“The Midnight Library” is a fantasy fiction written by Matt Haig which is a healing book for people who are going through depressive episodes in life. Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: What is the best way to live? But things aren’t always what she imagined they’d be, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. The books in the midnight library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. When Nora seed finds herself in the midnight library, she has a chance to make things right. Between life and death, there is a library.
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Each night around their campfire, the boy reads passages from it to the illiterate Tuahir. Taking refuge there, they find a notebook belonging to one of the dead men which relates his own adventures. In the opening scene, they come across a burnt-out bus full of charred corpses. The boy, Muidinga, is an orphan the man, Tuahir, is his protector, though he has lost his belief in human goodness and constantly cautions his companion against forming emotional attachments. In the framing narrative, a small boy and an old man wander through a desolate, dangerous country whose soul has been sucked out by decades of violence. Set at the end of the country’s vicious, 17-year-long civil war, Sleepwalking Land consists of two parallel and, it seems at first, only loosely related storylines. And Prata does it proud in her simple yet poetic adaptation. Published in 1992, the book was chosen by an international panel as one of the twelve best African books of the 20th century (it was, however, not translated into English until 2006). It is a first film by Teresa Prata, based on a first novel, by the Mozambican writer Mia Couto. Sleepwalking Land (Terra Sonâmbula) represents two exceptional debuts. I have absolutely no where to properly begin because there are a lot of things to talk about, but let’s start with how I absolutely love how we get to see life after Will and Tessa got married. ReviewĪnother year, another Cassandra Clare novel to rip your heart out, am I right? Trapped in the city, Cordelia and her friends discover that their own connection to a dark legacy has gifted them with incredible powers-and forced a brutal choice that will reveal the true cruel price of being a hero. These monsters are nothing like those Shadowhunters have fought before-these demons walk in daylight, strike down the unwary with incurable poison, and seem impossible to kill. All the while, she must hide her secret love for James, who is sworn to marry someone else.īut Cordelia’s new life is blown apart when a shocking series of demon attacks devastate London. Soon Cordelia encounters childhood friends James and Lucie Herondale and is drawn into their world of glittering ballrooms, secret assignations, and supernatural salons, where vampires and warlocks mingle with mermaids and magicians. Cordelia’s mother wants to marry her off, but Cordelia is determined to be a hero rather than a bride. When her father is accused of a terrible crime, she and her brother travel to London in hopes of preventing the family’s ruin. ‘All the stories are true.'” (pg 309-10) AboutĬlick for Cassandra Clare’s website SynopsisĬordelia Carstairs is a Shadowhunter, a warrior trained since childhood to battle demons. ‘Haven’t you heard?’ James said bitterly. Later, 'Multics' was written to hide a great deal of the guts of the system away from the user. They were as much a part of the experience as anything else, and a deep knowledge of how they worked was required. At first, they were open and available to view to the user. There were initially many various competing types of 'operating system'. You sit at a screen, and you get N hours of computer time to use. This is at a time when computers were essentially just rooms filled with equipment operated on a time-share basis. They wore white socks and polyester shirts and ties and thick glasses and coded in machine language and assembler and FORTRAN and half a dozen ancient languages now forgotten.' 'The Real Programmers typically came out of engineering or physics backgrounds. Science fiction mailing lists brought people together as well, which just happened to be a common interest. They created their own slang, their own technical vocabulary amongst themselves, distributing dictionaries amongst each other to create something of a community with a dialect first. ARPAnet in 1969 brought a critical mass of hackers together. These athletes became more visible and more accepted, as stars like Babe Didrikson and Stella Walsh showed the world what women could do. While Betty was recovering, the other women of Track and Field were given the chance to shine in the Los Angeles Games, building on Betty's pioneering role as the first female Olympic champion in the sport. Betty, once a natural runner who always coasted to victory, soon found herself fighting to walk. So dire was Betty's condition that she was taken to the local morgue only upon the undertaker's inspection was it determined she was still breathing. Amsterdam made her a star.