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Moonbreeze adrienne woods read online5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() I joined Elena every time she called him"idiot" or "my stupid dragon" because lets face it, it's true andeven more so in Poison.In Venom, we learn more about Elena'sparents through Queen Cathrine's journals, travel to tropicalparadise within Paegeia, and learn more about King Helmut's dragon.This novella did not disappoint and if you're an fan of theDragonian Series, I highly recommend you read. Speaking of her dragon, he ismore stubborn than ever. Elena begins to revertback to her old ways by becoming passive but don't worry, thecourageous one is still in there. She feels lostwithout her friends, Cara and her dragon. Her advisers seems more concernedwith keeping Elena from her old life and controlling her everymove, from the way she dresses to how she speaks. Elena is not having an easy time with her new role asPaegeia's long lost princess. I stillremember building my strongest connection with Sammy, Becky andElena while reading Venom.The story takes place a few weeks afterFrostbite. While there was no epic battle,I really love these novellas because I feel like they give Ms.Woods an opportunity to focus on character development. Poison is anovella that takes place between Frostbite and the upcoming andsemi-final installment, Moonbreeze. ![]() 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. ![]()
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Le guin the ones who walk away5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here, James is reflecting on the idealised perfect societies of writers of fiction – mostly socialists, such as Edward Bellamy (whose Looking Backward, 2000-1887 was a huge bestseller upon its publication in the US in 1888) and William Morris (who wrote a socialist utopia novel, News from Nowhere, in 1890). ![]() Fourier’s and Bellamy’s and Morris’s utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torture, what except a sceptical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain? Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. ![]()
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The time machine wells5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It is highly unlikely that Wells was aware of either of these stories, which are best taken as examples of convergent literary evolution, arriving at similar outcomes without any relation. ![]() Even more obscure is ‘The Clock that Went Backwards’ by Edward Page Mitchell, published anonymously in the New York Sun in 1881 and not reprinted until 1973. In a heroic piece of cultural retrieval, some science fiction purists now argue that the Spanish writer Enrique Gaspar got there first with El anacronópete (‘The anachronist’) in 1887. The common root is probably the story of Epimenides of Knossos, who supposedly slept in a cave for 57 years before waking with the gift of prophecy. In A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889), meanwhile, Mark Twain’s ‘Hank Morgan’ receives a severe blow to the head, which pretty much amounts to the same thing. Hudson’s A Crystal Age (1887), and ‘William Guest’ in News From Nowhere (1890) by William Morris. ![]() Mercier’s Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred (1771), Washington Irving’s ‘Rip Van Winkle’ (1819), ‘Smith’ in W.H. Until then, fictional time travellers tended to just fall asleep, like the narrator of L.S. Wells’ The Time Machine (1895) wasn’t the first novel to deal with time travel, but it was the first to posit an actual ‘time machine’, coining the term in the process. ‘Heirs to the Ages’ – ‘The Time Machine’, History, and the Class War ![]()
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The hen who dreamed she could fly review5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve also always put it back down again, partly because it’s the cover that has drawn me more than what’s on the pages behind the cover, and partly because I’ve been trying to rein myself in on the book buying front. ![]() I’ve picked this book up many times over the last couple of years, drawn by its elegant cover design. One of the books she consumed was The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly. Weezelle of Words and Leaves posted about her holiday reading recently. Tags 6degrees 20 Books of Summer 1001 Books Africa America Art Australia Autobiography Biography Black culture Black history Blogging about blogging Book review Britain Canada Comedy Crime Dystopia Economics England Fantasy Feminism Film France Germany Graphic novel Historical fiction History Horror Humour Independent Publisher India Influx Press Italy Japan Journalism LGBTQ London Mental health Meta Music Mystery New York Paris Philosophy Picture Prompt Book Bingo Poetry Politics Psychology Racism Randomness Religion Russia Science Science Fiction SciFi Scotland Short stories Six Degrees of Separation Sociology Spain Speculative fiction Sweden Thriller Tokyo Translation Travel United Kingdom USA Wales War Women's Prize for Fiction Women in translation Women in translation month Women read women ![]()
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Hhhh civilizations5/28/2023 ![]() Investments and revenue will be shared 50/50, with Mediawan handling series distribution and Entourage providing investment expertize and ecosystem of professional investors such as private equity firm 123 Investment Managers, film and audiovosual industry social protection group Audiens and the Hottinguer Bank. Entourage will work with Mediawan Rights, the sale arm of Mediawan, to co-developm, co-produce and co-distribute series. It first pushed into TV series in 2020 through an agreement with producer Media Muskateers. Mediawan is coming off the back of its attention-grabbing deal for Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, while Entourage Ventures is a film and TV financier that has invested more than €50M (54M) on 40 French films. ![]() The pair will work together over a four- to six-year period to finance series “with strong international potential.” Underpinning the operation will be €100M Entourage Fund. France’s Mediawan Group and private equity firm Entourage Ventures have struck a co-development agreement underpinned by a €100M (107M) fund. ![]()
