![]() The brothers decide that Arn must redeem himself by the sword and send the young man to fight for the holy city of Jerusalem. ![]() Arn is involved in the political maneuverings of his clan but a petty revenge places him back at the mercy of the church. The brothers send him out into the world so that he can learn about humanity and be better informed before giving his life over to the church. He is, however, very naive and unaware of the baser side of human nature. The monks teach Arn many disciplines and he grows up to be a well educated young man. Arn Magnusson starts out a bit like the biblical figure of Samuel, in that to fulfill a promise to God, he's given over to the church as a young boy. The Road to Jerusalem is the first in Gullou's Crusades trilogy, so it doesn't encompass everything the film covered, but it was nice to have more of Arn's background. ![]() We rented Arn: The Knight Templar and I found it interesting to compare with Kingdom of Heaven, which has a few similarities. A few years ago I acquired a Swedish sister-in-law and the family went nuts for anything Swedish. ![]()
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![]() And one Valentine's Day they'll never forget. ![]() Stars Over Castle Hill is an alternative reality novella of the #1 international bestselling romance On Dublin Street. ![]() or is it possible that two souls are meant for one another in any reality? But what if she was thirty instead of twenty-two when they met? How would she have felt about risking her heart then?Īnd even if she was older and wiser and ready to fall madly in love, what if too much had happened to Braden to make him the man that would risk his heart to save hers? If she had never met them where might she have ended up? Joss believes no matter where life may have taken her it would have inevitably led her to Braden. When Joss is asked to write a story about how her life might have turned out if a pivotal moment in it never happened, she thinks of the day she met both Braden and Ellie Carmichael. what if she never met Braden and Ellie Carmichael on that fateful day when she was only twenty-two years old? It's a life Joss never expected to have, and one she's grateful for every day.īut. Joss and Braden Carmichael are blissfully married living in their townhouse on Dublin Street with their three beautiful children. ![]() ![]() A paperback compilation of three On Dublin Street series novellas. ![]() ![]() ![]() “That’s the only kind of book I can trust,” he said. He was a far more voracious reader than I, but he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least thirty years. I had met a lot of strange people in my day, but none as strange as Nagasawa. The better I got to know Nagasawa, the stranger he seemed. This excerpt from Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami perfectly encapsulates a core truth about reading.Īnd so we became friends. If we’re reading what everyone else is reading, it’s harder to think differently about problems, decisions, or life. Not only does this often waste time and money, but it gums our brains. ![]() Why? Because one of the six principles of persuasion is social proof. When time casts its shadow, most of these will fall away into the night. These are (generally) mediocre books that time hasn’t yet filtered for us. The best-selling books that everyone else is reading. On one side of the store is the safe bet. At the bookstore looking for a book to read. ![]() ![]() ![]() man overboard! He's fallen for her, hook, line, and sinker. Except now she's walking around in a towel, sleeping right across the hall, and Fox is fantasizing about waking up next to her for the rest of his life and. Living with his best friend should have been easy. As the line between friendship and flirtation begins to blur, Hannah can't deny she loves everything about Fox, but she refuses to be another notch on his bedpost. yet the more time she spends with Fox, the more she wants him instead. Armed with a few tips from Westport's resident Casanova, Hannah sets out to catch her coworker's eye. It is narrated in third-person past and switches back and forth between the perspectives of Hannah and Fox. ![]() In fact, she's nursing a hopeless crush on a colleague and Fox is just the person to help with her lackluster love life. The novel is the second in The Bellinger Sisters duology. She knows he's a notorious ladies' man, but they're definitely just friends. Now, Hannah's in town for work, crashing in Fox's spare bedroom. But he likes her too much to risk a fling, so platonic pals it is. personality? And wants to be friends? Bizarre. She's immune to his charm and looks, but she seems to enjoy his. Everyone knows he's a guaranteed good time-in bed and out-and that's exactly how he prefers it. ![]() King crab fisherman Fox Thornton has a reputation as a sexy, carefree flirt. ![]() ![]() ![]() He knew the territory and he loved the wild country that he found there. London himself went to the Yukon during the gold rush, when the story is set. Like a lot of great works, White Fang stems from real-life experience. We go from his mother's fun and games hunting humans for food, to his birth, to a series of human masters both kind and cruel, and finally to a nice comfy California estate where he can get some R&R after getting pretty thoroughly pummeled by life. He's nice enough to divide the book into five neat parts, each one corresponding to a phase of White Fang's life. Combining his love of the wilderness, his insight into human nature, and his borderline racism against Native Americans, London tells