In its very silence, the populace seems infinitely more mature than all these puppets bickering amongst themselves about how to govern it. Nothing we’re being shown is adequate to the situation, not by far. We’re beginning to suspect that it’s only against voting itself that people continue to vote. Those who still vote seem to have no other intention than to desecrate the ballot box by voting as a pure act of protest. From left to right, it’s the same nothingness striking the pose of an emperor or a savior, the same sales assistants adjusting their discourse according to the findings of the latest surveys. The sphere of political representation has come to a close. “The future has no future” is the wisdom of an age that, for all its appearance of perfect normalcy, has reached the level of consciousness of the first punks. Everyone agrees that things can only get worse. Those who claim to have solutions are contradicted almost immediately. From those who seek hope above all, it tears away every firm ground. From whatever angle you approach it, the present offers no way out.
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✨ "Eccoci ancora qui" e "E se capita a noi?", di Becky Albertalli e Adam Silvera, con la traduzione di Roberta Verde, sono editi da Mondadori. Quando, invece, la felicità è solo a un passo da noi. Un romanzo Young Adult scritto da due professionisti del settore, che qui ci fanno riflettere su quell' capace, quasi sempre, di bloccarci. Una storia che, come tradizione vuole, riporta in scena sentimenti ed emozioni a lungo sopiti, tenuti nascosti, al riparo da un universo magico e spesso meschino. □️ "Eccoci ancora qui" è il sequel del fortunatissimo "E se capita anche a noi?", scritto a quattro mani dai sempre meravigliosi Becky Albertalli ("Tuo, Simon") e Adam Silvera ("L'ultima notte della nostra vita"), che non hanno perso nemmeno una briciola del talento che li contraddistingue, portando su carta una storia che emoziona, fa ridere e commuovere. La Grande Mela abbraccia di nuovo i due ragazzi, ma cosa farà l'universo? Li riporterà ai vecchi tempi o li terrà lontani? Arthur è sempre Arthur, impacciato, ma innamorato perso del teatro e quindi di ritorno a New York per un'offerta lavorativa senza precedenti, cosa che suscita le preoccupazioni di Mickey, il suo fidanzato. □ Ben continua a faticare, sia all'università che a lavoro, ma riesce ad affrontare ogni giorno grazie a Mario, con cui ancora non ha definito la relazione. He is a siren-hunting pirate, and his crew has just caught a siren. The Midasan Prince Elian sails on the pirate ship Saad with his loyal crew. The Sea Queen then tells Lira that she must hunt for the heart of a regular sailor for her birthday, taking away her glory as “The Prince’s Bane,” the siren known for killing only princes. Lira offers to take Khalia’s punishment to protect her from the Sea Queen’s wrath, and the Sea Queen beats her and crushes the heart she stole. When they return from their hunt, the Sea Queen isn’t happy and decides to punish them both-Lira for hunting too soon, and Khalia for not stopping her. She only steals hearts from princes, and since the ship is the only vessel on which the Adekarosin prince sails, she decides to take his heart while her cousin takes the queen’s. Though Lira is still two weeks away from her birthday and therefore not supposed to steal a heart, she notices that there’s a prince aboard the ship. They stalk a human ship, and when they are close enough, they begin to sing their hypnotic siren song, which will lure their human victims into the sea and to their deaths. Lira, a young siren, is tasked with taking her younger cousin Khalia out to hunt for a heart for her birthday. 'Utterly gripping, written with an acid sharpness that leaves an indelible dent in the back of the mind.' Sunday Telegraph. 'Marks a new departure for the American novel.' Observer The New York Trilogy is the modern novel at its finest: a truly bold and arresting work of fiction with something to transfix and astound every reader. In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it means to be human. It is a riveting work of detective fiction worthy of Raymond Chandler, and at the same time a profound and unsettling existentialist enquiry in the tradition of Kafka or Borges. The Trilogy is three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. The New York Trilogy is perhaps the most astonishing work by one of America's most consistently astonishing writers. In fact, he managed to write them so well that I could so easily put a face of a child I knew to the characters. Buyea managed to write them so well that they felt like real children with authentic issues and believable stories. And this book has seven! SEVEN!!! Each of these students had their own defined personality traits and characteristics that were unique to them and made them distinct characters. Review: I think I automatically love any book told in alternating viewpoints. He manages to get to know his students individually and make them enjoy school, but when an unfortunate accident befalls their beloved teacher, the students come to grips with the tragedy in their own different ways, and come together as a class in the process. Each of these seven students has their own dilemma, but they all come together in this classroom headed by new teacher Mr. Summary: This is the story of one fifth-grade class at Snow Hill School, told through the eyes of seven different students. If you find this genre of novels to be not to your liking in any way, shape, or form, this series is not for you. Much like a student-teacher novel, the