![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Anyone Can Die: There's a war on, so yes.This novel and film provides examples of: In 2003, The Cruel Sea was placed 113th in The BBC Big Reads Top 200 Books. The novel was adapted into an Ealing Studios film in 1953, starring Jack Hawkins and Donald Sinden. They survive the war having sunk a single U-Boat in five years of nearly continuous combat. The plot comes to a head when Compass Rose is torpedoed by a German U-boat, and the survivors are reassigned to the River-class frigate Saltash. The crew of the corvette HMS Compass Rose are subjected to all of the discomfort, boredom, and occasional horror of the Battle of the Atlantic. The main plot focuses on two Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Sub-Lieutenants, Lockhart and Ferraby, although the novel portrays point of view of a number of other crew members, including Commander Ericson, Lieutenant Morell, Chief Engine Room Artificer Watts and Petty Officer Tallow. The Cruel Sea is a novel about life on a Flower-class corvette in the Royal Navy in World War II, written by Nicholas Monsarrat. ![]()
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![]() For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received.īut a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. Dunworthy opened the door to the laboratory and his spectacles promptly steamed up.įor Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. This book hit me very hard, it put me through all the emotions, and I still have wet eyes as I type this. I understand that many people are different and want to steer away from post-apocalyptic fiction and zombie novels as long as the world is in lock-down, but I find a strange kind of comfort in reading about situations similar – but thankfully, different enough! – to ours. ![]() ![]() ![]() Apparently, I’m the kind of person who feels the need to read books about epidemics during an acutal real-world pandemic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Diseases that were contained are being set free and the results are potentially catastrophic. Read this gripping, timely book about the transmission of deadly viruses from animal to human populations, and how we can fight the current Covid-19 pandemic.Īs globalization spreads and as we destroy the ancient ecosystems, we encounter strange and dangerous infections that originate in animals but that can be transmitted to humans. A gripping, timely book about the transmission of deadly viruses from animal to human populations, and how we can fight the current Covid-19 pandemic ![]() ![]() ![]() Maggie attacks newly-arrived Wade at the Tasty Bucket, costing Jared his job. Jared begins cooking more drugs to sell at a party but he is attacked by a look-alike and robbed. Both are jobless, and Maggie owes money to drug dealer Richie while Phil's girlfriend Destiny is pregnant. Underachieving high school student Jared sells the drug "ecstasy" from the Tasty Bucket restaurant drive-thru to pay the bills for his parents, who separated a year ago. Joel Thomas Hynes as Richie, Maggie's boyfriend.Craig Lauzon as Phil Nelson, Jared's father.Georgina Lightning as Sophia, Jared's grandmother.Nathan Alexis as Crashpad, Jared's best friend. ![]() Crystle Lightning as Maggie, Jared's mother.The series centres on Jared, an Indigenous Haisla teenager and small-time drug dealer in Kitimat, British Columbia, who becomes increasingly aware of the magical events that seem to follow him. The series was renewed for a second season prior to the first season's premiere however, these plans were eventually cancelled on January 29, 2021, due to controversy around Michelle Latimer's Indigenous heritage. ![]() The series is created by Tony Elliott and Michelle Latimer with Latimer also directing, and is adapted from Eden Robinson's 2017 novel Son of a Trickster. Trickster is a Canadian coming-of-age supernatural thriller drama television series, which premiered on CBC Television on October 7, 2020. ![]() ![]() And, perhaps least productively in that same year, he was returned to the House of Commons for Liskeard, Cornwall through the intervention of his relative and patron, Edward Eliot. In late 1774, he was initiated a freemason of the Premier Grand Lodge of England. He succeeded Oliver Goldsmith at the Royal Academy as 'professor in ancient history' (honorary but prestigious). Johnson's Literary Club, and looked in from time to time on his friend Holroyd in Sussex. ![]() He took to London society quite easily, and joined the better social clubs, including Dr. By February 1773, he was writing in earnest, but not without the occasional self-imposed distraction. His father died in 1770, and after tending to the estate, which was by no means in good condition, there remained quite enough for Gibbon to settle fashionably in London at 7 Bentinck Street, independent of financial concerns. ![]() The Decline and Fall is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open criticism of organised religion. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 17. Edward Gibbon ( – 16 January 1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament. ![]() ![]() ![]() The tactics used to push Sasha into enrolling in the first place are cruel, and they don’t lighten up once she’s there, with the school leadership coming across as entirely unconcerned with ordinary concepts of morality. It’s clear from the beginning that Vita Nostra’s version of magic school isn’t going to be fun and games. The novel follows Sasha through the end of high school and the first stage of her university career, as things go from odd and creepy to outright mind-bending. ![]() This is not a book that lends itself to an easy plot summary, but we start with Sasha, our teenage heroine, being manipulated by a mysterious stranger into reorganizing her life so as to put her on a collision course with an obscure rural institute of higher learning. I don’t have extensive experience with New Weird, but Vita Nostra feels like it could at least be a cousin. While there are coming-of-age elements, this doesn’t read like young adult literature at all-it reminds me more of Jeff VanderMeer’s work than of any other magic school novel I’ve read. But unlike the last magic school novel I read, this one is about as far from Harry Potter as you can imagine. The 2007 novel by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko was brought to the English market with a 2018 translation by Julia Meitov Hersey, and the dark magic school novel came with a solid wave of rave reviews. It’s hard to know where to start with Vita Nostra. ![]() ![]() ![]() So, it seems that this very fortunate child is being raised by parents that are exposing him to science and to art. His other Dad, a doctor, says that between both Dads they have two of the most important jobs: "one heals bodies the other souls." As an important lesson is taught in a friendly accessible way. ![]() If the story were to end there, it would be mission accomplished. You see, one of the boy’s Dads, is a clown and the boy knows the job is very important because his Dad has the ability to make people laugh. Unperturbed by his classmate’s attempt at name calling, the boy kisses him on the cheek and continues on his day. This story helps us remember and helps us explain it to our kids. Nowadays my child’s answer is something with “lasers.” As parents, oftentimes we forget the huge impact we can have on our children’s choices. A fireman, a toll collector (do we still have those?), a teacher are among the most popular (at least they used to be when I was a kid) answers. The question: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” is routinely asked of children starting from the moment they can string sentences together perhaps because grownups want to fill the void of awkward silence with something. ![]() The other day at school, a classmate got angry at me and said ‘Clown!’ So begins our story and our entry into this black, white, grey and red world created by Andrés and Hernández, where a boy walks us through a few moments in his life and the impact his two dads have had on it. ![]() ![]() If Netflix does indeed make a new season, the show could continue to tell David, Adele, Rob, and Louise’s stories. $13 at Amazon What Would Season Two Be About? Check back here for all the updates on season renewal news for Behind Her Eyes. As seen with recent Netflix smash hits like Bridgerton and Fate: The Winx Saga, the streaming giant powers that be usually wait a month or so before moving forward with series renewals, even for shows that generate as much buzz as Behind Her Eyes has. streaming chart-it is possible that Netflix will order a new season of the thriller. ![]() Given the show’s popularity, however-as of Feb. Netflix released Behind Her Eyes as a limited series, which means it was originally intended to be a standalone season. Has Behind Her Eyes Been Renewed for a Season Two? No matter which new direction the show may take, here is everything we know about Season Two of Behind Her Eyes. ![]() ![]() There are plenty of unanswered questions and character details left out of the narrative in Season One, and it could be satisfying to see some of those answers come to light in a new season. If there were another season, I would watch out of sheer curiosity just to see where showrunners can possibly take the story once we know that (spoiler!) Adele was really Rob, and that Rob’s soul has now hijacked Louise’s body and married David again. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After all, you actually need to write to consider yourself a writer. His advice for himself? He’s taking the same tip he gives to budding writers: Just put pen to paper. As a beloved author in the world of science fiction, the pressure is on now that he’s writing his next book. Project Hail Mary and Artemis really hone in on space as a character, and Weir acknowledges as much when he talks about his books’ structure. Since completing The Martian, Weir has kept his eyes trained on worlds beyond ours. ![]() In no time, The Martian was a bestseller, and on its way to becoming a massively popular movie. After creating weekly blog posts to share his work, thousands of his fans requested he publish it on Amazon - and the rest, as they say, is history. Before he became a self-published, best-selling author, Weir spent two decades working as a software engineer, and it wasn’t until he was laid off that he actually got to pursue writing as more than just a hobby. Sandra and Sandy are excited to welcome Andy Weir, renowned author of Project Hail Mary and, more famously, The Martian to the podcast. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a story that can fall flat if not handled delicately, but Sandra Brown has created an absolutely delightful little book that captures all the confusion, emotional chaos and forbidden sexual attraction that the two protagonists experience. The premise is one of my favorites: two high school buddies who have always had the most wonderful platonic relationship, suddenly fall in love with each other. A few hours, barring interruptions, should be enough to devour it, and I am sure it will provide for some moments of unadulterated reading pleasure. It is a light, sexy, feel-good book and a perfect summer read. A Whole New Light, however, is in my opinion one of her best series romances. Despite contrived plots, too many virginal heroines to count and slightly outdated moral standards, they appeal to me on a gut-level. ![]() Sandra Brown’s series romances are my guilty pleasures. ![]() |