Life will break your heart, and if you don't learn how to live with that, you won't have much of a life.
The future is static, a dark, inescapable thinLife will break your heart, and if you don't learn how to live with that, you won't have much of a life.
The future is static, a dark, inescapable thing.
Adam is a teenager and lives with his mum. He can see the future and it runs in his mum's side of the family. When he sees his future self getting a divorce from a woman he hasn't yet started dating and whom he likes, he freaks out and learns how to deal with the knowing.
It's different, when you know its ending.
I quite liked this story. It was a different but interesting take on psychics and people with future seeing abilities. Although I didn't really care for Adam or Nina's characters, I liked Sophia and I loved Adam's mum. I loved the relationship between mother and son the most in this. I liked the writing too.
The future might be inescapable, but I can control how I arrive there.
Even if someone beneath looked up, what is he? Wisp of cloud, shiver of a remembered nightmare, bird spreading wings for flight. A shadow among shadowEven if someone beneath looked up, what is he? Wisp of cloud, shiver of a remembered nightmare, bird spreading wings for flight. A shadow among shadows.
Vlad is a vampire and he is married to a human (who was hunting him ten years ago) and they have a son together, Paul. Vlad has been trying to fit among humans but barely. When they receive a letter from Paul's school indicating that Paul isn't doing well at school, Vlad sets up a meeting with Paul's teacher to discuss how can the situation be improved and things take a drastic turn from there.
“On what topic should we converse,” he asks. He can never end sentences with prepositions. He learned English in a proper age.
Vlad does rehearse. He has practiced thousands of times in the last decade. It took him a year to slow down so a human eye could see him shift from one posture to the next.
When he sees her, Vlad knows he should turn and leave. No good can come of this meeting. They are doomed, both of them.
He wants to be her monster. To transform her life in its ending.
When I started reading this, I thought what a baseless story just going on and on about Vlad being a centuries old vampire and how he's been training himself to move and talk and behave like a human but then he meets Paul's teacher and things get creepy and interesting and my heart was hammering like crazy. I was trying to guess what would happen. Would Vlad hunt her down or fall in love with her or would she kill him or is there something else? A wonderful, creepy, apprehensive story about day to day affairs of being a parent and a vampire as well as trying to fit in when you don't fit in. The writing was brilliant. But that ending felt a bit unsatisfactory.
They went outside, and she closed the cottage door behind her, pushing a few vines aside. Must get those cut back, she thought—dreadful cliché, a vineThey went outside, and she closed the cottage door behind her, pushing a few vines aside. Must get those cut back, she thought—dreadful cliché, a vine-covered cottage.
This story pays homage to steampunk according to the writer's notes. There was no plot or anything, just a conversation between two people at the village postal office. It was too short a story to honestly make anything of it. I did like the cover though.
Winona Li whilst driving from her second interview hits a bird accidently with her car and she takes the bird to an ornithology museum in town to see Winona Li whilst driving from her second interview hits a bird accidently with her car and she takes the bird to an ornithology museum in town to see if anything can be done. The woman working there specializes in skinning and drying and storing different species of birds.
“You’re taking death and waste—my death and waste—and making a library of birds.”
Winona asks to be taught this and work for free. Day after day she skins and dries the birds. Morning after morning she wakes up to find different foreign objects in her bed and she keeps them by the window. These foreign objects look like polished balls of smoky quartz, she'd know as she used to be a geologist but still they are enigmas.
The mystery vexed Winona, but as the days passed, she grew used to it. She could, she had learned, grow used to anything.
When she goes into town, everyone is horrible to her and after she's been let go from her non-paying job, she finds something strange in her apartment.
Something strange and beautiful had been waiting, just as she was, for the hour of departure to arrive.
A moment later—who knows how long?—a white-throated sparrow darted out into the flurrying flakes, its dark eyes shining, the compass of its heart pointing south, toward the spring.
