The cover really sealed to deal on making me want to try the book. Or Philip, the suit-and-tie wearing boy who’s always scribbling in a secret notebook?” Miles, the boy who is allergic to merry-go-rounds and the color pink?ĭaisy, the cheerful girl who can lift a fifty-pound lump of taffy like it’s a feather? Logan, the Candymaker’s son, who can detect the color of chocolate by touch alone? Who will invent a candy more delicious than the Oozing Crunchorama or the Neon Lightning Chew? “Four children have been chosen to compete in a national competition to find the tastiest confection in the country. I can’t sum it up any better than the blurb from goodreads without giving too much away though! Equal parts action packed and whimsical, The Candymakers was my first choice for writing questions at my system’s Battle of the Books.
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Such clever, creepy, elaborate world-building and snarky, sexy-smart characters! - N. flavoured with truly unique mythology and a dash of the eldritch. Skullduggery, Librarians and dragons - Cogman keeps upping the ante on this delightful series!' - Charles Stross, author of the Merchant Princes series Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season 'Irene is a great heroine: fiery, resourceful and no one's fool' - Guardian 'Brilliant and so much fun. Praise for the series: 'I absolutely loved this' - N. The Untold Story is the unputdownable eighth book in the Invisible Library fantasy series by Genevieve Cogman. This may be Irene's most dangerous assignment of her hazardous career. And what they find will change everything they know. Determined to uncover the truth behind the vanished worlds, Irene and her friends must descend into the unplumbed depths of the Library. Multiple worlds are disappearing - and the Library may have something to do with it. Not for the first time, but could this be her last? She's tasked with a terrifyingly dangerous solo mission to eliminate an old enemy, which must be kept secret at all costs. Librarian Spy Irene is heading into danger. Return to the world of the Invisible Library for Irene's most perilous mission yet. I recommend this book to people who have an enemy and want to get rid of them because this book may help you and it’s a good story. For example, Derek used to have Jeremy on his #1 spot on his enemy list until he took it down when Jeremy became his friend. I like that the book tells the story of going from having an enemy to having a friend. It was also funny, had a happy ending, and best of all it was a good story. I liked this book because it made me happy. That showed that they were getting along well.This book isn’t like any other book that I have read (not just because I read mostly chapter books) because it had a good lesson and a very happy ending. I like the book Enemy Pie because it made me happy like when Derek and Jeremy hid in the treehouse from Derek’s dad when it was time for dinner. Derek was outside playing when he smelled something REALLY good coming from the kitchen and thought, “enemy pie isn’t supposed to smell good.” He went into the kitchen and saw.you’ll have to read Enemy Pie to find out! But his dad said he didn’t need those and kept making the pie. His dad had a recipe: Enemy Pie! Derek offered his dad things for the pie from chewed gum to to earthworms. Derek is a boy who had an enemy and wanted to get rid of him. Have you ever had an enemy? Then you know how Derek feels. The dame cut a wide swath through the arts. She was a charter member of the Rat Pack, co-starred in a whodunit with Ronald Reagan, and directed John F. Danny Kaye masqueraded in drag as her Noel Coward and Cole Porter wrote musicals for her and the Beatles wanted to hold her hand. Kay's l egion of fans included Queen Elizabeth of England, King Juan Carlos of Spain, and Princess Grace Kelly of Monaco. She coached Betty Davis and Eleanor Roosevelt and created night club acts for Marlene Dietrich and Ginger Rogers and when Lucille Ball had to sing on Broadway, Kay was the wind beneath her wings, too. She went to school with Tennessee Williams, auditioned for Henry Ford, got her first big break from Bing Crosby, trained Marilyn Monroe, channeled Elvis Presley, rejected Andy Warhol, rebuffed Federico Fellini, and got fired by Howard Hughes. Inside, the book is in very good condition.