![]() ![]() Eve is also very nice to Claire and looks out for her whenever she can. It lets people see that though people may dress differently they are still people. I like that Eve, one of Claire's roommates, is a goth. ![]() She must navigate the supernatural forces at play in her new home and find out who she can trust. Claire is a good character, naive, but smart and brave. Vampires rule the town in secret and they won't stand for anyone breaking their rules or snooping around.Ĭlaire is disliked by her peers because she very smart meaning she advanced grades and is significantly younger while she is also from out of town. The same can be said for everyone else in Morganville. But Claire's new roommates are not what they seem. Constantly being bullied by cruel mean girls Claire attempts to escape by moving to a house off campus. Set in Morganville, Texas, Claire Danvers has just started university and is living in a horrible dormitory on campus. ![]()
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![]() Nancy Takes a short cut home and passes a sedan parked on the side of the road. Nancy Takes her flower arrangement to the garden show to enter in the contest but leaves early to hurry home to see if the National association of Carrier Pigeons wired back the name of the pigeons owner. Many seemingly unrelated things keep attracting Nancy's attention with the words larkspur and bluebells. There's also a message that makes no sense to Nancy. It's wing is injured and Nancy retrieves the number off the birds leg band, 2-21-12-12 and wires the association the number. The poor thing falls right into Nancy's garden. Nancy and Hannah are cutting flowers when a plane passes over and a pigeon falls from it. Save your credits or money and get it from a library if you absolutely must listen to The Password to Larkspur Lane.Īudio Book Review for Password to Larkspur LaneĪn Injured Carrier Pigeon falls into Nancy Drew's Garden. ![]() ![]() Everything about the dialogue is off, there's no appropriate intonation, no lilt. Everything is read pretty much in a drone and what isn't, is so godawful that it's difficult to follow the story. ![]() ![]() and may never return from.New York Times bestselling author Daniel José Older spins a masterful conclusion to his evocative and captivating Shadowshaper Cypher series in a finale of searing rebellion, the power of fate, and a magic unlike anything you've ever imagined. Only doing so will mean following the magic to places the shadowshapers have never gone before. But a deal with Death by one of Sierra's ancestors has far-reaching consequences in the battles of the present, and as old fates tangle with new powers, Sierra will have to harness the Deck of Worlds and confront her family's past if she has any hope of saving the future and everyone she loves. Sierra is determined to protect her own in the coming conflict, even if that means keeping secrets from them. A war is brewing among the houses, and the very magic of the shadowshapers is at stake. Back in Brooklyn, the other shadowshapers have been getting threatening messages from whisper wraiths, catching strangely shaped figures stalking them, and fending off random spirits. Juan, Anthony, and Izzy are in jail, anxiously waiting to find out what will become of them. Sierra and the shadowshapers have been split apart. ![]() The epic conclusion to the acclaimed Shadowshaper Cypher series!Ī house divided. ![]() ![]() Sadly, their lack of self-awareness and social skills are massive detriments to their careers. There are a lot of otherwise intelligent people out there who can’t stop shooting themselves in the foot. We all know the types: the person who won’t stop talking when you’re trying to meet a deadline, the one who blatantly takes credit for your ideas, or the one who callously leaves you to pull an all-nighter to fix their mistake. With the increasing emphasis on social skills, those who lack them stand out like a zebra in a field of horses. Deming also found that salaries increased the most for jobs that place extra emphasis on social skills. ![]() ![]() ![]() Harvard economist David Deming studied workplace tasks from 1980 to the present day and found that those that emphasize social skills grew by a whopping 24%, while tasks requiring technical know-how and intelligence experienced little growth. Experience and knowledge are rapidly losing their relevance to success in the workplace. ![]() ![]() ![]() A 1939 aerial view from Google Earth shows that area in the photo below.Īs San Pablo's population began to grow, some of the farms were sold and subdivided and replaced by housing tracts. Another large empty field, where the Contra Costa Junior College complex would be built, was once used as an airfield in the 1920s. The sugar beet farm I'm referring to was owned by the Aguiar brothers, Frank and Antonio Aguiar, who planted acres of sugar beets on their property along San Pablo Creek above Road 20. Hard to imagine a plane landing next to that 7-11 and Pizza Hut today! ![]() That was Dexter’s Filling Station at the corner of San Pablo Avenue and Broadway where pilots used to taxi up to Dexter’s for a refill after landing on a nearby sugar beet farm. It all started with an unassuming vintage photo of an aeroplane at a filling station that was once located on the site of today's 7-11 in San Pablo, off Broadway Avenue near Rumrill Blvd. ![]() ![]() Portrayed as a travelogue of a shipwreck survivor on the island of Dinotopia, Gurney successfully captures the feel of early century sci-fi tales which even today seem only just beyond the realm of possibility. It reminds me of the way that one can always tell when a period film was made because the costuming is always viewed through the lens of modern fashion, so that 70's Shakespeare is all wide lapels and feathered bangs, which the 80's trades in for mullets and angular silhouettes. This isn't to say that his art is always wholly successful-there are rough patches here and there, especially when his sartorial and tonsorial choices cause his characters to resemble late 60's hippies. His imagining of his new and strange world carries a depth and weight that, to be trite, truly transports you there-but then, that's what he built his career on.