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These stories of heroism, hardship and dangerous hobbies profile two of the Harry Potter stories' most courageous and iconic characters: Minerva McGonagall and Remus Lupin. Rowling reveals her inspiration, intricate details of characters' lives and surprises from the wizarding world. These eBooks, with writing curated by Pottermore, will take you beyond the Harry Potter stories as J. Rowling's writing from the Pottermore archives: short reads originally featured on with some exclusive new additions. Pottermore Presents is a collection of J. There was something irresistible to me about his name, and the idea that such a brilliant woman might be a distant relative of the buffoonish McGonagall.' - J. William McGonagall is celebrated as the worst poet in British history. 'Minerva was the Roman goddess of warriors and wisdom.
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Lying Out Loud by Kody Keplinger5/24/2023 So Sonny comes up with an elaborate scheme to help Ryder realize that she’s the girl he’s really wanted all along. Only there’s one small catch: he thinks he’s been talking to Amy. And to her horror, she realizes that she might actually like him. So when Ryder emails Amy asking her out, the friends see it as a prank opportunity not to be missed.īut without meaning to, Sonny ends up talking to Ryder all night online. A companion to Kody Keplingers debut novel, THE DUFFSonny Ardmore is an excellent liar. Ryder’s the new kid at Hamilton High and everything Sonny and Amy can’t stand-a prep-school snob. And she lies about sneaking into her best friend’s house every night because she has nowhere else to go.Īmy Rush might be the only person Sonny shares everything with- secrets, clothes, even a nemesis named Ryder Cross. Kody Keplinger returns to the world of The DUFF in this brand-new companion novel!
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Fire touched5/24/2023 Patricia Briggs, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson series, lives in Washington State with her husband, children, and a small herd of horses. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out, and what new supernatural creature will show up this time. There has been a big change in how the pack operates now and it will have long lasting effects. His protectiveness and loyalty to Mercy and his pack make him sexy as hell. It is rock solid and he is one of the best examples of how an alpha male character should act. One of the most consistent things about this series is Adam and Mercy's relationship. And my Bea Fae, Beauclaire makes an appearance, along with Baba Yaga. We get to find out more about Underhill and why the Fae were cut off from her. I love Brigg's take on the Fae and was glad to see more of their world brought into the series. They seem to pick up new members with each book. I adored his character and hope he becomes a regular member of Adam's pack. And it all seems to balance on the fate of a 10 year old boy, Aiden. I know I will get a well told and well written story about characters I know like old friends as well as opportunities to meet some new ones.įire Touched has Mercy and Adam thrown into Fae politics and their city set to become ground zero for a Fae vs human war. I have a handful of authors that fall into this category and Briggs' Mercy Thompson series is near the top. These are books that no matter what, they will deliver exactly what we were looking for. Book lovers also have comfort books/authors.
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Reliquary by sarah fine5/24/2023 She is trying to save her fiancée Ben who just happens to be Asa’s brother.īen is a major asshole. Mattie is a bit of an idiot who usually rushes into trouble, is naïve in a way that makes me want to knock sense into her, and she solves problems usually by showing off her cleavage while feeling scandalous and titillated by it. He is by far the most fun character and basically the only reason why I would read book two. So why do I dislike it and like it despite meself? Well the two main characters are bad guy who goes good (Asa) and good girl who goes bad (Mattie). I normally do not put spoilers in me reviews but this shall have some major spoilers and strong language. NetGalley has her book called splinter which is book two of this series but book one was still available to request so I did. See I read one previous book by Sarah Fine that was fun – of metal and wishes. I had major major problems with this book. I do not know how I truly feel about this novel. Publisher: 47North (47North is the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror imprint of Amazon Publishing, the full-service publishing arm of Amazon) Ahoy there me mateys! I received this romance fantasy eARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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The father christmas letters tolkien5/24/2023 Starting in 1920 when Tolkien's oldest son was aged three, each Christmas Tolkien would write a letter from Father Christmas about his travels and adventures. The letters themselves were written over a period of over 20 years to entertain Tolkien's children each Christmas. The 1939 letter has Father Christmas making reference to the Second World War, while some of the later letters feature Father Christmas' battles against Goblins which were subsequently interpreted as being a reflection of Tolkien's views on the German Menace. The stories include descriptions of the massive fireworks that create the northern lights and how Polar Bear manages to get into trouble on more than one occasion. They document the adventures and misadventures of Father Christmas and his helpers, including the North Polar Bear and his two sidekick cubs, Paksu and Valkotukka. The stories are told in the format of a series of letters, told either from the point of view of Father Christmas or his elvish secretary. The book was warmly received by critics, and it has been suggested that elements of the stories inspired parts of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. They were edited by Baillie Tolkien, second wife of his youngest son, Christopher. They were released posthumously by the Tolkien estate on 2 September 1976, the 3rd anniversary of Tolkien's death. Tolkien between 19 for his children, from Father Christmas. The Father Christmas Letters, also known as Letters from Father Christmas, are a collection of letters written and illustrated by J.
