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But I was severely shocked multiple times throughout the novel, which I'm unsure of the attribution - did I forget these integral pieces of the story or was it actually different? I'll definitely have to rewatch to find out. I've seen the movie version, years back, and for the most part, remembered the plot. There's just a touch of supernatural within the pages, and it could be argued there's none at all. This book was likely the least supernatural King book I read. When Very Good Boy Cujo chases a rabbit down a hole, his life changes for the worst, and the town along with it. Now there's a different monster in town, one that used to be so innocent. Not to mention it wasn't very long ago a police officer was found guilty of the brutal murder of multiple women and girls in the town. There's infidelity, a downturn in business, toxic masculinity, emotional abuse, a monster in the closet. There's a lot of bad luck going 'round the small town of Castle Rock. There's a reason this book is a classic - it's haunting, terrifying, and outright sickening. Even not having read the book or seen the film, most people would likely associate the name Cujo with a horrible monster of a dog. Stephen King's Cujo is a classic in terms of horror. TW: Harm to animals, harm to children, violence, gore, racism, sexism, infidelity Popsugar 2019 Reading Challenge Prompt: Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge (2017 prompt - a book from a nonhuman perspective) The book is organized into seven parts: The Gods, the Creation, and the Earliest Heroes Stories of Love and Adventure The Great Heroes Before the Trojan War The Heroes of the Trojan War The Great Families of Mythology The Less Important Myths and The Mythology of the Norseman, and includes genealogies. Vivid, decadent, and full of action, Hamilton's retellings of these timeless tales from the birth of the goddess Athena, who sprung fully formed from the head of her father Zeus, to the great adventures of Ulysses and the labors of Hercules - appeal to readers of all ages and reveal essential truths about the behavior of man. Expansive in its scope Mythology brings to life for the modern reader Greek, Roman and Norse myths and legends, as well as the gods, heroes, and mortals who inhabit them, and who have inspired human creativity from antiquity. Edith Hamilton's Mythology has been a perennial bestseller and has sold millions of copies throughout the world. Since its original publications by Little, Brown and Company in 1942. One of the most fascinating things about the novel is the way in which notions of hero and bad guy hinge entirely on the reader’s age and politics. Teasle is an Eisenhower Republican and decorated Korean War hero. Teasle isn’t the bully he seems in the movie, and Rambo isn’t the victim. The chapters alternate between the points of view of Rambo and Teasle, who represent the divide between older establishment and youth counterculture of the last '60s and early '70s. In the novel of First Blood, Rambo isn’t even necessarily a hero. The bones of the plots remain the same, but while relations between author and actor remain cordial, Morrell’s print Rambo is something of a rebuke to Stallone’s. Morrell’s novelizations of that film and the subsequent Rambo III see the author deliberately recalibrating the screen Rambo as far back towards his original vision as is possible. "I was fascinated to see how… in Rambo: First Blood Part II, Rambo was interpreted as a jingoistic superhero," Morrell says in his memoir Rambo and Me. But in taking on the print versions of those follow-ups, plotted by other people, Morrell had a specific agenda. First Blood, written a decade before the Stallone adaptation made Rambo a household name, remains largely a separate entity, even to Morrell’s own sequels. This is all the attention David Morrell gives to the continuity problem of continuing a series of novels where the protagonist didn’t survive the first installment. Alamo Drafthouse's Rambo marathon leading up to Rambo: Last Blood is almost here. It’s still the comprehensive guide that it always has been, but much has changed in the industry in recent years, and this new edition of Event Planning includes:Ī companion website with downloadable versions of the checklists, additional forms and tools, author Q&A, and more at What you don’t know or know to ask can have a major effect on the success of your event and on your budget.
