![]() ![]() Each book is skillfully written and thought out, with the characters we love, yet giving them just enough changes to make the story feel fresh and exciting. This is probably my current favourite book series, and it’s introduced me to three fantastic authors. ![]() There are currently seven books in the series, with two more coming out soon. Each book tackles a Disney film, inserting a twist into the story we know and love – A Whole New World asks ‘What if Aladdin never found the lamp?’ Reflection – ‘What if Mulan had to travel to the underworld?’ Mirror, Mirror – ‘What if the Evil Queen poisoned the prince?’ etc. ![]() Twisted Tales are a series of books, written by three different authors. Today I’m going to talk about one of my favourite book series, and don’t forget you can enter my Twitter giveaway to win any Disney themed book of your choice – details at the end! Twisted Tales I am also now officially thirty, which is odd cause in my head I’m still somewhere in my early 20s. Welcome to day three of my Disney blog themed posts, during which I will be in both Disneyland AND Walt Disney Studios. ![]()
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![]() If the government wouldn’t send him to space, he would create a private space flight industry himself. When he realized NASA was winding down manned space flight, Diamandis set out on one of the great entrepreneurial adventure stories of our time. But from the age of eight, when he watched Apollo 11 land on the Moon, his singular goal was to get to space. Peter Diamandis was the son of hardworking immigrants who wanted their science prodigy to make the family proud and become a doctor. The spectacle defied reason, the result of a competition dreamed up by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, whose vision for a new race to space required small teams to do what only the world’s largest governments had done before. ![]() If he did, he would make history as the world’s first commercial astronaut. He had eighty seconds to exceed the speed of sound and begin the climb to a target no civilian pilot had ever reached. ![]() ![]() How a historic race gave birth to private space flightĪlone in a Spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed toward space. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He quickly built up a loyal following, and his popularity was matched by critical plaudits. Francis was fascinated by a variety of professions, and his heroes were private investigators, pilots, artists, antique dealers and government agents, and a wine merchant.įrancis published a book per year for the following 38 years (all but two were novels: A Jockey’s Life (1986) was a biography of Lester Piggott, while Field of 13 (1998) was his only collection of short stories). Not all of Francis’s protagonists were jockeys. Like Dead Cert, most of Francis’s books were set against the shady backdrop of the racing world, many with jockey Alan York as their hero. In retrospect, given his insider’s knowledge of racing, as a jockey and a journalist, and his heroic service during the war, it seemed inevitable that Francis would write fiction. Offered the job as racing correspondent for the Sunday Express, he held the position for 16 years. After retiring as a jockey, Francis published a well-received autobiography, The Sport of Queens, in 1957. That loss, Francis said in later years, was his life’s greatest regret. Famously, or infamously, he was riding Devon Loch in the 1956 Grand National when the horse, five lengths clear and only 40 yards from the finish line, suddenly collapsed. ![]() ![]() ![]() This story sure did pull at the heart strings. I’ve seen rave reviews of this book everywhere and when I finally picked it up, I read and read and read until I was at the end and sad that it was all finished. It’s been quite a long time since I read the first book, Sugar Daddy but I hecka loved that book and knew that I was going to enjoy this one as well. ![]() And Hardy Cates, a family enemy, is the last person she needs darkening her door-or setting her soul on fire. This time, she is determined to guard her heart. But when Haven marries a man her family disapproves of, her life is set on a new and dangerous course. Despite her family’s money, she refuses to set out on the path they’ve chosen for her. He’s made enemies in the rough-and-tumble ride to the top of Houston’s oil industry. He’s a self-made millionaire who comes from the wrong side of the tracks. ![]() ![]() ![]() Is there something I could do to send signals to Google to show that I am in Matthews, NC?Ģ months ago my listing quit showing up at all unless you typed exact business name ![]() ![]() What could possibly cause my listing or Google to do this? I have been without my listing for a few months now and have NO calls coming in from it. If you search Locksmith Independence, KS it shows up on the maps. If you search Locksmith Matthews, NC my listing does not show up at all. Keep in mind the GMB is in Matthews, NC All my service areas and the actual map show the correct areas. Now if I search my business name under the auto populate I see it with Independence, KS on the listing. I pretty much do not have any traffic, views or calls now. Posted about my SAB listing a few weeks ago about not showing up in search only when you entered the exact name. ![]() ![]() These members, who are all old friends, are all connected by one thing: residing in a flat called Wadia Baug. In the said book, several Parsi members have since relocated to the West. Incidentally, the Parsi society, is part of the larger Indian-based Zoroastrian