![]() ![]() She’s going to learn how to make Slappy move and talk. The original book is a bit different however and Slappy himself isn’t even the main player… The Blurb Lindy can’t get over finding a ventriloquist’s dummy in her neighbourhood skip. There would be two more Night of the Living Dummy entries in the original Goosebumps run, two more in the Series 2000 follow-up and a TV appearance in the live-action show so the popularity of Slappy is evident. ![]() The idea of a creepy ventriloquist’s dummy gaining sentience is something you can do a lot with and I’m sure many kids who come into contact with a vacant-eyed dummy in real life would be unnerved. Night of the Living Dummy is one of the more iconic and memorable books in the Goosebumps series. Well, when taking them all out for a quick photograph for that post, I decided it might be fun to re-visit them all with adult eyes. In a previous post entitled “ My Reading Journey“, I mentioned my complete set of the original Goosebumps books by R.L. ![]()
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![]() ![]() An unsettling and moving account of a family - and a nation - at war with their own selves' Tan Twan Eng 'Unflinchingly insightful, Shyam Selvadurai's new novel evokes the clashing manifestations of human desire and longing in two continents. 'The Hungry Ghosts is an exquisite tale of differences and how they can tear apart both a country and the heart - not just once, but many times, until the ghosts are freed. Publication date 2013 Topics Andrae, A, Englisch. The hungry ghosts by Selvadurai, Shyam, 1965- author. As the years pass, and Shivan's sexuality gradually comes to light, events spiral out of control and threaten to separate him from his family once and for all. The hungry ghosts Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Yet ghosts will follow you across continents. Unwilling to carry the burden of her expectations, Shivan dreams of escape to the West. Shivan stands helpless as she sidelines his mother and sister and evicts vulnerable families from their homes. This a haunting and captivating story of longing, family ties and forgiveness from award winning author Shyam Selvadurai. While civil unrest brews outside, Shivan is fighting small battles of his own: the matriarch of his mysterious family wants to groom him as the heir to her vast and corrupt empire. The Hungry Ghosts is an exquisite tale of differences and how they can tear apart both a country and the heart - not just once, but many times, until the ghosts are freed. ![]() Six year-old Shivan is boarded up in his grandmother's mansion in Sri Lanka. In Buddhist myth, those that have desired too much in life may be reborn as "hungry ghosts"- spirits with a stomach so large they can never be full. ![]() ![]() ![]() This could include rock climbing or riding white water (for STARS), spending time in a wheelchair (Rebound), playing and walking with tigers (Tiger By The Tail), hanging around a tough biker bar (Diamonds in the Rough), standing out in his backyard in a blizzard wearing a T-shirt and shorts (Trapped In Ice), or traveling to Africa (Alexandria of Africa). This could involve reading books, watching a documentary, or trying to experience the things that his characters are going to go through. When he has a story idea he starts with research. He enjoys the enthusiasm of his students and often looks at them to provide him with the inspiration to pursue a particular topic in both the classroom and in his writing.Įric tries to write every day. He always read stories - picture books and novels - to his students and this helped him to understand what children liked, responded to, and were inspired by. He taught in classes from kindergarten up and his stories often reflect the curriculum that he was teaching. He draws from these experiences and feels that this helps him to capture the realistic interaction between young people - the conflicts, tensions, stresses and interests that make up their lives.Įric began his writing as a teacher. ![]() ![]() But, as Eric says, "Just because I have to grow old doesn't mean that I have to grow up!" In his many roles as parent, teacher, social worker, youth sports coach and writer he is in constant contact with children and young adults. ![]() Eric was born in Toronto in 1957, which makes him "real old". ![]() ![]() ![]() Gladwell describes the "three rules of epidemics" (or the three "agents of change") in the tipping points of epidemics. ![]() As Gladwell states: "Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread like viruses do." The examples of such changes in his book include the rise in popularity and sales of Hush Puppies shoes in the mid-1990s and the steep drop in New York City's crime rate after 1990. Gladwell defines a tipping point as "the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point." The book seeks to explain and describe the "mysterious" sociological changes that mark everyday life. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference is the debut book by Malcolm Gladwell, first published by Little, Brown in 2000. ![]() ![]() These novels are the basis for the Rogue Mage World Book and Role Playing Game, which contains lots of fiction for the readers! Croix, a stone mage in a post-apocalyptic, alternate reality, urban fantasy world. Her Rogue Mage novels, a dark, urban fantasy series, feature Thorn St. The series is set in an alternate reality, modern-day world, one inhabited by humans, vamps, and other things that go bump in the night. ![]() Jane Yellowrock is a Cherokee skinwalker who tracks, hunts, and kills rogue-vampires for a living - that is, until she takes a gig working for Leo Pellissier, the Master of the City of New Orleans. The dark urban fantasy Skinwalker series, featuring Jane Yellowrock, is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling series with multiple books and compilations. She and her husband love to RV, traveling with their dogs to whitewater rivers all over the Southeast. Now, she writes full-time (about 60 hours a