This story had a melancholy feel to it. I felt for Winona. She belonged nowhere and to no one. She was searching for her place. I even liked the poetic writing style but I still couldn't enjoy it as much as I had wanted to. The plot wasn't that great. I know it's a short story but still I'd have liked a little bit of plot. I wanted more.
Working together can solve many different types of problems.
It is fun to work together!
Let's work together teaches kids to well work together despite Working together can solve many different types of problems.
It is fun to work together!
Let's work together teaches kids to well work together despite being different from one another and wanting different things. It has three chapters Working as a team,Playing a sport, and A team project. This book explains everything really well with text, pictures and examples. Very informative and easy to understand.
“We’re breaking down a lot of real, important history to get that damn theme park into orbit. Professor Bowles’s memorials are something to save, at l“We’re breaking down a lot of real, important history to get that damn theme park into orbit. Professor Bowles’s memorials are something to save, at least.”
A very interesting and innovative concept that I tried to like but couldn't. The story started out confusing but I started to get the gist of it as the story progressed but it was too short to actually amount to anything.
She will fail, and pay the price of that failure until the end of her days.
This short-story re-interprets Penelope's story from Greek mythology. She wShe will fail, and pay the price of that failure until the end of her days.
This short-story re-interprets Penelope's story from Greek mythology. She weaves and unweaves waiting for her husband to return or that's what's different here.
Night after night, fate after fate. She can only keep trying. Surely somewhere, in all the myriad crossings of the threads, there is a future in which all will be well.
I love mythology and Greek mythology is my top favorite. It has beautiful prose but it didn't work for me and I just couldn't get into the story until halfway through.
She wants to weep, seeing what she has woven. The threads fight her, their orderly arrangement belying their potential for chaos. Each thread is a life, and each life is a thousand thousand choices; she is not goddess enough to control them. Only a woman, a mortal woman, with a trace of the divine in her veins. And a trace is not enough.
A wonderful idea but I couldn't enjoy it as much as I had wanted to or thought I would.
This book talks about getting along with your friends. It has three chapters Learning to share, Thinking Sometimes friends do not agree on everything.
This book talks about getting along with your friends. It has three chapters Learning to share, Thinking about others and conflict with friends. Everything is explained along with examples. A great book touching on important topics and emphasizing on the importance of being friends with others even when you might not agree with them. A great read.
Working together can solve many different types of problems.
It is fun to work together!
Let's work together teaches kids to well work together despite Working together can solve many different types of problems.
It is fun to work together!
Let's work together teaches kids to well work together despite being different from one another and wanting different things. It has three chapters Working as a team,Playing a sport, and A team project. This book explains everything really well with text, pictures and examples. Very informative and easy to understand.
It was the song, and it wanted what every song wanted: to be heard.
Chad, Annabelle, Mark, Donna and Marcie are five best friends and they have been frIt was the song, and it wanted what every song wanted: to be heard.
Chad, Annabelle, Mark, Donna and Marcie are five best friends and they have been friends for a very long time. When they rent a cabin in the woods just before their graduation, strange things happen. Chad and Annabelle are a couple, so are Mark and Donna. Marcie is the only single of the group.
When Marcie opens a trap door and finds a gramophone that produces strange music as soon as the shard touches it, she gets affected and starts attacking her friends. Having no other choice, all the other friends, to stop her chop up her body. They are all relieved off the murder charges as it was done in self-defense and leave this horrifying night behind or that's what they think.
A horror story that makes sense but it doesn't make any sense at the same time. Ian Rogers's gripping writing kept me on edge the entire time. Even though I am not a big fan of horror genre, I liked this. It has violence which may be disturbing for some. I think I am going to have nightmares.
Annie is angry with her husband Crow, who is a trickster. So she decides to leave on his Harley to sixteenth-century EThis would require some thought.
Annie is angry with her husband Crow, who is a trickster. So she decides to leave on his Harley to sixteenth-century England. There she meets a young poet. Also, she finds out that there's a christening, even though she isn't invited, she crashes the christening anyway with her ladies-in-waiting. She curses the girl and then there's a war brewing and she's been taken prisoner.
