Skeleton crew best stories6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() After barely escaping the sinking vessel, while encountering a storm in his empty lifeboat, Pine finds himself marooned on a tiny island in the Pacific, with very limited supplies and no food. Survivor Type is written as the diary of a disgraced surgeon, Richard Pine, who, while attempting to smuggle a large amount of heroin aboard a cruise ship, is abruptly interrupted when an explosion occurs deep within the ship and it rapidly sinks. How much shock-trauma can the patient stand? Different instructors answer the question, in different ways, but cut to its base level, the answer is always another question: How badly does the patient want to survive?" "Sooner or later the question comes up in every medical student's career. ![]() The story opens with the following epigraph: However, the story 'Survivor Type' goes a little bit too far, even for me." Plot summary ![]() Speaking about the story, King said: "As far as short stories are concerned, I like the grisly ones the best. Grant, and included in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew. "Survivor Type" is a horror short story by Stephen King, first published in the 1982 horror anthology Terrors, edited by Charles L. Short story by Stephen King Survivor Type ![]()
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Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling6/12/2023 ![]() He too, though, keeps a secret linked to the artifact stolen but Seregil. The trust between the two grows, and Seregil, even though he keeps a lot of information to himsefl, starts to open up with the lad.ĭuring a burglary, Seregil steals a weird and particular thing, that got in itself a sort of evil and powerful magic, and that will cause an illness in Seregil and will mark him forever.Īlec, with Micum's aid, keeps on being loyal to his friend and brings Seregil to Rhíminee, where the only person who could help him is: the magicinan Nysander,old acquaintance of Seregil. In the cell there's also Seregil, who brings Alec with him when he runs away, even if he himself doesn't actually know why. ![]() The story follows Alec, a pretty shy (and sometimes naive) boy, that gets imprisoned and tortured for a crime he didn' commit. ![]() I got this book a while ago in english, as it was recommended to me by quite some people. ![]() Moby duck by donovan hohn6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() In the grand tradition of Tony Horwitz and David Quammen, Moby-Duck is a compulsively readable narrative of whimsy and curiosity. ![]() The Gloucester Bookstore and Toad Hall in Rockport have been told to. A spellbinding journey that leapfrogs (see green frogs below) across the world searching for the illusive Rubber Duck. Perfect stocking stuffer for the Good Morning Gloucester Friends of Rubber Duck (GMGFORD). With each new discovery, Hohn learns of another loose thread, and with each successive chase, he comes closer to understanding where his castaway quarry comes from and where it goes. After finishing Moby-Duck by Donovan Hohn I give it 5 Rubber Ducks. Moby-Duck is a journey into the heart of the sea and an adventure through science, myth, the global economy, and some of the worst weather imaginable. ![]() Hohn's accidental odyssey pulls him into the secretive world of shipping conglomerates, the daring work of Arctic researchers, the lunatic risks of maverick sailors, and the shadowy world of Chinese toy factories. ![]() But questions can be like ocean currents: wade in too far, and they carry you away. When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers, talk to a few beachcombers, and read up on Arctic science and geography. Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year A revelatory tale of science, adventure, and modern myth. Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea & of the Beachcombers, Oceanograp hers, Environmentalists & Fools Including the Author Who Went in Search of Them Donovan Hohn 4. ![]() How to write a story kate messner6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Young readers who love We Are in a Book!, How Rocket Learned to Read, and Also an Octopus will love the reading and writing lessons and inspiration in How to Write a Story. Helps teach Common Core Curriculum skills.Great read-aloud book for preschool- and kindergarten-aged children interested in learning to read.Perfect for educators, librarians, and parents who are helping children develop early writing and reading skills. ![]() From choosing an idea, to creating a problem for their character to resolve, to coming to The End, this empowering picture book breaks down the writing process in a dynamic and accessible way, encouraging kids to explore their own creativity-and share their stories with others! Don't be afraid to mix things up.Īccomplished storytellers Kate Messner and Mark Siegel playfully chronicle the process of becoming a writer in this fun follow-up to How to Read a Story, guiding young storytellers through the joys and challenges of the writing process. ![]() The inspiring sequel to the 2015 Parent's Choice Winner, How to Read a Story! ![]() Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The lyrical spill of words, the sharply honed dialect, and the 'I know them' characters that existed on the pages breathed an immersive experience into this anthology and I find myself still within these pages walking with June-Plum as she anxiously pleads with Riva Muma, listening to Sookoo tell of La Diablesse, and standing with the villagers of Whitesands Bay wondering what became of that most extraordinary fish. Each author picking up the call, answering the summons, and spinning webs of time and place that are rooted within our people, our folklore, and the islands. In Skin Folk, with works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, Nalo Hopkinson is at her award-winning best, spinning tales like 'Precious,' in which the narrator spews valuable coins and gems from. ![]() The anthology was divided into sections that called upon memory, tradition, sayings, proverbs, lore, visions, and the crafted stories effortlessly brought the vision for the anthology to life.Ĭaptured within every story is history and culture and meaning. The SFWA Grand Master's award-winning collection 'combines a richly textured multicultural background with incisive storytelling' (Library Journal). ![]() I wanted to devour every story immediately but knew I needed to spend time with each of them, to absorb the inherent specialness.