![]() ![]() ![]() But in Firestarter, King emphasized the fundamental fear that people in power can't be trusted by creating The Shop, a secretive organization which conducted MK-Ultra style experiments on a group of young adults, including Charlie's eventual parents, Andy and Victoria. In his previous novels about gifted people, the abilities were apparently latent, things the characters were born with. But when it came to writing pyrokinetic little Charlie McGee, King added the ingredient of deep, paranoid terror that comes from knowing that the very people you were taught would help you if you ever get into trouble, the people in charge of not just your house, but of everything, can't be trusted. Carrie White and Danny Torrance had to face bullies and dangerous parents, and those are scary enough. He's also always had a sweet spot for kids in peril, from Danny Torrance to Jack Sawyer in The Talisman to poor little Tad Trenton in Cujo.įirestarter, King's 1980 science fiction/horror novel, blends each of these thematic ingredients with one of his other hallmarks, something that crept into things like The Stand and eventually took prominence in The Dead Zone: A distrust of governmental authority figures. Of the first 10 novels the legendary author published after his 1974 debut, four of them feature a protagonist with some kind of mental superpower, whether it's telekinesis in Carrie, the ability to see ghosts in The Shining, or clairvoyance in The Dead Zone. ![]() Stephen King has always been fascinated by people with strange and often dangerous mental gifts. ![]()
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![]() I’m a book collector, and I’m glad I bought the book, which will sit proudly on my bookshelf. And on its own, this book brings clearer awareness to an illness that is often stigmatised. I understand that OCD and Autism are two separate conditions that might have overlapping behavioural symptoms. And if I may say so, a book that lifts the reader or those with friends or family suffering from OCD or Autism to just take it easy. But this book is charming and remarkably clever. And for a writer the challenges of writing narrative in first person, articulating personal traumatic experiences coupled with living the experience is exceptionally hard. ![]() Writing autobiography’s can be a challenge. I especially liked how effortlessly the story flowed. Laurie Gough is a remarkable and gifted story teller! Absolutely riveting! I loved it! ![]() A fitting tribute to her father’s death, and her sons illness from OCD. I was totally immersed and profoundly moved by such sweet devotion by a mother to help her child through the grieving process. This is a personal, very intimate story told beautifully with a poignant simplicity that shows the levels a mother will go to protect her child. ![]() A story that touches the core of human emotion. ![]() ![]() But we don’t have normal sewers like the ground districts do. ![]() “It doesn’t just disappear into nothingness. “Here’s a little brain exercise for you, Azure: I used to wonder where all the water goes,” said Neela, sitting on a stool outside the tub. He closed his eyes tightly so that the soap on his head wouldn’t burn them. “Streams of brown, soapy water ran from him toward the drain. The Destroyer of Worlds: An Answer to Every Question Show these darn Dragons just who exactly they’re messing with. Fight, and fight, and fight until there’s nothing left. We fight because we believe that our civilization-as flawed as it may be-is something worth saving. ![]() They fight because their leaders told them to. And what’s more: they fight for an inferior cause. We’ve proven to them what a serious mistake that was. ![]() ![]() I tell you, we are hurting, we are bleeding, we are struggling, but so are the Dragons. That means that all of those who’ve died in the past, everything we worked for, everything we fought for, everything we sacrificed for is at stake here and now. The enemy looks not only to take our lives but to erase our civilization, erase our history, erase the memory of our very existence. “I am a Malkuthian just like you, a proud Malkuthian. ![]() ![]() ![]() A phone call summons her back to Sydney, where her beloved grandmother, Nora, who raised Jess when her mother could not, has suffered a fall and is seriously ill in hospital.Īt Nora’s house, Jess discovers a true crime book chronicling a long-buried police case: the Turner Family Tragedy of 1959. ![]() Having lived and worked in London for nearly two decades, she now finds herself unemployed and struggling to make ends meet. Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia. The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times and #1 Globe and Mail bestselling author of The Clockmaker’s Daughter, a sweeping saga that begins with a shocking crime that echoes across continents and generations.Īt the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although the King no longer has executive or political power, he remains the U.K.’s head of state and a symbol of national identity.Īt a time when double-digit inflation is making everyone in the U.K. “Even in a world where people are sated with on-demand entertainment, people will stop and stare,” said Michael Cole, a former BBC royal correspondent, “because it will be a spectacular procession and a ritual, a ceremony, unlike anything that occurs anywhere in the world.”īut like the best dramas, it’s a show with a message.įor 1,000 years and more, British monarchs have been crowned in grandiose ceremonies that confirm their right to rule. “They can protest, but they can’t hold their flag,” shouted Karen from Devon, southwest England. 