Stacy Keach's readings of the short stories are excellent. William Hurt's reading of The Sun Also Rises is top quality. There are several good readings available. One of Hemingway's enduring qualities is that he writes on the page the way his narrators would speak. The reading makes the listener want to sit and reflect on scenes and chapters. It is too dense a work for a single sitting. Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting? He did not resort to the stereotype caricatures that an inferior reader might have attempted in order to play to the gallery. In addition to Henry's narrative voice, I liked the way Slattery realised the Italian characters. Which character – as performed by John Slattery – was your favourite? The narrator, Frederic Henry, dominates the novel. I read the text alongside the audio and I thought Slattery's reading brought out tones and inflections I might have missed on the page. He negotiates the accents (American, Italian, English, Scottish, Swiss) convincingly. He gets the balance between the hard-bitten laconic tone of the narrative, from the terse war reflections to the suppressed pain at the end. John Slattery does a fine job narrating Hemingway's classic novel. Would you consider the audio edition of A Farewell to Arms to be better than the print version?
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C’mon…Barbaloot Suits? Really?Īnimation: The animation is pretty low-budget. “What?!? You can’t hate these classics!” I know, I know. Is there anything wrong with the writing? Well…the songs. It is something that the kids at home can think about, and that’s important. It is the viewer’s choice if they want to help, and whatever they do will have a big impact.Īnd it is not blatantly obvious what the moral is, nor is it an easy moral to think about. The moral is to keep the environment clean, but it’s not a that you can do it, it’s that IF you can do it. But what is not simple is the moral and the ending. This is a very simple premise, which is good for kids to follow. But when his greedy, business-like nature takes over, he tears down the forest to build his Thneed empire. He tells of a time when the grass was green and trees filled the land. Story: We follow the Onceler, who is telling a boy of no name or motivation about his experience with the Lorax. Is it carrying out that message? Let’s see. It’s a good cautionary tale about keeping the environment clean and a safe place to be. This is a short that nearly everyone has watched. I’m talking about the classic animated short. No, I’m not talking about the 2012 film (I’ll save that for later). Seuss Summer with my favorite story, The Lorax! I like how in book 2 it felt just like one main story jumping between the different view points and we just followed the story from there. The first book just was 4 short stories that were part of one cohesive narrative but they also felt completely separate. I hadn't even released until I was almost done with TLF how much Rincewind and Twoflower really know each other and how their bond grew even though Rincewind may not always show it. It's actually crazy how much stuff was jam-packed into these stories and the relationships that had built. TCoM gave me the intro to the world and these lovely characters. I had heard that the first couple of books were the hardest to get into for Discworld but overall I thoroughly enjoyed both TCoM and TLF. I enjoyed Terry's writing style, the witty, sarcastic, light hearted tone just hit me the right way. It had taken a while for me to even get to book 2 so I know it is a long 41 book journey ahead of me but I'm happy I am taking the journey the way I am. I currently own maybe 40% of the books so far and plan to purchase the rest as I get further in the series. I had decided against most readers better judgements to read the entire series in publication order. Or I guess in Rincewind's case.not so magical. It was my first time dipping my toes into the magical Discworld. So a couple of months ago I had posted a review of the Color of Magic. We have also split into clades such as the Conjoiners, who have taken on a form of machine-mediated hive-mind, and the Ultras, who crew and control the spaceships. The Revelation Space universe is a setting where humanity has reached out across the void, in long, narrow spaceships that approach the speed of light. Nine of the ten stories in Zima Blue have appeared previously. Of the eight stories in Galactic North, three are previously unpublished and illuminate the future history of which they are a part (without turning the collection into a fix-up). Now readers have a chance to catch up on most of Reynolds's shorter writing, with the appearance of both Galactic North, which collects his Revelation Space stories, and Zima Blue and Other Stories, which contains much of the rest of his shorter output. Much of this work was published in British magazines such as Interzone and the short-lived but wonderful Spectrum SF. Alastair Reynolds is best known for his long novels and the complex future history which builds from the first, Revelation Space book buyers have seen little of his short fiction. People gather as an errant coin lodges in the orphan’s other eye, blinding her completely. Scrooge’s light-hearted attempt to give someone the money he’s so callously hoarded for decades turns into a bloodbath. SNL: Steve Martin and Martin Short Eulogize Each Other Until a Surprise Guest Livens Things Up - Watchįrom then on, it’s sheer chaos. SNL: Lizzo to Sub as Last Musical Guest of 2022, Due to Yeah Yeah Yeahs Illness This year, she’s been cast a lot more as the normal person in sketches, so it’s good to see that she hasn’t lost her edge as her orphan almost immediately has her eye gouged out by a gold coin. In her first year on the show, she appeared almost exclusively as grotesque and shrill monsters who injected a much-needed burst of energy into a lagging season. Everything is played completely straight until Sarah Sherman shows up as an impoverished, yet bubbly orphan. With overtones of classical tragedy, Olympia relates Arturo's growing power: first over his sisters, who vie for his