![]() ![]() ![]() However, he has an obnoxiously large nose, which causes him to doubt himself. In addition to being a remarkable duelist, he is a gifted, joyful poet and is also a musical artist. ![]() Hercule Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, a cadet (nobleman serving as a soldier) in the French Army, is a brash, strong-willed man of many talents. The most famous English translations are those by Brian Hooker, Anthony Burgess, and Louis Untermeyer. The character of Cyrano himself makes reference to "my panache" in the play. The play has been translated and performed many times, and it is responsible for introducing the word panache into the English language. It is also meticulously researched, down to the names of the members of the Académie française and the dames précieuses glimpsed before the performance in the first scene. ![]() The entire play is written in verse, in rhyming couplets of twelve syllables per line, very close to the classical alexandrine form, but the verses sometimes lack a caesura. The play is a fictionalisation following the broad outlines of Cyrano de Bergerac's life. Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() They are written in a style that is reminiscent of Tolkien, with virtuous heroes, clumsy villains, poems and songs. The Long Patrol: A Coming of Age for a Young Hare If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be? They are all good, and this one was as well. This is about the 7th Brian Jacque's performance I have listened to. Have you listened to any of Brian Jacques’s other performances before? How does this one compare? It was later than Redwall in Redwall's timeline, but it had some aspects that went back to the Mossflower story, which was fun because it recalled that book for me. It had adventure, celebrations, and the bad guys were really bad but buffoonish. It was a story of coming of age for the main character. It was one of the better books I have listened to recently.įor long-time Redwall fans, this story involved characters from all areas of Mossflower: Hares, otters, shrews, Badgers, and Redwallers. It has a cast reading the various speaking roles as well as being narrated by the author. The Long Patrol was a fun story to listen to. Where does The Long Patrol rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far? Brian Jacques stories of Redwall have sparked the imaginations of innumerable readers and won the New York Times best-selling author countless fans. Another Fun Episode in the Redwall Series ![]() ![]() ![]() But the team's unlikely guide, a bestselling author, can't offer them much insight - and their other option, the Rat King, speaks only in riddles. ![]() As they try to get to grips with their abilities and a case that's spiralling out of control, Quill realizes that they have to understand more about this shadowy London, a world of underground meetings, bizarre and fantastical auctions, and objects that are 'get out of hell free' cards. Even with their abilities to see the supernatural, accepting that Jack the Ripper is back from the dead is a tough ask for Quill's team. The bodies of rich, white men are found in circumstances similar to those that set the streets of London awash with fear during the late 1800s: the Whitechapel murders. Still coming to terms with their new-found second sight, they soon discover that what is invisible to others - the killer - is visible to them. The vicious murder of a well-known MP is like a match to tinder but Detective Inspector James Quill and his team know that it's not a run-of-the-mill homicide. ![]() ![]() ![]() This time, I moved Beka Cooper: Terrier to the top of the list because I've heard so many good things about Bloodhound, the sequel to Terrier.Īt first, I really wasn't that impressed. I'd been meaning to read this book (or any of Pierce's books) for a really long time, but always seem to have something else at the top of my to read list. Beka, the ancestor of George Cooper from the "Song of the Lioness" series (S & S), tells her story through journal entries, making for a thoroughly engaging read." With Terrier, Pierce tries out a new style of storytelling and succeeds admirably. Paired with two of the best Guards, or "Dogs," in the organization and aided by her own gifts of magic, Beka learns her job, makes friends with two mages and a thief, and uncovers two serial killers who prey on the poor and unnoticed. Having spent the first half of her life in Tortall's slums, she is driven by the need to do what is right and see justice done. ![]() Plot: from : "Orphaned Beka Cooper, 16, is a trainee-a "Puppy"-in the Provost's Guard. Main themes: law enforcement (Dogs), murder, magic, friendship, some romance Type of book: Fiction with some supernatural/magic Title: Beka Cooper: Terrier (A Tortall Legend) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Needless to say, Cas and Anna are my new favorite twosome. ‘It’s the old boy-meets-girl story, if the boy is a wry, self-destructive ghost-hunter bent on avenging his father and the girl is a homicidal ghost trapped in a house full of everyone she’s ever murdered. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mortal Instruments series Spellbinding and romantic.’ Cassandra Clare, No. ‘ Anna Dressed in Blood is a dark and intricate tale, with a hero who kills the dead but is half in love with death himself. He must rescue Anna from the depths of Hell.īut Hell is also home to a creature Cas has battled before … Racked with guilt, Cas sets out to do what he does best – hunt a ghost. The girl who sacrificed herself to save his life. Just you average boy-meets-girl, girl gets sucked into Hell story … This is Kendare Blake’s follow-up to the thrillingly creepy romance that was Anna Dressed in Blood.