![]() ![]() He becomes the host of "Uncle Murray's Fun Facts" in the chapter books, which went into further detail about cat behavior (despite Murray not knowing much about it), which would give him little subplots. Ascended Extra: Uncle Murray only appeared twice in the original book as a joke where he was lumped in with Kitty's foods in the "U" category.She was furious that she had to leave her mother and became the crabby cat that we all know today. ![]() In Happy Birthday, Bad Kitty, it's revealed that this is because she used to be a kind kitten until he adopted her. Apathetic Pet: Kitty is often indifferent to her owner (the narrator) and isn't afraid to attack him for any perceived slight.Anthropomorphic Personification: The "What the Heck is That Thing?!" chapter in Meets the Baby has Kitty's basic emotions - panic, hunger, and lazy - represented by cats who compete on a game show trying to figure out how to react to the new baby. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Some of the funniest short stories and sketches I have ever encountered. This is for anyone who is a fan of the New Yorker brand of humour. I don’t want to spoil the ending for those who haven’t read it, but I found it unsatisfying. The only fault I can find with the book is that Eliot appeared to write herself into a corner by the end. ![]() ![]() Most the action is admittedly driven by a love triangle, but that was surely not so passé at the time of writing. She has such a gift for penetrating the human mind, but in a sympathetic rather than the caustic way favoured by more modern writers. In my opinion, the best of George Eliot’s books apart from Middlemarch. My five favourite books of this half decade have been: 1 This is my fifth year of fastidiously tracking my reading, and so it’s time to look back on what I have read in these last five years. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve gone and drawn attention to myself, and the ones paying attention are the ones everyone else seems to fear.Īuthor: Kristy Cunning (pen name for C.M. They decide who gets stabbed or tortured. My only guides happen to be the most lethal of the bunch. I’m walking into the middle of a story that’s thousands of years old, and I’m the new girl on the block who doesn’t have a clue how this world even works. Somehow, I’ve gone and landed myself in a world truly filled with monsters, and I’m starting to think this is where I should have been all along. Unfortunately, most of the answers come from men…who aren’t just men. It took my mother’s death for me to finally start getting answers about what’s really been going on. I’ve been labeled as one thing or another for most of my life: Completely unoriginal, if I do say so myself. ![]() I’m sure there are a lot of girls with old gypsy blood who see the dead, have killer cults hunting their family, and turn into something that gets scary when they panic. Gypsy’s Blood (All The Pretty Monsters Book 1) by Kristy Cunning: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though the extended world of Harry Potter – the books, films, theatre show and video games - are worth an estimated $25bn (£20bn), Rowling’s views on transgender rights have courted controversy and turned many fans away from the beloved coming-of-age series. Speculation over a potential TV series, which has been in the works since at least 2021, has provoked mixed reactions among fans of the Potter universe. David Heyman, who executive-produced all eight of the Harry Potter feature films (released between 20), is also in talks to executive-produce. Rowling will executive-produce the series, alongside Neil Blair and Ruth Kenley-Letts. ![]() “Each season will be authentic to the original books and bring Harry Potter and these incredible adventures to new audiences around the world, while the original, classic and beloved films will remain at the core of the franchise and available to watch globally.” ![]() ![]() Takeo is surprised by this and admits, "I thought I had buried my old self along with my name, Tomasu" (pg. A little while later, Takeo observes that others can still tell that he is a member of the Hidden.Besides protection why else does Shigeru think Takeo should change his name? Does changing his name affect Takeo's sense of who he is? In remembering this Takeo says, "And so between the waterfall and the top of the mountain I lost my name, became someone new, and joined my destiny with the Otori" (p. Upon meeting Shigeru, Takeo is told to change his name from Tomasu to Takeo.Does revenge continue to override all of Takeo's other emotions throughout the rest of the book? What other emotions motivate Takeo throughout the story? In this situation revenge is a more powerful force than Takeo's religious beliefs. ![]() But at that moment Revenge took me as a pupil" (pg. I had spent my whole life among the Hidden who are forbidden to kill and taught to forgive each other. As Takeo recalls how he knocked Iida from his horse he admits his prior ignorance of revenge, "I knew nothing of the wars of the clans, nothing of their rigid codes and their feuds. Revenge is a motivating factor for many of the actions of the