![]() Park policy was that the mostly college-aged employees surrender their electronic devices to preserve the authenticity of the FantasticLand experience. How could a group of survivors, mostly teenagers, commit such terrible acts?Presented as a fact-finding investigation and a series of first-person interviews, FantasticLand pieces together the grisly series of events. ![]() Photos soon emerge online of heads on spikes outside of rides and viscera and human bones littering the gift shops, breaking records for hits, views, likes, clicks, and shares. ![]() Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors encounter a scene of horror. Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where “Fun is Guaranteed!” But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun. ![]()
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![]() Hix, does Wallace's gee-whiz modesty get in the way of his arguments. Only in the more academic essays, on Dostoyevski and the scholar H.L. The reportage (on the Illinois State Fair, the Canadian Open and a Caribbean Cruise) is perhaps best described as post-gonzo: funny, slight and self-conscious without Norman Mailer's or Hunter Thompson's braggadocio. ![]() ![]() The witty, insightful essays on David Lynch and TV are a reminder of how thoroughly Wallace has internalized the writing-and thinking-habits of Stanley Cavell, the plain-language philosopher at Harvard, Wallace's alma mater. Readers of Wallace's fiction will take special interest in this collection: critics have already mined "Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley" (Wallace's memoir of his tennis-playing days) for the biographical sources of Infinite Jest. ![]() His instinct for the colloquial puts his masters Pynchon and DeLillo to shame, and the humane sobriety that he brings to his subjects-fictional or factual-should serve as a model to anyone writing cultural comment, whether it takes the form of stories or of essays like these. ![]() Like the tennis champs who fascinate him, novelist Wallace (Infinite Jest The Broom of the System) makes what he does look effortless and yet inspired. ![]() ![]() ![]() Which I love Greek mythology (seriously I went through a phase when that was the only thing I read for a good 6 months to a year) but there are already so many books featuring these myths. Both are insightful and are inspired by time periods that aren’t usually featured in literature (Second Sino-Japanese War and Medieval Russia).Ĭirce features - you guessed it - Circe and is a retelling on parts of the Odyssey and other tales of Greek Mythology. ![]() The Girl in the Tower was extremely whimsical and captures that perfect balance of Fairy Tales and History. Poppy Wars was wonderfully dark and shocking with a complex world. Unfortunately it didn’t live up to the hype - and that’s not to say I didn’t like it, because I did… but it didn’t feel like it was on the same level as the other books. Meaning it beat both The Poppy Wars (review here) which was my favorite book of 2018 and it beat The Girl in the Tower (which was the fantastic sequel to The Bear and the Nightingale- a Russian Medieval Fantasy novel). To be honest, going into this I had extremely high expectations as it was the winner for Goodreads Best Fantasy novel. ![]() “I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing” ![]() ![]()
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For example, if the comic book was sealed, you must return it in sealed condition, if it was in a special case or box it must be returned in its original packaging, etc. To be eligible for a return, your item must be in the same condition that you received it. We have a 14-day return policy, which means you have 14 days after receiving your item to request a return. ![]() ![]() ![]() The rich color palette highlights both the layers within each panel as well as serving as a road map for readers by indicating whether the panels are set in the present, the past, or within the fairy tale. Le Nguyen’s gorgeous, flowing, detailed illustrations deftly weave Vietnamese and Western fairy-tale worlds together with Hiền’s memory of her past and Tiến’s struggle over coming out. As he reads the story of love, longing, and travel across a sea, Hiền is reminded of family she left behind in Vietnam while Tiến tries to navigate his own first love, a boy he is friends with. ![]() When Tiến selects “Tattercoats,” his seamstress mother tells him that there is a Vietnamese version that her own mother told her, long ago. Tiến’s mom, Hiền, asks him to read aloud the fairy tales he checks out from the library they both love them, and she can use them to practice English. ![]() While Tiến is fluent in English, his Vietnamese refugee parents are not, leaving them struggling at times for a shared language. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As in Northanger Abbey, the superficial social life of Bath-well known to Austen, who spent several relatively unhappy and unproductive years there-is portrayed extensively and serves as a setting for the second half of the book. Besides the theme of persuasion, the novel evokes other topics, such as the Royal Navy, in which two of Jane Austen's brothers ultimately rose to the rank of admiral. Persuasion is linked to Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together, but also because both stories are set partly in Bath, a fashionable city with which Austen was well acquainted, having lived there from 1801 to 1805. She died, aged 41, in 1817 Persuasion was published in December that year (but dated 1818). She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August 1816. Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nope, her grandmother told her the news in a bid to get Lina to agree to move to Florence. And even then, she never told Lina that he was her father. A man her mother only mentioned a few months before she died. ![]() And now, Lina is in Florence with Howard - a man she just found out is her father. You see, Lina's mom passed away and made her daughter promise to live in Italy. Its still fun to read about Lina's journey to uncover the mystery in her mom's journal. The book is definitely predictable in every way you can imagine, but that doesn't detract anything from the story. I absolutely LOVED Love & Gelato - it was a fun, sweet read that made me smile. I just finished this one late last night. People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more. It’s a secret that will change everything she knew about her Mother’s footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept for far too ![]() Inspires Lina, along with the ever-so-charming Ren, to follow in her ![]() Magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. She’s only thereīecause it was her mother’s dying wish that she get to know her father.īut what kind of father isn’t around for sixteen years? All Lina wants Italy’s famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. Is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn’t in the mood for ![]() ![]() ![]() There's an amusing shout-out to "Beowulf" in its opening lines ("Let's sing about the man there/ at the breakfast table"), but otherwise Sharp Teeth roams predictably, if enjoyably, within the well-trodden dog park of Los Angeles noir.Īnthony, a down-on-his-luck dogcatcher, is a figure familiar to any reader of hardboiled fiction, the loner who parks himself at the kind of bar where you know it's just a matter of time before The Girl walks in: Give or take a few punctuation marks, Sharp Teeth could just as easily have been written in prose, though that would have resulted in a far slimmer volume. Much will be made of the book's form - it's told in free verse - but that seems like a gimmick here. ![]() Toby Barlow's briskly entertaining first book, Sharp Teeth, aims to put lycanthropes first in the supernatural sweepstakes, with a narrative as relentless and powerful as a pitbull's jaws. Werewolves have always been the underdog, despite high-profile lycanthropes in the Harry Potter books and Stephenie Meyer's popular Twilight series for young adults. Vampires have been the ascendant pop monster ever since Anne Rice's 1976 bestseller Interview with the Vampire. ![]() ![]() ![]() In general, the setting was not important to the story. This made the ending of good triumphing over evil feel Perspective, readers were encouraged to assume that the three pigs were goodĪnd that the wolf was bad. Off with “Once upon a time….” Because the tale was told from the pig’s Like other traditional tales, the story started The plot was simple and episodic as each page contained one event All characters were drawn with silly details thatĪdded levity to what could have easily been a scary story. To the eaten pigs a simple, yet masterful, inclusion. As the wolf finishedĮating each brother, he was depicted with a new item that previously belonged His suit and glasses seemed to indicate that,Ĭompared with the other brothers, he was the most intelligent. ![]() The second pig was slightly more playful in his brightly colored pants. The first pig was dressed simply, indicating a simple personality. Ink and watercolor illustration style, he gave each character a unique voiceĪnd personality. Really made this variant of the Three Little Pigs tale his own. Third pig, however, builds a sturdy home and uses his wits to outsmart the wolfĭuring successive encounters. Pigs make terrible housing decisions and end up eaten by a traveling wolf. Tale, The Three Little Pigs follows young ![]() |