![]() ![]() The wolf knew wood very well so he took the shortest path and ran as fast as he could while Little Red Riding Hood took a roundabout way. He made a little contest and told her that she goes one way, while he goes the other way until they see who will be there first. ![]() Then the wolf said that he would also go and check on her to see if she was okay. ![]() The wolf asked if her grandmother lives far off and Little Red Riding Hood said she lives in the first house in the village beyond the mill he can see from there. The wolf asked Little Red Riding Hood where she was going and since she didn’t know how cruel the wolf's intentions were said she was going to see her grandmother and that her mother asked her to bring some cake and a little pot of butter. She lived in another village on the other side of the woods so her mother told her to be careful and not to strain from the path or talk to strangers.Īs she was walking through the woods, she came across a wolf, who wanted to eat her up but didn’t dare to, because he knew that there were some woodcutters cutting trees nearby and he was scared they would hear the little girl’s scream. The little girl loved her grandmother very much so she immediately went to visit her. ![]() One day, her mother asked her to go and check on her grandmother as she was old and sick and to bring her a little pot of butter and a cake. ![]()
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As an editor at Book Riot, as well as the author and editor of the YA anthologies Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World, (Don’t Call Me) Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation About Mental Health, and the forthcoming Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy, Jensen is dedicated to creating smart books for teens and beyond, since everyone deserves smart and informative literature. 20 Questions is a Q&A interview series with musicians, authors, and everyone in between, celebrating experiences both shared and individual in the messy game of being human.Īs a former teen librarian, Kelly Jensen has a passion for young adult literature-but her intrigue doesn’t stop there. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And with her family and friends supporting her each step of the way, Coralee knows she will go far. With the distractions of playing football, being in a fraternity, and having his pick of the women on campus, he has little incentive to study-until his assigned tutor turns out to be a black girl from his past who'd never left his mind.or heart.Coralee Simmons is determined to make it out of Plumville with a diploma in her hand and dignity in her stride, despite a social climate determined to stifle both. As a graduating senior at a local college, he's poised for success, if only he can keep his grades up. ![]() Plumville, Georgia had an order to its way of life, and few ever upset it.Benjamin Drummond is heir to all Plumville had to offer-wealth, good looks, and a promising career as a future state judge. ![]() ![]() In fear and confusion the man barrels out of the lab and disappears. In the blink of an eye Emily disappears and a rough-looking man appears in her place. When the collider starts up it hits its projected energy target but then inexplicably continues powering much higher. High on his priorities is his new relationship with physicist Emily Loughty, the collider’s beautiful and accomplished Scottish research director. Scarred by his wartime experiences, he’s been fighting his demons and putting his life back in order. John Camp heads up security at a world’s largest super-collider tunneled around London. ![]() ![]() ![]() A cross between DANTE’S INFERNO and GAME OF THRONES, DOWN is part historical thriller and part fantasy-adventure, a thought-provoking, page-turning, epic saga that explores the consequences of evil and transports readers to a world unlike any they have ever experienced. DOWN – Pinhole is the first book of an explosive new trilogy by international bestselling author, Glenn Cooper. ![]() ![]() ![]() I am not alone, go me! I skipped a lot, made the book so much more compact :D The whatever sex I gave up reading is indeed awkward according to him. ![]() *Checked with Julio's review about sex bits. Out of all the characters so vividly introduced in the beginning of the book, only a handful (if even) stay with us through the very end. Why some of the dead turn zombies and some (like Enis) don't? Will Gard ever shut his venomous mouth, there is a war going on around, after all, things to kill, things to do (pardon the pun). More zombies, as we lose characters from the beginning of the book to author's forgetfulness(?). Oh, when all else fails, call for zombies and endless running in the desert. ![]() We stumble upon a victim of a vicious attack - Gard, the desert spirit, who is now under complete control of the evil Shadow. We meet new characters as Dragon King joins a caravan to cross into a desert. We travel to remnants of the ancient kingdom. ![]() The Dragon King wakes from his slumber and sets out on a quest. The book started so well, with dragons and desert spirits and old lore it promised a grand adventure. ![]() ![]() The main reason I like this series is the way Caine pulls Gwen into the worst situations. Basically, the world goes to hell in a hand basket for Gwen and the kids. And these trolls have been getting