![]() ![]() He called: “Next time you come up for air, dear, open your mouth and shut your eyes.” Then he slipped quickly into his raven clothes, pulled on his raven mask, gathered his fire sticks under his arm, and flew out over the water. The Eskimo of Bering Strait tell of the trickster-hero Raven, how, one day, as he sat drying his clothes on a beach, he observed a whale-cow swimming gravely close to shore. The hero, instead of conquering or conciliating the power of the threshold, is swallowed into the unknown, and would appear to have died. The idea that the passage of the magical threshold is a transit into a sphere of rebirth is symbolized in the worldwide womb image of the belly of the whale. ![]() “The Belly of the Whale,” an early chapter of Joseph Campbell’s seminal work The Hero With a Thousand Faces: ![]()
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![]() She was surprised to feel the warmth of a blush on her cheeks. He turned and made eye contact with Elise. ![]() He had a good build, but she could tell he wasn’t a gym rat. His face was suntanned, but she doubted it came from a bottle or a tanning bed. He was a natural, sun-bleached blonde with one of those bad-boy haircuts. ![]() Tonight, Elise was going to put her plan into action and find a husband. Never rely on physical chemistry between yourself and a man. ![]() Although sweet, sassy and seductive, Elise was too ambitious to be Zane's ideal wife, or was she? And what would it take to get Elise to say yes to a lifetime of domestic bliss? ![]() Wrong! Yet, after a few of Zane's knee-weakening kisses, Elise wondered if he might be marriage material after all….AVOID FEMALES WHO MISTAKEMARRIAGE FOR MERGER AND ACQUISITION!That had been Zane's motto…until he met Rise. Only, according to the manual, her choice–sexy farmer Zane Keaton–was definitely Mr. SHE HAD EVERYTHING A GIRL COULD WANT–EXCEPT A HUSBAND!So career-girl Elise Montgomery turned to The Husband Finder, a trendy guidebook, to locate one. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “*This book is poignant and melancholy, and it will be swiftly recognizable to those who only recently hovered at the cusp of adolesence.” - BCCB, STARRED REVIEW Cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, the team behind Skim, have collaborated on this gorgeous, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful story about a girl on the cusp of childhood - a story of renewal and revelation. This One Summer is a tremendously exciting new teen graphic novel from two creators with true literary clout. It's a summer of secrets, and sorrow, and growing up, and it's a good thing Rose and Windy have each other. One of the local teens - just a couple of years older than Rose and Windy - is caught up in something bad. ![]() Rose's mom and dad won't stop fighting, and when Rose and Windy seek a distraction from the drama, they find themselves with a whole new set of problems. Rosie's friend Windy is always there, too, like the little sister she never had. Every summer, Rose goes with her mom and dad to a lake house in Awago Beach. ![]() ![]() After witnessing a number of strange events–Edwart leaves his tater tots untouched at lunch! Edwart saves her from a flying snowball!–Belle has a dramatic revelation: Edwart is a vampire. She soon discovers Edwart, a super-hot computer nerd with zero interest in girls. ![]() Pale and klutzy, Belle arrives in Switchblade, Oregon looking for adventure, or at least an undead classmate. And third, I unconditionally, irrevocably, impenetrably, heterogeneously, gynecologically, and disreputably wished he had kissed me.Īnd thus Belle Goose falls in love with the mysterious and sparkly Edwart Mullen in the Harvard Lampoon’s hilarious send-up of Twilight. Second, there was a vampire part of him–which I assumed was wildly out of his control–that wanted me dead. ![]() First, Edwart was most likely my soul mate, maybe. About three things I was absolutely certain. ![]() ![]() ![]() Plum Pie ( 1966) – One story of nine, " Sticky Wicket at Blandings" (Probably to be read before Service With a Smile).Nothing Serious (1950) – One story of ten, " Birth of a Salesman".Lord Emsworth and Others (1937) – Despite its title, only one of the nine short stories, " The Crime Wave at Blandings", concerns Lord Emsworth (U.S.Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (1935) – Twelve short stories, six of which are about Blandings written from 1926 to 1928, they occur before the events of Summer Lightning.The upper-class inhabitants of the fictional Blandings Castle, including the eccentric Lord Emsworth, obsessed by his prize-winning pig, the " Empress of Blandings", are the subject of eleven novels and nine short stories, written between 1915 and Wodehouse's death in 1975. ![]() ![]() Semi-autobiographical stories, in collaboration In US also has been published as Jeeves in the Morning Crime Wave at Blandings collection as The Medicine Girl Short stories many rewritten for Carry on, Jeeves The Prince and Betty is a blending of the two books Note that The Prince and Betty as published in the UK is an entirely different novel from Psmith, Journalist the U.S. Second half published as Enter Psmith in 1935 both parts released in 1953, the first half as Mike at Wrykyn and the second as Mike and Psmith ![]() ![]() ![]() She is historically based on Henriette Wild, the wife of Wilhelm Grimm. They met in the hospital where Clara was a resident nurse and where Will was looking after for his dying mother. Will's skin begins to turn stone, as he turns into the legendary jade Goyl. The first time Will followed Jacob into the Mirrorworld, he is attacked by a Goyl, a race of stone men that live beyond the mirror in caves under the mountains. He