week) tries to keep house, and is a workaholic with a passion for travel, jewelry making, white-water kayaking, and writing. She decided to become a writer in high school, when a teacher told her she had talent. ![]() Hunter fell in love with reading in fifth grade, and best loved SciFi, fantasy, and gothic mystery. ![]() Faith Hunter, urban fantasy writer, was born in Louisiana and raised all over the south. ![]() ![]() Out of nowhere, the Blue Queen’s Patrols made haste to kill the boy and the warrior before they could safely reach the deep forest of Arthen. Malleable grey clouds, sidewinding wind, and intelligent lightning bolts made the trip across the vast Girdle nearly impossible. Swayed by promises of the dark magician, she has claimed the throne forever and is extending her influence to the far corners of the world. No longer does she need to leave the throne to renew her eternal nature. ![]() The Blue Queen, upon resuming the throne while King Kirith Kirin‘s eternality is renewed in the Arthen forest, has partnered with a magician of the dark arts. ![]() For in Kirith Kirin‘s world magic is real, immortals walk the land, and people are sometimes the playthings for the dark arts. Jim Grimsley has created a fantasy that could have come right from our world where power and greed can tempt, and sometimes conquer, even the most rightist person and where knowing who your friends and enemies are can be very difficult if not impossible. ![]() Kirith Kirin is like no other fantasy that you have ever read. ![]() ![]() The other characters, like Aiden and Indira and Naina, are also wonderful, though Mukesh and Aleisha are undeniably the stars. You really feel for these characters, and cheer when they make positive connections. Mukesh’s loneliness and his attempts to get out of his comfort zone, and Aleisha’s struggles to cope with her mother’s mental illness and the growing distance between her and her brother are sympathetic. ![]() They are so different, and yet find meaning in the same books-and isn’t that what reading is all about? Watching their friendship blossom was really sweet, especially as they are both struggling with difficult situations at home. This is such a touching book! I really like both the main characters. When Mukesh and Aleisha meet, she uses the list to recommend a book to him, and as the two of them work through the list, they not only grow closer as friends, but also find that literature can build bridges and heal wounds in ways they didn’t realize. ![]() One shift, she finds an anonymous reading list and becomes intrigued. ![]() Meanwhile, teenage Aleisha works at the library in Wembley for the summer, partially to escape her deteriorating home life. So one day, he goes to the local library his wife used to love. His life in Wembley is rather solitary, but he wants to bond with his ten-year-old granddaughter, who loves to read. In The Reading List, Mukesh has been mourning his wife for two years. ![]() ![]() Sustainability transitions tend to be seen as technical, not social, affairs. ![]() How should we live in a climate-changed world? What role does racial and social subordination play in destroying the environment? What are the dangers of hubris in seeking out a fundamental change through science and technology that cannot be readily controlled after all? How should we think about Earth itself? I conclude with some thoughts on how Earth could be made ‘unbroken’ again through integrating recognition, humility, renewal, and redistribution into transitions. ![]() She interrogates four themes relevant to transitions. Jemisin explores Earth through the lens of racial and ecological injustice. By contrast, some recent ecological science fiction writing has begun to place these issues at the center of transitions. Nor do they query whether they are exaggerating the reach of scientific and technological solutions. They seldom recognize rights for racially marginalized people, or the possible existence of rights of Earth. Mainstream scholars and practitioners do not very often acknowledge environmental and social justice in their transitions work. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One wonders if he thought this journey quixotic in nature. ![]() So he bought a 3/4 ton truck on which a custom camper top was installed with bed, stove, lights, and facilities and dubbed his vehicle “Rocinante,” after Don Quixote’s mount. And he wanted to see the America that had been the backdrop of his stories one more time, ![]() His son, Thom, said Steinbeck knew he had the heart condition from which he would die in 1968. ![]() Mass media was expanding its impact on the culture. The South was in deep conflict over desegregation. Highways from town to town were being replaced by high speed Interstate highways. Richard Nixon and John Kennedy were in a race for president. Summary: John Steinbeck’s memoir of his 1960 roadtrip in his truck/camper Rocinante with his French poodle Charley. New York: Penguin Classics, 2012 (originally published in 1962). Travels with Charley: In Search of America, John Steinbeck. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was big on BookTube (the YouTube book community) and big on “Bookstagram” well before TikTok came along. She sometimes presents herself as surprised by her own virality, but Hoover has been a savvy self-promoter since 2012, when she distributed free copies of her first, self-published YA novel, Slammed, to influential book bloggers. But while Hoover might just be the ideal author to preside over TikTok, the platform is only the latest online vehicle she had ridden to fame and fortune. ![]() And Hoover-known as CoHo to her fans, who call themselves Cohorts-is indeed the queen of BookTok, an adept TikToker herself, as well as the subject of countless videos in which young women appear clutching huge stacks of candy-colored CoHo paperbacks and proceed to rank their favorites among her 24 titles. Observers typically attribute Hoover’s success to BookTok, the segment of TikTok dedicated to authors and readers. ![]() |