5/30/2023 0 Comments Star Wars by John Jackson Miller![]() Mos Eisley, Mos Espa, Bestine, Anchorhead, etc. There is something appealing and mysterious about a desert world.Īlso, Tatooine is very important to the Star Wars franchise since it's the world that you get more in the films (once in Ep IV, twice in Ep VI, once again in Ep I, once in Ep II and yet once again in Ep III) and here, John Jackson Miller, makes a great job portraiting this alien planet and its elements.Įven you getting the richness of its inner cities, towns and smaller settings. Tatooine is one of the greatest alien worlds in Sci-Fi, conceived no doubt from stories of sword sci-fi like Barsoom, Scorpio and Dune. Also, there is moments of humor, not silly comedy, but good humor with taste. ![]() I liked a lot the tone of the story since the author, John Jackson Miller, made the novel into a western.ĭue the ambiance of Tatooine and the way of life there, the concept totally clicked and made the story even more entertaining. The story tells the arrival of Obi-Wan Kenobi to the desert world of Tatooine, along with the baby, Luke Skywalker. ![]() This novel is set between the events of "Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" and "Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope". ![]() A lost chapter in the life of Obi-Wan Kenobi. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments The song of achilles![]() ![]() This event resulted in his exile to Phthia. Patroclus describes accidentally killing another young boy, one of noble birth. The remaining young men take a blood oath in defense of her choice. Helen does not select the young Patroclus, but instead Menelaus. Patroclus narrates these events with the insight of a grown man, looking back on how his father was continually disappointed in him. ![]() ‘ The Song of Achilles‘ opens with Patroclus, a Greek prince, son of Menoetius, being presented to Helen, daughter of King Tyndareus (and the future Helen of Troy) as a suitor. Spoiler alert: important details of the novel are revealed below. Achilles’ fate, foretold in a foreboding prophecy, plays out in a tragic series of events. They avoid the negative influence of Achilles’ mother and eventually have to go to war together, assisting Agamemnon as he attempts to retrieve his brother Menelaus’s wife, Helen, from Troy. ‘ The Song of Achilles‘ follows Patroclus, a Greek prince, who falls in love with the famed warrior, Achilles. ‘Spoiler-free’ Summary of The Song of Achilles ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The purpose driven life author![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. ![]() NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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There's nothing Tony, a firefighter by trade and part-time chef in his family's Italian restaurant, wants more than to take the sweet and easily flustered manager of the Christmas store out on a date. Maybe she can hold on to him just a little longer… Julia knows that if she helps him find his family, she'd lose him forever and be alone again. As their bond strengthens, he becomes like the son she had always dreamed of-except, he already has a family. Soon, he visits her on a regular basis and she is looking forward to their nightly play-dates at the store. "You want me to read more of this story?"Īfter closing the Christmas store for the night, Julia encounters a sad little boy who vanishes right before her eyes. He was sitting next to her, smiling and pointing at the book she held. Her heart began to beat faster as she looked over to the right. ❤️❤️❤️ A Heartwarming Story of Love, Sacrifice, and Hope.Ī small Christmas ornament landed next to her, and she knew what that meant. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then some hideous things called Zebra Mussels showed up in the water and somehow seemed to ruin everything. Minnesota was my happy summer home for decades. This good book by Amelia Gorman really struck a nerve. Julie Reeser, author of Beak, Full of Tongue and Terracotta Pomegranate ![]() Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota is a thorned and exciting imagining where each specimen is handled as if by a daring and sun-smeared trickster, the delight in getting muddy and making up stories proudly prominent, and a refreshing pleasure in a collection of nature poetry. Davitt, author of The Gates of NeverĪ thoughtful and intelligent collection of one-page poems and elegant illustrations that slowly bud from gentle cricket song into a poison-leafed and weedy future. I want to wrestle with some of these poems until they yield meaning, but they dance, just out of reach, evanescent and tantalizing." ![]() "A delicate blend of ecological awareness and mythological sensibility, Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota lures the reader in with a semblance of clarity and rationality, and then tips you into a complex surreal world that resembles ours-it is ours-but is also not. Praise for Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Duma key paintings![]() ![]() While he’s there, he starts painting, and then those paintings start having an effect on the real world around him. Edgar and his wife drift apart, and he decides to spend some time in the Florida Keys to try to rebuild his life. We follow the story of a chap called Edgar Freemantle, a guy who used to be a married man and a building contractor but who lost an arm in an industrial accident. Okay, so let’s start off with the story line. True, I’m not entirely sure what actually happened at times, but then that always seems to work well for King – it leaves the reader with a sense of mystery, as well as with an urge to go back and read it again sometime. At the start of it, I was worried it was going to drag on and on, but by the end of it, it was flying by and I couldn’t put it down. Duma Key is was an interesting read, the kind of book that set my expectations and then exceeded them. