![]() ![]() ![]() He gets big points from me for focusing on his youngest after the start of WW2 he had to have been worried about his oldest boys, who were 22 and 19 in 1939. They offer a lovely snapshot of family life and what Tolkien was like as a father. With dates from 1920-1943, many contain wonderful little stories that are so very creative and sweetly innocent. Who knows? It might even inspire some parents to add a little spice to Christmas mornings, themselves.įunny, charming letters from Father Christmas written by Tolkien to his children, in reply to their letters. This audio experience is just as much silly fun for the older as it is for the younger. This audiobook is recommended to listeners who enjoy a bit of imagination blended into their Christmas holiday and want something shorter than two hours in length. ![]() ![]() Hats off to Derek Jacobi, John Moffatt, and Christian Rodska for bringing these fun little characters to life and putting a smile on the faces of listeners everywhere. The narration was also absolutely terrific, it's hard to imagine anyone could have done better. The level of creativity is heart warming as the letters relate the yearly adventures of Father Christmas and his helpers as they prepare to make their great gift deliveries, most notably the clumsy and lovable North Polar Bear. This book is less a book and more of a collection of letters from "Father Christmas" and his silly companions to the children of the famous author J.R.R. Heart warming letters from a creative father. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And sure as the night, one of them will die. As trust beyond her small circle of friends begins to vanish, Gwen has only fury and vengeance to believe in as she closes in on her prey. She’s learned how from one of the sickest killers alive.īut what she’s up against is beyond anything she feared-a sophisticated and savage mind game calculated to destroy her. Now, with the help of Sam Cade, brother of one of Melvin’s victims, Gwen is going hunting. Gwen leaves her children in the protective custody of a fortified, well-armed neighbor. Her refuge at Stillhouse Lake has become a trap. Gwen Proctor won the battle to save her kids from her ex-husband, serial killer Melvin Royal, and his league of psychotic accomplices. Now her eyes are open, and he’s not going away. ![]() Spoiler Alert: as Killman Creek is a sequel both the blurb and my review contain spoilers for Stillhouse Lake.Įvery time Gwen closed her eyes, she saw him in her nightmares. It’s a fast paced and gripping story that still has a few surprises in store. One of my most anticipated reads, the sequel to Stillhouse Lake didn’t let me down. ![]() ![]() The book was adapted into a film starring Chloe Grace Moretz, which is scheduled to premiere at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah in January.ĭanforth is writing her next novel on a yearlong sabbatical from teaching creative writing and literature courses at Rhode Island College, and took some time out of her busy day to chat with Autostraddle staff writer Molly Priddy, also a Montanan, about the upcoming film.Īnd to help set the mood of growing up queer in the ’90s, we’re peppering in some of Emily’s own pictures from her childhood in Miles City, Montana through her college years, because they’re sweet and amazing and all of the captions are her own. The novel was well-received critically, and it opened up a conversation for and about rural queerness and how living in sparsely populated, conservative places in the United States shapes those experiences. In 2012, Emily Danforth published her novel, “The Miseducation of Cameron Post,” following the story of a young girl in Montana who discovers her sexuality and is sent to a conversion therapy program. ![]() ![]() The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Something interesting always happened when she shrank. Pepperpot, who wasn't a bit scared, jumped on the cat's back and went to see what she could see. Now you can come along and see something no human has ever seen. Pepperpot could understand animal language when she went small). What a bit of luck! said the cat (for Mrs. Good gracious! cried Mrs Pepperpot this time, as she rolled over in the snow. Pepperpot before, you will know that she had the unfortunate habit of turning small, just the size of a pepperpot, at the most inconvenient moments. Pepperpot was just putting the cat out when suddenly - she shrank! If you have met Mrs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When evil once again begins to stalk Arkadia, Connor is suddenly on a timeline to find his missing mate before a maniac kills the one person to give him the solace he desperately craves. The only problem is that the man he truly is, isn't what Arkadia knows him to be. When Madison dismisses him easily he knows he will have to take drastic measures for his mate to see the man he is. ![]() With his mind burdened with the terrible images of the killer's aftermath, he's not looking to find his mate. Will she let perception cloud her judgment to the point where she may lose her mate? Connor Arkadion is on the brink of exhaustion, helping to track a serial killer. No matter how downright sexy the man is, she has trouble seeing beyond his apron. Upon moving to Arkadia, Madison Claybourne, a high-powered New York lawyer, discovers that she is mated to the diner's busboy. ![]() ![]() A California teen killed herself after she was raped and the video was passed around at school.