With everything around her changing, Finn is the only person she can trust. But what marks her out as chosen for greatness in this world also places her in grave danger. Among the Trylle she is not just different, but special. He holds the key to her past, the answers to her strange powers and is the doorway to a place she never imagined could exist: Förening, the home of the Trylle.įinally everything makes sense. When the intense and darkly handsome newcomer Finn suddenly turns up at her bedroom window one night, her world is turned upside down. Her mysterious ability - she can influence people's decisions, without knowing how, or why. She's bored and frustrated by her small-town life - and then there's the secret she can't tell anyone. Although certain she's not the monster her mother claimed she is, she does feel that she doesn't quite fit in. Wendy Everly knew she was different the day her mother tried to kill her and accused her of having been switched at birth. Switched is the first novel in Amanda Hocking's bestselling trilogy, Trylle. He revealed himself to be an industrious and capable leader, thereby shattering racial stereotypes of the time. Equiano was extremely religious, and ultimately converted to Methodism. Once he settled in England, he married and became involved in the abolitionist movement. After manumission, he traveled the world as a sailor and a steward, and even worked as an overseer on a Jamaica plantation for a time. Equiano was ultimately able to secure enough money to purchase his freedom. Equiano accompanied Pascal on his adventures during the Seven Years' War until he was sold to a Quaker merchant, Robert King. Regardless, Equiano was sold to European slave traders, shipped to America and the West Indies, and purchased by a lieutenant, Michael Henry Pascal, in the Royal Navy. Equiano claimed he was born in Africa, but recent scholarship suggests he was born in South Carolina. The narrator of the autobiography, Equiano is an educated, intelligent, and ambitious former slave who intends to showcase the horrors of the slave trade in order to spur on the abolitionist cause. What ten words would you use to describe the characters Ian, Jenna, and Patrick?ħ. How does the way this story is told differ from most novels? How does this style make the story work?Ħ. What did you think of the pacing of the book? Did it remain consistent throughout?ĥ. What other books that you have read that might seem similar to I Let You Go?Ĥ. If you had to describe what kind of book this was, what would it be?ģ. In what ways did this book include autobiographical elements? How did it make her story more believable?Ģ. If reproducing, please credit with the following statement: 2017 Mount Prospect Public Library. The Library is happy to share these original questions for your use. These book discussion questions are highly detailed and will ruin plot points if you have not read the book. D evastated by a hit-and-run accident that has ended the life of her young son, Jenna moves to the remote Welsh coast to search for healing while two dedicated policemen try to get to the bottom of the case. What were some of the details of the BPL that captivated you?Ī. Inside the Boston Public Library's Reading Room. It’s talking about how people react to their environment and how they feel about it. But sometimes that can actually be inhibiting, because part of writing is talking about things that people don’t see. The wonderful thing now is that you can look on Google and see things in a way that I suppose writers of generations past couldn’t. Were you doing a lot of online research in addition to correspondence?Ī. Larry was researching at the Boston Public Library, and he’d been rabbiting on to me about how beautiful it was. Well, I’m glad to hear that he’s not actually a murderer.Ī. My husband was standing behind me, and he said, ‘I hope Larry’s not killing people to send you research.’ And he wasn’t, but it was a very good idea for a story. I opened up the video file here in Australia. He took footage - after the body had been removed - and sent it to me.Ī. He said he thought it would be useful for me to know what coroner’s vans and crime scene tape looks like in America. And then one day there was a murder! It was a couple of blocks from where Larry was staying. That explains the level of detail in the letters in the book.Ī. This was a wonderful book as seen through the eyes of the from the eyes of the formerly known Olive Thomas of the Silent Film Industry and silent films such as ‘The Flapper’. Wonderful Look At Olive Thomas & Her Life Ollie's mysterious death in Paris’ Ritz Hotel in 1920 was one of Hollywood’s first scandals, ensuring that her legend lived on. Together they developed a reputation for drinking, club-going, wrecking cars, and fighting, along with giving each other expensive make-up gifts. When Hollywood beckoned, Ollie signed first with Triangle Pictures, and then with Myron Selznick’s new production company, becoming most well known for her work as a “baby vamp”, the precursor to the flappers of the 1920s.Īfter a stormy courtship, she married playboy Jack Pickford, Mary Pickford’s wastrel brother. From her longtime home at the theater, Ollie’s ghost tells her story from her early life in Pittsburgh to her tragic death at 25.Īfter winning a contest for “The Most Beautiful Girl in New York”, shopgirl Ollie modeled for the most famous artists in New York, and then went on to become the toast of Broadway. They say she’s the ghost of Olive Thomas, one of the loveliest girls who ever lit up the Ziegfeld Follies and the silent screen. A presence lurks in New York City’s New Amsterdam Theatre when the lights go down and the audience goes home. |