How Do You Make a Baby? by Anna Fiske6/10/2023 It’s a powerful tool to help children understand and explain the world and their life. Drawing is the first language that you get down on a paper. I have never stopped drawing or thinking about stories since I was a child. My memories of illustrations from those books are the earth for new books to grow in. I had difficulty learning to read as a child, so I would read through the pictures. I like to think of first reading experiences as like topsoil, where all the other books grow from. How did you come to illustration as a career? How Do You Make a Baby? is a funny, forthright non-fiction picturebook book about how babies are made and different ways to be a family. She has received numerous awards and been published around the world. How Do You Make a Baby?: Q&A with Anna FiskeĪnna Fiske is an illustrator, author and cartoonist who lives in Norway.
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Hathaway series seduce me at sunrise6/10/2023 Mine till Midnight does the heavy lifting setting up the Hathaway series and the subsequent novels allow for frequent visits with the siblings. They are still recovering from these events when the first book opens. The five Hathaway siblings, Leo, Amelia, Win, Poppy, and Beatrix, were raised in an eccentric academic family, happy in their seclusion when a series of events changed their lives: their father died, their mother followed him, Leo’s beloved fiancée succumbed to scarlet fever, Leo and Win almost did as well, and then Leo inherited a peerage forcing a change in circumstances and location. If Courtney Milan is the reigning romance queen, she inherited the crown from Kleypas when she abdicated the historical genre. So while waiting for the new Julie Anne Long, I have re-read the Hathaway series by Lisa Kleypas. For every new historical romance author discovery, such as Juliana Gray, there is a little pile of disappointment at my bedside. Kier la janisse house of psychotic women6/10/2023 This sharply-designed book with a 32-page full-colour section is packed with rare stills, posters, pressbooks and artwork that combine with family photos and artifacts to form a titillating sensory overload, with a filmography that traverses the acclaimed and the obscure in equal measure. Anecdotes and memories interweave with film history, criticism, trivia and confrontational imagery to create a reflective personal history and an examination of female madness, both onscreen and off. Named after the U.S.-retitling of Carlos Aured's The Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll, House of Psychotic Women is an examination of these characters through a daringly personal autobiographical lens. Unlike her male counterpart - 'the eccentric' - the female neurotic lives a shamed existence, making these films those rare places where her destructive emotions get to play. Horror fans are such an enthusiastic audience. Filmmaker and author Kier-La Janisse tells The Letterboxd Show about cultivating the cinematic canon of female madness via her book, House of Psychotic Women. Horror as a genre provides the most welcoming platform for these histrionics: crippling paranoia, desperate loneliness, masochistic death-wishes, dangerous obsessiveness, apocalyptic hysteria. One of cinema’s ultimate psychotic women: Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill in Possession (1981). House of Psychotic Women is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films.Ĭinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen. It is perfect (depending on their reading level) for older elementary or middle school students. This book is ideal for the new novel reader, young tween or teen. This has some unseen twists which compliment the storyline well., I want to make everyone aware of a rather fun novel called "Trueman Bradley: Aspie Detective" by Alexei Maxim Russell. Truman's character, mannerisms and the way he logically does things made for interesting reading. I thought this was an easy to read and follow book. Whilst it's not meant as a work of non-fiction, I feel I've come away with some insights as to what Asperger's is, the prejudices surrounding it and an idea of how someone with Asperger's might behave. Though he wants to be a famous crime solving detective like his comic heroes Slam Bradley and Dick Tracy, Trueman, and his Aspergers, teaches readers that sometimes the bravest things we are required to do in life are those that we take for granted - being able to cross the street, and make true friends., The writing style is very simple, straightforward language - in keeping with the thought processes of the protagonist - but the plot twists are complex and interesting, and fit together well., Let me start by saying I didn't know a lot about Asperger's Syndrome prior to reading this. Trueman Bradley is an endearing, plucky, and determined protagonist who has readers cheering for him throughout the book. Pride and prejudice annotations6/9/2023 Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. An introduction, a bibliography, and a detailed chronology of events Of course, one can enjoy the novel without knowing the precise definition of a gentleman, or what it signifies that a character drive Maps and illustrations f places and objects mentioned in the novel. Literary comments and analyses nsightful notes highlight Austen's artistry and point out the subtle ways she develops her characters and themes. Definitions and clarifications rchaic words, words still in use whose meanings have changed, and obscure passages are explained. Citations from Austen's life, letters, and other writings arallels between the novel and Austen's experience are revealed, along with writings that illuminate her beliefs and opinions. Here is the complete text of Pride and Prejudice with more than 2,300 annotations on facing pages, including- Explanations of historical context ules of etiquette, class differences, the