![]() “We will not let mean people get away with their meanness, Julia. Julia’s hand shook as she slid her credit card through the machine. “Fine, pay us the eighty-six which includes tax and we’ll call it a day.” Blondie said. While I can put up with a few inappropriate sexual come-ons and indelicate type-casting? I will never, do you hear me say-never-put up with someone who deliberately hurts my BFF.” “And then, Twizzle, you insulted my very best friend in the entire world. You profiled us, which could result in a class-less action suit-” “We were practically sexually assaulted by your Santa. “Technically I only have to take off ten-” “Hah! I demand you deduct the extra twenty dollars.” It wobbled precariously on the last number allowed in her height category. She couldn’t help herself and glanced down at the wavering stick. ![]() Oh crap, she wished she hadn’t perfected those delectable, blueberry cream cheese cupcakes over the past couple of weeks. A few tiny tears leaked from the corner of Julia’s eyes and she shook her head, no.Īnnie glared at Blondie and stepped on the scale. ![]()
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![]() This lyrical, life-affirming story is about losing and finding home and, most importantly, finding yourself. ![]() Maybe America, too, is a place where Jude can be seen as she really is. But this life also brings unexpected surprises-there are new friends, a whole new family, and a school musical that Jude might just try out for. The American movies that Jude has always loved haven't quite prepared her for starting school in the US-and her new label of "Middle Eastern," an identity she's never known before. At first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. ![]() Jude never thought she'd be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. ![]() New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book A gorgeously written, hopeful middle grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the United States, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed. ![]() ![]() The only thing which could make it better for me, is if I had been on a boating trip on the Thames, but the author describes it in such a way, that I feel I have been. ![]() It is farce, comedy, poetic, philosophical, and retrospective. I took my time reading this, because I wanted to appreciate it. Much of it felt modern, but certain passages made the reader aware of the times the book was written in. We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we were - bad from a medical point of view I mean. Three Men in a Boat begins: THERE were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency. Not hysterical laughing, but amused laughing. Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927) was an English author, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat. There are not many books I feel that way about.This one had me laughing out-loud frequently. I want to have a relationship with it and I can't do that with an ebook. Three Men in a Boat is brought back to life with a modern font and. ![]() With undated jokes and hilarity, Jerome’s comedic work of escapism, Three Men in a Boat, remains to seem fresh and witty over one hundred years later. ![]() I need to hold this book, flip the pages back and forth, reread passages, underline some of them and make notes in the margins. Jerome’s real-life experiences, Three Men in a Boat is a comedy that has stood the test of time. ![]() I had the ebook version, and although the story was still wonderful, the illustrations were tiny. It is one I will be seeking in hardcover so that I may read it again. There are loads of reviews on this work, so this is only to say, I loved this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Being a huge nerd, one of the things he does with his newfound wealth is sign up with a cryogenics company to have his head persevered immediately after his death… which happens the very next day at a science fiction convention. Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. We Are Legion (We Are Bob) definitely falls into this category. But I do like using the Japanese term as it instantly lets you know what the setup is: Someone in familiar circumstances is thrown into completely unfamiliar circumstances and must learn to survive and thrive in it. ![]() As a genre, it has the advantage of the protagonist learning about their world at the same pace we do. ![]() It’s hardly a new idea, and far from limited to Japan. It could be a video game world, the far future, an alternate past, whatever. In anime, one of the prevalent genres right now is isekai, which translates as “different world.” It basically revolves around the adventures of someone who is transported to a world very much not like our own. ![]() ![]() She is imprisoned in Castle Udolpho by Signor Montoni, an Italian brigand who has married her aunt and guardian Madame Cheron. Aubert, a young French woman orphaned by the death of her father. The novel, set in 1584 in southern France and northern Italy, explores the plight of Emily St. For details she relied on travel books, which led her to make several anachronisms. Modern editors note that only about a third of the novel is set in the eponymous Gothic castle, while tone and style vary markedly between sections of the work, to which Radcliffe added extended descriptions of exotic landscapes in the Pyrenees and Apennines, and of Venice, none of which she had visited. The Mysteries of Udolpho is a quintessential Gothic romance, replete with incidents of physical and psychological terror: remote crumbling castles, seemingly supernatural events, a brooding, scheming villain and a persecuted heroine. ![]() |