![]() ![]() ![]() The children, the babies were in a state of mutiny! Mommie dearest has to punish bad babies.mommie dearest doesn't want to have anything more to do with bad babies.mommie dearest put bad babies away from her.mommie dearest found a prison for bad babies and locked them up to punish them for being such bad babies." Mommie dearest became enraged when she perceived that all was not well in mannequin-land. Here is a sample of very strange and immature writing: Crawford was likely dissociating while writing it. She comes across as both extremely naive and extremely rageful. ![]() I found the character study of Christina as she writes about her life fascinating. I am not going to focus on the allegations of Christina Crawford as if what she describes is completely true then Joan Crawford is one of the most disturbed women ever. Here is a clip of my 10 year old self's nightmare scene !! This film terrified me when I was a child and I had nightmares for several weeks after a babysitter let me watch this with her on a friday night. 3 "poorly written but utterly fascinating" stars !!!īarely 2 stars for the writing but 4 stars in a fascinating character study of Christina Crawford !!Ĭhristina Crawford was a celebrity poster child for alleged abuse done to her and siblings by film actress Joan Crawford who was her adoptive mother. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “What gives this peculiarly reticent book its power? Above all, authenticity… Grant’s style is strikingly modern in its economy.” Grant provides essential insight into how rigorously these events tested America’s democratic institutions and the cohesion of its social order. Grant Association’s Presidential Library, this definitive edition enriches our understanding of the pre-war years, the war with Mexico, and the Civil War. With annotations compiled by the editors of the Ulysses S. This is the first comprehensively annotated edition of Grant’s memoirs, clarifying the great military leader’s thoughts on his life and times through the end of the Civil War and offering his invaluable perspective on battlefield decision making. Mark Twain and Henry James hailed them as great literature, and countless presidents credit Grant with influencing their own writing. Grant’s memoirs, sold door-to-door by former Union soldiers, were once as ubiquitous in American households as the Bible. “Provides leadership lessons that can be obtained nowhere else… Ulysses Grant in his Memoirs gives us a unique glimpse of someone who found that the habit of reflection could serve as a force multiplier for leadership.” ![]() ![]() “Leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War.” ![]() ![]() What neither of them could have expected from this arrangement, however, is an attraction that burns stronger than ever. ![]() Penniless but not without pride, Meg convinces the vexingly handsome Will to hire her for the job. A tragic accident robbed her of everything, and now, at age twenty-three, her marital prospects are slim to none. But she bowed out of the engagement―and, since then, has never been the same. TO DO A WALLFLOWER’S JOB Miss Margaret Lacey is brainy, beautiful, and, once upon a time, Will’s betrothed. Hiring a governess should solve some of Will’s problems…but when he meets the candidate in question, he finds himself in an entirely new predicament. Not only has he broken ties with his longtime mistress, his mother has publicly announced her wish for him to marry a suitable young lady―if only to help him raise the twins left in his care. NEVER SEND A DEBUTANTE William Ryder, Earl of Castleton, is at the end of his noble rope. ![]() You can read this before My Brown-Eyed Earl (The Wayward Wallflowers, #1) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book My Brown-Eyed Earl (The Wayward Wallflowers, #1) written by Anna Bennett which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: My Brown-Eyed Earl (The Wayward Wallflowers, #1) by Anna Bennett ![]() ![]() ![]() The many young critics who selected it to review were equally delighted by its warm-hearted, frothy wit, its ebullient fantasy and expansive cast of unusual and fascinating creatures. And, like the very best children's books, it is a real pleasure to read aloud because the voices are great and she throws adult readers very savoury and knowing titbits of irony." ![]() At the award ceremony earlier this month, Mal Peet, the previous year's winner, praised it for being "a bit like reading the Brothers Grimm through the lens of Monty Python. ![]() Her most recent book, The Ogre of Oglefort, was shortlisted for the 2010 Guardian children's prize. She was best known for Journey to the River Sea, which won a Smarties prize and was runner-up for the 2001 Guardian children's fiction prize, but she also won awards for other children's books including The Secret of Platform 13 (1994) and The Star of Kazan (2004), and the Romantic Novelists' Association award for her adult novel Magic Flutes (1982). ![]() Descriptively vivid, richly inventive and shot through with perfectly timed wit, they charmed adults and children alike. Eva Ibbotson, who has died peacefully at home aged 85, entranced her readers with stories which, though robust in substance, appeared to be effortlessly spun in the finest thread from an endless source of imagination. ![]() ![]() ![]() Another myth with similar themes is that of