Honestly, if you are willing to look past all the plot holes, you might still find this series enjoyable. This series could have been the next big thing, but it ended up being a huge letdown (for me). This was such a disappointment because there was so much potential. Spoiler Free Thoughts: This series starts out with a boom but it all goes down hill from there. This is exactly how I feel about this series. Together, they journey toward the angels’ stronghold in San Francisco where she’ll risk everything to rescue her sister and he’ll put himself at the mercy of his greatest enemies for the chance to be made whole again. Traveling through a dark and twisted Northern California, they have only each other to rely on for survival. After eons of fighting his own battles, he finds himself being rescued from a desperate situation by a half-starved teenage girl. Raffe is a warrior who lies broken and wingless on the street. When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back.Īnything, including making a deal with an enemy angel. Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. It’s been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world.
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The anthology ends on a high! By Quarry Lake is an adorable story of two old friends who finally come to terms with their attraction for each other. "By Quarry Lake" by Josephine Myles - Grade: B I enjoyed this hot little piece with all its memorable characters, adorable dogs, and particularly some of the wrong assumptions that take place along the way. Lou Harper came up with a rather quirky story about a nerdy college kid and his temporary, but unusual neighbors while he house sits at Venice Beach. "Werewolves of Venice Beach" by Lou Harper - Grade: C+ In this case, neither the page count nor the subject matter work for me. The rather serious subject matter of domestic abuse may be better suited to a longer story. Unfortunately, this story took a rather dark turn that just did not fit with this light, summery anthology. Salt 'n Vinegar began with a great premise. "Salt 'n Vinegar" by Clare London - Grade: D+ I ended this one with a smile on my face. JL Merrow brings a fantastic twist to this summer yarn by incorporating a sexy Viking and a single father as the main characters. "Lost and Found" by JL Merrow - Grade: B+Īn absolutely wonderful story with a unique setting and great atmosphere. This is a meaty, hot, short story with a great HEA and a highly likable couple. "Summer Hire" by Chrissy Munder - Grade: B+Ĭhrissy Munder's Summer Hire is sweet, summery, and I really enjoyed how she uses sexual tension and subtle flirting to build up the anticipation. To solve the mystery at Live Oaks, Ruby and Olivia will have to put their old grudges aside and figure out how to be a team. They’d like to think the other campers are pranking them, but they soon realize that this empty mansion might not be uninhabited after all. It isn’t long until little tricks-like mysterious music playing, doors slamming, and shadows rising-start to spook the girls. There’s everything from mink stoles to golf clubs to antique that doll watching them? Sorting through objects in an old house sounds boring, and working together is the last thing the girls want to do, but the stuff is actually kind of cool. To kick off the spirit of service, the campers are tasked with cataloging the contents of Live Oaks, a historic mansion in their town. And now Olivia is stuck with Ruby all summer-at a community service day camp for troublemakers. But Olivia’s good-girl image is tarnished when she takes the fall for her twin sister’s misdeed. Ruby is bold and opinionated, while Olivia has always been respectful and well behaved. In Twain's case, that world became a kind of graduate school, adding a little polish to his rough education in the college of hard knocks. Their colorful history is familiar to many, but Tarnoff breathes fresh life into his narrative with vivid details from the archives at UC's Bancroft Library, giving us a rich portrait of a lost world overflowing with new wealth and new talent. They wrote poems and stories, and relished the freedom of their isolation on the Pacific Coast while the battles raged back East. And the city where he received some of his earliest on-the-job training was San Francisco.Īs Ben Tarnoff argues in "The Bohemians," his stylish and fast-paced literary history, the city's "greatest gift to Twain was its Bohemia." Led by witty Bret Harte, this little circle of unconventional writers and intellectuals turned San Francisco into a cultural haven during the Civil War. "I never write 'metropolis' for seven cents," Mark Twain said, "because I can get the same money for 'city.' " Ever the businessman, Twain never forgot that writing was a trade as well as an art. By Ben Tarnoff (The Penguin Press 319 pages $27.95) Thus, this study hopes to fill in the gap on the translation of Malay similes and provide new insights in this kind of research. Thus, it can be said that the translator is quite successful in the translation of this novel. Research findings indicate that most of the Malay similes in this novel can be translated into English and most of the meanings of the source language (SL) text similes can be conveyed in the target language (TL) text. Finally, the researcher examines how far the meanings of the similes found in Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan are effectively conveyed in No Harvest but a Thorn. Third, analysing the translation strategies based on Pierini’s (2007) strategies in translating similes. Second, categorising the similes based on Pierini’s (2007) typology. The methodology of this study includes first, identifying similes in the translation of Shahnon Ahmad’s Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan into No Harvest but a Thorn based on the Malay definition of simile. The objectives of this study are to identify the strategies used in the translation of similes from Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan into No Harvest but a Thorn and to investigate to what extent similes found in Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan can be translated as similes in No Harvest but a Thorn. This is a comparative study of the similes between Shahnon Ahmad’s novel entitled, Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan and its translation into English by Adibah Amin entitled, No Harvest but a Thorn. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.)īut Seafire delivers a crew that makes you so emotional from their first entrance. (Disclaimer: I received this free book from the publisher. Is this boy the key to taking down Aric Athair once and for all…or will he threaten everything the women of the Mors Navis have worked for? Review The crew has one misson: stay alive, and take down Aric’s armed and armored fleet.īut when Caledonia’s best friend and second-in-command just barely survives an attack thanks to help from a Bullet looking to defect, Caledonia finds herself questioning whether or not to let him join their crew. She captains her ship, the Mors Navis, with a crew of girls and women just like her, whose lives have been turned upside down by Aric and his men. SummaryĪfter her family is killed by corrupt warlord Aric Athair and his bloodthirsty army of Bullets, Caledonia Styx is left to chart her own course on the dangerous and deadly seas. I mean, a crew of female pirates fighting against corrupt war lords? Where can I sign up? (Except not really because I’m not very fast and I couldn’t handle the anxiety). Seafire was bound to make it to the top of my list long before I even opened it. Through high school and college, he worked hard, determined to achieve some kind of success and escape disappointment. Bob was determined not to end up like his father-Bob didn’t want to see his own life as failure-and he worked hard and strove to achieve. His father struggled with bipolar disorder and constantly viewed himself as a failure. He never thought of their family as poor, but only as an adult did he realize how threadbare their finances were. He lived with his sister, younger by 3 years, his mother (a stay-at-home mom), and his father, a Navy veteran who flitted between advertising jobs. Bob Iger’s Career Bob Iger’s Childhoodīob Iger grew up working-class on Long Island, NY. We’ll give an overview of his career, then focus on his major leadership principles. This book is a retelling of his professional career, with his leadership principles woven in. He still looks back at his career in mild disbelief as an incredible, lucky ride of a lifetime. He led Disney through momentous changes in technology, global expansion, and its noted acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm. He started as a bottom-level crew member on television sets and eventually became CEO of Disney for 15 years. 1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of The Ride of a Lifetimeīob Iger has had a long career-22 years at ABC, then 23 at Disney (after Disney acquired ABC). As if it couldn’t get worse, she’s been advised to move back in with Doris (Shirley MacLaine), her also-famous actress mother, a woman whose shadow Suzanne had spent years trying to get out from under. We meet Suzanne Vale (Meryl Streep), a vivacious actress who wakes up in rehab after one too many drug benders. It is quintessentially the most Carrie Fisher a film could ever be, without her ever making an appearance. Her infamous novel, Postcards from the Edge, was adapted in 1990 and is loosely based on her bouts with addiction and growing up with celebrity parents. She penned novels and memoirs that were wildly popular, and punched up numerous film scripts into something far greater than they were. Now outside of her galactic adventures as everyone’s favourite space princess general, Fisher was a wickedly good writer. But its pleasures are beautifully deepened by Kate Racculia's skill with her characters, her melancholy, affecting writing about music, and her fearlessness about the loss and darkness that underline the truest humor. For everyone has come to the Bellweather with a secret, and everyone is haunted.īellweather Rhapsody is a genre-bending page-turner, full of knowing nods to pop culture classics from The Shining to Agatha Christie to Glee. The search for her entwines an eccentric cast of characters: conductors and caretakers, failures and stars, teenagers on the verge and adults trapped in memories. Then Alice's roommate goes missing -from room 712. Now hundreds of high school musicians, including quiet bassoonist Rabbit Hatmaker and his brassy diva twin, Alice, have gathered in its cavernous, crumbling halls for the annual Statewide festival Minnie has returned to face her demons and a colossal snowstorm is threatening to trap them all in the hotel. Penumbra’s 24-Hour BookstoreĪ high school music festival goes awry when a young prodigy disappears from the most infamous room in the Bellweather Hotel, in a whip-smart novel sparkling with dark and giddy humorįifteen years ago, a murder-suicide in room 712 rocked the grand old Bellweather Hotel and the young bridesmaid who witnessed it, Minnie Graves. "For its darkness and its glee, I loved this novel." -Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Let’s face it-when Rainbow Brite and the other denizens of Rainbow Land were popular characters on TV and mountains of merchandise back in the 1980s, their appearance on records might only cause rejoicing if one was a fan. Songs: “Make Room for a Rainbow Inside,” “The Pits,” “Starlite-Rainbow Brite” by Patrick, Bourland, Gift and Hughes “In the Twink of An Eye,” “A Color Symphony,” “The First Part of Friendship is Friends,” “Bink! Bonk!” “Paint a Rainbow in Your Heart” by Patty Silversher, Michael Silversher “Rainbow Land” by Joey Carbone, Lois Blaisch. Michael Silversher (Twink) Corey Burton (Murky Dismal) Pat Fraley (Lurky) Will Ryan (Starlite) Stacey O’Brien (Patty O’Green) Lois Blaisch (Soloist on “Rainbow Land”), The Color Kids. Performers: Bettina Bush (Rainbow Brite). Children’s Choral Direction: Betty Joyce. RAINBOW BRITE: PAINT A RAINBOW IN YOUR HEARTīuena Vista Records #62523 (Standard Vinyl) #63156 (Picture Disc) (12” 33 1/3 RPM / Stereo) A perfect storm of talent at Disney’s Buena Vista label turned Hallmark’s contribution to adorable ’80s character franchises into some of the most outstanding records of the era. |