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# 93: The Curse of the Blue Figurine by John Bellairs:
Night lay over the little cluster of green-roofed cottages. Now dark clouds came rushing in to cover the stars, and it rained. Wet drops pattered on the slanted roofs and on the gravel path. It rained for half an hour, a heavy pelting downpour. Then the clouds, driven by a strong wind, blew on past over the ragged top of Hellbent Mountain, and the stars shone down once again. Instide the cabin Johnny and the professor slept on. The chain lock and the sliding steel bolt held the door fast. But what was this? A tiny tinkling sound, and the chain fell from its groove.
Synopsis: Ebil finds a new home in the soul of Johnny Dixon, a pudgy, near-orphan in 1950s Massachusetts, who stumbles into a trap laid by an evil sorcerer/Catholic priest.
( Nothing says festive holidays like a good old fashioned evil curse. ) |
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Dec. 28th, 2009 @ 05:30 pm
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Total Icon Count: 55
- 53 BBS (most from new Famitsu scans)
- 2 other KH (fanart)
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like every day's my own
Crossposted everywhere, sorry if you see it more than once! |
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Important to say this book was based on TV show Criminal Minds, which is my current guilty pleasure.
That being said, on with the review.
( Finishing School )
Current Mood:  angry |
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Yeah, I have more fan art but not really much of anything this time. Oh well...
Here's a preview:
It links to my scrapbook...Current Mood:  post Christmas blues |
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Not a lot to say. Go watch it at the official site or youtube. It's seven minutes long, so you can expect lots of stuff to be shown. Watch at your own discretion.
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X-POST: book_worm, bookish, booksarelove, readplease & the reading rooms
Title: The Separating Sickness, Mai Ho'oka'awale: Interviews with Exiled Leprosy Patients at Kalaupapa, Hawai'i
Author: Ted Gugelyk, Milton Bloombaum
Genre: Non-fiction, Hawaiiana, Hawaiian History
URL: Amazon
Price: US$ 15.95
Summary: Interviews with Exiled Leprosy Patients at Kalaupapa, Hawaii. Patients tell about having bounties placed on them, being captured, quarantined and imprisoned for life as leprosy patients. Published for the Ma'i Ho'oka'awale Foundation. 16 pages of color photographs.
My Review: This is an important work, not only because it helps convey what life was like at Kalaupapa on the island of Moloka'i for the "patients" interred there, but mostly because it records the feelings, stories, perseverance and strength of character of the residents of the one-time "leprosy settlement."
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Dec. 27th, 2009 @ 08:55 pm
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) circebe, posting in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) books
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Has anyone else read The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle? What did you think of it? Have you applied anything to your life from the book? What changes have you noticed? |
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# 92: Slow Dance in Autumn by Philip Lee Williams:
The Blaze Motel was usually below industry-standard occupancy because the rooms were never held more than two hours at a time. It consisted of two cinder-block wings painted an appalling yellow, with a gravel courtyard in the middle. The office was in front of the building on the right. I parked and went in and took Ginny with me. Huel Toomey was the proprietor, and when I got inside, he was standing on the cluttered desk, holding a copy of Stockman's Journal and trying to squash a spider that was scuttling frantically across the ceiling.
Synopsis: World's worst PI (who has read every book in creation) skulks around Atlanta screwing up a case, banging one of the players and drinking his own liver in a blender. It's like if Sam Spade sucked at being a detective and went on a bender.
( Oh yes. You read that correctly. Like a patient etherized upon a table. Mm-hm. ) |
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 Tally Youngblood’s sacrifice from Uglies has turned her into a beautiful, tall, fun-loving, disease-free, and anti-infection masterpiece. In short, she’s a Pretty. Like all pretties, she’s forgotten a lot of what most her life was like as an Ugly beyond the normal dumb “tricks” Uglies do for sport and, of course, being ugly. She drinks champagne, parties all night, stays up until the wee hours of the morning, and wakes up just in time to get ready for the next evening shindig. The only problem is Tally’s also forgotten why she became pretty. When a mysterious stranger arrives with a message from her past, Tally struggles to remember what brought her to New Pretty Town in the first place.
