![]() ![]() And it mattered not that the result had brought Jocelyn MacCallum to Lairig Dubh as the laird's wife. ![]() It mattered not that he had suffered for his misjudgement. It mattered not that Athdar had been young and tended towards brash acts. The half-Norse, half-Scottish natural son of the Earl of Orkney did not suffer fools easily and at some time in the past, before even her birth, Athdar had done something very foolish and her father would never let it go. And bothered was not something she, or anyone, wanted her father to be. Just mentioning his name usually caused her father to look extremely bothered. If she showed her interest in Athdar, word would make it back to her father and then trouble would begin. Isobel wanted to show her excitement much as Cora did, but she held back. 'Will he be here for the evening meal, do you think?' Cora asked, watching her closely for her reply. ![]() 'He is leaving to return home,' she said. Still, he was a fine-looking man to gaze upon. From the decisive way he walked, looking neither right nor left, he had business with the laird and would not be slowed from his task. She turned to see who her friend was watching.Īthdar MacCallum, brother of the laird's wife Joc-elyn, strode through the yard, heading for the keep. Her friend Cora rarely took notice of the opposite sex, so this was something different, something special. The excited whisper drew Isobel's attention. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() What do you make of her treatment at the hands of those around her?ħ. Amina is a vital character in this novel. She feels at east with the family and "amongst the objects of their life," even pretending "they were mine." Why is she so smitten with the family? How is she so blind to the devastating consequences of her actions?Ħ. During her time in Kishtwar, Shalini savors her life with the Muslim couple who takes her in. Although never explained, why do you think Shalini is so intent on finding Bashir Ahmed? What does he represent to Shalini? What was Ahmed's relationship with her mother… and, perhaps, with Shalini herself?ĥ. Shalini's mother seems to suffer from mental illness: any thoughts as to a diagnosis? Talk about the way that she shaped Shalini's life? At what point does Shalini come to realize the impact her mother has had on her? How does that realization affect her?Ĥ. What role does Shalini's privileged position play in how she behaves and reacts to life's events?ģ. How would you describe Shalini? She is often oblivious to the injustices around her: is she uncaring or naive… or what?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 FAR FIELD. ![]() ![]() Obsessed by the coincidence, Afonso scans more and more films, identifies his “double” as journeyman actor Daniel Santa Clara, and learns the performer’s real name: Antonio Claro. An unidentified supporting actor in the film is the image of Tertuliano himself, five years earlier. Protagonist Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is a divorced high-school history teacher whose life is irretrievably altered when he watches a videotaped romantic comedy recommended to him by a colleague. ![]() ![]() ![]() The theme of shared identity, treated by such masters as Poe, Stevenson, and Dostoevsky, animates the 1998 Nobel winner’s latest. ![]() ![]() O’Brien authored a sequel to his original book, Racso and the Rats of NIMH, which was published in 1986. Daniel Bobker and Ehren Kruger are producing in the hopes of developing a successful film franchise. ![]() MGM has set Ice Age 5 scribe Michael Berg to script the new film, which is being planned as a live-action/CGI hybrid. The text was famously adapted as an animated film, The Secret of NIMH, by Don Bluth in 1982. Frisby, a recently-widowed field mouse who faces impossible odds in the quest to move her family before a farmer’s plow comes through. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH follows the titular Mrs. Published in 1971 with accompanying illustrations by Zena Bernstein, Mrs. O’Brien’s enduring children’s classic, Mrs. ![]() Although a big screen version was said to be in the works at Paramount Pictures a few years back, Deadline is today reporting that MGM has now secured the rights to develop a theatrical take on Robert C. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is a good reason for that, but those wicked women of the era were humans as well and deserve to be remembered as such, Lydia Robinson included. It was as fascinating as the rest of the novel.).Īustin breathes life into a figure I had never heard of, and into an era so many of us view as stiff and prudish. (Speaking of which: read the author’s note. Brontë’s Mistress is reminiscent of the novels of the Brontë sisters, but with a modern sentiment and enough subtlety that I needed to have it pointed out in the author’s note. Lydia is not always likable, but she is always compelling as a forty-something woman in the mid-nineteenth century. This is the question Finola Austin asks, and she more than delivers on the promise of a novel about a woman who never wrote one in defense of herself. ![]() ![]() ![]() What if she were more than a caricature, though? What if she were a living, breathing woman, with her own desires and failings. Finola Austin writes in her authors note, Brontë’s Mistress is a work of fiction, and she adds, I don’t pretend that it records what happened between Lydia and Branwell, but given. Most who have heard of her will know her as no more than a caricature made by Anne Brontë in a novel after a disastrous affair with Anne’s brother Branwell. Biographical Brontës Mistress: A Novel Audible Audiobook Unabridged Finola Austin (Author), Danielle Cohen (Narrator), & 1 more 146 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial A meticulously researched debut novel.In a word Juicy. You won’t find Lydia Robinson mentioned much in the historical