Ī multi-threat entertainer and a world-class eccentric, Kay Thompson was the mentor and best friend of Judy Garland, the vocal guru for Frank Sinatra and Lena Horne, and the godmother/Svengali of Liza Minnelli who recreated Thompson's nightclub act in her 2009 Tony award-winning event, Liza's at the Palace. The dust jacket has light surface rubbing and is price-clipped. Kay Thompson: From Funny Face to Eloise by Sam Irvin is a 416-page hardcover published in 2010 by Simon & Schuster. Into c.400 pages, full of scientific detailīut with a lightness of touch that brings prehistoric populations to life. Much-more-recent past – there is a wide-ranging wealth of information packed Turn of phrase, deftly conjuring scenes from both the deeply distant and In this absorbing new book, Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes explores theĮvolution of our understanding of these ‘truly A-list’ hominins, as well as discussing Perceptions of what it meant to be human, public fascination has endured Since the firstĭiscoveries of their bones in the 1850s (a decade that also saw the publication Must be the most-familiar members of our extended family tree. She is soon caught between her duty to her mother's memory, the rigid strictures imposed upon women, and a new, though forbidden, love. To escape a brutal arranged marriage, Jahanara must become the court liaison to Isa, architect of the Taj Mahal. Against scenes of unimaginable wealth and power, murderous sibling rivalries, and cruel despotism, Princess Jahanara tells the extraordinary story of how the Taj Mahal came to be, describing her own life as an agent in its creation and as a witness to the fateful events surrounding its completion. In 1632, the Emperor of Hindustan, Shah Jahan, consumed by grief over the death of his empress, Mumtaz Mahal, ordered the building of a grand mausoleum to symbolize the greatness of their love. While there were a lot of similarities and plot consistencies to the original Romeo and Juliet, Rome and Molly had their own story to tell. The best part of Sweet Home, I think, was how Cole owned her own version of Romeo and Juliet. But are they destined to live the fate of their namesakes? And with their whirlwind courting comes a true love. I was instantly invested in Molly’s (last name Shakespeare) story from the prologue, but once we meet Rome–short for Romeo– phew, that just notched the story up high in my eyes!īut when they meet something magical happens, they find a kindred soul. The belated publication of Another Version proved timely in its address to mid-century debates about poetic visions and poetic idealism amid the energies of the modern world. The poet enters her memory, its text supplied by a refreshed, refashioned Hyperion. It opens with an “induction” on the character of the poem at hand then the dream-frame takes the poet to an interrogation by the severest of muses, Moneta, sole survivor and repository of the Titans' catastrophe, whose brain holds it all. Recasting direct epic narration into the rehearsal of an inward turning of dream-vision, Keats's new version is intensely self-involved. This was actually a post-composed back-story, the work we now know as The Fall of Hyperion, A Dream. When Another Version of Keats's “Hyperion” appeared in 1857 in Miscellanies of the Philobiblion Society 3, it was taken to be the original housing of Hyperion, not least because the first half is a dream-frame prequel. Poetry versus philosophy / poetry reverses philosophy The young Japanese men, many of them conscripts with little love for their militaristic government, found in Musashi a hero they identified with. From this one might expect the book to be soaked in blood and nationalism, but in fact it is a highly individualistic, even romantic tale, and its hero spends more pages questing for spiritual enlightenment than fighting with sword. Musashi was soon released in book form and was very popular among soldiers on the front. The author was Eiji Yoshikawa, a bestselling writer who had already won a large audience with his adventurous Secret Record of Naruto. In 1936, just before the outbreak of war with China, Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper began serializing a novel about the folk hero Musashi. If we can attain a spirit of the caliber of Musashi's, we won't have any trouble getting over the defeat. Anam is great on description of food, Rehana is an excellent cook and the feast is described in loving detail. This, her debut novel, is set in 1971 in East Pakistan, where Rehana Haque, a young widow, is throwing a party. I’m not convinced the collection has aged that well, but it’s an audacious idea.Īnam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh (and now lives in the UK). The edition I read was published in 2012 as part of the Canongate ‘ the Canons‘ list, which is a slightly strange mixture of ‘boundary-breaking’ books that Canongate decided either were already classics in their own right, or deserved to be. First published in 2007, Tahmima Anam’s intimate civil war tale A Golden Age won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the Best First Book and was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. |