![]() ![]() Staying together was never an option, but with each passing day, their feelings only grow. ![]() For this to work, discretion is key, but with a reporter dogging Wyatt’s every move, that might prove impossible. ![]() Wyatt gets a Daddy and Linc gets a paycheck, then they go their separate ways. When Wyatt drunkenly tells Linc he’d make an excellent Daddy, they reach an understanding. Wyatt needs discipline.īeing the closeted gay son of a family values senator has left Wyatt Edgeworth with a reckless streak and a love of partying that just cost him eight months of his life and might cost his father his re-election. Wyatt’s father claims he needs Linc’s firm hand and discipline. Babysit the spoiled son of a conservative senator, keep him out of trouble, and receive a six-figure paycheck, a paycheck he desperately needs. Lincoln Hudson has just been handed the easiest job in the world. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I had a rollicking good time reading this book because I was, once upon a time, a DM. In the grand spirit of most role playing games, they pick up an odd assortment of travelling companions along the way. The story centers on the friendship and adventures of thieving halflings Bridazak and Spilf and their dwarf friend, Dulgin. One thing that became obvious as I read this book is that author Brae Wyckoff is both a fan of fantasy adventures and a man dedicated to using his writing craft to convey Biblical truth. It is one part Christian allegory, one part fantasy adventure. The Orb of Truth is a wild romp of a read, full of epic drama, humor and high adventure. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Suddenly, I wanted to write more about this small character. In fact that was how he came to have such an unusual name for a bear, for Paddington was the name of the station." Brown first met Paddington on a railway platform. We called him Paddington, so I typed the words: "Mr and Mrs. There being nothing more soul-destroying than staring at a blank sheet of paper hoping something will happen (it won't unless you make it), I was sitting at the typewriter one morning when my gaze happened to alight on a toy bear I had bought my wife for Christmas. As Gertrude Stein might have said-a book is a book is a book, and writing is perhaps even more of an agonizing process of distillation when it's for children. ![]() ![]() Without giving the matter any great thought, I had always regarded writing for children as a lesser form of creativity-quite untrue, of course. At that time I had been a part-time writer for about ten years, following a common progression in those days: short stories, newspaper and magazine articles, radio plays, plus a few short plays for television, I thought it was a good year if I sold one piece in ten. I wrote my first children's book in 1957 and it came about largely by accident. ![]() ![]() ![]() “You loved the humor and adventure…and you’ll marvel at wit, complexity, and its understanding of how children perceive the passage of time. A classic indeed.” - Los Angeles Review of Books ![]() “The book lingers long after turning the final page…. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. 50th Anniversary Edition, Hardcover, 288 pages. “The Phantom Tollbooth is the closest thing we have to a modern Alice in Wonderland.”- The Guardian The Phantom Tollbooth (Hardcover) Published October 25th 2011 by Knopf Books for Young Readers. I still have the book report I wrote, which began ‘ This is the best book ever.’”- The New York Times In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams….įeatures an appreciation by Maurice Sendak, award-winning author of Where the Wild Things Are! Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason! When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do.īut on the other side, things seem different. ![]() ![]() humorous, full of warmth and real invention” ( The New Yorker), this beloved story-first published more than fifty ago-introduces readers to Milo and his adventures in the Lands Beyond.įor Milo, everything’s a bore. ![]() ![]() ![]() She found herself instinctively drawn to the local parks and scraps of communal green spaces in her local south east London neighbourhood, and to therapy via tending a hidden garden deep within the city. Terrified at the prospect of adding another child into her already precariously balanced life, Rosie was compelled to find a new way of living. The surprise of a second pregnancy, so soon after the birth of her first son, plunged Rosie into a despair that spiralled into deep depression. This is a memoir that will make you weep, then roll up your sleeves and plant the seeds of a new life.' Cal Flyn author of Islands of Abandonment It's a story of vulnerability, persistence and the will to live. ![]() Beautiful and sad and hopeful all at once - luminous and lush, full of dirt, darkness, sun light and soft new growth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Truly, growing larger by the day, agrees to move in with Robert to help raise sweetly effeminate Bobbie. Robert and Amelia are called to identify her dead body in a nearby town. Shortly after their return to Aberdeen with seven-year-old Bobbie, Serena runs off. ![]() They marry and head to Buffalo where they remain for eight years while Bob Bob morphs into Dr. Popular Serena seems the lucky one, until doctor’s son Bob Bob date rapes and impregnates her. She finds a friend in Amelia Dyerson, whose poverty and learning disabilities make her an outsider like Truly, and in Marcus Thompson, another misfit because he’s so smart. The snobbish minister’s wife takes in conventionally pretty Serena, while freakishly large Truly ends up on the Dyersons’ hardscrabble farm. Debut novelist Baker attempts a contemporary fable about an epically proportioned young woman searching for love and acceptance in her upstate New York hometown.