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Alison bechdel to the lighthouse![]() ![]() Ramsay, their eight children, and assorted holiday guests. To the Lighthouse is made up of three powerfully charged visions into the life of the Ramsay family living in a summer house off the rocky coast of Scotland. The authorized, original edition of one of the great literary masterpieces of the twentieth century: a miraculous novel of family, love, war, and mortality, with a foreword from Eudora Welty.įrom the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and conflict between men and women. ![]() "A classic for a reason. My mind was warped into a new shape by her prose and it will never be the same again." - Greta Gerwig ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments The writing retreat julia bartz![]() ![]() Or is there a much more sinister (and human) plot behind this writing retreat? Despite Alex’s somewhat whiny nature, the book's pacing-a slow roll of dread and horror, especially in the first half-is exceptional. When one of the other writers disappears, Alex can’t help but wonder whether occult history is repeating itself. ![]() ![]() For Alex, the sense of disquiet grows as her research deepens with Roza’s urging, she has decided to write a novel about the original inhabitants of the house, a wealthy tycoon and his waitress-turned-medium wife who were both found dead after the wife apparently channeled a demoness named Lamia. Despite the trappings of luxury-food and wine and an unparalleled library-there’s no ignoring the fact that the writers are trapped there’s no Wi-Fi or cell service to be found. Each writer must craft a proposal for a full-length novel, then crank out 3,000 words a day to be critiqued. ![]() From the very first night at Blackbriar, though, it’s clear that this is no warm and fuzzy workshop, and Roza is no gentle mentor. Then, a call from the blue: A writer friend has finagled her a space at an elite writers retreat at the estate of the mysterious, glamorous novelist Roza Vallo. Having just turned 30, Alex has to face up to some hard truths: She hates her job she’s been miserable since breaking up with her best friend and she’s mired in writer’s block, which makes it pretty hard to be discovered and published. Five writers, four weeks, and a $1 million book deal for the lucky winner. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the earl died, his wife, Araminta Gunningworth, forced Sophie to work as an unpaid housemaid and lady’s maid to her and her two daughters, Rosamund and Posy. Until she was 14, when her father died, she lived the life of the daughter of an earl. She came to live with her father when she was three. Sophie is the daughter of the Earl of Penwood and his mistress, a housemaid. She knew, however, that because she was the illegitimate daughter of a nobleman who worked as a housemaid that she would never be an acceptable wife for someone of Benedict’s standing. Meanwhile, Sophia “Sophie” Beckett, the mystery woman, avoided London because she had fallen in love with Benedict. Benedict searched for the woman for months after the dance, but was unable to find her or even anyone who knew who she was. In the romance novel An Offer From a Gentleman, Julia Quinn’s third installment in her Bridgerton series, Benedict Bridgerton believed he had found his future wife when he met a mystery woman dressed in silver at a masquerade ball. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Quinn, Julia. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Doomsday book by connie willis![]() ![]() Willis imagines a near future (first introduced in her 1982 story " Fire Watch" and featured in two of her previous novels: Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog) in which historians conduct field work by traveling into the past as observers. ![]() These two volumes are the most recent of four books and a short story that Willis has written involving time travel from Oxford during the mid-21st century, all of which won multiple awards. The diptych won the 2010 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the 2011 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Novel. The second part, the conclusion All Clear, was released as a separate book on October 19, 2010. Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novelīlackout and All Clear are the two volumes that constitute a 2010 science fiction novel by American author Connie Willis. ![]() |