position of women, legal and economic realities, leisure activities, and more. "This first-ever fully annotated edition of one of the most beloved novels in the world is a sheer delight for Jane Austen fans. Don't worry though it is actually easy to navigate. Again, is a big website with many different features. Just because a book is listed on Bookshelves, does not mean it is available through the Review Team. The Review Team program is a separate part of than Bookshelves. does have a different section of the website called the Review Team, which offers free books in exchange for review. Bookshelves is not for downloading or buying books directly. Similarly, books are not available to purchase directly from. One important thing to note is that books are generally not available to download directly from Bookshelves, and nowhere on our website do we represent they are. In one way, Bookshelves is the version of Goodreads, except with Bookshelves you are able to get a much more personalized experience. 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The wych elm by tana french6/9/2023 'French offers a masterclass in unreliability' Sunday Times 'Lyrical, suspenseful, unpredictable' Harlan Coben 'This book confirms Tana French as biggest contemporary star' Guardian He seeks refuge at his family's ancestral home, the Ivy House, filled with memories of wild-strawberry summers and teenage parties with his cousins.īut not long after Toby's arrival, a discovery is made: a skull, tucked neatly inside the old wych elm in the garden.Īs detectives begin to close in, Toby is forced to examine everything he thought he knew about his family, his past, and himself.Ī spellbinding book from a novelist who takes crime writing and turns it inside out, The Wych Elm asks what we become, and what we're capable of, if we no longer know who we are. He's always led a charmed life - until a brutal attack leaves him damaged and traumatised, unsure even of the person he used to be. 'I'm a big fan of Tana French' IAN RANKIN 'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully written mystery' SOPHIE HANNAH ' One of the most compulsive psychological mysteries since Donna Tartt's The Secret History' THE TIMES From the writer whose novels inspired the BBC's Dublin Murders TV series. Experimental film by gemma files6/9/2023 The award-winning author of the Hexslinger Series explores the world of film and horror in a way that will leave you reeling (Jeff VanderMeer, author. Increasingly ill and unstable, Lois is tormented by an existential nightmare that's part Wendish folklore and part cinematic hallucination projected off the screen and into real life. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. As the malign influence of Whitcomb's muse creeps into Lois's life, even her son is endangered. Macalla Whitcomb reveals troubling links between her subject's life and her own. Could an early twentieth-century socialite who mysteriously disappeared also have been one of Canada's first female movie-makers? A sampled piece of silver nitrate silent film footage might prove Lois's case.īut soon, Lois's quest to discover the truth about Mrs. Then Lois attends a program of experimental film-and notices what might be a major discovery. Caught in a depressive spiral, Lois is convinced she's a failure who's spent her adult life writing about other people's dreams without ever pursuing her own. An obscure piece of silent film draws a woman into madness in this "remarkable achievement" by the "Canadian horror luminary" ( Los Angeles Review of Books).įormer film critic Lois Cairns is fired from her teaching job just when her son Clark is diagnosed on the autism spectrum. He’s quite comfortable around adults and able to engage in proper conversations with them. Initially, Timothy comes across as friendly and helpful, even charming. In this case, it’s a lonely teenage boy called Timothy Gedge, who is obsessed with a serial killer from the past, and the setting is a small village where everyone knows everyone else and therefore can’t escape or ignore the lad. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I picked up his 1976 novel The Children of Dynmouth, but it didn’t take long for me to feel that I was on familiar William Trevor turf in which he takes a seemingly ordinary character with eccentric traits and lets them loose in a confined setting, such as a pub ( Mrs Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel), boarding house ( Miss Gomez and the Brethren) or hospital ward ( Elizabeth Alone), to see what will unfold. The first Sunday of the month means it’s time to review another William Trevor book as part of A Year With William Trevor, which I am co-hosting with Cathy from 746 Books. A Year With William Trevor | #WilliamTrevor2023įiction – paperback Penguin 195 pages 2014. However, this section could have been shorter and more concise, allowing more space to look at the actual topic the book is written about.Ĭitations: I didn’t like how Loades wrote his citations as endnotes rather than footnotes. What is interesting is his outline of other key political marriages from the fifteenth century, which set a pattern for the sixteenth. Preface: Loades’s introduction adds some contextual information of the world of sixteenth century politics in which these women were key players. What is lacking about this and similar titles is that it isn’t very imaginative and suggests that the author will simply be looking at the same things that have been covered before. It’s simple and straight to the point, making it clear what the book is about. Title: There seems to be quite a lot of books entitled The Six Wives of Henry VIII or something very similar, including works by David Starkey, Antonia Fraser and Alison Weir. ‘The Six Wives of Henry VIII’ by David Loades (2010).ĭavid Loades, ‘The Six Wives of Henry VIII’ (Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2010) Paperback, ISBN 978-1-4456-0049-9 |