![]() This early twentieth century novel is a classic locked-room mystery by Gaston Leroux. Gaston Leroux, The Mystery of the Yellow RoomĢ017 is here, and I’ve kicked off a new year of reading with The Mystery of the Yellow Room. An author is always something of a romancer, and God knows, the mystery of The Yellow Room is quite full enough of real tragic horror to require no aid from literary effects. 2018 Les Misérables Chapter-a-Day Read-along Archive.2020 War and Peace Chapter-a-Day Read-along Archive.2021-2022 Musketeer Chapter-a-Day Read-along. ![]() ![]()
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![]() ![]() Lady Macbeth tells him off for leaving the hall. He struggles with his conscience and decides not to go through with it because it is only his ‘vaulting ambition’ that is pushing him onwards. ![]() Outside the banqueting hall, Macbeth considers his complex thoughts about killing Duncan. Banquo and Macbeth decide to discuss the witches’ prophecies at a later time. Then he adds in an aside that ‘chance may crown me, without my stir’. ![]() He realises that to become king, Duncan would have to die but he thinks this is a ‘horrid image’. Macbeth considers ‘this supernatural soliciting’. Ross and Angus arrive to tell Macbeth that he has been given the title Thane of Cawdor by Duncan to thank him for his valiant efforts in the battle. Macbeth demands to know how their prediction about him can be true when the Thane of Cawdor is still alive but the witches vanish. They predict that his children will be 'kings, though thou be none’. ![]() The witches hail Macbeth firstly by his title Thane of Glamis, then as Thane of Cawdor and finally as ‘king hereafter!’ Banquo says there is no need to ‘fear things that sound so fair’, and asks the witches for his future. The men encounter the witches ‘that look not like th’inhabitants o’th’earth’. They hear Macbeth and Banquo approaching and cast a spell. Another has been insulted by a sailor’s wife so they plot to cast a spell which will disrupt the sailor’s next sea journey to Aleppo. ![]() ![]() ![]() She'll have to face her fears and muster all her strength and knowledge to fight her way out of the nightmare. She and her friends go out for a day sail and get caught up in a derecho-a line of intense, widespread, and fast-moving windstorms that once again turn her boat-and life-upside down. He walked her home that night and she decided she just wanted to be. ![]() And if there's one place in the world that has weather to rival Michigan's, it's Texas. How Did Ginger Zee and Ben Aaron Meet Ginger and Ben were introduced through mutual friends at a charity event in 2012. Her concerns about her older brother Andy intensify-even though he shows up to surprise her in Texas. But Helicity comes by her name honestly-Helicity means to spin-and her troubles from home follow her south. ![]() Her responsibilities at Mia's Aunt Suze's beachfront bed and breakfast are pretty simple and leave her lots of time to enjoy hunting for sea glass, sunbathing, and exploring a summer romance. ![]() When Helicity Dunlap flies for Texas to spend time with her best friend Mia she hopes to leave the tragedies of the devastating tornado and flash flood back in Michigan-at least for a little while. When Helicity Dunlap flies to Texas to spend time with her best friend Mia, she hopes to leave the tragedies of the devastating tornado and flash flood back. ![]() ![]() He has always had that type of appeal to me, but the last few books have had him able to get out of binds with nearly superhuman strength and abilities. The characterization of Pendergast has a real modern-day Sherlock Holmes feel to it. She gets a few helpful pokes from Pendergast, but moves most of the action on her own. Much of the story takes place from the point of view of Corrie Swanson, Pendergast’s young protégée, who is working on a thesis project. White Fire is a masterfully constructed tale with all the action, tight squeezes, and plot twists that you expect from Mr. They seemed to “all over the place”, and Pendergast was painted with a comic book super hero paintbrush. ![]() FBI Special Agent Pendergast is back, and I’m glad! I was disappointed in the last couple of Pendergast books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Main article:Two seasons of the programme were produced, each comprising 24 episodes. On 15 August 2018, special effects director for the original series, announced that the reboot was on track for production in the UK, pending 'confirmation of the deal'. The first season was co-produced by and Italian broadcaster, while the second season was produced solely by ITC.In February 2012, a new series, to be called Space: 2099, was announced as a reboot of the original series, Space: 1999, and was planned to be made by in conjunction with HD Films. Space: 1999 was the last production by the partnership of and and was the most expensive series produced for British television up to that time. In the opening episode, set in the year 1999, nuclear waste stored on the explodes, knocking the Moon out of orbit and sending it, as well as the 311 inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha, hurtling uncontrollably into space. ![]() ![]() April O'Rourke is a haunting, haunted heroine. "MOTHERS AND LOVERS is an incendiary exploration of the stormy chemistry that emerges when the lives of strangers intersect. ![]() "MOTHERS AND LOVERS is expert on the way in which we know better but still find ourselves tumbling into shameful entanglements and foolish behavior, all in the name of those intensities that allow us to connect more fully to passion, and to dismantle and reassemble our lives."