![]() ![]() What is Tangerine About and Why Should I Care? So yeah, it's going to be worth your time to read.Īnd if you're wondering why in the world a story about soccer, dysfunctional family life, and apocalyptic natural disasters is called Tangerine, just read on… It tackles some pretty weighty issues, too, like bullying and discrimination. Tangerine was Edward Bloor's very first novel, and not too shabby for a first try: it's won tons of awards, and has even been named to the American Library Association's 1998 Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults. ![]() ![]() And that's not the half of what the poor guy has to deal with as the new kid in town, in Edward Bloor's 1997 book Tangerine. Ugh, don't you just hate moving? It's bad enough getting used to a new town, finding your way around a new school, and trying to make new friends… but isn't it just the worst when a giant sinkhole opens up under your classroom and sucks down half the school buildings? So annoying.Īnd you know how, when the field behind your new house gets struck by lightning, and that ignites a perpetually-burning muck fire that fills your entire neighborhood with smoke, and then your homeowners' association tries to put it out by dumping a bunch of water on it, but that just turns it into a gigantic breeding ground for mosquitoes, which, it turns out, are carrying horrible diseases, so they have to fog your neighborhood with super poisonous pesticide? And in spite of all that, the muck fire is still burning?! Don't you just hate it when that happens? ![]()
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![]() ![]() The quirky gothic family consists of parents Morticia and Gomez, siblings Wednesday and Pugsley, and an ensemble of strange and unusual extended family members. ![]() ![]() The Addams Family has been gracing print and screen for nearly a century. READ MORE: Great and Horrible News (Blessin Adams) – Book Review It’s time to learn everything there is to know about our favourite goth girl. So settle into your favorite comfy chair and grab a warm drink. In honour of the well-received Netflix series, we will dive into the many versions of Wednesday Addams that have graced our screens over the decades, as well as explore the lasting cultural impact she’s had on so many viewers and on pop culture as a whole. She has also gained a sizeable fan base, both from those who’ve been watching her since childhood and those who just discovered her. She has garnered quite a number of film and TV appearances in the decades since her 1938 debut. Whether you grew up watching the 1960s sitcom or the 90s film series, we have fond memories of Wednesday. With her wonderful weird ways and sarcastic dry wit, Wednesday Addams has had a deep effect on many of our childhoods, across the generations. Guest writer Grace Anderson takes a look at the many, many incarnations of inspirational goth girl fave Wednesday Addams.įrom numerous television shows to blockbuster movies, there’s no denying the impact Wednesday Addams has had on popular media in the past decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() Almsgiving is a worthy offering in the sight of the Most High for all who practice it.” Tobit 4:7-11 ![]() For almsgiving delivers from death and keeps one from entering into Darkness. If you have great wealth, give alms out of your abundance if you have but little, do not be afraid to give alms even of that little. You will be storing up a goodly treasure for yourself against the day of adversity. Do not turn your face away from any of the poor, so that God’s face will not be turned away from you. Six years in a row, I used to give a second tithe in money, which each year I would go to pay in Jerusalem.” Tobit 1:6-7 To the Levites ministering in Jerusalem I used to give the tithe of grain, wine, olive oil, pomegranates, figs, and other fruits. Bringing with me the first fruits of crops, the firstlings of the flock, the tithes of livestock, and the first shearings of sheep, I used to hasten to Jerusalem and present them to the priests, Aaron’s sons, at the altar. “But I alone used to go often to Jerusalem for the festivals, as was prescribed for all Israel by longstanding decree. Raphael for the Financial Provision of our Our Lady of Mount Carmel Retreat and Center for Spiritual Formation ![]() ![]() ![]() This event includes a 45-minute slide show presentation by Kahn, featuring these and many more wonderfully inventive vans, campers, house tucks, school buses, trailers, sailboats and houseboats created by amazing craftsmen. About half of them are lived in full-time the other half are used part-time, for trips of varying lengths upon life’s highways and waterways. Meet a young French woman who sailed 1,500 miles from Europe to the Canary Islands with no engine or GPS a family of four who sold their home, got rid of high mortgage payments, and fixed up and moved into a school bus two ski bums who use their pickup truck/camper as their winter home an English artist who built a tiny home on the back of a 1959 French army truck.Īlong with 1,100-color photos, Tiny Homes on the Move is a colorful, creative display of some 90 tiny homes here, rolling on the road or floating in the water. ![]() ![]() Explore the magical world of mobile tiny houses with green architecture pioneer Lloyd Kahn, a Santa Cruz favorite! ![]() ![]() ![]() Leaving from post six, 2-5 favourite Adare Castle trotted to the top for MacDonald over Safe Conduct (Chris Christoforou), but gave way to Mischevious Rose (Louis-Philippe Roy) as that mare rolled on after an outside start to clear past the :28.1 quarter mark. ![]() Undefeated through the three trotting preliminary legs to start her four-year-old season, the Mark Etsell-trained mare Adare Castle stamped herself as the favourite for next week's championship off an impressive 1:55.2 victory over the 'good' going as she fought past Mischieveous Rose through the stretch. ![]() "I've been blessed with these two since they were two and they've just been little bank machines for