6/30/2023 0 Comments The owl service book![]() ![]() Preferably get it from a library not a bookshop, as you probably won't read it again. ![]() Not one of the best reads ever, but take a look anyway. It is supposed to make a picture of an owl if the pattern is drawn correctly, but however much I tried I could not make one (if you are going to illustrate a book like this do it right). I also have a problem with the illustration on page three which depicts one of the plates from the dinner service. ![]() I do not think this book deserves to be ranked up there with the Phantom Tollbooth, Thomasina and Charmed Life (other books in the "modern classics" range). The book was like a line of gunpowder: exciting and bright throughout but often sizzles out at the end. The publishers have named this book a "modern classic" and the snippets of reviews themselves claim the book "builds up tension and comes to wild release in the last few pages". My favourite of these events was during the storm when the plaster on the walls of the house starts to crack and reveals the portrait of a beautiful woman surrounded by flowers made of birds claws one of the most creepy parts of the book. A 50th Anniversary Edition featuring a new introduction by Philip Pullman, THE OWL SERVICE is an all-time classic, combining mystery, adventure, history and a complex set of human. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Fahrenheit 451 audible![]() ![]() He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. ![]() His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments The Lessons by Naomi Alderman![]() ![]() ![]() Historian and amateur novelist Neil Adam Armon has completed a fictional account of the world in the last ten years of the old age some five-thousand years earlier before the emergence of women as the dominant gender. ![]() The study guide cites the 2016 Little Brown paperback edition. The novel won the U.K.’s prestigious Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, awarded annually to the most outstanding English-language novel about women by a woman. Tapping into the international craze generated by the Hulu series based on Atwood’s work, Alderman’s novel became an international best seller and was optioned as a series on Amazon Prime. He is negotiating to find a publisher for the novel. A historian five-thousand years in the future has written a historical novel about the ten years leading up to an unspecified global catastrophe that hurled humanity back to the “Stone Age” and from which emerged the new world of empowered women. ![]() |