![]() ![]() These showplaces, sometimes dubbed trophy houses or McMansions, illustrate what Susanka calls a "Versailles complex - the notion that houses should be designed to impress rather than nurture." Many feature vaulted ceilings, Palladian windows, walls of glass, and separate rooms for single activities - media rooms, exercise rooms, hobby rooms, art studios, yoga rooms. I can't tell you the number of people who say, 'This isn't really me.' " "Our lifestyles have metamorphosed, but houses haven't changed. "People are deeply, deeply unhappy with what society is offering up in housing," Susanka explains. Owners, saddled with impersonal, cavernous spaces, sometimes wonder what went wrong - why they feel so profoundly disaffected from the very place that is supposed to nurture and satisfy: home. Susanka hears more often these days as new homes increase in size. "All we've got is square footage with no soul. "We just built a $500,000 house, but we can't bear to live there," she said. ![]() ![]() A couple in the audience came up to her, and the wife, her eyes brimming with tears, told a sad story. Minneapolis architect Sarah Susanka had just finished speaking at a local home and garden show, emphasizing that bigger is not always better in housing design. ![]()
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![]() A second sequel, Hannibal, was published in 1999 and adapted into a film in 2001. Īfter Harris wrote a sequel to the novel, The Silence of the Lambs (1988), itself turned into a highly successful film in 1991, Red Dragon found a new readership. Directed by Michael Mann, the film received mixed reviews and fared poorly at the box office. The novel was adapted as a film, Manhunter, in 1986, which featured Brian Cox as Lecter (spelled "Lecktor" within the film). The title refers to the figure from William Blake's painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer whom Graham reluctantly turns to for advice and with whom he has a dark past. The plot follows former FBI profiler Will Graham, who comes out of retirement to find and apprehend an enigmatic serial killer nicknamed "the Tooth Fairy". 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From the mountains of Zomba-ma-Tant to the blistering sands of the Desert of Zind, Gerald hunts down every animal imaginable ("I'll catch 'em in countries no one can spell, like the country of Motta-fa-Potta-fa-Pell"). I'd unlock every pen, let the animals go, and start over again." And that's just what Gerald imagines, as he travels the world in this playfully illustrated Dr. "It's a pretty good zoo," said young Gerald McGrew, "and the fellow who runs it seems proud of it, too." But if Gerald ran the zoo, the New Zoo, McGrew Zoo, he'd see to making a change or two: "So I'd open each cage. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Presented together for the first time, they reveal aspects of the story, both in event and in narrative immediacy, that were afterwards lost. To show something of the process whereby this legend of Middle-earth evolved over the years, he has told the story in his father's own words by giving, first, its original form, and then passages in prose and verse from later texts that illustrate the narrative as it changed. In this book Christopher Tolkien has attempted to extract the story of Beren and Lúthien from the comprehensive work in which it was embedded but that story was itself changing as it developed new associations within the larger history. This is the kernel of the legend and it leads to the supremely heroic attempt of Beren and Lúthien together to rob the greatest of all evil beings, Melkor, called Morgoth, the Black Enemy, of a Silmaril. Her father, a great elvish lord, in deep opposition to Beren, imposed on him an impossible task that he must perform before he might wed Lúthien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following year.Įssential to the story, and never changed, is the fate that shadowed the love of Beren and Lúthien: for Beren was a mortal man, but Lúthien was an immortal elf. Tolkien, which were published as The Silmarillion. The tale of Beren and Lúthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of the mythology of ancient Arda (the Creation through the First Age) conceived by J.R.R. ![]() ![]() ![]() in education from New York University in 1961, which named her a Distinguished Alumna in 1996, the same year the American Library Association honored her with the Margaret A. She receives thousands of letters a year from readers of all ages who share their feelings and concerns with her. More than 80 million copies of her books have been sold, and her work has been translated into thirty-one languages. She has also written three novels for adults, Summer Sisters Smart Women and Wifey, all of them New York Times bestsellers. Adults as well as children will recognize such Blume titles as: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Blubber Just as Long as We're Together and the five book series about the irrepressible Fudge. She has spent her adult years in many places doing the same thing, only now she writes her stories down on paper. ![]() Judy Blume spent her childhood in Elizabeth, New Jersey, making up stories inside her head. ![]() ![]() Alpha 2 Omega Books retain information provided by Biblio, such as transaction information for internal financial accounting purposes. Under Article 6 of The GDPR, the lawful basis on which Alpha 2 Omega Books process personal data received from Bibliois that of "Contract" - whereby processing is necessary in order to fulfil buyer orders and enquiries. 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It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness–a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. ![]() The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. ![]() ![]() Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. ![]() ![]() ![]() The wolf awakens and attempts to flee, but the stones cause him to collapse and die. Then they fill the wolf's body with heavy stones. ![]() ![]() Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother emerge shaken, but unharmed. A woodcutter in the French version, or a hunter in the Brothers Grimm and traditional German versions, comes to the rescue with an axe, and cuts open the sleeping wolf. In later and better-known versions, the story continues. In Charles Perrault's version of the story (the first version to be published), the tale ends here. She says, "What a deep voice you have!" ("The better to greet you with", responds the wolf), "Goodness, what big eyes you have!" ("The better to see you with", responds the wolf), "And what big hands you have!" ("The better to embrace you with", responds the wolf), and lastly, "What a big mouth you have" ("The better to eat you with!", responds the wolf), at which point the wolf jumps out of the bed and eats her, too. When the girl arrives, she notices that her grandmother looks very strange. Gustave Doré's engraving of the scene: "She was astonished to see how her grandmother looked." ![]() ![]() Sigurdardottir is known as Iceland’s Queen of Crime, and every single book of hers that I read reinforces just how well. Yrsa Sigurdardottir is a just-plain-incredible talent. I Remember You won the Icelandic Crime Fiction Award and also was nominated. I Remember You won the Icelandic Crime Fiction Award and also was nominated for The Glass Key Award. The Verdict: goosebump-inducing horror from Iceland’s Queen of Crime. Buy a used copy of I Remember You : A Ghost Story book by Yrsa Sigurdardottir. ![]() In the vein of Stephen King and John Ajvide Lindqvist, this horrifying thriller, partly based on a true story, is the scariest novel yet from Yrsa Sigurdardottir, who has taken the international crime fiction world by storm. When the two stories collide, the terrifying truth is uncovered. ![]() Meanwhile, in a town across the fjord, a young doctor investigating the suicide of an elderly woman discovers that she was obsessed with his vanished son. Something wants them to leave, and it's making its presence felt. ![]() But soon, they realize they are not as alone as they thought. In an isolated village in the Icelandic Westfjords, three friends set to work renovating a rundown house. Now, with I Remember You, Yrsa will stun readers once again with this out-of-this-world ghost story that will leave you shivering. ![]() International superstar Yrsa Sigurdardottir has captivated the attention of readers around the world with her mystery series featuring attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir. ![]() |