![]() ![]() The innkeeper she imagines to be a former sailor. She imagines the wise men as an astronomer from Korea (Melchior), a Mongolian military leader (Gaspar) and a learned eunuch slave from Africa (Balthazar). Lofts imagines a backstory for the lesser known characters and fills out the lives of those you may be more familiar with. It’s the story of all the people converging on the nativity - Mary, Joseph, the three wise men, one of the shepherds, even the innkeeper. ![]() ![]() I have since learned that Lofts was known for the detail in her historical novels and that was one thing I enjoyed about How Far to Bethlehem. Last week, after finishing a book for Kirkus and turning in my final paper before the winter break, I decided it would make a good Advent read. Norah Lofts was not an author I knew of when I picked up How Far to Bethlehem at the Five Colleges Book Sale last spring. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Came across a comment from the author on Goodreads that first 2 books are about King & Doe and book 3- Lawless will be Bear’s story. ![]() Will whoever reads it please let me know if it ends in a cliffhanger? Pretty, pretty please? I don’t want to risk another Italian, hands waving, head shaking, hair pulling rant like the one I had last time I read a cliffhanger.Ĭheryl: Fabi, I haven’t read Tyrant, but I was wondering the same thing. ![]() if you haven’t read King yet, it’s on my short list of favorites for 2015 – it’s my favorite “gritty” book.įabi: Tyrant just landed in my Kindle. ![]() I may squirrel away from the third in that Warprize series to see what happened… Oh, and Maryse…. *Squeeeeeee*ĭonna: King by T.M Frazier intensely goodĪnne: Finished King and loved it!! That ending though! So happy Tyrant is coming out soon. Marit: OMG OMG OMG!!!! I’m 22% into KING by T.M Frazier! Guys, you HAVE to read this book I’m going crazy and I can’t go to sleep now! He’s so HOT and bossy.and she’s so vulnerable. Well guess what? We are on Book #3 now, ’cause IT. Sounds like fun! But there was lots of moaning over the fact that everyone had to wait for book #2 (guess King had a killer cliffhanger). <- I KNOW this one set many in our reading crew ON FIRE!!!! Dark, gritty, raw + a bossy alpha jerk (bad guy?). MARYSE’S SURPRISE FROM HER FAVORITE BOOK BOYFRIEND’S.ALL MY REVIEWS (ALPHABETICAL BY AUTHOR). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An enthusiastic spiritualist, he wrote an article in 1920 that used these pictures as reference material. These pictures became a sensation when no other than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spoke out about them, claiming that they were proof of psychic phenomena. Through unusual circumstances, these pictures eventually caught the public eye. The resulting work is a spoof of one of Britain’s more interesting urban legends: the story of the Cottingley Fairies, which began in 1917 when Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths took pictures of themselves with cardboard cutout fairies. Together, they collaborated on ‘Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book’. Brian Froud is an illustrator and was one of the designers that worked on ‘The Dark Crystal’, ‘Labyrinth’ and on ‘The Empire Strikes Back’s Yoda. Terry Jones is a member of the legendary comedy troupe Monty Python, a director and an author. Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book, by Terry Jones and Brian Froud 8.5 The publisher (at the request of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Fairies) notes that no fairies were injured or killed in the manufacturing process… Handwritten and handsomely bound, this book is as surprising as it is pleasing. Instead of pressing flowers in it, she pressed fairies (with a resulting look remarkably similar to watercolors). Summary: This handsome and unusual book is the diary kept by Lady Cottington. ![]() ![]() ![]() By her providing the front cover in pink gave it a princess touch to it. ![]() The illustrations that Maryn Roos provides makes her black and white illustrations standout, and not too overwhelming. It also shows that a person can accomplished anything if they put their mind to it. more ll the raw emotions that age group goes through when they do not want to do something. It is a book that a young girl in elementary or middle school that could identify with. Her mom and her costume creations reminds me of a person with a dream, and does all she can do to make her dream come true. Whoopi also did a great job in describing in detail of Alexandrea and her friends personalities and the level of skills in their ballerina activity. This story also touch on the different lifestyle of someone that had left the south and adjusting to the north. It provided terms that a ballerina may use or come across. It also gave me a glimpse about the life of a ballerina. From the first page to the last page the book was excellent an a good read. Review 1: When I first saw the book, and I saw Whoopi's name as the author, I had some doubts about this book. ![]() |