![]() ![]() But there are stakes that neither magician knows exists, and they find themselves falling in love and creating a series of dangerous consequences for the circus performers as well as the patrons.Įrin Morgenstern weaves a beautiful world in The Night Circus. ![]() The two main characters, Celia and Marco, are the masterminds behind the circus. The novel follows a wide array of characters, all involved in and interconnected to Le Cirque des Rêves. I started the novel late one Friday night and finished it Saturday afternoon. The Night Circus drew me in from the very start. Marco, an orphan, is picked up by a man in a gray suit and bound into a lifelong competition against Celia. She grows up learning how to magically fuse her sliced fingers back together and turn jackets into birds and back again-an illusionist, only it isn’t an illusion. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.”Ĭelia Bowen, daughter of a magician, is bound into a duel at a young age. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. ![]() ![]() It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. ![]()
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Meanwhile, the asteroid is getting closer to Earth. He grabs it by the wing, but it manages to escape. ![]() Suddenly, the father appears and starts fighting the Quetzalcoatlus. It picks them up in its beak and starts eating them. It finds a nest of Tyrannosaurus babies that have just hatched. ![]() In the Pacific Northwest of North America, a Quetzalcoatlus is flying above the landscape, looking for food. It portrays the asteroid as the cause of the extinction.įeatured genera The Last Day of the Dinosaurs is a 2010 Discovery Channel television documentary about the extinction of the dinosaurs. ![]() ![]() She was too much in love - never mind that it was with her brother’s wife Jessa-Lynn was loved fiercely in return. Jessa-Lynn Morton, Arnett’s narrator, never left. “I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror,” Carson McCullers once wrote. They have created a literature full of mirages and (actual) sinkholes, poised on the hazy borders between man and nature, ripeness and rot, tragedy and gag.Īnd life and death, in the case of Kristen Arnett’s “Mostly Dead Things,” an irresistible first novel set in the hard sunshine and “juicy green” of Central Florida, featuring a family of taxidermists, suicides and ruthless intimacies. What other state so reliably produces such rowdy, uninhibited imaginations? Hurston, Kelly Link, Karen Russell, Alissa Nutting, Laura van den Berg, Jennine Capó Crucet. ![]() Zora Neale Hurston famously wrote of the “ground so rich that everything went wild” - not least the writers themselves. “Eden of dangerous things,” the novelist Lauren Groff once described Florida. ![]() ![]() ![]() Told from a rather unique perspective, this novel is a page turner that will leave you gasping for more. ![]() This is book is a fast paced ride into the debauchery of souls and the consequences of the actions that so many people take part in. Lachelle Redd gives a new twist to the typical war between heaven and hell with a far more visceral setting than one would be used to. ![]() Where Heaven and Hell Collide – A Review of When Angels Fall by Lachelle Reddįirst off, I will tell you honestly I was given this book to review as part of the Platinum Book Reviews Blog and Site, that said allow me to give you the skinny on When Angels Fall.Īs an avid reader and writer, I found that this book is a rather new and unique take on the old mythology of angels and demons. ![]() ![]() ![]() The intense heat of Rarity's magic knocks Trixie off-balance, and she spills water all over the dress. While attempting to add some gold trim to the dress, Rarity accidentally strikes Trixie's right forehoof with her magic. Overjoyed, Trixie tries to show Rarity how she wants her cloak to look, but she gets in the way of Rarity's dressmaking. ![]() Trixie appeals to Rarity's generosity, and Rarity agrees to help her once she has some free time. Rarity is intrigued to help Trixie gain access to an exclusive social event, but she is too busy making a dress for Sapphire Shores to wear for the upcoming Glammy Awards. She approaches Rarity at the Carousel Boutique and tries to commission a new cloak for her performance to impress the Starmane Society at the Grand Magician's Ball. The following morning, Trixie serves breakfast for Twilight Sparkle and Starlight before setting out on her mission. ![]() ![]() She wants to come up with a brand new magic trick to impress the Starmane Society of Magicians enough to be inducted as their newest member. Starlight is excited for time off from friendship lessons to have some fun with her friend, but Trixie has a more important priority. The story begins in Ponyville Trixie stays with Starlight Glimmer for an extended stay at the Castle of Friendship as opposed to her usual routine of staying in her wagon while visiting town. The book was initially announced as being published on February 9, 2016-under the title The Trouble with Trixie-then on January 10, 2017, before being delayed further to March 7, 2017. ![]() ![]() Saint-Exupéry enjoyed a mostly carefree and privileged life, and in 1912, he took his first trip in an airplane-an experience that would have a profound and lasting impression on him. His father died when he was a young boy, and his mother moved him and his four siblings to a relative’s château in the east. ![]() Early LifeĪntoine de Saint-Exupéry was born into an aristocratic family in Lyon, France, on June 29, 1900. His adventures as a pilot would supply the inspiration for all of his literary endeavors, which culminated with the 1943 publication of the classic The Little Prince. He received his pilot’s wings during his compulsory military service in 1922, around which time he also began to write. Raised in an aristocratic family, he fell in love with aviation at an early age after took his first airplane ride at the age of 12. ![]() ![]() (1900-1944) Who Was Antoine de Saint-Exupéry?