So far, I think that most of the books on the list had several things going for them. What also didn’t help, was the dry as dirt 80-page introductory notes and 100+ pages of end-notes and additional material in the back of this volume. Even by the proper standards, adjusted to seven year-olds, she’s annoying to an extreme degree. Alice is a whiny kid, obsessed with doing the proper things to do. Sure, there are a couple of entertaining episodes in the book, but overall, I thought it was a bore. When I put together my list of 40 books to read before my 40th birthday, I thought that Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There might be a nice fit: after all, it is a classic, and I probably wouldn’t have read it otherwise.Īs it turns out, I probably wouldn’t have missed much if I hadn’t read them. All I remember of it was that Alice was a bit of a whiny kid, and that it was pretty out there. I think I’ve seen Disney’s Alice in Wonderland only once, many years ago. Posted J& filed under 40 books before 40, First Lines. First Lines: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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His father being betrayed by a nearby tribe and his entire family abandoning him, which left him all alone to die on the harsh plain. Born with the name Temujin and a khan’s son he was raised in a hunters’ clan moving its way through the rugged steppe. “Wolf of the Plains” is the first novel in the “Conqueror” series and was released in the year 2007. This is just like another series that this author writes, which is called the “Emperor” series (which Conn Iggulden wrote before this one). He mentions the differences in his author’s note found at the end of book. That being said, however, Iggulden does move away from the sources to tell a better story. “The Secret History of the Mongols” serves as the source material for this series. The series ended in the year 2011 with the release of the fifth book, which is called “Conqueror”. The series began in the year 2007 with the release of “Wolf of the Plains”. It is set during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, during the Mongol conquest. The “Conqueror” series written by author Conn Iggulden is from the historical fiction genre and it is about Genghis Khan and those that succeeded him (Ogedai and Kublai Khan). It’s very different from my 2001 book on top incomes in France, in that it looks at some two dozen countries, instead of just one, covers a period of several centuries and considers wealth in terms of assets, as well as incomes. How do you explain the relative lack of national specificities-and to what extent can these long-run results serve to predict the future?Ĭapital in the twenty-first century outlines a general interpretative framework for data that has been collected by an entire team. footnote 1 The results for different countries in terms of wealth distribution are remarkably uniform they represent a challenge both to ‘convergence’ theories and to the notion that levels of inequality tend to decline over time. Your new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, synthesizes the results of a deeply impressive research programme, using a comparative, long-term approach. It was one sweaty encounter I’ll never forget. So when my dumb-as-bricks frat bro is scoping out the house for a little experimenting fun, I throw out the offer like it isn’t the most nerve-racking thing I’ve ever considered. MIKE BRAVO OPS: ROGUE Mike Bravo Ops 2 by Eden Finley Release Blitz Release Date: JCover Design: Cate Ashwood Designs Photo: Peter Henry Serres Model: Alex Genre: M/M Military Romance Trope: Frienemies to lovers, found family Synopsis TRAV I remember the first time I met Dylan Rodriguez. When is it my turn to let loose for a moment? Study, frat duties, planning for the future. My brothers get annoyed when I put a damper on their plans, and wrangling drunken frat brothers isn’t how I pictured my Saturday nights of senior year. The problem is, the one guy who’s up for the ride is the last one I’d expect.īeing risk manager of a frat house is nobody’s idea of a good time. There’s only one way for me to get this obsession out of my head, and that’s by jumping in with both feet and putting it into practice. So when one of my brothers hooks up with a dude from another frat house, it catches me off guard when I can’t stop thinking about them … together. It’s what I’m known for, and if it’s not fun, I’m not interested, simple as that. As social chair of Sigma Beta Psi, I’m the life of the party. Also there is a birthday cereal moment that made me all verklempt. While fried onions are the most prominent food item in Kris Ripper’s The Real Life Build (m/m), it’s the peanut butter and jelly sandwich that I remember as one of the most romantic moments in the book, because of the care and attention to detail that went into it. The chef in Shira Glassman’s secondary world fantasy romance The Second Mango (f/f) is the perfect match for the queen, who has food allergies, and treasures someone who believes they are real and crafts meals that she can actually eat, with tremendous care. I love the way Christopher, the hero of Roan Parrish’s Small Change (m/f), makes Ginger sandwiches as a way to woo her. It felt both respectful and attentive while honoring his autonomy, and as an autistic reader with some similar food restrictions, I really appreciated it. One of my favorite aspects of Ada Maria Soto’s His Quiet Agent (m/m) is that Arthur recognizes that Martin has very particular food restrictions, and experiments with making food that he might like, just bringing it along every day and offering it during lunch, with no pressure. It’s one of the swooniest things I can think of. I love romances where a character makes food as a way to take care of their love interest. Situated on the edge of the Little Snake sand hills, Juliet and its inhabitants are caught in limbo between a century-old promise of prosperity and whatever lies ahead.