Ĭas Lowood is no ordinary ghost hunter – he’s in love with a dead girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The magic system is thoroughly thought out and well detailed. There are some intense fight scenes, some dialogue-heavy moments as well as a brilliant ‘dream/vision’ sequence with Kayden, where she experiences a kind of enlightenment. Fay’s interest in Kayden is suspicious at first, but becomes clear as they reach their destination. ![]() And see how those around her are determined to redirect her course for the better.įay Annis’ character is also curious. But we also learn what motivates Kayden, and understand her actions better. She’ll stop at nothing to get what she wants. What unfolds is a story about why Kayden’s capable of magic that many of her age are not, and how she’s manipulated various people to be able to learn magic taught to higher apprentices. ![]() So, when Fay takes Kayden on a one-of-a-kind journey – just the two of them – Kayden is on her guard, waiting for the moment Fay might turn on her. She’s also convinced that one of her masters, Fay Annis, is out to get her. She breaks the rules, uses magic that’s way above her grade level and strikes out on her on, much to the surprise of her peers and her superiors.īack on campus and Kayden’s fellow apprentices don’t much like her, but that’s fine because she doesn’t care, she’s too focussed on completing her apprenticeship in record time. ![]() ![]() ![]() front flap code number 7553 red spine and gray boards gilt lettering extremely brilliant. ![]() DJ has multiple tears and general wear but fully intact. COPYRIGHT PAGE 1949 C-A LATER PRINTING very good cover and spine. In fact, Graham had such an overwhelming influence on his students that two of them, Buffett and Kahn, named their sons, Howard Graham Buffett and Thomas Graham Kahn, after him. Buffett, who credits Graham as grounding him with a sound intellectual investment framework, described him as the second most influential person in his life after his own father. Well known disciples of Graham include Jean-Marie Eveillard, Warren Buffett, William J. ![]() Graham is considered the first proponent of Value Investing, an investment approach he began teaching at Columbia Business School in 1928 and subsequently refined with David Dodd through various editions of their famous book Security Analysis. Benjamin Graham (born Benjamin Grossbaum, September 21, 1976) was an influential economist and professional investor. First edition C-A with translated code March 1951 printing, light shelf wear, previous owner name in pen on front endpaper, else, good binding. ![]() ![]() “An essential part of any science fiction collection. ![]() “Simmons’s own genius transforms space opera into a new kind of poetry.” - The Denver Post generously conceived and stylistically sure-handed.” - The New York Times Book Review In sheer scope and complexity it matches, and perhaps even surpasses, those of Isaac Asimov and James Blish.” - The Washington Post Book World “Dan Simmons has brilliantly conceptualized a future 700 years distant. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands. It was time for a lighter read since I just finished the four books in Dan Simmons. ![]() Currently, I’m reading Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett. I seem to be getting more time to read in now, though. Or the time to read much, for that matter. Each carries a desperate hope-and a terrible secret. I was quite busy for a while and unfortunately hadn’t had time to write. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. ![]() A stunning tour de force filled with transcendent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the first volume in a remarkable epic by the multiple-award-winning author of The Hollow Man. ![]() ![]() ![]() sends to him? Will he be able to solve the riddles in time? Will Tick discover the life he was meant to live? Will Tick have the courage to follow the twelve clues M.G. promises to send Tick twelve riddles that will reveal on a certain day, at a certain time, at a certain place, something extraordinary will happen. Postmarked from Alaska and cryptically signed with the initials "M.G.," the letter informs Tick that dangerous-perhaps even deadly-events have been set in motion that could result in the destruction of reality itself. Tick, is an average thirteen-year-old boy until the day a strange letter arrives in his mailbox. ![]() ![]() What if every time you made a choice that had a significant consequence, an alternate reality was created-the life that would've been had you made the other choice? What if those new realities were in danger? What if it fell to you to save all the realities?Ītticus Higginbottom, a.k.a. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first one, eight minutes long, took six hours to film. ![]() “I don’t know how to edit,” Nicholson admits. Photograph: Ian NicholsonĮach of the online shows was filmed in one dramatic take – a decision born out of necessity. Sam Wilde making puppets for I Want My Hat Back. ![]() ![]() A bike shop that had opened down the road was throwing out cardboard boxes the bear’s eyes were beads swiped from one of his daughter’s necklaces. The set of the first one just about fits into a shoebox, and was made from what Wilde had to hand. “I can’t stress how tiny everything was,” says Nicholson, who performed and directed the shows kneeling behind his kitchen table. The trilogy went viral and is now transferring – with bigger puppets, new actors and a good deal more cardboard – to the Little Angel theatre in London. “Even if that just lasted 15 minutes, that’s something I will always be proud of.” In the lockdown of spring 2020, Wilde and director Ian Nicholson created homemade online productions of Jon Klassen’s trilogy of subversive children’s picture books, starting with I Want My Hat Back, in which a ponderous bear searches for his missing pointy red hat. ‘W e made nearly half a million kids happy with a cardboard box,” says set designer Sam Wilde. ![]() |
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