![]() ![]() ![]() *ARC provided by publisher in exchange for an honest review* As the two of them grow closer, they must learn just what it is they are each willing to sacrifice: her life, her music, or the end of the world. Yet even as her talent blossoms, Liesl’s life is slowly fading away, the price she paid for becoming the Goblin King’s bride. He accepts.ĭown in the Underground, Liesl discovers that the Goblin King still inspires her-musically, physically, emotionally. ![]() ![]() In exchange for her sister’s freedom, Liesl offers her hand in marriage to the Goblin King. Without sacrifice, nothing good can grow. The life of a maiden must be given to the land, in accordance with the old laws. The Goblin King agrees to let Käthe go-for a price. Yet, as Liesl helps shoulder the burden of running her family’s inn, her dreams of composition and childish fancies about the Goblin King must be set aside in favor of more practical concerns.īut when her sister Käthe is taken by the goblins, Liesl journeys to their realm to rescue her sister and return her to the world above. He is the Lord of Mischief, the Ruler Underground, and the muse around which her music is composed. Beware the goblin men and the wares they sell.Īll her life, nineteen-year-old Liesl has heard tales of the beautiful, mysterious Goblin King. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Some of Trelawney's wounds seem to be made by a cat Margaret owns a cat, but swears it was safely tucked away. His house, and especially his vast bedroom, is a veritable museum, with Egyptian artifacts, from mummies to sarcophagi, making for a strange, sinister setting.ĭragged from his sickbed, his wrist mutilated in an attempt to remove a safe key he keeps on a bracelet, Trelawney is put back to bed and a round-the-clock vigil is kept on him. Margaret's father, an Egyptologist, is comatose, and an attempt has been made on his life, or so it seems. The story opens with London barrister Malcolm Ross receiving a late-night summons to the home of Margaret Trelawney. The 1903 novel The Jewel of Seven Stars follows the attempts to revive a five-thousand-year-old Egyptian queen. Bram Stoker made his imprint on vampire lore with Dracula, and five years later, he made yet another imprint on another iconic type of undead: the mummy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jules is returning to Fennbirn and has become the unlikely figurehead of a revolution threatening to topple Katherine’s already unsteady rule.īut what good is a revolution if something is wrong with the island itself? ![]() Mirabella and Arsinoe, have escaped the island of Fennbirn, but how long before the island calls them back? Katherine, the poisoner Queen, has been crowned and is trying to ignore the whispers that call her illegitimate, undead, cursed. The battle has been fought, blood has been spilled, and a Queen has been crowned, but not all are happy with the outcome. ![]() ![]() I’ve been a huge fan of this series since the first book was released (I was gifted all three versions of the UK paperback edition for my birthday), so I couldn’t wait to delve back into this world. Today I’m talking all things Two Dark Reigns, the third book in Kendare Blake’s eerily dark Three Dark Crowns series. To keep myself motivated, I’ve decided to shorten my reviews back down as my 2,000+ word posts were becoming a bit uncontrollable! So it’s been a while since I last posted – over a month to be exact – but after suffering a HUGE reading/writing/blogging slump I am officially back on the bandwagon. “You don’t threaten the life of a queen and live to tell the tale.” Kendare Blake, Two Dark Reigns ![]() ![]() Peter teaches Nemo how to maintain the lighthouse and tells her wild bedtime stories about his adventures with a character named Flip and one of their adventures involve the searching for a cave of magical wish-granting pearls. Nemo is a young girl who lives in a lighthouse with her father Peter ever since her mom died when she was young. ![]() It received generally mixed reviews from critics. Slumberland was released on November 18, 2022, by Netflix. ![]() It tells the story of a young girl who goes to live with her uncle after her father is lost at sea and enters Slumberland where she befriends a renegade character who is involved in a plot to get to the Sea of Nightmares and obtain a special pearl that may have the power to reunite her with her father. ![]() Based on the comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay, the film stars Jason Momoa, Chris O'Dowd, Kyle Chandler, Weruche Opia, and introducing Marlow Barkley in her film debut as Nemo. Slumberland is a 2022 American fantasy adventure film directed by Francis Lawrence and written by David Guion and Michael Handelman. ![]() ![]() ![]() Plants are living beings with whom our proper relationship is kinship. Kimmerer draws on both to give a unitive vision of the whole of creation, with humanity a small yet important part. In reaction, it's easy to dismiss scientific knowledge as hopelessly imperialistic and destructive. Often, science claims to be the realm of facts and dismisses Indigenous wisdom as fairy tales or myths. Kimmerer, a botanist and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Band of Oklahoma, started a new conversation between Western science and Indigenous wisdom. ![]() One of the most important books of the last decade - for me, maybe this century - is Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants (Milkweed Editions). ![]() Re-connecting with this relative can help us re-Indigenize our faith and heal wounds that riddle Turtle Island and the whole planet. Our Catholic ancestors called it Mary's Grass. Few things are more arresting than the smell of burning sweetgrass, the sacred plant that some Indigenous