![]() Atienza, Santa de Leones), also the latter stories feature men of the SEALs.įortalejos: Paso de Blas – an island somewhere in Palawan (or near to it), Kristine Hotel and Resort, Villa Kristine I’ll be doing an individual summary of the books in the near future, but for now let’s focus first on the series as a whole.īook #s: to date there are 53 books in the series, some stories have 3 parts, while most consist of two to one.Īuthors: Most of the books were written by Martha Cecilia, during the first part of the series, however, some authors (or is it only Amanda? sorry I skipped those which MC didn’t wrote) wrote for some of the books.Ĭharacters: If I’ll generalize the series, I’ll have to say that it is mainly about the Fortalejo and the Navarro clan, though some families were also introduced at some point (i.e. A lot of people maybe wondering what Kristine Series is all about, and now I’ll try to provide a summary of the series. ![]() This will be an overview of the books (not the drama). ![]()
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![]() ![]() In 1995, he was named the first ever Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction Writers of America. ![]() Though he wrote science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective fiction, and poetry, Petaja considered his work part of an older tradition of "weird fiction." Petaja was also a small press publisher. He was the author of 13 published novels, nearly 150 short stories, numerous poems, and a handful of books and articles on various subjects. Petaja's series brought him readers from around the world,[1 Emil Petaja (1915 - 2000) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer whose career spanned seven decades. Of Finnish descent, Petaja's best known works are comprised of a series of science fiction novels based on the Kalevala, the Finnish verse epic. Emil Petaja (1915 - 2000) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer whose career spanned seven decades. ![]() ![]() And it’s Michael Crichton, right? He is one of our best known creature sci-fi writers. It sure sounds like a book about zombies. I was shocked to find it wasn’t sci-fi.When I pulled Eaters of the Dead from my shelf, two things happened: It is almost tempting to Google InGen and expect to find real stocktickers or company data. With his science fiction, he often creates fictitious organizations or groundbreaking legal statutes–anything that will build up his coming story and provide a plausible backbone. The reader can hardly separate his “facts” from reality and is immediately drawn into whatever world Crichton has masterfully created. But the way he folds them into his introduction, they seem like an Author’s Note at the start of any other book, laying the real, historical foundation before diving into fiction. Right from the beginning of a Michael Crichton novel, he begins selling untruths. ![]() ![]() ![]() Namin’s parents run a tented food cart from dawn to curfew her sister works in a shoe factory. Jisun, the daughter of a powerful business mogul, grew up on a mountainside estate with lush gardens and a dedicated chauffeur. Success could lead to a life of rarefied privilege and wealth failure means being left irrevocably behind.įor childhood friends Jisun and Namin, the stakes couldn’t be more different. ![]() At South Korea’s top university, the nation’s best and brightest compete to join the professional elite of an authoritarian regime. ![]() Two young women of vastly different means each struggle to find her own way during the darkest hours of South Korea’s “economic miracle” in a striking debut novel for readers of Anthony Marra and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie. ![]() ![]() “More than grief, more than anger, there is a need. “They all decided they’d ride out in their sheets and pay Blue a visit.”īut sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. ![]()
![]() ![]() The characters explored so much hardship and obstacles and the ending was worth it. Unlike some erotica and romance novels where the characters have insta-love and spend 70% of the book ogling at each other’s body, this book explores a healthy love built on friendship, support and trust. It was somewhat long to be honest, but the slow burn was worth it. And this book increased my interest in romance books even more. But after reading some really good romance books recently, the genre is getting my interest. I’m not a big romance reader and I pick them up once in a blue moon. ![]() The book shines on its realistic portrayal of the characters and the plot, the humorous voice of the narrator, Sal, and how much the romance is slow burning and smoldering. ![]() The uniqueness about this book is not just the sports setting and premise. The story begins when Kulti comes to coach Sal’s regional women’s soccer team and slowly, slowly, friendship followed by love blossoms between the two. The story is about Salomé Casillas, 27yrs old professional soccer player who, since age seven, worshipped Reiner Kulti, a 39yrs retired international soccer player with a status similar to contemporary Messi and Ronaldo. This book is so mature (opposite of childish, not the other meaning) in romance, so adorable and realistic in its portrayal of its characters and the story. ![]() Honestly, hearing from GR reviews how amazing this book was, I had skyscraper expectations from this book and it did not disappoint me at all. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Double-digit growth has sheltered them through a SARS epidemic, massive earthquakes, and contamination scandals. No one realizes this possibility more than the handful of people who steer China’s massive economy. If China is no longer able to maintain a high growth rate or provide jobs for its ever growing labor force, massive public dissatisfaction and social unrest could erupt. Since Deng Xiaoping initiated economic reforms three decades ago, the party’s legitimacy has relied upon its ability to keep the economy running at breakneck pace. With this rapid downturn, the Chinese Communist Party suddenly looks vulnerable. The crisis, President Hu Jintao said recently, “is a test of our ability to control a complex situation, and also a test of our party’s governing ability.” During the same period, the Chinese stock market lost 65 percent of its value, equivalent to $3 trillion. In the last six months of 2008, 10 million workers, plus 1 million new college graduates, joined the already gigantic ranks of the country’s unemployed. Thousands of factories and businesses, especially those in the prosperous coastal regions, have closed. Exports, critical to China’s searing economic growth, have plunged. What was inconceivable a year ago now threatens their rule: an economy in freefall. The two dozen senior politicians who walk the halls of Zhongnanhai, the compound of the Chinese Communist Party’s leadership in Beijing, are worried. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In many places there were treated as second class citizens. African-Americans were not accepted into the institutions of society - schools, government, or business. It was a culture that was not accepted by white mainstream America. Here, writing of some of the crazy and debauched acts of his friend Neal Cassady, Ginsberg tells the reader that Cassady "leaped on negroes." The line works in two ways because it tells of an actual event in Cassady's life, but it also represents the way in which the Beat poets leaped into African-American culture of the day. The use of African-American culture, especially jazz music, is a crucial point of "Howl." Ginsberg references it in the first lines of the Part I, writing of the "Negro" streets. ![]() ![]() It is a documentary style of poetry, taking scenes and snippets from Ginsberg's own life and interweaving them with incidents of insanity and anarchy from the lives of his friends. The second half of Part I continues with many of the themes of the earlier lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first major development of the theme of Love and Hate can be observed in the very beginning, and it quickly develops into a conflict. The events of the tragedy cannot yet be foreseen, but the theme is evident from the start. Love and Hate can be seen very early from the prologue. The theme of Romeo and Juliet was introduced with haste. “From ancient grudge break to new mutiny” is another quote stemming from the prologue of Romeo and Juliet it exemplifies how the two families are going to fight again, due to an ancient grudge (Prologue). This quote is direct foreshadowing, telling us the future of the fight between something or someone. Additionally, the prologue also states, “Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean” (Prologue). ![]() From the prologue, “two star-crossed lovers,” it can be concluded that there will be two lovers in the story, presumably, Romeo and Juliet. In the story, the prologue clearly exemplifies the theme from a very early standpoint. The theme of the Love and Hate is evident at the beginning of the tragedy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() During World War II, he took a brief hiatus from children's literature to illustrate political cartoons, and he also worked in the animation and film department of the United States Army where he wrote, produced or animated many productions including Design for Death, which later won the 1947 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film. He published his first children's book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street in 1937. ![]() He also worked as an illustrator for advertising campaigns, most notably for FLIT and Standard Oil, and as a political cartoonist for the New York newspaper PM. He left Oxford in 1927 to begin his career as an illustrator and cartoonist for Vanity Fair, Life and various other publications. Seuss" as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and as a graduate student at Lincoln College, Oxford. His work includes many of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death. ![]() He is known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel ( / s uː s ˈ ɡ aɪ z əl, z ɔɪ s -/ ( listen) Ma– September 24, 1991) was an American children's author and cartoonist. ![]() |