Īfter her mother dies giving birth to her, Truly Plaice grows up with petite sister Serena Jane under their father’s care until his death when Truly is 12. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why? Because it has one of the most compelling, interesting, and most fun stories that I’ve read in YA fantasy. ![]() However, An Ember in the Ashes is one of those YA fantasy series that just gets better and better with each story. An unforgettable story that will, yes, cause you painĬonfession: I am notoriously bad at reading book series, and much prefer standalone stories. If you have been waiting for a sign to read this book, here are my five signs to you: here are five reasons why you should read this series. ![]() I love this series immensely, and I have enjoyed every single book in this quartet, with each instalment getting better and better. Together, their destinies will collide, setting course for a whirlwind of a journey and challenges they would have never imagined. If you haven’t heard about this series, allow me to introduce to you this incredible YA high fantasy series: An Ember in the Ashes is a fantasy that follows Laia, a girl who agrees to spy for the rebellion in exchange for their help to free her brother, and Elias, a soldier of the Martial Empire who wants nothing more than to be free from the tyranny he’s been trained to enforce. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her mother is also devout, but to her own secular, feminist beliefs-protective of the expansive pleasures of being a woman and the power of owning your future. She is attracted to God and the poetry of prayer. Molly’s mother and father are Easter/Christmas Catholics-religious in the sense that these traditions are how they learned to measure out the years. “How Does a Person Become A Nun?” by Blair Hurley is a story about a girl named Molly who is very different from her mother, but in a way her mother recognizes. You will be able to do both of these things at the same time. But you will also be filled with moments of dread and terrifying recognition-you know what happens to people “like that” (like you). You will love the child for the mysterious new individual they grow into, of course. A wise person (who may or may not be my own mother) once told me that when you decide to have a child, you have to accept that the child might acquire the traits you hate and fear most in yourself and your partner. To have children is to take a leap of faith. ![]() ![]() In today’s post we’re taking a closer look at some translated book titles. Naemi and I have bonded over a shared love of languages ever since and even found that we have very similar reading tastes. I hadn’t exactly imagined that anyone would care about the Danish versions of Harry Potter, but I guess I should have expected them to draw other language nerds out of the woodwork. Naemi and I found each other’s blogs through those exact Harry Potter-posts I did, so us collaborating on a Lost in Translation post seemed bound to happen at some point. Now I finally have a new post for that series, and I even had some help this time from none other than Naemi Book Owl’s Corner. You may or may not remember that I had a series on this blog called Lost in Translation where I looked at the Danish versions of Harry Potter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hello, everyone, and welcome to a very special post I’ve been dying to share with you. “Det første man opdager, når ens hund lærer at tale, er, at hunde ikke har ret meget at sige.” First line in Knivens Stemme by Patrick Ness ![]() ![]() ![]() Hadley’s anger at her situation and changing ability is sensitively wrought, and her growth is organic and true in this touching story of acceptance, forgiveness, and interspecies friendship. Like Hadley, Keplinger ( That’s Not What Happened) is legally blind, and details, such as a passage about using a cane, lend the story authenticity. Spending time with Lila pushes Hadley to make some changes in her own life, accepting the hard things she faces and the love being offered. When Lila, a depressed pit bull at the rescue where Beth works as a trainer, takes to Hadley, the sisters are tasked with fostering Lila-socializing her so she can be adopted. ![]() She’s also navigating worsening eyesight due to retinitis pigmentosa, and the frustrations layer into sadness and anger-Hadley avoids speaking to her mom, lashes out at Beth, and refuses to take mobility classes as her condition advances. Year-old Hadley moves from Tennessee to stay with her estranged sister, Beth, in a Kentucky suburb. Kody Keplinger's edgy but adorable novel Shut Out shows exactly what goes on in the heads of teenagers And you might not always want to admit that you were once exactly like them Hamilton High is at war, and while the two rival sides, the soccer team and the football team, seem to enjoy their war, their girlfriends wish it would just end5 (). ![]() |