īecause each of them in their own way spoke deeply to me as a Jamaican, to the talent of Caribbean people, and also to the absolute uniqueness of our existence within our regional space. How do I begin to explain my experience with this anthology? Nalo really stuck her whole entire foot into this endeavour because the stories and excerpts included were just spectacular. ![]() False Economy by Alan Beattie6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Argentina was even better off - it was one of the 10 largest economies in the world. Beattie points out that roughly a century ago, the US and Argentina were identical countries. ![]() ![]() The author starts with the example of how mainland America is so different from South America (Brazil, Argentina, Chile, et al). It is not fate that determines a country's history, says Beattie. It raises nine such questions, or rather conundrums, and answers each in nine chapters. Why are some countries poor while others are prosperous? Why does Egypt, which has the world's most fertile land, import half its staple food? Why do some countries collapse under corruption, while others do not? Why is a non-democracy such as China economically stronger than India, a democracy? And why are pandas so useless? Alan Beattie, world trade editor of the Financial Times, tries to answer such curious questions in this book. ![]() City of bones review6/11/2023 ![]() After a few month of being ganged up on by booktok, book tube and my friends, I finally decided to read ‘The Mortal Instruments’. Maybe hate is a bit harsh, but at the best I’m bordering on strong dislike. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know… Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace’s world with a vengeance when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. It’s also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. This is Clary’s first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. ![]() It’s hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing―not even a smear of blood―to show that a boy has died. ![]() When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. ![]() After dark haruki murakami book review6/11/2023 ![]() There are swathes of dialogue, reported in direct speech. What struck me about this book (which I read in an Italian translation by Antonietta Pastore) is how “cinematic” it is, in the sense that it often reads like a film script. And, in a typically Murakamesque (Murakamian?) touch there’s also Mari’s sister Eri, an attractive young woman who has decided to “go to sleep”, and who lies in bed in a sort of suspended animation, a cross between a latter-day Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. There’s also a Chinese female prostitute battered by an improbable assailant, the suave office worker Shirakawa. There’s retired female wrestler Kaoru and her fellow employees at the Alphaville “love hotel”. ![]() There’s Takahashi, a jazz trombonist who’s doing his last gig. There’s Mari Asai, a timid student who kills the early hours reading in a Denny’s. The diverse cast which peoples Murakami’s brief novel “After Dark” seems to be a cross-section of this community of outcasts, whom we accompany on the streets of Tokyo over one eventful night. ![]() While the rest sleep, those who stay awake form an ill-assorted family of sinners and saints, heroes and villains, hunters and prey. And as the mystics teach us, the night, whether real or metaphorical, can bring cleansing and growth. The night brings hedonist pleasure to some, hard work to others. The night’s shadows hide the blackest of crimes but also random acts of kindness, nascent friendships and loves. She sheds off her daytime attire, emerging uninhibited, transformed. ![]() After dark, the city is a different woman. ![]() The redhead on the side of the road6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() She thrives in big, creaky old houses bursting at the seams with people (even if only on special occasions) and provides detailed histories for her characters in lengthy, chapter-length flashbacks. Tyler tends to focus on the dynamics of large, middle-class American families– the relationships between parents and their children, the grudges between those children and their siblings, and the reverberations of generations past, despite a person’s best efforts to escape them. Redhead is no exception, despite its modest size and scope. ![]() Today, less than a year later, I’ve read all 22 of her novels, and felt the same peace each time I arrive at another ending. (A reliable source.) “I think you’ll like her,” he told me late last summer. I fell for Tyler and her soothing bibliography only recently, after she was recommended to me by a friend who happens to be this publication’s Chief Critic. That her endings have a consistency of tone is a hallmark of Tyler’s writing, and the reason Redhead By the Side of the Road–out April 7–is so well-timed. ![]() In this case, the recipient is Michah Mortimer, a “tall, bony man in his early forties” who owns a one-man tech support business. The latest novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Tyler, ends just as all her others have, which is to say it delivers upon its protagonist a moment of profound, much-deserved hope. ![]() Planetary, Volume 3 by John Cassaday6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Partially it’s because this supposed anti-establishmentarian could not write a comic that didn’t feature a select group of badass illuminated übermenschen using their secret knowledge of the world to shape it into a better one for the good of the sheeplike plebes from whom this knowledge must be kept at all costs if his life depended on it. Partially it’s because he, the man who coined the term “pervert suits” to refer to superhero costumes, has heaped as much scorn on supercomics as the day is long, and noisily stormed away from the genre in a rage to try his hand at the wave of the future he dubbed “pop comics,” has spent most of his career as a Comics Superstar writing thinly veiled Super Friends fanfiction and is currently the author of Ultimate Fantastic Four, Iron Man, the “Ultimate Galactus” trilogy (!) and JLA: Classified. Warren Ellis wants you to take him seriously. I deal in publishing, entertainment, political advocacy– ![]() ![]() THE DUDE: How’s the smut business, Jackie? Originally written on Octofor publication by The Comics Journal. Planetary Book 3: Leaving the 20th Century ![]() |