![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Leaves you believing not only in the redemptive power of music but above all the redemptive power of love. ‘It will give enormous pleasure at the same time as expanding in a small but worthwhile way, the range of English literature’ Independent on Sunday ![]() ![]() This astutely observed and wickedly funny book will be enjoyed by readers of David Nicholls and William Boyd, and by generations of readers to come. Soon, he’s asking himself some big questions: about love, about life – and about why we choose to share ours with the people we do.Ī million-copy bestseller, and adapted into a 2000 film starring John Cusack, High Fidelity explores the world of break-ups, make-ups and what it is to be in love. He’s stuck in a really deep groove – and it’s called Laura. He is also the author of Songbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award, and The Polysyllabic Spree, and the editor of the short story collection Speaking with the Angel. He can just do what he wants when he wants: like listen to whatever music he likes, look up the girls that are on his list, and generally behave as if Laura never mattered. HIGH FIDELITY NICK HORNBY is the author of the novels A Long Way Down, How to Be Good, High Fidelity, and About a Boy, and the memoir Fever Pitch. But Laura isn’t on it – even though she’s just become his latest ex. Nick Hornby’s internationally bestselling first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.ĭo you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Often described as the least of Tchaikovsky’s three ballets, it has been derided by scholars for its ‘trite’ plot (Clara’s ultimate reward, after rescuing her wooden prince, is a child’s paradise of sweets and hot beverages). Such is the kernel of this famous ballet, whose fate curiously mirrors that of its wooden protagonist. Yet it is to the least of his creations, a nutcracker carved in the form of a soldier, to whom Clara devotes herself and ultimately rescues when he comes to life. Bewigged and wearing an eyepatch, Drosselmeyer is a clock- and watch-maker, creator of the most ingenious automata. ![]() When the young Clara’s eccentric godfather, Drosselmeyer, drops in bearing gifts, it is clear this will be a Christmas like no other. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for Wretched Waterpark : A JLG selection! "Like a big waterslide that you scream all the way down, only to laugh in relief and get right back on, this book is gothically hilarious and an absolute delight. When Wil goes missing, rule following, cautious Alexander and competitive, brave Theo will have to work together to solve the mystery of Fathoms of Fun. And the owner disappeared under bizarre circumstances, lost to the Cold, Unknowable Sea-the wave pool. ![]() The few people they encounter are very, very odd. The waterslides are gray tongues extending from horrible gargoyle faces. Instead of cabanas, guests rent mausoleums. But Fathoms of Fun is not your typical waterpark. The twins are determined to make it a good vacation, though, so when Aunt Saffronia suggests a waterpark, they hastily agree. She's not exactly well equipped to handle children. ![]() Twelve-year-old twins Theodora and Alexander and their older sister Wilhelmina Sinister-Winterbottom don't know how they ended up with their Aunt Saffronia for an entire summer.
![]() ![]() He plans to keep track of his observations in a diary. Griffin decides to keep his name and his identity while he travels, only changing the color of his skin. ![]() Griffin warns his wife that he may suffer repercussions for his investigation, but she is supportive of his plan. Griffin turns to his friend, businessman George Levitan, who helps him come up with a plan to darken his skin using an anti-vitiligo drug. However, he realizes that he can never really understand what it is like to be black without experiencing it himself. Griffin, a white native of Mansfield, Texas, feels shocked and saddened by the treatment of African-Americans in the Deep South. In 1964, the book was made into a movie starring James Whitmore. Journalist John Howard Griffin’s nonfiction book Black Like Me (1961) explores racism and racial segregation under Jim Crowe laws in Louisiana, Georgia, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the Night City, is tasked with travelling back through the centuries to solve a mystery. These disparate narrative strands are woven together in the book’s fourth section, set in 2401. One odd scene in Olive’s book, inspired by an event in her life, involves a character who, like Edwin and Vincent, suffers a hallucinatory funny turn, in this case in the Airship Terminal in Oklahoma City. ![]() Then in 2203 Olive Llewellyn, an author, leaves her home in the second Moon colony and journeys to the Atlantic Republic on Earth to promote her novel about a pandemic, just as a new virus is rearing its head in Australia. Paul Smith, a composer and video artist, shows his audience footage of his half-sister Vincent-a main character in “The Glass Hotel”-having a similarly strange experience in a forest. The next section unfolds in New York in 2020. ![]() ![]() Here, Leslie and Jess rule supreme among the oaks and evergreens, safe from the bullies and ridicule of the mundane world. The friendship between the two grows as Jess guides the city girl through the pitfalls of life in their small, rural town, and Leslie draws him into the world of imaginations world of magic and ceremony called Terabithia. Then, unexpectedly, Jess finds himself sticking up for Leslie, for the girl who breaks rules and wins races. But his victory was stolen by a newcomer, by a girl, one who didn't even know enough to stay on the girls' side of the playground. ![]() All summer, Jess pushed himself to be the fastest boy in the fifth grade, and when the year's first school-yard race was run, he was going to win. The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gush and critique posts should contain the book title/author if applicable. Reviews and screenshots of book excerpts must contain the book title/author in the post title.Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for and/or keywords that will inform future searches.Rules Post titles must be clear and informative For updated information regarding ongoing community features includings upcoming AMAs, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with informative links about Book Clubs, AMAs, etc. ![]() Home of the magic search button and endless book recommendations as well as discussions about tropes and characters, Author AMAs, book clubs, and more. R/RomanceBooks is a discussion sub for readers of romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although she feels like dying, instead of enduring this misery, with encouragement from a new found mother, on the voyage, she some how finds the courage to carry on. Amari goes through being beaten, raped, fed very little, being constantly chained and living in waste in a hull of a ship. Amari is in pure shock and horror as she is chained and realizes her entire family was just slaughtered. ![]() When there is a bursting sound of a gun shot and everything turns into a chaotic mess of smoke and dust as everyone in the village, very young or old, is killed and all the young adults are rounded up for capture. It seems that nothing could go wrong until white-skinned strangers arrive in seemingly good intentions of making friends and trading. She's engaged to the most handsome man in the village, her father is a chief, and she loves her family. Sharon Draper's Copper Sun tells a riveting story of an African girl, named Amari, living in Africa who has everything going her way. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The authors take these complex ideas and whittle them down to a really simple bottom line- we need both men and women to ensure the future of the human race. The premise of this book is compelling, especially in a time when gender and sex are such popular topics of conversation. She begins to question all she’s been raised believing, and when she finally faces the truth, she wonders if humanity is even worth saving. However, when the meetings with the first two guys go horribly wrong, Eve is completely rocked. Three males have been selected as matches for her based on a variety of criteria. She is cared for and tended to, all in preparation for the day she will be ready to mate. As she is the only hope for perpetuating humanity, Eve is kept in a tower high above the masses. In the story, a phenomenon of male-only births have occurred inexplicably for fifty years, until one day, Eve is born. EVE OF MAN by Giovanna and Tom Fletcher is the latest in YA dystopias. ![]() ![]() ![]() Camilla and Charles MacAulay are a pair of fraternal twins. He is currently navigating a complex relationship with his mother, whose addictive personality and new husband give him cause for grief-especially as her new husband is so close to his age. Another trust-fund student, Francis Abernathy, is gay. ![]() ![]() He is handsome, highly intelligent, and secretive. Louis, where his family set him up with a trust fund. Edmund desperately tries to pretend his family is still wealthy, but his friends see through his pretense-and are namely annoyed by it. Although his family was once wealthy, the money is now gone, and his family has failed to adjust to their less-than-illustrious social status. Morrow has ties with royalty and celebrities alike.īunny is from Connecticut. He places his students on a pedestal, certain that they cannot do anything wrong, while he himself might have fallen under the scrutiny of the federal government. Julian is a mysterious, wealthy man who is deeply passionate about his subject. All six students study Greek-and a majority of their other classes-under Professor Julian Morrow. The six classics students are Edmund Corcoran-who goes by the nickname “Bunny”-Henry Winter, Francis Abernathy, Camilla and Charles MacAulay, and Richard Papen, the novel’s narrator. ![]() |
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