![]() Recovered from an injury, Jim seeks a position on the Patna, a steamer serving the transport of 800 "pilgrims of an exacting belief" to a port on the Red Sea. ![]() But during that test of courage, Jim held back in fear when he was called upon to assist a vessel injured in a fierce storm. While still aboard the training ship, he met his first test of courage. He did well and advanced to third place in navigation. Jim was born and raised in an English person's home, and when he was still a young lad, he decided to make the sea his career thus, he enrolled on a training ship for officers of the merchant marine. Lord Jim, Conrad’s most famous work, is also his most extensive examination of a persistent theme: the conflict between an individual’s inner moral code and his or her outward actions. ![]() He was regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. ![]() Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer. ![]()
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![]() ![]() At this point, things may be getting a little ridiculous for the poor guy. He’s helped end Apocalypses in various forms and dealt with increasingly strange resurrections. Over the seasons, Dean Winchester has been the veritable ringer from transformations to fairy abductions to his famous stint in Hell. Let’s be honest, though, possession by an archangel isn’t the strangest thing that happened to Dean. The fact that Michael makes him wear jaunty newsboy caps alone will probably have Dean Winchester fighting for his freedom from the possession. Even though Dean is out, we don’t think that he’ll be down for long. Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles), currently possessed by an alternate version of the Archangel Michael, will be conspicuously absent for several episodes. ![]() Things will certainly take a turn for the unfamiliar. Supernatural is now on its fourteenth season. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We learn of the casual, bored cruelty of the Titans and Olympians, the “great chain of fear” in which they delight, and the reason for Circe’s exile (as with all witch stories, it’s because Circe discovered her powers, and used them). Thousands of years later, Circe gets her due in Miller’s fierce – retelling. In Homer’s Odyssey, Circe plays a minor role as the goddess/witch who transforms Odysseus’s men into pigs, only to be outwitted, defeated, and bedded by the wily mortal. Here are 10 terrific books that breathe fresh life into the familiar: ![]() I took inspiration from others who dared find new relevance in old tales. I decided to recast Wharton’s classic as The Smash-Up, setting it during a volatile week in 2018, when nothing was simple and no place isolated from the madness. This time, Zenobia intrigued me: why was she so angry? Meanwhile, Mattie’s ultimate transformation – from adorable innocent to some monstrous new thing – seemed less tragic than inevitable. Who could choose Zenobia, Ethan’s sickly crone of a wife, over the sparkling young Mattie Silver? A few years ago – by then a wife and a mother of daughters living inside the chaos and rage of Trump’s America – I returned to the book. The story is spare, quiet: a farmer, trapped in a loveless marriage, longs for warmth amid the isolation of a cruel New England winter. At 15, I read Ethan Frome, a 1911 Edith Wharton novella about a small-town love triangle. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, in the Gatehouse the gang is fighting off hordes of demons and they somehow manage to survive. Oz takes off to Boston to warn Buffy of the Sons of Entropy. ![]() ![]() After Angel captures two Sons of Entropy, he learns, by beating them, that their boss, Il Maestro, is planning on opening the gates to other dimensions to let the demons run loose on the earth with the sons of Entropy as their kings and their immediate plan is to take over the Gatehouse in order to do this. Giles, Buffy, Xander and Cordelia fly to Boston where the Gatehouse is located, while Willow, Oz and Angel remain in Sunnydale to ward off demons and the Sons of Entropy that seem to be stalking the Slayer. Giles figures that there must be something wrong at the Gatehouse, a huge mansion that is infested with demons but kept under control by Jean-Marc Regnier, a wizened sorcerer called the Gatekeeper. There they discover that portals from another realm are opening in Sunnydale which caused the drastic increase in the demon population. ![]() Eventually Giles makes it back to Sunnydale. Michaela Tomasi, a fellow Watcher, tries to warn him of something but disappears. Meanwhile, Giles' hotel room in Manhattan is ransacked and he gets assaulted, which leads to him ending up in the hospital. While Giles is in Manhattan for a librarian's meeting, the Scooby Gang finds that Sunnydale is suddenly overrun by demons. ![]() ![]() ![]() After a double-page spread full of foodstuffs, there is a droll illustration of anteaters sitting at a place-matted table, with all but one sucking ants out of individual jars labeled, “ANTS.” The protagonist is munching-or tonguing-hot dogs and fries. On the next double-page spread, readers learn that, like people, this anteater eats three meals a day-and does not eat ants. ![]() An anthropomorphic anteater enjoys many foods but is vehemently opposed to eating ants.