![]() ![]() Gus can talk! And now the girls have their chance to enter the Pet Parade. Gus is hiding a secret – a very special secret that Cassie and Lina experience when they are together with him. But one day, their neighbour, Bernadette asks them to look after her cat, Gus. ![]() The only glitch is that neither of them have a pet – Cassie can’t have a pet because her brother didn’t look after them, and Lina’s house is already chaotic with three younger siblings, and her parents don’t want any more chaos. ![]() When best friends Cassie and Lina hear about the local Pet Parade, they long to enter it. The girls might be ‘ready for anything’ but Gus isn’t quite the cat they were expecting. What could possibly go wrong?īest friends Cassie and Lina would love to take a pet to the Pet Parade but it’s not possible… until they’re asked to pet sit Gus the cat next door. ![]()
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![]() Before Ben can unpick one story from the other, Cora disappears into the torrid night. Yet it seems that Emily Redfern herself, iron-willed and socially ambitious, had cause to wish her profligate husband dead. ![]() Soon, however, he learns that Cora is accused of murdering her lecherous master, Otis Redfern, and poisoning his wife almost to death. Though January's certain she's a runaway, he agrees to try to pass a message to the man she seeks. Empty except for Cora Chouteau, a dark-skinned plantation waif come to town in search of her lover, sold in slavery to one of its prominent families. ![]() Then his work as a music teacher takes him out again into the fetid, empty midday streets. Benjamin January's Paris medical training keeps him all night long with the dying at Charity Hospital. The summer of 1833 has been one of brazen heat and brutal pestilence, as the city is stalked by Bronze John - the popular name for the deadly cholera epidemic that tests the healing skills of doctor and voodoo alike. ![]() ![]() ![]() I could talk about it for days and days (and will be for quite some time). Her characters are so well developed, and I rooted for both Viv and Carly as they sought to determine what was haunting The Sun Down Motel. The pacing is perfect it’s awesomely creepy but not overly scary and it is one of the best books I have read in a while. Second, the book is simply fantastic I absolutely loved it. First, the cover is the about the coolest cover I have ever seen. I have not stopped telling people about it since I finished it. I loved the suspense level in this book, coupled with unsolved murders and shady ghosts living in the motel, makes this one of my favorite reads yet! - Christina Books by Simone St James Authors like Simone St James What Should I Read Next. Carly is obsessed with what happened to her Aunt 35 years ago and is on a mission to solve the eatery. In 2017, her niece, Carly following her footsteps taking on the job as nightshift worker at the same hotel. Viv disappeared I 1982 while working the nightshirt at the motel. ![]() The author sets the stage between 19 with alternating time chapters with characters telling us their story. The Sun Down Motel is quite the page turner and left me in shock at the end of the book. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s actually based on three of Bardugo’s novels. What book is Shadow and Bone Season 2 based on? The first season of Shadow and Bone was based mainly on the eponymous first book in the Grishaverse, but also introduced characters from Six of Crows, such as the Crow gang of the city of Ketterdam as well as Nina (Danielle Galligan) and Matthias (Calahan Skogman). ![]() ![]() It’s based on the world Bardugo created in several books: her original trilogy ( Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising), its spin-off duology ( Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom) and its sequel duology ( King of Scars and Rule of Wolves), as well as companion volumes The Language of Thorns, Demon in the Wood and The Lives of Saints. Is the Shadow and Bone series based on a book? ![]() Want to learn more about how Bardugo’s books inspired each season of the show? Read on to find out more about Shadow and Bone’s literary origins. If you’re captivated by it, you might want to spend more time there, with the books that served as inspiration for the series: Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse novels, which introduce Alina, her best friend Mal (Archie Renaux) and the powerful Darkling (Ben Barnes), and expand outward. It’s an intricate universe, with its own history, geography and political intrigue. The world that Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) inhabits in Shadow and Bone is full of magic, populated by characters who can manipulate the elements, conjuring sun, shadow, wind. ![]() ![]() Knowingly Entering or Remaining in any Restricted Building or Grounds without Lawful Authority Setenced on 11/23 to 36 months probation with two months home confinement 60 hours of community service, $500 restitution. Arraigned on 2/22 and pleaded not guilty to all counts. Initial appearance held 1/25/21.Ĭharged via criminal information 1/28. Sentenced to two years of probation, including 200 hours of community service, $1,000 fine, $500 restitution.Īrrested 1/19. Plea agreement entered 9/30/21 and pleaded guilty to count 4. ![]() Charged via criminal information on 3/11/21.Īrraignment and status conference held 5/4 and pleaded not guilty to all counts.ĭefendant remains on personal recognizance bond.ĪLVEAR GONZALEZ, Eduardo Nicolas (aka, Alvear Gonzalez Eduardo Nicolas aka, Nicolas Alvear)Ĭharged via information on 2/11/21. Arraigned 3/24/21 and pleaded not guilty to counts 1-4. