Will is acerbic, moody, bossy-but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. Will has always lived a huge life-big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel-and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair-bound after an accident. Louisa Clark is an ordinary young woman living an exceedingly ordinary life-steady boyfriend, close family-who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. I have many thoughts on the book so let’s get started. I decided to grab Me Before You around mid-month because I’d been reading a lot of light hearted and fun books throughout the month of February and I, surprisingly, wanted a break from YA at this point in the month. When I finally realized my mistake, I headed over to Amazon and picked up a copy of Me Before You and After You so that I’d be ready to read Still Me when the time came. I say “mistakenly” because at that time I didn’t know it was the third book in a series. Last year, I mistakenly ordered Still Me as one of my Book of the Month selections.
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Later, it is found that the Japanese Army was researching germs that produce the death stench during World War II in a desperate effort to turn the tide of the war. Germs infecting the rotting body produce a gas - responsible for the terrible smell that surrounds the creatures - that makes the metal construct move. The creatures are eventually revealed to consist of a small metallic, legged structure with the carcass of a dead animal (and later, human) strapped on top. At first they appear merely as smaller fish, but later also as larger sea creatures such as sharks and even a whale. The plot of Gyo centers around the "death stench", a revolting smell first encountered in connection with creatures appearing to be bizarre fish with scuttling, sharp metal legs. A “dying pheasant” convulses in the snow after humans raid the forest and meadow. In Bambi, Salten’s reportage often turns toward scenes of violence. But, as he wrote, “Bambi would never have come into being if I had never aimed my bullet at the head of a roebuck or elk.” He was also a hunter, criticized for his pastime by his contemporaries. Salten was a journalist, a theater critic, a short story writer, and, after publishing Bambi, the author of several other novels told from animals’ points of view, including Perri: The Youth of a Squirrel (1938), Bambi’s Children: The Story of a Forest Family (1939), and Renni the Rescuer: A Dog of the Battlefield (1940). “Tall maples, beeches, and oaks formed a green roof over the thicket, and ferns, vetches, and sage sprang from the firm dark soil.” “Blackthorn bushes and hazelnut, dogwood, and young elder trees grew all around,” Salten writes of the titular roe deer’s stretch of woods. The natural world is often portrayed frankly, in a tone of reportage so detailed it seems to reveal an obsession. 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It’s an American tapestry of hatred, compassion, fear, courage, and cruelties, leavened with the promise of triumph. “A story of our nation at war, with itself as well as tyranny across the globe. What does it take to change someone’s mind about race? What does it take for a country and a people to move forward, transformed? Set against a backdrop of violent racial conflict on both the front lines and the home front, The Last Thing You Surrender explores the powerful moral struggles of individuals from a divided nation. Meanwhile, a black man, who as a child saw his parents brutally lynched, is conscripted to fight Nazis for a country he despises and discovers a new kind of patriotism in the all-black 761st Tank Battalion . . . A young black woman, widowed by the same events at Pearl Harbor, finds unexpected opportunity and a dangerous friendship in a segregated Alabama shipyard feeding the war. Three Americans in the Jim Crow South face enormous changed triggered by World War II in this epic novel by the Pulitzer-winning author of Freeman.Ĭould you find the courage to do what’s right in a world on fire?Īn affluent white marine survives Pearl Harbor at the cost of a black messman’s life only to be sent, wracked with guilt, to the Pacific and taken prisoner by the Japanese. In fact, it's commonly been called "unfilmable" due to its violence and themes, but McCarthy's pushed back on that assertion, telling the Wall Street Journal in 2009 it would be "very difficult to do and would require someone with a bountiful imagination and a lot of balls. While other McCarthy novels have gotten film adaptations, including Oscar Best Picture winner No Country for Old Men, getting Blood Meridian to the big screen hasn't gone as smoothly, with several attempts coming and going throughout the years. Blood Meridian's Rocky Road to the Big Screen Notoriously violent, it wasn't initially well received critically, but has since gone on to be considered one of the great American novels. Reps for New Regency and Hillcoat, who directed another McCarthy adaptation in 2009's The Road, did not respond to IGN's request for comment.īlood Meridian is loosely based on the events of westward American expansion of the 1850s and follows a protagonist known as "the kid" as he gets wrapped up in a gang rangers at the U.S.-Mexico border who kill and scalp Native Americans. According to a report in Deadline today, New Regency is on board to produce the adaptation of McCarthy’s 1985 historical epic, with John Hillcoat set to direct. Part of the novel’s poignancy is that Shy himself doesn’t talk much (clue’s in the name). They include his long-suffering mum and stepfather a painfully kind counselor called Jenny his mate Benny, with whom he wants to start a label, Atomic Bass Recordings and Amanda, a live-in staff member who “sits in her dungarees with her mug of tea and hears whatever the boys want to tell her.” Porter moves nimbly between the voices of Shy’s universe as they replay in his memory. Though the novel’s time frame is just a few hours of one night, it’s a night of “a shattered flicker-drag of these sense-jumbled memories” and one in which “the solid world dissolves then coheres like broken sleep, and he shambles into it, remembering.” In other words, the night’s as big as Shy’s life. The book’s true setting, however, is the sprawling, shifting terrain of Shy’s mind. About the Author Chetan Bhagat is an Indian author, columnist and screenwriter, who is popularly known for his English-language novels, mostly based on the lives of young urban middle class Indians. The book details the quintessential Indian parents, the way marriages generally work in India and the two varied cultures beautifully it also goes on to show that far beyond religion and creed, love keeps fighting for its place. This is more because, in India, it is easy to fall in love but tricky to convert that love into a love marriage. The journey that the couple takes from being romantically involved to getting married is full of twists and turns. But the persuasion takes a lot more than just a few words. They embark on a journey of convincing their parents for the marriage. But with the end of college and beginning of a career, the question of marriage does not stand far away. Miles apart in distance and custom, Krish and Ananya’s love blossoms within the confines of their college walls. This is a story of a love affair between two IIM students hailing from two different states, Punjab and Tamil Nadu. This fun-filled love story that gets complicated when the question of marriage comes up, is a loose adaptation of Chetan Bhagat’s own marriage. 2 States: The Story of My Marriage Adapted as a hit film, this book is the fourth in Bhagat’s list of novels and also the fourth one to be adapted as a movie. The Nome King is back, and he's still furious that Dorothy and Ozma took his Magic Belt, and rescued the Royal Family of Ev, back in Ozma of Oz. Unlike the previous Oz books that would open with one of our heroes, Baum instead opened with the villain. In 1910, the next book to complete his plan would be published, The Emerald City of Oz. If anything, he probably hoped this would warm his readers up to the idea of him writing non-Oz stories. In The Road to Oz, he attempted to make his Oz readers aware of his other work, by having the main characters from those books appear as guests at Ozma's birthday party. However, even with pseudonymous works and the endless possibilities of fantasy, Baum felt Oz was too limiting to his talents, yet it was his most popular work. Something Baum never intended was happening at last. |