Ī competent draughtsman who plied his imagining of ancient Egyptian rituals and architectural recreations in the pages of National Geographic, Gurney's style evokes the travelogue of a naturalist (which is, happily enough, his story's frame), so that the sometimes indulgent fantasy or unremarkable characterization mostly comes off as an occasionally unlikely (or overly likely) world. ![]() ![]() This fanciful retelling of "The Land that Time Forgot" would just be a passable (if fun) story if not for Gurney's rather lovely artwork. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The following year, he began a career as a journalist with All India Radio and spent the next two decades working as an editor of leading publications in India while continuing to publish fiction. He published his first short story collection, The Mark of Vishnu, and Other Stories, in London in 1950. During his four years in the foreign service, he took posts in London and Ottawa and also started to write fiction. He started his law practice in Lahore on the eve of the Second World War and practiced until the Partition of India in 1947, at which point he moved his family to Delhi and took a position with the Indian Foreign Service as a press attaché. Singh earned a Bachelor of Arts from Government College in Lahore in 1934 before obtaining his law degree from London’s King’s College in 1938. Later, he would become a prolific translator of Urdu poetry. His native tongue was Punjabi, but he was also fluent in Urdu and grew up reading the work of Urdu poets. Khushwant Singh was born to an affluent Sikh family and grew up in the Muslim-majority village of Hadali, then part of British India. ![]() ![]() In that vein, Allende allows her writing to breathe. Read Full Review >Īllende sees that to embellish the violence of war is to create distance from it, which can be useful in the immediate aftermath of irreparable trauma but would feel oddly escapist after nearly eight decades of reflection. A Long Petal of the Sea is a draft of the book it could have been if the corporations profiting from its publication had invested in a rigorous editorial process to support Allende’s noblesse oblige. Though she shared their thoughts constantly, their interiority felt forced, falsified into caricature sketches meant to add emotional heft to scenes quickly overwhelmed by summary. I like that Allende pays attention to the lives of women, but I didn’t, at any point, forget that these characters were fictional. The attributions are laden with unnecessary and burdensome adjectives. Less interested in scene than in sweep, Allende nonetheless describes her characters’ emotions with great detail, writing in third person with an omniscience that drains any wonder from their choices and interactions. ![]() no amount of summary - pages and pages of historical and political background in which every conclusion feels foregone - is enough to save the dialogue that follows from exposition. ![]() ![]() ![]() He meets and falls in love with his cousin, Sue Bridehead ( Fiona Walker), but she marries Phillotson. Jude then completes his apprenticeship and moves to Christminster, where he works as a mason, hoping to enter the university, but he is turned down for admission by the dean of Cardinal College. Arabella leaves him and emigrates to Australia. Meanwhile, he is seduced by Arabella Donn ( Alex Marshall), a pig-keeper’s daughter, whom he marries when she claims to be pregnant. ![]() Jude has the ambition to study at Christminster and become a clergyman and is learning Greek and Latin. His former schoolmaster, Richard Phillotson ( John Franklyn-Robbins) leaves the village to take up a college appointment in Christminster, a university city based on Oxford. ![]() Jude Fawley ( Robert Powell) is a young stonemason’s apprentice living in the village of Marygreen with his Aunt Drusilla. The action is set in England in the late 19th century. It is based on Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure (1895). Jude the Obscure is a British television serial directed by Hugh David, starring Robert Powell, Fiona Walker, and Alex Marshall, first broadcast on BBC Television in early 1971. British TV series or programme Jude the Obscure ![]() ![]() The first four books were also released on their respective dates in an audiobook format, read by Kathleen McInerney. In the United States, hardcover and e-book formats for The Fourth Apprentice were published on 24 November 2009, Fading Echoes on 6 April 2010, Night Whispers on 23 November 2010, Sign of the Moon on 5 April 2011, The Forgotten Warrior on 22 November 2011, and The Last Hope on 3 April 2012. Though the Warriors series has appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list, none of the novels in Warriors: Omen of the Stars have won a significant literary award. The arc's themes deal with forbidden love and the effect that being different can have on relationships. Omen of the Stars details the experiences of Jayfeather, Lionblaze, and Dovewing, who, as part of a prophecy, have special powers. The novels were written by Erin Hunter, a pseudonym that refers to authors Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, and Tui Sutherland, as well as plot developer and editor Victoria Holmes. ![]() It is made up of six novels published by HarperCollins from 2009 to 2012: The Fourth Apprentice, Fading Echoes, Night Whispers, Sign of the Moon, The Forgotten Warrior, and The Last Hope. Warriors: Omen of the Stars is the fourth arc in the Warriors juvenile fantasy novel series about feral cats who live in Clans. ![]() |