5/31/2023 0 Comments The case of the deepdean vampire![]() ![]() Not that there was ever any danger that she was not, but all the same, I did spend the first part of this autumn term wondering. She is also my best friend, which I am glad about. I am the president of our Detective Society, and Hazel Wong is my vice-president and secretary. ![]() We are currently fourth formers at Deepdean School for Girls. ![]() However, I must admit that international fame has not quite happened to us yet. Now, I am sure that one day the name Daisy Wells will be recognized as the greatest consulting detective the world has ever known (the second greatest will be Hazel, of course). I am the Honourable Daisy Wells, and I can do anything. After all, I am not only an excellent detective but a truly first-class writer. However, I remembered how good I was at writing down the Case of the Blue Violet, and I realized that I could do it perfectly well myself. I asked Hazel to do it, but she is still busy writing up her notes for the Case of the Murder of Elizabeth Hurst (that was a murder, and a very exciting one). It was not a murder, which was a pity – but I did solve it very cleverly, as usual, and I am convinced that it ought to be written down properly, so that other people can read it one day and be impressed. Of all the cases that Hazel and I have investigated so far, the Case of the Deepdean Vampire was one of the strangest and most interesting. ![]()
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5/31/2023 0 Comments Mad at mama![]() JEN LOJA: In Anna's core, she really believed that if more children were read to, the world would literally be a better place and that what a picture book does is it teaches empathy. ![]() Here's Jen Loja, president of Penguin Young Readers Group. Her publisher says Dewdney always saw picture books as a powerful medium. The books went on to be best-sellers - millions of copies sold, millions of comforted kids and parents.Īnna Dewdney died over the weekend at her home in Vermont after a battle with brain cancer. SHAPIRO: That's Anna Dewdney reading from her 2005 book "Llama Llama Red Pajama." It was the first in a series about a little llama experiencing the highs and lows of toddlerdom, like feeling alone at bedtime. She had that in mind as she wrote and illustrated her books.ĪNNA DEWDNEY: (Reading) Llama llama red pajama reads a story with his mama. ![]() ![]() Anna Dewdney wanted children to feel cared for and confident. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Bleak house book![]() He tries his hand at a career or two, but he becomes obsessed with hastening the probate of the willed fortune he feels must soon be theirs. Richard is sure his fortune is ‘just around the corner’ when the case of Jarndyce-v-Jarndyce, of which he and Ada will be beneficiaries, is settled. The story of their lives and fortunes is the main thrust of the novel, and is related at times through the eyes of Esther, whose gentle point of view gives the reader a different and more intimate perspective. In Dickens’ time, some cases could take years to be settled, changing the lives of those involved.Įsther Summerson, a young woman raised in a tough and unloving atmosphere, is unexpectedly requested to be a companion to two teenage orphans, Richard Carstone and Ada Clare, for whom the court has appointed as guardian, John Jarndyce. ![]() ![]() The Chancery Court had jurisdiction over all matters of equity, including administration of estates, the guardianship of orphans, and disputed property disbursement. LibriVox recording of Bleak House, by Charles Dickens. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments If it makes you happy claire kann![]() This book tells the story of a girl who dreams about inheriting her family’s diner, only the diner is running out of money to stay open. Review: If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann ❀ Uplifting Book This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. ❃ I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. But Granny doesn't want her to enter-so Winnie has to find a way around her formidable grandmother. Winnie has a solution-win a televised cooking competition and make bank. Winnie dreams of someday inheriting the diner-but it'll go away if they can't make money, and fast. Because they care that’s she’s “too fat.” Skinner, which results in everyone feeling compelled to give her weight loss advice for her own good. ![]() Winnie lives in Misty Haven, a small town where secrets are impossible to keep-like when Winnie allegedly snaps on Dr. ![]() But first she's spending her summer days working at her granny’s diner and begins spending her midnights with Dallas-the boy she loves to hate and hates that she likes. ![]() High school finally behind her, Winnie is all set to attend college in the fall. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Quichotte by salman rushdie![]() ![]() "Catton is not just a master at spinning a web of competing philosophies, " says. Eco-activism meets staggering affluence when the young members of an environmental rights group end up being entangled with a billionaire drone manufacturer. (RL)Įleanor Catton won the Booker Prize in 2013 for her novel The Luminaries, and the New Zealand author's latest offering, witty thriller Birnam Wood, has also been highly acclaimed. In this novel, Rushdie has created "an alternative Mahabharata", writes The Guardian, "an elaborate founding myth from the bare bones of history". Kampana's fortune, over centuries, becomes interwoven with that of the great empire of Bisnaga, the "victory city" of the title. Its heroine is a grief-stricken nine-year-old girl, Pampa Kampana, who is instructed by a goddess to create equality for women in a patriarchal world. The 15th novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses and Quichotte, Victory City, described by The New Yorker as "immensely enjoyable", is an era-spanning epic that begins in 14th-Century southern India. ![]() |