It ends with the battle for democracy on the city’s streets and the ultimate victory of the Chinese Communist Party. The story sweeps the reader from the earliest days of trade through the Opium Wars of the 19th century to the age of globalisation and the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China. The rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule are told with unique insight in this new history by Michael Sheridan, drawing on eyewitness reporting over three decades, interviews with key figures and documents from archives in China and the West. ‘Deeply researched and beautifully written’ Mike ChinoyĪ superb new history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule. ‘A delightful piece of writing and research which describes the remarkable history behind the handover of this unique and exciting city’ Jasper Becker
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Yes, I did in fact remember signing Then Again, Maybe I Won't out of our school library, but then returned it mostly unread because at that time of my life (from about 1980 to 1984) I was just not all that interested in reading a novel for pleasure (and in fact any novel) that did not have a teenaged girl but instead a teenaged boy as a main protagonist (as I was personally at that time finding the boys in my class annoyingly immature and boring and could therefore also not imagine finding Then Again, Maybe I Won't either all that relatable or readable, since Tony Miglione, the main protagonist, indeed is a thirteen year old teenaged boy). Then Again, Maybe I Won't is actually one of the few Judy Blume novels from the 1970s that I did not read as a teenager (in the early 1980s). In order to put things right, she has to escape the clutches of the gray witch and embrace the power she never knew she had (and has been raised to fear) without allowing the power to take her over completely. Dorthea wants to escape her boring life, so she makes a wish – one that backfires and turns the entire fairy tale realm upside down. This book is a really cute, fun, whimsical fairy tale retelling with a lot of appeal! The story follows Dorthea, who’s lived a sequestered life, just in case she is the Emerald Princess who has been foretold to burn the world down. Trying to fix her prince problem by wishing on a (cursed) star royally backfires, leaving the kingdom in chaos and her parents stuck in some place called "Kansas." Now it's up to Dorthea and her pixed off prince to find the mysterious Wizard of Oz and undo the curse.before it releases the wickedest witch of all and spells The End for the world of Story. But a forced marriage to the brooding prince Kato is so not what Dorthea had in mind for her enchanted future. Sure being the crown princess of Emerald has its perks-like Glenda Original ball gowns and Hans Christian Louboutin heels. My content rating: YA (Nothing more than kissing, Some fantasy violence)įairy Tale Survival Rule #32: If you find yourself at the mercy of a wicked witch, sing a romantic ballad and wait for your Prince Charming to save the day. Genres: Fairy Tales Legends & Mythology, Retellings, Young Adult Published by Sourcebooks Fire, Sourcebooks, Inc. Publisher: Melville House Publishing ISBN: 9781612198552 Number of pages: 256 Weight: 266 g Dimensions: 209 x 140 mm You may also be interested in. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress.įar from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. Odell sees our attention as the most precious-and overdrawn-resource we have. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity. So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity. Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. Of course, we all know they weren’t perfect (insert obligatory nod here to Jim Crow and Japanese internment camps). In line with this hagiographic blueprint, discussions of World War II veterans are mostly nostalgic and congratulatory. At a time in their lives when their days and nights should have been filled with innocent adventure, love, and the lessons of the workaday world, they were fighting, often hand to hand, in the most primitive conditions possible… They faced great odds and a late start, but they did not protest. They answered the call to help save the world from the two most powerful and ruthless military machines ever assembled, instruments of conquest in the hands of fascist maniacs. Brokaw saw this cohort in valedictory, heroic terms. Tom Brokaw popularized the term “The Greatest Generation” in 1998 to describe the Americans-and especially the American men-who survived the Depression and fought against Nazism in World War II. The title was then changed to Herbert West: Re-Animator with a release date of December 15, 2018, and Schaech no longer on the cast list. Ī film by the name of Antihuman was set to release in early 2017 before being rebranded as Re-Animator: Evolution, with Johnathan Schaech in the lead role