Like in the beginning when she just kept going to the Hades’ club for seemingly no reason at all? Or when she was forced by the contract to produce life in the underworld and thought she could just bring some gardening tools and some dollar store seeds and that would just work? She holds the pretense of being upset at first but really she just doesn’t do anything about it. It’s weird cause she’s sorta being portrayed as some strong willed independent woman but her actions say the complete opposite, everyone in the book basically just pushes her around and forces her into unfavourable situations and she just goes along with it. She had zero reason and just DID NOT THINK. Persephone is mind-blowingly ignorant and clueless and I just couldn’t understand any of her actions or decisions she made. I feel like the problem is that it lures you in with the premise of an unique and creative modern day retelling of Persephone and Hades (which sounds amazing btw if there actually is a good version of this please let me know) but it really just is a cliche billionaire romance with Greek god characters.Įverything that I deeply deeply disliked: I’m very sad to say I’m pretty disappointed with this book.
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Jasmine thinks Yumi is the no-show camper, Kay. Jasmine sees Yumi and welcomes her to the summer comedy camp. When she hears her favorite YouTube comedian, Jasmine Jasper, inside, she can’t resist peeking in. On her way to the library to study, Yumi discovers a comedy club opening up. If Yumi can pass the SSAT with a 98% or better then she can get an academic scholarship to her private school. To this end, Yumi’s mom signs her up for Hagwon – test-prep school – to help her study for the SSAT. Unfortunately, Yumi’s mom still wants her to go to the private school because she believes it will help her get into a good university. So when her mom tells her they can no longer afford her private school because the family’s restaurant isn’t doing well, Yumi is thrilled. Yumi Chung is enjoying her summer and the fact that she doesn’t have to go to her private school and deal with a bully everyday. Review by Jakki Licare Stand up, Yumi Chung! By Jessica Kim | Cover Illustration by Jennifer Hom Pris's acrobatic means of attacking Deckard? When Roy Batty chases Deckard in his shorts (when a few moments before he was fully clothed?) The film goes over-the-top to the point where I find myself asking, "why in the world would the characters do that?!" But here's what's interesting: as silly as Blade Runner may get it never betrays its own world. Particularly in its more climactic moments where the protagonist faces off against a replicant. In some ways, many ways, Blade Runner strikes me as silly. Blade Runner is easily one of the best looking films ever made. In fact, when I got to the Final Cut, which had been cleaned up, restored, and remixed, the picture and sound quite literally took my breath away. 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What follows is a very stark look at how many lives are affected by one action. The four teens are thrown together when Josh gets Ellie pregnant. The novel is told from the perspectives of four characters: Ellie, an insecure girl who sleeps around in a misguided attempt to gain self esteem Corinne, who despite being a thoroughly decent person is often overlooked by both boys and girls for being shy and reserved Josh, a boy with a tough home life who is genuinely good at heart, but a little lost and Caleb, a closed off boy struggling with his own identity. However, Jumping Off Swings is one of the best books I've ever read-a blunt, raw look at teenage pregnancy as well as alcoholism, abortion, loyalty and the deep rooted problems teenagers face in their lives. As someone who, at 17, has read more books than most people twice my age, it is rare that I say a book is 'one of my favorites' because it is too hard to pick favorites. 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'It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.' Drawing on this Irish saying, Tuama relates ideas of shelter and welcome to our journeys of life, using poetry, story, biblical reflection. There's an old Irish proverb: 'It is in the shelter of each other that the people live'. From master storyteller and host of On Being's Poetry Unbound, P draig Tuama, comes an unforgettable memoir of peace and reconciliation, Celtic spirituality, belonging, and sexual identity. It wasn’t just the constant surveillance from the home’s cameras, or the malfunctioning technology that woke the household with booming music, or turned the lights off at the worst possible time. Writing to her lawyer from prison, she struggles to explain the events that led to her incarceration. What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare-one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten-by the luxurious “smart” home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss-a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. When she stumbles across the ad, she’s looking for something else completely. No wonder then that Bhagat's waltz with Bollywood seems to be just getting better with every novel that's turned into a movie. He has an incredible ability to communicate, especially with the youth." All aspects just so correct - writing, directing, music and performances."Īctor Vivek Oberoi tweeted: "In my opinion Chetan Bhagat is by far the most successful contemporary Indian writer of our times! His individual fan following is epic. Whether 16 or 60, people of different sensibilities, generations and ideas are flocking to the theatres to watch the movie, about two states, different cultures and families and one love story.Ĭommenting on the movie, megastar Amitabh Bachchan has said: " '2 States'.I like. While Alia had read it before it was getting made into a film and found it to be "beautiful", Arjun has said that the bestseller occupies a space on his late mother Mona Shourie Kapoor's bookshelf till date. Whether it's a victim's eyelids sewn shut or a decayed human finger dangling from a wind chime, Koontz provides enough horrific detail and gross-out gore to turn a pathologist's stomach.īut it's the scene in which Mr. The author also makes prodigious reference to the heroes and villains of pop-culture violence.Īnd you can't avoid Koontz's numerous, gratuitously gruesome glimpses of the killer's craft. 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Bosch―whose real name was Jheronimus van Aken―was widely copied and the number of surviving works by Bosch’s followers exceeds the master’s own production by more than tenfold. In his pictorial translation of proverbs, in particular, Bosch was very much an innovator. In his Temptation of St Anthony triptych, for example, the artist shows a messenger devil wearing ice skates, evoking the popular expression that the world was “skating on ice”―meaning it had gone astray. Many subsidiary scenes illustrate proverbs and figures of speech in common use in Bosch’s day. Alongside traditional hybrids of man and beast, such as centaurs, and mythological creatures such as unicorns, devils, dragons, and griffins, we also encounter countless mixed creatures freely invented by the artist. One of his greatest inventions was to take the figural and scenic representations known as drolleries, which use the monstrous and the grotesque to illustrate sin and evil, and to transfer them from the marginalia of illuminated manuscripts into large-format panel paintings. Bosch’s paintings are populated with grotesque scenes of fantastical creatures succumbing to all manner of human desire, fantasy, and angst. In the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. |
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