Ĭapital letters are used throughout, beginning with the initial page: “I AM AN ANTEATER AND I LOVE TO EAT.” Bright graphics that have the appearance of digital animation show a friendly-looking, gray critter in a waistcoat, its long, red ribbon of a tongue snaking out over a table full of colorful, human foods: a burger on a bun a pink, triple-layer cake a bowl of fruit some sort of pie. ![]() ![]() ![]() Klinger (born 1946 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American attorney and writer. Decorative brown-beige cardboard slipcase with colored image of Sherlock and chair. Klinger, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting Sherlock holding a whaling harpoon executed by Frederick Dorr Steele, profusely illustrated with nearly 400 early Sherlockian illustrations, with the texts of four major novels, extensive bibliography, chronology, beige endpapers, xiv + 907 pages. ![]() "Square" quarto / 4to (10 1/4" x 8 3/4"), maroon cloth with black lettering on spine and black silhouette of Sherlock in profile on front cover, Preface and nearly 1,000 annotations by Leslie S. ![]() Dust Jacket Condition: DJ & Slipcase: Both Very Fine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because who-or what-are they really dancing with? Her sisters have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn’t sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. Each death was more tragic than the last-the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge-and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods.ĭisturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that the deaths were no accidents. Once they were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls’ lives have been cut short. ![]() In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.Īnnaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. ![]() ![]() ![]() "No! No! Not a cover slip! Last time it gave me a ra. Put down that Oreo, your butt can't take any more." "You're rude." "Yeah, yeah." Anyway, she likes to write and has finally beaten her self-esteem into submission enough to allow herself to be scrutinized under the 'other readers' microscope. ![]() She didn't put two and two together until after college where it suddenly dawned on her, "Hey, I like writing". She secretly hid notebooks and notebooks of dribble in a large Tupperware storage container in her closet as a kid. All these living creatures keep the belly of her life full, sometimes to the point of gluttony, but she doesn't mind all that much because life isn't worth living if it isn't entertaining, right? Fisher grew up writing. She also lives with her Weim, 'Jonah', and her Beta, 'Whale'. ![]() But, stick with it, all is revealed and it was a shocking, albeit interesting development to the story. ![]() I live Cricket, and the story line between her and Spencer had me clenching my teeth at parts with how frustrating the overall situation was. She earned her first 'mama' patch in 2009. Just like in VAIN, Fisher has given us an incredible redemption story, woven together with a love story. Bibliography » Callum & Harper (Sleepless #1) » Thomas & January (Sleepless #2) » Greed (The Seven Deadly #2) » Vain (The Seven Deadly #1) » The Understorey (The Leaving #1)įisher Amelie resides in the South with her kick ace husband slash soul mate. ![]() ![]() ![]() So they created a fresh universe, that was a little more grounded, that new readers could jump into. ![]() The Ultimate Universe was created in 2000 at a point in time when Marvel’s regular universe had gotten too tangled in its own continuity and was written in a way that required too much prior knowledge. It’s one of the infinite alternate universes in Marvel’s Multiverse, which was home to the Ultimate line of comics and where Miles Morales originated. Happy reading! What is the Ultimate Universe?īefore we start this reading order, it’s worth explaining the Ultimate Universe. In recent years, Miles’ popularity has only increased thanks to his inclusion in the excellent Into the Spider-Verse movie and Playstation games.Īre you looking to read all of his comics? Well, you’ve come to the right place! This simple reading order has all the details you need to get started and makes sense of all the similarly titled collections, with plenty of notes along the way. As a result, he soon found his place in the Ultimate Universe and then later in the regular Marvel Universe. ![]() While he might have similar powers, the Afro-Latino teen had his own struggles and personality. When Miles Morales was introduced in 2011, it was hard to dismiss him as simply a Spider-Man derivative. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Col, the son of a rival leader, is getting close enough to spot the killer inside her. When her father sends Frey in Rafi’s place as collateral in a precarious deal, she becomes the perfect impostor-as poised and charming as her sister. Her only purpose is to protect her sister, to sacrifice herself for Rafi if she must. So while Rafi was raised to be the perfect daughter, Frey has been taught to kill. Their powerful father has many enemies, and the world has grown dangerous as the old order falls apart. The heroine from those books, Tally, is now just a legend who is off being an adult and we have a new heroine: Frey.įrey is Rafi’s twin sister-and her body double. The former is government gone and a new one is in its place. ![]() After a decade, Westerfeld is returning to that universe with Impostors, a sequel series that takes place after the conclusion of the Uglies. Scott Westerfeld is one of most well-known names in young adult literature, and the Uglies is one of his most beloved series. ![]() |