characters throughout the book. ![]() ![]() As an imperial soldier, he has no love for Alliance pilots. Her plan, however, does not account for the elite cyborg soldier squatting in the freighter, intending to use it for his own purposes. Slightly suicidal, but she believes she can do it. Steal a dilapidated and malfunctioning freighter from a junkyard full of lawless savages. She has no money or resources, and there are no transports heading to Perun, her former home and the last imperial stronghold. ![]() After barely surviving a crash in the final battle for freedom, she’s stranded on a dustball of a planet, billions of miles from her young daughter. It should be a time for celebration, but not for fighter pilot Captain Alisa Marchenko. ![]() The Alliance has toppled the tyrannical empire. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Amazon listings will show you if the song is available as an individual download, should you want the song but not the album. Out of print CDs are often listed for ridiculous prices at Amazon, but you can sometimes pick up a perfectly good used copy for a reasonable price. All of the links are to places where the album can be purchased on CD usually, but not always Amazon. ![]() I also intend to put all this information into a database, so it can be easily searched, but that is a project for another day (year?). Some are available as downloads, and eventually I will include that information for all songs (designated: Song) for now, I have it for a few, usually if the album is not available, is prohibitively expensive, or isn't as likely to be of interest to Lightfoot fans. I have included recordings that are only on out-of-print vinyl, 8 track tape, or cassette, as well as those released on CDs which may or may not still be in print. One of my goals is to list not only the recording artist(s), but also the album(s) on which the song can be found, whenever possible. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I think if somebody were to try and sue us, they would have a pretty good shot of it, unfortunately.” ONEderchild, a toy store, with a Pride Flag along Copenhagen Drive in downtown Solvang, Calif. “How do we say no to the next group that wants to put their flags up? Right now, I don’t know. “They don’t want any flags - not MAGA, not ‘Right to Life,’ and not anything to do with Proud Boys. ![]() “But now, this issue has become polarizing and some of the residents wish it never came up.” “We’ve been a Danish destination for decades and that’s why tourists love coming here because it’s fun,” Solvang council member Robert Clarke told The Post. Some council members even said they have received death threats. ![]() The “most charming town in California” has been dragged into the nation’s culture war over LGBTQ pride flags, frustrating residents and business owners who want to stay out of the political brouhaha.ĭanish-themed town Solvang - famous for its charming windmills and picturesque 18th century Danish-inspired architecture - has been reluctantly embroiled in controversy after the city council voted against a proposal to hang Pride banners in the downtown area for an entire month. border with migrants huddled under trash bags, begging for food Video shows hellish conditions in migrant camp at Calif. We found tickets for all of the Los Angeles Rams 2023-24 home games.ĭramatic video captures truck plowing into burglarized Calif. ![]() 5.5 magnitude earthquake, large aftershock hit Northern California ![]() ![]() ![]() On one hand, Duke Luigi thinks she and her mother are very much alike personality-wise, and after regaining her Past-Life Memories she identifies as "Catarina+α". Ambiguous Situation: It is not entirely clear whether Catarina is really Catarina or just the "monkey girl" in her role. ![]() In her previous life too, she was so loved by her best friend, to the point that when she died her friend reincarnated into the same game to stay with her.
![]() ![]() Orwell’s classic work is often used by scholars to draw conclusions about class dynamics and division, as the second section is centred around this theme. The second part, on the other hand, is a more direct and pointed critique of socialism and of the English middle classes. It describes what he saw, his physical experiences and the people he met. ![]() The book is divided in to two easily distinguishable parts the first section is the direct result of Orwell’s travels around Wigan, Barnsley and Sheffield. ![]() His research eventually resulted in the publication of The Road to Wigan Pier in 1937. Over a period of two months in 1936, George Orwell visited industrial towns in Lancashire and Yorkshire to uncover the living and working conditions of the unemployed in the North of England. Orwell and ‘Northernness’: The Road to Wigan Pier Or rather it is not so much like a stone wall as the plate-glass of an aquarium it is so easy to pretend that it isn’t there, and so impossible to get through it.” Whichever way you turn this curse of class-difference confronts you like a wall of stone. “I liked them and hoped they liked me but I went among them as a foreigner, and both of us were aware of it. ![]() |