īut at the top of her game, her career (and life) almost came to a tragic end when a plane she and her cousin were piloting crashed. This improbable athletic phenom was an ordinary high school student, discovered running for a train in rural Illinois mere months before her Olympic debut. She crossed the finish line as a gold medalist and the fastest woman in the world. When Betty Robinson assumed the starting position at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, she was participating in what was only her fourth-ever organized track meet. The inspiring and irresistible true story of the women who broke barriers and finish-line ribbons in pursuit of Olympic Gold As Acts narrates what happened after the time Jesus ascended to heaven, so the Apocryphon of John begins at the same point but relates how Christ reappeared to John. Many second-century Christians, both Gnostic and orthodox, hoped to receive a transcendent personal revelation such as Paul the Apostle reported to the church at Corinth ( 2 Corinthians 12:1–4) or that John experienced on the isle of Patmos, which inspired the Book of Revelation. The author describes it as having occurred after Jesus had "gone back to the place from which he came". It is presented as describing Jesus appearing and giving secret knowledge ( gnosis) to his disciple John. It is one of the texts addressed by Irenaeus in his Against Heresies, placing its composition before 180 CE. The Apocryphon of John, also called the Secret Book of John or the Secret Revelation of John, is a 2nd-century Sethian Gnostic Christian pseudepigraphical text attributed to John the Apostle. Including: kerosene, soap, tea and coffee, saliva, refrigerant, alcohol, water, clouds, glue, liquid crystal, ink and the Earth’s outer core. The concept is that Mark is flying from London to San Francisco and turns his attention to the variety of liquids encountered on the way. They are exciting and powerful, on the one hand, while being anarchic and slightly terrifying on the other.’Īnother fascinating and eccentric book on what things are made of, from the author of Stuff Matters. ‘Liquids have a duality: they are neither a gas nor a solid, but something in-between. This section's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Rather than being a reference to the cloud atlases used in meteorology, ) Mitchell has stated that the title and the book address reincarnation and the universality of human nature, with the title referring to a changing landscape (a "cloud") over manifestations of fixed human nature (the "atlas"). Its title was inspired by the piece of music of the same name by Japanese composer Toshi Ichiyanagi. The book combines metafiction, historical fiction, contemporary fiction and science fiction, with interconnected nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the 19th century to the island of Hawai'i in a distant post-apocalyptic future. A film adaptation directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, and featuring an ensemble cast, was released in 2012. Unusually, it received awards from both the general literary community and the speculative fiction community. It won the British Book Awards Literary Fiction award, and the Richard & Judy Book of the Year award, and was short-listed for the Booker Prize, Nebula Award for Best Novel, and Arthur C. Cloud Atlas, published in 2004, is the third novel by British author David Mitchell. Poor Rachel is doomed not only to suffer horribly but also to bear witness to history: a history that includes the end of the monarchy, the US annexation, the arrival of movies and airplanes, the Depression, and Pearl Harbor. As the years pass, Rachel’s friends die she befriends Sister Catherine, whose affection will sustain her but, with the exception of her father, she has no contact with her family. There, in a hospital run by Catholic nuns, she lives with other young girls affected in varying degrees. Considered dangerously contagious, Rachel is sent to the settlement on Molaka’i. A few months later, Rachel is found to have leprosy, and the happy life the family has enjoyed ends. She’s five at the start, when her father, a sailor, comes back in time for Christmas with another doll for her collection and gifts for her older siblings Sarah, Ben, and Kimo. As much a record of her life as of the changes in Hawaii itself over the years, screenwriter and fantasy author Brennert ( Her Pilgrim Soul, 1990, etc.) vividly and graphically details both the landscape and the disease as he tells Rachel’s story. The chronicle of leprosy-infected Rachel Kalama begins in 1891 in Honolulu and ends in the late 1960s on isolated Moloka’i, site of the Kalaupapa Leprosy settlement. A gritty story of love and survival in a Hawaiian leper colony: more a portrait of old Hawaii than a compelling narrative. Life changes for Maud when she goes out West to live with her father and his new wife and daughter. Then again, Maud isn’t sure she wants to settle down with a boy-her dreams of being a writer are much more important. If only he weren’t a Baptist her Presbyterian grandparents would never approve. Luckily, she has a teacher to believe in her, and good friends to support her, including Nate, the Baptist minister’s stepson and the smartest boy in the class. Her grandfather has strong opinions about a woman’s place in the world, and they do not include spending good money on college. But living with her grandparents on Prince Edward Island, she worries that this dream will never come true. This was such a fantastic place centered pick and as an Anne of Green Gables / AnnE (Netflix) fan I was really excited to pick this up this year.Īs always you can join the Paper & Glam Book Club live every LAST Thursday of the month at 6 pm PT over on Youtube or join us throughout the month over on Goodreads.įourteen-year-old Lucy Maud Montgomery-Maud to her friends-has a dream: to go to college and, just like her idol, Louisa May Alcott, become a writer. Told in three distinct parts, this novel examined what it means to be a woman, a writer, and how to combine the two. This month we picked up Maud by Melanie J. |