![]() ![]() Have you ever tried walking silently in beach grass? You might as well attach a bell around your neck. ![]() But if I try to sneak behind them, they’ll hear me. The couple is facing the dark ocean, which means if I attempt to take the beach route back to the party, they’ll see me. My mind has been Mission: Impossible–ing escape routes since The Dumping commenced. But a clean getaway is difficult because they chose to break up in the worst possible location-right where the beach grass thins and the dunes flatten into a stretch of packed sand. No more than ten feet away from them, I’m sitting against a driftwood log, concealed by shadows. She pauses for a long beat, during which I consider whether I can make a run for it without the couple noticing. The girl’s voice is flat, lined with dry humor. “Is this some weird sort of foreplay? I don’t get it, but, sure, I’m down.” That honor is bestowed upon the guy with the deep, playful voice, who hasn’t caught up to the fact that his dumper is dead serious. Or rather, secondhand embarrassment, because I’m not even the one getting dumped. ![]() It’s the only way to avoid this level of embarrassment. We need to go back to the prohibition days, except we outlaw social events instead of alcohol. See, this is why parties should be banned. “I don’t think we should hook up anymore.” ![]()
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![]() ![]() I was reminded uncannily of Buford Pusser, walking tall and carrying a big stick.Īgainst Henry's advice, Lincoln ( Benjamin Walker) marries Mary Todd ( Mary Elizabeth Winstead), and the story moves quickly to his days in the White House, where he discovers that the vampires are fighting on the side of the South. That he carries this axe with him much of the time may strike some as peculiar. Lincoln's weapon of choice becomes an axe with a silver blade, which he learns to spin like a drum major's baton. Then whatever can he do? "Well," he tells Henry, "I used to be pretty good at rail-splitting…" This line drew only a few chuckles from the audience, because the movie cautiously avoids any attempt to seem funny. There's an early scene in which Lincoln tries to shoot a vampire, but that won't work because they're already dead. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Haunted Reels is the best of those stories.”Ĭurated by Indie Spirit Award Nominated film producer, David Lawson Jr., this collection features brand-new stories written by some of the biggest and most creative names in film, TV, and video games, including C. Campfire horror tales, emotional cosmic mysteries, and anything else that either made them take their minds off what was happening to the world, or help them understand it. Once a week, these diverse voices would assemble to do what they do best: tell each other stories. The team previews, “In April 2020, the world faced imminent lock-down, so a group of filmmakers started a virtual support group. ![]() We’ve also been told that Haunted Reels: Volume 2 is in the works. The newest anthology in the ‘Dark Matter Presents’ series, Bloody Disgusting is excited to announce that Dark Matter Presents: Haunted Reels is now available for pre-order.Įxclusively check out the cover art below, the work of artist Olly Jeavons!ĭark Matter Presents: Haunted Reels will be published on July 25. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This frustrates me because a lot of these books are nothing like Six of Crows. In our search to find a book that is exactly like Six of Crows (but not exactly like Six of Crows because then it’s a “cheep knockoff of Six of Crows”, even if it was published/ written before Six of Crows was published), we are harming completely unrelated books by setting people up to expect Six of Crows when the books are about different things. There are so many books where the top reviews on Goodreads are along the lines of “Because of Six of Crows, I’ll read anything with ‘crow’ in the title”. And this isn’t new and doesn’t pertain to only this Goodreads friend. One day, one of my Goodreads friends had a review for a book completely unrelated to Six of Crows, upset that it wasn’t like Six of Crows. I like to read those daily updates from your Goodreads friends emails because I never check my feed on there. When I came up with the idea for this post a month ago I was feeling really annoyed. ![]() ![]() ![]() North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.Ĭan one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want.īut what Lyra doesn’t know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other…Ī masterwork of storytelling and suspense, Philip Pullman’s award-winning The Golden Compass is the first in the His Dark Materials series, which continues with The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials Book 1). ![]() North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal-including her friend Roger. Philip Pullman takes readers to a world where humans have animal familiars and where parallel universes. Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. The modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an “All-Time Greatest Novel” and Newsweek hailed as a “Top 100 Book of All Time.” Philip Pullman takes readers to a world where humans have animal familiars and where parallel universes are within reach. Includes a preview of THE BOOK OF DUST, the long-awaited new novel from Philip Pullman set in the world of His Dark Materials, and hailed by the New York Times as “a stunning achievement.” ![]() ![]() ![]() The reasons for the venomous hatred of Jews, and other groups like them in countries around the world, are also explored, as are misconceptions of Nazi Germany.Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on the trendy intellectuals of our times as well as such historic interpreters of American life as Alexis de Tocqueville and Frederick Law Olmsted. He presents eye-opening insights into the development of the ghetto culturea culture cheered on toward self-destruction by white liberals who consider themselves ' friends' of blackswhich is today wrongly seen as a unique black identity, and he reexamines the tragic institution of slavery. ![]() Through a series of essays, Sowell presents an in-depth look at key beliefs behind many mistaken and dangerous actions, policies, and trends. Black Rednecks and White Liberals is the capstone of decades of outstanding research and writing on racial and cultural issues by Thomas Sowell. Black Rednecks and White Liberals is the capstone of decades of outstanding research and writing on racial and cultural issues by Thomas Sowell.This explosive new book challenges many of the long-held assumptions about blacks, Jews, Germans and Nazis, slavery, and education. ![]() ![]() Margaret spurs and leads a belated fight to save them after the Uncles have lost their last battle and given up hope. The uncles have remained through Old Town's decline and recent gentrification, but the new home owning gentry have petitioned to have the towers demolished. For 45 years they have constructed three towers of scrap metal, glass, and ceramic in their small back yard at 19 Schuyler Place, former company housing that the Tappan Glass Works long ago sold to its workers or to immigrants such as the Roses. Margaret lives the rest of vacation with the Uncles. The View From Saturday is set in another middle-school district of Epiphany. One other Konigsburg novel is set primarily in Old Town and the neighboring Clarion State University community, Silent to the Bone (2000) so is some backstory in The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World (2007). Primarily in downtown Epiphany, Clarion County, a fictional county in Greater New York. ![]() The Outcasts is set in 19 Schuyler Place in the summer of 1983, Parent publisher Simon & Schuster recommends it for "Ages 10 up". It is a companion of Silent to the Bone, Ī kind of prequel published four years later. The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place (2004) is a young adult novel by E. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But moving there, something changes about Connor. Because complaining will lead to someone getting hit, their mother or their younger brother. Moving out there is not what the twins really want to do, but it is better not to complain in front of their father. They have moved to Amity because of issues his father has had with money it seems. And it is possible that is what saves him and his twin sister from their father. ![]() Connor seems to take after his father with the anger issues. Their father is abusive, at least he is to their mother, as well as their younger brother Abel. ![]() His name is Connor, and his sister's name is Julianna, or as her father calls her, Annie, but she prefers to be called Jules. It starts out even with a letter from the oldest son of the first family, one he's writing to his twin sister. This story takes place in two different time periods, with two different families. You see, I recently looked into the whole Amityville Horror stories, more about this after my summary. Unfortunately, while it had some definitely scary parts to it, very horror movie like, I wasn't necessarily as thrilled with it as I had hoped to be. Thank you to Egmont USA and Netgalley for allowing me to read an e-galley of this title. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "A secret-stacked, thrilling series opener about perception, personal memories, and the idiosyncrasies that form individual identities. But puzzling clues left behind lead to complex codes, hidden rooms, and a dangerous secret that will turn their world upside down. The Strangers by Margaret Peterson Haddix 8,662 ratings, 3.84 average rating, 1,253 reviews Open Preview The Strangers Quotes Showing 1-2 of 2 Something surprising occurred to Finn. Who, exactly, are these strangers?īefore Chess, Emma, and Finn can question their mom about it, she takes off on a sudden work trip and leaves them in the care of Ms. ![]() The other kids share their same first and middle names. ![]() They've been a happy family, just the three of them and their mom.īut everything changes when reports of three kidnapped children reach the Greystone kids, and they're shocked by the startling similarities between themselves and these complete strangers. Chess has always been the protector over his younger siblings, Emma loves math, and Finn does what Finn does best-acting silly and being adored. Perfect for fans of A Wrinkle in Time and The City of Ember! New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix takes readers on a thrilling adventure filled with mysteries and plot twists aplenty in this absorbing series about family and friendships. ![]() ![]() We end this piece by exercising our agency to reimagine our present and design a future outside of the oppressive systems that perpetuate emotional and invisible labor for BIWOC librarians. ![]() The intention behind sharing these perspectives is to continue to build solidarity among BIWOC librarians, while informing, inspiring, and provoking actionable institutional change. Our narratives highlight similarities and differences in experiences based on those varying social identities, which can offer a foundation for further examination. This article centers the voices of the authors – women of color with varying social identities working in public university libraries – to share a glimpse of our own experiences navigating the demands of emotional labor and invisible labor on top of expressed professional responsibilities. The burden of this extra labor persists, even in the face of negative extenuating circumstances at home or globally, such as the COVID-19 global pandemic or pervasive social and racial unrest. Engaging in this extra labor affects our personal well-being and our retention in a profession that desperately needs our presence and expertise. ![]() libraries, Black, Indigenous and Women of Color (BIWOC) perform a disproportionate amount of emotional and invisible labor. ![]() |