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Shadow and Bone Author: Leigh Bardugo // Published: June 5, 2012 ★★★ Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee. Alina Starkov […]
via Book Review | Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1) by Leigh Bardugo — The Perks of Being Noura
Written in February 1815 when he was just nineteen years old, ‘To Hope’ is one of John Keats’s early poems. Although it is not as celebrated or as polished as his more mature work, the poem is worth sharing, so below we reproduce the text of the poem, and offer […] The post A Short…
via A Short Analysis of John Keats’s ‘To Hope’ — Interesting Literature
Jenna Moreci is one of my favorite YouTubers. She provides practical writing advice, criticism, and insight.
Friends of the graveyard and longtime listeners of the podcast will be familiar with our deep love of Michael Madsen. He’s a genre actor, a jovial mess, a poet, and one heck of a bangable babe, and in 2017 he was even the winner of our highly prestigious Whole Hog – Hogfather of the year […]
via Michael Madsen’s Quarantine Reservoir Dogs (Video) — DRUNK IN A GRAVEYARD
If you are hunting a great psychological thriller, Verity is the book for you. I kept seeing it all over the bookish internet so I finally read it. It is completely worth the hype! When bestselling author Verity Crawford is injured in a tragic car accident her publisher hires struggling writer, Lowen Ashleigh, to finish […]
via Verity by Colleen Hoover Review — Reading in the Wildwood
Redemittel für den Beschwerdebrief Beschwerdebrief b2 Redemittel 1. Einleitung: Ich schreibe Ihnen wegen folgenden Problems: Ich möchte Sie auf folgendes Problem/ folgenden Missstand aufmerksam machen: Als ich Ihre Anzeige las, war ich sofort begeistert, deshalb habe ich mich angemeldet. Bezüglich unseres Telefonats vom… Vor zwei Wochen habe ich bei Ihnen… bestellt. Wir sind seit langer…
via Redemittel Für Den Beschwerdebrief — Deutsch Lernen Online
I love this quick videos from #TheSchoolofLife on YouTube. I hope to post more of these in the future. Albeit superficial, they are entertaining and very useful for gaining quick information on a writer or topic that you are not familiar with. So, if you hear of someone in passing and you know absolutely nothing about him, you can quickly look them up and get a rough idea of their lives and works.
every step we take ~ an unforgettable waltz ~ into the starlight —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Originally posted on Eugi’s Causerie: the fear of living days blur into nights reasons, I must validate home warm with comfort Reena’s Exploration Challenge?#132 Your Daily Word Prompt – Validate – April 24. 2020 -Eugenia featured image – lovethispic.com
Originally posted on Tao Talk: The first tale I thought of for Reena’s prompt today comes from a book I read so many years ago, “Dune,” by Frank Herbert. Youtube is a marvelous treasure-trove on any topic, so I went looking to see if I could find where someone recited the passage that has stuck…
via Reena’s Exploration Challenge #132 — Fear is the mind-killer — Reena Saxena
Rendezvous With Rama describes the exploration of a vast alien space ship. This vessel takes the form of a spinning cylinder, fifty kilometres long by twenty kilometres wide. Centrifugal forces anchor a miniature world of cities, fields and seas against its inner surface. With Rama apparently abandoned, this is a detective story where the explorers […]
via Rendezvous With Rama – Journey To A High Concept — Writing And So On
News story by Eddie on 19/02/2020 The Alliance Française French Film Festival is back! 2020 welcomes both a new decade and the sparkling 31st edition of the Alliance Française French Film Festival. This beloved event will once again unveil a thrilling selection of contemporary French cinema, guaranteed to captivate and stimulate audiences around the country. […]
via Alliance Française French Film Festival 2020 — Jordan and Eddie (The Movie Guys)
The Assistant, Kitty Green’s first fictionalized film, is a master class in subtlety and illustrates just how powerless young women are when faced with powerful,…
This week’s lineup of new releases has a little something for the thrill seekers and the readers who are just looking to get into their feels a bit. There’s some established voices doing what they do best and some shining debut talent that’s sure to grip. Read about them more below! The Dark Corners of […]
From the top down: I came across a battered and beautiful copy of Mervyn Peake’s novel Gormenghast by chance a few weeks ago and asked Twitter if the trilogy was any good. The answer was a very enthusiastic, even cultish Yes. I still can’t believe I’d never even heard of Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy until recently—I grew up […]
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