![]() ![]() This is why we can’t have nice things.” LOL! But wait I recognise that name. “Forget ‘Neil Josten’.” Does that mean he’s using a fake name?… Oh God this kid’s mother is dead, his father’s in jail, and he’s technically homeless and sleeping in the school locker room? This is already sad. The cigarette is actually a metaphor. We’re off to a good start. He didn’t want the nicotine he wanted the acrid smoke that reminded him of his mother.” Okay okay such an edgy first sentence. ![]() ![]() “Neil Josten let his cigarette burn to the filter without taking a drag. As usual, if you don’t want to see this just blacklist ‘Bianca reads the Foxhole Court’. ![]() My knowledge about this book is minimal: I know there’s a gay couple, I know there’s lots of drama and angst that nearly made go mad, I recently found out it’s about a fake sport ( not lacrosse, but something that sounds like a drug), i know there’s a group of girls and they’re called the foxes… or maybe all of them are the foxes(?) idk and I think the mafia is involved? It should be fun so here is my reaction thread. This series is huge on tumblr so of course I had to read it. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() That turns out to be the truth and Lancelot has to come to his rescue on one occasion, switching armor with him while Kay is sleeping so that he (Kay) can ride back to Camelot without being whacked around too much by the knights he's insulted. Merlyn predicted this when the boys were young, telling Kay that he was always a "proud and ill-tongued speaker, and a misfortunate one" (S.4.30). He wrote several well-loved classic novels including The Once and Future King and Mistress Mashams Repose. Kay later becomes rather unpopular with the other dudes of the Round Table because he talks lots of smack. So, he strives to do better, even if he's not necessarily cut out for greatness (but not for mediocrity, either). Arthur genuinely loves him, and we find out that he "was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it" (S.4.31). He's also "keen-eyed" (K.31.2), which implies he's got some smarts going on.Įven though he's a bit of an elitist and class-conscious (he chides Wart when they're young for not being Ector's "proper son"), Kay's actually a pretty good guy. Good on him, though, for quickly owning up to his lie, and giving credit where credit is due. THE SWORD IN THE STONE She is not any common earth Water or wood or air, But Merlin's Isle of Gramarye Where you and I will fare. ![]() The book describes him as "clever, quick, proud and ambitious" (S.4.31), and this is certainly the case when he quickly decides to take credit for drawing the sword from the stone. Kay is Ector's son, and Arthur's foster brother. ![]() ![]() She came to him now, stumbling a bit on a swell in the floor of this stranger's house.” Overriding everything else in that lovely face was concern. She was angry at him for pulling this stunt and ashamed of herself for feeling angry at him in his hour of need, and was trying to put the shame and anger behind her now so she could do what might be needed.Īll of this was in her face. She'd been too busy nursing him to notice how scared he was. He'd embarrassed her by doing something that showed she hadn't sufficiently noticed him needing her. She came in flustered and apologetic, a touch of anger in her face. ![]() They were sorry, they were saying with their bodies, they were accepting each other back, and that feeling, that feeling of being accepted back again and again, of someone's affection for you expanding to encompass whatever new flawed thing had just manifested in you, that was the deepest, dearest thing he'd ever. Tears in bed? And then they would - Molly pressing her hot wet face against his hot wet face. ![]() Afterward, sometimes there would be tears. When they were first married they used to fight. ![]() ![]() Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. ![]() In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide to certain environmental disaster. ![]() In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical-and accessible-plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.īill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. ![]() ![]() He is as likable and charming as his brothers, and I was rooting for him to succeed and stay on the right path. ![]() Luis starts off with such high ambitions and his been successful with school, and aspires to be an astronaut one day. This book follows a similar formula to the last two books, but with a couple of added surprises. Luis wants to earn Nikki’s trust, but he is pulled in another dangerous direction that could change his life forever. ![]() She’s not too eager to take a chance on someone like Luis who on the surface seems so similar to her last rotten boyfriend. He’s now living back in Southside and meets Nikki Cruz, a doctors’ daughter who has been burned by a previous relationship. He’s a math whiz and an accomplished swimmer, although he does push his luck by being quite a thrill seeker. Luis has managed to stay out of trouble and out of gangs so far. Older brothers Alex and Carlos have overcome obstacles with high school, relationships, and trying to stay out of the Latino Bloods and they have always been protective of Luis. ![]() In Chain Reaction, the final book in the series, the youngest Fuentes brother Luis takes center stage. Series: Book 3 of the Perfect Chemistry trilogyīuy the Book: Amazon | Indie Bound | Barnes & NobleĮach book in the Perfect Chemistry series features a coming of age story of one of the Fuentes brothers and their path to finding true love. ![]() Book: Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles, Walker Books, August 16, 2011įormat/pages: Read Kindle edition, also avail. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you can just get your reader to buy into that, they'll accept anything else. What I'm pushing for, it's for your fiction to have that same feel that nonfiction has: that this isn't a lie. And always how to condense it further, how to pare and pare until just that beating heart is left on the page. not so much generate a vocabulary by which to talk about fiction - you've already got that - but a chance for us to know where everybody's coming from, storywise. The first week we'll read and discuss, try to. ![]() This time I've built the rabbit holes in, I think. ![]() So, now, yep: "Your Life Story is Five Pages Long." Or, more to our purposes: four weeks long. My only regret was that we couldn't run down all the rabbit holes that kept showing up along the way. However, I got lucky, came up with an exercise or three that ended up working, and that class, man, they produced such excellent stories. ![]() "Last summer I taught a one-week MFA workshop, a hired-gun thing, three or four hours for five days, and, at the last moment before the catalogue printed, I came up with a title for it: "Your Life Story is Two Pages Long." Just because I thought it sounded cool - not because I had any idea what to do with a title like that. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their prey? Slimy boys who take advantage of unsuspecting girls. But at a party under a full moon, Becca learns that they also have a big secret.īecca’s new friends are werewolves. At first glance, Marley, Arianna, and Mandy are perfect. ![]() ![]() To her surprise, she’s immediately adopted by the most popular girls in school. When Becca transfers to a high school in an elite San Francisco suburb, she’s worried she’s not going to fit in. When the new girl is invited to join her high school’s most popular clique, she can’t believe her luck–and she can’t believe their secret, either. Pretty Little Liars meets Teen Wolf in this sharply funny, and patriarchy-smashing graphic novel from author Maggie Tokuda-Hall and artist Lisa Sterle. Squad is a story fitted with the sharpest teeth that chomps down on the patriarchy, and I adored it with my entire vicious heart.–Chloe Gong, author of New York Times-bestselling These Violent Delights –Laura Ruby, author of National Book Award Finalist Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All Squad is a fast-paced and feminist horror story for every girl who’s ever felt like prey, and asks how far a girl should go to hunt the hunters. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At his coronation the Shah visited the grave of Cyrus the Great, who once “ruled over the ancient world.” Then Marjane’s grandmother describes how, during his rule, “all the country’s money went into ridiculous celebrations of the 2500 years of dynasty and other frivolities” but none of this benefited the people, who couldn’t care less. He was extremely wasteful and bombastic and kept none of his promises, unlike the other historical kings of Iran. She then says that the Shah was even “ten times worse” than the Father of the Shah. ![]() At times she pretended to cook food she did not have just to keep up appearances for the neighbors who could see her through the window. Her grandmother speaks of how poor she was back then. Marjane’s grandmother comes over to the house, and Marjane asks her about the times Marjane’s grandfather was in jail. ![]() ![]() See, I told you! Le sigh! I just loved chapter two.Īnyway, the ending is left open and I think it was a great idea to leave it that way, because as you all know, the story continues in Nightshade. "When you touch me, I could forget altogether that my body still mends." No place would thwart my desire for you." "I would make love to you here, in a bed, in a river. "There is nothing I want so much as you." "By all that lives on earth and in heaven," he said roughly. Especially Barrow - I'm sorry guys, but even he beats Shay or Ren - SORRY! Just look at his swoon worthy quotes, surely that's enough to swag you to want to read these books ![]() One full of characters that are lovable and highly entertaining. ![]() It's the foundation of the story and the whole series in my opinion and it's something I'm so glad I read.īefore starting Rise I wasn't to sure of what to expect and while it doesn't really provide a conclusion to the war - which is completely expected, it does provide you with a new world that is highly fantasising and full of history. Even though the Nightshade series provides you with a enough information to truly understand and appreciate the series, the prequel gives you the opportunity to find out more and exactly how it all came to be? Well, that's what Rift and Rise does. I want more! I need more! Well, I don't really need more but I do want more. ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s not to say real faith-based films don’t make it through the cracks - all 10 people who saw Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life know that and were summarily rewarded for it by getting to watch Great Cinema - but they don’t often take the form of the strained apologias we’ve come to expect from companies like PureFlix. It’s a hard thing to make religious films in an environment like this, where the marketplace has been cornered on “Christian Cinema” by the squatters at whatever garden-variety horseshit right-wing production company has decided to cannibalize the faith of millions for easy profits, dark lobbying money, and the continuance of Kirk Cameron’s career. ![]() |