![]() ![]() My love for A Goofy Movie – a relatively obscure entry in Disney’s catalogue – is at this point inextricable from my personality. ![]() Laura Snapes Poor Unfortunate Souls (The Little Mermaid) (Let’s ignore the fact that Ariel gives up her voice for a boy!) Growing up means growing out of The Little Mermaid, but I’ll still be at the multiplex in May, curious about what I hear in the new live-action version, 30 years on. “Ask ’em my questions and get some answers / What’s a fire, and why does it – what’s the word – burn?” Jodi Benson sings, on fire with yearning. But Ariel wants even more than that – freedom, respect, knowledge. The scene where you see Ariel’s cavern of “ whozits and whatzits galore” is one of the most beautiful Disney animations, and her pride in them chimed with a fledgling age where you’re starting to build a sense of self through your own trinkets and toys. I wanted to be big, and Part of Your World, like many of the biggest Disney songs, is about hungering to have your potential fulfilled. Although I was the big sister, I was the baby at junior school, where I’d skipped a year, and would become tearful and angry at being referred to that way. I was two-and-a-half when it hit VHS and it probably wasn’t ejected from the VCR for another two years, at least until my little brother was old enough to start making his own cinematic demands. ![]() ![]() I didn’t care for Barbie or princesses, just Ariel, a wily little outcast with miraculous hair. ![]()
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![]() “Hilarious! With Fuzz, Mary Roach again takes us into an unfamiliar scientific realm, in this case the Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of I Contain Multitudes ![]() Learning to co-exist in a world that they must now share.” With a sense of moral urgency, as she recounts stories of humans and other animals, uneasily and clumsily In Fuzz, Roach’s peerless storytelling skills are paired “Reading a Mary Roach book is like spending a luxurious and joyful evening with the perfect dinner guest.ĭelightful facts become indelibly etched in your brain, and only later do you realize that hours have passedĪnd your face slightly hurts from smiling too hard. ![]() Roach will change the way you think about the great outdoors. Her approach is informative and unpretentious, and she’sĪlways armed with a dry sense of humor. “Full of kernels of fascinating information. Historically niche topic for a broader audience.” refreshing addition to the nonfiction science genre, illuminating a Roach usesįootnotes to add both depth and lightness to the topic at hand by capturing misfit studies, asides,Īnd hilarious tangents. ![]() “Each chapter is packed with the results of detailed investigations. “An idiosyncratic tour with Roach as the wisecracking, ever-probing guide.” curious and generous engagement with her subjects makes for world-expanding “ powerfully propelled by the force of Roach’s unflinching fascination with the weird, ![]() ![]() ![]() Dallas's authentic period details, her colorful minor characters, and most of all Mattie herself lend charm and emotional truth to this appealing marital and pioneering adventure. "One of the bright new voices in historical fiction. Dramatic and suspenseful, this is an unforgettable story of hardship, friendship, and survival. As she and Luke make a life together on the harsh and beautiful plains, Mattie learns some bitter truths about her husband and the girl he left behind and finds love where she least expects it. ![]() Mattie's only company is a slightly mysterious husband and her private journal, where she records the joys and frustrations not just of frontier life, but also of a new marriage to a handsome but distant stranger. Less than a month later, they are off in a covered wagon to build a home on the Colorado frontier. No one is more surprised than Mattie Spenser herself when Luke Spenser, considered the great catch of their small Iowa town, asks her to marry him. In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account. In 1865, twenty-two year old Mattie McCauley is living in a small community in Iowa with her parents, when the town catch, Luke Spenser, suddenly proposes to her. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It deals with sensitive subjects some may find triggering. Angry God is a stand-alone, DARK High School Romance. Vaughn thinks he can kill the ghosts of his past, but what he doesn't know? It's my heart he's slaying. Carlisle Castle hides two of our most awful secrets. ![]() ![]() They say this place is haunted, and it is. But here he is, living with me in a dark, looming castle on the outskirts of London. I fight back, tooth and nail, never expecting him to chase me across the ocean after we graduate high school. Between hooking up with a different girl every weekend, breaking hearts, noses and rules, Vaughn also finds the time to bully little ole' me. All I own is a nice, juicy grudge against him for that time he almost killed me. His parents rule this town, its police, every citizen and boutique on Main Street. To me, he is nothing but a heartless prince. Shen comes a new, emotional standalone about first love, second chances, and overcoming breathtaking losses at a young age. It is rip-your-hair-out frustrating and full of depth and emotion." - Lana, DG Romance. Now #1 bestseller in the entire Kindle Store As recommended in Oprah Magazine As recommended in Cosmopolitan (Best 2020 Steamy Romance Books) "Mother. Download Angry God Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, I had gotten up to 25 minutes and still didn't have quite the consistency recommended. She also suggests that it should be ready after 15-20 minutes of stovetop stirring. Hazan suggests that if you don't cook the semolina with the milk on the stove long enough, it will fall apart in the oven. I had some difficulty with these gnocchi.
