![]() ![]() ![]() While the bugs attack the town, Jack also finds that Lock, Shock, and Barrel have been wreaking havoc. Jack discovers this after seeing the Town Square deserted and with info from the Mayor. On Halloween Eve, Jack plans for his best Halloween tricks yet, while Oogie Boogie plots to seize control of Halloween Town, sending Lock, Shock and Barrel to kidnap him, though accidentally kidnapping Sally instead. He is a king noted as the king of Halloween Town, and its most frightening inhabitant. Jack Skellington is first chronologically seen in The Pumpkin King, many years before the events of the film. Every Halloween, Jack has scared people of all ages, as well as being given the nickname " Mr. 12.4 Disney Magical Dice: The Enchanted Board Gameĭuring Jack's Lament, Jack claims that only few deny that he is indeed frightening and he is notorious throughout the world.4 The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge. ![]()
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![]() ![]() By the time the workday wraps up, we’re so exhausted and defeated that any motivation to accomplish something in the evening has vanished.īut according to time management expert Laura Vanderkam, mornings hold the key to taking control of our schedules. Before we know it, hours have slipped by without us accomplishing anything beyond downing a cup of coffee, dashing off a few emails, and dishing with our coworkers around the water cooler. Then we rush around to get ready and out the door so we can officially start the day. ![]() We wake up in a haze-often after hitting snooze a few times. Mornings are a madcap time for many of us. ![]() ![]() With at least 90 novels and more than 200 short stories under his belt, Stephen King has a bibliography that can look very intimidating to new readers. Many of these films have become classics in their own right ( Carrie, The Shining, Pet Sematary), and it’s safe to assume that many readers have probably seen at least one King-based film adaptation before deciding to turn to King’s fiction. His work is a constant source of inspiration for filmmakers and artists, with the appearance of a new movie or TV series adaptation every few years. ![]() Known primarily as the Master of Horror, King can surprise you with the versatility of his storytelling.Īlthough the following is primarily a reading list, we felt it prudent to mention that the films of King’s career are almost inextricably linked to his career as an author. While horror films like Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and Andy Muschietti’s It are instantly recognizable as Stephen King material, many movie fans are surprised to learn that Oscar-nominated films such as Stand By Me, The Shawshank Redemption, and The Green Mile are also adaptations of King’s fiction. You would be hard-pressed to find someone living in contemporary America who has not seen at least one film or television adaptation of Stephen King’s work. ![]() ![]() To do so, she must bury her grief and partner with the eccentric aristocrat Nicholas Quenton-Harper, a man who shares her passion for the ancient world.īut the men who killed her husband are not yet finished. When Royan Al Simma is the victim of a vicious attack that leaves her husband dead, her only thought is that she must continue their joint work: to use the secrets of the seventh scroll to find the hidden tomb of Pharaoh Mamose and its untold trove of lost Egyptian riches. After three years of work, gone was the proof it had ever existed.Ī hunt for treasure. Her last connections with the seventh scroll were lost. They were empty, of course along with the disks, all her notebooks and photographs were missing. ![]() That and all the other drawers had been pulled out and thrown on the floor. She glanced down at the drawer in which she kept all her floppy disks. ![]() ![]() But when we submit our minds to Christ, the promises and goodness of God flood our lives in remarkable ways. Our enemy is determined to get in our heads to make us feel helpless, overwhelmed, and incapable of making a difference for the kingdom of God. In Get Out of Your Head, Jennie inspires and equips us to transform our emotions, our outlook, and even our circumstances by taking control of our thoughts. ![]() Freedom comes when we refuse to be victims to our thoughts and realize we have already been equipped with power from God to fight and win the war for our minds. Buy From AmazonĪs she discovered in her own life, God built a way for us to escape that downward spiral. God couldn’t really love me. Jennie Allen knows what it’s like to swirl in a spiral of destructive thoughts, but she also knows we don’t have to stay stuck in toxic thinking patterns. Other people have better lives than I do. ![]() Download Get Out of Your Head by Jennie Allen PDF book free online – Are your thoughts holding you captive? I’ll never be good enough. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Perez-Villanueva emphasizes delves into theories of autobiography to develop a framework "for evaluating early modern texts in terms of their autobiographical content" (6). This young Basque daughter of a noble family from San Sebastian ventured from a convent in Spain to Peru and Chile, and eventually to Rome before returning once more to the Americas.