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![]() It’s very different from the time I was growing up, many, many, many, years ago. Girls growing up today have an easier time finding their voice and their identity. Both girls are strong, independent women in the making. ![]() One can find either doing an experiment in the dirt and then playing with dolls. Both girls play hard, run hard, and then go to ballet. Both girls feel free to wear a princess tiara and superhero cape at the same time. After regaining my composure, I started reflecting on her life and that of our 7-year old granddaughter. She quickly said to me, “I’m a girl, and I play my own way (insert just a touch of attitude).” No truer words have ever been spoken. While she was running from apparatus to apparatus, I made the mistake of telling her how each piece of equipment was meant to be used. We took our 5-year old granddaughter to a park that had a workout circuit. ![]() Remember when the biggest insult you might hear on the playground was, “You play like a girl”? Not anymore. ![]()
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The Hoax by Sophie Masson5/28/2023 ![]() This study employed classroom action research design. It is conducted to investigate the usage of hoax news in teaching critical reading for undergraduate students as well as particularize how far hoax news can enhance studenst’ critical thinking. This study aimed at paving the ways to improve the students’ critical thinking skills through reading hoax news. Moreover, it has its own authenticity to be brought into a critical reading class as authentic materials which was not broadly discussed yet. Hoax news, the trending issue in a society as the reading materials, has abundance aspect to be criticized by students. It is essential that units, courses, and material teach the critical thinking process have to provide an opportunity for students to excoriate certain problem and present the harmonious flow of thinking. ![]() Critical thinking is vital for graduates in facing the dynamic life in order to strengthen their analysis ability and providing alternative solution towards the current problem. ![]()
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Son of a trickster sequel5/27/2023 ![]() Interactions should not primarily be for personal benefit. Interact with the community in good faith. Respect for members and creators shall extend to every interaction. Visionīuild a reputation for inclusive, welcoming dialogue where creators and fans of all types of speculative fiction mingle. We reserve the right to remove discussion that does not fulfill the mission of /r/Fantasy. We welcome respectful dialogue related to speculative fiction in literature, games, film, and the wider world. r/Fantasy is the internet’s largest discussion forum for the greater Speculative Fiction genre. For updated information regarding ongoing community features, please visit 'new' Reddit. ![]() Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. ![]() Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]()
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The bfg book5/27/2023 ![]() By means of immense ears he can hear dreams and their contents (which manifest themselves in a misty Dream Country as floating, blob-like objects) and blow them via a trumpet-like blowpipe into the bedrooms of children. Once there, he reveals that he is the world's only benevolent giant, the Big Friendly Giant or BFG, who operating in the strictest secrecy, collects good dreams that he later distributes to children. The giant notices her, reaches through the window, and carries her to his home in Giant Country. One night, when Sophie cannot fall asleep during the "witching hour", she sees a giant blowing something into the bedroom windows down the street. The story is about a little girl named Sophie, she have no parents. It has also been adapted as a theatre performance. The book went on to win a Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis prize in 1985. An animated film based on the book was released in 1989 with David Jason providing the voice of the BFG and Amanda Root as the voice of Sophie. The book was an expansion of a story told in Danny, the Champion of the World, an earlier Dahl book. ![]() ![]() The BFG (short for "Big Friendly Giant") is a children's book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake, first published in 1982. ![]()
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Jade legacy fonda lee5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The organization of the clans is similar to the crime families in The Godfather, in which the Corleone family has a don, underboss and consigliere the clans each have a Pillar, Horn and Weather Man. ![]() After the war, a dispute over opening Kekon to international trade led to the One Mountain Society disintegrating into a number of rival clans, with the most powerful being the isolationist Mountain clan led by the Ayt family and the internationalist No Peak clan led by the Kaul family. The events of Jade City take place a generation after the end of the Many Nations War, a conflict roughly analogous to World War II, during which the One Mountain Society, a national liberation movement, successfully fought to end foreign occupation of Kekon. One reviewer described Kekon as "an analog of mid-20th-century Hong Kong" although Lee has alluded to the setting being inspired by Asia more generally, stating that Kekon is not "Hong Kong or Taiwan or Japan or China or any of those places." She has stated that one of her goals for the novel was to "write an epic fantasy that was not set in medieval Europe," featuring "the scheming and politics and clash of noble houses elements" in a "different cultural setting but also different time period." Clans The titular Jade City is a nickname for Janloon, the capital of the island of Kekon in the novel's secondary world setting. It was followed by Jade War in 2019 and Jade Legacy in 2021. It won the World Fantasy Award in 2018 and is the first in the Green Bone Saga. Jade City is a 2017 fantasy novel by Fonda Lee. ![]() |