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book begins with a fairly short segment from each of the mothers, then we get segments from each of the daughters, then we go back to the mothers to finish the book out. ![]() I even made a chart for myself saying which mother experienced what, and which daughter was her to help me keep it all together. An issue I had though was keeping the characters straight in my mind. We also see into the relationships they had with their own mothers when they lived in China.Īmy Tan’s mother, Daisy, is from China and Tan drew from her and her mother’s own experiences to create each of the eight characters. The Joy Luck Club is about four Chinese women and the relationships they have with their Chinese American daughters. This is also my 100 th book vs movie episode! I will be filming a q&a next week to celebrate, so if you have any questions, you would like me to answer, you can comment down below or on the community page post I made asking for questions. The Joy Luck Club won a poll a posted on my YouTube community page, so you should subscribe to my YouTube page so you can take part in future polls! The Joy Luck Club directed by Wayne Wang (1993) ![]() ![]() ![]() With discord smoldering in the fragile new nation through the 1780s, nationalist leaders such as James Madison and Alexander Hamilton sought to restrain unruly state democracies and consolidate power in a Federal Constitution. Taylor skillfully draws France, Spain, and native powers into a comprehensive narrative of the war that delivers the major battles, generals, and common soldiers with insight and power. Brutal guerrilla violence flared all along the frontier from New York to the Carolinas, fed by internal divisions as well as the clash with Britain. When war erupted, Patriot crowds harassed Loyalists and nonpartisans into compliance with their cause. Conflict ignited on the frontier, where settlers clamored to push west into Indian lands against British restrictions, and in the seaboard cities, where commercial elites mobilized riots and boycotts to resist British tax policies. ![]() Rising out of the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, Taylor's Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading Britain's mainland colonies, fueled by local conditions, destructive, hard to quell. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history of the nation's founding. ![]() ![]() The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. ![]() ![]() His route would begin and end at the same address: 28 Coast Oak Way, Mont Marin, the two-story house where Tony and his two younger brothers grew up. ![]() In his early years, this took form as a mildly successful string of garage sales, and then some failed ventures-including the sale of Christmas cards to neighbors one year-before he joined the workforce as a newspaper boy. “To me,” he later recalled of his childhood, “money meant that later on in life I would have the freedom to do whatever I wanted.” Though his family was comfortably middle-class-his father, Richard, worked at Chevron, and his mother, Judy, was a psychologist-he understood early on that money equaled liberation. ![]() Tony would have been the first to admit that as a child he was obsessed with one thing: making money. ![]() ![]() ![]() But I soon realised that in this I differed less from the fictional characters than I first thought. ![]() I found the beginning of this book rather difficult because I had no idea who all the various factions and real-life characters were, nor what they were attempting to achieve. Its summer abundant with warmth and sun, its winter with snow, highest in its heaven stood two stars: the shepherds’ star, eventide Venus and Mars – quivering, red. Great and terrible was the year of Our Lord 1918, of the Revolution the second. This is the story of a few short days when the fate of the city seems up for grabs, and the lives of the Turbins, like so many in those turbulent times, are under constant threat. ![]() But there are other factions too – the German Army have installed a puppet leader, the Hetman Skoropadsky, and the Ukranian peasantry are on the march in a nationalist movement, under their leader Petlyura. They are White Russians, still loyal to the Russian Tsar, hoping against hope that he may have escaped the Bolsheviks and be living still. The three Turbin siblings live in the house of their recently deceased mother in the city. It is 1918, and Kiev in the Ukraine is at the swirling centre of the forces unleashed by war and revolution. “Blood is cheap on those red fields…” □ □ □ □ □ ![]() ![]() ![]() And it's hard to understand unless you're in it. It's more than love, it's more important than love. If you take him out it's like cutting his face out of all the pictures, there's a big hole and it's ugly. ![]() The house and the children and so much more of what you do is built around him and your life, too, your history. And then the next morning you wake up and the kitchen smells like coffee and the children have their hair all brushed and the birds are eating out of the feeder and you look at your husband and he's not the person you used to think he was but he's your life. And some nights you say to yourself, it's not enough, I won't put up with another minute. But time goes by and you've slept together a thousand nights and smelled like spit-up when babies are sick and seen your body droop and get soft. You say to yourself when you're young, oh, I wouldn't tolerate this or that or the other thing, you say love is the most important thing in the world and there's only one kind of love and it makes you feel different than you feel the rest of the time, like you're all lit up. “You make concessions when you're married a long time that you don't believe you'll ever make when you're beginning. ![]() |