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Wolverine by Brian Michael Bendis5/24/2023 It was just us b******, saying things like, 'Why isn't it really Earth's Mightiest Heroes? What the f*** is Jack of Hearts?. Mark and I really got into a tizzy about Avengers. " We were told to feel free to talk," Bendis recalled in an interview with CBR, " but sometimes we were the only ones talking which can be embarrassing. He and Mark Millar simply started complaining that they felt the book had lost its way, as demonstrated by its character roster. Related: Marvel Can't Beat Logan - The MCU's Wolverine Needs To Be DifferentĪccording to Bendis, he didn't originally mean to make a New Avengers pitch at all. There, he outlined a completely different vision for The Avengers, a book that had been seeing declining sales for years. And so, in 2004, Brian Bendis was invited to one of Marvel's creative retreats. This allowed them to recognize a major up-and-coming writer, Brian Michael Bendis, who had already proved himself through books like Ultimate Spider-Man and Alias. As Sean Howe notes in his book Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, the publisher began using statistical techniques and computer algorithms to assess creator and character performance. Moving into the 21st century, Marvel Comics began to take a different approach.
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A Right Royal Affair by Helen Juliet5/24/2023 The ensemble pieces show renewed vigour, with the town square brawls and sword fights particularly exciting, and the big ball at which Romeo and Juliet first meet suitably grand. Nicholas Georgiadis’s sumptuous designs, creating scenes often reminiscent of Renaissance paintings, appear to have been spruced up and look dazzlingly fresh. One such is newly minted principal Mayara Magri, having an absolute ball as one of the three harlots that ply their trade in the town square of Verona. With its eye-filling, rousing crowd scenes, Prokofiev’s transporting score and, of course, a passionate and ill-fated love story at its centre, it’s been a crowd magnet since its premiere in 1965.įor the opening of its first full season in almost two years, The Royal Ballet has thrown everything at this production, with a number of principal dancers taking on relatively modest roles. Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet is a fail-safe way to open a ballet season (it’s no coincidence that Birmingham Royal Ballet also chose this work to kick off its own 2021/22 season). Romeo and Juliet is in repertoire Tuesday 5 to Sunday 24 October and Monday 10 January to Friday 25 February 2022
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Farragan's Retreat by Tom McHale5/24/2023 The motif of "Burning" that never really gets its chance at bat is the supposed interdependence between the "straights" and the "deviants." The "straights" are Bingo and Barney Edwards, white liberal guiltists ofīel Air, she a short-haired, athletic-girl type from another era at Radcliffe, with a crush on a fireman she has seen swimming naked he is an orthopedist. Unabashed skinny-dipping firemen, etc.) to that finer point of resolution old timers called a climax. How to draw her serpentine chronicle of somewhat familiar deviate behavior (unfit mother, hooked psychotherapy patients, And, writer to writer, there was a lip-pursing concern in me to know how D.J. Phew.īefore the fire the horizon was dark. Purification of Diane Johnson's Los Angeles a la Sodom and Gomorrah, but simply because the author has found the means to bring her book to a close. Not because our continued and restless suckling on various moral tenets is finally vindicated by the flaming At least this is what happens to an appreciable part of that sprawling metropolis toward the end of "Burning,"Īnd once the Biblical wrath and apocalyptic quality of this great fire is certain, the reader will probably issue a sigh of relief. Iane Johnson apparently has hit upon the solution to all those kooks, cultists, junkies, bogus professionals, displaced Midwesterners whose innocence is awash, police,įiremen, Chicanos, Negroes and social workers who inhabit the easy cliché of Los Angeles: Simply burn the damn place down. SeptemLos Angeles a la Sodom and Gomorrah By TOM McHALE
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A farewell to arms hemingway5/23/2023 There are also two other versions of the same novel: Michael Curtiz's The Breaking Point (1950) and Don Siegel's The Gun Runners (1958). The result was To Have And Have Not, which is more Casablanca 2 than Hemingway, but a classic nonetheless. Hemingway dared Howard Hawks to name his worst book, and film it. The exceptions prove my time-tested rule that the worse the book, the better the movie. Later big-budget adaptations such as The Snows Of Kilimanjaro and The Sun Also Rises just lie there on the screen, and The Old Man And The Sea is hampered by naff optical effects and a miscast Spencer Tracy ("The sloppiest picture I ever made," said director John Sturges). Frank Borzage's 1932 version of A Farewell To Arms is certainly a great movie, as sublime and rapturous as anything he made, but Borzage's aesthetic values are the polar opposite of Hemingway's – shimmering and intensely romantic, all his movies feel as if they were shot in heaven – and the result, which fits snugly into the director's canon, has no place at all in the writer's.
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Bunny awad5/23/2023 Damian heads out for the shopping cart and grabs a wooden bat, then tosses it aside. Priest is able to hit a chokeslam and might have it won, but he pulls up on the pin at two so he can continue to beat on Bad Bunny. He pulls off a backslide for a quick two count as well. A thumb to the eyes is answered by a knee shot, but Bunny uses a jawbreaker to press his attack to the corner. Priest crotch chops the fans for chanting for their hero, then takes Bad Bunny to one knee by wrenching his left arm. Priest shatters the kendo stick, then body slams the music superstar. Bad Bunny catches Priest off guard with a Michinoku driver but Damian immediately kicks out.īunny tries for a kendo stick shot but gets a right hand to the body for his trouble. The crowd explodes when Bunny makes his walk to the ring, stopping to take a shopping cart full of weapons with him.ĭespite their height difference, Bunny steps right to Priest after the bell rings and gets knocked back into the corner twice. Damian Priest is wearing the same ring gear he wore while teaming with Bad Bunny two years ago at WrestleMania, some obvious head games. |