the story of a wolf pup born in the wild and run through the mother of all ringers (and the ringer of all mothers). ![]() The panorama of humanity's unfailing ability to screw everything up is seen through the eyes of a barely domesticated wolf in Jack London's epic White Fang. ![]() ![]() ![]() Four years later, in 1998, Giuseppe Tornatore directed a movie based on the monologue, The Legend of 1900. Italian publishing company Feltrinelli published the text the same year: the writer described this work as halfway between a play and a tale to be read loud. Novecento was meant to become a play directed by Gabriele Vacis and performed by Eugenio Allegri. He won several prizes and his works have been translated into a number of languages. In the same year, he founded Scuola Holden, a school for storytelling and the performing arts. Novecento is the protagonist of a theatrical monologue named after him, written in 1994 by Alessandro Baricco, an Italian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter living in Turin. He seems to be at one with the keyboard and on that keyboard, he would live his whole life. One night he started playing the piano in the first-class concert hall, enchanting the whole crew. ![]() Born on a ship, he grew up in the engine room. Novecento has never in his life walked a step on dry land. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Poodle teaches her adorable little designer puppies to yip, never yap, to sip, never slobber, and to walk with grace. Gaston is a French Bulldog born into the Poodle family. It is a charming story about two dog families the Bulldogs and the Poodles. Gaston is a splendidly written and exquisitely illustrated picture book you will enjoy on many levels. I’m going to have her sign it.” She smiled, “That’s me!” Instant fandom! I read the titles of the books in my folded arms and then added proudly, “And… Gaston by Kelly DiPucchio. I struck up a conversation with a woman who gave me cuts in line. She whispered, “ Gaston.” I raced to the conference book sale and nabbed one of the last copies. I attended a session with Donalyn Miller, the Book Whisperer. ![]() ![]() I first met Gaston and author Kelly DiPucchio for that matter at the Michigan Reading Association Annual Conference in March. As a child I have vivid memories of sitting at the dinner table, looking at my brother and sister sitting on either side of me and wondering, “How could we three have the same parents, live within the same four walls yet be so different? Maybe they were adopted at birth.” Gaston, written by Kelly DiPucchio, explores the themes of family differences, love and acceptance. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Book of the Unnamed Midwife provides an account of the first months following the collapse of society the title character, once a nurse, is now driven to save women from sexual slavery and provide them with access to contraceptives. As a consequence, women are now a rare commodity, hunted down by men who roam the ruins of civilisation. A plague of post-apocalyptic proportions has wiped out most of humanity, but particularly mothers and newborns. Meg Elison’s The Book of Flora is the final novel of a trilogy that began with The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, one of my favourite novels of 2014 and a deserved winner of the Philip K. ![]() ![]() Sisters is as humorous and cute as Smile. Implementing both present day narratives and flashbacks, Raina Telgemeier once again strikes gold with this charming graphic novel about sisters. ![]() Sisters explores the relationship between Raina and Amara as they learn to deal with their differing personalities and problems between their parents. This time, the main problem isn’t Raina’s teeth. ![]() Sisters, the companion novel to Smile, revisits the Telgemeier family. That’s okay, as long as you end up buying the novel and cherishing it forever. Your reason to read Smile may be different. As you can guess, that’s the reason I read Sisters. ![]() Having worshiped those graphic novels for some of elementary school and all of middle school, I think it’s fair to say that Raina Telgemeier is the keeper of my childhood. Not only did she pen the bestselling Smile, but she also illustrated the graphic novels of The Babysitter’s Club series. I never realized the magnitude of Raina Telgemeier’s impact on my childhood until a few days ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() I can hardly believe it! I can hardly believe that we've reviewed three of the book here at Bookbag but not the first, most important, one. Oh my giddy aunt! It's been ten years since this first volume in Michelle Paver's Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series was first released. So this will be a journey of discovery, too. Isolated from the clans since he was born, Torak doesn't know the truth behind the many secrets his father kept from him. Before Fa dies, he makes Torak swear an oath: he will journey to the mountain of the World Spirit and save the people of the forest from this creature of destruction. And they believe in demons.Īnd a demon in the form of a bear has killed Torak's father. They see the sacred in the seasons and the cycle of the moon. Torak and his people also understand spirituality. ![]() A deer provides them not only with food, but also with clothes, water carriers, shoes, rope, even needles. They revere the animals they hunt and never waste an ounce of prey. Living six thousand years ago, after the Ice Age but before the spread of agriculture, Torak and his people understand the natural world. ![]() |