community. ![]() The first book ever authored by Thrity Umrigar, a standalone book titled Bombay Time, revolves around the life and times of members of the Parsi community while in the disapora. Her debut book is called Bombay Time and it is shelved under the Asian (Indian) literature and cultural genres she also writes poetry and memoirs. Umrigar, who is a professor of English, debuted in 1990 she was still schooling at Harvard University by then. The literary heavyweights who inspired her include American authors John Steinbeck and Ernst Hemingway, alongside British scribbler Virginia Wolf. ![]() Moreover, she also studied at the Harvard University hard on the heels of winning a fellowship. For her undergraduate studies, she attended Bombay University before pursuing her postgraduate education in Ohio State University and Kent State University. ![]() ![]() Apparently, there’s someone else on the island. Miranda is a young girl who scarcely remembers living anywhere else but on a deserted island with her father – a strange man who claims to be Christian, and yet keeps household demons, enslaves spirits and sacrifices the occasional goat. ![]() Don’t you feel that way? But I would still love to see this at a theatre. ![]() It’s just not a structure that’s fun to read. I hate to say it, but as much as I’ve read of Shakespeare (and that’s basically just the compulsory reading we had to do at school), I wasn’t fond of it, and it’s mostly because I dislike reading plays. ![]() That has had me worried about writing this review, but I guess it IS a retelling, so it’s okay if you read it as a standalone. Today I’m reviewing Miranda and Caliban – a retelling of The Tempest by Shakespeare, which, I must admit, I have not read. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when he founds out she can't cook, he's determined to give her a few private lessons. Adam's resigned to have to put up with Miranda until this crazy dare is over. But she didn't bank on was Adam founding out that while she might be a food critic, she doesn't know how to cook. She wants to learn what really goes on behind the scenes and Adam Temple, the chef of Market, isn't about to stop her. And when the opportunity to spend a whole month inside premiere restaurant, Market, presents itself, she's definitely not about to say no. Miranda Wake is a food critic hungry to write a book. He’ll just have to give the tempting redhead a few private lessons of his own-teaching her what it means to cook with passion…and doing more with his hands than simply preparing sumptuous food. But she never expected Adam to find out her most embarrassing secret: she has no idea how to cook.ĪND HE KNOWS JUST HOW TO SATISFY HER CRAVINGS.Īdam’s not about to have his reputation burned by a critic who doesn’t even know the difference between poaching and paring. Surely Miranda can find a way to cut the hotshot chef down to size once she learns what really goes on at his trendy Manhattan restaurant. Can't Stand the Heat (A Recipe for Love Novel)įor sharp-tongued food critic Miranda Wake, the chance to spend a month in Adam Temple’s kitchen to write an exposé is a journalistic dream come true. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Lion and the Jewel is a quick read that is witty and fun to read. Whether that is good or bad is unclear to me but interesting to think about. The 'Lion', representing the traditional values and culture, was not as weak and aged as he appeared to be - I assume that is Soyinka's way of saying that the tradional culture isn't as ready to fade away either. As a Westerner myself, I started out with the preconceived notion that modernization would be a beneficial change but by the end of the play, I was not so sure. ![]() The village is still traditional in its daily life but one senses that it is on the verge of change. ![]() The headman of the village, 'the lion', is in his 60s and has several wives and concubines already but can pay. The play deals with the conflict between traditional ways and modernization for example, should a man pay a bride price in order to marry? The young schoolmaster, a believer in Western culture, wants to marry 'the jewel' Sidi but doesn't want to pay her bride price claiming it is old-fashioned (though the reader/viewer is also left with the impression that he can't afford it!). A thought-provoking play by the first African author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. ![]() ![]() Brave New World Revisited is a trenchant plea that humankind should educate itself for freedom before it is too late. He scrutinizes threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them. ![]() In this twelve-part work of nonfiction, one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy. ![]() Written more than twenty-five years later, Brave New World Revisited is a re-evaluation of his predictions based on the changes he witnessed over that time. When Aldous Huxley wrote his famous novel Brave New World, he did so with the belief that the dystopian world he created was a true possibility given the direction of the social, political and economic world order. Publication: Brave New World RevisitedPublication Record 386823 Author: Aldous Huxley Date: Catalog ID: P23 Publisher: Perennial Library. It is a frightening experience, indeed, to discover how much of his satirical prediction of a distant future became reality in so short a time." - New York Times Book Review ![]() "Huxley uses his erudite knowledge of human relations to compare our actual world with his prophetic fantasy of 1931. In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of. ![]() |