is historically based on Wilhelm Grimm. Will Reckless: Jacob's younger brother is very dependent on his older brother.He views family and friends as a burden, and prefers a life where the consequences of his actions do not harm those he loves. Jacob escapes to the Mirrorworld for first days then weeks or months at a time. ![]() ![]() Jacob Reckless: The protagonist, is a 24-year-old who discovers a secret world behind the mirror in his missing father's study when he is younger.You can help Cornelia Funke Wiki by expanding it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nicholas, the upstanding dentist who nevertheless cowers in the shadow of his mother’s expectations, responds by buying a house in the woods. But when she discovers that Nicholas is just as tired of her as she is of him, Naomi decides to wage a war in the form of petty pranks, mind games, and general sabotage to get Nicholas to call off the wedding. She isn’t close to her family, her only friends are her ragtag bunch of co-workers, and she is so run down by her fiance’s overbearing mother that she has all but checked out of her own life. ![]() Naomi is an underachiever who works at a local junk store that’s on its last legs. But there’s one big flaw in their seemingly idyllic relationship: She hates him. Naomi Westfield and her perfect fiance, Nicholas Rose, are just a few short months away from walking down the aisle. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve written about The Fionavar Tapestry in an older blog - so I won’t go into much depth here. Regardless, Tolkien’s influence can be felt on Kay’s first work, The Fionavar Tapestry, which pays clear homage to The Lord of the Rings in various ways. Tolkien.ĭetails about Kay’s involvement with the Tolkien estate is not readily available online, although I’m sure you could dig around and find more than I did. However, what’s significant about Kay’s past - and what you might call a seminal moment for him as a fantasist - was when he was chosen by Christoper Tolkien as an assistant to help edit the collected works of the master himself, J.R.R. Kay was born in Toronto in 1954 (a Canadian like myself) and educated as a lawyer at the University of Toronto. Kay has a knack for bringing passion and drama to life on the page and his characters are intensely human and relatable. He stands out to me, amidst the recent trend towards epic and grimdark fantasy, because his books are beautiful, poetic, and embrace stories of love and loss. Guy Gavriel Kay is without a doubt one of the foremost fantasy authors of the post-Tolkien generation, although he can often get skipped over. ![]() Cover Image Credit: 7Narwen on Deviantart, based on maps by Matt Springett.ĭisclaimer: The following discussion contains a bunch of minor spoilers for Guy Gavriel Kay books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each chapter ends with reflection questions and a call to prayer. It's a call to love His law, His ten words, and let them transform us more into His likeness. It all starts with the worship of God alone and builds beautifully in a practical call to love God with our whole hearts, souls, minds, and strengths - and then to love those made in His image as we love ourselves. She offers the hope of a future where "things we have exalted will be cast down to the level of their real worth" - and an exhortation to cast them down now, giving "undivided allegiance to the God of our costly deliverance." She calls us to worship with single-minded allegiance, being conformed in thought, word, and deed into the image of our God, not the image of the enemy. Jen considers each word carefully, bringing out new depths from old commands, calling us to changed hearts, not just moralistic deism. She brings the text alive with context and home with thoughtful questions. She opens up the ten commandments, making them accessible in a whole new way, and calling each reader (listener) closer in to the heart of God. Her delight in God is evident in her work and this work is no exception. ![]() She has a gift for communication in both written and spoken word. Jen makes the reader yearn to learn more about God in a way that few books can. The book didn’t reveal any new revelations to me, but it did help me understand God better. Jen Wilkin is one of my favorite teachers. None Like Him Moved Me Emotionally It’s been a while since I read a book that brought me to tears, but Jen Wilkin’s None Like Him had that effect on me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hurray! A dog book by someone who has DOGSĪfter reading several of the latest dog books from authors drawing conclusions about dogs based on living with ONE dog, this book by Susannah Charleson was a breath of fresh air. Inspired by that experience and having met dogs formally trained to assist in such crises, Charleson learns to identify abandoned dogs with service potential, often plucking them from shelters at the last minute, and to train them for work beside hurting partners, to whom these second-chance dogs bring intelligence, comfort, and hope. After a particularly grisly search led to a struggle with PTSD, Charleson credits healing to her partnership with search dog Puzzle. In The Possibility Dogs Charleson chronicles her journey into the world of psychiatric-service and therapy dogs trained to serve the human mind, a journey that began as a personal one. For her first book, Susannah Charleson was praised for her unique insight into the kinship between humans and dogs, as revealed through canine search and rescue. From the author of the critically acclaimed bestseller, Scent of the Missing, comes a heartwarming and inspiring story that shows how dogs can be rescued and can rescue in return. ![]() |