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The group has explored many themes - feminist histories, race, class, gender, space, sexuality, art-making, culture, creative practices, relationship, conflict, globalism, family, colonialism, media, aging, work, organizing, reading, politics, writing, activism, and technology, among others - through reading fiction and nonfiction, and through an open process of sharing. Feminist Reading Group is a long standing WCCW community program founded by Dawn Finley and Eileen Ybarra. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At the time, Meyer called the leak “a huge violation of my rights as an author, not to mention me as a human being” and put the project on hold indefinitely. Meyer first announced the publication of Midnight Sun in May, 12 years after she abandoned the manuscript following an online leak of a draft. Midnight Sun is chronically overwritten, plodding along almost in real time.” The Independent deemed it “laughably bad writing”, while Kirkus called it “a love letter to fans who will forgive (and even revel in) its excesses and indulgences”. ![]() ![]() In the Guardian, Elle Hunt wrote, “It feels below the belt to criticise the quality of the writing, given that Twilight was never loved for that – but there is something to be said for editing. While enthusiasm among “Twihards” has held, critics have been less impressed. Then, UK readers snapped up 89,549 copies of the novella, which was also available free online at the time, in its first 19 hours on sale – the equivalent of 79 copies a minute. However, this was a considerably slower launch than 2010, when Meyer published her Twilight spin-off The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. In the UK, 62,460 hardback copies of Midnight Sun were sold in the three days between launch and the cut-off date for sales monitor Nielsen BookScan’s charts, giving Meyer the No 1 spot. ![]() ![]() Herbert West has become one of Lovecraft’s breakout characters. It inspired a franchise of movies, a novelization, comic books, merchandise, and stories chronicling the further adventure of the reanimator, his foes and rivals. The film, with the iconic performance by Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West and the glowing green reanimation agent, was a smash success. From there it entered the domain of reprints, and it became the basis for the 1985 film Reanimator. ![]() Commercial hack work, and Lovecraft knew it it would not be published again until Lovecraft was safely dead and beyond objecting. Lovecraft’s first commercial work went into print: six brief tales of gruesome mad science, for which he was to be paid five dollars an episode. In 1922, before Weird Tales had ever hit the stands, H. How do you go about queering Herbert West? ![]() Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities. Now that he is gone and the spell is broken, the actual fear is greater. While he was with me, the wonder and diabolism of his experiments fascinated me utterly, and I was his closest companion. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The five protagonists are trapped together in the Five-Hop One-Stop for several days and end up confronting their similarities, differences, prejudices and personal challenges. A technical failure causes nearly all of the satellites in orbit around Gora to crash and all traffic is halted for several days. Gora was settled only because of its close proximity to a transit hub where several tunnels meet. The novel takes place at the Five-Hop One-Stop, a refueling and licensing station located on the planet Gora, which had no life on it before it was settled by the various alien races who set up shop there. It is a sequel to The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, A Closed and Common Orbit and Record of a Spaceborn Few. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within is a 2021 science fiction novel by Becky Chambers, published by Harper Voyager. ![]() ![]() Presently more than 400 orphans are being provided with services that include food, school fees, uniforms, tools, beds, livestock, and the construction of two children's residences in the town of Kikima. In addition, Walters founded the Creation of Hope, an organization providing care for orphans in the Mbooni district of Kenya. ![]() He played with tigers before writing Tiger by the Tail. With his son, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro for Between Heaven and Earth. In April 2010 he walked across the Sahara Desert before writing Just Deserts. Eric Walters Paperback, 102 Pages, Published 2013 by Gale Walters Publishing. Walters tries to experience the subjects he plans to write about. They have three adult children, Christina, Nick and Julia. Personal lifeĮric Walters was born and raised in Toronto and resides in Guelph, Ontario, with his wife Anita. A non-stop promoter and visiting school speaker, Eric lives in Toronto, Canada. ![]() ![]() He was recently named to the Order of Canada. He has published more than 60 books, and has been honoured with near-countless awards. Here, you can see them all in order (plus the year each book was published). His books have been translated and published in many countries. Regenesis by Eric Walters, Sep 15, 2015, Doubleday Canada edition, paperback. ERIC WALTERS is one of Canada's most popular and prolific authors for young readers. Eric Walters has written a series of 107 books. He is a three-time winner of both the Ontario Library Association Silver Birch and Red Maple Awards – voted on by over 100,000 students throughout the province of Ontario. ![]() |