-Jim Shepard Flook's authority shimmers on every page as she exposes the contemporary matriarch's role and its taboo off branches-the childless career woman as imposter, and the mother, herself, as lover. This sweeping novel overturns sacred traditions and maps the scissoring boundary lines of family ties and carnal attraction. She is mesmerized by her young neighbor but his unorthodox bond with his mother has earth-shaking consequences for everyone. ![]() ![]() College professor April O'Rourke is in over her head when she moves next door to a family in trouble, including a teenage son, who has returned home from reform school. Maria Flook, author of New York Times Best Seller Invisible Eden, brings us another edgy, breezy-noir New England story. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tupman develops an affection for Wardle's unmarried sister, Rachael, while Snodgrass falls for Wardle's daughter, Emily. After accepting an invitation to Wardle's farm, the group plays cards and cricket, tells stories, and hunts. Their next adventure finds the Club in Chatham, where they encounter Mr. Jingle is a wily fellow and gets naïve Winkle involved in a duel with a volatile military man known as Dr. A man named Alfred Jingle helps them out of the predicament and joins them on their journey. On the way there, however, an irate cab driver thinks they are spies and lashes out at them in a grand tirade. It is May 1827, and the Club's first adventure takes them to Rochester. Pickwick, a friendly retired businessman and philosopher Tracy Tupman, a self-confessed womanizer who never seems to have any luck with women Augustus Snodgrass, a poet unable to write poetry and Nathaniel Winkle, a clumsy and inept athlete. The Pickwick Club has four members: founder Mr. ![]() Because of the original serial format of the novel, the chapters contain individual but interconnected episodes charting the Club's exploits. Legendary British author Charles Dickens’s debut novel, The Pickwick Papers, first published as a serial of stories between 18, chronicles the adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club, a group of travelers who journey around England and share their experiences. ![]() ![]() ![]() I read these books because when a character thinks a negative thought about her body, I wince. ![]() I read these books to remind myself why recovery matters. I avoided reading about eating disorders, which freed my mind - it was clarity I needed.īut in the past five years, I've actually returned to books about eating disorders - this time, though, they've stopped being dangerous. So, when I left the hospital, I started devouring novels. What I didn't realize, though, was that constant purging and overexercising was destroying my concentration: I could barely focus on a sentence, let alone a paragraph. (I wasn't the only person like this my therapist had an entire shelf filled with copies of Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia she'd confiscated from patients - the book had that much potential to be inimical.) Before I went to treatment, books were one more avenue by which I could learn - or be inspired to keep practicing - harmful behaviors. Ever since I left in-patient treatment for an anorexia, the way I've read about eating disorders has changed. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount where a girl’s virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men and where love is scorned as illusion. We witness her transformation as she learns the rigorous arts of the geisha: dance and music wearing kimono, elaborate makeup, and hair pouring sake to reveal just a touch of inner wrist competing with a jealous rival for men’s solicitude and the money that goes with it. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. ![]() Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. Please see Disclosures for more information. That means if you click and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission. ![]() ![]() ![]() How to create a root cellar and other storage techniquesĬoleman expands upon his own experiences with new ideas learned on a winter-vegetable pilgrimage across the ocean to the acknowledged kingdom of vegetable cuisine, the southern part of France, which lies on the 44th parallel, the same latitude as his farm in Maine.How to build cold frames, high tunnels, and mobile greenhouses.Planning and preparing your garden site.He shows how North American gardeners can successfully use that sun to raise a wide variety of traditional winter vegetables in backyard cold frames and plastic covered tunnel greenhouses without supplementary heat. ![]() Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the south of France. If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Learn season-extending techniques and eat the best food-garden fresh and chemical free-all year long, with little effort or expense. "There is hardly a more well-known or well-respected name among organic farmers than Eliot Coleman."- Civil Eats ![]() I've followed that path because Eliot made it possible, and exciting, to farm in the four seasons."-Dan Barber, chef ![]() |