![]() ![]() ![]() The USS Voyager, after seven long years has returned home to the Alpha Quadrant and the Federation. While I will not give the details of the how, who and why there are still plenty spoilers so, if you do not want to know what happens-STOP READING RIGHT NOW. More detail on why I was so disappointed with this 'relaunch' will follow the story synopsis and I will warn you now that this review contains major spoilers for both novels. Homecoming and The Farther Shore did satisfy in that respect in some ways but as I read these two novels, I found myself becoming increasingly dismayed with each passing chapter with the direction the story was taking and the overall plot. I hoped that author Christie Golden would tie up some lose ends left by the series finale and start the crew on a bold new direction now that they have returned home. Like most, I had been eagerly looking forward to reading these two novels to learn what happened to the valiant crew of the USS Voyager after they returned to the Alpha Quadrant. Let me begin by saying that I have no doubt that many of the fans who read these two post-finale Voyager novels are going to be delighted with them. Title: Star Trek: Voyager, The Farther Shore ![]()
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![]() ![]() The recurring refrain, “And the tree was happy,” consummates each escalated sacrifice. The boy - still addressed by the tree as “Boy” by the end, despite being an old man - never hesitates to take what is freely offered. First she provides her shade and her leaves, then her apples, and later her branches and trunk. The story is simply told and sweetly drawn: A tree, notably deemed a “she,” loves a little boy so much that she progressively gives more and more of herself to him, his needs and requests expanding throughout his life. It also features prominently on many lists of controversial or outright banned books for children. TRANSLATED INTO MORE than 30 languages, Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree” (1964) holds a place in many hearts as one of the greatest children’s books ever written on unconditional love. ![]() “And the tree was happy … but not really.” ![]() “Happiness is a place between too much and too little.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I LOVE when authors manage that feat, it's not easy to do but those who take a chance and give you something special stand out in the vast amount of romance book covers. It is simple and captivates you without needing a naked chest to capture your attention. Because his only chance at a future with her is by burying his past.įirst things first - THE BITTERROOT INN has one of the most beautiful covers I have seen this year. Maybe if he can disguise the lies and hide the deceit, he can keep her from learning the truth. The promise of the good she could bring into his life is too hard to resist. He shouldn’t have tried to find her but he never was good at rejecting temptation. But years later, he’s back in Montana and unable to keep his distance. ![]() He took one look at her and ran in the opposite direction. Hunter was a different man when he first saw Maisy Holt from afar. She made that mistake before with another man. None of those feelings can be trusted, though. But when a handsome stranger walks into the lobby of her motel, her simple life is swept up in a wave of affection for his gentle heart. Her child is thriving, her business is growing, and her family is as close as they’ve ever been. Maisy is happily content with the life she’s built for herself and her young son in small-town Prescott, Montana. ![]() ![]() ![]() and modern nations, in the consecrations of kings, and in several superstitious chimeras of divine rights in princes and nobles, are nearly unanimous in preserving remnants of it. “It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to men. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. ![]() “I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. ![]() ![]() We all saw Marvel's official line-up through 2011 when it was announced earlier this month, and Runaways was definitely not on it. ![]() They subsequently run away and "begin a journey of discovery, both of their parents' origins and of their own inherited powers, while trying to make up for the evil done by their parents." Unfortunately it sounds like this is at least four years out, but the it is official and development is currently underway. The Runaways comic first appeared in 2002 is about a group of teenagers who find that some family secrets are bigger than others when they discover their parents are actually super-villains. Vaughan, the series' co-creator, and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige will operate as producer. ![]() The film is being developed and written by Brian K. Marvel Studios, the new powerhouse production company that has taken over the development of all of its major comic properties, is now adding Runaways to its slate of projects. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her version of their relationship (dating is definitely not the appropriate term) is a necessary, and deeply painful, complement to Birthday Letters. The journals show the breathless adolescent obsessed with her burgeoning sexuality, the serious university student competing for the highest grades while engaging in the human merry-go-round of 1950s dating, the graduate year spent at Cambridge University where Plath encountered Ted Hughes. Kukil, supervisor of the Plath collection at Smith College. Previously only available in a severely bowdlerized edition, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath have now been scrupulously transcribed (with every spelling mistake and grammatical error left intact) and annotated by Karen V. Yet Plath kept journals from the age of 11 until her death at 30. ![]() And the myths surrounding Plath have only been intensified by the strong grip her estate-managed by Hughes and his sister, Olwyn-had over the release of her work. In the decades that have followed Sylvia Plath's suicide in February 1963, much has been written and speculated about her life, most particularly about her marriage to fellow poet Ted Hughes and her last months spent writing the stark, confessional poems that were to become Ariel. ![]() ![]() ![]() All of these and more are available for purchase this month.įirst up is Jane Campion’s recent Oscar-winning western examining the fragile masculine psyche within the American frontier set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana. These titles include films from Jane Campion, Spike Lee, Wong Kar-wai, Věra Chytilová, one of the greatest trilogies of all time, and the first entry in the Criterion Collection by the biggest animated company in the business, Pixar. As the year is winding down, the second yearly Barnes & Noble Criterion Collection 50% off sale is going on all November long, and just in time with one of the most stacked months of releases in some time from the premiere company of physical media. ![]() ![]() ![]() Highlighting “Parking Lot,” a song of fantasy and longing from her debut album Swimming Lessons , released on March 5, Stokes sings of a relationship in the way that it existed and the way that she wished it existed. The Portland, Maine native takes inspiration from artists like Maggie Rogers, Phoebe Bridgers, Bon Iver and Lorde, but it's her intimate recounting of memories that sets her sound apart from others. ![]() Honest ballads, peppy stories of heartbreak and new perspectives and narrating vivid memories through song are characteristics of the young musician’s sound that we so love. Genevieve Stokesis the musical hero we’ve been waiting for. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() References to iPads and Google searches early on give way to descriptions of a bleak wood and 5eerie sensations. Watch Hollow is less creepy than the cover implies but Funaro establishes a consistently spooky atmosphere throughout the book. ![]() And before they can entirely understand the strange world they’ve stumbled into, Lucy and Oliver must join forces with a host of magical clock animals to defeat the Garr-a vicious monster that not only wants Blackford House for itself, but also seeks to destroy everything the Tinkers hold dear. It doesn’t take long, however, for the children to realize that there is more to Blackford House than meets the eye. Tinker needs to do is fix the clock at Blackford House and fistfuls of gold coins are his to keep. A mysterious stranger has made their father an offer that’s too good for him to refuse. When Lucy and Oliver Tinker arrive in Watch Hollow, they have no idea that anything is wrong. But when the clock’s gears cease to turn, an evil presence lurking among the trees begins to come out of the shadows. Deep within the enchanted woods in the town of Watch Hollow stands the once-grand Blackford House, whose halls hold a magical secret: a giant cuckoo clock that does much more than tell time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Daisy is starved for attention and goes to the extreme of finding new, exotic ways for her doll to die each day to be close to Chase during the “funeral.” While they drive him to distraction, he clearly cares for them both even while threatening to ship them off to boarding schools in various exotic locales. Rosamund takes pride in driving away governesses and records how long it takes to make each one flee. Rosamund and Daisy Fairfax are chaos incarnate for Chase. His hedonistic lifestyle is upended when he becomes the guardian of two young orphans. Chase is a duke’s heir who is determined to never marry and enjoy life’s pleasures. Alexandra was born in Manila, grew up aboard ship, and makes her living setting the clocks in people’s homes. This is a romance novel and includes sexual content and sex scenes.Īlexandra and Chase are not your usual romance main characters. The characters boisterously fall into various fiascos and work their way back out. ![]() I was looking for a light, fluffy read when I picked up this book, and that is the definition of this book. ![]() |