Then some other things happen and she remembers her husband Crow' advise and plans her escape. That young poet helps her with her escape as well. That young poet turns out to be Shakespeare and she gifts him the kiss of life.
“Plot out your first seven moves,” he had told her. “Then forget the last five.” If things went awry, she could always extemporize.
It starts from present day world with Annie time travelling, there was some mythology woven in this with Shakespearian vibes with faery-tale and history. But I couldn't like it. It kept throwing things at me without actually explaining anything and this was all over the place. For example -Because the tale Papa Goatfoot told alarmed Annie greatly and because, technically, she was a party-crasher, she drew shadows around her entourage and slipped them inside the church unnoticed. Though all the pews were filled, enough new ones appeared to seat everyone. Such were the courtesies the universe provided those of her ilk.
I didn't know what Annie was because it was never explained but turns out she's an avatar and it was told almost at the end. By the time anything made a bit of sense, we were at the end and I couldn't care less. It also doesn't help that I hated Annie's character.
Working together can solve many different types of problems.
It is fun to work together!
Let's work together teaches kids to well work together despite Working together can solve many different types of problems.
It is fun to work together!
Let's work together teaches kids to well work together despite being different from one another and wanting different things. It has three chapters Working as a team,Playing a sport, and A team project. This book explains everything really well with text, pictures and examples. Very informative and easy to understand.
But it turned out that he kept his promise after all. I just had to learn to look for him with my heart instead of my eyes.
It is story of a grandson rBut it turned out that he kept his promise after all. I just had to learn to look for him with my heart instead of my eyes.
It is story of a grandson realizing that his grandfather is getting old and frail. He realizes that his grandfather might not always be there to teach him things and go on adventures. His grandfather teaches him things that will stay with him always. His grandfather shares a story of losing his own father. His grandfather also tells him that even when he won't be here, he will be surrounded by his love.
My love will be like the water in the lake. You might think I’m not with you, but we’ll be closer than ever because you’ll be surrounded by my love.
These days, when you pull your skin apart in the name of love, you do not even feel the pain. You weave your story. You set it free.
Absolutely nothingThese days, when you pull your skin apart in the name of love, you do not even feel the pain. You weave your story. You set it free.
Absolutely nothing changes until everything does.
An actress is engaged to her co-star whom she doesn't love as the relationship is only a pretense who is also abusive to her. Her makeup artist who is also the actress's secret lover hides all the remnants of her abuse with beautiful makeup.
Only you have held her face between two hands and seen the truth of her, brilliant and terrified and beautiful. You think, I am going to marry that woman.
The actress's makeup artist asks her to marry her multiple times but each time she is denied. She also keep applying makeup to cover up the bruises on the actress. She uses poisonous makeup (I am not sure but that's what I understood) to save the actress in any which way she can from the co-star's touch.
If you cannot show that she is yours and you are hers, then you can at least make them all realize that their touches will be rebuffed, profane and unworthy.
The makeup artist consoles the actress each step of the way but still the actress doesn't choose her.
When you kiss her, it is not a proposal, but it is a promise and a lie all the same.
A heart-aching, heart-breaking, sad, touching and beautifully written story. I loved the poetic prose. I loved the parallels of the crane's story. I loved everything about it except that I was hoping for a different ending.
Fiona moves into a new but old house after her mum dies. She particularly chose the old house as she feels that a new build would be too impersonal. SFiona moves into a new but old house after her mum dies. She particularly chose the old house as she feels that a new build would be too impersonal. She starts to experience strange things from a zombie seagull to a stray cat to ghosts of the past residents. But she isn't deterred by all this as much as she is deterred by her guilt.
