I give it a 3 because it was enjoyable and short and easy to read. Easy language to understand for a young one, but still very well written that an adult could enjoy it. So, I have to say that even though I hate horror now as an adult, and don’t find this book particuarly scary, it truly must have been for a ten year old kid! It is kind of gory. But for now, I will read a few Goosebumps on the side. But I will try to stick to one book again after I am done with Gemina (the second book in the Illuminae Files series which is also a hardcover). I decided that I would read easy books on the side so I wouldn’t get confused or don’t understand as well. But that was many years ago, and now when I am reading a big hardcover book (Illuminae by Amie Kaufman) which I unfortunately can’t bring everywhere, I am for the first time ever, reading two books at the same time. I enjoyed horror movies and Stephen King eventually became my newest favorite author. I read a few books, watched the TV series every now and then when visiting a friend who had the right TV channel. It is a bit darker and more horrifying than most of the other books in the original series and reads more like a water-downed version of R.L. When I was a kid, I loved Stine’s Goosebumps. WELCOME TO DEAD HOUSE is the first in the Goosebumps series. Stine, 1st Edition at the best online prices at eBay Vintage 1992 Goosebumps 1 Welcome To Dead House, R.L. But these creepy new friends are not exactly what their parents had in mind. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Vintage 1992 Goosebumps 1 Welcome To Dead House, R.L. And the town of Dark Falls is pretty strange, too. Amanda and Josh think the old house they have just moved into is weird.
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Most of the time, she tries to do the right thing and ends up doing the wrong thing. Students will easily identify with her being unfairly accused, having to help out parents with projects, and being asked to make all sorts of amends. So that means I’m allergic to sitting still.”Ĭlementine navigates challenges at home and school. If I try to sit still I get all itchy and swelled up and I can’t breathe right. If he eats one he gets all itchy and swelled up and he can’t breathe right. But it’s not her fault. As she explains, she is “allergic to sitting still.” The principal’s office is familiar place for Clementine who has lots of trouble sitting still. “And then Margaret went all historical, and the art teacher went all historical, and nobody could think of anything to do except the regular thing, which is: send me to the principal’s office.” It starts off on a Monday when Clementine tries to help a friend who has glue in her hair by cutting off all of her hair! Everything goes wrong, and the week goes downhill from there. In Clementine by Sara Pennypacker, we experience life through the viewpoint of a feisty, firecracker of a third-grade girl, who is having a really bumpy week. When James McKinley wrote about the Cleveland gang rape in the New York Times, he noted that much of the community was shocked by the case, but not by the tragedy of what happened to the girl. In rape cases, the perpetrators are often painted as victims. And this sort of thinking isn’t limited to defense attorneys. Tragically, these factors were twisted and used to blame her. But it wasn’t, because the girl was audacious enough to wear makeup. You might think this would be a clear-cut case in which the men were quickly convicted. The offenders returned to her several times. She was repeatedly gang raped by several men. In this particular case, which happened in Cleveland, Texas in 2010, the 11-year-old girl wasn’t only raped by one man. Victims of rape are often slut-shamed as though they’ve invited the crime on themselves. Unfortunately, that sort of argument often prevails both in the courtroom and society at large. Imagine you heard the following statement in court: “Like a spider, she drew him into her web.” What kind of criminal do you think that would describe? A murderer? A con artist? No, an attorney once said this of an 11-year-old girl when he tried to defend the man who had raped her. However, when I started reading them, there wasn’t a ton of diversity in the stories and I knew I wanted to put my own spin on the genre. My mom introduced me to the genre and we both absolutely devour culinary cozies. Thank you so, so much for agreeing to be my sensitivity reader! I constantly get messages from people thanking me for including the Author’s Note and content warnings, and it never would’ve occurred to me without your assistance.Īs for the process behind writing it, I love cozy mysteries. Can you tell us a little bit about the process behind writing it? How did you come up with this idea? As your sensitivity reader I may be a little biased, but I genuinely think it’s one of the best cozy mysteries I’ve ever read. Anything else, I can’t talk about yet since nothing is official/announced, but I’m hoping to have exciting news to share by the end of the year! Sounds so exciting! And congratulations on Arsenic and Adobo. My debut, Arsenic and Adobo, came out in May, and I’m currently editing book 2 in the series, Homicide and Halo-Halo (Feb 8, 2022), and drafting book 3 (untitled, Nov 2022). I’m primarily an Adult mystery writer, and I use humor and murder to tackle themes of family, food, and culture. Manansala (she/her), a queer Filipino American writer from Chicago. Tell us a little bit about yourself and any upcoming projects you have. Sullivan, herself partially blind, was a remarkable teacher and remained with Keller from March 1887 until her own death in October 1936. Examined by Alexander Graham Bell at this age, a 20-year-old female tutor, Anne Sullivan (Macy), from the Perkins Institution for the Blind (Boston), was arranged for her. Brought up by caring and anxious parents, she communicated mainly through home signs till the age of seven. She lived thereafter “at sea, in a dense fog”. Though born as a healthy child, Keller was afflicted at the age of 19 months with an illness (possibly scarlet fever) that left her blind and deaf. She is rightly described as “one of the twentieth century’s leading advocates for individuals with disabilities” and is known for “her personal triumph over the limitations of both blindness and deafness”. Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880–June 1, 1968) was an American author and educator. She’s set on living in Montana and starting over after a terrible divorce. So when Piper Campbell knocks on his door, rambling on about being his new neighbor, he slams the door in her face.īut Kaine’s gruff demeanor doesn’t scare her. After an unthinkable tragedy destroys his family, he’s cut off all ties to his former life so he can battle his grief the only way he knows how. Kaine Reynolds wants nothing more than solitude. Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2022 Backlist Reader Challenge, Lenoreo's 2022 COYER Spring, Lenoreo's Can You Read a Series June 2022įind it: Goodreads ✩ Amazon ✩ B&N ✩ Google ✩ Kobo ✩ iBooks ✩ IndieBound ✩ Book Depository Potential Triggers: View Spoiler » death of an unborn child (8 months) « Hide Spoiler If you buy the book using that link, I will receive a small commission from the sale. This post contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book. I enjoyed it, I'm so glad the BBC still has the confidence to produce something like this for a prime time Sunday slot. Superb production values, great costumes etc. Very well acted with all performing well, Dougray Scott and Jessie Buckley both showing their natural presence. I'm struck by the closeness to the text, although I'm sure in the current climate, with constant reinterpretations and changes that there'll be some tampering, however, the core story is delivered. The production team have done a fabulous job in creating the creepy, gothic, almost sinister atmosphere. Wilkie Collins classic tale is known by many, how good though that this masterpiece of storytelling will be given to a brand new audience. BBC I applaud you for having the courage to produce and put out something that can hardly be classed as mainstream. I felt the fight scene could have been much more involved, however making it more graphic would insist a more mature reader. The author has done great things with this storyline giving us a kidnapping psycho who will test Fane especially in the controlling the wolf part of him. Although understanding it from an adult perspective and one from another continent, can be very tricky at times but well worth the effort! Along for the ride are her two best friends Jen and Sally who with their overly sarcastic comments bring some kind of reality to the storyline. Jacque and Fane attempt to perform the Canis Lupis blood rites ceremony only to have their attempts thwarted by yet another psych werewolf who wants to take Jacque as his mate. This is the second novel in the Grey Wolf series, and proved to be a good continuation of the first. “The weirdness of Christianity felt like an important thing to communicate.” “The book is about not only Christian storytelling but storytelling in general and the meaning we arrive at through characters we create and then send hurtling through time whether they’re fiction characters in a novel or Christian characters of legend,” said Bissell, who has written for the New Yorker and other magazines. Early Christian stories written before the New Testament, he said, were the “first fan fiction.” Deciding, however, that ridicule might not make a good thesis, Bissell amassed thousands of pages of text and visited nine countries in a study that blends travelogue with a vivid mosaic of emperors, evangelists and schisms that bent the course of history. “Apostle” started as a critique of what Bissell regarded as nonsensical beliefs predicated on apocryphal yarns that included talking animals and necrophilia. You have your oatmeal and granola recipes, smoothies, french toast to pancakes. This is all pretty basic info but for anyone that is brand new to the kitchen, these are really invaluable tidbits of information.Ĭhapter 2 he goes into breakfast stuff. His Techniques is pretty cool as he actually shows the difference between boiling and simmering/gently bubbling water. He’s really thorough on providing a good building block of “how-to’s”- holding a knife, chopping veggies, the difference how to measure dry and liquid ingredients. Bittman discusses basics – things you should have in your fridge, your pantry and various kitchen tools. The book is pretty large about 483 pages chocked full of tons of recipes and 1,000 photos. That right there sold me on buying it and giving it a whirl. While I don’t need the step-by-step hand holding I at least want some type of benchmark photo of what my dish *should* look like. really? Everything? So as I started to flip through it these gorgeous step-by-step photos popped out for each and every single recipe! BONUS!!! See I’m a HUGE fan of pictures of recipes. I was at a local warehouse food shopping and per usual, I was perusing the cookbooks. This is the first time that I’ve been introduced to Mark Bittman and his cookbooks. |