![]() But there were also many times when I laughed out loud, something I rarely do. There were many times where my tears were blurring my vision and I couldn't read further until I wiped my eyes sloppily. The book isn't short, but I read it on one Sunday. So when I read those first six pages and discovered how the story would unfold, I didn't think I could do it. As a doggy mom, I am more sensitive and I can't bear to think about certain things, whether peaceful or otherwise. ![]() I didn't buy the book then because, as an animal lover, I am especially sensitive to certain subjects. Although obviously written by a person (or my dog has some explaining to do as I was under the impression that dogs do not have opposable thumbs and can't write), it would be so interesting and heartwarming to read through a dog's perspective. Adorable and unique I have always wanted to know what it's like in the mind of a dog. ![]() I was pleasantly surprised to read the cover to find out it is written entirely from the perspective of a dog. I was meandering around Borders one Saturday when I saw a dog's head on the cover of a book, and since I am magnetized to animals (especially dogs), I had to pick it up and leaf through it. ![]()
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In 1989, she raised the bar for pet food makers by manufacturing the first line of natural pet foods made in a USDA facility. ![]() Andi Brown, the author of The Whole Pet Diet is known internationally as the Pioneer of the Holistic Pet Care Industry. ![]() ![]() It takes a while for the story to get going, but once it does it never lets up. The story itself is intriguing and exciting, all high fantasy and queer YA in a non-Western setting. ![]() With a start like this I can’t wait to see where the rest of the series will go. Julia Ember’s The Tiger’s Watch is the first novella in the Ashes of Gold series. But an inhabitor’s bond to their animal is for life-if Katala dies, so will Tashi. Katala slaughters Xian’s soldiers, leading the enemy to hunt her. ![]() ![]() Though Tashi grapples with their decision, their volatile bonded tiger doesn’t question her allegiances. When their spying unveils that everything they’ve been taught is a lie, Tashi faces an impossible choice: save their country or the boy they’re growing to love. In front of his men, Xian seems dangerous, even sadistic, but Tashi discovers a more vulnerable side of the enemy commander-a side that draws them to Xian. But the invading army turns the monastery into a hospital, and Tashi catches the eye of Xian, the regiment’s fearless young commander. When the capital falls after a brutal siege, Tashi flees to a remote monastery to hide. “ Sixteen-year-old Tashi has spent their life training as a inhabitor, a soldier who spies and kills using a bonded animal. ![]() ![]() ![]() He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are intertwined - and that their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself. But Elias wants only to be free of the tyranny he's being trained to enforce. ![]() There, she meets Elias, the academy's finest soldier. An Ember in the Ashes When Laias grandparents are brutally murdered and her brother arrested for treason by the empire, the only people she has left to. Should she fail it's more than her brother's freedom at risk. Helene Aquilla, the Blood Shrike, is desperate to protect her sisters life and the lives of everyone in the Empire. Beyond the Martial Empire and within it, the threat of war looms ever larger. When Laia's grandparents are brutally murdered and her brother arrested for treason by the empire, the only people she has left to turn to are the rebels.īut in exchange for their help in saving her brother, they demand that Laia spy on the ruthless Commandant of Blackcliff, the Empire's greatest military academy. The highly anticipated third book in 1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahirs EMBER QUARTET. ![]() Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Set to be a major motion picture, An Ember in the Ashes is the book everyone is talking about. Read the explosive New York Times bestselling debut that's captivated readers worldwide. ![]() 'Keeps one reading long after the lights should have been out' - Robin Hobb ![]() ![]() Harge, Carol’s ex-husband, is suspicious of Therese, and Richard accuses Therese of having a ‘schoolgirl crush’ – ‘You don’t understand.’ But he did, and that was why he was angry. On impulse, Therese sends Carol a Christmas card. Carol is going through a divorce and is also lonely, and the two begin a friendship that quickly turns to love. ![]() ![]() She takes a job in a department store during the Christmas rush where she meets Carol Aird, a customer buying a doll for her daughter. Therese is struggling to break into a career in set design and is dating Richard, a man she has no deep feelings for. It’s the story of Therese Belivet, a lonely young woman beginning her life in Manhattan. Perhaps Carol was an odd place to start because it is not representative of Highsmith’s main body of work (psychological thrillers). In the past, I’ve dismissed her work as ‘not my thing’ (on account of me being coverist* – you know those crime novels with darkly coloured covers and the author’s name in blocky gold-foil font, often found lying about at beach houses? That.) Anyway, I changed my mind a few years ago when I saw the fantastic play, Switzerland – Highsmith is the subject and the play included bizarre biographical details (things like carrying snails around in handbags). I was intrigued. Believe it or not, Carol is my first Patricia Highsmith. