![]() ![]() The reader and productions values are excellent, they deserve someone better than Hope Hodgeson to interpret.Ī Disappointment Due To 'Atmospheric' Music It is too bad, because Hope Hodgeson is an good writter and evokes the atmosphere of Victorian Ghost Story with a great deal of ability, but the constant assault on the dogs and cats (and probably others as well, but I have permanently stopped reading Hope Hodgson at this point so I will never know) is too great an obstacle to my enjoyment. The second story was even worse with SPOILER ALERT three completely innocent dogs murdered for no reason at all, the last in full view of Carnacki who was armed and could have stopped it at any time, and quite graphically described as well just in case I didn't feel bad enough allready. I had read the first story in this collection years ago, so I knew to skip the entire episode of the cat, but I had hoped that that would be an anomaly. ![]() I am aware that he is dead and nothing can be done about him now, but his stories are completely ruined, for me anyway, by his devotion to brutalizing and murdering random domestic pets. Hope Hodgeson should be in jail for animal abuse. ![]()
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![]() Unfortunately the edition I have is a horrible one: Simon and Schuster went for these weird covers. It was lovely re-visiting them and finding new details, coming from either my longer reading and life experience since last time, and stuff I’ve become more aware of in my reading over the years. I last re-read all of these in early 2013, alongside Matthew, and my very short reviews are here. Then Twixtmas came along and I read the first two before New Year’s Eve and the last three from 1-9 January, writing this the evening after I finished the last volume. ![]() Knowing the story fairly well, I watched and read the reviews stacking up, many by other lovely book bloggers I follow, and greatly enjoyed seeing their reactions to their read or re-read. ![]() (Much) earlier last year, Annabookbel decided to do a re-read of Susan Cooper’s wonderful “The Dark is Rising” sequence (her intro post is here), and while I was mightily tempted, I really like to start/read it over Christmas. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1832, he was freed from his service in the Hudson Bay Company and moved to Grantown, near the Red River Settlement. From 1828 to 1829, he worked for the Hudson Bay Company as a Bowsman at Fort Pelly in the Swan River District and then stayed on as a Steersman from 1829 to 1832. The contract is preserved in the Archives Nationales du Quebec.Īccording to the Hudson Bay Archives, Pierre Guillaume worked for the North West Company at Cumberland House from 1818 to 1821, the year of the union of the North West and Hudson Bay Companies. He was hired to work in the areas controlled by the North West Company. Beek at Ste Anne, Bout de l'Isle, in the west of the Island of Montreal. ![]() Sayer enlisted as a coureur des bois with the McTavish, McGillivray & Company on April 7, 1818, as was registered by the notary J.-G. ![]() Records from Pointe-Claire, Quebec indicate that he was baptized on July 21, 1815. Sayer was born October 18, 1799, "he natural son of John Sayer of the parish of Sainte Anne," and an Ojibway woman, Marguerite. Pierre Guillaume Sayer (Octo– August 7, 1868) was a Métis fur trader whose trial was a turning point in the ending of the monopoly of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) of the fur trade in North America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was sitting when I found out thankfully, but I also almost fell off my damn chair when the news broke. You know that feeling that you get when you find out that your favorite movie is getting a sequel? Or better yet, your favorite book is getting THREE more books?!?!?!? Take that feeling and multiply it by 500 million….THAT’S how excited I was when I found out that Ella was going to continue Logan and Tate’s story. ![]() Tate is the fifth book in the Temptation Series, and the next chapter in the lives of the two men we have all come to know and love. Never in a million years would he guess what’s really on Logan’s mind. So when his lawyer is finding it hard to sleep at night, he chalks it up to the craziness that has recently descended on their lives. Tate Morrison knows Logan better than anybody else-or so he thinks. Now with words like marriage and weddings floating around his head, Logan’s plans have suddenly changed course, and where they want him to go has him feeling somewhat distracted. Which is exactly the way he liked it-until recently. Logan Mitchell has always been a man with a plan. William Tate Morrison – The man who came into my life and turned my entire world-and me-on its ass. ![]() ![]() Up-to-date Bibliography and detailed explanatory notes.These have drawn on archival research in the British Library and the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas. There are extensive and clearly presented textual variants which are not found in other editions.The 'note on the text' offers a clearer and more accurate account of the novel's publication history than can be found in other editions.It considers, in particular, the themes of memory and parenthood, the combination of realism and fable, the novel's preoccupation with mystery and interpretation, its focus on habits, and Eliot's extraordinarily complex use of the imagery of threads and weaving. ![]() A fresh introduction that places the novel in its biographical, intellectual, and critical context, while also paying close attention to the nuances and patterns of the work. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() These brief examples are meant to be illustrative of the work being undertaken by communities throughout the country. In Chapters 2 and 3, the report features examples of communities that are taking action to address the root causes of health inequity. The committee drew on existing literature, comprehensive reviews ( AHRQ, 2016 NCHS, 2016), and recent studies. In addition, this chapter summarizes data related to military veterans as well as rural versus urban-area differences. In this chapter the committee reviews the state of health disparities in the United States by race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, and disability status, highlighting populations that are disproportionately impacted by inequity. As part of its statement of task, the committee was asked to review the state of health disparities in the United States and to explore the underlying conditions and root causes contributing to health inequities and the interdependent nature of the factors that create them (drawing from existing literature and syntheses on health disparities and health inequities). ![]() ![]() ![]() Why we hunt for love in others, and how to capture the love inside us The war of control that slowly destroys most relationships The Mastery of Love includes: - Why domestication and the image of perfection lead to self-rejection ![]() Using insightful stories to bring his message to life, Ruiz shows us how to heal our emotional wounds, recover the freedom and joy that are our birthright, and restore the spirit of playfulness that is vital to loving relationships. About the Book In the tradition of Carlos Castaneda, the author distills essential Toltec wisdom on human relationships as well as techniques for integrating this awareness into daily life.īook Synopsis In The Mastery of Love, don Miguel Ruiz illuminates the fear-based beliefs and assumptions that undermine love and lead to suffering and drama in our relationships. ![]() ![]() Her power grows with every step, and the shocking secrets she will uncover could change the course of history.ĭon’t miss The Empire of Dreams, Rae Carson’s action-packed return to the world of The Girl of Fire and Thorns! Her country is on the brink of civil war, her own soldiers ordered to kill her on sight.Įlisa will lead her loyal companions deep into the enemy’s kingdom, a land of ice and snow and vicious magic, to rescue Hector and win back her throne. Her enemies have stolen the man she loves, and they await her at the gate of darkness. ![]() The gate of darkness closes.Įlisa is a fugitive. Perfect for fans of Tamora Pierce and Brandon Sanderson. The third book in Rae Carson’s award-winning and New York Times–bestselling trilogy! In the deeply satisfying conclusion, seventeen-year-old sorcerer-queen Elisa travels into the unknown realm of the enemy to win back her true love, save her country, and uncover the final secrets of her destiny. “I love this series to pieces and so should you.”-Marie Lu, bestselling author of Warcross ![]() ![]() After a lengthy but fascinating introduction full of insight we are treated to a multitude of island each arranged by ocean. Judith has produced a blindingly brilliant and different atlas that combines what we carto-nerds love in maps with stories from history. When she was in her teenage years the Berlin wall fell, Germany was reunited and Judith was faced with infinite possibilities to travel to these strange lands that had filled her imagination. Judith still managed to get her small hands on a children's world atlas and went on imaginary trips like the rest of us. ![]() So her primary school years were filled with communist propoganda and maps on walls that showed a world that was unavailable to most East German citizens. Judith grew up in East Germany during the late 80's and early 90's. While Judith Schalansky proves to be another of my fellow map nerds along with Simon Garfield and Ken Jennings, Judith's history has a unique slant on the usual type of nerdery. ![]() On a wonderfully warm and cloudless winter solstice day I took this volume on a picnic and was engrossed for a few hours with the beautiful maps and the equally beautiful stories that accompanied them. ![]() ![]() ![]() Says Selby: “The dream I'm referring to in the book, of course, is the great American dream: prosperity, property, prestige, etc. ![]() They devise various means of getting high and getting rich, all of which lead to catastrophe.Īronofsky says: “One of the things this film is about is the hole we create in our present when we chase the illusion of tomorrow and then the distances we go to fill that vacuum with anything and everything.” Her son Harry (Jared Leto), his girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) and friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) are all junkies. Believing that she has been chosen as a contestant on her favorite program, Sara makes various attempts to lose weight, which eventually result in her addiction to diet pills and a mental collapse. ![]() Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) is a lonely widow who lives for television and game shows in particular. The story involves four people living in the Coney Island section in Brooklyn, New York. Unhappily, Aronofsky is all too faithful to the spirit of the Selby original. In this Aronofsky ( Pi, 1998) is not being untrue to the 1978 novel by Hubert Selby, Jr. That is the tone of Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream. and Darren Aronofsky, adapted from the novel by Hubert Selby, Jr.Īs a rule, screaming at the top of one's lungs, even about genuine injustices and human difficulties, is not an effective method of reaching people. ![]() Requiem for a Dream, directed by Darren Aronofsky, screenplay by Hubert Selby, Jr. ![]() |