record. Handsome, passionate, and uninhibited by social conventions, he’s also twenty-five to her forty-three. ![]() ![]() ![]() What it lacks in literary aspirations it more than makes up for in sheer excitement and fun. Some spy novels get better and more relevant with age, and Robert Ludlum's fabulous The Matarese Circle falls into that category. The Bourne movies, starring Matt Damon in the title role, have been commercially and critically successful ( The Bourne Ultimatum won three Academy Awards in 2008), although the story lines depart significantly from the source material. ![]() A non-Ludlum book supposedly inspired by his unused notes, Covert One: The Hades Factor, has also been made into a mini-series. ![]() Some of Ludlum's novels have been made into films and mini-series, including The Osterman Weekend, The Holcroft Covenant, The Apocalypse Watch, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum. Ludlum also published books under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd. He is the author of The Scarlatti Inheritance, The Chancellor Manuscript, and the Jason Bourne series- The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum-among others. There are more than 210 million of his books in print, and they have been translated into thirty-two languages. Robert Ludlum was the author of twenty-seven novels, each one a New York Times bestseller. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, the story is engaging and well-told and it's impossible to not be drawn into the drama of the Baudelaire orphans as they struggle to survive in the home of their kind-but-eccentric Uncle Monty. Like the rest of the novels in this series, this book is very slender and can be whipped through in a few short hours - if it has any drawbacks at all, it would perhaps be the price-to-page ratio. I had been fairly certain I would like the series for its dark humor, and the first book in the series - "The Bad Beginning" - most certainly did not disappoint, so I was not too surprised when I also loved "The Reptile Room". ![]() I came to this series after already watching the tie-in movie "Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events". ![]() A Series of Unfortunate Events 2: The Reptile Room / 9780061757143 ![]() ![]() ![]() Henry, a rightly renowned actress, is rather stiff in her role as Carver's mother though this might have been intended. Carver leads a fine cast though with a few exceptions. Director Robin Phillips (also a great stage director) is at his best in some very powerful scenes: 1) an awkward scene when Robert is with a kind prostitute (Wright) for the first time and shows his awkwardness (the two actors are brilliant in this scene) 2) Robert leading a small group of men when a gas attack occurs 3) two battle scenes which show a shocking twist of character. This fact is amplified in the story when an upper-class Englishwoman makes many stupid remarks about Canada. The Canadian perspective of World War I is welcome as it is so rarely portrayed in film. In addition to Carver, the cast includes Martha Henry, William Hutt, Jackie Burroughs, Ann-Marie MacDonald, and Susan Wright. Secondly, the cast includes many of the best actors renowned at the Stratford (Ontario) Theatre Festival and the Toronto theatre scene. ![]() ![]() Firstly, it is great to see a movie about Canadian history on a relatively big budget - at least in Canadian terms. This film is praiseworthy for various reasons. ![]() The movie is based on the novel by Timothy Findlay. In a wealthy Toronto household in 1914, teen-aged Robert Ross (Brent Carver) escapes his family troubles by enlisting in the Canadian military for World War I. ![]() ![]() ![]() With this super fun activity, students will be able to make the layers of our Earth and show their distinct makeup. Kids enjoy working with their hands and being able to create things. Want science experiments for every month of the year? Be sure to take a look at all of our Monthly Science Experiments Bundle. To connect this budding time of year with science, we’ve created these four May Science Experiments so your students can conduct science experiments and make hypotheses while asking and answering scientific questions. When incorporating the wonders of the Earth into our curriculum, students are learning without realizing they’re learning!Īnd I’m always looking for ways to create science experiments with a seasonal or holiday theme. We get creative, making this Mother’s Day Flower Gift and decorating our rooms with the creations we make from our Spring Flower Potato Painting. Students enjoy word building with this Flowers CVC Word Building activity and these Spring CVC Puzzles. ![]() We love showing off our math skills with our Insect Counting Mats and are so proud when we master telling time with our Spring Time Clock Puzzles. So we find interesting ways to incorporate Mother Nature into our curriculum. We look around and find our Earth is full of so many amazing and fun things. We’re all in the full swing for spring, which means lots of time to explore the world around us. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the remarkable story of how the impossible came true. ![]() Trying to help Luke was Mary MacCracken’s job – and a seemingly impossible challenge. All this – and Luke was only seven and a half years old. No adult could reach him, no teacher could control him, and no policeman could cow him. He’d set over a dozen major fires, and had a staggering record of thefts. Sitting quiet and withdrawn at a battered school desk, Luke had the looks of a shy angel – and a past that special needs teacher Mary MacCracken could barely believe.Īlready Luke had been picked up 24 times by the police. From the author of international bestsellers A Circle of Children and Lovey comes an inspiring true story of a gifted teacher’s determination to understand the ‘rotten’ city kid everyone has given up on. ![]() |