closer and braver as time passes. Unfortunately, the huge host of Internet trolls think the Proctors don’t deserve that. But Gwen hopes things are under control and that they can stay in Stillhouse Lake. Which isn’t easy when you move and change names at the drop of the hat. She’s fierce as a mama lion and wants them to be safe but also to have a relatively normal life. Gwen is also protecting her young teen kids, Atlanta (Lanny) and Connor. And people just can’t believe she wasn’t involved, even though she was acquitted of charges leveled on her. Problem is, those crimes happened in his workshop-attached to their house. ![]() She’s the ex-wife of Melvin Royal, a convicted death row inmate who killed countless women in repulsive ways. Yes, she’s been on the run, but not because of her own criminal past. ![]() In the first book, Gwen moves to Stillhouse Lake, near the small town of Norton, TN after leaving a long string of other places. Rachel Caine and her main character Gwen Proctor know how to create tight-as-a-drum tension throughout this series based in rural Tennessee. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “The Stealth of Spiders,” by Jonathan Broughton, comes next in the anthology, a gripping story of a disabled woman named Abigail who ventures into her deceased sister’s flat to retrieve a particular item…only to be met with a nightmare world beyond her worst imagining. And much like Daphne du Maurier’s short story “The Birds,” Hall’s tale concludes with the suggestion that these winged attacks are merely the beginning to some greater form of horror. ![]() Hall opts for similar ambiguity in “Seagulls,” which amplifies the suspense and fear for poor protagonist Josie. Rayne Hall opens the anthology with a tale of bloodthirsty seagulls in the aptly-titled “Seagulls.” Readers might recall that in his seminal film The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock never fully reveals the reason why the birds are attacking and why they have singled out his female protagonist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return. In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two ways of knowledge together.ĭrawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings - asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass - offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. ![]() Burning sweetgrass is done as a blessing and for protection. The smoke from it helps to cleanse an area of negative energy and to lighten the Spirit. Usually, it is braided and burned as incense. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In terms of spiritual uses, sweetgrass is one of the four main medicinal herbs used by people from the First Nations here in North America. ![]() A journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, LoveĪs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. ![]() ![]() ![]() He confides in his one friend, Dr Hasselbacher, his dilemma and Hasselbacher suggest that he could invent them. Except he has to become an agent, recruit sub-agents, and send “reports” via code. ![]() ![]() Wormold finally realizes that the money he will be paid is the answer to his financial woes. Cuba is a hotbed of competing interests under the Batista regime of the mid-1950’s. Then Hawthorne, an MI6 agent walks into his life and tries to recruit him as an agent. At first, this appears to be another one of Graham Greene’s middle-aged men struggling to make some sense of their existence in a far-off foreign land. He struggles to sell vacuum cleaners named “the Atomic Pile,” a real loser, and come up with enough money to support his daughter’s expensive interests while guarding her against the romantic interests of police Captain Segura, known for his ruthless investigative techniques. His wife has left him and their teenage daughter Milly. James Wormold is a struggling proprietor of a vacuum cleaner business in 1950’s Cuba. Summary: A struggling Englishman in 1950’s Cuba is recruited to be a secret agent for MI6 and ends up deceiving the service only to find his fabrications becoming all too real. New York: Open Road Media, 2018 (originally published in 1958). ![]() ![]() ![]() There isn’t anything in that is inappropriate but there is a bit of space tech and the book is quite chunky (360 pages) so if you don’t have a confident reader on your hands maybe wait six months or so. ![]() ![]() I say middle grade, I think in actual fact the book is targeted at upper middle grade/lower young adult. So it was the book club’s first time in space, and actually mine when it came to middle grade reading. +++ This review contains spoilers and should only be read if you have read the book already!+++ First time in space But a heavily-damaged ship, space pirates, a mysterious alien species, and an artificial intelligence that Beth doesn’t know if she can trust means that getting home has never been so difficult. Suddenly it’s up to thirteen-year-old Beth and her friends to navigate through treacherous and uncharted territory to reach safety. The transport ship Orion is four months out of Earth when catastrophe strikes – leaving the ship and everyone on board stranded in deep space. What would the book club make of the dark side of the moon? Orion Lost – the blurb ![]() Our children’s Book of the Month for March is the deep space science ficition book, Orion Lost by debut author Alastair Chisholm. ![]() |