![]() ![]() I like that she is not your typical pretty heroine but he finds her determination and solid strength attractive. I thought that was pretty interesting and informative. I particularly enjoyed his observation of the other initiates. You know, I've never really swooned over him or found myself connecting to him for some reason. Although it was quite lovely seeing things from Four's POV. ![]() It really pulls you in from the very first chapter.īut I just wish there was more. It did however make me want to reread the Divergent triologi. It´s cute, and you definitely get a better understanding of who Four is, but it´s not really necessary if you have the Story Collection. I enjoyed this story, but I don´t understand why it wasn´t just included in Four: A Divergent Story Collection when they published the short stories from Fours point of veiw. “No.” Why on earth would she get it? She can’t read minds, for God’s sake. That’s why you’re strong, get it? She looks angry. I have to admit that Christina is good-though I don’t like giving credit to Candor smart-mouths-and so is Peter-though I don’t like giving credit to future psychopaths. The kindle edition also includes the first two chapters from Divergent, the first two chapters from Insurgent, part of The Transfer and a chapter from Veronicas new series: Carve the Mark ![]() Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Story is Veronicas retelling of the knife throwing scene from Fours point of view. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The appeal of the book lies in its honesty. It is going back to the history lessons but with perspective from a man who became ‘India’s first Prime Minister’. It is after about 40 pages that Nehru begins with the history of India and focuses on Indus Valley civilization, the foundation of Buddhism, the evolution of Hinduism, the advent of Mughals and Islam and the final British India period. The initial pages are dedicated to Nehru’s account of his wife’s ill health and how she was being treated and cared for in Europe. This is also the period when Indian National Congress has been declared illegal and many of its leaders are put behind bars by the British. The first entry is done on 13 th April 1944 from Ahmadnagar Fort prison, where Nehru had already passed 20 months of his term. The historical facts are mentioned chronologically which gives a beautiful perspective on India – the past and the pre-independence era. It is divided into 10 chapters with a continuous narrative flow. The book is written over a period of 5 months, while Nehru was imprisoned at the Ahmednagar fort in 1946. The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru ![]() ![]() ![]() On the Shoulders of Titans is pretty similar to Sufficiently Advanced Magic in terms of writing, plot structure, magic, and general style. “I haven’t had a decent scrap in a while. Andrew Rowe knows what his readers want: that nostalgic sense of playing an RPG video game – levelling up, discovering new characters, clearing dungeons and developing your party – combined with some fascinating and original world building, and lots of cool fights. ![]() Sufficiently Advanced Magic is one of the best self-published novels and the most amazing example of LitRPG that I have ever had the pleasure to read. And Corin’s last brush with the Whispers didn’t exactly end well. Tristan appears to be entangled with a clandestine organization that calls themselves Whispers. Unfortunately, finding more information isn’t going to be easy. “Is there someone just giving out legendary magical swords to children?”Ĭorin Cadence finally has a firm reason to believe his brother, Tristan, is still alive. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once the emotion for him fades away or diminishes, the heart will forget him, though not literally. The poet personifies the heart as a person with human attributes. The emotional bond she has tied with him gives her pain, thus she finds it difficult to forget him. She badly misses him and is hurt by the relationship status she shares with him. ![]() The time she has spent with him and the memories she has collected cause her distress and grief. In the poem ‘Heart, we will forget him!’, she articulates herself as someone who is heartbroken, and is trying to forget someone very close to her. Emily was a reclusive poet who lived in physical isolation, yet observed nature and the world so keenly that her rich and diverse symbolic fantasies and scriptures made her a towering figure of American Literature. She was an intelligent writer, wise with her words, and gifted with the ability to interpret human passion intensely. Emily Dickson was one of the best lyric poets. The poem illustrates the state of the heart and the responses of the changing emotions. The intensity of emotion is the strength of an effect, thus the affected heart changes the effects of life. The afflicted lover is going through pain and depression that shatters the emotional balance one needs to have in life. ![]() The poem, ‘Heart, we will forget him!’, explains the after-effects of unrequited love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, Vesta is a kind of a narrative nest for Moshfegh a corridor without end. Her name sounds like "Vestibule", as one policeman jokes in the novel, or receptacle, a holder of (other people’s) things. The daughter of two immigrants, Vesta is the widow of a German epistemologist named Walter. We may be forgiven for believing that this story is about Magda, alive or dead, when it is in fact a novel-length portrait of the passive and seemingly unremarkable Vesta. Instead, the narrator creates a series of imagined scenes or depictions of death, a kind of “death porn” if you like, which help her come to accept the terms of her own inevitable decline.