love, then over the entire show, and finally over the many followers of the cult of "Arturism," who, like their prophet, have pieces of themselves amputated to transcend appearance. Using drugs, insecticides and radioactivity, Al and his wife Crystal Lil, sometime geek, produce Arturo, a thalidomide child Elly and Iphy, beautiful Siamese twins Olympia, the novel's narrator, an albino hunchbacked dwarf trained as a barker and the outwardly normal but telekinetic Chick. In language as original and fantastic as her story, Dunn ( Attic, 1970 Truck, 1971) tells the tale of Binewski's Carnival Fabulon, an unremarkable traveling show until patriarch Aloysius decides to breed his own freaks. Like a collaboration between John Irving and David Lynch, this audaciously conceived, sometimes shocking tale of love and hubris in a carnival family exerts the same mesmeric fascination as the freaks it depicts, despite essential structural flaws. Her second book, The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I, about plastic surgery pioneer Harold Gillies, was released in 2022. įitzharris is also the writer and host of the television series, The Curious Life and Death of., which premiered on the Smithsonian Channel in 2020. Her interview was #1 on Chartable, with millions of downloads in the first week. In March 2019, Fitzharris appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience. įitzharris has written for publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Scientific American, and New Scientist. To date, The Butchering Art has been translated into fourteen languages. The book was also shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize and Wolfson History Prize in the United Kingdom that same year. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and was named an American Library Association Notable Nonfiction book for 2018. In 2017, she published The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine, a biography of surgical pioneer Joseph Lister. She was awarded a postdoctoral award from the Wellcome Trust in 2010. in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology, received from the University of Oxford in 2009. She is the creator of the blog The Chirurgeon's Apprentice, and the writer and host of the Smithsonian Channel TV series The Curious Life and Death of. Lindsey Fitzharris (born 1982 ) is an American author, medical historian, and television host. Author, medical historian, television host She burst onto the scene in 1986 with Through a Glass Darkly, which made news when the author received a three hundred and fifty thousand dollar advance from her publisher, Random House. Karleen Koen has penned three very popular historical romances that have gained her a wide following of fans. Through a Glass Darkly and Dark Angels were adapted as sound recordings, 2006. Now Face to Face, Random House ( New York, NY), 1995.ĭark Angels, Crown Publishers (New York, NY), 2006. Through a Glass Darkly, Random House ( New York, NY), 1986. Through a Glass Darkly was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Houston Home & Garden (magazine), Houston, TX, managing editor for five years University of Houston, Houston, TX, senior managing editor of Collegium magazine and director of editorial services for five years has also worked as a continuing education instructor at Rice University. Education: North Texas State University, B.A., 1970. Daughter of a ship captain married second husband, Edward (a businessman) divorced children: (first marriage) Samantha (second marriage) Blake. It can be read as a stand-alone, but it's recommended you read the books in order to get maximum enjoyment out of the series. **Protecting Alabama is the 2nd book in the SEAL of Protection Series. Two words would change both their lives and they'd have to fight hard for their happy ever after. Alabama and Abe had no idea their paths would cross and their prayers would be answered, but like most things in life, nothing is ever as easy as it seems at first. Finding the bar scene stale and having watched his friend and teammate, Wolf, find the woman of his dreams, Abe was determined to find someone to share his life with too. Christopher Abe Powers earned his nickname because he tolerated nothing less than absolute honesty from the people around him. People let her down, time after time, and she'd learned to rely on only herself. Emotionally and physically abused by her mama. Emotionally and physically abused by her mama, Alabama spent her high school years in foster care. Buy Protecting Alabama by Susan Stoker for 38.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. Alabama didn't have a good start to life. I loved how the plot both felt complex and simple simultaneously. The story was captivating and the characters were amazing. I never wanted to stop reading this book. Even with that slight disadvantage, the characters’ personalities and beauty shone through. I listened to the audiobook for part of this book, and I liked the narrator- but she was not my favorite. This book was so cute and amazing! Before this, the only other Christina Lauren book I had read was The Unhoneymooners– which I really enjoyed, and I think Twice in a Blue Moon was even better- although that’s not a horribly popular opinion □♀️! This is an Adult contemporary romance book, so it deals with older characters and more mature themes, but it was written in a very realistic, sweet manner. You can easily give a longer synopsis of this book (there is a great one on Goodreads), but I really liked reading it with very little context- I felt like it was much more fun! Although, I would like to point out that this book begins 14 years in the past and then jumps back to the present. The two groups start sightseeing together, and Tate and Sam begin to fall for each other, but you always have to be careful who you trust. For her graduation present, Tate’s grandma takes her on a trip to London, where they run into Sam and Luther- grandfather and grandson also from the United States. Tate has a secret that she has never told anyone, until now. Quote: The worst thing I ever did was for the best reason I ever had” |