![]() ![]() cummings' concrete poems that are meant to be looked at more than they are to be read.As a novel, this book falls miserably. This works if you view this not as a story, but rather as an art work, akin to e.e. It is a bit of literary voyeurism, enabling you to glance at what is yet to come. While I saw many recommendations of taking a sheet of paper so you could read the words on the page more clearly, I found it to be much more enjoyable to leave the page of top of the others, seeing the future peaking through the pages. I loved the touch of the book and the look of it. ![]() From that perspective, this book is a 5-star read. more we look at a book as a visual work of art, manipulating space with words. ![]() I wish I had already read Street of Crocodiles first I have a feeling my rating would be different if I had familiarity with its inspiration first. Review 2: This book is a conundrum for rating. I read this book because I wanted another story from one of my favorite authors (based on ”Everything is illuminated” NOT ”Extremely loud and incredibly close”) but I ended up very disappointed, as this story made absolutely no sense. But if that’s the case, then why bother reading it? I have no idea. However, if this is written/created as a little protest against e-books (which, apparently Foer is not very fond of) then I quite like it. If this book is written seriously, then artsy crap is what it is. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I read a review that compared this book series to the television show, "Medium," and I can see that now. I was intrigued by the main character, Harper Connelly, and her ability of find dead people-which she does for a living. (I've already read a couple of titles from her Lily Bard series, and enjoyed them as well.) This book has been a fun vacation ready, and I'm glad to be introduced to this series by Charlaine Harris. A nifty puzzle toward the end will challenge the most jaded mystery buffs.”-Publishers Weekly Read more “Harris delivers a knuckle-gnawing tale populated with well-developed, albeit edgy characters. The pun in the title is only the first dose of a potion that is sure to put every listener under Grave Sight’s spell. ![]() All they want is to get out of town, but they will have to clear their reputations first. ![]() Soon Harper and her assistant, her stepbrother Tolliver, are under suspicion. But there’s more than one corpse in those woods, and the second one raises questions no one wants to ask. Hired by local police, Harper locates the girl’s body in a nearby forest. ![]() A teenage girl missing from a small Ozarks town is feared dead. Charlaine Harris writes best-selling mysteries described by Booklist as “gripping and spicy,” and praised by the Denver Post for their “goofy charm.” Grave Sight draws listeners into the intriguing world of Harper Connelly, a woman with a unique gift: she can “see” the dead and how they died. ![]() ![]() As Marcus pushes her to rebel, Sydney finds that breaking free is harder than she thought. Read more Marcus Finch, a former Alchemist who is now on the run. ![]() In the aftermath of a forbidden moment that rocked Sydney to her core, she is struggling to decide between following her Alchemist teachings - or her heart. Sydney Sage she protects vampire secrets - and human lives. A thrilling world of magic, alchemy, vampires and true love awaits. Bloodlines: The Indigo Spell is the heart-stopping third book in the bestselling Bloodlines series by Richelle Mead, set in the world of the soon-to-be global movie sensation, Vampire Academy. Description for Bloodlines the Indigo Spell Paperback. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this instance, the use of the word “sanctity” highlights Mary's body itself, as the vessel of creation and a site of blessedness, rather than drawing attention to her place in the roster of saints. ![]() In a story from the Middle English translation of the Gesta Romanorum, for instance, in which a young woman's supernatural ability to create a shirt from a tiny piece of cloth is moralized as the Incarnation, Mary's womb is described as having undergone “sanctificacion” ( sanctificatio). Rather, Middle English saunctite, like the Old French saintete and the still earlier Christian Latin sanctitas, tends to have amore general meaning, suggesting a state of blessedness or a righteous manner of living rather than canonized sainthood in a strict sense. Although medievalists sometimes use the word “sanctity” as a synonym for “sainthood,” people in the later Middle Ages rarely did. ![]() ![]() ![]() Brutal massacres of priestesses and corruption of the sacred rites is the order of the day. Minos himself is on a mission to replace the Father/Zeus with the mother. Crete has long been infiltrated by Atticans/Athenians. Pasiphae, Ariadne’s mother, Queen of Crete and the Mother made flesh, has already broken the ancient laws by her submission to her consort Minos, who should have been ritually sacrificed long ago. ![]() ![]() We enter the palace at Knossos after the rot has already set in. This is not an airy, romantic rendition of an idealized Goddess centered past. She clearly brings a good deal of scholarship (includes a long bibliography) to her fictional interpretation of the collapse of the Mother centered religions and political structures (Crete) and the rise of the patriarchal structures exemplified by Zeus (Athens). Brindel has decoded and reimagined the Cretan and Greek Myths of the Minotaur, Daedalus, Icarus, Theseus and, above all, Ariadne. I cracked its spine again this summer and was amazed (probably all over again) at how brilliant it is. Since then it has survived many cullings of my bookshelf - as well as a house fire. I first read Ariadne around the time of its publication in 1980. ![]() ![]() ![]() I like stories with Amazons, but this one wasn't for me. Overall, I didn't feel like the characters were developed enough at the start of the story or were engaging enough for me to care about what they went through. ![]() There was also some head hopping between sentences and that just got on my nerves because it is unsettling. ![]() When the prized Tarlaeth is stolen from the neighbouring country of Gondor, Shalmar is called upon to recover it. Blurb: Shalmar is an Amazon warrior with a fearless reputation throughout her country of Gilsk. There was very little emotional involvement, and when emotion was brought up we were told about it rather than shown. It is the 1st book in the A Tale of Lifetimes series. The narrative read like a series of events the characters had to methodically work their way through rather than the story feeling like it was evolving organically around the characters. I did not form an attachment to these characters at all. That would have served the dual purpose of helping us to understand the world, but also to show us more of the character's personalities so they were not so flat. There was a lot of stuff that could probably have been worked into dialogue between the two main characters. ![]() It felt like the author wanted to squeeze all of the world they had built into the 179 pages, which is really short for this genre. The story was obscured by chunks of info dumping. ![]() ![]() ![]() musicMagpie Quality Guarantee! Contact Us About Us Condition: Very Good, Condition: This product has passed our meticulous quality checks and is guaranteed to be in great condition. Young fairy princess Holly and her best friend, Ben the Elf, live in the Little Kingdom, a tiny land where flowers and grass rise above the tallest towers. ![]() ![]() UK Release Date: Edition: Normal View our feedback musicmagpieshop Ten more episodes of the animated preschool series produced by the makers of 'Peppa Pig'. of Discs: 1 disc(s) Studio / Publisher: Warner Bros. 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