![]() Rumors ran rampant about governments trying to clean up their mess. Others died of cancer or infections due to weakened immune systems, while others vanished. Their Human bodies were unprepared for the shift. When the first infected Humans began changing in the late seventies, some didn’t survive. A dormant mutation within the virus was activated by the vaccine, resulting in the altering of human DNA, and giving birth to a new species: Therians. The vaccine known as Eppione.8 used strains from animals found to be immune to the virus, but one year after distribution, the course of human history was forever changed. Although no country would take credit for releasing the virus, the world’s top scientists came together to create a cure. ![]() DURING THE Vietnam War, the use of lethal biological warfare led to the spread of the Melanoe virus, infecting millions worldwide and causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Would you have preferred to have more of their relationship develop on the page, rather than off (not counting his profession of love much later in the book)?Ĩ. Why do you think the romance between Marie and Julian is limited to eye contact and fleeting glances. Did you appreciate the shifting perspectives and chronology? Or was it difficult to follow at times?ħ. The story has three different points of view and moves back and forth through time. Where you surprised at her later accomplishments?Ħ. What about Marie, whose point of view we follow? During training, she has trouble mastering a number of the tasks, so much so that she would appear unqualified. Would you have made the grade? What would have been most difficult for you?ĥ. ![]() ![]() Talk about the training process for the women and the rigors involved. What does Eleanor look for in her recruits? Why does she select each of the women she does?Ĥ. What do we learn about Eleanor Trigg, who initially was a secretary at SOE? Why is she given the responsibility to put together the spy team-what qualifies her in terms of experience and character? ( Eleanor is based on the real life of Vera Atkins: see below.)ģ. What possesses Grace Healy to open the suitcase at Grand Central and abscond with the photos? Would you have done so?Ģ. We'll add publisher questions if and when they're available in the meantime, use our LitLovers talking points to help start a discussion for THE LOST GIRLS OF PARIS. ![]() ![]() Although Wallace’s novel was destined for adaptation before it was even published, its delivery was similarly unusual.Īugust read the manuscript six months before publication, and got Columbia Pictures to option the rights for him. In characteristically preposterous fashion, the new-born baby shoots right out of his mother and slides down a hospital corridor, sending doctors and visitors sprawling in his wake. IntroductionĮarly on in the film, we’re shown Edward Bloom’s birth, or his version of it anyway. In Big Fish, the combination of August’s masterful plot structuring and Burton’s directorial sensibilities yields an interesting view of its characters past, present, and future. Burton has no shortage of fans, but the accessible quality of this understated masterpiece shouldn’t be ovelooked next to his more idiosyncratic fare. ![]() ![]() John August’s hugely quotable script takes the unusual structure of the novel and adapts it into a time-hopping series of vignettes that gradually paints a picture of the relationship between father and son by reconciling their clashing perspectives.ġ5 years on, it’s still interesting to look back on how the film converts the themes of fatherhood and the importance of storytelling into a visual medium. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Everyone I trust is telling me to read this book. “Gripping!”- Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Nothing short of amazing.”- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.”-Justin Cronin, The New York Times Book Review The Infinite Sea (2014) is the second book in Rick Yancey’s young adult science fiction trilogy The 5th Wave. ![]() “A modern sci-fi masterpiece.”- USA Today As the 5th Wave rolls across the landscape, Cassie, Ben, and Ringer are forced to confront the Others’ ultimate goal: the extermination of the human race.Ĭassie and her friends haven’t seen the depths to which the Others will sink, nor have the Others seen the heights to which humanity will rise, in the ultimate battle between life and death, hope and despair, love and hate. Now Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that binds us together is gone. Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity. The riveting follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The 5th Wave, hailed by Justin Cronin as “wildly entertaining.” ![]() ![]() This is probably my favorite series of all time though I think the graphic novelization leaves a little something to be desired. I think Cassandra Clare's writing is phenomenal and her plot twists are magnetizing. Of all the incarnations that are not the novel itself, this is definitely my favorite. The novel version of this has been made into a half decent movie and a sub par television series. As Clary learns more about her past, she, Jace, and her best friend Simon try to find her mom and foil an evil plot. The only safe place for her is with her kind. She is rescued by one of the teens from her 'hallucination,' Jace Wayland, who tells her that she is a demon-slayer, a Shadowhunter. ![]() ![]() ![]() She tries to write it off as a hallucination, but she comes home to find her apartment trashed, her mother missing, and some sort of horrible creature waiting for her. Clary Fray is a normal girl just trying to get into art school when, on a night out, she watches 3 mysterious teens who no one else seems to be able to see attack and kill what looked like a man. ![]() ![]() Meg Cabot: Is Your Boyfriend Undead or a Just a Deadbeat? ().Geeks of Note: Meg Cabot Embraces the “Geek” Label ().I’d recommend this to any fan of Meg Cabot, chick lit, or young adult books. I loved the characters, and how everything fit together perfectly.