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![]() they might also have big paws and bluish/grayish fur i imagine they have a long furred double layer pelt, and the outer layer is semi water proof. Riverclan like it says in the books are sleek furred warriors that tend to be fat, especially in the winter. Ive always imaged thunderclan looking like your average cat, they have shorter denser coats, and are usually brown tabbys with squirrel-like tails (then squirrelflight existed so i was like ey that works), and sm0l paws to catch mice How do you image the physical differences between each clan? If the content within contains spoilers, please also apply a spoilers tag.
![]() ![]() Tifton is not as pleased with the Penderwicks as Jeffrey is, though, and warns the new friends to stay out of trouble. But the best discovery of all is Jeffrey Tifton, son of Arundel's owner, who quickly proves to be the perfect companion for their adventures. Soon they are busy discovering the summertime magic of Arundel's sprawling gardens, treasure-filled attic, tame rabbits, and the cook who makes the best gingerbread in Massachusetts. This summer the Penderwick sisters have a wonderful surprise: a holiday on the grounds of a beautiful estate called Arundel. Over one million copies sold, now with a bright new look! ![]() This series of modern classics about the charming Penderwick family from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestseller Jeanne Birdsall is perfect for fans of Noel Streatfeild and Edward Eager. ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s why I’m writing this.īy the way, this is the official version of the notes I took during our mission. ![]() But they’re listening now, at last, and they want to know everything that happened. ![]() We had to be very clever, and, as usual, none of the grown-ups listened to us until it was almost too late. This is the story of how I – how we – uncovered a Nazi spy in England, solved a murder and joined the Ministry of Unladylike Activity. Evil can look like a starchy governess, or a kind old lady, or the warden who comes round to check the blackout. I thought that being evil must make you look evil.īut, now that I’m older, I’ve realized that evil can look like anything. I imagined them with scaly, flickering skin and yellow eyes. When the war began, I thought that Nazis might look like the lizards who used to bask on the steps of our Big House, back in Hong Kong. Anything can happen in a war, and anyone can be a hero.Īnd anyone can be evil too. I am ten years old (nearly eleven), and I have become a spy in order to save the world. 1 From the report of May Wong, WOE operative, 18th December 1940 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You will always know the why before she explains the how.įor example, she kicks off the book by demonstrating how to use subordination to highlight the main point of your sentence. Like learning about dovetail joints in the course of making a table, you will learn about relative clauses in the course of creating strong sentences. This is a book of short sentences, sharp angles, and clear advice.Ĭasagrande’s aim is to make you a better writer, not to teach you grammar – the grammar instruction is just something that happens along the way. This week’s book – June Casagrande’s It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences – is the opposite of aimless and daydreamy. These waning days of summer are perfect for the kind of aimless reading and daydreaming that lead to flashes of inspiration way down the road when you’ve forgotten to expect them. I tried to use KM Weiland’s outlining formula but realized that I don’t yet know enough about my characters and setting to productively answer those why questions, so I’m going to do some more thinking and gathering before trying again. How did the writing go this week? Just as I had hoped, I sat down amongst the redwoods last weekend to spin out ideas for my novel. ![]() ![]() Definitely will go on my favorites shelf, and it will take a strong contender to displace this for my favorite of the year. So many things happen in this book, the details, descriptions are incredible, all serve to make this a compulsive read. Their lives during slavery was often beyond terrible and after, the freedom they have still enactes a high cost. War, the slaves stay on at the plantation, now ownerless, and their lives take many twists and turns. ![]() ![]() The story follows a slave conjuring woman and her daughter Rue, which is also my granddaughters name) and the last mistress of the house Verita. ![]() What makes this book so special is that I didn't feel like an observer but was drawn into the story, feeling as if I were a part of what was going to happen. The book covers the period before the Civil War and after. With nary a misstep in plot, tone or character develop, Atakora takes us to a slave holding plantation in the South. This is another book that I would place in that class, another never to be forgotten story. Many years back I read a book, The Healing, that made a huge impression and a book I have never forgotten. My first five star book of the year and a first novel to boot. ![]() ![]() The questions are worth slowing down to have time for unhurried reflection. ![]() The problem was not my bewilderment but my willingness to set the novel aside instead of following the path set out ahead of me by the questions. ![]() And as a myth retold (as the subtitle tells us), the story is supposed to raise questions, important questions, so that we can face them honestly. The Narnian stories are allegories Till We Have Faces is myth. What I didn’t realize is that I was closer to the truth of things than I realized. Till We Have Faces left me bewildered, with no answers, only questions. I was in college at the time and had recently read the Chronicles of Narnia, which I loved. ![]() The story was interesting enough, and well written, but I couldn’t make sense of the characters and their gods. I didn’t like Till We Have Faces the first time I read it. ![]() ![]() Freedom from pain and suffering can be achieved in a just society and it is critical theory’s goal to attain that society through the fulfillment of human needs and potentials. To the Frankfurt theorists, the material conditions in an inegalitarian class society created conflicts, but the unequal social conditions could be changed. ![]() Horkheimer, when he became the director for the Institute for Social Research in 1931, set it as the primary agenda. They emphasized the autonomy of cultural superstructure over the later Marx’s determinism of the economic base on a legal-political superstructure. Horkheimer and Adorno employed Hegelian dialects to try and analyze society as a totality. ![]() They expanded on Marxism by analyzing it’s political economy and extending it to interconnections between various fields, and also emphasized Hegel’s theory of dialectical interactions.Ĭritical Theory drew it’s inspiration from Marxism. They mainly focused on studying and researching the principles of Marxism as proscribed by Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels. The issue of domination was researched in depth by two Germans, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, who were living in self-imposed exile in New York and Los Angeles. ![]() Merchant starts off by explaining domination with regard to human-human or human-nature interactions. Carolyn Merchant’s book is about the Frankfurt school’s analysis of human domination with today’s modern world consisting of socialist ecologists, ecofeminists, people of colour, spiritual ecologists and post-modern scientists. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. 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It balances the comedy and the diary-like stories with the mystery brilliantly, by mixing them together. The trail of clues gives the book a driving force, something that makes you want to read on. The main plot follows Q and his friends as they try to uncover the cryptic clues Margo left behind… ![]() They have their night of adventure, but when Q wakes up in the morning, Margo has vanished. They hardly speak until Margo climbs into Q's bedroom and invites him to join her on a mission of revenge. Years later, our two main characters are in high school and have drifted apart. It's all fun and games until one day Margo and Q come across a dead body. Our protagonist is Quentin 'Q' Jacobsen, whose boring life is turned upside down when the stunning Margo Roth Spiegelman moves in next door. I was very eager to read this following how much I loved An Abundance of Katherines, and I decided that I had to read it before I saw the film due to my golden rule: read the book before you watch the film. ![]() |