ĭeath in Her Hands follows Vesta Gul, a self-proclaimed “little old lady” who happens to unearth a note recounting the death of a woman called Magda. Moshfegh’s third work of fiction is a murder mystery, but without the death. Her work has been described as “otherworldly” and “unearthly”. ![]() Death in Her Hands is an example of Moshfegh hemmed in. ![]() Moshfegh’s attraction to creating obsessive personalities breeds a type of paranoia in her readers, who may very well remain unsure about whether her narrators speak in earnest or in jest. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, this could be heavy to the point of over-powering. (Sidebar: the implications aren’t always pretty.) The resulting chaos raises questions of individual guilt for collective sins, and the practical implications of living as our best selves. David’s new outlook turns life upside-down and inside-out for the Carrs (and their neighbours). ![]() But it turns out that getting what you wish for is not all it’s cracked up to be. Katie is confused, at first, then cautiously optimistic. The annoying, hurtful, cynical, childish David is replaced by a patient and thoughtful man who genuinely wants to save his marriage. While Katie is trying to figure out her next move, a seismic shift occurs. She assumes David wants the same thing, but – much to her surprise (and chagrin) – he gets stubborn. The book starts with Katie blurting out that she wants a divorce. Unfortunately, they can’t stand each other. They’ve got a house, cars, income, friends – a good life. Together, they raise their kids, Tom and Molly. She’s a physician with the NHS he’s an arts columnist for the local newspaper, a would-be novelist, and (occasionally) a corporate brochure writer. ![]() Katie and David Carr have been married for a quarter of what feels like forever. I’m being a bit reductive, of course, but that’s a very quick sketch of Nick Hornby’s How to Be Good. What do you do when you hate your husband, want desperately for him to change, then hate the new version even more?Īpparently, you end up trying to end homelessness. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pierce's books have been translated into twenty languages. ![]() The annual award recognizes one writer and a particular body of work for "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature". Edwards Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) of the American Library Association in 2013, citing her two quartets Song of the Lioness and Protector of the Small (1999–2002). She made a name for herself with her first book series, The Song of the Lioness (1983–1988), which followed the main character Alanna through the trials and triumphs of training as a knight. Tamora Pierce (born December 13, 1954) is an American writer of fantasy fiction for teenagers, known best for stories featuring young heroines. ![]() Pierce at the Boskone science fiction convention in Boston, February 2008 ![]() ![]() ![]() Reef realizes that his angry actions (although seemingly innocuous) have caused serious, potentially fatal consequences, specifically. Leeza says she was driving on the freeway when suddenly, out of nowhere, something fell out of the sky and hit her car as she passed under an overpass. This patient, Leeza Hemming, tells about her accident, and slowly, Reef realizes the truth of what happened to her. He is mandated to serve at a rehabilitation center for the injured and sick.Īt North Hills Group Home, Reef meets a patient that he really likes, both because they have some sort of chemistry, but also because he finds her very interesting and attractive. Reef is arrested for his crimes and after his court case, he is convicted, but because he is too young to go to jail, he is given community service to perform. The driver is stunned and traumatized from the rock hitting the car, and she crashes. One day, his anger gets the best of him, and he throws rocks off of an overpass until finally, he hits a moving car. Reef is angry at his local government for destroying the place he hands out with his friends. ![]() Written by Biao Hua and other people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() And behind everything is the mysterious, all-powerful warden, a man as cruel and as dangerous as the devil himself, whose unthinkable acts have consequences that stretch far beyond the walls of the prison. Soon Alex discovers that the prison is a place of pure evil, where creatures in gas masks stalk the corridors at night, where giants in black suits drag screaming inmates into the shadows, where deformed beasts can be heard howling from the blood drenched tunnels below. Only in Furnace, death is the least of his worries. Convicted of a murder he didn’t commit, sentenced to life without parole, ‘new fish’ Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to a death behind bars, in the darkness at the bottom of the world. Once you’re here, you’re here until you die, and for most of the inmates that doesn’t take long – not with the sadistic guards and the bloodthirsty gangs. The world’s most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth’s surface. ![]() ![]() The trio's paths converge because Ally's parents have sold the Moon Shadow to Bree's, and everyone meets up at the campgrounds during a major eclipse. Three narrators take turns: Ally, who lives with her parents and younger brother at the Moon Shadow Campground and loves every tree and every rock on it, but most especially the stars above it glamour-loving Bree, who announces to readers that she must have been “switched at birth” to explain her presence among physicist parents and a geeky younger sister and Jack, who is helping his science teacher lead a solar eclipse tour to the Moon Shadow to make up his failing grade. ) combines astronomy and storytelling for a well-balanced look at friendships and the role they play in shaping identity. Confirming her mastery of the middle-grade novel, Mass ( Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life ![]() |