Įlle is a funny little character that likes to keep to herself and would rather float alone in her pool then go to the mall and try to make new friends. My edition that I borrowed from the library has practically no summary on it, so reading along with no expectations was a fun change. This was a really quick read for me, with a surprising twist. ![]() I love Meg Cabot! Once again, I flew through one of her books. As a bizarre drama begins to unfold, Ellie has to wonder, what part does she play in all this? Do the coincidences she’s piecing together really mean-as in King Arthur’s court-that tragedy is fast approaching for her new friends?Įllie doesn’t know if she can do anything to stop the coming trouble. not even, as Ellie is about to discover, herself. And Will, senior class president, quarterback, and all-around good guy.īut not everyone at Avalon High is who they appear to be. Maybe it’s not where Ellie wants to be, but if you have to start at a new school, Avalon High is typical enough: There’s Lance, the jock. At least according to Nancy.Īvalon High, I was starting to think, might not be so bad after all. ![]() Nancy is what you would call an optimist. Trust my best friend Nancy to see things that way. ![]() ![]() Lonely days stretch into weeks and Anne longs to escape the confines of her now mundane life. Though she’s barely worked a day in her life, Anne takes a job as a maid in the home of Master Drummond. There’s just one problem: he must convince his father to let him leave and never come back.įollowing the death of her parents, Anne Barrett is left penniless. Betrothed to a girl he doesn’t love and sick of the high society he was born into, all Teach wants is to return to the vast ocean he calls home. ![]() When Edward “Teach” Drummond, son of one of Bristol’s richest merchants, returns home from a year at sea, he finds his life in shambles. ![]() ![]() In this stunningly creative debut “filled with well-drawn characters…and smoldering passion,” ( Booklist) Nicole Castroman reimagines the origins of history’s most infamous pirate-Blackbeard. ![]() ![]() ![]() Teamed up with a handsome daredevil named Jack and a gang of girl revolutionaries called the Free Hawks, Saba stages a showdown that will change the course of her own civilization.īlood Red Road has a searing pace, a poetically minimal style, violent action, and an epic love story. She has the power to take down a corrupt society from the inside. So perhaps the most surprising thing of all is what Saba learns about herself: she is a fierce fighter, an unbeatable survivor, and a cunning opponent. Suddenly thrown into the lawless, ugly reality of the world outside of desolate Silverlake, Saba is lost without Lugh to guide her. Lugh is captured, and Saba embarks on a quest to get him back. But when a monster sandstorm arrives, along with four cloaked horsemen, Saba’s world is shattered. ![]() That’s fine by her, as long as her beloved twin brother Lugh is around. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. A girl goes on an epic journey through a bleak landscape in the first book of this post-Apocalyptic trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There was something about ‘teen’ attached to anything that was repulsive to me. “I don’t remember how I meant to stop it. “When I was twelve I made up my mind absolutely that I would not get any older,” O’Connor wrote in 1956 to her friend Betty Hester, who had pointed out a childlike quality in her. He needed the people I guess and got them. Needing people badly and not getting them may turn you in a creative direction, provided you have the other requirements. He wrote all the time, one thing or another, mostly speeches and local political stuff. “My father wanted to write but had not the time or money or training or any of the opportunities I have had….Anyway, whatever I do in the way of writing makes me extra happy in the thought that it is a fulfillment of what he wanted to do himself.” In a month-long series of exchanges – a rare expression of her tender feelings towards her father – she stressed his likeability: “I suppose what I mean about my father is that he would have written well if he could have. ![]() “She said that she always wrote about ducks and chickens and she said she never wanted to hear about another duck or a chicken.” “When we were in the third grade, Sister Consalata used to give Mary Flannery a real hard time about her compositions,” recalled a classmate. ![]() Her self-confidence was clear in her bold act of calling her parents by their first names – they were “Regina” and “Ed” to her from early on. As far as pressuring went, she was quite capable of digging in her heels. There is no evidence that O’Connor’s childhood was troubled. ![]() ![]() Why did I read this book: I wanted to read more about the women who were part of the war effort during World War II back home. And while Ida Mae chases her dream, she must also decide who it is she really wants to be. ![]() ![]() Hiding one’s racial heritage, denying one’s family, denying one’s self is a heavy burden. But even the WASP won’t accept her as a black woman, forcing Ida Mae to make a difficult choice of “passing,” of pretending to be white to be accepted into the program. When America enters the war with Germany and Japan, the Army creates the WASP, the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots-and Ida suddenly sees a way to fly as well as do something significant to help her brother stationed in the Pacific. But her daddy’s gone now, and being a woman, and being black, are two strikes against her. Her daddy was a pilot and being black didn’t stop him from fulfilling his dreams. ![]() Publication Date: 2009 (first edition) / 2010 on paperback ![]() |