![]() ![]() Since her debut novel “Saving Agnes” won the Whitbread First Novel Award in 1993, Cusk has been a steady presence on the literary scene, with three autobiographical works and 10 novels to her name. Some herald her as a bona fide revolutionary, others cringe at her self-conscious literary style. Writing for the New York Times, Monica Ali described Cusk’s novel “Transit” as “nothing less than the reinvention of the form itself.” While the Sunday Times of London critic Camilla Long lambasted Cusk’s “Aftermath” as “poetic whimsy and vague literary blah, a needy, neurotic mandolin solo of reflections on child sacrifice and asides about drains.” These polarized opinions are representative of the two sides of Cusk’s reception. ![]() And the recent success of the British novelist Rachel Cusk seems to be part of the same phenomenon. ![]() ![]() The celebrity of authors like Michel Houellebecq or Karl Ove Knausgaard would attest as much. While writers who reap unanimous praise leave very little for readers and critics to disagree about, writers who split opinions - in terms of their ideas, politics or style - give us more to get our teeth into. The literary world has always liked a divisive figure. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their friendship is broken when she betrays Nel. She hasn’t changed – still the same with her sharp tongue, feisty attitude and determined to live her own life by her own rules. Hannah, Sula’s mother, attaches no passion to her relationships with men and is into spontaneous sexual adventures with mostly friends’ and neighbours’ husbands.Īround the time that Nel marries, Sula goes off to study and returns ten years later on a peculiar day, which makes people suspicious of her. Sula’s grandmother Eva has a regular flock of male callers but for its own sake and not really to sleep with. Sula comes from a family of strong and independent women who enjoyed maleness, and that enjoyment they took and did with it in their own design and rules. However, with their contrasting personalities, they both have distant mothers and both have an adventurous spirit, along with an urge to explore whatever beckons their curiosity and interest. Sula has a fiery spirit and can’t sustain any emotion for long while Nel appears to be more consistent. ![]() Nel comes from a neat and orderly home and a rigid and conventional family, while Sula comes from a disorderly household, a family of disregard for social conventions. ![]() ![]() Nel and Sula share an intense friendship while growing up in the neighbourhood of Bottom, the hills above the valley town of Medallion, Ohio. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the mid-80s, the Tripods books inspired a popular BBC TV series. This was especially true in the US, where his books became perennial library favourites, and are still standard reading in many schools. The success of these books created a new career for the author, who for several years afterwards was recognised as a leading writer for older children. In the end, the results they achieve are not entirely what they expected. ![]() A group of adolescents, not yet fitted with a mentally controlling "cap", bravely confront the menace of the Tripods. As a result, our world has reverted to a low-technology state, almost medieval in nature. The books (published in 1967-68) depict a world suffering under the control of aliens from a far star, who can survive in the Earth's inimical atmosphere only by moving around in deadly tripodal machines inside which their own atmosphere can be replicated. The science-fiction author John Christopher, who has died aged 89, was perhaps best known for the Tripods trilogy for young adults. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And in the bloody North, Rikke and her fragile Protectorate are running out of allies. Orso will find that when the world is turned upside down, no one is lower than a monarch. With nothing left to lose, Citizen Brock is determined to become a new hero for the new age, while Citizeness Savine must turn her talents from profit to survival before she can claw her way to redemption. Now that belief will be tested in the crucible of revolution: the Breakers and Burners have seized the levers of power, the smoke of riots has replaced the smog of industry, and all must submit to the wisdom of crowds. Some say that to change the world you must first burn it down. ![]() The New York Times bestselling finale to the Age of Madness trilogyfinds the world in an unstoppable revolution where heroes have nothing left to lose as darkness and destruction overtake everything. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jo regularly appears as a commentator on NPR, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. She has written and reported for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Daily News, the New York Times, New York, Glamour, CNN, Elle, Marie Claire and Slate. Her novel, The Knockoff, became an instant international bestseller in May 2015 and has been translated into 13 languages. ![]() Her latest book, How to be Married will be released by Penguin Random House in April 2017. The New York Times columnist Nick Kristof wrote about it in the Sunday Times: “In an age of Jo Piazza is an award-winning journalist, editor, digital content strategist and author. Her nonfiction book about progressive American nuns, If Nuns Ruled the World, was released to critical acclaim in September of 2014. ![]() ![]() Jo Piazza is an award-winning journalist, editor, digital content strategist and author. ![]() |