Aarya: I have a ridiculous fantasy that one day I’m going to own this beautiful beach house (or cabin in the snowy mountains, I’m not choosy) and there’s going to be this library with massive floor-to-wall windows and bookshelves. One wall will display a collage of pages from my ...
But even after his defeat, his heart fluttered like no other! He recognized Queenie's burning passion and knew that her fire was hotter than his own... so he did the unthinkable; he helped. The screens displayed the throne room, the unconscious Delahaye Reign entrapped in a gelatinous cr...
As Saturday night was snowy and frigid, the weather all but begged us to stay inside and to watch movies. We followed this directive and soon chose to watch Salem’s Lot. This adaptation of Stephen King’s awesome 1975 novel was pretty damn good, considering they squeezed 750 pages into 9...
Likewise, I was recently greeted by an unexpected, but wonderful reminder of the Lord’s enduring and kind presence during an unwelcome walk initiated by my dog on a cold, windy, and rainy night. When you gotta go, you gotta go, you know? So, I put on my hoodie, leashed up McCartney...
Second, the book has great read aloud-ability. Miranda uses a repeating refrain: “first one, then two, then ten,” which makes kids want to chant along. Finally, who can resist a story about one person seeing an insurmountable problem and taking a small step that leads to a giant ...
When night is almost done, And sunrise grows so near That we can touch the spaces, It ‘s time to smooth the hair And get the dimples ready, And wonder we could care For that old faded midnight That frightened but an hour. XVIII. THE BOOK OF MARTYRS. Read, sweet, how others strove...
The young boy and his father sat quietly watching the snow fall on a snowy Saturday afternoon.“Dad, my friend told me that every snowflake is 36 . But they look all the same to me. How can we tell?” the child asked.Dad felt it was his 37 to give a more satisfying answer. “...
MAGIC LESSONS is the story of Maria Owens, found abandoned shortly after her birth in a snowy field by wise woman and the crow who becomes her familiar. Maria is the source of the curse that causes so much heartache and trouble in PRACTICAL MAGIC, cast as she is about to drowned for a...
he said with great good humour, “I am sorry to keep you waiting; but there has been some good work done to-night, so you won’t mind it, I’ll warrant.” “Well now, John, if you and your friends have been at Pickering’s, and have done any ‘good’ work there, I will ...
The best page-turner/World War II novel I’ve read in ages! Every chapter ends with a cliffhanger — you won’t be able to stop reading. Kate Quinn expertly weaves the story of the Nazi “huntress” with several others, all compelling: the female Soviet pilots known as the “Night Wit...