Ĭritical perspectives on the nature and definition of Erauso's writing vary, according to the author. In Spain's golden age of exploration and literature, when first-person narratives proliferated as records of voyages in old and new worlds, Erauso's life story appeared in pamphlets and circulated widely in the seventeenth-century, both in historical documents, and in Erauso's own first-person account of her journeys. Sonia Perez-Villanueva explains in The Life of Catalina de Erauso, the Lieutenant Nun: An Early Modern Autobiography that the printed version of Catalina de Erauso's life (1592-1650) seems to have experienced as many of the vagaries of human life as the novice turned soldier herself. Madison, N.J.: Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2014. The Life of Catalina de Erauso, the Lieutenant Nun: An Early Modern Autobiography. ![]() ![]() ![]() Quirky and utterly captivating, A Wild Sheep Chase is Murakami at his astounding best. Thus begins a surreal and elaborate quest that takes our hero from the urban haunts of Tokyo to the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan, where he confronts not only the mythological sheep, but the confines of tradition and the demons deep within himself. ![]() What he doesn't realise is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man in black who offers a menacing ultimatum- find the sheep or face dire consequences. It begins simply enough- A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company's advertisement. Leave reality behind and enter Murakami's fictional universe where nothing is ever as it seemsĪ marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami's international reputation. ![]() ![]() ![]() In emergencies ‘eighty percent just freeze’, she reflects. In fact, she seems, like many people, to be paralysed. It’s not that Lizzie herself is propelled to act. Clearly, she is not alone in struggling to understand all that goes on. Weather by Jenny Offill puts words to what it’s like to live right now and thanks to her playful, fragmented writing style, this book is not nearly as depressing as it sounds.Īs a side job, Lizzie answers emails sent to a famous environmental podcast fittingly named Hell and High Water. How to absorb it all while going on living is the question. Climate change, Trump, threats to democracy, artificial intelligence, drug addiction – there’s plenty to worry about. What’s happening around her, however, is anything but. Librarian Lizzie Benson lives a pretty ordinary life in New York City with her husband Ben and son Eli. ![]() ![]() ![]() He wants Diana, and he’ll risk everything to call her his own. Yet North is returning a hardened warrior-and this is one battle he’s determined to win. ![]() When North makes it clear that he still wants her for his own, scandal or no, Diana has to fight to keep from losing her heart to the man whom she still has no intention of marrying. Now everyone has drawn the worst conclusions about the child’s father, and Diana is left with bittersweet regret. If I liked Too Wilde to Wed (The Wildes of Lindow Castle) by Eloisa James, what should I read next Born to Be Wilde Girls Before Earls Wilde in Love Duke. ![]() He returns from war to find that he’s notorious: polite society has ruled him “too wild to wed.”ĭiana never meant to tarnish North’s reputation, or his heart, but in her rush to save a helpless child, there was no time to consider the consequences of working as a governess in Lindow Castle. The handsome, rakish heir to a dukedom, Lord Roland Northbridge Wilde-known to his friends as North-left England two years ago, after being jilted by Miss Diana Belgrave. Overall, though, this was as well-plotted out as I would expect from. No one is more surprised than Lord North when he returns from war to find his ex-fiancee in his ancestral home…working as a governess… Too Wilde to Wed really was a fun read, although I did struggle a bit with some of it. ![]() ![]() You see, the characters are well-written and became real to me while I read. With a cup of tea, something Sarah missed and I thought of her as I sipped. The detail Pegg weaves in this gripping story is rich and allowed this reader to experience the dangers, tragedies, triumphs, harsh reality and sacrificial love from the safety of my sofa. ![]() ![]() Sarah’s Choice is based on historical accounts on Pontiac’s Rebellion. She endures a harrowing and brutal event that, while horrible to consider, was a hard reality for many young women who lived in her time. The battles in the settlements, forts, and villages make life dangerous and brutal. The French and Indian war is over but the frontier in Pennsylvania is still fighting for land. Sarah’s Choice is an emotional story that pulled me into the pages of the book and maybe it was my hormones (I doubt it) but I did shed a few tears and fall in love with Cully. Check out her newsletter, she’s a fascinating woman and a fabulous writer. ![]() She makes a beautiful shawl with each of her new book releases. ![]() That’s right, Pegg spins sheep’s fleece into yarn and creates art that some of her readers are blessed to receive. Not surprising, considering she’s an award winning author and knows how to weave a story, not just spin real yarn. My author friend, Pegg Thomas who also keeps sheep has graciously allowed me to read and share her newest novel and boy, was it good! ![]() |