![]() ![]() ![]() Zafira is the Demenhur Hunter who dresses as a boy and ventures into the forbidden dark forest Arz to hunt deer / rabbits and feed her people. Hafsah Faizal spins a magical fantasy in the lands of Ancient Arawiya / Arabia which is divided into five caliphates and ruled by the Sultan. You were told to hunt down the lost Jawarat, and here you are, like moths hunting a flame, blindly reaching for a mirage to break the decades – long curse over our lands. You, with a silver letter the prince and the general, each with their orders Kifah and I, with the notion of setting all accords right. ![]() ![]() Both are embarking on a quest to return magic to their kingdom.īut as their journey unfolds, an ancient evil begins to stir… Nasir is the infamous Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the Sultan.īoth are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya – but neither wants to be. Forced to disguise herself as a man, she braves the cursed forest to feed her people. I absolutely loved the embossed title in the background of the night sky.□ □ Genre – Fantasy Fiction, Fairytale retelling / Epic Adventure □ Today I am going to talk about my experience while reading this gorgeous Children of Blood and Bone meets Prince of Persia – Sands of Time. Best part is I get to combine it with #mapmonday. Hello Folks!□ How have you been? Long time, since I posted a #bookreview. ![]()
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![]() Then he recruits three friends to decorate them with his design and help sell them for an unspecified amount (from a conveniently free and empty street-fair booth) until they’re gone. Having only half of the $10 he needs for a Minka J poster, Daymond forks over $1 to buy a plain T-shirt, paints a picture of the pop star on it, sells it for $5, and uses all of his cash to buy nine more shirts. John, founder of the FUBU fashion line and a Shark Tank venture capitalist, offers a self-referential blueprint for financial success. ![]() How to raise money for a coveted poster: put your friends to work! ![]() ![]() Susan studies poetry writing at City Lit with Ella Frears.
![]() When I discovered it was finished, I requested this interview. One of many things I was delighted to ascertain was that he was in the process of writing the subject book. We had a wonderful and insightful conversation over a cup of coffee at Winchell Donuts in Pasadena. I asked if he would be willing to meet me in person. He generously agreed to my invitation to connect. I listened to all his short, succinct audio messages on making dreams come true. They resonated. I first discovered Ken while doing research on the Green Dot Corporation. His thinking stands up to others in the field. What I absolutely love about Ken is his clarity and directness. I read and listen extensively to information on the topics of dreams, goal setting and financial abundance. Aldrich, author of the book: Dream Toolbox: Building an Entrepreneurial Mind and Financial Abundance. ![]() Today I am pleased to introduce you to Kenneth C. Wisdom from Ken Aldrich - Author, The Dream Toolbox: Building an Entrepreneurial Mind and Financial Abundance ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Do you feel like views on where "a woman's place" is have changed? In what ways do you feel society has progressed when it comes to gender equality-and in what ways has it not? Since birth, Virginia was expected to marry well and become a society wife instead, she chose a male-dominated career path in which she constantly found herself either underestimated or overlooked, even after the end of her illustrious war career.She clearly had a similar magnetic pull in person, drawing people from all walks of life to stand for freedom, their country, and the Allied effort, often at great peril to their families and themselves.ĭid the book change your ideas about what one person can accomplish? In what ways did her grit and courage inspire you? A charismatic woman of great intelligence and resourcefulness, Virginia Hall is an inspiration from the very first page of A Woman of No Importance. ![]() ![]() She didn’t spare the rod when it came to discipline, because it was imperative to her that I respect people and develop good character that would travel through life with me long after she was gone.My grandma died in March. And regarding physical touch: She didn’t initiate hugs or kisses, but she also didn’t turn me away when I did. As a result, I didn’t miss too much time outside playing. ![]() ![]() I remember my first bike, first video game, and first stereo, all fruits of my grandmother’s labor.Thank God for every time she nursed me back to good health with homemade soup or another home remedy. We spent time together watching reruns of some of her old favorites like “The Waltons,” “The Andy Griffith Show,” and “Leave It to Beaver.”She doted on me via gifts – using minimal wages as a custodial engineer for the Philadelphia School District – so much so that when I saw a copy of her W-2 when applying for college financial aid, I felt terrible guilt for wanting so much over the years. ![]() She raised me and my older sister after our parents’ failures proved insurmountable.Sometimes she called me “bighead” as a term of endearment and shook her head at my silliness. Before any bestselling book outlined the five love languages – words of affirmation, quality time, gift giving, acts of service, and physical touch – my grandmother taught them to me. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's about how well we know ourselves, and to what extent we can ever truly know another person. ![]() It can also mean a copyright trap on a map - as Quentin finds out. ![]() The book's title, paper towns, refers an American term for suburbs planned but not built. But Q thinks she's left him clues in a marked-up volume of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, and he's determined to find her, no matter what the cost. Margo has run away before, several times, and her parents have simply had enough. until she fails to turn up for school the next day. Why she chose Q to be her partner is a mystery, but he hopes it will lead to something more. Let down by a cheating boyfriend, she takes Q on a night of revenge, as they play pranks on everyone that let her down. Q languishes in the middle ranks with his band member mates, Radar, who's an obsessive editor of Omnictionary (read Wikipedia), and Ben, who wants a girlfriend more than anything, but lacks the status to get one.Īnd then, one night, Margo knocks at Q's window. ![]() It's an unrequited love though - neighbours and childhood friends they may be, but their respective places in the High School pecking order are miles apart. Witty, sharply-observed, quotable and cerebral, it's one for the clever, introspective teen, who will love it.ġ7-year-old Quentin Jacobsen has been in love with Margo Roth Spiegelmen ever since he can remember. Summary: Flawed but fabulous leftfield story about identity and connections. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jarndyce and Jarndyce is an interminable law case in the Court of Chancery, concerning two or more wills and their beneficiaries.Įsther Summerson is raised by the harsh Miss Barbary, who tells her "Your mother, Esther, is your disgrace, and you were hers". ![]() The English legal historian Sir William Holdsworth sets the action in 1827 however, reference to preparation for the building of a railway in Chapter LV suggests the 1830s. Some scholars debate when Bleak House is set. Though many in the legal profession criticised Dickens's satire as exaggerated, Bleak House helped support a judicial reform movement that culminated in the enactment of legal reform in the 1870s. One such was probably Thellusson v Woodford, in which a will read in 1797 was contested and not determined until 1859. In a preface to the 1853 first edition, Dickens said there were many actual precedents for his fictional case. At the centre of Bleak House is a long-running legal case in the Court of Chancery, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which comes about because a testator has written several conflicting wills. ![]() The novel has many characters and several subplots, and is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson and partly by an omniscient narrator. ![]() Illustration from the New York Public Library Berg Collectionīleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a 20-episode serial between March 1852 and September 1853. ![]() ![]() They skip graduation and set out on a road trip to find Margo that leads to a whirlwind of events. ![]() ![]() Q learns from an ambiguous internet post that Margo is in a fictitious (paper) town called Agloe. Q discovers that Margo has left clues hidden for him and sets on an expedition with his friends, Ben, Radar and Lacey to find Margo. ![]() Soon after they successfully seek revenge, much to Q’s horror, Margo is reported missing by her parents - surprisingly not for the first time. Fast-forward nine years and Margo reappears in Q’s life with an elaborate plan to seek vengeance against those who have wronged her, crawling through Q’s window like old times and striking familiar fascinations for him. Quentin “Q” Jacobsen has been smitten over his neighbor, Margo Roth Spiegelman ever since they were children playing together in Jefferson Park. While cliches exist for a reason, a road trip from Florida to New York with your high school buddies who just missed their graduation ceremony in pursuit of your childhood sweetheart has an understandably unusual zing to it! ![]() An airport chase, screaming the name of your love and finding them amongst a sea of strangers to reconcile and profess your feelings has become an everyday staple. Romantics over the years have travelled far and wide in pursuit of their loved ones. ![]() ![]() ![]() This required a tremendous amount of research, and it took me almost twice as long to write as any other book except Jurassic Park. ![]() I wanted to talk about what knighthood was really like. And I wanted to write a story that dealt with the reality behind our cliched images of knights and courtly love. ![]() But in Timeline, I wanted to write a time travel story that took its premise seriously. Wells just uses time travel to make a point about the society at the time the novel was written. In recent years, most time travel stories have been comedies, or allegories. What would it be like? Would it be frightening? (I think it would be.) Would it be more dangerous than space travel? (Much more dangerous.) What would make you go anyway? So I began to think: suppose it was really possible to travel in time. I hadn’t written an adventure story since Jurassic Park, and I thought it was time for another one. ![]() |