Demeter and Persephone, though it concerns a mother and daughter instead: death has kidnapped Demeter's beloved daughter Persephone, and Demeter fights him until he allows her to have Persephone back for half of every year. ![]() The themes of the story-love, death, resurrection, and death again-are clearly present in a myth like Orpheus and Eurydice: when Eurydice dies, her lover Orpheus defies Death and brings her back from the underworld, only to lose her again when he doubts his success. In some versions of the story he succeeds, though only for a time. The young woman dies, or appears to die, and her grief-stricken lover determines to win her back from death, either by his wits or by joining her in the afterlife. A man and a woman fall in love they are young and beautiful, and their love is so consuming that the world and all the people around them seem to vanish. Romeo and Juliet is in many ways a familiar story, not just because it is one of Shakespeare's best-loved plays, but because the play has thematic roots in myths as old as storytelling itself. ![]() ![]() ![]() The experience had enough impact on Giggs to send her researching what happens when a whale usually dies, out at sea, its decaying body becoming an entire ecosystem for creatures (‘fugitive species’) that only live in dead whales. The whale returned and slowly died on the shoreline until it was ultimately killed by authorities who had to deal with the massive carcass (“Beach and bundle”). ![]() In 2015, Rebecca Giggs wrote an article called “Whale Fall”, published in Granta, and chronicling an event in which Giggs helped push a beached humpback whale off a Perth beach back out to the sea. ![]() ![]() ![]() The adventure, suspense, and time travel continue in this second installment in the critically acclaimed New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestselling Pathfinder series. If Rigg, Umbo, and Param can’t work together to alter the past, there will be no future. Because although Rigg can decipher the paths of the past, he can’t yet see the horror that lies ahead: A destructive force with deadly intentions is hurtling toward Garden. ![]() Rigg, Umbo, and Param know that they cannot trust the expendable, Vadesh-a machine shaped like a human, created to deceive-but they are no longer certain that they can even trust one another. ![]() But the dangers in this new wallfold are more difficult to see. This novel continues the story of Rigg and his evolving ability to see and travel to the past, in an attempt to save the future. When Rigg and his friends crossed the Wall between the only world they knew and a world they could not imagine, he hoped he was leading them to safety. Visitors is a science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card, 1 who is best known for his novels, Enders Game (1985) and Speaker for the Dead (1986). Book two in the New York Times bestselling series Publishers Weekly calls “an epic in the best sense.” Features a new exclusive introduction read by author Orson Scott Card.įrom the author of Ender’s Game, the major motion picture!Ī complex fate. ![]() ![]() Now this new edition of Beauty and the Beast will continue to captivate young audiences with its timeless appeal.In addition to the title tale, this volume includes five stories by Charles Perrault, the noted French author and compiler of fairy tales. The story's fame has spread around the world in recent years via a classic animated film and a popular Broadway musical. That charming eighteenth-century tale of the transformative power of love has enchanted generations of readers and listeners to the present day. ![]() ![]() It was long ago and far away that a French governess told her little pupils a wonderful story called Beauty and the Beast, about a pretty girl's love for a gentle but physically repulsive creature. ![]() ![]() Travis Bradberry ist Psychologe, Autor mehrerer Sachbucher und Geschaftsfuhrer des Beratungsunternehmens TalentSmart, das sich der Erforschung individueller und betrieblicher Leistungsfahigkeit widmet. ![]() ![]() Emotional intelligence 2.0 delivers a step-by-step program for increasing your eq via four, core eq skills that enable you to achieve your fullest potential: self-awareness. But knowing what eq is and knowing how to use it to improve your life are two very different things. By now, emotional intelligence (eq) needs little introduction-it's no secret that eq is critical to your success. 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There will be no advertising since I'm not interested in making money, just sharing. All discussions will be related to books and reading. Here I will post reviews of books I have just finished reading and news items and articles of interest. At the urging of a number of friends, I decided to start a blog. I’ve been a book reviewer for a number of years and have posted hundreds of reviews on both Goodreads and LibraryThing. My focus is contemporary literary fiction (especially Canadian fiction) and mysteries. ![]() Schatje’s Shelves is my reading blog devoted primarily to reviews of the books I acquire for my library - a library which has 8,050+ books (print, ebooks, audiobooks) and keeps growing. ![]() Now that I'm retired, I have so much more time to read (and to enjoy the library my husband made for me). ![]() For 30 years, I was a high school English teacher/teacher-librarian. ![]() |