Off Balance series is a highly forbidden romance story between a gymnast and a coach. Fighting for a dream becomes only half the battle when Adrianna’s fate is sealed, leaving them both with their biggest challenge yet. Though the dynamics shift between coach and gymnast, nothing can prepare them for the agonizing truth that is to come. With boundaries set and lines clearly defined, Kova will now have to be the one to relinquish control in order to regain Adrianna’s trust. In doing so, she ignores the warning signs as both the extreme training and unending heartbreak begin to take their toll. After Kova’s devastating betrayal, Adrianna must become her own champion and place her Olympic dream ahead of all else. Antoinette descends into a fever for six weeks. The family narrowly escapes, but Pierre is badly injured. One night, a mob sets fire to the house at Coulibri. Mason to move the family out of harm’s way, but he ignores them. Annette and Aunt Cora, fearing retribution, urge Mr. The show of ostentatious wealth causes resentment in the neighboring village of poor ex-slaves. After seeing Antoinette in Tia’s dirty dress, Annette resolves to lift the family out of poverty. Antoinette has a short-lived friendship with a little black girl, Tia, until the two fall out over a bet while they’re swimming, and Tia runs away with Antoinette’s money and clothes. Antoinette seeks refuge in the gardens and the company of her nurse Christophine, who is known for her practice of obeah, a voodoo-like folk magic. Annette becomes withdrawn and depressed, shunning Antoinette and talking to herself. Her family, consisting of her mother, Annette, and her mentally disabled younger brother, Pierre, are destitute and isolated after her father’s death and the passage of the Emancipation Act of 1833, which freed Jamaica’s slaves. Antoinette Cosway, a creole, or Caribbean person of European descent, recounts her memories of growing up at her family’s estate, Coulibri, in Jamaica in the 1830‘s. Is her mother truly in danger, or are Anna’s visions merely illusion? And could the great Houdini really be her father, or is it just another of Marguerite’s tricks?įrom Teri Brown comes a world bursting with magic, with romance, and the temptations of Jazz Age New York-and the story of a girl about to become the mistress of her own destiny. And when a mysterious young man named Cole moves into the flat downstairs, introducing Anna to a secret society that studies people with gifts like hers, she is forced to confront her past and rethink everything she’s ever known. Because while Marguerite's own powers may be a sham, Anna possesses a true ability to sense people’s feelings and foretell the future.īut as Anna’s powers intensify, she begins to experience frightening visions of her mother in peril, which leads her to explore the powers she’s tried so long to hide. The real trick is keeping her own gifts secret from her opportunistic mother. As the illegitimate daughter of Harry Houdini-or so Marguerite claims-sleight of hand illusions have never been a challenge for Anna. A gifted illusionist, Anna assists her mother, the renowned medium Marguerite Van Housen, in her stage show and séances, easily navigating the underground world of magicians, mediums, and mentalists in 1920s New York. How much – was he still “alive” in some way, or is it just a small part of his identity imprinted on her – was supposed to be the ambiguous part. The whole thing with Zannah’s hand twitching was only to show that some part of Bane had passed through to her. I am Darth Zannah, Dark Lord of the Sith and your new Master,” I thought it would be pretty clear. I wrote the scene from Cognus’s point of view to keep you guessing to the last instant, but when Zannah proclaims “Darth Bane is gone. I’ll be honest I thought it was pretty clear in my writing. So, who won the final confrontation between Bane and Zannah? Yet some readers are still confused, and I feel I owe it to them to provide that closure (even though I know some of them will be angry at me for killing off their personal favorite). I wanted to provide a definitive answer… and I thought I did. But I didn’t want to take the easy way out and dodge the question. I knew that no matter who won, Bane or Zannah, I would have people angry at me. But the truth is, I never intended this to cause so much confusion out there. You might think this is strange – an author “spoiling” his own work. Disclaimer: DO NOT read this unless you want the ending of Dynasty of Evil SPOILED! The people involved in this research are clearly criminals by any legal or moral standard, demented creeps would probably be more to the point. What is also grim is the apologetic and flag waving tone that creeps in and out of the work as it progresses trying to give it a "balanced" perspective. Learn how the CIA would swap their youngest child subjects as favors to academic primate researchers to be used as "lab rats." Learn how parents were turned against their own children and were convinced to sign away their kids human rights to the foibles of government torturers. If you wonder just how much fun it was on the other side of the electrodes, you can read this book. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, cheat, steal, rape and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the all-highest." Where else indeed can sadists, pedophiles and satanists frolic together with total immunity under the cloak of "national security" secrecy laws. FOIA often brings us precious quotes like the reminiscence by Captain George White when he retired from CIA mind control work in 1966. |