![]() ![]() However, I do want to mention a few things.Īs entertaining as it was, it wasn’t my all-time favorite book. This is another one of those books that I shouldn’t say too much to give important elements away. ![]() Red herrings and Greek mythology galore in this one. I can honestly say that I flew through this book and didn’t see several things coming along the way. “ A monster with a knife was among them, unseen, prowling the streets…”Īlex Michaelides, you got me. Some of the Greek mythology references seem unnecessary or thrown in Twists and turns are interesting and unexpected Very short chapters make for quick reading University setting is atmospheric and captivating She takes measures into her own hands to prove the killer and, hopefully, save herself and her niece. Mariana is certain that Edward Fosca, cocky Greek tragedy professor, is the murderer when she discovers that he is the leader of a secret society for female students called The Maidens and that another young woman is found killed, she becomes even more convinced that he is a manipulator targeting collegiate women. Mariana Andros, a group therapist struggling with the tragic death of her husband, visits her beloved niece who’s friend was found murdered at Cambridge. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her parents had a brief fling and separated before she was born she sees her father Phillipe Renaldo, whom she is told is a Genovian politician, mostly when she spends every summer at her grandmère (paternal grandmother) Clarisse's French chateau, Miragnac. Her best friend is Lilly Moscovitz, a genius, and she is obsessed with her crushes, Josh Richter and Lilly's brother, Michael. Mia is a tall, flat chested, big footed socially awkward teenager who was raised by her liberal artist mother Helen in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. The Princess Diaries is the diary of Mia Thermopolis, a fifteen-year-old freshman at the fictional Albert Einstein High School (A.E.H.S.), a private school in New York City. This book begins on Tuesday, September 23 and concludes on Sunday, October 19 (these dates imply that the book takes place in 2003, though this is not directly stated). It was released in 2000 by Harper Collins Publishers, and later became a film of the same name starring Anne Hathaway loosely adapting it and the second novels. Princess in the Spotlight The Princess Diaries is the first volume of the critically acclaimed, best-selling series of the same name by Meg Cabot. ![]() ![]() ![]() "There were numerous photographers that made their transport challenging," Julian Phillips, the NYPD's chief spokesperson, said in a statement. The NYPD, which said it had assisted the private security team protecting them, made the incident sound less serious. The couple - the Duke and Duchess of Sussex - were shaken by the incident but otherwise unharmed. "This relentless pursuit, lasting over two hours, resulted in multiple near collisions involving other drivers on the road, pedestrians and two NYPD (New York Police Department) officers," the spokesperson said in a statement. The incident involved "a ring of highly aggressive paparazzi" in half a dozen cars with blacked out windows, driving dangerously and putting the lives of the couple and Doria Ragland in danger, the spokesperson said. ![]() LONDON/ NEW YORK (Reuters) -Britain's Prince Harry, his wife Meghan and her mother were involved in a "near catastrophic" car chase with press photographers after attending an awards ceremony in New York, Harry's spokesperson said on Wednesday. ![]() ![]() ![]() The English horror flick, written and directed by scare-master Clive Barker, is a campy and grotesque. ![]() In many ways, Pinhead is a tragic figure, although it's a bit hard to feel sympathy for his origins when he's ripping victims apart with hooks. Hellraiser had no right to build such a rich universe. ![]() Thankfully, Spencer and Pinhead were eventually re-merged before being sent back to Hell. Pinhead's recovered memories in that film actually resulted in him splitting into two entities for Hellraiser 3, Spencer and a super-evil Pinhead completely unconstrained by what remained of his former humanity. Upon solving the box in the early 1920s, Spencer was given both the pain and pleasure he was looking for, and subsequently transformed into Pinhead, as depicted briefly in the opening of Hellraiser 2. That combined with the guilt of outliving so many of his friends and comrades led him to indulge in more base pleasures of the flesh, which eventually brought him to the Hellraiser box, officially known as the Lament Configuration. It turns out that Elliot Spencer was a captain in the British army, but his horrifying experiences serving in World War I led him to lose his faith in humanity and belief in God. In 1992's Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth, Pinhead's origins are expanded on further. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ll be frank: for most of my time reading this book, I had Wikipedia open to look up unfamiliar terms, or even those I could understand contextually, and it paid off. ![]() ![]() Wicks Cherrycoke: an unreliable narrator relating the story of two doubly unreliable narrators. Much like in the study of history itself, the eponymous Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon are less important as individuals in themselves than as crude lenses, refracting motifs, themes, events, dreams, narratives – their own story and the story of those they happen across doubly refracted by our humble narrator, the Rev. Pynchon’s works have – for me, at least – penetrated deeper into the history, culture, subconcious internal world and its imprint on the concious universe outside and around the globe than any other American novelist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You know the (Alison) Bechdel test, which observes that when any film/tv/comics stories are told with women talking, that they almost always talk about men? Well, generations later, some of them still talk nostalgically of men! But mostly it is about relationships, and a variety of women in various shapes and colors and sizes. The we-comic excerpts are loosely connected, with jokey punchlines to strips, but just okay jokes, usually. Can women live without men?! Will they suddenly be different? Will they have better relationships? Of course we know that W/W relationships already exist, so we have some data on that (and in comics, from work such as Dykes to Watch Out For), but what if NO men were around? Will this make women suddenly different? What if women ruled the world?ĭhaliwal's answers to these questions are lightly humorous, not (to me, at least) laugh-out-loud funny. A book based on/derived from Dhaliwal's web comic of the same name about a time in the future when men die out. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Maddy still has a full-time job to manage, her family to deal with, and a gorgeous new actor, Adam Devin, determined to wear down her resistance. Could Wolf County, her beloved hometown in the mountains, be saved from a financial crisis by creating a reality show featuring the eccentrics in the small ski village? Maddy is determined to try, even when she learns that Craig's agenda doesn't exactly line up with her altruistic goal. However, a budding relationship with Craig, one of the executives at her company, may even propel her into the big leagues. She loves her job as Script Supervisor on a hit TV show, but hates "Hollywood." Super-organized and down-to-earth, Maddy is clearly one of the best at her job, and her strict dating rule - "No Actors!" - helps her keep focused on her career. Maddy Carson is a mass of contradictions. ![]() ![]() Watt is still desperately in love with Leda. What happens when all her lies catch up with her? But when she starts seeing Cord again, she finds herself torn: between two worlds, and two very different boys.Ĭalliope feels trapped, playing a long con that costs more than she bargained for. ![]() Rylin is back in her old life, reunited with an old flame. Until a new investigation forces her to seek help-from the person she’s spent all year trying to forget. ![]() Leda just wants to move on from what happened in Dubai. A skyscraper city, fueled by impossible dreams, where the lives of five teenagers have become intertwined in ways that no one could have imagined. Finished Last Week Inaccessibles – Démesure de Katharine McGee ![]() A weekly event hosted by Kathryn at the Book Date to discuss your reading week ~ the books you’ve read and those you plan on reading in the coming week. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story seems to be a rejection of the idea that the hero's myth is necessarily male centric. It's a story about how powerful women can be, and how everyone needs to help or else, the situation becomes hopeless. Instead of killing dragons and an evil witch, Aerin slays dragons and an evil warlock. ![]() Instead of seeing a beautiful maiden with a sword (like Arthur), Aerin sees a beautiful man, a man whom she later loves. But instead of a male hero, the cast is switched. The Hero and the Crownis a hero's journey. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() i find that in life there are certain times which.i find it really annoying that i had to wait at ho.you know you have reached a low when even the star.i've got a girl, i've got a gun, i've got a bullet.you were just trying to talk to me, and i ruined i.you got my goddamned hopes up, then you don't even.someday you are going to try this yogurt.i find that in life it is much easier to believe t.We went to all-night shows and went to bed at sunrise.Īnd, for a long while, the only days we ever went out to walk were the days when it was raining and there was no sun. We had breakfast at midnight and lunch at three in the morning, and dinner at the cold dim hour of 6 A.M. So for a long time after my father died my mother slept through the days and wouldn't go out. ![]() We wouldn't have to think of him every time Jupiter or Saturn or Mars lit up the evening sky.Īnd the sun was big and fiery and merciless, and it was always in the sky and you couldn't get away from it. Well, it wasn't Mars, and it wasn't Venus, and it wasn't Jupiter or Saturn that killed him. "Don't tell me anything i don't already know," she said. Mom stood in the screen door behind me, watching me fold the message and put it in my pocket. The messenger gave it to me and I read it standing on the porch. ![]() |