![]() ![]() as a ghost! Featuring over 100 different endings, each illustrated by today's greatest artists, incredible side quests, fun puzzles, and a book-within-a-book instead of a play-within-a-play, To Be or Not To Be offers up new surprises and secrets every time you read it. Play as Hamlet's father and die on the first page, then investigate your own murder. Play as Ophelia and change the world with your scientific brilliance. ![]() And now you can correct that horrible mistake! Play as Hamlet and avenge your father's death - with ruthless efficiency this time. When Shakespeare wrote Hamlet he gave the world just one possible storyline, drawn from a constellation of billions of alternate narratives. The greatest work in English literature, now in the greatest format of English literature: a chooseable-path adventure! ![]()
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![]() ![]() And in the city of Tevanne, there's nobody with the power to stop them. Now someone in those Houses wants Sancia dead, and the artifact for themselves. But if they can unlock the artifact's secrets, they will rewrite the world itself to suit their aims. The Merchant Houses who control this magic-the art of using coded commands to imbue everyday objects with sentience-have already used it to transform Tevanne into a vast, remorseless capitalist machine. And her latest target, a heavily guarded warehouse on Tevanne's docks, is nothing her unique abilities can't handle.īut unbeknownst to her, Sancia's been sent to steal an artifact of unimaginable power, an object that could revolutionize the magical technology known as scriving. Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a city that runs on industrialized magic, a secret war will be fought to overwrite reality itself-the first in a dazzling new series from City of Stairs author Robert Jackson Bennett. "Complex characters, magic that is tech and vice versa, a world bound by warring trade dynasties: Bennett will leave you in awe once you remember to breathe!"-Tamora Pierce Prepare for ancient mysteries, innovative magic, and heart-pounding heists."-Brandon Sanderson Description "The exciting beginning of a promising new epic fantasy series. ![]() ![]() ![]() We've puzzled over their lives and their choices. ![]() We've spent time with four fictional girls together. We don't know each other and we may never get to meet, but I feel like we are connected nonetheless. If you are getting ready to read the fourth book, Forever in Blue, that means we've probably spent some time together. See a note from author Ann Brashares, below. Forever in Blue, the fourth and final novel in the series, promises a dazzling finale-one "last glorious summer" for the four girls, and their fans. In her breakout bestseller, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Brashares introduced readers to four girls, Lena, Bridget, Carmen, and Tibby, and to the magical pair of jeans that fit them all perfectly, and inspired them to live their young lives to the fullest. ![]() Ann Brashares has created a wonderful, heartfelt series for teens (and adults) around a pair of pants. ![]() ![]() ![]() But then, humans had a knack for throwing things out of balance. It was a crazy split, if you thought about it: half the land for a single species, half for the hundreds of thousands of others. Fifty percent of Panga’s single continent was designated for human use the rest was left to nature, and the ocean was barely touched at all. Ever since her first novel The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet she’s been writing what I can only call “comfort science fiction/ cozypunk”, showing the worlds where you would really love to live, the worlds that learned from mistakes of the past and moved on in better directions, the worlds mostly inhabited by genuinely nice people, with everything having a feeling of an unironically happy hippie commune, complete with earnest conversations about life and its meaning.Īnd that’s what we get here, in a tiny contemplative novella whose dedication simply states, “For anybody who could use a break.” “This had been the way of things since the Transition, when the people had redivided the surface of their moon. ![]() If this is not your first Becky Chambers book, you know what to expect. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Things and people disappear and reappear with no warning (no reasons provided.) Anyway, the babies are adopted throughout the USA when they are 13 years old they are gathered together by 2 groups of bad guys with 2 different, but equally bad motivations (3 groups are potential bad guys, if you count the FBI.) Then, in the middle of the climax, the book ends with 2 of the 13-yr-old adopted boys and one’s younger sibling striking a ridiculous bargain to save everyone by fixing time (they strike this bargain while they are hurtling back in time.) Ummm. In this first book, a group of babies lands on a mysterious plane and they were adopted. Additionally, I was extremely disappointed that the book ended 3/4 of the way through the story, so I don’t trust the author enough to read any more books in this series. However, the basic premise of the time travel in this book has too many giant logic gaps to allow the reader to become immersed in the story. Jonah knows that hes adopted, but he doesnt know that the past and history itself will depend. I usually love time travel books and the concept of this series was quite promising. Buy a cheap copy of Found book by Margaret Peterson Haddix. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first Ruth Ware book I read ('In a Dark, Dark Wood') was PHENOMENAL. It's good, but the end?.could have been better I’ll just skip the rest of this author’s works altogether. By the last third of the book, I was skipping through 30 seconds of exposition for every two minutes of narrative with no loss of pertinent information. The author leaves no room for a reader to interpret anything, each morsel of information is so thoroughly digested by the narrator that the whole book ends up as, well. What could be the ramifications of the decision she just made? Just wait a few seconds and you’ll hear about every conceivable possibility. Did you catch the significance of the odd look that man gave her? No? Well don’t worry, you’ll be hearing about it at great length soon. ![]() Not a glimmer of information is spared from the microscopic gaze of our extraordinarily thorough heroine. The story drags with torturously prolonged justifications for the protagonist’s logic and choices. ![]() As it is, I can only guess that the author assumes her audience to be a bunch of idiots, and that her publishing house is inclined to agree. ![]() Cut out half of the narrator’s extensive analysis, and, though it still wouldn’t be great, it would be good enough for a light read. Good gravy what a slog! My kingdom for an editor! With a few hundred slashes of an editor’s red pen, it could have been a decent enough mystery. ![]() ![]() ![]() With Jill monitoring her wardrobe and picking out the clubs and bars, Ellen plunges back into the singles life she thought she’d left behind. Why doesn’t she try a brief fling and see that, as he’s told her for months, “it’s just sex.”Įllen is shocked but her best friend from high school, who’s always been more sexually adventurous, urges her on. Marriage counseling has only helped so far and now she realizes the time has come to decide: is her marriage worth any further effort or not? At their counseler’s office, Tom causually tosses out an offer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then she caught Tom cheating on her and realized it’d been going on for a while. She’s been married to a man she loves for twenty years, has two teenagers who, if they aren’t always stress free to raise, are basically good kids, she lives in a lovely suburban house and has a nice middle class life. Well, if you must give up historicals, at least I can say that your modern efforts are worth checking out.Įllen thought her life was all planned. I’ve long been a fan of your historicals (please say you haven’t given up writing Westerns) and I wanted to see how you’d handle a contemporary. When Jane sent me a bundle of June release books, I immediately picked yours off the pile to try. Jayne B Reviews / B Reviews Category / Book Reviews Contemporary / infidelity / Marriage-in-Trouble 3 Comments ![]() ![]() ![]() Author: Kira Willey Publisher: Rodale Kids, 2017 ISBN: 9781623368. Based on Kira Willey's Parents' Choice GOLD Award-winning writing, this board book series (Listen like an Elephant and the upcoming Bunny Breaths) is the first of its kind and is the perfect tool to help children and parents develop a fun and consistent mindfulness practice.Adapted from the successful Breathe like a Bear hardcover/trade paperback-a collection of mindful moments and exercises for kids-this board book is an easy-to-follow breathing exercise kids can use to manage their bodies, breath, and emotions. Based on Willeys Parents Choice GOLD Award-winning CD Mindful Moments for Kids. Based on Kira Willeys Parents Choice GOLD Award-winning writing, this board book series ( Listen like an Elephant and the upcoming Bunny Breaths) is the first. With this board book, kids will learn to control their breathing and soothe themselves slowly to sleep, just like a bear in hibernation! Best of all, it can be performed anywhere: in the backseat of a car, at home, or even at a child's desk at school. ![]() Part of the Mindfuless Moments for Kids series, this mindful meditation exercise featuring a sweet bear cub helps kids feel calm, wherever they are. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 3 These three loves occur in different parts of the brain and occur independently from each other. ![]() The three loves that she came up with are the following: Lust, Passion, and Commitment. 1 Through these studies, Fisher was able to map the neurobiological components of each love experience and then match them to real-world social realities. Scientists like Fisher have studied the cognitive and neurobiological processes underlying attraction and love, and they’ve begun to pinpoint different emotions that occur at different stages of romantic relationships. With some, it’s tumultuous with a lot of ups and downs, with others it’s slow and consistent over a long period of time.īut this isn’t just theorizing. With some people it’s intense and furious, with others it’s mellow and sensitive. Anyone with a fair amount of romantic/sexual experience could tell you that love and passion come in different flavors. The premise of the Three Loves Theory is that not all love is experienced equally. This post will cover her Three Loves Theory, a theory that I find incredibly helpful for understanding relationships.st She’s dedicated decades of her life and her career to studying and understanding love, intimacy, and relationships. My favorite model for relationships comes from the work of anthropologist Helen Fisher. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He follows the lead despite all the clues saying Greece, and then: ![]() But, like the book, there needs to be at least some half-decent reason for him to go to China. The book has just two, effectively: London and an island that could really be anywhere - there's no very convincing reason for it to be off Greece in the book it's a neutral place between two others to hold a conference. That episode is necessary, perhaps, because it adds a much-needed other location. Instead, he wants to follow a lead to Beijing." "All clues point to M having been taken to Greece, but Bond suspects that the people behind the kidnapping are trying to get him to walk into a trap. In your treatment, you have Bond go to China, which is not in the book: It's no closer to it than THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH was, really. Your treatment could work very well - but it's got very little in common with COLONEL SUN. I can't see how you could stretch the book out into an exciting full-length feature without radically changing it. What memorable scenes would there be from an ultra-faithful film adaptation, the ending excepted? The good thing about the book is Amis' prose. Bond could be called John Smith for all the Bond stuff he does. The villain never moves, and his plot is pretty small potatoes. Would you even want one, though? Quite apart from the dated plot (Sino-Soviet split, 1967-68), it wouldn't be terribly exciting on film. It's not as though anyone's expecting an ultra-faithful CASINO ROYALE, eh, old man? ![]() |