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Together Riley and Chevie must evade Garrick, who has been fundamentally altered by his trip through the wormhole. In modern London, Riley is helped by Chevron Savano, a nineteen-year-old FBI agent sent to London as punishment after a disastrous undercover, anti-terrorist operation in Los Angeles. Riley is saved from having to commit the grisly act when the intended victim turns out to be a scientist from the future, part of the FBI's Witness Anonymous Relocation Program (WARP) Riley is unwittingly transported via wormhole to modern day London, followed closely by Garrick. On one such escapade, Garrick brings his reluctant apprentice along and urges him to commit his first killing. Riley, a teen orphan boy living in Victorian London, has had the misfortune of being apprenticed to Albert Garrick, an illusionist who has fallen on difficult times and now uses his unique conjuring skills to gain access to victims' dwellings. ![]() ![]() ![]() This rare condition is called Locked-in Syndrome, a condition wherein the mental faculties are intact but the entire body is paralyzed. When he woke up twenty days later, he found he was entirely speechless he could only blink his left eyelid. On Decemat the age of 43, Bauby suffered a massive stroke. Bauby had to compose and edit the book entirely in his head, and conv Jean-Dominique Bauby was a well-known French journalist and author and editor of the French fashion magazine, ELLE. Despite his condition, he wrote the book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by blinking when the correct letter was reached by a person slowly reciting the alphabet over and over again. Bauby also lost 60 pounds in the first 20 weeks after his stroke. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jean-Dominique Bauby was a well-known French journalist and author and editor of the French fashion magazine, ELLE. ![]() ![]() Thacker's major philosophical work is After Life. ![]() In the first volume, In The Dust Of This Planet, Thacker calls the horror of philosophy "the isolation of those moments in which philosophy reveals its own limitations and constraints, moments in which thinking enigmatically confronts the horizon of its own possibility." Thacker distinguishes the "world-for-us" (the human-centric view of the world), and the "world-in-itself" (the world as it exists in essence), from what he calls the "world-without-us": "the world-without-us lies somewhere in between, in a nebulous zone that is at once impersonal and horrific." ![]() In it, Thacker explores the idea of the "unthinkable world" as represented in the horror fiction genre, in philosophies of pessimism and nihilism, and in the apophatic ("darkness") mysticism traditions. Thacker's most widely read book is In The Dust Of This Planet, part of his Horror of Philosophy trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Imagine how much you've got compared to all the kids in the world getting blown up or starved, and the good you could do if you spent half a second thinking about it. But you don't do anything or tell anyone. And you act like you're disgusted, because you don't like meanness. Imagine you're evil and you don't do any of those things, but you're like Julie Jenkins and you laugh and you laugh at everything Brandon does, and you even help when a teacher comes and asks what's going on and you say nothing's going on, and he believes you because you get A-pluses in English. Or you just call him things like cockroach and sand monkey. Or you spit in his food in the cafeteria. Imagine you're like Brandon Goff and you find poor kids in the halls and make fun of their clothes, and you flick their ears until they scream in pain and swing their arms, and so you pin them down and break their fingers. Imagine your mind is a selfish room full of pride or pity. Imagine you've got a heart that spends all day wanting more. ![]() ![]() ![]() This humbles them to the point that the narrator becomes fearful that one day “they may discover us they may not like what they find, for to them we should be no more than maggots” (103). They are forced to reckon with the possibility that this creature is “a godlike being” (102). Again, the human characters are shocked to discover that their assumptions-that life could not exist on the Sun-are incorrect. The nine billion names of God the best short stories of Arthur C. “Out of the Sun” brings a group of astronauts into contact with a God-like creature born directly of the sun. These intelligent beings that are only interested in human contact once they have achieved space travel. Their discovery of the object referred to as the sentinel proves them wrong and shows them that there is a source of intelligent life in the Universe that has been waiting for the human race to evolve. Clarke’s short story addresses the conflict between technology or science and religion. The astronauts stationed on the moon are all certain that no intelligent life-form has ever set foot on the moon prior to themselves. The Nine Billion Names of God published in 1953 demonstrates just this, in which the story’s main characters are caught between their logic and that of another group. ![]() |