peoples call the hair of Mother Earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the evidence mounts, the prey begins to get testy: Warns one well-meaning ally, “If you push the Double Eagles too soon, or too hard, Forrest Knox could move to bury whatever evidence might remain. As ever, Iles’ account of his hometown of Natchez is sure to displease local boosters, and as ever, he skillfully weaves family saga with local history (real and imagined) and world events, in this case the murders of civil rights workers and the not-coincidental assassination of a certain president half a century ago. The Double Eagles were bad enough when resonantly named Brody Royal was in charge, but it seems he’s on sabbatical, and a new boss even more viperous has moved into town. ![]() Or so find Penn and his sidekick/fiancee, Caitlin Masters, when, surely unwisely, they poke deep into the klavernous doings of the local white-supremacy klatch. Natchez, Mississippi, to Dallas is a far piece, but it’s just a rifle bullet’s trajectory away. ![]() The second installment of his hard-boiled Natchez trilogy finds Iles’ ( Natchez Burning, 2014, etc.) hero Penn Cage on even swampier, and surely deadlier, ground than before. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Second Cure: Control thy expenditures “For each ten coins I put in, I spent but nine.” Forcing yourself to live on 90% of your income is the first step of the 7 principles. Written in old English for some reason, Arkad told his students the first cure for having a lean purse (in today’s terms, an empty bank account). He said, “I found the road to wealth when I decided that a portion of all I earned was mine to keep, and so will you.” The First Cure: Start thy purse to fattening While this story isn’t really a true account of a real person in ancient Babylon, the principles behind the story are very relevant to how we manage money today.īefore Arkad shared his seven principles of creating wealth, he shared one key principle that helped him to find the road to wealth. Through seven cures, we learn how Arkad beat the cycle of living paycheck to paycheck while paying down debts and building wealth. Clason, shares how Arkad became the richest man in Babylon. Throughout the rest of the book, the author, George S. ![]() ![]() ![]() The family takes it in turns to sit in First Class after Greg’s dad gets an upgrade but Greg misses his turn. ![]() Once on the airplane, Greg becomes very worried about the possibility of a plane crash and asks the flight attendant lots of questions about the safety of the plane. After arriving later than they intended the Heffleys struggle to get through security and make it to their departure gate on time but, when they do arrive, their flight is delayed by several hours. ![]() The vacation gets off to a bad start when the family gets stuck in traffic on their way to the airport making them worry that they will miss their flight. Greg is unhappy about the suggestion but everyone else is enthusiastic. The story begins with Greg recounting the reason his parents wanted to go on vacation: they were worried about the stress of celebrating Christmas and thought it would be more fun to take their three sons to Isla de Corales, the tropical resort where they spent their honeymoon. 2017.ĭiary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway tells the story of protagonist Greg Heffley going on a tropical vacation with his parents and his two brothers, which descends into chaos and mayhem as everything that can go wrong for the family does go wrong. ![]() The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Kinney, Jeff. ![]() ![]() ![]() But complicating matters is the stubborn Andvarian king, who wants to punish Evie for the deaths of his countrymen during the Seven Spire massacre.ĭark forces are also at work inside the Andvarian palace, and Evie soon realizes that no one is safe. As if that wasn’t bad enough, an assassin tries to kill Evie in her own throne room.ĭespite the dangers, Evie goes ahead with a scheduled trip to the neighboring kingdom of Andvari in order to secure a desperately needed alliance. Magic, murder, adventure, and romance combine in this second novel in the exciting Crown of Shards saga from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Estep.Įverleigh Blair might be the new gladiator queen of Bellona, but her problems are far from over.įirst, Evie has to deal with a court full of arrogant, demanding nobles, all of whom want to get their greedy hands on her crown. ![]() ![]() Richard Bachman’s widow found the completed manuscript of The Regulators in a box in the cellar. ![]() It might be middle-tier King at best, but it is still damn amusing.Īs it doesn’t make sense to read Desperation without its ‘mirror’ piece The Regulators, that’s where I went next. He puts him a bunch of people in a remote and isolated mining town in Nevada, and from there on, they have to deal the best they can, while the casualties pile up. It is cruel and bleak and pretty horrible, and I can imagine King having a blast writing about this an aeons old demon (quite literally from The Pit) of unspeakable evil. ![]() Sure, later books have a bit of gore, or a supernatural angle, and pretty horrific things do certainly happen, but this seems to be the last one where all of that is so front and center. As I had finished my previous book on the fifteenth occasion of that historic moment, and I still needed to read it in the original English to count towards #66, I decided to pick up that book again.ĭesperation is probably the last gory supernatural horror story Stephen King put out. First Lines: Desperation / The RegulatorsĪs the story goes, my wife first spotted me reading a book by her favorite author while waiting for a show by her favorite artist. ![]() |