as Dr. In 2017, an Italian version entitled Herbert West: Re-Animator was released with Emanuele Cerman as Dr. Herbert West reanimating the President of the United States. Two unproduced sequels were Island of Re-Animator, an The Island of Doctor Moreau-style story, and the better known House of Re-Animator, which would have featured Dr. Miguel Tejada-Flores, José Manuel Gómez, Brian Yuznaīrian Yuzna, Julio Fernández, Carlos Fernández The third film, Beyond Re-Animator, was released in 2003. It was followed by a sequel, Bride of Re-Animator, in 1990, directed by Yuzna and again starring Combs and Abbott. Directed by Gordon and produced by Yuzna, it stars Combs alongside Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, and David Gale. The first film in the series, Re-Animator, was released in 1985. West is portrayed by actor Jeffrey Combs in all three films. Lovecraft, the films follow the exploits of Herbert West, the inventor of a serum that can re-animate deceased bodies. Loosely based on the 1922 serialized short story " Herbert West–Reanimator" by H. Re-Animator is an American film series consisting of three horror films directed by Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna. Mental illness and religious fanaticism percolated through Maud’s maternal lines back to an ancestor accused of being a witch in Puritan-era Massachusetts. Her mother’s grandfather killed a man with a hay hook and died in an institution. Her mother’s father, who came of age in Texas during the Great Depression, was said to have married thirteen times and been shot by one of his wives. 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Make sure to check trigger warnings as well. I totally recommend reading the epilogue though! It was so satisfying to see everything go down the way it did, you can't help but root for the MC's. But if you were to just want a quick read to help you reach your goodreads goal you don't have to read the epilogue! It doesn't wrap up as nicely if you don't but you can technically read it as a standalone. This does end in a cliffhanger and the 1st book in the series won't be released until next year sadly. I will definitely be reading from this author again! I loved Adelaide's writing and it was super easy to read and compelling to keep going (as to how I spent my entire night reading). I usually don't enjoy prologues because I just want a full length novel for me to binge on but this was an exception. Sucker for mafia romance AND the petname Little One!? Please take my money.Īnyways this was so good! I was hooked from the first chapter and I finished this in one sitting. And that was the case with this one! I saw a TikTok from the author about some tropes of this book and I was SOLD. Thank lord for Kindle Unlimited because the amount of books that come across my TikTok feed that intrigue me- I would be broke to say the least. Was there a point as a child or teenager when you abruptly realized you wanted to make your living writing horror? Morris and his family live in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire.Īs a child, you watched Doctor Who and the Hammer films, and you’ve mentioned both as influences. His most recent releases are the tie-in novel for the Darren Aronofsky film Noah, and Zombie Apocalypse!: Horror Hospital, a stand-alone novel set within the Zombie Apocalypse! world created by editor Stephen Jones. After PanMacmillan passed on his next novel, Morris found success in writing Doctor Who and Torchwood tie-ins, editing nonfiction anthologies of film essays, and contributing short fiction to dozens of anthologies. Morris,” to reflect the book’s female protagonist. Morris changed his name to the gender-neutral “J. His 2002 novel Fiddleback was acquired by PanMacmillan and received a significant advance from Random House for an American release . . . When his fourth novel, The Secret of Anatomy, was published by HarperCollins in 1995, he was being called “the new Clive Barker,” but his next few novels were victims of a serious downturn in horror. Mark Morris has been a major figure on the British horror scene since 1989, when Toady, the first of his sixteen novels, was published to critical acclaim and solid sales (the 1990 paperback release debuted at number seven on the bestseller list). Old characters are unmistakeable in their weathered and worn guises, pumped up with the blood of a good scrap. The plot is wide and wonderful, encompassing a journey to new-ends, a bitter fight to the end, and a charge to glory on the battlefield. Embattled on both north and south fronts, the Union struggles to keep its head above water. In ‘Before They Are Hanged’, the reader is plunged straight into the deep-end. ‘Before They Are Hanged’ is a hard-fought, hard-earned story of ancient secrets, old foes, and fresh blood. Joe Abercrombie’s Before They Are Hanged is the sequel to his debut novel ‘The Blade Itself’, and the second book of the First Law series. |