īut the heart of the town beats in the rich and overlapping stories of its people: the foundling who now owns the farm his adoptive family left him the pregnant teenager and her mother, planning a fairytale wedding a shy couple, well beyond middle age, struggling with the recognition of their feelings for one another a camel named Antoinette and the ubiquitous wind and sand that forever shift the landscape. Juliet, Sask., is a blink-of-an-eye kind of town - the welcome sign announces a population of 1,011 people - and it's easy to imagine that nothing happens on its hot and dusty streets. The great Canadian reading list: 150 books to read for Canada 150. Life has never been easy for Shannon Lynch. He needs to stay focused, and cannot afford to let distractions get in the way of the bigger picture.īut what happens when a lonely girl with sad eyes becomes the only picture? Striving to maintain balance, and on the crest of the International Summer Campaign, Johnny needs to keep his head in the game. Plagued with a hidden injury and desperate to impress the scouts watching his every move, Johnny has been placed on a pedestal so high, he has no room to make mistakes. The one that distracts him like no one ever has. The one with the sad eyes and hidden bruises. Not even the shy new girl at Tommen College. Nothing can possibly get in his way, right? Primed for stardom, he’s heading straight for the top. On the rugby pitch, he’s a force to be reckoned with. Johnny Kavanagh has everything going for him. The major chip on Jules’s shoulder doesn’t help. Life keeps getting worse as her working student abandons her, a promising horse turns out to be suffering from an apparent psychosis, and a disastrous show experience starts sucking her clients away-and sending them to Morrison. Working herself nearly to death on a shoestring, she’s furious to be shut out for a prestigious grant by rich-guy Peter Morrison. Juliet (Jules) wants most of all to beat the big riders in the dangerous and highly competitive world of eventing. Warned Off, by Richard Pitman and Joe McNally (mystery/thriller) REVIEWS Review of Natalie Keller Reinert’s Ambition Hill (mystery/suspense)Ĭold Burn, by Kit Ehrman (mystery/suspense) Dead Man’s Touch, by Kit Ehrman (mystery/suspense) Decider, by Dick Francis (mystery/suspense)Įleanor McGraw, a Pony Named Mouse, and a Boy Called Fire, by Katharina Marcus (YA romance) Kickback, by Damien Boyd (mystery/police procedural) Lady Joe, by Mark Saha (humor) Learning to Fall, by Anne Clermont (romance) (NEW!) The Mare, by Mary Gaitskill Silks and Sins by Clare O’Beara (romance) Outside Chance, by Lyndon Stacey (mystery/thriller) Welcome to the page where I’ll post my reviews of books from the world of horses that I’ve enjoyed! If you like my reviews, I’d love a review of one of my books! Ambition, by Natalie Keller Reinert (romance) Backstretch Baby, by Bev Pettersen (romance) Blind Switch, by John McEvoy (suspense, humor)īloodstock, by A. They are quite wealthy, living in a large house with a sweeping drive, and a live-in housekeeper. He often asks Nancy for help when he is working on a case (confidentiality be damned) and likewise she frequently consults him for advice on her cases. Titian-haired Nancy lives with her father, Carson Drew, who is described as a famous (or sometimes prominent) lawyer. She has solved baffling mysteries in well over 500 books (and that’s not including cross overs with the Hardy Boys or the recent graphic novels) but I will touch on the different series she appears in a little later. Still, I very much love her and I think that Blyton fan that might not have considered her already would enjoy her.įor anyone who has somehow not heard of her, Nancy Drew is an 18 year old amateur sleuth from the fictional town of River Heights (a fictional place) in Illinois. Whereas Nancy Drew is very much a household name, having been around since the 1930s in various incarnations. My if-you-like-Blyton post usually suggest books that are slightly less well-known, either newish authors or books that might have been forgotten over time. The glacial pace is counterpointed by wavy heat and golden, nostalgic hues. There are small subplots and unhurried exchanges: a young girl named Clara (Magdalena Tótoro) searches for her missing Bernese mountain dog residents discuss the broken water mains and the possibility of connecting to the electrical grid. It definitely should not to be confused with Nicolas Winding Refn's Too Old to Die Young Sofia lives with her quiet luthier father (Andrés Aliaga) but plans to move in with her musician mother in the city after the commune’s New Year celebrations, which her mother is expected to attend. She, however, is more interested in chain-smoking, listening to Mazzy Star and flirting with Ignacio (Matías Oviedo), an older visitor with a motorbike. Lucas (Antar Machado), an aspiring teenage musician, is in love with 16-year-old Sofia (Demian Hernández), the gamine, precocious heroine. It takes some time for DOP Inti Briones’s unhurried, summery shots to coalesce into a narrative as the camera drifts across a gauzy landscape, gamboling kids, and outdoor get-togethers. These larger socio-political developments have little bearing of the lives of the artists, musicians, children and dogs who live in the far-flung ecological community of Peñalolén. Dominga Sotomayor’s third feature is a balmy semi-autobiographical coming-of-age set in 1990, at a moment when Chile was rebuilding and recovering from the reign of Pinochet. |