me for a couple years now and hopefully for a long time to come," said MacDonald. James MacDonald, two-time Driver of the Year, worked out the winning trips for both four-year-old mares who have graduated to consecutive series scores off O'Brien Award-winning sophomore seasons. Ontario Sired Graduate Series stars Adare Castle and Silver Label won their respective $25,000 third-round divisions featured on another rainy Friday night (April 28) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. ![]() ![]() ![]() To save Oubliette, Seven must pay the skeletal boatman, Idyll, his last coin to ferry him across a gray lake where on the far shore he hopes to find his love. After many adventures together, they become separated. Seven places his arm under the machine’s stamp to wrench it off and to process the severed arm into 12 coins they buy their freedom with six. After many years they concoct an escape plan. Seven befriends Oubliette, part girl, part cow, part tree, who has her own story to tell. (They are, but that’s another series of stories.) The foreman, Vhummim, leads the living children underground to toil at a vast machine, the Mint, which converts the dead children’s bones into coin. Staked out on a hillside on his seventh birthday, Seven wakens in a pit filled with children, some alive, others dead, in a city built of garbage and whose non-human inhabitants, the Pra-Ita, seem like ghosts. As the boy’s sister, Dinarzad, prepares to wed, the exile begins with the story of Seven, the seventh son of a seventh son. Her audience is an unnamed boy who someday will be sultan. In the garden of a sultan’s palace lives an exile, an unnamed girl whose eyelids are intricately tattooed, each point a story in an elaborate cycle. ![]() Continuation of Valente’s extraordinary fantasy story cycle begun with In The Night Garden (2006). ![]() ![]() This happened to me with Wallace Stegner's "Angle of Repose," a novel a close friend swore up and down that I really had to read, but a book I'd somehow become leery of. The ease of an audiobook can provide that extra bit of momentum, with glorious results. There's an impetus to read these titles, but not perhaps quite enough outright desire to make you pluck them from the middle of that never-diminishing to-be-read pile and really commit. The Listener is sponsored by Audible.Įvery reader's life is full of books he or she keeps meaning to get to and somehow never quite does: classics, new titles everyone's raving about, and the favorite novels of friends who can't understand why you haven't yet picked up the works that have changed their lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() Every Thursday, Laura Miller or another top critic will recommend a great new title. This is the debut of our new weekly audiobook column, The Listener. ![]() ![]() ![]() Allie knows all about Dean’s man-whore reputation and she doesn’t want to be just another notch on his bedpost but what she doesn’t know is how persistent he is. Allie is not a one night or casual sex type of girl she prefers relationships and Dean is opposite of Allie, he is the king of casual hookups. The story starts when Allie broke up with her boyfriend after 3 years and in order to avoid her ex-boyfriend, she goes to Dean’s house to stay over for the weekend. Also, she is not affected by Dean’s charms or afraid of going toe to toe with him. Truth to be told I was thinking the heroine of the book will be Sabrina but I am really glad it was Allie □ Allie is Hannah’s best friend and she is beautiful, funny and sassy. But I couldn’t be more off, there is a lot more to Dean than what meets the eye. My impression about Dean from the previous books was shallow, dumb jock. ![]() Dean Sebastian Kendrick Heyward-Di Laurentis, isn’t that a mouthful name :), is sexy, rich, cocky man-whore. ![]() If you start reading the series our hero and heroine, Dean and Allie, are not strangers to you. ‘The Score’ is the third book of the Off-Campus series. ![]() ![]() The first word I wrote was ‘bittersweet‘. I wrote a lot – too much even, so it is best I try to be succinct otherwise I will be overlong. I went through a lot of emotions reading Mr Loverman which culminated in a steam of consciousness that I will try to shape into a review. ![]() The story’s twists and turns and character revelations resulted in me taking notes after first gasping aloud, or holding my breath in trepidation, amazement, or feeling misplaced shame. The narration of Mr Loverman was perfect: inflection in accents was done well, attitudes and motivations came through flawlessly. It made me reflective and consider the relationships of the older generations in my family and wider network. I read it and thought, “do I want to read this – it feels like it will be heart breaking”. ![]() I have hidden what I consider to be spoilers, but please do not read if spoilers impact on your enjoyment of a book.įYI, I’m usually ok with spoilers but concede in this instance, that certain revelations in this book would have lost their impact if known beforehand. ![]() It is impossible to say the things I want to without sharing spoilers in this review. ![]() ![]() ![]() I imagine it can get kind of confusing, so combining Artist’s Editions and Artifact Editions makes sense.Īnyway, the new edition is due Aug. Then there are Artisan Editions, which are smaller-scale, lower-cost paperback reprints. ![]() Historically, Artist’s Editions included complete issues while Artifact Editions compiled various art selections. (The 144-page count is the same for both.) According to the excellent AE Index, IDW has ceased publishing Artifact Editions so this appears to be a straight-up reprint of the original. What’s the difference? As it appears now, just the name. Well, this is a gimme gimme: IDW in 2023 will be re-releasing 2015’s Frank Miller’s Daredevil Artifact Edition with a slightly different sobriquet - Frank Miller’s Daredevil Artist’s Edition, according to a Penguin Random House listing. What’s black and white and red in your imagination? ![]() |