Who’s Croy and what does he have to do with David--a name and face that rises out of her past like a ghost--or, for that matter, with her new best friend, Shay, or boyfriend, Zane? What do the terrifying Specials want with her and why are she and her friends now being closely monitored?
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My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story
Video: English Arabic Description The frontline in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, Gaza is constantly reported as a place of violence and terror. Ramzy Baroud's memoir explores the daily lives of the people in that turbulent region: the complex human beings -- revolutionaries, mothers and fathers, lovers, and comedians -- who make Gaza so much more than just a disputed territory. At the heart of Baroud's tale is the story of his father who, driven out of his village to a refugee camp, took up arms to fight the occupation while trying to raise a family. Ramzy Baroud: "This is a book about Gaza. It is also a book about my family, and in particular my father, how they moved from living as Palestinian farmers, growing their own crops, to fleeing for their lives and ending up in a Gaza refugee camp. Throughout the book I spell out the context of the Zionist invasion, and interweave my family story within the wider history of my people and the destruction of their old ways of life. So far we have many books from Israelis, some sympathetic and others not, regarding the events that led to the creation of the State of Israel, and its later expansion. But there is really very little that tells the story from those of us who lost everything. I am proud to tell you the story of my father; he symbolizes the fire of resistance in every Palestinian heart; the resistance of all human beings who are oppressed, in this case by the Zionists of Israel and by the imperial forces that support them. The writing of this book has been for me a passion, yet it is none the less an accurate reflection that has kept the Palestinian resistance alive for so long over such great odds." |
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#91: Chile Death by Susan Wittig Albert:
"Sure, come on over," shae said, when I reminded her that our morning conversation had been interrupted. "In fact, come for supper. I made potato salad and marinated some chicken. Clyde's gonna put it on the grill so's I can take a load off my tired feet. We won't have a thing in the world to do but sit in the yard and criticize his cooking."
Synopsis: Breezy, sassy culinary mystery featuring the unsinkable China Bayles, this time helping her shot-in-the-line-of-duty boyfriend get out of his depression by assisting when he judges a chili cookoff. Which totally would have worked had someone not dropped dead in the middle of the contest.
( Yeah, I'm just going to read them in the order the library flings them at me. ) |
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Kind of a random post (wheee) but I was browsing Strapya World and found these.
Aka kingdom hearts cell phone strap doods. Cute, eh?
Also: I am so clued out with the new KH stuff! D: |
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I've got Final Fantasy III (DS) for sale here and some Final Fantasy figures available here.
You can see my feedback here.
Happy holidays! :) |
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 "The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the apparition of a little, well, prince, who asks him to draw a sheep. "In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey," the narrator recalls. "Absurd as it seemed, a thousand miles from all inhabited regions and in danger of death, I took a scrap of paper and a pen out of my pocket." And so begins their dialogue, which stretches the narrator's imagination in all sorts of surprising, childlike directions." [From an Amazon.com review] The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery is a sweet and profound book, it is short, but reading it will probably be one of the most chrished experiences in your life. The book is available online here: http://wikilivres.info/wiki/The_Little_Prince |
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XPOST: booksarelove, book_worm, bookis, readplease, thereadingroom
Title: Mama Fish
Author: Rio Youers
Genre: Dark Fiction (horror/speculative)
URL: Amazon
Price: $7.99 (note that this is a novella length work at 92 pages)
Summary (from the publisher): At Harlequin High School In 1986, Kelvin Fish was the oddball, the weird kid that no one would talk to, except for Patrick Beauchamp who was determined to learn more. When Patrick's curiosity about Kelvin leads him into a bizarre and tragic series of events, Patrick gets much more than he bargained for.
My Review: Damn, Rio Youers can write.
Mama Fish is an interesting little novella and one that is hard to categorize. Part coming-of-age, part befriended misfits, part urban horror, and part speculative, this novella is most certainly a page-turner, keeping me engrossed the whole way.
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Dec. 24th, 2009 @ 03:31 pm
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ICONS:
Kingdom Hearts [45]
PREVIEW:
  
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