The speech is all about the gap between quality and mass merchandising and the need to sell consumers on an enticing façade so they will overlook everything else. The sinister, powerful and thoroughly corrupt millionaire working to pull every string possible to keep Marlowe one step behind the truth, Harlan Potter, at one point goes off on a tangent that appears to be a pointless digression. Or, since there is only one writer, not many readers and a whole lot of deceptive people, perhaps a more fitting piece of advice that aptly describes the book is “caveat emptor.” Marlowe become entangled with a host of characters wrapped in pretty packages, but who are revealed to be various levels of junk once the wrapper comes off. If The Long Goodbye could boiled down to just one descriptive proverbial piece of advice it might be that one about judging books by their covers. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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She’s a scientist, which is why she can’t think of anything worse than having to help out her dad on one of his ghost-themed Chicago bus tours. “Scritch Scratch” is a chilling ghost story based on real Chicago history about a malevolent spirit, an unlucky girl and a haunting mystery that will tie the two together.Ĭlaire has absolutely no interest in the paranormal. Stine, author of Goosebumps and Fear Street series in this way: “This is a teeth-chattering, eyes bulging, shuddering-and-shaking, chills-at-the-back-of-your-neck ghost story. The Grade 3-5 selection, “Scritch Scratch” is described by R.L. Esplin, it is discovered that the fathers’ eccentricities weren’t unwarranted. While one journey is supernatural, and the other is of survival, in both “Scritch Scratch” by Lindsay Currie, and “96 Miles” by J.L. The two books selected by Kansas schoolchildren for the 2023 William Allen White Children’s Book Awards center around the journeys of children with eccentric fathers. 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Violet is a seer and a liar, influencing the court with her cleverly phrased - and not always true - divinations. There's always a price for defying destiny. A native of the island of Lesbos, she resided in its largest city, Mytilene. Little of certainty is known about her life. Sappho was born sometime between 630 and 617 BCE and died around 570. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. This is a new translation of her surviving poetry.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. The surviving texts consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry-among them poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, resignation and remembrance-that nevertheless enables us to hear the living voice of the poet Plato called the tenth Muse. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. You can visit her online at In the second book of the carve the mark duology, globally bestselling divergent author veronica roth reveals how cyra and akos fulfill their fates. 1 new york times bestselling author of divergent, insurgent, allegiant, and four: a divergent collection. In a stunning twist, the two will discover how fate defines their lives in ways most unexpected. For cyra, that could mean taking the life of the man who may - or may not - be her father. And when cyra's father, lazmet noavek - a soulless tyrant, thought to be dead - reclaims the shotet throne, akos believes his end is closer than ever.Īs lazmet ignites a barbaric war, cyra and akos are desperate to stop him at any cost. The fates, once determined, are inescapable.Īkos is in love with cyra, in spite of his fate: he will die in service to cyra's family. The lives of cyra noavek and akos kereseth are ruled by their fates, spoken by the oracles at their births. The fates divide is a richly imagined tale of hope and resilience told in four stunning perspectives. In the second book of the carve the mark duology, globally bestselling divergent author veronica roth reveals how cyra and akos fulfill their fates. 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Boundaries in Dating offers illuminating insights for romance that can help you grow in freedom, honesty, and self-control as you pursue healthy dating limits that can lead to a happy marriage.ĭating can be fun, but it's not easy. It has been categorized as "a work of fiction which combines a body of fables with the work of analysis and deconstruction" many critics believe the technique was Joyce's attempt to recreate the experience of dreams and hypnagogia, reproducing the way in which concepts, memories, people and places become amalgamated in dreaming. It is written in a largely idiosyncratic language which blends standard English with neologisms, portmanteau words, Irish mannerisms and puns in multiple languages to create a refracted effect. Written over a period of seventeen years and published in 1939, the novel was Joyce's final work. It is well known for its experimental style and its reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the Western canon. Finnegans Wake is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. Instead, she “sleeps in the living room, behind a screen, on a small sofa with broken springs”.įrl Schroeder is just one of the many eccentric and colourful characters Isherwood brings to life on the page. Such is her poor financial situation, that Frl Schroeder has had to take in five lodgers, leaving her without a room of her own. She calls Isherwood “Herr Issyvoo” and takes a keen interest in his life, and that of her other lodgers. The flat is owned by Fräulein Schroeder, who was once fairly well off but like so many other Germans has fallen on hard times. Beginning in Autumn 1930, we find Isherwood living in a “large, dingy flat” above a busy street of shops, where prostitutes gather beneath his window. Characters are minimally described, but prior entries and names signal some diversity in the default White cast. Inventive plotting, spooky atmospherics, and quirky humor will keep readers entertained. Eclipsing clowns in sheer creepiness, the mimes are nastily memorable creations. When quick-witted, intrepid Violet is sidelined, cautious, risk-averse Herbie needs a gutsy plan and help from Erwin, the oracular cat, and Clermit, the charming, clockwork hermit crab. Fossil disappears and Shadowghast sightings accumulate, the two put aside differences for dangerous investigations that lead to Sebastian Eels’ empty house and the Netherways, a labyrinth of underground passageways. Violet, Herbie’s fellow orphan, is skeptical-and also worried because her guardian is missing. Caliastra dazzles Herbie claiming she’s his aunt, she invites him to be her assistant. They’re blindsided when charismatic stage magician Caliastra arrives with her agent and two mimes, planning to re-create the story theatrically. Fossil retell these historical events annually. Cheated of payment by Eerie’s duplicitous mayor, the puppet master fed his shadow to the Shadowghast. The holiday commemorates a stranger’s mesmerizing shadow-puppet show in which Eerie townsfolk watched the shadow of a grinning, horned man chase and consume fleeing shadows, human and otherwise. Instead of Halloween, Eerie-on-Sea townsfolk celebrate Ghastly Night, lighting manglewick candles to keep the legendary Shadowghast from stealing their shadows. The novel has a few different covers, with he first one being a vinyl record player, which is significant because the novel ended with loud music from it. However, the deeper analysis of the novel happens after the second and third read. The book is a quick read -177 pages- and can be easily digested by reading it once. The title of the book is intriguing because Brother is a word that represents loyalty, love, and dedication, but also disappointment, struggles and pain. Interestingly enough, Chariandy dedicated Brother to Austin Clarke the first black professional writer in Canada who gave voice to simple black domestic workers through his novels ( ). The author is David Chariandy, who lived in Scarborough as a child his mom was a domestic worker from Trinidad and dad was South Asian. Hope, social injustice, sibling loyalty, rebellion, and the importance of honoring the dead being all wrapped around the veil of a constant battle between learning, unlearning, and relearning follow the themes of Sophocle’s drama. David Chariandy starts Brother by quoting a line from Antigone a very brief reference but powerful enough to accurately present the major themes of his novel. |