Īntoine de Saint-Exupéry was a French writer, aviator, poet and author. ![]() ![]() ![]() Taking place between the first and second book in the Elric Saga, The Citadel of Forgotten Myths is perfect for longtime fans and those new to this epic fantasy series. Taking place between the first and second book in the Elric Saga. He wants his dying empire to thrive, but is he up to the task? Recruiting his best friend Moonglum, he hunts across his lands for the great Citadel of Forgotten Myths, seeking the answers to the nature of the phroon of The Young Kingdoms. Elric is on the hunt for the great Citadel of Forgotten Myths while traveling through the remnants of his empire with his tragic best friend Moonglum, as Elric seeks the answers to the nature of the phroon of The Young Kingdoms. The estranged emperor of the Melnibonéan empire, Elric is struggling with his nature and the constant thirst of his soul-sucking sword, Stormbringer. Elric rides again to investigate the history of Melniboné and its dragons, known as the Phroon, in this exciting new addition to the Elric Saga from World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award winner Michael Moorcock. ![]() With a green sprayed edge, patterned endpapers, marker ribbon as well as head and tail bands… this limited-run slipcased edition well befits this legendary figure of fantasy literature.Įlric and his companion Moonglum return in this prequel set within the early days of Elric’s wanderings. This is a truly special edition of The Citadel of Forgotten Myths, unmissable for any fantasy collection. For those who keep track of such things, The Citadel of Forgotten Myths takes place between The Bane of the Black Sword and Stormbringer, but the tale’s exact chronology matters less than the. ![]() ![]() ![]() She really was a beauty as well, all smiles and warmth.īy the end of that first night, he had a sit down with the manager, found out her name, and then he went about making sure she was being paid a decent wage. He’d worked his ass off to get the contracts he wanted, and then he’d spent the rest of the evening watching the divine creature. The meeting he’d been part of was one of the worst of his life, and yet it had been the best as well. ![]() ![]() The moment he saw Sophia he knew he had to have her. Some men loved having a slender woman with all bones, but not him. Large tits, ass, and thighs, fuller, and he couldn’t wait to get his hands on her. His need had been so great that he’d forcibly moved the man just so he didn’t stand in his way. Every time she was near, he couldn’t resist looking at her. What Alfie hadn’t liked was how he got in the way of his view. The waiter at the time had been more than fine. She hadn’t even been serving his table, nor had she looked in his direction. The first time he’d seen her was in an upscale restaurant on a business meeting. ![]() Sophia Cross had no idea that she was being watched, but he had been doing it for over a year now. Her brown hair was pulled back into a long ponytail, and the blue summer dress she wore cupped her large tits, but flared out from her waist, not showing the world what was rightfully his. Alfie Brown stared across the park at where the woman that belonged to him walked her dog. ![]() ![]() ![]() “S’il est quelquefois logique de s’en rapporter à l’apparence des phénomènes, ce premier chant finit ici. ― Hannah Harrington, quote from Speechless That means something, doesn't it?Īnd just because I have room for improvement doesn't mean I'm worthless, or that i have nothing to offer to, like, the world.” At least I acknowledge the mistakes I've made, and am making. To realize how much I've screwed up and to obsess over all of the terrible ways I've wronged so many people.īut even though I know my flaws are so many (many many many), and there are always ways I could be better, and I should never stop working for that - I also need to give myself a break. ![]() To struggle with geometry equations and underlying meanings in novels and know I'll never been smart the way Asha is. So easy to look in the mirror at all my imperfections and think of all the ways I fall short of someone like Kristen. “The truth is, the person I've ben hating more than anyone is myself. ![]() ![]() ![]() He makes a midnight ride to his small hometown, with plans to do himself in. He hits bottom after discovering his only daughter has shut him out of her wedding. ![]() His life has been crumbled by alcohol and regret. It explores the question: What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one?Īs a child, Charley “Chick” Benetto was told by his father, “You can be a mama’s boy or a daddy’s boy, but you can’t be both.” So he chooses his father, only to see the man disappear when Charley is on the verge of adolescence.ĭecades later, Charley is a broken man. Now he returns with a beautiful, haunting novel about the family we love and the chances we miss.įor One More Day is the story of a mother and a son, and a relationship that covers a lifetime and beyond. Mitch Albom mesmerized readers around the world with his number one New York Times bestsellers, The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie. ![]() |