You think you’re a kind person, you know? You grow up hearing people, strangers, say aren’t you a nice girl? You drop your change into collection boxes for RICE, say hello to the homeless; you hold doors open for the elderly. It’s kindness at arm’s length, but still, you tell yourself you are kind. Slowly, time and circumstance erode your conviction: you hope you are kind.
When she befriends Annika, Annika encourages her to get rid of the ghosts. With Annika, she finds companionship and eventually the ghosts leave.
Cast them out. This is your house now.
I delved into this not knowing anything about it and honestly it took me a while to really get into the story and understand its deeper meaning. It was a dark read and could be triggering for some who have lost someone close to them so tread carefully. The end was moving but as I couldn't get into the story until the very end, I couldn't enjoy it as much as I had wanted to.
But music, like the people making it, could not be controlled.
Saaba-niszak, a gifted musician along with her apprentice, Pom is travelling to SkinnereBut music, like the people making it, could not be controlled.
Saaba-niszak, a gifted musician along with her apprentice, Pom is travelling to Skinnere to play the Lay of Lilyfinger. The Lay is the traditional centrepiece of a Skinnish girl’s Staining ceremony and they were hoping to be hired. The girl’s mother, Aurig was reluctantly impressed with them although she was not happy with Pom's heritage but they get the gig.
As the story progresses, Saaba-niszak's story unfolds and it saddened my heart to learn her story. Homesickness didn’t strike her often, but when it did, it hit hard.
We are told about Pom and his heritage and how the world has been cruel to him. I loved Pom from whatever little I got to know about him. There was injustice everywhere, if one knew where to look. A price to pay for living in a messy world. The thought tired her.
It had broken her heart to lose her own language; it broke her heart that he’d never had his.
The part that moved me the most was when Saaba-niszak was in pain and she cursed in so many different languages except for her mother-tongue. It was said that pain brought one’s mother tongue forward. To her dismay, nothing came to mind.
The writing is beautiful but I struggled with keeping up with different races/species. There was some explanation but it escapes me even when I am writing this review. There was a lot of information about music which makes sense as this story is about music and a musician and her apprentice bard but still the story could have been better. I did love this artful cover and that's what lured me to read this in the first place honestly.
Over in the forest In a tree that reached toward heaven Lived a mother woodpecker And her little chicks seven.
"Rap," said the mother. "We rap," said the sOver in the forest In a tree that reached toward heaven Lived a mother woodpecker And her little chicks seven.
"Rap," said the mother. "We rap," said the seven. So they rapped - tat-tat-tat! On a tree that reached toward heaven.
An adorable read about the forest animals with cute rhyming, wonderful illustrations, bonus counting and another added bonus of facts and information at the back.
More than our own feelings matter. The world is filled with people. We need to be mindful of them.
Empathy is a very important yet overlooked emotion/skiMore than our own feelings matter. The world is filled with people. We need to be mindful of them.
Empathy is a very important yet overlooked emotion/skill I believe. A book about teaching empathy to young kids is a great idea but unfortunately this isn't catchy enough for kids to read and learn from because it doesn't rhyme. It feels too heavy somehow but I liked the photos.
More than our own feelings matter. The world is filled with people. We need to be mindful of them.
Empathy is a very important yet overlooked emotion/skiMore than our own feelings matter. The world is filled with people. We need to be mindful of them.
Empathy is a very important yet overlooked emotion/skill I believe. A book about teaching empathy to young kids is a great idea but unfortunately this isn't catchy enough for kids to read and learn from because it doesn't rhyme. It feels too heavy somehow but I liked the photos.
A book that tells us that it is okay to cry. Crying or wanting to cry is nothing to be ashamed of, it doeWe are not our feelings. Feelings come and go.
A book that tells us that it is okay to cry. Crying or wanting to cry is nothing to be ashamed of, it doesn't mean that you are weak. It just means that whatever you are feeling is okay and it will pass just like after rain, the earth feels like it took a big deep breath and feels rejuvenated. It tells us that our feelings are validated. Lovely pictures, good rhyming and a beautiful and a very important message.
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