) in the plot's climax. when the hippos are going berserk, it would be inappropriate for them to join in the frenzy. How is an infant supposed to get a leg up in this crazy kind of world?Īdditionally, 9 hippos come to work the party as servers. This makes it difficult for me to distinguish whether there are two hippos or one. Additionally, with some of the bigger numbers (e.g., 7 or 8), hippos are often portrayed in pairs where one hippo occludes another. but that is not the case! The first hippo, I will refer to him as the host hippo, is almost always pictured along with the new hippos! So when there are 3 hippos at the door, the host hippo is there to greet them - thus there are actually 4 hippos portrayed! The host hippo is almost always pictured and throws off the hippo count on each page. You might imagine that the pictures should show 1 hippo then 2 then 3 then 4. and ultimately felt disappointed that not all the hippos go berserk. But I just found some inconsistencies between the text and pictures that were difficult to resolve. This review is so hard for me to write not just because I'm pre-literate but also because I really wanted to like the book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After cold-calling local Scandinavians, who were unbelievably warm and patient with me as I tried to pronounce "hygge" on the phone, I ended up convincing Ambassador Anne Dorte Riggelsen, the Consul General in New York for Denmark, to spend the day with me and teach me all about hygge. The first stop on my hygge hunt was to find a local Dane to teach me how the whole thing worked. The key to a hygge meal is cozy, comforting food that has taken care and effort to prepare, and sharing it with friends! Here, Ambassador Riggelsen and Meena share a particularly hyggelig lunch at New York's N'eat restaurant, a delicious Danish Gastropub. Since I love being toasty (as I write this, I'm sitting under a heavy quilt in a thick pair of winter socks, sipping a mug of hot chai), I set out to investigate just what exactly made something "hygge" and how to use this concept to find more happiness. So what does it mean? It's been translated almost everywhere as "cozy" and as it turns out, some of the key elements of hygge include warm blankets, woolly socks and sweaters, hot drinks and fireplaces. RELATED: The ultimate trick to tidying up: How this 1 tip changed my life ![]() ![]() But what happens when the love of her life is not who she thinks he is?Ī twist on a tale as old as time, the Beast of Bellevue explores the meaning of friendship, the value of beauty, the boundaries between the virtual world and real world, and the importance of developing one's self-identity. ![]() Eager to get out and meet her prince charming, she sets out in search of her own independence. Locked in Bellevue Sanatorium, 17-year-old Ava Pierce stumbles upon soccer star Alec Albright's photo and 'Hire-A-Friend' dating service. When 17-year-old Dylan Albright mischievously creates a dating website posing as his unsuspecting heartthrob brother, he doesn't realize what is at risk is his own heart. "He was the most beautiful boy that she had ever seen.and she had confused him with her prince." ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Both have things in their past that are painful, some crippling. At its core, Bareback is the story of two gay men who work for the same ranch. Can they keep it together when everything seems to be falling apart around them? Chris Owen gives Jake and Tor a triumphant return, bringing back a cast of characters that are as well-loved as they are in love with each other. Genre: LGBT-M/M Erotic Contemporary Romance. In the fury of the storm, the two men fall back on the one thing that can get them through. From the day to day difficulties of running the ranch to dealing with a teenager who¿s just lost his mother, Jake and Tor wonder if they¿ll be able to survive. When they bring Jake's nephew back to the ranch, things stretch to the breaking point. ![]() His grief is tempered by Tor's loving support, but they¿re forced to be apart while Jake deals with the family. When he learns his sister has died in an automobile accident, Jake is crushed. There's more than enough on their plate coping with their new responsibilities and their arguments over ranch management, and it's not long before even more trouble hits. Jake and Tor return in this long-awaited sequel to the bestselling Bareback! Having bought the ranch they've worked on for so long, they¿re now the proud owners of a spread of their own. ![]() ![]() ![]() The constant horror is such that I grew numb to it- but I will try to articulate it as clearly as possible. We get an inside look at the Red Guards and the indoctrination behind their actions- and ultimately see those that fall victim to it. ![]() What is incredible and unusual about this book is how we get to see both sides of the Cultural Revolution. While it does give a glimpse into the culture and circumstances before communism, I personally took a lot from how the narrative exposes the true horror of communism. I admired so many aspects of this book and learnt a great deal from it.įrom the start, Chang reveals the culture of fear and insane propaganda, that captured a nation. ![]() Honest, eye-opening and bold, it tells the stories of three generations of Chinese women, through tyranny and oppression. There are few memoirs as lauded as Jung Chang’s Wild Swans- and for good reason. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Catholic Church is the largest private landowner in the world. The Vatican's recent repudiation of the doctrine is a significant step in healing and reconciliation, but it will only be truly powerful if it changes our beliefs - and actions - about "property." ![]() ![]() That language is lifted from the Doctrine of Discovery, a set of 15th-century papal decrees that authorized European nations to conquer non-Christian lands and people. Regarded as the foundational case in American property law, it ruled that Indigenous people cannot hold title to land, citing that "discovery is the foundation of title in European nations, and this overlooks all proprietary rights in the natives." In her first property law class, Tela was introduced to the 1823 Supreme Court case Johnson v. Everytime we enter into a real estate transaction, there's theft and enslavement of Indigenous people implicit in that, and in the whole foundation of American property law," she said. "It's just so ingrained in our everyday life. When Tela Troge, a member of the Shinnecock nation, responded during a webinar April 5 to the Catholic Church's recent repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery, she recalled learning about the doctrine as a new law student in 2010. ![]() |