įurthermore, online privacy is not just about sex. A Sprint employee was caught sharing intimate photos he’d nabbed from a female customer’s old phone. ![]() A hacker secretly turned on the web cam of a Miss Teen USA’s computer and tried to blackmail her with nude photos. “The sad fact is that women have more reasons to be concerned about online privacy than men do,” investigative tech reporter Violet Blue writes, “because women are at a greater risk for physical violence and are directly targeted more often than men.”īlue proves that the dangers are very real. ![]() The Smart Girl’s Guide to Privacy should be given to every teenage girl with an Internet connection. For girls and women in the technological age, this guide to Internet safety is a must-read. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even though an urban fantasy because it dealt with magic, witches, and other beings, underneath it also had elements of dub-con and manipulation. ![]() This tale curved a little darker than the first. Sammy has also found himself strapped with another male Witch-Master Killian’s familiar, Aloysius, has decided to play protector and matchmaker once more. Sammy’s dilemma with these gorgeous men is the fact that the one guy he’s known for years is both human and straight, so completely unavailable, while the new guy, is mysterious, charming, an art major like Sammy, and for reasons Sammy cannot fathom, Lucian wants him. The second guy Sammy has prophetically painted is exquisite and could have only come from heaven…or fallen from there, only time will tell. The first, his crush since their first year in college, Ryder, who has returned from summer vacation so changed he is hardly recognizable, and if Sammy found him attractive before, he is definitely the stuff of Sammy’s dreams now. In this delightfully wicked tale, young witch Sammy, who is an art major and prophetic witch painter by nature, finds himself painting two gorgeous Men. ![]() ![]() Book two in The Aloysius Tales picks up a year after book one. ![]() ![]() Created in the legacy of the award-winning anthology series Dark Matter, Africa Risen celebrates the vibrancy, diversity, and reach of African and Afro-Diasporic SFF and reaffirms that Africa is not rising-it’s already here. This month we talk with Sheree, Oghenechovwe, and Zelda about their experiences working together to create this anthology as well as their seminal work to help raise Black speculative fiction voices and stories. Adam Kirsch, The Global Novel: Writing the World in the 21st Centuryįrom award-winning editorial team Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight comes an anthology of 32 original stories showcasing the breadth of fantasy and science fiction from Africa and the African diaspora: Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction ( Tordotcom, November 2022). The local gains dignity, and significance, insofar as it can be seen as a part of a worldwide phenomenon. Life lived here is experienced in its profound and often unsettling connections with life lived elsewhere, and everywhere. ![]() In this way, it is faithful to the way the global is actually lived-not through the abolition of place, but as a theme by which place is mediated. ![]() The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to other kinds of fiction, but as a perspective that governs the interpretation of experience. Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series ![]() ![]() ![]() Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye and the writing of F. As a teenager, Chbosky "enjoyed a good blend of the classics, horror, and fantasy." He was heavily influenced by J. Chbosky has a sister, Stacy, who is married to director John Erick Dowdle. Chbosky, a steel company executive and consultant to CFOs. He is the son of Lea (née Meyer), a tax preparer, and Fred G. Early life Ĭhbosky was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was raised the suburb of Upper St. His first psychological horror novel, Imaginary Friend, was published in October 2019. Most recently, he directed the 2017 drama Wonder and the 2021 film adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen. He is best-known for writing the bestselling coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999), as well as for writing and directing the 2012 film adaptation of the book. Stephen Chbosky ( / ʃ ə ˈ b ɒ s k i/ born January 25, 1970) is an American screenwriter, film producer, film director, novelist, television writer, and television producer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Had the convention dissolved, any number of adverse outcomes could have resulted, including civil war or a reversion to monarchy. ![]() The Philadelphia convention could easily have been a failure, and the risk of collapse was always present. Based on prodigious research and told largely through the voices of the participants, Michael Klarman's The Framers' Coup narrates how the Framers' clashing interests shaped the Constitution-and American history itself. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them "e all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views."e One need not deny that the Framers had good intentions in order to believe that they also had interests. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. ![]() |